Meraki Contracts in the North West

Meraki
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West requiring knowledge or experience of Meraki products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Meraki over the 6 months leading up to 14 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 Meraki.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 122 138
Rank change year-on-year +24 +16 +23
Contract jobs citing Meraki 26 15 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.34% 0.56% 0.74%
As % of the Vendors category 2.57% 1.45% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 5 13
10th Percentile £300 £284 £301
25th Percentile £344 £298 £315
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% - -15.00%
75th Percentile £494 £438 £525
90th Percentile £500 £505 £545
England median daily rate £500 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +17.65% - -5.56%

All Vendors
North West

Meraki 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 1,013 1,037 1,284
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 52.14% 38.98% 41.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 608 844
10th Percentile £250 £269 £275
25th Percentile £388 £393 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.12% +2.08%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £575
90th Percentile £655 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £520 £535
% change year-on-year +0.96% -2.80% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 148 59
10th Percentile £13.00 £10.95 £16.09
25th Percentile £19.00 £11.95 £21.32
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +78.23%
75th Percentile £60.00 £26.39 £46.03
90th Percentile £86.00 £46.18 £52.30
England median hourly rate £26.45 £22.30 £37.50
% change year-on-year +18.61% -40.53% +75.48%

Meraki
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Meraki in the North West

Meraki
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Meraki in the North West

Meraki
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Meraki in the North West over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Meraki in the North West

Meraki
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 Meraki within the North West region over the 6 months to 14 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 +15 18 £425 -
Manchester +21 6 £375 +1.35% 12
Lancashire - 1 £500 - 4
Merseyside - 1 - -
Meraki
England

Meraki
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 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.85%) AWS
1 1 (3.85%) Azure
1 1 (3.85%) Cloudflare
1 1 (3.85%) Entra ID
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 22 (84.62%) Firewall
2 19 (73.08%) Wi-Fi
3 17 (65.38%) WAN
4 16 (61.54%) Cisco ISE
4 16 (61.54%) NetScaler
5 4 (15.38%) Network Security
6 3 (11.54%) SD-WAN
6 3 (11.54%) VPN
7 2 (7.69%) BGP
7 2 (7.69%) EIGRP
7 2 (7.69%) MPLS
7 2 (7.69%) OSPF
7 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
7 2 (7.69%) Wireless
8 1 (3.85%) IPsec
8 1 (3.85%) LAN
General
1 4 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
3 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (3.85%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 24 (92.31%) Network Engineer
2 9 (34.62%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Design Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Network Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Network Performance Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Performance Analyst
4 1 (3.85%) Security Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Design Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Firewall Engineer
4 1 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (61.54%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (46.15%) Data Centre
2 1 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (3.85%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (69.23%) Network Design
2 16 (61.54%) Load Balancing
2 16 (61.54%) Network Management
3 11 (42.31%) Network Architecture
4 10 (38.46%) Impact Assessments
5 4 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.54%) Migration
6 3 (11.54%) Project Delivery
7 2 (7.69%) High Availability
7 2 (7.69%) ITIL
7 2 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
8 1 (3.85%) B2B
8 1 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (3.85%) Kalman Filter
8 1 (3.85%) Performance Metrics
8 1 (3.85%) Project Management
8 1 (3.85%) Root Cause Analysis
8 1 (3.85%) Server Management
8 1 (3.85%) SIEM
8 1 (3.85%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 15 (57.69%) SC Cleared
1 15 (57.69%) Security Cleared
2 4 (15.38%) CCNP
2 4 (15.38%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (11.54%) CCNA
3 3 (11.54%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) CCIE
4 1 (3.85%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.85%) FortiGate
1 1 (3.85%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 25 (96.15%) Cisco
2 19 (73.08%) Palo Alto
3 3 (11.54%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.54%) SolarWinds
4 2 (7.69%) Fortinet