Cisco Technical Consultant Contract Job Trends

Cisco Technical Consultant
UK

The median Cisco Technical Consultant daily rate in the UK is £575, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 573 - 649
Rank change year-on-year - - +172
Contract jobs requiring a Cisco Technical Consultant 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.003% - 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.003% - 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £525
75th Percentile £588 - £538
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £525

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 30,556 34,341 44,903
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.89% 93.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,309 20,704 30,643
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £412 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,701 1,344 1,531
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.04 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +64.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.65 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year -37.50% -9.09% +91.30%

Cisco Technical Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Cisco Technical Consultant' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Technical Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Technical Consultant
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cisco Technical Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Cisco Technical Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Cisco Technical Consultant
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cisco Technical Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Cisco Technical Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Cisco Technical Consultant
Top 2 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 Technical Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 25 October 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
London - 1 £575 -
England - 1 £575 -

Cisco Technical Consultant Skill Set
Top 28 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, Cisco Technical Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Cisco Technical Consultant in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Akamai
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Minimum Viable Product
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler

Cisco Technical Consultant Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Akamai
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) DHCP
1 1 (100.00%) DNS
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) NetScaler
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Creative Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (100.00%) High Availability
1 1 (100.00%) Minimum Viable Product
1 1 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Debt
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Citrix
1 1 (100.00%) Infoblox
1 1 (100.00%) Meraki
1 1 (100.00%) Nokia
1 1 (100.00%) Zscaler