Cisco Contracts in Somerset

Cisco
South West > Somerset

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Somerset 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 21 August 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
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 18 18 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 +6 +5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cisco 11 9 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Somerset 6.15% 4.84% 3.26%
As % of the Vendors category 16.18% 14.75% 12.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 4
10th Percentile £546 £273 £378
25th Percentile £550 £297 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £629 £419 £425
Median % change year-on-year +50.15% -1.47% +6.25%
75th Percentile £649 £605 £455
90th Percentile - £649 £486
South West median daily rate £556 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +1.14% +4.76% +16.67%

All Vendors
Somerset

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 Somerset.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 68 61 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 37.99% 32.80% 26.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 41 27
10th Percentile £202 £200 £168
25th Percentile £231 £225 £208
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £646 £588 £525
90th Percentile £675 £700 £690
South West median daily rate £513 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.38% - +1.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 3
10th Percentile - - £23.90
25th Percentile £14.42 £12.50 £32.19
Median hourly rate £17.72 £13.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.27% -71.74% -8.00%
75th Percentile £33.88 £15.75 £46.09
90th Percentile £57.05 £20.75 £46.14
South West median hourly rate £22.50 £70.00 £56.49
% change year-on-year -67.86% +23.92% +12.53%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Somerset

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Cisco

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Somerset

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Somerset citing Cisco

Cisco
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Somerset

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Somerset region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Bath -4 5 £633 - 1
Street +1 4 £550 +86.44%
Yeovil - 1 - - 1
Cisco
South West

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Somerset 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 4 (36.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) AWS
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (72.73%) BGP
2 5 (45.45%) MPLS
2 5 (45.45%) VPN
3 4 (36.36%) DNS
3 4 (36.36%) IPsec
3 4 (36.36%) Multicast
3 4 (36.36%) Unified Communications
4 3 (27.27%) Ethernet VPN
5 2 (18.18%) iSCSI
5 2 (18.18%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (9.09%) Firewall
6 1 (9.09%) IGMP
6 1 (9.09%) LAN
6 1 (9.09%) OSPF
6 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
6 1 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
6 1 (9.09%) VLAN
6 1 (9.09%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (90.91%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Switch Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Telephony Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) LAN Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) NETCONF
1 4 (36.36%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
1 4 (36.36%) PKI
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Critical Thinking
1 4 (36.36%) Network Virtualisation
1 4 (36.36%) NsoIT
1 4 (36.36%) Service Management
1 4 (36.36%) System Testing
1 4 (36.36%) Validation
2 2 (18.18%) Infrastructure Management
2 2 (18.18%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (18.18%) Patch Management
3 1 (9.09%) ArchiMate
3 1 (9.09%) Budget Management
3 1 (9.09%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (9.09%) Mentoring
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architecture
3 1 (9.09%) Roadmaps
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (9.09%) Time Management
3 1 (9.09%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) CCNP
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Certification
1 7 (63.64%) SC Cleared
1 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
2 4 (36.36%) Degree
3 3 (27.27%) JNCIP
4 2 (18.18%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
5 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Azure Certification
5 1 (9.09%) CCIE
5 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
5 1 (9.09%) JNCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
1 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Atlassian
1 4 (36.36%) VMware
2 3 (27.27%) Arista
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.09%) F5
4 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
4 1 (9.09%) Google
4 1 (9.09%) Juniper