Cisco Contract Job Trends in Farnborough

Cisco
Hampshire > Farnborough

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Farnborough requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 6 21
Rank change year-on-year -18 +15 +12
Contract jobs citing Cisco 5 33 4
As % of all contract jobs in Farnborough 4.81% 19.88% 3.17%
As % of the Vendors category 10.00% 27.97% 7.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 1
10th Percentile £273 £513 -
25th Percentile £276 £561 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £280 £650 £425
Median % change year-on-year -56.92% +52.94% -26.09%
75th Percentile £465 £674 -
90th Percentile £576 £675 -
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -8.70% +27.78% -12.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £74.00
25th Percentile - - £76.25
Median hourly rate - - £80.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - -6.25%

All Vendors
Farnborough

Cisco falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Farnborough.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 50 118 55
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough 48.08% 71.08% 43.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 83 36
10th Percentile £361 £475 £341
25th Percentile £413 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £610 £569
Median % change year-on-year -18.03% +7.25% +8.33%
75th Percentile £604 £675 £655
90th Percentile £632 £750 £719
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 10
10th Percentile £64.50 - £16.15
25th Percentile £65.63 - £21.01
Median hourly rate £70.00 - £41.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.33%
75th Percentile £73.13 - £73.13
90th Percentile £73.50 - £80.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £22.50 £66.25 £52.50
% change year-on-year -66.04% +26.19% +138.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Farnborough

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Farnborough.

Cisco job vacancy trend in Farnborough

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Daily Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Cisco

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Daily Rate Histogram in Farnborough

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Farnborough over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Farnborough

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Hourly Rate Trend in Farnborough

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Farnborough citing Cisco

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Farnborough by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (20.00%) MPLS
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Architect
3 1 (20.00%) IP Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (40.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (40.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Case Management
1 2 (40.00%) Change Control
1 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
1 2 (40.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (40.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (40.00%) Service Management
1 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (20.00%) DV Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) F5
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) Nokia
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto