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 September 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
19 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 33 39
Rank change year-on-year -37 +6 +44
Contract jobs citing Cisco 15 51 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.48% 4.28% 4.40%
As % of the Vendors category 3.07% 10.78% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 27 59
10th Percentile £325 £314 £363
25th Percentile £400 £426 £399
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £531 £556 £488
90th Percentile £621 £571 £541
North West median daily rate £475 £495 £450
% change year-on-year -4.04% +10.00% +5.88%
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 £66.50 - £45.79
% change year-on-year - - +30.83%

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 489 473 660
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 48.22% 39.68% 39.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 278 463
10th Percentile £311 £363 £225
25th Percentile £400 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +2.56% -2.50%
75th Percentile £602 £600 £583
90th Percentile £728 £675 £684
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 16 23
10th Percentile £13.12 £15.81 £15.73
25th Percentile £19.07 £19.21 £15.75
Median hourly rate £22.32 £30.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +69.30% -11.97%
75th Percentile £31.40 £44.06 £43.13
90th Percentile £53.24 £74.38 £53.38
North West median hourly rate £22.63 £35.36 £35.00
% change year-on-year -36.00% +1.03% +56.32%

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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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Manchester over the 6 months to 19 September 2025.

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

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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 19 September 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 - 1 - - 7
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 2 (13.33%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (13.33%) SaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Storage
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
2 4 (26.67%) WAN
3 3 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (20.00%) LAN
3 3 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (20.00%) VPN
4 2 (13.33%) BGP
4 2 (13.33%) DNS
4 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
4 2 (13.33%) MPLS
4 2 (13.33%) Network Security
4 2 (13.33%) SAN
4 2 (13.33%) VLAN
4 2 (13.33%) Wireless
5 1 (6.67%) Ethernet
5 1 (6.67%) Internet
5 1 (6.67%) OSPF
5 1 (6.67%) SSL
5 1 (6.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Hudson
General
1 2 (13.33%) Finance
1 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (6.67%) Italian Language
2 1 (6.67%) Law
2 1 (6.67%) Legal
2 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (6.67%) Polish Language
2 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (6.67%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Server Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Storage Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (6.67%) 1st Line Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Unified Communications Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Clustering
1 2 (13.33%) Replication
2 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (6.67%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 2 (13.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (26.67%) Network Management
2 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Transformation
2 2 (13.33%) ITIL
2 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (13.33%) Migration
2 2 (13.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.67%) Business Case
3 1 (6.67%) Change Management
3 1 (6.67%) Customer Service
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection
3 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (6.67%) Network Architecture
3 1 (6.67%) Network Design
3 1 (6.67%) Problem Management
3 1 (6.67%) Security Management
3 1 (6.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (6.67%) Task Automation
3 1 (6.67%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.67%) Perl
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CCNP
1 3 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) CCDP
3 1 (6.67%) CCIE
3 1 (6.67%) CCNA
3 1 (6.67%) DBS Check
System Software
1 4 (26.67%) Active Directory
2 2 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (6.67%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (6.67%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 4 (26.67%) SolarWinds
3 3 (20.00%) CheckPoint
3 3 (20.00%) NetApp
3 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (20.00%) Veeam
3 3 (20.00%) VMware
4 2 (13.33%) Aruba
4 2 (13.33%) Dell
4 2 (13.33%) F5
4 2 (13.33%) Meraki
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (6.67%) Apple
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) EMC
5 1 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (6.67%) Juniper
5 1 (6.67%) Zscaler