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 24 June 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
24 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 350 355
Rank change year-on-year +60 +5 +19
Contract jobs citing Meraki 68 55 88
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.26% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 1.02% 0.61% 0.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 53
10th Percentile £275 £257 £263
25th Percentile £334 £331 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £394 £425 £400
Median % change year-on-year -7.35% +6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile £523 £475 £500
90th Percentile £550 £565 £555
UK median daily rate £500 £425 £425
% 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 6,651 8,960 10,281
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 49.08% 42.19% 45.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,093 5,338 6,972
10th Percentile £220 £213 £205
25th Percentile £363 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.25% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £585 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 508 1,017 438
10th Percentile £14.27 £12.00 £14.33
25th Percentile £16.95 £14.48 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.72 £22.50 £32.15
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -30.02% +64.87%
75th Percentile £50.00 £60.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £40.50
% change year-on-year +5.67% -41.23% +84.87%

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 24 June 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 24 June 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 +24 27 £375 -14.29% 24
North West +17 24 £375 -11.76% 13
South East +57 21 £388 -8.82% 34
East of England - 9 £640 - 12
Midlands +12 6 £400 -25.58% 18
West Midlands +10 6 £400 -30.43% 7
Scotland +3 4 £388 +61.46% 16
Yorkshire -8 3 - - 10
South West +35 2 £275 -15.38% 3
Wales +2 1 £455 +13.75% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £760 -
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 23 (33.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (26.47%) IBM Domino
3 7 (10.29%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 25 (36.76%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (10.29%) Azure
3 4 (5.88%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.41%) IaaS
4 3 (4.41%) PaaS
5 2 (2.94%) AWS
6 1 (1.47%) Akamai
6 1 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.47%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.47%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.47%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 51 (75.00%) Firewall
2 26 (38.24%) Wi-Fi
3 25 (36.76%) WAN
4 21 (30.88%) Cisco IOS
5 17 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
6 14 (20.59%) NetScaler
7 13 (19.12%) Wireless
8 12 (17.65%) Network Security
9 10 (14.71%) LAN
10 9 (13.24%) BGP
11 8 (11.76%) SD-WAN
11 8 (11.76%) VPN
12 7 (10.29%) OSPF
13 6 (8.82%) MPLS
13 6 (8.82%) TCP/IP
13 6 (8.82%) VLAN
14 5 (7.35%) EIGRP
15 4 (5.88%) IPsec
15 4 (5.88%) WLAN
16 3 (4.41%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.47%) Data Lake
General
1 18 (26.47%) Games
2 9 (13.24%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.35%) Public Sector
4 4 (5.88%) Legal
5 3 (4.41%) Local Government
5 3 (4.41%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.94%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.47%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.47%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 31 (45.59%) Network Engineer
2 18 (26.47%) Platform Engineer
3 9 (13.24%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 7 (10.29%) IT Engineer
5 6 (8.82%) Senior
6 4 (5.88%) Architect
6 4 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (4.41%) IT Support
7 3 (4.41%) Wireless Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Analyst
8 2 (2.94%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Designer
8 2 (2.94%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Network Designer
8 2 (2.94%) Support Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Systems Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Technical Engineer
8 2 (2.94%) Technical Support
8 2 (2.94%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (27.94%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 16 (23.53%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (2.94%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.47%) Life Science
3 1 (1.47%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
3 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.47%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 20 (29.41%) Windows
2 18 (26.47%) Android
2 18 (26.47%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (39.71%) Network Design
2 18 (26.47%) E-Commerce
3 16 (23.53%) Load Balancing
4 15 (22.06%) Network Management
5 14 (20.59%) Network Architecture
6 10 (14.71%) Impact Assessments
7 8 (11.76%) Migration
8 7 (10.29%) Project Delivery
9 6 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (7.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (7.35%) ITIL
11 4 (5.88%) Computer Science
11 4 (5.88%) Data Protection
11 4 (5.88%) Mentoring
11 4 (5.88%) Network Monitoring
11 4 (5.88%) Project Management
12 3 (4.41%) Customer Service
12 3 (4.41%) Data Collection
12 3 (4.41%) High Availability
13 2 (2.94%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 18 (26.47%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.47%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (23.53%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (20.59%) Security Cleared
3 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared
4 9 (13.24%) CCNA
5 8 (11.76%) CCNP
5 8 (11.76%) Degree
6 4 (5.88%) CCIE
6 4 (5.88%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.47%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 27 (39.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (4.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 22 (32.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (30.88%) SCCM
3 3 (4.41%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (1.47%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.47%) Terraform
Vendors
1 66 (97.06%) Cisco
2 29 (42.65%) Microsoft
3 23 (33.82%) Palo Alto
4 19 (27.94%) Splunk
5 6 (8.82%) Fortinet
5 6 (8.82%) SolarWinds
6 5 (7.35%) VMware
7 4 (5.88%) Aruba
7 4 (5.88%) Juniper
8 3 (4.41%) AirMagnet
8 3 (4.41%) Ekahau
8 3 (4.41%) Extreme Networks
8 3 (4.41%) Veeam
9 2 (2.94%) F5
10 1 (1.47%) Adobe
10 1 (1.47%) Apple
10 1 (1.47%) Dell KACE
10 1 (1.47%) EMC
10 1 (1.47%) Riverbed
10 1 (1.47%) Ubiquiti