Cisco Contracts in the South East

Cisco
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 45 22 34
Rank change year-on-year -23 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing Cisco 142 371 360
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.72% 6.68% 6.20%
As % of the Vendors category 8.99% 14.09% 12.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 207 234
10th Percentile £309 £329 £200
25th Percentile £425 £405 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £613 £580 £558
90th Percentile £625 £680 £638
England median daily rate £516 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.10% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 13 11
10th Percentile - £23.75 £27.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.50 £38.25
Median hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -51.61% +169.83%
75th Percentile £19.50 £70.00 £71.63
90th Percentile - £75.24 £80.25
England median hourly rate £37.07 £27.50 £54.34
% change year-on-year +34.81% -49.39% +127.25%

All Vendors
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,580 2,634 2,867
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.49% 47.39% 49.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,056 1,606 1,967
10th Percentile £250 £213 £205
25th Percentile £406 £378 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% - +2.56%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £609
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 91 182 126
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £18.08
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.24 £22.04
Median hourly rate £24.66 £48.75 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.42% +8.33% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £63.00
90th Percentile £71.25 £65.00 £75.38
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the South East

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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 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
Thames Valley -10 74 £475 -7.32% 95
Berkshire -12 54 £450 -12.20% 60
Hampshire -12 49 £575 +21.05% 55
Buckinghamshire +7 19 £615 -1.60% 19
Surrey -10 7 £425 -15.00% 32
East Sussex -4 5 £525 +16.67% 9
West Sussex +8 3 £190 -52.50% 14
Kent -9 2 £438 +31.58% 20
Oxfordshire -2 1 - - 20
Sussex - 1 - - 3
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England

