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 July 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 27 37
Rank change year-on-year -15 +10 +3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 29 10 10
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 3.84% 4.76% 2.87%
As % of the Vendors category 10.00% 9.17% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 1 9
10th Percentile £456 - £435
25th Percentile £471 £513 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +7.84%
75th Percentile £643 £538 -
90th Percentile £769 - £638
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £400 £528
% change year-on-year +31.25% -24.17% +5.50%

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 290 109 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 38.41% 51.90% 46.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 68 118
10th Percentile £362 £316 £209
25th Percentile £463 £350 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +26.21% -10.53% -7.32%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £538
90th Percentile £616 £609 £575
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £441 £463
% change year-on-year +18.98% -4.59% -9.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 7 13
10th Percentile - £13.92 £18.00
25th Percentile £33.70 £14.90 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.72 £18.00 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +115.11% -26.32% +80.03%
75th Percentile £43.75 £19.25 £48.75
90th Percentile - £40.30 -
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £38.72 £14.20 £23.51
% change year-on-year +172.68% -39.59% +43.32%

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 11 July 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 23 (79.31%) AWS
1 23 (79.31%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Azure Sentinel
3 5 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (13.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (10.34%) GCP
6 1 (3.45%) Entra ID
6 1 (3.45%) IaaS
6 1 (3.45%) PaaS
6 1 (3.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 18 (62.07%) Cisco Firepower
2 16 (55.17%) Cisco ASA
3 15 (51.72%) Firewall
3 15 (51.72%) WAN
4 14 (48.28%) LAN
5 12 (41.38%) IPsec
6 11 (37.93%) Cisco Nexus
7 10 (34.48%) Network Security
7 10 (34.48%) VPN
8 9 (31.03%) VSAN
9 8 (27.59%) BGP
9 8 (27.59%) DNS
9 8 (27.59%) NGFW
9 8 (27.59%) OSPF
10 7 (24.14%) BIG-IP
10 7 (24.14%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 7 (24.14%) TCP/IP
11 6 (20.69%) SD-WAN
12 5 (17.24%) ICMP
12 5 (17.24%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) 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
4 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Network Engineer
2 12 (41.38%) Senior
3 11 (37.93%) Architect
4 7 (24.14%) Senior Network Engineer
4 7 (24.14%) Technical Architect
5 6 (20.69%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (20.69%) Network Architect
6 5 (17.24%) NOC Engineer
7 4 (13.79%) Lead
7 4 (13.79%) Senior Architect
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 Technical Architect
8 3 (10.34%) Technical Leader
9 2 (6.90%) Network Technical Architect
10 1 (3.45%) Lead Tester
10 1 (3.45%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
10 1 (3.45%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.79%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) Data Centre
2 10 (34.48%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (27.59%) PKI
4 5 (17.24%) Private Cloud
5 4 (13.79%) Cloud Native
6 3 (10.34%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (10.34%) Public Cloud
7 1 (3.45%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (3.45%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) Linux
2 9 (31.03%) Windows
3 1 (3.45%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) ITIL
2 11 (37.93%) CI/CD
2 11 (37.93%) Network Monitoring
3 9 (31.03%) Technical Leadership
4 8 (27.59%) Continuous Delivery
4 8 (27.59%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (27.59%) Migration
4 8 (27.59%) Network Virtualisation
4 8 (27.59%) Virtual Environments
5 7 (24.14%) Security Operations
6 6 (20.69%) Cloud Security
6 6 (20.69%) DevSecOps
6 6 (20.69%) Load Balancing
6 6 (20.69%) Network Architecture
6 6 (20.69%) SIEM
6 6 (20.69%) Zero Trust
7 5 (17.24%) Computer Science
7 5 (17.24%) Non-Functional Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Performance Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) Python
Qualifications
1 21 (72.41%) Security Cleared
2 18 (62.07%) DV Cleared
3 10 (34.48%) CCNP
3 10 (34.48%) Cisco Certification
4 7 (24.14%) 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%) CCIE
7 3 (10.34%) Degree
8 2 (6.90%) AWS Certification
8 2 (6.90%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (3.45%) Azure Certification
9 1 (3.45%) CCDA
9 1 (3.45%) CCDP
9 1 (3.45%) CCIP
9 1 (3.45%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (37.93%) NCSC
2 9 (31.03%) NIST
3 5 (17.24%) SLA
4 4 (13.79%) Cyber Essentials
5 3 (10.34%) QA
6 1 (3.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 22 (75.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (48.28%) VMware NSX
3 5 (17.24%) Active Directory
3 5 (17.24%) Virtual Machines
3 5 (17.24%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (10.34%) Ansible
1 3 (10.34%) Terraform
2 2 (6.90%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (3.45%) CASB
3 1 (3.45%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 28 (96.55%) VMware
2 24 (82.76%) Palo Alto
3 10 (34.48%) Microsoft
4 9 (31.03%) SolarWinds
5 8 (27.59%) F5
6 6 (20.69%) CheckPoint
6 6 (20.69%) Fortinet
7 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
8 3 (10.34%) Becrypt
9 2 (6.90%) Google
10 1 (3.45%) Arista
10 1 (3.45%) Aruba
10 1 (3.45%) HP
10 1 (3.45%) Juniper
10 1 (3.45%) Meraki
10 1 (3.45%) Zscaler