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 12 May 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
12 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 68 46
Rank change year-on-year -19 -22 +12
Contract jobs citing Cisco 22 13 45
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.29% 1.46% 3.10%
As % of the Vendors category 3.54% 3.12% 9.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 12 32
10th Percentile £301 £363 £330
25th Percentile £314 £381 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £450 £433
Median % change year-on-year +17.78% +3.96% +8.21%
75th Percentile £552 £491 £533
90th Percentile £588 £568 £764
North West median daily rate £475 £495 £463
% change year-on-year -4.04% +7.03% +8.82%

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 621 417 494
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 36.38% 46.80% 34.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 289 331
10th Percentile £303 £282 £325
25th Percentile £375 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £582 £575 £599
90th Percentile £652 £700 £703
North West median daily rate £472 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.69% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 12 40
10th Percentile £19.75 - £11.79
25th Percentile £22.68 £13.00 £12.40
Median hourly rate £50.00 £32.50 £16.45
Median % change year-on-year +53.85% +97.60% -40.62%
75th Percentile £78.75 £60.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £178.75 - £60.00
North West median hourly rate £30.49 £34.75 £16.06
% change year-on-year -12.26% +116.38% -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 12 May 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 12 May 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 +2 2 - -
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 2 (9.09%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (9.09%) AWS
4 2 (9.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (54.55%) Firewall
2 9 (40.91%) WAN
3 7 (31.82%) BGP
4 6 (27.27%) OSPF
5 5 (22.73%) VLAN
6 4 (18.18%) LAN
6 4 (18.18%) SD-WAN
6 4 (18.18%) VPN
7 3 (13.64%) EIGRP
7 3 (13.64%) IPsec
7 3 (13.64%) MPLS
7 3 (13.64%) Network Security
7 3 (13.64%) Wireless
8 2 (9.09%) 802.11
8 2 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (9.09%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (9.09%) SSL
8 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
8 2 (9.09%) VXLAN
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
1 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
1 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (9.09%) Retail
3 1 (4.55%) Banking
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (9.09%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Storage Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) 802.1X
1 2 (9.09%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Linux Command Line
2 2 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.09%) Replication
3 1 (4.55%) PKI
3 1 (4.55%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.55%) Security Operations Centre
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Linux
1 2 (9.09%) Unix
2 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Validation
2 4 (18.18%) Agile
2 4 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (13.64%) Change Management
3 3 (13.64%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (13.64%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (13.64%) Risk Management
3 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (13.64%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (13.64%) Web Filtering
4 2 (9.09%) Information Security
4 2 (9.09%) Migration
4 2 (9.09%) Network Design
4 2 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
4 2 (9.09%) Project Management
4 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
4 2 (9.09%) SIEM
4 2 (9.09%) Ticket Management
5 1 (4.55%) Penetration Testing
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 3 (13.64%) CCNP
2 3 (13.64%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.09%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.55%) CCNA
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) CSPO
4 1 (4.55%) Degree
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (13.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (9.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (9.09%) GPFS
1 2 (9.09%) NFS
1 2 (9.09%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (9.09%) Jamf Pro
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (9.09%) vRealize
1 2 (9.09%) VxRail
2 1 (4.55%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.55%) Nessus
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 5 (22.73%) Fortinet
3 3 (13.64%) Meraki
3 3 (13.64%) Palo Alto
3 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
4 2 (9.09%) Aruba
4 2 (9.09%) IBM
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 2 (9.09%) VMware
5 1 (4.55%) Arista
5 1 (4.55%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (4.55%) Broadcom
5 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.55%) ForeScout
5 1 (4.55%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.55%) Juniper
5 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.55%) Sophos
5 1 (4.55%) Splunk
5 1 (4.55%) Symantec