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 9 October 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
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 29 24
Rank change year-on-year -13 -5 +6
Contract jobs citing Cisco 22 10 18
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.62% 3.98% 6.32%
As % of the Vendors category 7.77% 7.41% 11.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 2 13
10th Percentile £456 £276 £478
25th Percentile £485 £316 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £388 £505
Median % change year-on-year +44.52% -23.27% -9.82%
75th Percentile £648 £466 £560
90th Percentile £769 £509 £564
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £388 £505
% change year-on-year +35.48% -23.27% -8.18%

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 283 135 151
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 46.62% 53.78% 52.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 88 112
10th Percentile £361 £256 £252
25th Percentile £463 £325 £374
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £420 £456
Median % change year-on-year +27.72% -7.95% -14.84%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £538
90th Percentile £626 £575 £585
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £420 £450
% change year-on-year +25.00% -6.67% -15.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 5
10th Percentile £14.36 £14.54 £17.63
25th Percentile £33.70 £18.00 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £29.61 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% -1.30% +121.08%
75th Percentile £70.25 - £36.75
90th Percentile £70.95 - £37.50
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £15.23 £18.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -15.42% -40.00% +82.93%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 9 October 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 13 (59.09%) AWS
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (13.64%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 16 (72.73%) Cisco Firepower
2 14 (63.64%) Cisco ASA
3 13 (59.09%) Firewall
4 12 (54.55%) VPN
5 11 (50.00%) DNS
5 11 (50.00%) IPsec
5 11 (50.00%) LAN
5 11 (50.00%) WAN
6 9 (40.91%) Network Security
7 8 (36.36%) Cisco Nexus
7 8 (36.36%) NGFW
8 7 (31.82%) DHCP
8 7 (31.82%) SSL
9 5 (22.73%) BGP
9 5 (22.73%) SD-WAN
10 4 (18.18%) CATAPAN
10 4 (18.18%) MPLS
10 4 (18.18%) OSPF
10 4 (18.18%) TCP/IP
10 4 (18.18%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (13.64%) Finance
1 3 (13.64%) Manufacturing
1 3 (13.64%) Retail
1 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
2 2 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 10 (45.45%) Senior
3 8 (36.36%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (27.27%) Architect
4 6 (27.27%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 5 (22.73%) Network Architect
6 4 (18.18%) Lead
6 4 (18.18%) Test Manager
7 3 (13.64%) Lead Architect
7 3 (13.64%) NOC Engineer
7 3 (13.64%) QA Manager
7 3 (13.64%) QA Test Manager
7 3 (13.64%) Technical Architect
7 3 (13.64%) Technical Leader
8 2 (9.09%) Network Technical Architect
9 1 (4.55%) Designer
9 1 (4.55%) Enterprise Solutions Architect
9 1 (4.55%) Lead Tester
9 1 (4.55%) Senior Architect
9 1 (4.55%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) 802.1X
1 3 (13.64%) Terraform
2 1 (4.55%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Data Centre
1 7 (31.82%) PKI
2 6 (27.27%) Private Cloud
3 5 (22.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
4 4 (18.18%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (13.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 9 (40.91%) Windows
2 8 (36.36%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) ITIL
2 10 (45.45%) Network Monitoring
3 9 (40.91%) Technical Leadership
4 7 (31.82%) CI/CD
4 7 (31.82%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (27.27%) Security Operations
6 5 (22.73%) Cloud Security
6 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
6 5 (22.73%) Continuous Delivery
6 5 (22.73%) Continuous Integration
6 5 (22.73%) Non-Functional Testing
6 5 (22.73%) Performance Testing
6 5 (22.73%) Test Automation
6 5 (22.73%) Test Management
6 5 (22.73%) TOGAF
6 5 (22.73%) Virtual Environments
6 5 (22.73%) Zero Trust
7 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
7 4 (18.18%) Network Design
7 4 (18.18%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (22.73%) SQL
2 2 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (81.82%) Security Cleared
2 16 (72.73%) DV Cleared
3 7 (31.82%) CCNP
3 7 (31.82%) Cisco Certification
4 5 (22.73%) ISTQB
4 5 (22.73%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 4 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (13.64%) CCSE
6 3 (13.64%) CCSM
6 3 (13.64%) Degree
6 3 (13.64%) SC Cleared
7 2 (9.09%) CCIE
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
8 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
8 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (22.73%) NCSC
1 5 (22.73%) NIST
2 3 (13.64%) QA
2 3 (13.64%) SLA
System Software
1 17 (77.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (63.64%) VMware NSX
3 7 (31.82%) Active Directory
4 5 (22.73%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (13.64%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 22 (100.00%) VMware
2 16 (72.73%) Palo Alto
3 11 (50.00%) SolarWinds
4 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
5 4 (18.18%) Becrypt
5 4 (18.18%) F5
5 4 (18.18%) ServiceNow
6 3 (13.64%) CheckPoint
6 3 (13.64%) Fortinet
7 2 (9.09%) Google