Cisco Contract Job Trends 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 3 October 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
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 36 28 17
Rank change year-on-year -8 -11 +29
Contract jobs citing Cisco 5 9 15
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.69% 3.18% 6.44%
As % of the Vendors category 5.21% 7.63% 14.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 14
10th Percentile £194 £413 £269
25th Percentile £230 £416 £322
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £438 £400
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +9.38% -25.58%
75th Percentile £575 £469 £419
90th Percentile £620 £513 £429
England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%

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 96 118 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 32.54% 41.70% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 52 76
10th Percentile £196 £279 £237
25th Percentile £340 £388 £367
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -10.71%
75th Percentile £575 £589 £581
90th Percentile £650 £734 £720
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 5
10th Percentile £15.81 £15.11 £31.55
25th Percentile £17.88 - £32.00
Median hourly rate £19.25 £46.18 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -58.32% - +191.17%
75th Percentile £44.16 - -
90th Percentile £54.80 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +82.67%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in the North East

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Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cisco

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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 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the North East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Cisco

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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 3 October 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
Durham +8 4 £550 +12.82% 2
Tyne and Wear -15 1 £175 -60.00% 16
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) Wireless
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) LAN
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (20.00%) HSRP
3 1 (20.00%) IPsec
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) Spanning Tree
3 1 (20.00%) SSL
3 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (20.00%) Unified Communications
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) VoIP
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
General
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) IT Support
1 2 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) Architect
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Signage
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Android
1 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
1 1 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Change Control
1 1 (20.00%) Converged Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (20.00%) Information Management
1 1 (20.00%) Information Security
1 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (20.00%) Network Design
1 1 (20.00%) Preventative Maintenance
1 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
1 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (20.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CCNA
1 1 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (20.00%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Apple
1 1 (20.00%) Dell
1 1 (20.00%) F5
1 1 (20.00%) HP
1 1 (20.00%) SAP
1 1 (20.00%) VMware
1 1 (20.00%) Zscaler