Cisco Contract Job Trends in Kent

Cisco
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent 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 27 November 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
27 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 15 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 +9 -1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 4 8 9
As % of all contract jobs in Kent 3.15% 4.60% 4.35%
As % of the Vendors category 7.69% 10.13% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 7
10th Percentile £358 £453 £175
25th Percentile £385 £456 £185
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £190
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% +143.42% -49.33%
75th Percentile £409 £469 £198
90th Percentile £426 £473 £268
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £450
% change year-on-year -0.25% +11.39% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £18.10 -
25th Percentile - £18.82 £20.25
Median hourly rate - £20.08 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - -2.07% -
75th Percentile - £21.27 £20.75
90th Percentile - £21.95 -
South East median hourly rate £89.63 £19.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year +371.74% -36.67% +4.35%

All Vendors
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 52 79 122
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 40.94% 45.40% 58.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 26 98
10th Percentile £153 £154 £188
25th Percentile £306 £193 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £448 £365
Median % change year-on-year +11.73% +22.60% +4.29%
75th Percentile £619 £523 £525
90th Percentile £638 £623 £543
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.55% +3.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £13.47 £19.06 £17.05
25th Percentile £14.56 £21.21 £18.25
Median hourly rate £16.36 £44.71 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year -63.41% +118.10% +61.93%
75th Percentile - £70.29 £23.25
90th Percentile - £76.18 £24.75
South East median hourly rate £20.79 £53.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.77% +0.95% +101.03%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Kent

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Cisco

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Kent region over the 6 months to 27 November 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
Sittingbourne - 2 £400 -
Chatham - 1 £425 -
Cisco
South East

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Kent 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (75.00%) BGP
2 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 3 (75.00%) Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) VoIP
General
1 2 (50.00%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 3 (75.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Network Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Business Continuity
2 1 (25.00%) Change Management
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Meraki
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Citrix
2 1 (25.00%) Dell
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) VMware