Cisco Contracts in the North of England

Cisco
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 14 August 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 55 48
Rank change year-on-year +3 -7 +21
Contract jobs citing Cisco 178 140 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.47% 3.38% 4.17%
As % of the Vendors category 9.34% 8.28% 9.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 109 85 153
10th Percentile £325 £299 £222
25th Percentile £413 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% +17.65% -
75th Percentile £569 £538 £494
90th Percentile £628 £573 £588
England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile - - £18.43
25th Percentile £65.75 - £27.08
Median hourly rate £66.50 - £43.00
75th Percentile £67.25 - £46.17
90th Percentile - - £47.16
England median hourly rate £30.00 £26.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.38% -35.00% +63.57%

All Vendors
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,906 1,691 2,371
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 47.90% 40.85% 44.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,211 988 1,477
10th Percentile £268 £300 £219
25th Percentile £375 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 140 113
10th Percentile £14.28 £10.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £18.87 £13.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.06 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.57% -41.60% +37.50%
75th Percentile £60.75 £37.00 £45.88
90th Percentile £81.25 £50.00 £52.29
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% -14.29% +55.56%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the North of England

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the North of England

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the North of England

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the North of England

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 14 August 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
North West -4 98 £475 -7.32% 45
Yorkshire +12 74 £492 -1.60% 41
North East +3 6 £325 -25.71% 13
Cisco
England

