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 12 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
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 22 35
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 +14
Contract jobs citing Cisco 138 359 343
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 4.60% 6.51% 6.07%
As % of the Vendors category 8.76% 13.83% 12.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 95 200 215
10th Percentile £325 £329 £200
25th Percentile £425 £405 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £550
90th Percentile £625 £688 £620
England median daily rate £508 £490 £475
% change year-on-year +3.70% +3.16% +8.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 10 10
10th Percentile - £23.11 £26.15
25th Percentile £18.50 £24.31 £47.81
Median hourly rate £19.00 £30.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.67% -51.61% +188.37%
75th Percentile £19.50 £64.56 £75.94
90th Percentile - £75.42 £80.33
England median hourly rate £37.07 £27.50 £38.38
% change year-on-year +34.81% -28.34% +60.50%

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 1,576 2,596 2,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 52.48% 47.05% 49.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,054 1,592 1,900
10th Percentile £233 £213 £205
25th Percentile £400 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.50% - +3.63%
75th Percentile £603 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £525 £518 £535
% change year-on-year +1.35% -3.18% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 183 132
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £16.28
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.87 £20.23
Median hourly rate £24.66 £50.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.68% +11.11% +130.53%
75th Percentile £59.44 £61.30 £62.63
90th Percentile £72.25 £66.62 £75.00
England median hourly rate £26.73 £22.50 £38.50
% change year-on-year +18.78% -41.56% +79.91%

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

Cisco
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

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the South East over the 6 months to 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the South East

Cisco
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

Cisco
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 12 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 71 £450 -12.20% 83
Berkshire -11 57 £450 -12.20% 58
Hampshire -16 50 £550 +12.82% 40
Buckinghamshire 0 13 £574 -8.20% 13
Surrey -13 7 £425 -16.05% 28
East Sussex -6 4 £525 +16.67% 6
West Sussex +8 2 - - 12
Kent -12 2 £438 +31.58% 20
Oxfordshire -4 1 - - 20
Sussex - 1 - - 4
Cisco
England

