Cisco Contracts in the North East

Cisco
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 30 56
Rank change year-on-year +1 +26 -23
Contract jobs citing Cisco 9 8 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 2.81% 2.37% 0.71%
As % of the Vendors category 5.84% 5.59% 2.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 3
10th Percentile £269 £335 -
25th Percentile £297 £349 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £375 £550
Median % change year-on-year -13.33% -31.82% +175.00%
75th Percentile £391 £394 -
90th Percentile £486 £420 -
England median daily rate £516 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.10% +5.26% +11.76%

All Vendors
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 154 143 149
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 48.13% 42.31% 35.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 69 106
10th Percentile £216 £163 £200
25th Percentile £328 £335 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% -9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £543 £625 £645
90th Percentile £625 £675 £775
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 15 1
10th Percentile £18.35 £11.18 -
25th Percentile £18.68 £12.72 £48.50
Median hourly rate £35.44 £17.50 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +102.49% -64.29% +184.06%
75th Percentile £53.40 £20.77 £49.50
90th Percentile £55.91 £54.47 -
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the North East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the North East.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the North East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the North East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the North East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the North East.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the North East

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Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the North East region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear -7 6 £325 -13.33% 7
Durham - 3 £325 - 2
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) TCP/IP
2 1 (11.11%) BGP
2 1 (11.11%) DHCP
2 1 (11.11%) DNS
2 1 (11.11%) EIGRP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) HSRP
2 1 (11.11%) IPsec
2 1 (11.11%) LAN
2 1 (11.11%) MPLS
2 1 (11.11%) OSPF
2 1 (11.11%) SSL
2 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
2 1 (11.11%) VPN
2 1 (11.11%) WAN
2 1 (11.11%) Wireless
General
1 5 (55.56%) Organisational Skills
1 5 (55.56%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Security Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) IT Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) IT Security Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Implementation Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
4 1 (11.11%) Network Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Network Implementation Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Data Protection Act
1 5 (55.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (55.56%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Information Security
2 5 (55.56%) Data Protection
2 5 (55.56%) Information Security Management
2 5 (55.56%) ISMS
2 5 (55.56%) Security Management
2 5 (55.56%) Zero Trust
3 3 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 1 (11.11%) Budget Management
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Information Management
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
4 1 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (11.11%) Mentoring
4 1 (11.11%) Network Design
4 1 (11.11%) People Management
4 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (22.22%) CCNA
3 1 (11.11%) CCNP
3 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (11.11%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
1 6 (66.67%) VMware
2 5 (55.56%) Fortinet
2 5 (55.56%) HP
2 5 (55.56%) Veeam
3 1 (11.11%) F5
3 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto