Cisco IOS Contracts in the South East

Cisco IOS
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East requiring Cisco IOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco IOS over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 175 205
Rank change year-on-year +24 +30 +35
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 8 30 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.27% 0.54% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.56% 2.39% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 16 7
10th Percentile £289 £241 £326
25th Percentile £488 £294 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £506 £450
Median % change year-on-year +13.58% +12.50% +62.16%
75th Percentile £613 £550 £488
90th Percentile - £694 £520
England median daily rate £550 £433 £420
% change year-on-year +27.17% +2.98% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
England median hourly rate - £30.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year - -57.14% +194.74%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
South East

Cisco IOS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 513 1,255 980
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 17.04% 22.58% 16.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 325 617 590
10th Percentile £216 £205 £235
25th Percentile £325 £371 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £490 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.04% +0.51% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £585 £588
90th Percentile £630 £638 £700
England median daily rate £500 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +2.04% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 131 74
10th Percentile £14.20 £16.25 £18.33
25th Percentile £20.26 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.94 £57.35 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +8.21% +146.51%
75th Percentile £62.50 £64.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £66.88 £85.65 £80.25
England median hourly rate £28.00 £40.00 £18.82
% change year-on-year -30.00% +112.54% -21.29%

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cisco IOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco IOS in the South East

Cisco IOS
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco IOS in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cisco IOS in the South East

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Cisco IOS in the South East

Cisco IOS
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco IOS in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco IOS in the South East

Cisco IOS
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco IOS within the South East 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
Hampshire +27 5 £575 +17.95% 4
Thames Valley +27 2 £575 +6.98%
Berkshire +25 2 £575 -
East Sussex - 1 £163 -
Cisco IOS
England

Cisco IOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (75.00%) AWS
1 6 (75.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 8 (100.00%) LAN
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 6 (75.00%) Cisco ISE
2 6 (75.00%) Junos
3 2 (25.00%) Firewall
3 2 (25.00%) WAN
4 1 (12.50%) BGP
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (12.50%) DHCP
4 1 (12.50%) DNS
4 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
4 1 (12.50%) Internet
4 1 (12.50%) IPsec
4 1 (12.50%) MPLS
4 1 (12.50%) Network Security
4 1 (12.50%) OSPF
4 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
4 1 (12.50%) VPN
4 1 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
General
1 2 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Electronics
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
2 1 (12.50%) Marketing
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (87.50%) Network Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Juniper Engineer
Operating Systems
1 1 (12.50%) Android
1 1 (12.50%) Windows
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (12.50%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Load Balancing
1 6 (75.00%) Preventative Maintenance
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
2 5 (62.50%) Customer Requirements
3 3 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Customer Service
4 1 (12.50%) Digital Marketing
4 1 (12.50%) Email Filtering
4 1 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
4 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
4 1 (12.50%) Time Management
4 1 (12.50%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 6 (75.00%) Python
1 6 (75.00%) VB
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) DV Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) CCIE
3 1 (12.50%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (12.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (62.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (12.50%) Hyper-V
1 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
1 6 (75.00%) FortiGate
2 5 (62.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) Citrix
2 6 (75.00%) F5
3 3 (37.50%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) Aruba
4 1 (12.50%) D-Link
4 1 (12.50%) Meraki
4 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) SAP
4 1 (12.50%) Veeam
4 1 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (12.50%) WatchGuard