Cisco
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 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.72%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.72%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 30 (21.74%) Azure
2 26 (18.84%) AWS
3 11 (7.97%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.62%) PaaS
5 4 (2.90%) Cloudflare
5 4 (2.90%) IaaS
6 3 (2.17%) SaaS
7 2 (1.45%) GitHub
7 2 (1.45%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.72%) Akamai
8 1 (0.72%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.72%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.72%) GCP
8 1 (0.72%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 54 (39.13%) WAN
2 48 (34.78%) VPN
3 47 (34.06%) Firewall
4 45 (32.61%) LAN
5 35 (25.36%) MPLS
6 28 (20.29%) BGP
7 24 (17.39%) OSPF
8 22 (15.94%) Network Security
9 21 (15.22%) Wireless
10 19 (13.77%) Ethernet
10 19 (13.77%) SAN
11 17 (12.32%) TCP/IP
11 17 (12.32%) Wireshark
12 16 (11.59%) ATM
12 16 (11.59%) Cisco ISE
12 16 (11.59%) Frame Relay
12 16 (11.59%) LTE
12 16 (11.59%) SDH
12 16 (11.59%) UMTS
12 16 (11.59%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.72%) Data Lake
1 1 (0.72%) MongoDB
1 1 (0.72%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (2.17%) GitLab
2 2 (1.45%) JIRA
3 1 (0.72%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (44.20%) Social Skills
2 35 (25.36%) Telecoms
3 20 (14.49%) Public Sector
4 17 (12.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (3.62%) Finance
5 5 (3.62%) Manufacturing
6 3 (2.17%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.17%) Electronics
6 3 (2.17%) Marketing
7 2 (1.45%) Aerospace
7 2 (1.45%) Aviation
7 2 (1.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.72%) Law
Job Titles
1 57 (41.30%) Network Engineer
2 28 (20.29%) Architect
3 16 (11.59%) IP Engineer
3 16 (11.59%) Test Engineer
4 15 (10.87%) Network Architect
5 11 (7.97%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 8 (5.80%) Senior
6 8 (5.80%) Technical Architect
7 7 (5.07%) Cisco Architect
7 7 (5.07%) IT Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Cisco Network Architect
8 6 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) IP Network Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Network Security Engineer
8 6 (4.35%) Security Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Cisco Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Field Engineer
9 5 (3.62%) Senior Architect
9 5 (3.62%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.62%) 802.1X
2 4 (2.90%) RFC 2544
3 3 (2.17%) YAML
4 2 (1.45%) JSON
4 2 (1.45%) NETCONF
4 2 (1.45%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.72%) Jinja
5 1 (0.72%) REST
5 1 (0.72%) SOAP
5 1 (0.72%) XML
5 1 (0.72%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (11.59%) Self-Motivation
2 14 (10.14%) Data Centre
3 11 (7.97%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (7.25%) Public Cloud
5 7 (5.07%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (3.62%) PKI
7 4 (2.90%) Onboarding
8 3 (2.17%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
9 2 (1.45%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (1.45%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.45%) NHS
10 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
10 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
10 1 (0.72%) Cyber Defence
10 1 (0.72%) Driving Licence
10 1 (0.72%) IoT
10 1 (0.72%) Private Cloud
10 1 (0.72%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (15.94%) Linux
2 17 (12.32%) Unix
3 12 (8.70%) Windows
4 4 (2.90%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.17%) Windows 7
5 3 (2.17%) Windows Server
6 2 (1.45%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.72%) Android
7 1 (0.72%) CentOS
7 1 (0.72%) Windows 8
7 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.72%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.91%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (16.67%) Network Design
3 21 (15.22%) Network Architecture
4 17 (12.32%) Project Management
4 17 (12.32%) Regression Testing
4 17 (12.32%) Test Strategy
5 16 (11.59%) Fault Management
6 14 (10.14%) Agile
7 13 (9.42%) ITIL
7 13 (9.42%) Migration
8 11 (7.97%) CI/CD
9 10 (7.25%) Change Management
9 10 (7.25%) Security Operations
9 10 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
10 9 (6.52%) Customer Requirements
10 9 (6.52%) Preventative Maintenance
10 9 (6.52%) TOGAF
11 8 (5.80%) DevSecOps
12 7 (5.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 7 (5.07%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.67%) Python
2 16 (11.59%) Java
3 6 (4.35%) VB
4 5 (3.62%) SQL
5 3 (2.17%) Bash
6 1 (0.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 61 (44.20%) Cisco Certification
2 58 (42.03%) Security Cleared
3 52 (37.68%) CCNP
4 38 (27.54%) SC Cleared
5 22 (15.94%) DV Cleared
6 20 (14.49%) CCNA
7 16 (11.59%) ISEB
7 16 (11.59%) ISTQB
7 16 (11.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 10 (7.25%) CCIE
8 10 (7.25%) Degree
9 9 (6.52%) JNCIS
10 7 (5.07%) Microsoft Certification
11 6 (4.35%) CCSA
11 6 (4.35%) CCSE
11 6 (4.35%) Check Point Certification
12 5 (3.62%) MCSE
12 5 (3.62%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (2.17%) CCDP
13 3 (2.17%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.52%) SLA
2 8 (5.80%) NIST
3 6 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 6 (4.35%) NCSC
4 4 (2.90%) QA
5 1 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.72%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (10.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (7.97%) Active Directory
3 9 (6.52%) VMware NSX
4 3 (2.17%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.45%) Ceph
5 2 (1.45%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.45%) XenApp
6 1 (0.72%) Docker
6 1 (0.72%) vSphere
6 1 (0.72%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 25 (18.12%) Ansible
2 9 (6.52%) Terraform
3 7 (5.07%) FortiGate
4 2 (1.45%) Argo
4 2 (1.45%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.45%) HP ALM
4 2 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 2 (1.45%) Proxmox
5 1 (0.72%) CASB
5 1 (0.72%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 47 (34.06%) Juniper
2 31 (22.46%) Microsoft
3 28 (20.29%) Palo Alto
4 18 (13.04%) F5
5 17 (12.32%) CheckPoint
6 15 (10.87%) Fortinet
6 15 (10.87%) VMware
7 13 (9.42%) Citrix
8 10 (7.25%) Aruba
9 7 (5.07%) HP
9 7 (5.07%) Meraki
10 6 (4.35%) Fujitsu
10 6 (4.35%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.90%) Dell
11 4 (2.90%) Zscaler
12 3 (2.17%) Ekahau
12 3 (2.17%) Extreme Networks
12 3 (2.17%) Mellanox
12 3 (2.17%) NVIDIA
12 3 (2.17%) SAP