Cisco Contract Job Trends in Harlow

Cisco
Essex > Harlow

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Harlow 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 13 September 2026, 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
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 2 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cisco 8 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Harlow 33.33% - -
As % of the Vendors category 44.44% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £480 - -
25th Percentile £488 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 - -
75th Percentile £550 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
Essex median daily rate £463 - £300
% change year-on-year - - -22.58%

All Vendors
Harlow

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 Harlow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Harlow 75.00% - 66.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £375 - -
25th Percentile £413 - £713
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £725
Median % change year-on-year - - +31.82%
75th Percentile £575 - £738
90th Percentile £620 - -
Essex median daily rate £460 £400 £338
% change year-on-year +15.00% +18.34% -31.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.75 - -
Median hourly rate £17.50 - -
75th Percentile £18.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Essex median hourly rate £18.25 £37.75 £43.50
% change year-on-year -51.66% -13.22% -22.79%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Harlow

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Harlow

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Harlow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Harlow citing Cisco

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Harlow 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 (62.50%) Cisco ISE
1 5 (62.50%) Wireless
2 4 (50.00%) Firewall
3 3 (37.50%) Network Security
3 3 (37.50%) NGFW
4 2 (25.00%) VPN
5 1 (12.50%) BGP
5 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
5 1 (12.50%) DHCP
5 1 (12.50%) DNS
5 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
5 1 (12.50%) LAN
5 1 (12.50%) OSPF
5 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 1 (12.50%) VLAN
5 1 (12.50%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (50.00%) Senior
2 4 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 3 (37.50%) Architect
3 3 (37.50%) Firewall Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) BYOD
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Deep Packet Inspection
1 3 (37.50%) Migration
1 3 (37.50%) Roadmaps
1 3 (37.50%) Security Architecture
2 1 (12.50%) AI
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) CCNP
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CWNA
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Forcepoint
1 3 (37.50%) Palo Alto