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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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.41%) Appian
3 1 (0.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.41%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.70%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.13%) Azure
2 25 (17.61%) AWS
3 11 (7.75%) PaaS
4 10 (7.04%) IaaS
4 10 (7.04%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (7.04%) SaaS
5 4 (2.82%) Cloudflare
6 2 (1.41%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.41%) GitHub
6 2 (1.41%) OpenShift
7 1 (0.70%) Akamai
7 1 (0.70%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.70%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.70%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.70%) GCP
7 1 (0.70%) Nutanix
7 1 (0.70%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 52 (36.62%) WAN
2 46 (32.39%) VPN
3 43 (30.28%) LAN
4 42 (29.58%) Firewall
5 35 (24.65%) MPLS
6 28 (19.72%) BGP
7 24 (16.90%) OSPF
8 20 (14.08%) Network Security
8 20 (14.08%) Wireless
9 19 (13.38%) Ethernet
9 19 (13.38%) SAN
10 17 (11.97%) Cisco ISE
10 17 (11.97%) Wireshark
11 16 (11.27%) DNS
11 16 (11.27%) GPRS
11 16 (11.27%) GSM
11 16 (11.27%) LTE
11 16 (11.27%) SDH
11 16 (11.27%) UMTS
11 16 (11.27%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.70%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.70%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.70%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.11%) GitLab
2 2 (1.41%) JIRA
3 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 56 (39.44%) Social Skills
2 37 (26.06%) Telecoms
3 23 (16.20%) Public Sector
4 17 (11.97%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (4.23%) Finance
6 5 (3.52%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.11%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.11%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.11%) Electronics
7 3 (2.11%) Marketing
8 2 (1.41%) Aviation
8 2 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.70%) Law
9 1 (0.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 57 (40.14%) Network Engineer
2 33 (23.24%) Architect
3 16 (11.27%) IP Engineer
3 16 (11.27%) Test Engineer
4 14 (9.86%) Network Architect
4 14 (9.86%) Senior
4 14 (9.86%) Technical Architect
5 12 (8.45%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 11 (7.75%) Senior Architect
6 11 (7.75%) Senior Technical Architect
7 7 (4.93%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Cisco Architect
8 6 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) IP Network Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (4.23%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Cisco Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Cisco Network Architect
9 5 (3.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 5 (3.52%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.52%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.11%) RFC 2544
2 3 (2.11%) YAML
3 2 (1.41%) JSON
3 2 (1.41%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.41%) RESTCONF
4 1 (0.70%) Jinja
4 1 (0.70%) REST
4 1 (0.70%) SOAP
4 1 (0.70%) XML
4 1 (0.70%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (11.97%) Hybrid Cloud
2 16 (11.27%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (9.86%) Data Centre
4 11 (7.75%) PKI
5 10 (7.04%) Public Cloud
6 7 (4.93%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.82%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (2.11%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.11%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.11%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (1.41%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.41%) NHS
9 2 (1.41%) Product Ownership
10 1 (0.70%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.70%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.70%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.70%) IoT
10 1 (0.70%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.70%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.49%) Linux
2 17 (11.97%) Unix
3 12 (8.45%) Windows
4 3 (2.11%) Windows 10
4 3 (2.11%) Windows Server
5 2 (1.41%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.41%) Windows 7
6 1 (0.70%) Android
6 1 (0.70%) CentOS
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (21.83%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (16.20%) Network Design
3 21 (14.79%) Network Architecture
4 19 (13.38%) CI/CD
5 18 (12.68%) ITIL
6 17 (11.97%) Project Management
6 17 (11.97%) Regression Testing
6 17 (11.97%) Test Strategy
7 16 (11.27%) Fault Management
8 15 (10.56%) TOGAF
9 14 (9.86%) Agile
9 14 (9.86%) DevSecOps
10 13 (9.15%) Infrastructure as Code
11 12 (8.45%) Migration
11 12 (8.45%) Use Case
12 11 (7.75%) Change Management
12 11 (7.75%) Containerisation
13 10 (7.04%) Continuous Delivery
13 10 (7.04%) IT Strategy
13 10 (7.04%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 21 (14.79%) Python
2 16 (11.27%) Java
3 6 (4.23%) VB
4 5 (3.52%) SQL
5 3 (2.11%) Bash
6 2 (1.41%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 62 (43.66%) Security Cleared
2 59 (41.55%) Cisco Certification
3 49 (34.51%) CCNP
4 41 (28.87%) SC Cleared
5 25 (17.61%) DV Cleared
6 19 (13.38%) CCNA
7 16 (11.27%) ISEB
7 16 (11.27%) ISTQB
7 16 (11.27%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 13 (9.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 11 (7.75%) MCSE
9 11 (7.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 10 (7.04%) CCIE
10 10 (7.04%) Degree
11 9 (6.34%) JNCIS
12 4 (2.82%) CCSA
12 4 (2.82%) CCSE
12 4 (2.82%) Check Point Certification
13 3 (2.11%) CCDP
13 3 (2.11%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.86%) NIST
2 12 (8.45%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (8.45%) NCSC
3 10 (7.04%) SLA
4 4 (2.82%) QA
5 2 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (14.08%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (10.56%) VMware NSX
3 10 (7.04%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.11%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.41%) Ceph
5 2 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.70%) Docker
6 1 (0.70%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.70%) vSphere
6 1 (0.70%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 23 (16.20%) Ansible
2 9 (6.34%) Terraform
3 8 (5.63%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.11%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.41%) Argo
5 2 (1.41%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.41%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.70%) CASB
6 1 (0.70%) HP ALM
6 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 45 (31.69%) Juniper
2 33 (23.24%) Palo Alto
3 31 (21.83%) Microsoft
4 21 (14.79%) VMware
5 18 (12.68%) F5
6 16 (11.27%) CheckPoint
6 16 (11.27%) Fortinet
7 12 (8.45%) Citrix
8 10 (7.04%) Aruba
9 8 (5.63%) Meraki
10 7 (4.93%) HP
10 7 (4.93%) SolarWinds
11 6 (4.23%) Fujitsu
12 4 (2.82%) Dell
12 4 (2.82%) Zscaler
13 3 (2.11%) Ekahau
13 3 (2.11%) Extreme Networks
13 3 (2.11%) Mellanox
13 3 (2.11%) NVIDIA
13 3 (2.11%) Rakuten