Cisco Contract Job Trends in Lancashire

Cisco
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 26 September 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
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 26 34
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +2
Contract jobs citing Cisco 4 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 2.45% 0.96% 2.75%
As % of the Vendors category 4.40% 2.22% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile £338 £468 £248
25th Percentile £342 £475 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £500 £375
Median % change year-on-year -29.00% +33.33% +38.89%
75th Percentile £374 £525 £388
90th Percentile £382 £533 -
North West median daily rate £475 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% +4.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.83
North West median hourly rate £66.50 - £45.79
% change year-on-year - - +30.83%

All Vendors
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 91 90 176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 55.83% 43.27% 69.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 35 95
10th Percentile £250 £400 £361
25th Percentile £425 £463 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £575 £566
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% +1.54% +2.96%
75th Percentile £628 £627 £650
90th Percentile £688 £723 £720
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 42
10th Percentile £23.32 £22.85 £20.31
25th Percentile £42.58 £35.36 £20.78
Median hourly rate £63.00 £40.33 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +56.23% -12.68% +22.17%
75th Percentile £66.78 £46.18 -
90th Percentile £77.18 - £71.89
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.68 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.58% +1.94% +56.32%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Lancashire.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Lancashire

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Cisco

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 26 September 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
Burnley - 2 - -
Preston -2 1 £335 -36.19% 1
Cisco
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) SAN
2 2 (50.00%) WLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) Firewall
3 1 (25.00%) MPLS
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Industrial Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Linux
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (50.00%) Business Continuity
1 2 (50.00%) Data Management
1 2 (50.00%) Digital Innovation
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Proactive Maintenance
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Storage Management
1 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) BCP
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) CCNA
1 2 (50.00%) CCNP
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Backup Exec
1 2 (50.00%) vCenter Server
2 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) Symantec
1 2 (50.00%) Veeam
1 2 (50.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds