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 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
9 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 29 26
Rank change year-on-year -14 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 29 9 17
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 4.07% 3.77% 5.86%
As % of the Vendors category 9.32% 7.32% 11.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 1 13
10th Percentile £456 - £491
25th Percentile £478 £513 £493
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £525 £511
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +2.70% -8.72%
75th Percentile £643 £538 £560
90th Percentile £769 - £565
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £525 £505
% change year-on-year - +3.96% -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 311 123 154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 43.62% 51.46% 53.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 81 113
10th Percentile £370 £259 £240
25th Percentile £463 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £420 £463
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -9.19% -11.90%
75th Percentile £598 £538 £538
90th Percentile £623 £613 £600
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +23.53% -5.56% -14.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 5 5
10th Percentile £14.32 £13.62 £17.63
25th Percentile £28.88 £14.54 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £15.50 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +149.81% -48.33% +121.08%
75th Percentile £50.37 £18.00 £36.75
90th Percentile £70.25 - £37.50
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £30.00
% change year-on-year +172.68% -52.67% +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

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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 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Milton Keynes

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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

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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 20 (68.97%) AWS
1 20 (68.97%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) Azure Sentinel
3 4 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (6.90%) GCP
4 2 (6.90%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (72.41%) Cisco Firepower
2 19 (65.52%) Cisco ASA
3 16 (55.17%) Firewall
4 14 (48.28%) IPsec
4 14 (48.28%) LAN
4 14 (48.28%) WAN
5 12 (41.38%) Network Security
5 12 (41.38%) VPN
6 11 (37.93%) DNS
6 11 (37.93%) NGFW
7 10 (34.48%) Cisco Nexus
8 8 (27.59%) BGP
9 7 (24.14%) BIG-IP
9 7 (24.14%) DHCP
9 7 (24.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
9 7 (24.14%) OSPF
9 7 (24.14%) SSL
9 7 (24.14%) TCP/IP
9 7 (24.14%) VSAN
10 5 (17.24%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (17.24%) Finance
1 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
1 5 (17.24%) Retail
2 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (6.90%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 16 (55.17%) Network Engineer
2 14 (48.28%) Senior
3 10 (34.48%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (27.59%) Architect
5 7 (24.14%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 5 (17.24%) Network Architect
6 5 (17.24%) NOC Engineer
6 5 (17.24%) Technical Architect
7 4 (13.79%) Lead
7 4 (13.79%) Test Manager
8 3 (10.34%) Lead Architect
8 3 (10.34%) QA Manager
8 3 (10.34%) QA Test Manager
8 3 (10.34%) Senior Architect
8 3 (10.34%) Technical Leader
9 2 (6.90%) Network Technical Architect
9 2 (6.90%) Senior Technical Architect
10 1 (3.45%) Cisco Engineer
10 1 (3.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.34%) 802.1X
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 1 (3.45%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (31.03%) Data Centre
1 9 (31.03%) PKI
2 7 (24.14%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (20.69%) Private Cloud
4 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
4 4 (13.79%) Fibre Optics
5 3 (10.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 2 (6.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (41.38%) Linux
2 11 (37.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (55.17%) ITIL
2 14 (48.28%) Network Monitoring
3 12 (41.38%) Technical Leadership
4 10 (34.48%) Network Virtualisation
4 10 (34.48%) Virtual Environments
5 9 (31.03%) CI/CD
5 9 (31.03%) Security Operations
6 7 (24.14%) Continuous Delivery
6 7 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
6 7 (24.14%) High Availability
6 7 (24.14%) Migration
7 5 (17.24%) Change Management
7 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
7 5 (17.24%) Load Balancing
7 5 (17.24%) Performance Testing
7 5 (17.24%) SIEM
7 5 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (17.24%) Test Automation
7 5 (17.24%) Test Management
7 5 (17.24%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 2 (6.90%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (72.41%) Security Cleared
2 19 (65.52%) DV Cleared
3 9 (31.03%) CCNP
3 9 (31.03%) Cisco Certification
4 6 (20.69%) SC Cleared
5 5 (17.24%) CCSE
5 5 (17.24%) CCSM
5 5 (17.24%) ISTQB
5 5 (17.24%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 4 (13.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (10.34%) Degree
8 2 (6.90%) CCIE
9 1 (3.45%) AWS Certification
9 1 (3.45%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
9 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) NCSC
1 7 (24.14%) NIST
2 5 (17.24%) SLA
3 3 (10.34%) QA
4 2 (6.90%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 24 (82.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (55.17%) VMware NSX
3 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
4 5 (17.24%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 4 (13.79%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (6.90%) Ansible
Vendors
1 29 (100.00%) VMware
2 23 (79.31%) Palo Alto
3 11 (37.93%) SolarWinds
4 7 (24.14%) F5
4 7 (24.14%) Microsoft
5 5 (17.24%) CheckPoint
5 5 (17.24%) Fortinet
5 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
6 4 (13.79%) Becrypt
7 2 (6.90%) Google