Cisco Wireless Contracts

Cisco Wireless
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring Cisco Wireless skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco Wireless over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 562 654
Rank change year-on-year +78 +92 +140
Contract jobs citing Cisco Wireless 36 20 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.12% 0.046% 0.11%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.97% 0.36% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 14 39
10th Percentile £318 £350 £405
25th Percentile £385 £392 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £613
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -12.24% +36.11%
75th Percentile £569 £859 £619
90th Percentile £600 £875 £830
UK excluding London median daily rate £438 £313 £463
% change year-on-year +40.00% -32.43% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £31.50
Median hourly rate - - £33.00
75th Percentile - - £34.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £33.00
% change year-on-year - - +51.24%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Cisco Wireless 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 3,722 5,629 7,357
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 12.71% 12.92% 12.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,285 3,368 4,786
10th Percentile £213 £205 £235
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £519
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -4.53% +3.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £638
90th Percentile £675 £700 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £481 £475
% change year-on-year -3.38% +1.32% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 177 423 478
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.57 £9.80
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.35 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.00 £40.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +110.53% -32.74%
75th Percentile £57.50 £62.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.40 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £24.18 £45.88 £18.50
% change year-on-year -47.30% +148.00% -13.95%

Cisco Wireless
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Wireless in the UK

Cisco Wireless
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Wireless in the UK

Cisco Wireless
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Wireless over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Wireless in the UK

Cisco Wireless
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Wireless in the UK

Cisco Wireless
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Wireless within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +67 28 £500 -13.04% 11
UK excluding London +80 21 £438 +40.00% 8
North of England +29 12 £550 - 2
North West +27 12 £550 -
Work from Home +43 9 £525 +5.00% 5
London +35 9 £481 -42.54% 2
South East - 3 £475 - 3
South West - 2 - -
Scotland - 2 £325 -
East of England +30 1 £350 -17.65%
Midlands +22 1 £300 +50.00% 3
East Midlands - 1 £300 -

Cisco Wireless
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (2.78%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 36 (100.00%) Wireless
2 30 (83.33%) Firewall
3 16 (44.44%) VPN
4 13 (36.11%) Network Security
5 12 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 11 (30.56%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (30.56%) Cisco Firepower
6 11 (30.56%) Cisco ISE
6 11 (30.56%) LAN
7 10 (27.78%) WAN
8 8 (22.22%) OSPF
8 8 (22.22%) WLAN
9 7 (19.44%) BGP
9 7 (19.44%) EIGRP
9 7 (19.44%) SD-WAN
10 6 (16.67%) VLAN
11 4 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
12 3 (8.33%) DHCP
12 3 (8.33%) DMVPN
12 3 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 9 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.11%) Legal
4 2 (5.56%) Advertising
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 25 (69.44%) Network Engineer
2 9 (25.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 6 (16.67%) Architect
3 6 (16.67%) Network Architect
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Firewall Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Cisco Network Architect
6 2 (5.56%) Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Network Consultant
6 2 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Administrator
7 1 (2.78%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) Network Design
2 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (11.11%) Network Architecture
3 4 (11.11%) Patch Management
3 4 (11.11%) Proactive Monitoring
3 4 (11.11%) Threat Detection
4 3 (8.33%) DevOps
4 3 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (8.33%) Observability
4 3 (8.33%) Service Management
5 2 (5.56%) Validation
6 1 (2.78%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (2.78%) ITIL
6 1 (2.78%) Migration
6 1 (2.78%) Performance Tuning
6 1 (2.78%) Project Delivery
6 1 (2.78%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (2.78%) Risk Management
6 1 (2.78%) Task Automation
6 1 (2.78%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (2.78%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 17 (47.22%) Security Cleared
2 16 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 5 (13.89%) CCNP
3 5 (13.89%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (8.33%) CCSA
5 1 (2.78%) CCDP
5 1 (2.78%) Degree
5 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Ansible
2 3 (8.33%) CA Spectrum
2 3 (8.33%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 36 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (61.11%) Palo Alto
3 8 (22.22%) CheckPoint
4 7 (19.44%) F5
5 5 (13.89%) Juniper
5 5 (13.89%) Meraki
6 3 (8.33%) Fortinet
6 3 (8.33%) Infoblox
6 3 (8.33%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.56%) AirMagnet
7 2 (5.56%) Ekahau
8 1 (2.78%) Microsoft