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (5.62%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 8 (4.49%) Mattermost
2 8 (4.49%) Skype for Business
3 7 (3.93%) Confluence
4 4 (2.25%) SharePoint
5 2 (1.12%) CICS
5 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
5 2 (1.12%) Tomcat
5 2 (1.12%) WebSphere
6 1 (0.56%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.12%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 24 (13.48%) Azure
2 11 (6.18%) AWS
3 8 (4.49%) GCP
3 8 (4.49%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.69%) Entra ID
4 3 (1.69%) GitHub
4 3 (1.69%) SaaS
5 2 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (1.12%) IaaS
5 2 (1.12%) PaaS
6 1 (0.56%) Akamai
6 1 (0.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (0.56%) AWS CloudTrail
6 1 (0.56%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.56%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.56%) VULTR
Communications & Networking
1 101 (56.74%) Firewall
2 46 (25.84%) WAN
3 41 (23.03%) Network Security
4 33 (18.54%) BGP
5 26 (14.61%) DNS
5 26 (14.61%) OSPF
6 24 (13.48%) Cisco ASA
6 24 (13.48%) Cisco Firepower
6 24 (13.48%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (12.92%) Cisco ISE
8 22 (12.36%) LAN
8 22 (12.36%) SD-WAN
8 22 (12.36%) TCP/IP
9 21 (11.80%) EIGRP
9 21 (11.80%) Wireless
10 17 (9.55%) VPN
11 16 (8.99%) SAN
12 15 (8.43%) Cisco Nexus
12 15 (8.43%) HSRP
12 15 (8.43%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (6.74%) Oracle Database
2 3 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.12%) NoSQL
3 2 (1.12%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.56%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (5.06%) JIRA
2 5 (2.81%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.69%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (1.12%) Git
4 2 (1.12%) Selenium
4 2 (1.12%) TestNG
5 1 (0.56%) Hudson
General
1 30 (16.85%) Social Skills
2 13 (7.30%) Finance
3 12 (6.74%) Public Sector
4 7 (3.93%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (2.25%) Banking
6 4 (2.25%) Telecoms
7 3 (1.69%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (1.12%) Local Government
8 2 (1.12%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.12%) Retail
8 2 (1.12%) Retail Banking
9 1 (0.56%) Advertising
9 1 (0.56%) Italian Language
9 1 (0.56%) Law
9 1 (0.56%) Legal
9 1 (0.56%) Polish Language
9 1 (0.56%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 103 (57.87%) Network Engineer
2 29 (16.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 19 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (8.43%) Cisco Engineer
5 14 (7.87%) Security Engineer
6 13 (7.30%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 11 (6.18%) Implementation Engineer
7 11 (6.18%) Network Implementation Engineer
7 11 (6.18%) Support Engineer
8 10 (5.62%) Analyst
9 9 (5.06%) Network Security Engineer
9 9 (5.06%) Operations Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Messaging Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Messaging Support
10 8 (4.49%) Messaging Support Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Operations Support Engineer
10 8 (4.49%) Senior
11 7 (3.93%) IT Engineer
11 7 (3.93%) Operational Support Analyst
11 7 (3.93%) Operations Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (6.18%) 802.1X
2 9 (5.06%) XMPP
3 3 (1.69%) REST
4 2 (1.12%) LDAP
4 2 (1.12%) Middleware
4 2 (1.12%) pytest
5 1 (0.56%) Node.js
5 1 (0.56%) Regular Expression
5 1 (0.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 31 (17.42%) Data Centre
2 14 (7.87%) Management Information System
3 11 (6.18%) Linux Command Line
4 8 (4.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.93%) CMDB
6 6 (3.37%) Replication
7 5 (2.81%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (2.25%) Clustering
8 4 (2.25%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.12%) CCTV
9 2 (1.12%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (1.12%) Mainframe
9 2 (1.12%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.56%) Acoustics
10 1 (0.56%) Digital Signage
10 1 (0.56%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.56%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.56%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 28 (15.73%) Linux
2 22 (12.36%) Windows
3 17 (9.55%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2003
4 3 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (1.12%) Solaris
5 2 (1.12%) zOS
6 1 (0.56%) CentOS
6 1 (0.56%) MVS
6 1 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.56%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.56%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
2 26 (14.61%) ITIL
2 26 (14.61%) Network Design
3 25 (14.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 19 (10.67%) Network Architecture
4 19 (10.67%) Network Management
5 18 (10.11%) Agile
5 18 (10.11%) Problem Management
6 14 (7.87%) Security Management
7 13 (7.30%) Load Balancing
7 13 (7.30%) Migration
7 13 (7.30%) Roadmaps
8 10 (5.62%) High Availability
8 10 (5.62%) Microservices
8 10 (5.62%) Server Management
8 10 (5.62%) SIEM
8 10 (5.62%) SOA
9 9 (5.06%) Analytics
9 9 (5.06%) B2B
9 9 (5.06%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 27 (15.17%) PowerShell
2 22 (12.36%) SQL
3 19 (10.67%) Bash
4 16 (8.99%) Python
5 13 (7.30%) Perl
6 11 (6.18%) PL/SQL
7 2 (1.12%) Java
Qualifications
1 68 (38.20%) Security Cleared
2 66 (37.08%) SC Cleared
3 65 (36.52%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (19.10%) CCNP
5 23 (12.92%) CCNA
6 19 (10.67%) Degree
7 8 (4.49%) ITIL Certification
8 7 (3.93%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (3.37%) CCIE
10 4 (2.25%) APMP
10 4 (2.25%) JNCIE
10 4 (2.25%) Master's Degree
10 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (1.69%) CCDP
11 3 (1.69%) CCSA
12 2 (1.12%) Azure Certification
12 2 (1.12%) CCSE
12 2 (1.12%) DBS Check
13 1 (0.56%) CCNA CyberOps
13 1 (0.56%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 32 (17.98%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (1.69%) Firmware
4 2 (1.12%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.12%) KVM
4 2 (1.12%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.12%) vSphere
5 1 (0.56%) Docker
5 1 (0.56%) NFS
5 1 (0.56%) Snort
5 1 (0.56%) SRDF
5 1 (0.56%) Veritas Cluster Server
5 1 (0.56%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.56%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.56%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (7.87%) Ansible
2 9 (5.06%) SCOM
3 7 (3.93%) Terraform
4 6 (3.37%) vCenter Server
5 5 (2.81%) FortiGate
5 5 (2.81%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.69%) Backup Exec
6 3 (1.69%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.69%) NetBackup
6 3 (1.69%) Puppet
7 2 (1.12%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (1.12%) EMC NetWorker
7 2 (1.12%) HP Data Protector
7 2 (1.12%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.12%) SCCM
7 2 (1.12%) vRealize
8 1 (0.56%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 48 (26.97%) Palo Alto
2 43 (24.16%) Microsoft
3 33 (18.54%) CheckPoint
4 25 (14.04%) Meraki
5 23 (12.92%) F5
6 22 (12.36%) SolarWinds
7 18 (10.11%) Fortinet
8 17 (9.55%) VMware
9 14 (7.87%) Oracle
10 12 (6.74%) Veeam
11 11 (6.18%) Zscaler
12 10 (5.62%) HP
12 10 (5.62%) Splunk
13 9 (5.06%) EMC
13 9 (5.06%) Red Hat
14 8 (4.49%) LogicMonitor
14 8 (4.49%) NetApp
15 6 (3.37%) Arista
15 6 (3.37%) Dell
15 6 (3.37%) Juniper