Cisco Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Cisco
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Milton Keynes 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 10 June 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
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 39 24 25
Rank change year-on-year -15 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Cisco 30 6 20
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.02% 3.39% 4.99%
As % of the Vendors category 10.49% 7.50% 10.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 2 19
10th Percentile £456 £492 £328
25th Percentile £463 £496 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -18.00% +22.55%
75th Percentile £560 £531 £825
90th Percentile £642 £535 £938
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £450 £663
% change year-on-year +16.67% -32.08% +32.50%

All Vendors
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 286 80 195
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 38.34% 45.20% 48.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 240 57 144
10th Percentile £358 £325 £233
25th Percentile £463 £375 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.05% - -5.94%
75th Percentile £596 £550 £550
90th Percentile £611 £612 £634
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £475 £474
% change year-on-year +10.53% +0.26% -5.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 13
10th Percentile - £13.68 £18.65
25th Percentile - £14.69 £22.50
Median hourly rate - £17.25 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year - -25.69% +71.08%
75th Percentile - £32.88 £48.75
90th Percentile - £55.15 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - £14.20 £23.22
% change year-on-year - -38.83% +49.44%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Milton Keynes

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Cisco

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 18 (60.00%) AWS
1 18 (60.00%) Azure
2 6 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (10.00%) IaaS
4 3 (10.00%) PaaS
4 3 (10.00%) SaaS
5 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (46.67%) Firewall
2 12 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
2 12 (40.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 11 (36.67%) WAN
4 9 (30.00%) VSAN
5 8 (26.67%) BGP
5 8 (26.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 8 (26.67%) IPsec
5 8 (26.67%) LAN
5 8 (26.67%) Network Security
6 7 (23.33%) VPN
7 6 (20.00%) OSPF
8 4 (13.33%) DHCP
8 4 (13.33%) DNS
8 4 (13.33%) NGFW
8 4 (13.33%) SSL
8 4 (13.33%) Wireless
9 3 (10.00%) CATAPAN
9 3 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
9 3 (10.00%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
1 5 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 5 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (3.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (56.67%) Network Engineer
2 10 (33.33%) Senior
3 9 (30.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 8 (26.67%) Architect
5 6 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (16.67%) NOC Engineer
7 4 (13.33%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (13.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (13.33%) Network Architect
7 4 (13.33%) Technical Architect
7 4 (13.33%) Test Manager
8 3 (10.00%) QA Manager
8 3 (10.00%) QA Test Manager
8 3 (10.00%) Senior Architect
8 3 (10.00%) Senior Technical Architect
9 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 1 (3.33%) Cisco Architect
10 1 (3.33%) Lead Tester
10 1 (3.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
10 1 (3.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (26.67%) PKI
3 5 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (3.33%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (3.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (46.67%) Linux
2 9 (30.00%) Windows
3 1 (3.33%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (36.67%) ITIL
1 11 (36.67%) Network Monitoring
2 9 (30.00%) CI/CD
2 9 (30.00%) Technical Leadership
3 8 (26.67%) Continuous Delivery
3 8 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (26.67%) Migration
3 8 (26.67%) Virtual Environments
4 7 (23.33%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (20.00%) Load Balancing
5 6 (20.00%) Security Operations
5 6 (20.00%) SIEM
6 5 (16.67%) Change Management
6 5 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
6 5 (16.67%) Performance Testing
6 5 (16.67%) Presales
6 5 (16.67%) Test Automation
6 5 (16.67%) Test Management
7 4 (13.33%) Network Design
7 4 (13.33%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (3.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (73.33%) Security Cleared
2 19 (63.33%) DV Cleared
3 11 (36.67%) SC Cleared
4 6 (20.00%) CCNP
4 6 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (16.67%) CCSE
5 5 (16.67%) CCSM
5 5 (16.67%) ISTQB
5 5 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (3.33%) CCDA
6 1 (3.33%) CCDP
6 1 (3.33%) CCIE
6 1 (3.33%) CCIP
6 1 (3.33%) CCNA
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (30.00%) NIST
2 6 (20.00%) NCSC
3 5 (16.67%) SLA
4 4 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (10.00%) QA
6 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 23 (76.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (33.33%) VMware NSX
3 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
3 5 (16.67%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (6.67%) vCloud
5 1 (3.33%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (3.33%) Ansible
2 1 (3.33%) CASB
2 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 24 (80.00%) VMware
2 21 (70.00%) Palo Alto
3 7 (23.33%) F5
4 6 (20.00%) CheckPoint
4 6 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 5 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 5 (16.67%) SolarWinds
6 4 (13.33%) Aruba
6 4 (13.33%) Meraki
7 3 (10.00%) Becrypt
7 3 (10.00%) Zscaler
8 1 (3.33%) Arista
8 1 (3.33%) HP
8 1 (3.33%) Juniper