Cisco Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 46 41
Rank change year-on-year +8 -5 +20
Contract jobs citing Cisco 640 805 1,145
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 4.91% 3.88% 5.03%
As % of the Vendors category 9.95% 9.23% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 395 480 748
10th Percentile £300 £245 £240
25th Percentile £400 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £450
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +3.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £550
90th Percentile £625 £672 £633
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 17 53
10th Percentile £16.25 £13.27 £12.73
25th Percentile £18.13 £13.29 £13.29
Median hourly rate £30.00 £19.00 £47.83
Median % change year-on-year +57.89% -60.28% +114.97%
75th Percentile £39.74 £46.39 £63.23
90th Percentile £62.25 £75.24 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £32.70 £26.25 £50.00
% change year-on-year +24.57% -47.50% +109.12%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,435 8,722 10,170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.37% 42.09% 44.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,017 5,275 6,942
10th Percentile £220 £208 £205
25th Percentile £363 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £515 £525
% change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 453 983 443
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £21.46 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.85% -42.77% +95.64%
75th Percentile £51.90 £58.70 £60.59
90th Percentile £69.93 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £22.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +15.12% -47.88% +97.67%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 31 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
North of England +29 199 £500 +11.11% 151
South East -12 151 £500 - 183
North West +22 121 £500 +5.26% 72
South West +30 110 £550 +2.80% 81
Midlands +6 97 £450 -5.26% 101
West Midlands +9 71 £438 -7.89% 56
Yorkshire +40 68 £503 +8.17% 60
Scotland 0 47 £399 +24.01% 30
Wales +20 28 £413 +70.98% 11
East Midlands +8 26 £513 +2.50% 41
East of England -5 20 £429 +22.50% 63
North East 0 9 £325 -16.13% 20
Northern Ireland -11 2 £350 -3.45% 18
Channel Islands - 1 £450 - 2
Cisco
UK

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 33 (5.16%) Confluence
2 16 (2.50%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 15 (2.34%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (1.56%) SharePoint
5 8 (1.25%) Mattermost
5 8 (1.25%) Skype for Business
6 3 (0.47%) Exchange Server 2013
6 3 (0.47%) IBM Domino
7 2 (0.31%) IIS
8 1 (0.16%) Apache
8 1 (0.16%) CMS
Applications
1 41 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.94%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.16%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.16%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (12.19%) Azure
2 60 (9.38%) AWS
3 50 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (2.97%) GCP
5 16 (2.50%) PaaS
6 13 (2.03%) SaaS
7 11 (1.72%) Entra ID
8 5 (0.78%) Cloudflare
8 5 (0.78%) IaaS
8 5 (0.78%) Mimecast
9 4 (0.63%) GitHub
9 4 (0.63%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.31%) Akamai
10 2 (0.31%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.31%) npm
10 2 (0.31%) Nutanix
10 2 (0.31%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.31%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 277 (43.28%) Firewall
2 165 (25.78%) WAN
3 143 (22.34%) VPN
4 139 (21.72%) BGP
5 119 (18.59%) LAN
5 119 (18.59%) OSPF
6 107 (16.72%) Network Security
7 92 (14.38%) DNS
8 87 (13.59%) Wireless
9 76 (11.88%) MPLS
10 74 (11.56%) Cisco ASA
11 70 (10.94%) Cisco Firepower
12 68 (10.63%) SD-WAN
13 66 (10.31%) IPsec
14 64 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
15 63 (9.84%) Wi-Fi
16 58 (9.06%) Cisco ISE
17 52 (8.13%) EIGRP
18 48 (7.50%) TCP/IP
19 43 (6.72%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (3.13%) Oracle Database
2 6 (0.94%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.31%) MySQL
4 1 (0.16%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (6.41%) JIRA
2 14 (2.19%) Git
3 12 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 11 (1.72%) Bitbucket
5 8 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (0.47%) GitLab
7 2 (0.31%) Cypress.io
7 2 (0.31%) Selenium
7 2 (0.31%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.31%) TestNG
7 2 (0.31%) webpack
General
1 177 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 76 (11.88%) Telecoms
3 63 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 30 (4.69%) Finance
6 16 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 15 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
9 13 (2.03%) Banking
10 9 (1.41%) Legal
10 9 (1.41%) Organisational Skills
11 5 (0.78%) Aerospace
11 5 (0.78%) Electronics
11 5 (0.78%) Pharmaceutical
11 5 (0.78%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (0.78%) Retail
12 4 (0.63%) Advertising
12 4 (0.63%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (0.63%) Law
12 4 (0.63%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 288 (45.00%) Network Engineer
2 54 (8.44%) Architect
3 51 (7.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 49 (7.66%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 44 (6.88%) Cisco Engineer
6 39 (6.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 38 (5.94%) Senior
8 36 (5.63%) Network Architect
9 25 (3.91%) IT Engineer
