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 11 February 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
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 17 17
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 +26
Contract jobs citing Cisco 9 26 39
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 2.16% 12.32% 7.63%
As % of the Vendors category 5.33% 21.85% 13.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 18 31
10th Percentile £381 £452 £213
25th Percentile £513 £507 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £560 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% -2.61% +4.55%
75th Percentile £560 £630 £825
90th Percentile - £630 £900
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £543 £555 £575
% change year-on-year -2.25% -3.48% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £23.85
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £24.00
75th Percentile - - £30.00
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate - - £27.00

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 169 119 280
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 40.63% 56.40% 54.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 88 224
10th Percentile £259 £244 £225
25th Percentile £400 £393 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +4.22% -
75th Percentile £565 £600 £586
90th Percentile £638 £683 £661
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 20
10th Percentile - £17.80 £17.80
25th Percentile - £26.50 £21.88
Median hourly rate £29.61 £41.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.78% +70.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile - £55.50 £30.00
90th Percentile £31.53 £64.20 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £29.61 £41.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -27.78% +70.83% +54.84%

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 11 February 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 3 (33.33%) IaaS
1 3 (33.33%) PaaS
1 3 (33.33%) SaaS
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Azure
3 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) BGP
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 3 (33.33%) Ethernet VPN
3 3 (33.33%) MPLS
3 3 (33.33%) OSPF
3 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (33.33%) VPN
3 3 (33.33%) VXLAN
3 3 (33.33%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) EIGRP
4 2 (22.22%) NX-OS
5 1 (11.11%) IPsec
5 1 (11.11%) IPv6
5 1 (11.11%) Multicast
5 1 (11.11%) SNMP
5 1 (11.11%) VoIP
5 1 (11.11%) Wireless
5 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Architect
4 1 (11.11%) IT Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support
4 1 (11.11%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
2 1 (11.11%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
2 1 (11.11%) VMS
2 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
2 2 (22.22%) Design Patterns
2 2 (22.22%) Impact Assessments
2 2 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (22.22%) Knowledge Transfer
2 2 (22.22%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (22.22%) Use Case
3 1 (11.11%) Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (11.11%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (11.11%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Network Architecture
3 1 (11.11%) Network Management
3 1 (11.11%) Security Operations
3 1 (11.11%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (88.89%) DV Cleared
1 8 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 1 (11.11%) CCDA
3 1 (11.11%) CCDP
3 1 (11.11%) CCIE
3 1 (11.11%) CCIP
3 1 (11.11%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NCSC
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (22.22%) vCloud
2 2 (22.22%) VMware NSX
3 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
3 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) CASB
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Aruba
1 4 (44.44%) Meraki
1 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
2 3 (33.33%) F5
2 3 (33.33%) VMware
2 3 (33.33%) Zscaler
3 2 (22.22%) HP
4 1 (11.11%) Apple
4 1 (11.11%) Arista
4 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
4 1 (11.11%) Fortinet
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
4 1 (11.11%) Planview
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds