Cisco Contracts 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 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 42 56
Rank change year-on-year -25 +14 +31
Contract jobs citing Cisco 14 52 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.46% 3.62% 3.23%
As % of the Vendors category 3.12% 10.00% 8.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 37 40
10th Percentile £363 £314 £315
25th Percentile £388 £378 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £433 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% -0.98% -0.57%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £506
90th Percentile £560 £708 £588
North West median daily rate £475 £475 £425
% change year-on-year - +11.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.67
Median hourly rate - - £13.30
75th Percentile - - £13.92
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate - - £30.56
% change year-on-year - - -12.68%

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 449 520 662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 46.87% 36.21% 36.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 349 463
10th Percentile £278 £325 £278
25th Percentile £400 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.40% - -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £588
90th Percentile £703 £664 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £481
% change year-on-year -5.00% +3.95% +0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 43 23
10th Percentile £13.00 £12.08 £14.54
25th Percentile £14.20 £13.31 £16.19
Median hourly rate £22.63 £25.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +26.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.38 £38.75
90th Percentile £63.75 £64.00 £43.50
North West median hourly rate £30.52 £16.06 £28.20
% change year-on-year +90.01% -43.05% +40.54%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Manchester over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 6 July 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
Wigan - 2 £375 -
Bolton - 1 - - 3
Stockport - 1 £500 - 5
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North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) AWS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure Storage
2 1 (7.14%) Cloudflare
2 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (71.43%) Firewall
2 6 (42.86%) SD-WAN
2 6 (42.86%) WAN
3 5 (35.71%) Network Security
3 5 (35.71%) VPN
4 4 (28.57%) MPLS
5 3 (21.43%) BGP
5 3 (21.43%) LAN
5 3 (21.43%) OSPF
5 3 (21.43%) Wireless
6 2 (14.29%) DWDM
6 2 (14.29%) EIGRP
6 2 (14.29%) Ethernet
6 2 (14.29%) Internet
6 2 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (14.29%) TCP/IP
6 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (14.29%) Retail
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Law
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Network Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Network Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 2 (14.29%) Security Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Security Posture
1 1 (7.14%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (21.43%) ITIL
3 2 (14.29%) High Availability
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (14.29%) Network Architecture
3 2 (14.29%) Network Design
3 2 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
4 1 (7.14%) Customer Service
4 1 (7.14%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (7.14%) Load Balancing
4 1 (7.14%) Network Management
4 1 (7.14%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (7.14%) Problem Management
4 1 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (7.14%) Server Management
4 1 (7.14%) SIEM
4 1 (7.14%) Vulnerability Management
4 1 (7.14%) Web Filtering
4 1 (7.14%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) CCNP
1 4 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (21.43%) CCNA
2 3 (21.43%) Degree
3 2 (14.29%) CCIE
4 1 (7.14%) CCSA
4 1 (7.14%) CCSE
4 1 (7.14%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Meraki
2 3 (21.43%) Aruba
2 3 (21.43%) Fortinet
3 2 (14.29%) HP
3 2 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 2 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.14%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.14%) Citrix
4 1 (7.14%) EMC
4 1 (7.14%) F5
4 1 (7.14%) Juniper
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.14%) NetApp
4 1 (7.14%) Veeam
4 1 (7.14%) VMware