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 19 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
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 67 51
Rank change year-on-year -25 -16 +2
Contract jobs citing Cisco 24 13 46
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.38% 1.46% 3.24%
As % of the Vendors category 3.84% 3.10% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 32
10th Percentile £302 £363 £330
25th Percentile £316 £381 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £499 £450 £433
Median % change year-on-year +10.78% +3.96% +1.85%
75th Percentile £540 £491 £533
90th Percentile £588 £568 £764
North West median daily rate £479 £495 £475
% change year-on-year -3.28% +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 625 419 480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 35.96% 47.08% 33.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 396 287 321
10th Percentile £300 £242 £325
25th Percentile £376 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £581 £575 £598
90th Percentile £650 £673 £688
North West median daily rate £475 £497 £500
% change year-on-year -4.43% -0.60% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 14 40
10th Percentile £22.63 - £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% -40.41%
75th Percentile £76.25 £60.00 £26.50
90th Percentile £178.75 £62.63 £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 19 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 19 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

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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 (8.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.83%) Azure
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (12.50%) AWS
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft Purview
4 2 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) Firewall
2 9 (37.50%) WAN
3 7 (29.17%) BGP
4 6 (25.00%) OSPF
5 5 (20.83%) VLAN
6 4 (16.67%) LAN
6 4 (16.67%) SD-WAN
6 4 (16.67%) VPN
7 3 (12.50%) EIGRP
7 3 (12.50%) IPsec
7 3 (12.50%) MPLS
7 3 (12.50%) Network Security
7 3 (12.50%) VSAN
7 3 (12.50%) Wireless
8 2 (8.33%) 802.11
8 2 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (8.33%) Ethernet VPN
8 2 (8.33%) SSL
8 2 (8.33%) TCP/IP
8 2 (8.33%) VXLAN
General
1 4 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 3 (12.50%) Finance
2 3 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Banking
3 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (8.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 3 (12.50%) Security Engineer
3 3 (12.50%) Storage Analyst
4 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Consultant
4 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Cybersecurity Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Storage and Backup Administrator
5 1 (4.17%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (12.50%) Flash
2 2 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 4 (16.67%) Replication
2 3 (12.50%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) PKI
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (4.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 3 (12.50%) Linux
1 3 (12.50%) Unix
2 1 (4.17%) AIX
2 1 (4.17%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (25.00%) Validation
2 4 (16.67%) Agile
2 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (12.50%) Change Management
3 3 (12.50%) Data Loss Prevention
3 3 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
3 3 (12.50%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (12.50%) Risk Management
3 3 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 3 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (12.50%) Ticket Management
3 3 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
3 3 (12.50%) Web Filtering
4 2 (8.33%) Information Security
4 2 (8.33%) Migration
4 2 (8.33%) Network Design
4 2 (8.33%) Project Management
4 2 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (8.33%) SIEM
5 1 (4.17%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Bash
1 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) CCNP
2 3 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (8.33%) DBS Check
4 1 (4.17%) CCNA
4 1 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.17%) CSPO
4 1 (4.17%) Degree
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 3 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (12.50%) GPFS
1 3 (12.50%) NFS
1 3 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
1 3 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (12.50%) vSphere
2 2 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.17%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) vRealize
1 3 (12.50%) VxRail
2 2 (8.33%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (4.17%) Ansible
3 1 (4.17%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (4.17%) FortiGate
3 1 (4.17%) Nessus
3 1 (4.17%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Fortinet
3 4 (16.67%) IBM
3 4 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 4 (16.67%) VMware
4 3 (12.50%) Meraki
4 3 (12.50%) Oracle
4 3 (12.50%) Palo Alto
5 2 (8.33%) Aruba
6 1 (4.17%) Arista
6 1 (4.17%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (4.17%) Broadcom
6 1 (4.17%) Brocade
6 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.17%) Infoblox
6 1 (4.17%) Juniper
6 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.17%) Sophos
6 1 (4.17%) Splunk
6 1 (4.17%) Symantec