Cisco Contract Job Trends in Stevenage

Cisco
Hertfordshire > Stevenage

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Stevenage 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 23 September 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
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 36 -
Rank change year-on-year +5 - -
Contract jobs citing Cisco 20 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Stevenage 4.59% 1.93% -
As % of the Vendors category 10.36% 4.88% -
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 0
10th Percentile £434 - -
25th Percentile £738 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £793 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.21% - -
75th Percentile £825 - -
90th Percentile £846 - -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £775 £700 £176
% change year-on-year +10.71% +297.73% -54.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Median hourly rate £68.75 - -
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £68.75 - -

All Vendors
Stevenage

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 Stevenage.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 193 82 110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Stevenage 44.27% 39.61% 36.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 42 49
10th Percentile £205 £450 £462
25th Percentile £425 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +29.41%
75th Percentile £638 £575 £575
90th Percentile £825 £790 -
Hertfordshire median daily rate £549 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -0.13% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 21 33
10th Percentile £22.68 £22.63 £35.00
25th Percentile £39.00 £50.00 -
Median hourly rate £61.66 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.15% - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - £80.00
90th Percentile £85.35 - £93.00
Hertfordshire median hourly rate £45.00 £22.60 £65.00
% change year-on-year +99.16% -65.24% +18.18%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Stevenage

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Stevenage

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Stevenage

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Stevenage over the 6 months to 23 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Stevenage

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Stevenage

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Stevenage citing Cisco

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Stevenage 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (60.00%) CMS
2 1 (5.00%) Skype for Business
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) H.323
2 9 (45.00%) LAN
3 7 (35.00%) WAN
4 6 (30.00%) BGP
4 6 (30.00%) HSRP
4 6 (30.00%) OSPF
4 6 (30.00%) VRRP
4 6 (30.00%) WebEx
5 5 (25.00%) HTTP
5 5 (25.00%) SSL
5 5 (25.00%) TCP/IP
6 4 (20.00%) Unified Communications
7 3 (15.00%) Firewall
7 3 (15.00%) Network Security
8 2 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (10.00%) IP Telephony
8 2 (10.00%) Telepresence
8 2 (10.00%) WLAN
9 1 (5.00%) HTTPS
9 1 (5.00%) VoIP
General
1 2 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (5.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (5.00%) Law
2 1 (5.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 8 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Lead
2 7 (35.00%) Team Leader
3 5 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Telephony Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Video Conferencing Engineer
5 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (10.00%) Network Team Leader
7 1 (5.00%) Network Support
7 1 (5.00%) Network Support Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Support Engineer
7 1 (5.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (60.00%) XMPP
2 1 (5.00%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 16 (80.00%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (20.00%) Algorithms
2 4 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (25.00%) Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (25.00%) Windows
1 5 (25.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (25.00%) B2B
1 5 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
2 4 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 3 (15.00%) Document Management
3 3 (15.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 3 (15.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (15.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (10.00%) DevOps
4 2 (10.00%) Load Balancing
5 1 (5.00%) Customer Service
5 1 (5.00%) Data Protection
5 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.00%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (5.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (5.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.00%) Service Management
5 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
5 1 (5.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 16 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 10 (50.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (45.00%) Cisco Certification
4 8 (40.00%) CCNP
5 4 (20.00%) CCNP Voice
6 3 (15.00%) CCNA
6 3 (15.00%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 14 (70.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 12 (60.00%) Cisco CUCM
2 5 (25.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (85.00%) VMware
2 5 (25.00%) SolarWinds