Cisco Contracts in South Yorkshire

Cisco
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Yorkshire 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 36 49 42
Rank change year-on-year +13 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing Cisco 12 7 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 3.22% 1.53% 2.82%
As % of the Vendors category 6.70% 2.71% 7.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 12
10th Percentile £329 £320 £197
25th Percentile £371 £425 £213
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £240
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +129.17% -36.00%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £691
90th Percentile £655 - £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £525 £458 £490
% change year-on-year +14.75% -6.63% +15.29%

All Vendors
South Yorkshire

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 South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 179 258 193
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 47.99% 56.46% 36.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 159 145
10th Percentile £150 £231 £192
25th Percentile £358 £407 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £538
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -11.63% +19.44%
75th Percentile £538 £570 £626
90th Percentile £650 £639 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £483 £525
% change year-on-year -6.74% -8.10% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 3
10th Percentile - £12.63 £12.30
25th Percentile £18.10 £12.66 £14.25
Median hourly rate £18.21 £14.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +30.04% -20.99% -2.90%
75th Percentile £18.41 £22.00 £20.11
90th Percentile £18.47 £36.20 £21.54
Yorkshire median hourly rate £27.50 £14.63 £21.00
% change year-on-year +88.03% -30.36% +24.63%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in South Yorkshire

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in South Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

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

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in South Yorkshire

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in South Yorkshire

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire 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
Sheffield +10 12 £400 -27.27% 13
Cisco
Yorkshire

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) Network Security
2 7 (58.33%) Firewall
3 5 (41.67%) TCP/IP
4 4 (33.33%) DNS
5 3 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (25.00%) DWDM
5 3 (25.00%) LAN
5 3 (25.00%) SAN
5 3 (25.00%) VPN
5 3 (25.00%) WAN
6 1 (8.33%) BGP
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco Firepower
6 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (8.33%) DHCP
6 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
6 1 (8.33%) Internet
6 1 (8.33%) NAS
6 1 (8.33%) OSPF
6 1 (8.33%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (16.67%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) TestNG
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) Katalon Studio
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Automation Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (25.00%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) pytest
3 1 (8.33%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) EMC VMAX
2 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 4 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 4 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
3 3 (25.00%) Validation
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) BDD
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 2 (16.67%) DevOps
4 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (16.67%) Network Management
4 2 (16.67%) Task Automation
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Response
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (58.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) Bash
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Go
Qualifications
1 4 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 4 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) CCNA
2 3 (25.00%) CCNP
3 2 (16.67%) JNCIA
3 2 (16.67%) JNCIS
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
4 1 (8.33%) HP ASE
4 1 (8.33%) ISTQB
4 1 (8.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) GDPR
1 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (8.33%) NIST
2 1 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) Ansible
2 5 (41.67%) Terraform
3 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
3 2 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 2 (16.67%) Puppet
3 2 (16.67%) vRealize
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Arista
1 3 (25.00%) Brocade
1 3 (25.00%) EMC
1 3 (25.00%) HP
2 2 (16.67%) 3PAR
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) Aruba
3 1 (8.33%) Blue Coat
3 1 (8.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (8.33%) Dell
3 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
3 1 (8.33%) NetApp
3 1 (8.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Pure Storage
3 1 (8.33%) Zscaler