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 28 April 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
28 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 70 54
Rank change year-on-year -17 -16 +2
Contract jobs citing Cisco 21 12 47
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.24% 1.30% 3.07%
As % of the Vendors category 3.37% 2.64% 8.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 12 33
10th Percentile £300 £329 £378
25th Percentile £353 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £433
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +3.88% -3.73%
75th Percentile £540 £491 £594
90th Percentile £588 £568 £760
North West median daily rate £481 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -2.90% +4.21% +11.76%

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 623 455 535
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.91% 49.46% 34.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 406 316 359
10th Percentile £312 £270 £313
25th Percentile £395 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £576 £575 £598
90th Percentile £650 £700 £703
North West median daily rate £469 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -6.20% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 11 42
10th Percentile £19.75 £13.00 £11.81
25th Percentile £22.68 £31.25 £12.51
Median hourly rate £42.50 £32.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +83.41% -45.64%
75th Percentile £83.44 £60.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £178.75 - £60.00
North West median hourly rate £32.23 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year -0.85% +102.37% -57.17%

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 28 April 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
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 28 April 2026. 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
Bolton - 4 - - 1
Cisco
North West

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 4 (19.05%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
1 6 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (19.05%) Entra ID
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (9.52%) AWS
4 2 (9.52%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (52.38%) Firewall
2 9 (42.86%) WAN
3 6 (28.57%) BGP
3 6 (28.57%) OSPF
4 5 (23.81%) VLAN
5 4 (19.05%) LAN
5 4 (19.05%) SD-WAN
5 4 (19.05%) VPN
6 3 (14.29%) EIGRP
6 3 (14.29%) IPsec
6 3 (14.29%) MPLS
6 3 (14.29%) Wireless
7 2 (9.52%) 802.11
7 2 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (9.52%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (9.52%) Ethernet VPN
7 2 (9.52%) Network Security
7 2 (9.52%) SSL
7 2 (9.52%) VSAN
7 2 (9.52%) VXLAN
General
1 4 (19.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (19.05%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Support Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Consultant
4 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Storage Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) 802.1X
1 2 (9.52%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Data Centre
1 2 (9.52%) Linux Command Line
1 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
1 2 (9.52%) Replication
2 1 (4.76%) PKI
2 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) Security Operations Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.52%) Linux
1 2 (9.52%) Unix
2 1 (4.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Kalman Filter
1 5 (23.81%) Validation
1 5 (23.81%) Web Filtering
2 4 (19.05%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (14.29%) Agile
3 3 (14.29%) Change Management
3 3 (14.29%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (14.29%) Vulnerability Management
4 2 (9.52%) Information Security
4 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (9.52%) SIEM
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (9.52%) Ticket Management
5 1 (4.76%) Continuous Delivery
5 1 (4.76%) High Availability
5 1 (4.76%) Presales
5 1 (4.76%) Security Operations
5 1 (4.76%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) CCNP
2 3 (14.29%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.52%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.76%) CCNA
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) CSPO
4 1 (4.76%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.52%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (19.05%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) GPFS
2 2 (9.52%) NFS
2 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (14.29%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (9.52%) vRealize
3 2 (9.52%) VxRail
4 1 (4.76%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (4.76%) FortiGate
4 1 (4.76%) Nessus
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Meraki
1 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (19.05%) Fortinet
3 3 (14.29%) Palo Alto
3 3 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.52%) Aruba
4 2 (9.52%) IBM
4 2 (9.52%) Oracle
4 2 (9.52%) VMware
5 1 (4.76%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (4.76%) Broadcom
5 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.76%) ForeScout
5 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) Netskope
5 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.76%) Sophos
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Symantec