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 10 August 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
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 69 48
Rank change year-on-year -18 -21 -5
Contract jobs citing Cisco 35 21 40
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.80% 2.09% 3.36%
As % of the Vendors category 4.72% 4.33% 8.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 27
10th Percentile £213 £325 £314
25th Percentile £250 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £450 £513
Median % change year-on-year -20.44% -12.20% +13.89%
75th Percentile £480 £488 £567
90th Percentile £589 £628 £775
North West median daily rate £485 £475 £513
% change year-on-year +2.11% -7.32% +13.89%
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 £74.26 - -

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 742 485 445
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 38.13% 48.21% 37.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 434 304 280
10th Percentile £275 £311 £363
25th Percentile £380 £406 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.11% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £586 £611 £605
90th Percentile £655 £703 £675
North West median daily rate £498 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +4.74% -5.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 32 22
10th Percentile £22.63 £13.00 £15.66
25th Percentile £24.19 £19.02 £20.50
Median hourly rate £33.75 £22.32 £33.00
Median % change year-on-year +51.24% -32.38% +86.23%
75th Percentile £67.75 £23.67 £60.00
90th Percentile £87.25 £59.55 £94.25
North West median hourly rate £29.00 £28.43 £16.06
% change year-on-year +2.00% +77.02% -51.33%

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 10 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Manchester

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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 10 August 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 2 - -
Cisco
North West

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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 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Acrobat
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) AWS
1 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.57%) GitHub
3 3 (8.57%) OCI
4 2 (5.71%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.71%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.86%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 13 (37.14%) Firewall
2 11 (31.43%) BGP
3 10 (28.57%) VPN
4 8 (22.86%) OSPF
5 7 (20.00%) Wireless
6 6 (17.14%) WAN
7 5 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
7 5 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
7 5 (14.29%) EIGRP
7 5 (14.29%) Network Security
7 5 (14.29%) Software-Defined Networking
7 5 (14.29%) TCP/IP
8 4 (11.43%) IP Telephony
8 4 (11.43%) LAN
8 4 (11.43%) PSTN
9 3 (8.57%) Cisco IOS
9 3 (8.57%) NetScaler
9 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
9 3 (8.57%) VLAN
9 3 (8.57%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
2 2 (5.71%) GitLab
2 2 (5.71%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (11.43%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (11.43%) Banking
1 4 (11.43%) Finance
1 4 (11.43%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (8.57%) Law
2 3 (8.57%) Legal
3 2 (5.71%) Retail
4 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (51.43%) Network Engineer
2 10 (28.57%) Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (11.43%) Network Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) 2nd Line Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Service Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (8.57%) Storage Analyst
5 2 (5.71%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (5.71%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Deployment Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Support Engineer
6 1 (2.86%) Designer
6 1 (2.86%) IBM Storage Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Flash
2 1 (2.86%) JSON
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.86%) REST
2 1 (2.86%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Data Centre
1 4 (11.43%) Driving Licence
1 4 (11.43%) Legacy Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Replication
2 3 (8.57%) Blackberry
2 3 (8.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (8.57%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (8.57%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.86%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Linux
2 5 (14.29%) Unix
2 5 (14.29%) Windows
3 3 (8.57%) Windows 10
4 1 (2.86%) AIX
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (31.43%) ITIL
2 7 (20.00%) Agile
2 7 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 6 (17.14%) Validation
4 5 (14.29%) Change Management
5 4 (11.43%) Migration
5 4 (11.43%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (8.57%) CI/CD
6 3 (8.57%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure Maintenance
6 3 (8.57%) Performance Analysis
6 3 (8.57%) Ticket Management
7 2 (5.71%) Continuous Delivery
7 2 (5.71%) DevOps
7 2 (5.71%) High Availability
7 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Transformation
7 2 (5.71%) Kalman Filter
7 2 (5.71%) Mentoring
7 2 (5.71%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 7 (20.00%) Python
2 4 (11.43%) Bash
2 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
3 8 (22.86%) SC Cleared
4 6 (17.14%) CCNA
4 6 (17.14%) CCNP
5 4 (11.43%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (5.71%) DBS Check
7 1 (2.86%) CCIE
7 1 (2.86%) CSPO
7 1 (2.86%) Degree
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Firmware
1 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.57%) GPFS
2 3 (8.57%) NFS
2 3 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.57%) vSphere
3 2 (5.71%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.71%) Docker
3 2 (5.71%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Ansible
2 3 (8.57%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) vRealize
2 3 (8.57%) VxRail
3 2 (5.71%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (5.71%) Kubernetes
3 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.86%) Argo
4 1 (2.86%) Grafana
4 1 (2.86%) Nagios
4 1 (2.86%) Progress Chef
4 1 (2.86%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.86%) Puppet
4 1 (2.86%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 9 (25.71%) Meraki
1 9 (25.71%) ServiceNow
2 8 (22.86%) Palo Alto
3 7 (20.00%) Fortinet
4 6 (17.14%) VMware
5 5 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 5 (14.29%) Microsoft
6 4 (11.43%) F5
6 4 (11.43%) IBM
6 4 (11.43%) Oracle
7 3 (8.57%) Adobe
7 3 (8.57%) Citrix
7 3 (8.57%) iManage
7 3 (8.57%) Intapp
7 3 (8.57%) Juniper
7 3 (8.57%) Litera
8 2 (5.71%) Splunk
8 2 (5.71%) Zscaler
9 1 (2.86%) Brocade
9 1 (2.86%) Ribbon