Cisco IPT Contracts

Cisco IP Telephony (CIPT)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cisco IPT skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco IPT over the 6 months leading up to 4 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 561 662
Rank change year-on-year +15 +101 +199
Contract jobs citing Cisco IPT 7 9 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.023% 0.037%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.18% 0.19% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 4 7
10th Percentile £350 £435 £425
25th Percentile £351 £477 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 £578 £550
Median % change year-on-year -34.20% +5.00% -21.43%
75th Percentile £401 £673 £819
90th Percentile £494 £704 £1,000
UK excluding London median daily rate £380 - £450
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.40
25th Percentile - - £24.50
Median hourly rate - - £36.65
75th Percentile - - £48.48
90th Percentile - - £55.39
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £13.30

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Cisco IPT falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 3,992 4,765 6,774
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.12% 12.15% 12.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,409 2,893 4,386
10th Percentile £235 £220 £230
25th Percentile £375 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -
75th Percentile £600 £608 £625
90th Percentile £675 £688 £716
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £455
% change year-on-year -5.00% +9.89% +1.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 201 327 265
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.27 £18.57
Median hourly rate £46.25 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% -5.00% +53.85%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £73.75 £75.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £53.69 £57.50
% change year-on-year -20.84% -6.63% +118.71%

Cisco IPT
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco IPT as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco IPT in the UK

Cisco IPT
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco IPT.

Daily rate trend for Cisco IPT in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco IPT over the 6 months to 4 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco IPT in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco IPT.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco IPT in the UK

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Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco IPT within the UK over the 6 months to 4 August 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
England +14 7 £380 -41.98% 10
UK excluding London +12 7 £380 - 6
West Midlands - 5 £355 - 2
Midlands - 5 £355 - 2
Work from Home +24 1 £415 -17.00% 2
East of England - 1 £550 - 1
South East - 1 £415 - 1

Cisco IPT
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DMVPN
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
1 6 (85.71%) IPsec
1 6 (85.71%) SSL
1 6 (85.71%) VPN
1 6 (85.71%) WAN
1 6 (85.71%) Wireless
2 3 (42.86%) Network Security
General
1 4 (57.14%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Network Security Engineer
3 3 (42.86%) Security Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
4 2 (28.57%) Principal Network Engineer
5 1 (14.29%) Data Governance Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (85.71%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Change Management
1 6 (85.71%) Inventory Management
2 1 (14.29%) Data Governance
2 1 (14.29%) Data Privacy
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
2 1 (14.29%) Identity Management
2 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (14.29%) Product Management
2 1 (14.29%) Product Requirements
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) SC Cleared
1 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Blue Coat
1 6 (85.71%) CheckPoint
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) F5
1 6 (85.71%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Infoblox