Cisco Contracts in the Midlands

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England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 42 45 38
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +34
Contract jobs citing Cisco 76 99 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.97% 3.59% 5.14%
As % of the Vendors category 8.82% 8.35% 10.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 56 113
10th Percentile £145 £203 -
25th Percentile £250 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +11.76% +41.67%
75th Percentile £551 £600 £563
90th Percentile £603 £756 £698
England median daily rate £516 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.10% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.22 £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.13 £13.50 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.30% -10.00% -25.00%
75th Percentile - £13.88 £20.00
90th Percentile £32.44 £13.95 £21.36
England median hourly rate £37.07 £27.50 £54.34
% change year-on-year +34.81% -49.39% +127.25%

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 862 1,185 1,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 45.04% 42.98% 50.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 564 750 1,154
10th Percentile £200 £212 £209
25th Percentile £326 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.50% -5.21% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £575
90th Percentile £661 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 78 58
10th Percentile £13.25 £10.92 £13.13
25th Percentile £13.81 £12.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £18.13 £15.61 £20.20
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -22.75% +18.82%
75th Percentile £23.00 £26.50 £37.69
90th Percentile £31.33 £47.42 £65.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Midlands 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
West Midlands -5 50 £413 -10.91% 38
East Midlands +12 26 £475 -11.83% 24
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.95%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.32%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.37%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (5.26%) Mimecast
3 2 (2.63%) AWS
3 2 (2.63%) OneDrive
3 2 (2.63%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.32%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.32%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 27 (35.53%) Firewall
2 18 (23.68%) VPN
3 13 (17.11%) DNS
4 10 (13.16%) DHCP
4 10 (13.16%) WAN
5 9 (11.84%) BGP
5 9 (11.84%) OSPF
6 8 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
7 7 (9.21%) Cisco ISE
7 7 (9.21%) IPsec
7 7 (9.21%) Network Security
7 7 (9.21%) SD-WAN
8 6 (7.89%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (7.89%) Cisco Firepower
8 6 (7.89%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
8 6 (7.89%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 5 (6.58%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (6.58%) TCP/IP
9 5 (6.58%) Unified Communications
9 5 (6.58%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.32%) GitLab
1 1 (1.32%) JIRA
General
1 16 (21.05%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.21%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (7.89%) Public Sector
4 2 (2.63%) Finance
4 2 (2.63%) Manufacturing
4 2 (2.63%) Retail
4 2 (2.63%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.32%) Electronics
5 1 (1.32%) Financial Institution
5 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (1.32%) Law
5 1 (1.32%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 20 (26.32%) Network Engineer
2 6 (7.89%) Architect
2 6 (7.89%) Cisco Engineer
2 6 (7.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 5 (6.58%) Network Architect
3 5 (6.58%) Senior
3 5 (6.58%) Support Engineer
4 4 (5.26%) Consultant
4 4 (5.26%) Desktop Engineer
4 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (3.95%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 3 (3.95%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (3.95%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (3.95%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (3.95%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (3.95%) IT Engineer
5 3 (3.95%) Network Consultant
5 3 (3.95%) Unified Communications Engineer
6 2 (2.63%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
6 2 (2.63%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.32%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.32%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (10.53%) CSOC
2 6 (7.89%) NHS
3 3 (3.95%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.63%) Device Driver
4 2 (2.63%) Driving Licence
4 2 (2.63%) PKI
5 1 (1.32%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.32%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.32%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.32%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (43.42%) Windows
2 11 (14.47%) Windows 10
3 9 (11.84%) Linux
4 8 (10.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 8 (10.53%) VMS
5 6 (7.89%) Windows Server
6 5 (6.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (2.63%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.32%) CentOS
8 1 (1.32%) Rocky
8 1 (1.32%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (13.16%) Customer Service
1 10 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
1 10 (13.16%) SIEM
2 8 (10.53%) Event Correlation
3 7 (9.21%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 6 (7.89%) Configuration Management
5 5 (6.58%) Change Management
5 5 (6.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 5 (6.58%) ITIL
5 5 (6.58%) Mentoring
5 5 (6.58%) User Experience
6 4 (5.26%) Decision-Making
6 4 (5.26%) Information Security
6 4 (5.26%) Network Design
6 4 (5.26%) PLM
6 4 (5.26%) Service Delivery
6 4 (5.26%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (5.26%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (5.26%) System Testing
6 4 (5.26%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.63%) Python
2 1 (1.32%) Perl
Qualifications
1 28 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 25 (32.89%) SC Cleared
3 19 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
4 16 (21.05%) CCNP
5 15 (19.74%) Degree
6 8 (10.53%) CCNA
7 4 (5.26%) CCIE
8 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.63%) CCIE Wireless
9 2 (2.63%) CISA
9 2 (2.63%) CISM
9 2 (2.63%) CISSP
9 2 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.63%) GIAC
9 2 (2.63%) ISACA
9 2 (2.63%) MCSE
9 2 (2.63%) SANS
10 1 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
10 1 (1.32%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) QA
1 4 (5.26%) SLA
2 1 (1.32%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 19 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (7.89%) BitLocker
4 5 (6.58%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.95%) Firmware
6 1 (1.32%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.32%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 18 (23.68%) SCCM
2 10 (13.16%) FortiGate
3 3 (3.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.63%) Ansible
5 1 (1.32%) logstash
5 1 (1.32%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.32%) QRadar
5 1 (1.32%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 16 (21.05%) Fortinet
2 15 (19.74%) SolarWinds
3 14 (18.42%) F5
3 14 (18.42%) Palo Alto
4 13 (17.11%) ServiceNow
5 11 (14.47%) Citrix
5 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
5 11 (14.47%) Nexthink
6 10 (13.16%) Juniper
6 10 (13.16%) VMware
7 8 (10.53%) Red Hat
7 8 (10.53%) Splunk
8 6 (7.89%) CheckPoint
9 4 (5.26%) Proofpoint
10 3 (3.95%) Aruba
10 3 (3.95%) Meraki
11 2 (2.63%) Apple
11 2 (2.63%) Mitel
11 2 (2.63%) Tenable
12 1 (1.32%) Huawei