Cisco Prime Contract Job Trends

Cisco Prime (formerly Cisco Works)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Cisco Prime skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 530 594
Rank change year-on-year -51 +64 +182
Contract jobs citing Cisco Prime 3 14 11
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.008% 0.041% 0.025%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.051% 0.28% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 8
10th Percentile £325 £297 £309
25th Percentile £381 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £375
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +13.33% -11.76%
75th Percentile £550 £525 £475
90th Percentile £565 £532 £490
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £425 £375
% change year-on-year - +13.33% -11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £58.50
Median hourly rate - - £63.00
75th Percentile - - £67.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £63.00

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Cisco Prime falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,920 5,025 6,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 16.08% 14.70% 13.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,042 3,214 4,314
10th Percentile £313 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.19% -2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £650
90th Percentile £688 £731 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £493 £513
% change year-on-year +1.42% -3.80% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 65 172
10th Percentile £16.25 £17.16 £17.07
25th Percentile £20.16 £22.50 £22.56
Median hourly rate £40.73 £26.50 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +53.68% -42.62% +34.83%
75th Percentile £64.69 £58.75 £72.05
90th Percentile £81.40 £74.26 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £46.25 £25.34 £46.18
% change year-on-year +82.52% -45.13% +53.50%

Cisco Prime
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cisco Prime job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Prime
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Prime.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Prime

Cisco Prime
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Prime over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Prime in the UK

Cisco Prime
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Prime.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Prime

Cisco Prime
Top 7 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Prime within the UK over the 6 months to 19 December 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 -38 2 £400 +33.33% 2
UK excluding London -44 2 £425 - 3
Wales +4 1 £550 +22.22% 1
Work from Home 0 1 £500 +17.65% 1
London -14 1 £500 -
North West - 1 £300 -
North of England - 1 £300 -

Cisco Prime
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (33.33%) LAN
2 1 (33.33%) MPLS
2 1 (33.33%) NGN
2 1 (33.33%) NX-OS
2 1 (33.33%) SDH
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) SNMP
2 1 (33.33%) TACACS
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
2 1 (33.33%) VoIP
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
1 1 (33.33%) Law
1 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 1 (33.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Business Continuity
1 1 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (33.33%) Network Design
1 1 (33.33%) Network Management
1 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Nokia
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds