Cisco Contract Job Trends in Newport

Cisco
South Wales > Newport

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Newport 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 4 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
4 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 9 8 18
Rank change year-on-year -1 +10 -8
Contract jobs citing Cisco 8 12 1
As % of all contract jobs in Newport 13.79% 17.39% 1.16%
As % of the Vendors category 33.33% 46.15% 4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 1
10th Percentile - £186 -
25th Percentile £525 £210 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £290 £450
Median % change year-on-year +89.66% -35.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £434 £475
90th Percentile £600 £487 -
South Wales median daily rate £550 £339 £423
% change year-on-year +62.36% -19.82% +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £83.25 - -
25th Percentile £84.38 - -
Median hourly rate £87.50 £45.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +94.44% - -
75th Percentile £89.38 - -
90th Percentile £89.75 - -
South Wales median hourly rate £85.00 £45.00 -
% change year-on-year +88.89% - -

All Vendors
Newport

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 Newport.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 24 26 24
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport 41.38% 37.68% 27.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 17
10th Percentile £418 £176 £144
25th Percentile £525 £190 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £365 £575
Median % change year-on-year +50.68% -36.52% +14.89%
75th Percentile £594 £438 £625
90th Percentile £599 £670 -
South Wales median daily rate £450 £413 £500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -17.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 6
10th Percentile £83.25 £29.25 £12.68
25th Percentile £84.38 £33.75 £17.54
Median hourly rate £87.50 £37.50 £55.58
Median % change year-on-year +133.33% -32.53% +265.43%
75th Percentile £89.38 £41.25 £87.35
90th Percentile £89.75 £43.50 £87.90
South Wales median hourly rate £16.44 £37.50 £25.54
% change year-on-year -56.17% +46.83% +49.97%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Newport

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newport.

Cisco job vacancy trend in Newport

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Cisco

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Newport

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Newport citing Cisco

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newport 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) Firewall
2 3 (37.50%) LAN
3 2 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) NX-OS
4 1 (12.50%) VLAN
4 1 (12.50%) VPN
4 1 (12.50%) VSAN
4 1 (12.50%) WAN
4 1 (12.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Windows
2 1 (12.50%) Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Release Management
1 2 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (12.50%) Availability Management
2 1 (12.50%) Capacity Management
2 1 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (12.50%) Impact Analysis
2 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (12.50%) Patch Management
2 1 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (12.50%) Security Operations
2 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) Bash
1 1 (12.50%) PowerShell
1 1 (12.50%) Python
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) CCNA
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Check_MK
1 1 (12.50%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (12.50%) Nessus
1 1 (12.50%) vCenter Server
1 1 (12.50%) WSUS
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 4 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (25.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (12.50%) Tenable
3 1 (12.50%) VMware