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 8 November 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
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 18 26
Rank change year-on-year -13 +8 +33
Contract jobs citing Cisco 10 26 33
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.51% 8.70% 5.75%
As % of the Vendors category 6.45% 16.25% 10.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 17 19
10th Percentile £276 £484 £411
25th Percentile £316 £493 £490
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £388 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.48% -9.57% +4.55%
75th Percentile £466 £565 £617
90th Percentile £509 £629 £675
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £388 £505 £570
% change year-on-year -23.27% -11.40% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - - £27.00
% change year-on-year - - +58.82%

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 155 160 317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 54.39% 53.51% 55.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 116 254
10th Percentile £269 £242 £275
25th Percentile £350 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -11.90% +10.53%
75th Percentile £550 £541 £613
90th Percentile £608 £630 £680
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £431 £467 £525
% change year-on-year -7.56% -11.14% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 11
10th Percentile £17.65 £13.61 £13.17
25th Percentile £20.90 £16.73 £13.57
Median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.80% +31.25% +53.85%
75th Percentile - £35.06 £24.00
90th Percentile - £37.37 £30.00
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £29.61 £26.25 £19.50
% change year-on-year +12.80% +34.62% +44.44%

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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 8 November 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (90.00%) Firewall
2 8 (80.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (10.00%) NAS
3 1 (10.00%) SAN
3 1 (10.00%) VLAN
General
1 8 (80.00%) Games
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Platform Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support
2 1 (10.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Solutions Consultant
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
1 1 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (10.00%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) Windows
2 9 (90.00%) Mac OS
3 8 (80.00%) Android
4 1 (10.00%) Linux
4 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) Customer Engagement
2 1 (10.00%) High Availability
2 1 (10.00%) ITIL
2 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (10.00%) Presales
2 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (10.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (10.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (90.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 8 (80.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (80.00%) Meraki
2 8 (80.00%) Splunk
3 1 (10.00%) Apple
3 1 (10.00%) Dell
3 1 (10.00%) F5
3 1 (10.00%) HP
3 1 (10.00%) Isilon
3 1 (10.00%) NetApp
3 1 (10.00%) Planview
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (10.00%) Veeam
3 1 (10.00%) VMware