Cisco Contract Job Trends in Preston

Cisco
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston 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 26 September 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
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 16 14 19
Rank change year-on-year -2 +5 -5
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Preston 1.41% 2.22% 1.23%
As % of the Vendors category 2.08% 2.94% 2.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £513 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £335 £525 £375
Median % change year-on-year -36.19% +40.00% +38.89%
75th Percentile - £538 £388
90th Percentile - - -
Lancashire median daily rate £355 £500 £375
% change year-on-year -29.00% +33.33% +38.89%

All Vendors
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 48 34 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 67.61% 75.56% 56.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 33 20 15
10th Percentile £267 £400 £356
25th Percentile £425 £500 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £580 £425
Median % change year-on-year -7.07% +36.47% +78.95%
75th Percentile £640 £628 £478
90th Percentile £686 £795 £487
Lancashire median daily rate £530 £575 £566
% change year-on-year -7.83% +1.54% +2.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 27
10th Percentile £23.32 £17.45 £20.46
25th Percentile £30.68 £20.39 £20.58
Median hourly rate £47.12 £25.30 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.25% -40.47% +9.25%
75th Percentile £53.21 £31.15 £46.18
90th Percentile £63.64 £34.66 £75.83
Lancashire median hourly rate £63.00 £40.33 £46.18
% change year-on-year +56.23% -12.68% +22.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Preston.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Preston

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Daily Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Cisco

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Hourly Rate Trend in Preston

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Preston citing Cisco

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Preston 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BCP
1 1 (100.00%) Network Design
1 1 (100.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCNA
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (100.00%) LogicMonitor
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) SolarWinds