Cisco Contract Job Trends in Hertfordshire

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East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Hertfordshire 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 21 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
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 43 38
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing Cisco 8 6 37
As % of all contract jobs in Hertfordshire 1.59% 1.17% 4.91%
As % of the Vendors category 3.15% 2.80% 9.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 18
10th Percentile £263 £152 £273
25th Percentile £372 £170 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £700 £200 £440
Median % change year-on-year +250.00% -54.55% -20.00%
75th Percentile - £419 £563
90th Percentile - £550 £641
East of England median daily rate £445 £350 £440
% change year-on-year +27.14% -20.45% +3.53%

All Vendors
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 254 214 403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 50.50% 41.55% 53.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 111 236
10th Percentile £335 £263 £263
25th Percentile £453 £425 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year - +7.32% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £675
90th Percentile £700 £638 £775
East of England median daily rate £523 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 37 53
10th Percentile £16.25 £14.03 £24.98
25th Percentile £16.92 £16.23 £42.25
Median hourly rate £19.91 £65.00 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -69.37% +13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £50.00 - £70.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £95.00 £84.36
East of England median hourly rate £21.28 £16.23 £44.50
% change year-on-year +31.12% -63.53% +106.98%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Hertfordshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Cisco

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Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 21 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Hertfordshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hertfordshire citing Cisco

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Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 October 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Stevenage - 4 £700 - 5
Welwyn Garden City +1 2 £275 - 1
Hemel Hempstead - 2 - - 3
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East of England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) BGP
1 4 (50.00%) Firewall
1 4 (50.00%) OSPF
1 4 (50.00%) VLAN
1 4 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (25.00%) DWDM
2 2 (25.00%) SDH
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Rational DOORS
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 2 (25.00%) Publishing
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Architect
3 2 (25.00%) IT Support
3 2 (25.00%) Solutions Architect
3 2 (25.00%) Technical Support
3 2 (25.00%) Telecoms Architect
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Android
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (25.00%) ArchiMate
2 2 (25.00%) Architecture Governance
2 2 (25.00%) Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) Boundary Protection
2 2 (25.00%) BPMN
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Requirements
2 2 (25.00%) Decision-Making
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) High Availability
2 2 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
2 2 (25.00%) ITSM
2 2 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (25.00%) Problem Management
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (25.00%) Process Improvement
2 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) CCNP
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (25.00%) F5
3 2 (25.00%) IBM
3 2 (25.00%) Juniper
3 2 (25.00%) Nokia