Meraki Contracts in the UK excluding London

Meraki
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 Meraki products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Meraki over the 6 months leading up to 3 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 Meraki.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 284 340 354
Rank change year-on-year +56 +14 +43
Contract jobs citing Meraki 50 54 101
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.39% 0.26% 0.42%
As % of the Vendors category 0.80% 0.61% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 19 59
10th Percentile £263 £293 £281
25th Percentile £306 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £425
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% - -1.16%
75th Percentile £513 £474 £536
90th Percentile £556 £540 £550
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +17.65% -5.56% -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Meraki 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 6,231 8,804 10,608
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 48.77% 42.53% 44.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,960 5,308 7,304
10th Percentile £215 £205 £205
25th Percentile £368 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.53%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £690 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £515 £525
% change year-on-year - -1.90% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 948 476
10th Percentile £14.20 £11.80 £14.31
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.16 £17.72
Median hourly rate £24.18 £21.46 £38.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -44.26% +106.05%
75th Percentile £58.09 £59.13 £63.00
90th Percentile £74.50 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £22.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year +19.67% -49.43% +105.65%

Meraki
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Meraki in the UK excluding London

Meraki
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Meraki in the UK excluding London

Meraki
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Meraki in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Meraki in the UK excluding London

Meraki
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Meraki in the UK excluding London

Meraki
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 Meraki within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +14 33 £375 -11.76% 30
North West +20 26 £375 -11.76% 12
South East +28 7 £356 -16.18% 41
Yorkshire +1 7 £275 -51.54% 12
Midlands +21 4 £413 - 18
South West +27 3 £550 +69.23% 7
West Midlands - 3 £525 - 13
Scotland +11 2 £400 - 10
East Midlands +14 1 £300 - 5
Wales - 1 £455 - 2
Meraki
UK

Meraki
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 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (10.00%) Entra ID
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (6.00%) IaaS
3 3 (6.00%) PaaS
4 2 (4.00%) AWS
5 1 (2.00%) Akamai
5 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (2.00%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.00%) Nutanix
5 1 (2.00%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 36 (72.00%) Firewall
2 26 (52.00%) Wi-Fi
3 24 (48.00%) WAN
4 18 (36.00%) Cisco ISE
5 16 (32.00%) NetScaler
6 13 (26.00%) Wireless
7 12 (24.00%) Network Security
8 9 (18.00%) VPN
9 8 (16.00%) BGP
10 7 (14.00%) TCP/IP
11 6 (12.00%) LAN
11 6 (12.00%) OSPF
11 6 (12.00%) SD-WAN
11 6 (12.00%) VLAN
12 5 (10.00%) MPLS
13 4 (8.00%) Cisco ASA
14 3 (6.00%) 802.11
14 3 (6.00%) Cisco IOS
14 3 (6.00%) DNS
14 3 (6.00%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
General
1 9 (18.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (6.00%) Local Government
4 2 (4.00%) Legal
4 2 (4.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 32 (64.00%) Network Engineer
2 11 (22.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 5 (10.00%) Senior
4 4 (8.00%) Architect
4 4 (8.00%) IT Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Wireless Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) IT Manager
6 2 (4.00%) IT Support
6 2 (4.00%) IT Support Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Product Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Support Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Systems Engineer
7 1 (2.00%) Analyst
7 1 (2.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (40.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 13 (26.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.00%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) Android
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.00%) Network Design
2 16 (32.00%) Load Balancing
2 16 (32.00%) Network Management
3 15 (30.00%) Network Architecture
4 10 (20.00%) Impact Assessments
5 7 (14.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (10.00%) Migration
6 5 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.00%) Project Delivery
7 4 (8.00%) Customer Service
7 4 (8.00%) Mentoring
7 4 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (6.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (6.00%) Data Collection
8 3 (6.00%) Data Protection
9 2 (4.00%) High Availability
9 2 (4.00%) Performance Metrics
9 2 (4.00%) Project Management
9 2 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (4.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (34.00%) SC Cleared
3 13 (26.00%) Cisco Certification
4 9 (18.00%) CCNA
4 9 (18.00%) CCNP
5 5 (10.00%) CCIE
5 5 (10.00%) Degree
6 3 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (4.00%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.00%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.00%) Actionable Recommendations
1 1 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.00%) Hyper-V
2 3 (6.00%) vSphere
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (16.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (6.00%) SCCM
3 1 (2.00%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.00%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 49 (98.00%) Cisco
2 25 (50.00%) Palo Alto
3 11 (22.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (10.00%) Aruba
4 5 (10.00%) Fortinet
4 5 (10.00%) SolarWinds
4 5 (10.00%) VMware
5 4 (8.00%) Juniper
5 4 (8.00%) Veeam
6 3 (6.00%) AirMagnet
6 3 (6.00%) Ekahau
6 3 (6.00%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (2.00%) Dell KACE
7 1 (2.00%) D-Link
7 1 (2.00%) F5
7 1 (2.00%) FireEye
7 1 (2.00%) Splunk
7 1 (2.00%) Symantec
7 1 (2.00%) Ubiquiti
7 1 (2.00%) WatchGuard