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 25 December 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
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 35 50
Rank change year-on-year -33 +15 +15
Contract jobs citing Cisco 23 44 54
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.90% 4.12% 3.49%
As % of the Vendors category 4.21% 9.02% 8.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 25 47
10th Percentile - £375 £382
25th Percentile £170 £413 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -26.32% +11.76% -3.41%
75th Percentile £504 £525 £481
90th Percentile £608 £565 £586
North West median daily rate £481 £490 £479
% change year-on-year -1.79% +2.40% +6.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £40.63
Median hourly rate - - £43.75
75th Percentile - - £46.88
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £74.26 £30.40 £43.75
% change year-on-year +144.28% -30.51% +66.87%

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 546 488 631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 45.01% 45.69% 40.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 368 290 449
10th Percentile £311 £336 £248
25th Percentile £380 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £593
90th Percentile £678 £688 £700
North West median daily rate £460 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -8.00% -2.20% +7.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 13 25
10th Percentile £19.01 £18.50 £15.73
25th Percentile £19.52 £30.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £22.41 £32.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -31.05% +83.41% -72.74%
75th Percentile £29.22 £33.75 £46.88
90th Percentile £31.40 - £58.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -22.62% -7.14% +62.79%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 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
Bolton - 3 - - 10
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 (17.39%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (39.13%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (26.09%) Azure
3 3 (13.04%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.70%) SaaS
5 1 (4.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) Firewall
2 8 (34.78%) Wireless
3 6 (26.09%) WAN
4 4 (17.39%) BGP
4 4 (17.39%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (17.39%) TCP/IP
4 4 (17.39%) VLAN
4 4 (17.39%) VPN
5 3 (13.04%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (13.04%) DNS
5 3 (13.04%) LAN
5 3 (13.04%) OSPF
5 3 (13.04%) SD-WAN
5 3 (13.04%) SSL
6 2 (8.70%) 802.11
6 2 (8.70%) EIGRP
6 2 (8.70%) IPsec
6 2 (8.70%) MPLS
6 2 (8.70%) SAN
6 2 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Hudson
1 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (34.78%) Public Sector
2 7 (30.43%) Finance
3 5 (21.74%) Electronics
3 5 (21.74%) Manufacturing
3 5 (21.74%) Marketing
3 5 (21.74%) Telecoms
4 4 (17.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Italian Language
5 1 (4.35%) Polish Language
5 1 (4.35%) Social Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 8 (34.78%) 2nd Line Support
2 7 (30.43%) Network Engineer
3 5 (21.74%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
3 5 (21.74%) Desktop Support
3 5 (21.74%) IT Support
3 5 (21.74%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
4 4 (17.39%) Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (13.04%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Senior
6 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Server Engineer
6 2 (8.70%) Storage Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Cisco Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Security Engineer
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Consultant
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Manager
7 1 (4.35%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.35%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Clustering
2 2 (8.70%) Replication
3 1 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) PKI
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Android
1 5 (21.74%) Mac OS
2 3 (13.04%) Windows
3 2 (8.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Digital Marketing
1 5 (21.74%) Programme Management
2 4 (17.39%) Kalman Filter
2 4 (17.39%) Web Filtering
3 3 (13.04%) Migration
3 3 (13.04%) Network Management
3 3 (13.04%) Project Delivery
4 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Transformation
4 2 (8.70%) Mentoring
4 2 (8.70%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.35%) Business Case
5 1 (4.35%) Customer Requirements
5 1 (4.35%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (4.35%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (4.35%) RBAC
5 1 (4.35%) Service Design
5 1 (4.35%) Task Automation
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (4.35%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) PowerShell
1 2 (8.70%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) Perl
Qualifications
1 8 (34.78%) Security Cleared
2 6 (26.09%) SC Cleared
3 4 (17.39%) CCNP
3 4 (17.39%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (8.70%) Degree
5 1 (4.35%) CCDP
5 1 (4.35%) CCIE
5 1 (4.35%) CCNA
5 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.35%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (8.70%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (8.70%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (4.35%) Ansible
3 1 (4.35%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (4.35%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (30.43%) Dell
2 6 (26.09%) Apple
2 6 (26.09%) Fortinet
3 5 (21.74%) HP
3 5 (21.74%) Meraki
3 5 (21.74%) SAP
4 4 (17.39%) CheckPoint
5 3 (13.04%) Palo Alto
5 3 (13.04%) SolarWinds
6 2 (8.70%) Aruba
6 2 (8.70%) F5
6 2 (8.70%) Juniper
6 2 (8.70%) Microsoft
6 2 (8.70%) NetApp
6 2 (8.70%) Veeam
6 2 (8.70%) VMware
7 1 (4.35%) Broadcom
7 1 (4.35%) Netskope
7 1 (4.35%) Symantec
7 1 (4.35%) Zscaler