Cisco Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cisco
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 October 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 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 68 37
Rank change year-on-year -19 -31 -3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 38 18 53
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.88% 1.79% 4.50%
As % of the Vendors category 5.14% 3.64% 10.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 12 28
10th Percentile £213 - £349
25th Percentile £250 £170 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £316 £388 £495
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% -21.72% +10.00%
75th Percentile £457 £488 £550
90th Percentile £510 £608 £565
North West median daily rate £483 £450 £495
% change year-on-year +7.33% -9.09% +7.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £30.00 £66.50 -
% change year-on-year -54.89% - -

All Vendors
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 740 494 486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.69% 49.01% 41.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 423 319 272
10th Percentile £275 £305 £363
25th Percentile £402 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year +4.21% -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £575
90th Percentile £650 £726 £675
North West median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 42 18
10th Percentile £19.83 £13.12 £15.89
25th Percentile £24.19 £19.07 £23.63
Median hourly rate £37.50 £22.32 £31.75
Median % change year-on-year +68.05% -29.72% +79.18%
75th Percentile £75.00 £31.40 £41.56
90th Percentile £87.50 £32.93 £64.13
North West median hourly rate £29.00 £22.63 £35.36
% change year-on-year +28.15% -36.00% +1.03%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Manchester over the 6 months to 13 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Manchester

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Cisco

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) Confluence
1 1 (2.63%) nginx
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (7.89%) GitHub
4 3 (7.89%) OCI
5 2 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (5.26%) GCP
5 2 (5.26%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.63%) Akamai
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.63%) Kong
6 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.63%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 14 (36.84%) Firewall
2 12 (31.58%) BGP
2 12 (31.58%) VPN
3 9 (23.68%) OSPF
3 9 (23.68%) WAN
4 8 (21.05%) Cisco IOS
4 8 (21.05%) Wireless
5 7 (18.42%) MPLS
5 7 (18.42%) Network Security
5 7 (18.42%) TCP/IP
6 6 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (13.16%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (13.16%) EIGRP
7 5 (13.16%) Software-Defined Networking
8 4 (10.53%) DWDM
8 4 (10.53%) IOS XR
8 4 (10.53%) IP Telephony
8 4 (10.53%) PSTN
8 4 (10.53%) VLAN
9 3 (7.89%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Git
2 2 (5.26%) GitLab
2 2 (5.26%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.63%) JIRA
3 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (26.32%) Banking
2 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (15.79%) Finance
3 4 (10.53%) Investment Banking
3 4 (10.53%) Social Skills
4 3 (7.89%) Law
4 3 (7.89%) Legal
5 2 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 25 (65.79%) Network Engineer
2 9 (23.68%) Analyst
3 7 (18.42%) Cisco Engineer
3 7 (18.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Automation Engineer
4 5 (13.16%) Senior
4 5 (13.16%) Senior Network Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Core Network Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Migration Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Network Analyst
5 4 (10.53%) Network Migration Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Senior Core Network Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Deployment Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Network Deployment Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) Service Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Service Desk Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) JSON
1 3 (7.89%) Terraform
2 2 (5.26%) Flash
3 1 (2.63%) JWT
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (2.63%) OpenID
3 1 (2.63%) Regular Expression
3 1 (2.63%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
2 4 (10.53%) Driving Licence
2 4 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
2 4 (10.53%) Management Information System
3 3 (7.89%) Blackberry
3 3 (7.89%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.89%) Replication
3 3 (7.89%) Smartphone
4 2 (5.26%) CMDB
4 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (5.26%) PDA
4 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.63%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.63%) PKI
5 1 (2.63%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.16%) Linux
1 5 (13.16%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Unix
3 3 (7.89%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.63%) AIX
4 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (26.32%) ITIL
2 8 (21.05%) Migration
3 7 (18.42%) Change Management
3 7 (18.42%) Project Delivery
4 6 (15.79%) Validation
5 5 (13.16%) Agile
5 5 (13.16%) CI/CD
6 4 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure as Code
7 3 (7.89%) Infrastructure Maintenance
7 3 (7.89%) Load Balancing
7 3 (7.89%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (7.89%) Observability
7 3 (7.89%) Performance Analysis
7 3 (7.89%) Service Management
7 3 (7.89%) Test Automation
8 2 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
8 2 (5.26%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 4 (10.53%) Bash
2 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (26.32%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (21.05%) SC Cleared
2 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
3 6 (15.79%) CCNA
3 6 (15.79%) CCNP
4 4 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (5.26%) Degree
6 1 (2.63%) CCIE
6 1 (2.63%) CEH
6 1 (2.63%) CISSP
6 1 (2.63%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.63%) SANS
6 1 (2.63%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.63%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (13.16%) Firmware
2 4 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.26%) Docker
3 2 (5.26%) GPFS
3 2 (5.26%) NFS
3 2 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (18.42%) Ansible
2 2 (5.26%) Cisco Prime
2 2 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 2 (5.26%) vRealize
2 2 (5.26%) VxRail
3 1 (2.63%) Argo
3 1 (2.63%) Grafana
3 1 (2.63%) Istio
3 1 (2.63%) Nagios
3 1 (2.63%) Network Intrusion Detection System
3 1 (2.63%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.63%) Prometheus
3 1 (2.63%) Puppet
3 1 (2.63%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Palo Alto
2 9 (23.68%) ServiceNow
3 8 (21.05%) Fortinet
4 7 (18.42%) Arista
4 7 (18.42%) CheckPoint
4 7 (18.42%) F5
4 7 (18.42%) Meraki
5 5 (13.16%) Juniper
5 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
5 5 (13.16%) VMware
6 3 (7.89%) Adobe
6 3 (7.89%) Citrix
6 3 (7.89%) IBM
6 3 (7.89%) iManage
6 3 (7.89%) Intapp
6 3 (7.89%) Litera
6 3 (7.89%) Oracle
6 3 (7.89%) Splunk
7 1 (2.63%) Aruba
7 1 (2.63%) Ribbon