Cisco Contracts in Sheffield

Cisco
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 38 48 47
Rank change year-on-year +10 -1 -2
Contract jobs citing Cisco 12 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 3.76% 1.85% 1.98%
As % of the Vendors category 7.36% 3.40% 5.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 6
10th Percentile £329 £320 £279
25th Percentile £371 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £688
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -20.00% +96.43%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £700
90th Percentile £655 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £550 £240
% change year-on-year -27.27% +129.17% -36.00%

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 163 206 169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 51.10% 54.35% 37.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 120 123
10th Percentile £183 £349 £400
25th Percentile £357 £430 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% -13.64% +15.79%
75th Percentile £528 £588 £650
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £475 £538
% change year-on-year -5.26% -11.63% +19.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile - £14.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.10 £17.31 £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £22.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +24.15% +10.75%
75th Percentile £18.41 - £20.11
90th Percentile £18.47 - £21.54
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.21 £14.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +30.04% -20.99% -2.90%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Sheffield

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Sheffield.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in Sheffield

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Sheffield

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Sheffield.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in Sheffield

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Network Security
2 7 (58.33%) Firewall
3 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (33.33%) DNS
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (25.00%) DWDM
5 3 (25.00%) LAN
5 3 (25.00%) SAN
5 3 (25.00%) VPN
5 3 (25.00%) WAN
6 1 (8.33%) BGP
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (8.33%) DHCP
6 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
6 1 (8.33%) Internet
6 1 (8.33%) NAS
6 1 (8.33%) OSPF
6 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) TestNG
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) pytest
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (25.00%) Validation
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) BDD
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (16.67%) Network Management
4 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) CCNA
2 3 (25.00%) CCNP
3 2 (16.67%) JNCIA
3 2 (16.67%) JNCIS
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) HP ASE
4 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 5 (41.67%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (16.67%) Puppet
3 2 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Arista
1 3 (25.00%) Brocade
1 3 (25.00%) EMC
1 3 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (16.67%) 3PAR
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Aruba
3 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) NetApp
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Pure Storage
3 1 (8.33%) Zscaler