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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 49 57
Rank change year-on-year -17 +8 +36
Contract jobs citing Cisco 13 47 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.40% 3.10% 3.22%
As % of the Vendors category 2.94% 8.87% 9.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 33 48
10th Percentile £333 £378 £311
25th Percentile £363 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £433 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.88% -3.73% +1.12%
75th Percentile £488 £594 £528
90th Percentile £560 £760 £561
North West median daily rate £490 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +3.16% +11.76% +4.94%
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 £30.40 - £13.30
% change year-on-year - - -20.98%

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 442 530 668
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 47.73% 34.94% 35.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 311 353 476
10th Percentile £230 £313 £300
25th Percentile £398 £400 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £703 £656
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 42 16
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.81 £13.31
25th Percentile £14.20 £12.51 £18.73
Median hourly rate £32.50 £17.72 £32.60
Median % change year-on-year +83.41% -45.64% +93.30%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.50 £65.00
90th Percentile - £60.00 -
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 - 1
Stockport - 1 £500 - 8
Cisco
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 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Azure Storage
2 1 (7.69%) Cloudflare
2 1 (7.69%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 10 (76.92%) Firewall
2 6 (46.15%) SD-WAN
2 6 (46.15%) VPN
2 6 (46.15%) WAN
3 5 (38.46%) Network Security
4 4 (30.77%) MPLS
5 3 (23.08%) BGP
5 3 (23.08%) LAN
5 3 (23.08%) OSPF
5 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (15.38%) DWDM
6 2 (15.38%) EIGRP
6 2 (15.38%) Ethernet
6 2 (15.38%) Internet
6 2 (15.38%) Software-Defined Networking
6 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
6 2 (15.38%) Wireless
7 1 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (7.69%) DNS
7 1 (7.69%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (15.38%) Retail
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 1 (7.69%) Banking
2 1 (7.69%) Law
2 1 (7.69%) Legal
2 1 (7.69%) Public Sector
2 1 (7.69%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Network Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Network Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Project Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 2 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) IT Manager
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support
3 1 (7.69%) IT Support Manager
3 1 (7.69%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (7.69%) Support Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) High Availability
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) Network Architecture
2 2 (15.38%) Network Design
2 2 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (15.38%) Project Delivery
3 1 (7.69%) Agile
3 1 (7.69%) Change Management
3 1 (7.69%) Load Balancing
3 1 (7.69%) Migration
3 1 (7.69%) Network Management
3 1 (7.69%) Proactive Maintenance
3 1 (7.69%) Problem Management
3 1 (7.69%) Security Management
3 1 (7.69%) SIEM
3 1 (7.69%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) CCNP
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (23.08%) CCNA
3 2 (15.38%) CCIE
3 2 (15.38%) Degree
4 1 (7.69%) CCSA
4 1 (7.69%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) Meraki
2 3 (23.08%) Aruba
3 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
3 2 (15.38%) HP
3 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
3 2 (15.38%) SolarWinds
4 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.69%) Citrix
4 1 (7.69%) EMC
4 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
4 1 (7.69%) NetApp
4 1 (7.69%) Veeam
4 1 (7.69%) VMware