Cisco Contracts in Merseyside

Cisco
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside 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 16 26 27
Rank change year-on-year +10 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 13 7 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Merseyside 7.74% 3.07% 5.85%
As % of the Vendors category 13.54% 7.00% 11.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 4 10
10th Percentile £368 £257 £255
25th Percentile £419 £267 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £285 £400
Median % change year-on-year +84.21% -28.75% +14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £318 £458
90th Percentile £628 - £525
North West median daily rate £490 £475 £425
% change year-on-year +3.16% +11.76% +4.94%

All Vendors
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 96 100 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 57.14% 43.86% 48.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 37 124
10th Percentile £143 £162 £302
25th Percentile £172 £213 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £275 £495
Median % change year-on-year +68.18% -44.44% +15.12%
75th Percentile £575 £438 £626
90th Percentile £638 £494 £700
North West median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 20 5
10th Percentile - - £16.21
25th Percentile - £14.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.44 £16.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.00% -8.57% +34.62%
75th Percentile - £18.27 £18.75
90th Percentile - £23.46 £19.05
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 Merseyside

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Merseyside

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Merseyside.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in Merseyside

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Merseyside over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Merseyside

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Merseyside.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in Merseyside

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Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool +13 12 £525 +84.21% 10
Bootle - 1 - -
Cisco
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) AWS
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
1 2 (15.38%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) BGP
1 7 (53.85%) MPLS
2 4 (30.77%) IPv6
2 4 (30.77%) OSPF
3 3 (23.08%) Multicast
4 2 (15.38%) Broadband
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (15.38%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (15.38%) GPON
4 2 (15.38%) IOS XR
4 2 (15.38%) VPN
5 1 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (7.69%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (7.69%) Firewall
5 1 (7.69%) IGMP
5 1 (7.69%) LAN
5 1 (7.69%) NGFW
5 1 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
5 1 (7.69%) VXLAN
General
1 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
1 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Change Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Core Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Delivery Manager
3 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal DevOps Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Network Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Principal Security Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) LAN Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Network Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Network Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Senior
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Consultant
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
1 2 (15.38%) Windows
1 2 (15.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (15.38%) Change Management
2 2 (15.38%) CI/CD
2 2 (15.38%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (15.38%) Customer Service
2 2 (15.38%) DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (15.38%) High Availability
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
2 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
2 2 (15.38%) ITIL
2 2 (15.38%) ITSM
2 2 (15.38%) Migration
2 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (15.38%) Project Management
2 2 (15.38%) Validation
2 2 (15.38%) Workflow
3 1 (7.69%) Network Design
3 1 (7.69%) Performance Metrics
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (15.38%) CCIE
2 2 (15.38%) CCNA
2 2 (15.38%) CCNP
2 2 (15.38%) Degree
3 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Nagios
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
1 2 (15.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) SolarWinds
2 3 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 2 (15.38%) Nokia
4 1 (7.69%) CheckPoint
4 1 (7.69%) F5
4 1 (7.69%) Meraki