Cisco Contract Job Trends in Ipswich

Cisco
Suffolk > Ipswich

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Ipswich 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 15 February 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
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 3
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cisco 2 0 23
As % of all contract jobs in Ipswich 3.57% - 37.10%
As % of the Vendors category 7.14% - 65.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - £475
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median daily rate £388 - £475

All Vendors
Ipswich

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 Ipswich.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 28 29 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Ipswich 50.00% 55.77% 56.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 12 20
10th Percentile £485 £171 £369
25th Percentile £550 £180 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £653 £406 £475
Median % change year-on-year +60.62% -14.47% -25.78%
75th Percentile £688 £577 £488
90th Percentile - £722 £566
Suffolk median daily rate £550 £313 £475
% change year-on-year +76.00% -34.21% -26.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile £16.55 - -
25th Percentile £18.13 - £13.50
Median hourly rate £21.00 - £14.00
75th Percentile £23.00 - £14.50
90th Percentile - - -
Suffolk median hourly rate £21.00 - £14.00

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Ipswich

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Ipswich

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Daily Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Cisco

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Hourly Rate Trend in Ipswich

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Ipswich citing Cisco

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Ipswich 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 1 (50.00%) BGP
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) MPLS
1 1 (50.00%) RTP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) GitLab
1 1 (50.00%) Robot Framework
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Administrator
1 1 (50.00%) IP Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Python Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) gRPC
1 1 (50.00%) Jinja
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
1 1 (50.00%) YANG
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) CentOS
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Open Source
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) HAProxy
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Dialogic
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) Juniper
1 1 (50.00%) Metaswitch
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle