Cisco Contracts in the North West

Cisco
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 25 53 61
Rank change year-on-year +28 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 126 89 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 6.40% 3.23% 3.48%
As % of the Vendors category 12.05% 8.12% 8.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 52 75
10th Percentile £325 £300 £263
25th Percentile £400 £411 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +11.76% +4.94%
75th Percentile £588 £533 £525
90th Percentile £638 £659 £550
England median daily rate £516 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.10% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.67
Median hourly rate £30.40 - £13.30
75th Percentile - - £13.92
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £37.07 £27.50 £54.34
% change year-on-year +34.81% -49.39% +127.25%

All Vendors
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,046 1,096 1,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 53.15% 39.78% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 675 645 866
10th Percentile £250 £269 £288
25th Percentile £393 £394 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - +7.53%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £587
90th Percentile £650 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 149 57
10th Percentile £16.43 £10.95 £15.41
25th Percentile £24.46 £12.00 £22.41
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +97.73%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.39 £49.40
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.18 £54.57
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the North West

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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 within the North West 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
Cumbria +19 74 £538 +4.37% 7
Cheshire +4 21 £325 -40.91% 2
Merseyside +10 13 £525 +84.21% 5
Manchester -17 13 £450 +3.88% 41
Lancashire +7 5 £500 +13.64% 19
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (3.97%) Mattermost
1 5 (3.97%) Skype for Business
2 4 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (3.97%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 8 (6.35%) Azure
2 5 (3.97%) AWS
3 4 (3.17%) GCP
3 4 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (1.59%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.79%) Azure Storage
5 1 (0.79%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 71 (56.35%) Firewall
2 50 (39.68%) BGP
3 47 (37.30%) OSPF
4 39 (30.95%) WAN
5 36 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
6 35 (27.78%) Cisco ASA
6 35 (27.78%) EIGRP
6 35 (27.78%) Wi-Fi
7 33 (26.19%) IPsec
8 32 (25.40%) HSRP
9 31 (24.60%) VPN
10 26 (20.63%) Wireless
11 23 (18.25%) Network Security
12 22 (17.46%) NetScaler
13 19 (15.08%) Cisco ISE
13 19 (15.08%) LAN
14 17 (13.49%) MPLS
15 12 (9.52%) Cisco Nexus
15 12 (9.52%) Cisco Wireless
16 11 (8.73%) SD-WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (0.79%) JIRA
General
1 14 (11.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (7.94%) Public Sector
3 6 (4.76%) Banking
4 5 (3.97%) Telecoms
5 4 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
6 3 (2.38%) Legal
6 3 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.59%) Retail
8 1 (0.79%) Advertising
8 1 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Finance
8 1 (0.79%) Law
8 1 (0.79%) Local Government
8 1 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.79%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 88 (69.84%) Network Engineer
2 31 (24.60%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 8 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 8 (6.35%) Senior
4 7 (5.56%) Analyst
5 6 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
5 6 (4.76%) Security Engineer
5 6 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Messaging Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Messaging Support
6 5 (3.97%) Messaging Support Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Operations Support Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Storage Engineer
6 5 (3.97%) Support Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (3.17%) Messaging Support Analyst
7 4 (3.17%) Operations Analyst
7 4 (3.17%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.29%) 802.1X
2 5 (3.97%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 17 (13.49%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.94%) Management Information System
3 5 (3.97%) CMDB
3 5 (3.97%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (1.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.79%) Client/Server
5 1 (0.79%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.73%) Linux
2 10 (7.94%) Windows
3 5 (3.97%) Windows Server
4 4 (3.17%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2003
5 3 (2.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.79%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (21.43%) ITIL
1 27 (21.43%) Network Design
1 27 (21.43%) Network Management
2 26 (20.63%) Load Balancing
3 18 (14.29%) Network Architecture
4 17 (13.49%) ITSM
5 16 (12.70%) Problem Management
6 14 (11.11%) Impact Assessments
6 14 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
7 11 (8.73%) Change Management
8 9 (7.14%) Storage Management
9 8 (6.35%) Asset Management
9 8 (6.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 7 (5.56%) Network Monitoring
11 6 (4.76%) B2B
11 6 (4.76%) Customer Service
11 6 (4.76%) Disaster Recovery
11 6 (4.76%) High Availability
11 6 (4.76%) Migration
11 6 (4.76%) Performance Metrics
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.76%) PowerShell
2 5 (3.97%) SQL
3 1 (0.79%) Perl
3 1 (0.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 65 (51.59%) SC Cleared
1 65 (51.59%) Security Cleared
2 26 (20.63%) Cisco Certification
3 16 (12.70%) CCNA
4 15 (11.90%) Degree
5 13 (10.32%) CCNP
6 7 (5.56%) CCIE
7 5 (3.97%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (1.59%) JNCIE
9 2 (1.59%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.79%) CCSA
10 1 (0.79%) CCSE
10 1 (0.79%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 11 (8.73%) Active Directory
2 4 (3.17%) Firmware
3 1 (0.79%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (3.97%) SCOM
2 4 (3.17%) NetBackup
3 3 (2.38%) Ansible
3 3 (2.38%) Backup Exec
3 3 (2.38%) EMC NetWorker
3 3 (2.38%) FortiGate
3 3 (2.38%) HP Data Protector
3 3 (2.38%) vCenter Server
4 2 (1.59%) Nagios
4 2 (1.59%) Terraform
4 2 (1.59%) ZABBIX
5 1 (0.79%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 62 (49.21%) Palo Alto
2 25 (19.84%) Meraki
3 21 (16.67%) CheckPoint
4 15 (11.90%) Microsoft
4 15 (11.90%) SolarWinds
5 7 (5.56%) Fortinet
5 7 (5.56%) HP
5 7 (5.56%) Remedy
6 6 (4.76%) Citrix
6 6 (4.76%) EMC
6 6 (4.76%) Splunk
7 5 (3.97%) Brocade
7 5 (3.97%) Red Hat
7 5 (3.97%) VMware
8 4 (3.17%) F5
8 4 (3.17%) Symantec
8 4 (3.17%) Veeam
9 3 (2.38%) Aruba
9 3 (2.38%) Huawei
9 3 (2.38%) Veritas