Cisco Contract Job Trends 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 4 September 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
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 12 23 28
Rank change year-on-year +11 +5 -9
Contract jobs citing Cisco 35 5 3
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 10.48% 2.78% 1.42%
As % of the Vendors category 22.73% 6.02% 3.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £538 -
25th Percentile - £543 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £295
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +86.44% -1.67%
75th Percentile - - £318
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £483 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +1.68% -5.94% +12.22%

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 154 83 97
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 46.11% 46.11% 45.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 52 49
10th Percentile £143 £218 £199
25th Percentile £190 £400 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £500 £295
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% +69.49% -30.59%
75th Percentile £538 £625 £448
90th Percentile £604 £775 £535
North West median daily rate £495 £470 £500
% change year-on-year +5.32% -6.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 4 3
10th Percentile £14.68 - £21.69
25th Percentile £17.00 - £27.06
Median hourly rate £24.72 £17.44 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.74% -51.56% +105.71%
75th Percentile £25.38 - £38.00
90th Percentile - - £39.20
North West median hourly rate £29.96 £23.63 £31.00
% change year-on-year +26.81% -23.79% -11.43%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside.

Cisco job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Cisco

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Cisco

Cisco
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 4 September 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
Liverpool +13 35 £600 +9.09% 2
Cisco
North West

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.57%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (11.43%) AWS
1 4 (11.43%) Azure
1 4 (11.43%) Entra ID
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (8.57%) Azure AI
2 3 (8.57%) OneDrive
2 3 (8.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (77.14%) BGP
1 27 (77.14%) DMZ
1 27 (77.14%) DNS
1 27 (77.14%) Multicast
1 27 (77.14%) VPN
2 3 (8.57%) Network Security
3 1 (2.86%) Unified Communications
3 1 (2.86%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.57%) Power BI
General
1 14 (40.00%) Banking
1 14 (40.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (2.86%) Finance
Job Titles
1 31 (88.57%) Cisco Engineer
2 27 (77.14%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 27 (77.14%) Cisco Security Engineer
2 27 (77.14%) Data Engineer
2 27 (77.14%) Data Network Engineer
2 27 (77.14%) Network Engineer
2 27 (77.14%) Network Security Engineer
2 27 (77.14%) Security Engineer
3 13 (37.14%) Web Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Cisco Voice Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Cloud Architect
4 4 (11.43%) PowerShell Engineer
4 4 (11.43%) Security Architect
4 4 (11.43%) Voice Engineer
5 3 (8.57%) Information Architect
5 3 (8.57%) Information Security Architect
6 1 (2.86%) Cloud Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) Consultant
6 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (8.57%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (77.14%) Load Balancing
2 4 (11.43%) Analytics
2 4 (11.43%) Architectural Patterns
2 4 (11.43%) Cloud Security
2 4 (11.43%) Information Security
2 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
2 4 (11.43%) Security Architecture
3 3 (8.57%) AI
3 3 (8.57%) Data Pipeline
3 3 (8.57%) Data Protection
3 3 (8.57%) Infrastructure as Code
3 3 (8.57%) Machine Learning
3 3 (8.57%) Risk Assessment
3 3 (8.57%) SABSA
3 3 (8.57%) Zero Trust
4 1 (2.86%) Change Management
4 1 (2.86%) Problem Management
4 1 (2.86%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (2.86%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (8.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (8.57%) AWS Certification
1 3 (8.57%) CCSP
1 3 (8.57%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (8.57%) CISSP
1 3 (8.57%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 27 (77.14%) F5
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.43%) Ribbon
3 4 (11.43%) Splunk
4 1 (2.86%) Remedy
4 1 (2.86%) ServiceNow