Cisco Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

Cisco
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Staffordshire 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 21 February 2026, 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
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 13 10 9
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +14
Contract jobs citing Cisco 2 6 9
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 2.70% 7.79% 7.56%
As % of the Vendors category 4.88% 25.00% 16.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 4
10th Percentile £458 £388 -
25th Percentile £469 - £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £250
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +60.00% -35.48%
75th Percentile £544 £466 £350
90th Percentile £563 £488 £440
West Midlands median daily rate £375 £444 £450
% change year-on-year -15.49% -1.39% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £50.00 £18.13 £23.00
% change year-on-year +175.77% -21.17% +64.29%

All Vendors
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 41 24 54
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 55.41% 31.17% 45.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 16 38
10th Percentile £200 £140 £200
25th Percentile £246 £350 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £431
Median % change year-on-year - -7.25% +13.11%
75th Percentile £434 £488 £525
90th Percentile £575 £506 £596
West Midlands median daily rate £485 £500 £463
% change year-on-year -3.00% +8.11% -2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 10
10th Percentile - - £14.33
25th Percentile - - £14.71
Median hourly rate - - £19.30
Median % change year-on-year - - -61.01%
75th Percentile - - £23.00
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.00 £22.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.11% - +26.98%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

Cisco job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Cisco

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Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 21 February 2026. 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
Cannock - 1 £450 -
Stafford - 1 £550 -
Cisco
West Midlands

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Design
1 1 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Proactive Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCNA
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) CCSA
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Meraki
1 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds