Cisco Contracts in the South West

Cisco
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 15 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
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 60 42
Rank change year-on-year +31 -18 +22
Contract jobs citing Cisco 99 101 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 5.92% 3.20% 4.75%
As % of the Vendors category 13.20% 7.99% 11.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 68 133
10th Percentile £420 £300 £325
25th Percentile £475 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £602 £650 £588
90th Percentile £639 £688 £690
England median daily rate £505 £488 £475
% change year-on-year +3.59% +2.63% +7.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 19
10th Percentile - - £58.11
25th Percentile - £46.39 £62.00
Median hourly rate £75.00 £68.20 £65.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.98% +4.11% +21.30%
75th Percentile - £91.25 £77.63
90th Percentile - £93.50 £101.50
England median hourly rate £36.65 £27.50 £38.38
% change year-on-year +33.25% -28.34% +60.50%

All Vendors
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 750 1,264 1,397
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 44.86% 40.06% 39.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 468 802 1,045
10th Percentile £216 £198 £250
25th Percentile £375 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £503 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.19% -4.24% +10.53%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £630
90th Percentile £686 £725 £713
England median daily rate £525 £518 £534
% change year-on-year +1.45% -3.09% +1.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 182 79
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.71 £17.31
25th Percentile £18.51 £36.25 £44.27
Median hourly rate £36.00 £47.50 £60.70
Median % change year-on-year -24.21% -21.75% +28.86%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.75
England median hourly rate £26.45 £22.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +17.56% -40.00% +75.32%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the South West over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 15 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
Wiltshire +57 54 £575 +9.52% 17
Somerset +9 15 £525 +77.97% 14
Bristol -11 15 £550 -14.23% 10
Gloucestershire +6 8 £500 -21.88% 30
Dorset +11 5 £550 - 3
Devon 0 1 £400 -5.88% 11
Cornwall - 1 £500 - 1
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 20 (20.20%) Confluence
2 1 (1.01%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (14.14%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 11 (11.11%) PaaS
1 11 (11.11%) SaaS
2 5 (5.05%) Azure
3 4 (4.04%) AWS
3 4 (4.04%) GCP
4 1 (1.01%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.01%) IaaS
4 1 (1.01%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 24 (24.24%) BGP
2 23 (23.23%) Firewall
3 19 (19.19%) VoIP
4 16 (16.16%) Cisco Nexus
4 16 (16.16%) OSPF
5 15 (15.15%) PBX
6 13 (13.13%) WAN
7 12 (12.12%) Cisco IOS
8 9 (9.09%) VPN
9 8 (8.08%) LAN
9 8 (8.08%) MPLS
9 8 (8.08%) VXLAN
10 7 (7.07%) DMVPN
10 7 (7.07%) SD-WAN
10 7 (7.07%) Unified Communications
11 6 (6.06%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (5.05%) DNS
12 5 (5.05%) Wireless
13 4 (4.04%) IPv6
13 4 (4.04%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 20 (20.20%) JIRA
2 11 (11.11%) Bitbucket
3 10 (10.10%) Git
4 9 (9.09%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 16 (16.16%) Telecoms
3 14 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.13%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.05%) Military
6 3 (3.03%) Advertising
6 3 (3.03%) Billing
7 2 (2.02%) Finance
7 2 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.01%) Legal
Job Titles
1 34 (34.34%) Network Engineer
2 12 (12.12%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 10 (10.10%) Cisco Engineer
4 9 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 8 (8.08%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 7 (7.07%) Architect
7 5 (5.05%) Administrator
7 5 (5.05%) DevOps Engineer
7 5 (5.05%) Network Administrator
8 4 (4.04%) Principal Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) Automation Engineer
9 3 (3.03%) Network Architect
9 3 (3.03%) Telecoms Engineer
10 2 (2.02%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
10 2 (2.02%) Principal DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.02%) Principal Network Engineer
10 2 (2.02%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
10 2 (2.02%) Security Engineer
10 2 (2.02%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.12%) Flash
2 10 (10.10%) REST
2 10 (10.10%) SOAP
3 5 (5.05%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (13.13%) Clustering
2 11 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (10.10%) Blackberry
4 4 (4.04%) Data Centre
4 4 (4.04%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (3.03%) CMDB
5 3 (3.03%) IVR
5 3 (3.03%) PKI
6 2 (2.02%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 17 (17.17%) Windows
2 14 (14.14%) Linux
3 13 (13.13%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.02%) VMS
4 2 (2.02%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (39.39%) Validation
2 32 (32.32%) Service Management
3 28 (28.28%) Problem-Solving
4 27 (27.27%) System Testing
5 25 (25.25%) NsoIT
6 23 (23.23%) Agile
7 20 (20.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (18.18%) High Availability
9 17 (17.17%) Migration
10 15 (15.15%) Customer Requirements
10 15 (15.15%) Network Virtualisation
11 13 (13.13%) Critical Thinking
11 13 (13.13%) Root Cause Analysis
11 13 (13.13%) Waterfall
12 12 (12.12%) Commercial Awareness
12 12 (12.12%) Computer Science
12 12 (12.12%) Infrastructure Automation
12 12 (12.12%) Power Management
13 11 (11.11%) Roadmaps
14 10 (10.10%) Impact Assessments
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.13%) Bash
1 13 (13.13%) Python
2 9 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 80 (80.81%) Security Cleared
2 69 (69.70%) SC Cleared
3 52 (52.53%) Cisco Certification
4 39 (39.39%) CCNP
5 37 (37.37%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 32 (32.32%) DV Cleared
7 19 (19.19%) CCNA
8 17 (17.17%) Degree
9 12 (12.12%) Master's Degree
10 10 (10.10%) OCA
10 10 (10.10%) Oracle Certification
10 10 (10.10%) RHCA
10 10 (10.10%) RHCE
11 5 (5.05%) CCIE
12 2 (2.02%) Azure Certification
12 2 (2.02%) JNCIE
12 2 (2.02%) JNCIP
12 2 (2.02%) MCSA
12 2 (2.02%) MCSE
12 2 (2.02%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 42 (42.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (15.15%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (14.14%) VMware NSX
4 3 (3.03%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.01%) Firmware
5 1 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (27.27%) vCenter Server
2 15 (15.15%) Ansible
3 10 (10.10%) Progress Chef
3 10 (10.10%) Puppet
4 2 (2.02%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (2.02%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.02%) Nagios
4 2 (2.02%) SCOM
4 2 (2.02%) Terraform
4 2 (2.02%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.01%) Cisco UCCX
5 1 (1.01%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 45 (45.45%) VMware
2 22 (22.22%) Juniper
3 21 (21.21%) Palo Alto
4 20 (20.20%) Atlassian
5 18 (18.18%) F5
6 14 (14.14%) Nokia
7 12 (12.12%) Ericsson
8 10 (10.10%) Avaya
8 10 (10.10%) Oracle
8 10 (10.10%) Ribbon
9 7 (7.07%) Microsoft
10 6 (6.06%) SolarWinds
11 3 (3.03%) Aruba
12 2 (2.02%) Fortinet
12 2 (2.02%) Google
13 1 (1.01%) Broadcom
13 1 (1.01%) CheckPoint
13 1 (1.01%) HP
13 1 (1.01%) Meraki
13 1 (1.01%) Symantec