Cisco IOS Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cisco IOS
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Cisco IOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.20% - -
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.41% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £500 £538 £469
% change year-on-year -6.98% +14.61% +1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £65.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.50 - -
75th Percentile £67.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - +4.17%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
North West

Cisco IOS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 354 325 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 14.15% 15.13% 16.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 168 316
10th Percentile £170 £180 £302
25th Percentile £330 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £461 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% -7.85% +2.56%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £627
90th Percentile £679 £620 £672
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 7 13
10th Percentile £15.50 £18.76 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £22.01 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £48.56 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +174.04% -10.87%
75th Percentile £69.00 £51.91 £46.88
90th Percentile £74.26 £52.14 £49.38
England median hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -8.57% -38.04% +25.53%

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Cisco IOS job vacancy trend in the North West

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Cisco IOS
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Cisco IOS
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco IOS within the North West region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Manchester - 3 £575 - 1
Cheshire - 2 - -
Cisco IOS
England

Cisco IOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 3 (60.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
1 5 (100.00%) WAN
2 4 (80.00%) BGP
2 4 (80.00%) LAN
2 4 (80.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (60.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) NX-OS
3 3 (60.00%) WLAN
4 2 (40.00%) VPN
5 1 (20.00%) 802.11
5 1 (20.00%) DHCP
5 1 (20.00%) DNS
5 1 (20.00%) Ethernet
5 1 (20.00%) IPsec
5 1 (20.00%) MPLS
5 1 (20.00%) OSPF
5 1 (20.00%) SNMP
5 1 (20.00%) SSL
5 1 (20.00%) VLAN
5 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Senior
2 2 (40.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
2 1 (20.00%) Change Management
2 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (20.00%) High Availability
2 1 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
2 1 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Network Design
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) RBAC
2 1 (20.00%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) CCNP
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CCDP
2 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) CCIE
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (80.00%) Meraki
2 4 (80.00%) Palo Alto
3 3 (60.00%) F5
3 3 (60.00%) SolarWinds
4 1 (20.00%) Fortinet