Cisco Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Cisco
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Surrey 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 2 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
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 34 16
Rank change year-on-year -26 -18 +17
Contract jobs citing Cisco 9 10 49
As % of all contract jobs in Surrey 1.48% 2.98% 8.70%
As % of the Vendors category 2.84% 5.29% 17.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 29
10th Percentile £413 £203 £317
25th Percentile £450 £316 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £523 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.50% +56.86%
75th Percentile £509 £547 £538
90th Percentile £583 £563 £550
South East median daily rate £467 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -11.14% +5.00% +11.11%

All Vendors
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 317 189 288
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 52.14% 56.25% 51.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 141 195
10th Percentile £204 £204 £215
25th Percentile £400 £250 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £492 £425
Median % change year-on-year -3.46% +15.76% -11.69%
75th Percentile £581 £550 £525
90th Percentile £656 £600 £598
South East median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 5 16
10th Percentile £13.65 £18.83 -
25th Percentile £17.75 £24.00 £11.71
Median hourly rate £70.00 £28.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +150.00% -37.78% -
75th Percentile - £30.00 £54.13
90th Percentile - £31.66 £65.25
South East median hourly rate £47.54 £18.87 £57.35
% change year-on-year +151.93% -67.10% +13.09%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Surrey

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Surrey

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Surrey over the 6 months to 2 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Surrey

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Surrey region over the 6 months to 2 September 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
Leatherhead -6 4 £475 -9.52% 1
Guildford -9 2 £425 -22.73% 6
Redhill - 1 £550 - 8
Cisco
South East

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) AWS
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (66.67%) Firewall
1 6 (66.67%) LAN
1 6 (66.67%) SD-WAN
1 6 (66.67%) WAN
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 4 (44.44%) DHCP
3 4 (44.44%) DNS
3 4 (44.44%) VLAN
3 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) Network Security
4 1 (11.11%) SSL
4 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
4 1 (11.11%) VoIP
4 1 (11.11%) Wireless
4 1 (11.11%) WLAN
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Services Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Data Centre Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Lead
5 1 (11.11%) Security Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) Security Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Security Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Technical Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile Payment
2 1 (11.11%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Linux
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Change Control
2 4 (44.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (33.33%) Migration
4 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) High Availability
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) ITIL
4 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (11.11%) Mathematics
4 1 (11.11%) PRINCE2
4 1 (11.11%) Quality Management
4 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (11.11%) Security Architecture
4 1 (11.11%) Security Management
4 1 (11.11%) Security Monitoring
4 1 (11.11%) TOGAF
4 1 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 1 (11.11%) CCNP
2 1 (11.11%) CCSP
2 1 (11.11%) CISA
2 1 (11.11%) CISM
2 1 (11.11%) CISSP
2 1 (11.11%) CLAS
2 1 (11.11%) CREST Certified
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
2 1 (11.11%) IISP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) GDPR
1 1 (11.11%) GRC
1 1 (11.11%) ISO 31000
1 1 (11.11%) ISO 9001
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (44.44%) Virtual Machines
1 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (44.44%) vSphere
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (11.11%) Firmware
2 1 (11.11%) ISA Server
Systems Management
1 2 (22.22%) FortiGate
2 1 (11.11%) CASB
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (44.44%) BT
2 4 (44.44%) CheckPoint
2 4 (44.44%) Commvault
2 4 (44.44%) Meraki
2 4 (44.44%) NetApp
2 4 (44.44%) SolarWinds
2 4 (44.44%) Veeam
2 4 (44.44%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) Xerox
3 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (11.11%) Centrify
4 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (11.11%) F5
4 1 (11.11%) Google
4 1 (11.11%) Huawei
4 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) Qualys
4 1 (11.11%) Splunk
4 1 (11.11%) Tripwire