10 23 (3.59%) Support Engineer
10 23 (3.59%) Test Engineer
11 22 (3.44%) IP Engineer
12 21 (3.28%) Analyst
12 21 (3.28%) Senior Network Engineer
13 19 (2.97%) Consultant
14 18 (2.81%) Security Engineer
15 13 (2.03%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
15 13 (2.03%) Field Engineer
15 13 (2.03%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
15 13 (2.03%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (4.84%) 802.1X
2 14 (2.19%) REST
3 12 (1.88%) Flash
4 10 (1.56%) SOAP
5 9 (1.41%) RFC 2544
6 8 (1.25%) NETCONF
6 8 (1.25%) RESTCONF
6 8 (1.25%) XMPP
7 5 (0.78%) Spine.js
8 3 (0.47%) CSS
8 3 (0.47%) HTML
8 3 (0.47%) RESTful
9 2 (0.31%) Jest
9 2 (0.31%) pytest
9 2 (0.31%) React
9 2 (0.31%) Spring Boot
9 2 (0.31%) Web Services
9 2 (0.31%) YAML
10 1 (0.16%) Jinja
10 1 (0.16%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 77 (12.03%) Data Centre
2 24 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 23 (3.59%) Data Protection Act
4 21 (3.28%) Self-Motivation
5 20 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
6 18 (2.81%) Linux Command Line
7 17 (2.66%) Management Information System
8 16 (2.50%) PKI
9 14 (2.19%) Driving Licence
10 13 (2.03%) Clustering
10 13 (2.03%) Public Cloud
11 11 (1.72%) Blackberry
11 11 (1.72%) Fibre Optics
12 10 (1.56%) Onboarding
13 8 (1.25%) CMDB
13 8 (1.25%) CSOC
13 8 (1.25%) NHS
14 5 (0.78%) Cloud Native
14 5 (0.78%) Product Ownership
15 4 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 100 (15.63%) Windows
2 87 (13.59%) Linux
3 47 (7.34%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.91%) Windows 10
5 16 (2.50%) Unix
6 12 (1.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 11 (1.72%) VMS
8 10 (1.56%) Mac OS
9 9 (1.41%) Windows Server 2012
10 4 (0.63%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.63%) Windows Server 2019
11 3 (0.47%) Android
11 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2003
12 2 (0.31%) CentOS
12 2 (0.31%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.16%) Rocky
13 1 (0.16%) Windows 8
13 1 (0.16%) Windows Server 2008
13 1 (0.16%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 126 (19.69%) Problem-Solving
2 78 (12.19%) ITIL
3 76 (11.88%) Agile
3 76 (11.88%) Network Design
4 75 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 71 (11.09%) Migration
6 55 (8.59%) Service Management
7 54 (8.44%) Network Architecture
8 51 (7.97%) Validation
9 49 (7.66%) Change Management
10 47 (7.34%) Load Balancing
11 45 (7.03%) Computer Science
12 42 (6.56%) High Availability
12 42 (6.56%) Roadmaps
13 41 (6.41%) Network Management
14 40 (6.25%) Project Management
15 38 (5.94%) Network Monitoring
15 38 (5.94%) System Testing
16 34 (5.31%) Customer Service
17 32 (5.00%) NsoIT
Programming Languages
1 64 (10.00%) Python
2 47 (7.34%) PowerShell
3 39 (6.09%) Bash
4 33 (5.16%) SQL
5 20 (3.13%) Perl
6 18 (2.81%) Java
6 18 (2.81%) PL/SQL
7 8 (1.25%) VB
8 2 (0.31%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.31%) Rust
8 2 (0.31%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.16%) Go
Qualifications
1 284 (44.38%) Security Cleared
2 254 (39.69%) Cisco Certification
3 235 (36.72%) SC Cleared
4 171 (26.72%) CCNP
5 90 (14.06%) CCNA
6 85 (13.28%) Degree
7 66 (10.31%) DV Cleared
8 41 (6.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 39 (6.09%) CCIE
10 28 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 20 (3.13%) Master's Degree
12 16 (2.50%) ISEB
12 16 (2.50%) ISTQB
12 16 (2.50%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 16 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (2.19%) ITIL Certification
14 11 (1.72%) JNCIS
15 10 (1.56%) OCA
15 10 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
15 10 (1.56%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (2.66%) SLA
2 10 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.09%) NIST
3 7 (1.09%) QA
4 5 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
4 5 (0.78%) NCSC
5 2 (0.31%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.16%) GDPR
6 1 (0.16%) PMO
6 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 79 (12.34%) Active Directory
2 74 (11.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.06%) VMware NSX
4 23 (3.59%) VMware ESXi
5 10 (1.56%) Firmware
5 10 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 5 (0.78%) BitLocker
6 5 (0.78%) vSphere
7 4 (0.63%) Ceph
8 3 (0.47%) Docker
9 2 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.31%) XenApp
10 1 (0.16%) Terminal Server
10 1 (0.16%) Terminal Services
10 1 (0.16%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 69 (10.78%) Ansible
2 35 (5.47%) FortiGate
3 32 (5.00%) vCenter Server
4 24 (3.75%) SCCM
5 21 (3.28%) Terraform
6 19 (2.97%) Microsoft Intune
7 12 (1.88%) Progress Chef
7 12 (1.88%) Puppet
8 11 (1.72%) SCOM
9 9 (1.41%) Cisco Prime
10 6 (0.94%) Kubernetes
11 5 (0.78%) Cacti
11 5 (0.78%) Cisco CUCM
11 5 (0.78%) HP ALM
12 4 (0.63%) EMC NetWorker
12 4 (0.63%) Nagios
12 4 (0.63%) OpenView
13 3 (0.47%) Backup Exec
13 3 (0.47%) NetBackup
14 2 (0.31%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 146 (22.81%) Palo Alto
2 118 (18.44%) Microsoft
3 104 (16.25%) VMware
4 99 (15.47%) Juniper
5 81 (12.66%) F5
6 68 (10.63%) Fortinet
7 65 (10.16%) CheckPoint
8 52 (8.13%) Meraki
9 50 (7.81%) SolarWinds
10 31 (4.84%) Oracle
11 29 (4.53%) Citrix
12 27 (4.22%) Aruba
12 27 (4.22%) Atlassian
12 27 (4.22%) HP
13 26 (4.06%) ServiceNow
13 26 (4.06%) Splunk
14 21 (3.28%) Nokia
14 21 (3.28%) Red Hat
15 12 (1.88%) Dell
15 12 (1.88%) Ericsson