Cisco Contracts

Cisco
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 30 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 Systems, Inc.

6 months to
30 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 69 57
Rank change year-on-year +4 -12 +39
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,118 1,299 2,088
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.65% 3.01% 3.75%
As % of the Vendors category 7.69% 7.03% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 686 790 1,361
10th Percentile £304 £250 £241
25th Percentile £408 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £649 £663 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 40 71
10th Percentile £24.66 £16.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.04 £19.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -45.00% +94.17%
75th Percentile £43.25 £46.39 £70.00
90th Percentile £62.11 £75.00 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £41.95 £47.83
% change year-on-year -28.48% -12.30% +68.36%

All Vendors
UK

Cisco 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,545 18,473 24,333
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.45% 42.79% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,891 11,458 16,111
10th Percentile £281 £270 £270
25th Percentile £400 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £734 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.25% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 698 1,167 650
10th Percentile £14.75 £12.28 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.84 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.18 £39.80
Median % change year-on-year +4.01% -39.25% +80.91%
75th Percentile £53.50 £59.76 £63.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £22.53 £29.30
% change year-on-year +0.44% -23.11% +50.18%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco over the 6 months to 30 June 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the UK

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Top 18 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the UK over the 6 months to 30 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
England +7 963 £500 +2.56% 2,211
UK excluding London +9 656 £500 +5.26% 1,216
London +14 357 £500 - 1,081
Work from Home 0 292 £500 +2.56% 907
North of England +29 195 £492 +3.58% 282
South East -8 163 £500 +3.90% 368
North West +17 116 £475 - 158
South West +26 108 £550 +4.76% 117
Midlands +5 100 £525 +10.53% 180
West Midlands +11 77 £525 +10.53% 119
Yorkshire +31 71 £500 +1.78% 99
Scotland -7 46 £400 +20.75% 88
East of England +9 30 £498 +43.17% 127
Wales +17 24 £290 +10.48% 35
East Midlands -5 23 £475 +8.57% 61
North East +3 7 £325 -23.53% 26
Northern Ireland -7 3 £350 -3.45% 32
Channel Islands - 3 £725 -

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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:

Application Platforms
1 44 (3.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (3.40%) Confluence
3 21 (1.88%) IBM Domino
3 21 (1.88%) SharePoint
4 15 (1.34%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 14 (1.25%) Skype for Business
6 9 (0.81%) Mattermost
7 5 (0.45%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) Apache
8 2 (0.18%) Gunicorn
8 2 (0.18%) nginx
9 1 (0.089%) CMS
9 1 (0.089%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.089%) JBoss
9 1 (0.089%) OpenStack
Applications
1 62 (5.55%) Microsoft Office
2 18 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 17 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.36%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.18%) Revit
7 1 (0.089%) Acrobat
7 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.089%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.18%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 173 (15.47%) Azure
2 139 (12.43%) AWS
3 103 (9.21%) Microsoft 365
4 47 (4.20%) GCP
5 33 (2.95%) PaaS
6 32 (2.86%) Entra ID
6 32 (2.86%) SaaS
7 23 (2.06%) IaaS
8 21 (1.88%) AWS CloudFormation
9 11 (0.98%) GitHub
10 9 (0.81%) Power Platform
11 8 (0.72%) Akamai
12 7 (0.63%) Cloudflare
12 7 (0.63%) Nutanix
13 6 (0.54%) Azure DevOps
13 6 (0.54%) OpenShift
14 5 (0.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 5 (0.45%) Cloud Computing
14 5 (0.45%) OneDrive
15 4 (0.36%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 547 (48.93%) Firewall
2 266 (23.79%) WAN
3 263 (23.52%) BGP
4 227 (20.30%) OSPF
5 211 (18.87%) LAN
6 201 (17.98%) Network Security
6 201 (17.98%) VPN
7 179 (16.01%) DNS
8 168 (15.03%) Wireless
9 119 (10.64%) Cisco Nexus
10 117 (10.47%) DHCP
10 117 (10.47%) SD-WAN
11 106 (9.48%) Cisco ASA
12 104 (9.30%) MPLS
13 102 (9.12%) Wi-Fi
14 98 (8.77%) Cisco ISE
15 97 (8.68%) TCP/IP
16 96 (8.59%) IPsec
17 94 (8.41%) Cisco IOS
18 89 (7.96%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.06%) Oracle Database
2 22 (1.97%) SQL Server
3 8 (0.72%) MySQL
4 6 (0.54%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.45%) MongoDB
6 4 (0.36%) Power BI
7 3 (0.27%) PostgreSQL
8 2 (0.18%) Data Lake
8 2 (0.18%) Hadoop
9 1 (0.089%) BigQuery
9 1 (0.089%) Elasticsearch
9 1 (0.089%) Looker
9 1 (0.089%) Redis
9 1 (0.089%) Sybase ASE
9 1 (0.089%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 55 (4.92%) JIRA
2 26 (2.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 25 (2.24%) Git
4 18 (1.61%) GitLab
5 14 (1.25%) Jenkins
6 13 (1.16%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.27%) SonarQube
8 2 (0.18%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.18%) eggPlant
8 2 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.18%) Snyk
8 2 (0.18%) Subversion
8 2 (0.18%) TestNG
8 2 (0.18%) webpack
9 1 (0.089%) JIRA Agile
9 1 (0.089%) Mercurial
9 1 (0.089%) Postman
9 1 (0.089%) TeamCity
General
1 295 (26.39%) Social Skills
2 115 (10.29%) Analytical Skills
3 107 (9.57%) Finance
4 92 (8.23%) Telecoms
5 82 (7.33%) Public Sector
6 44 (3.94%) Banking
7 31 (2.77%) Manufacturing
8 27 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (1.88%) Games
10 19 (1.70%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (1.70%) Legal
11 13 (1.16%) Local Government
12 10 (0.89%) Law
12 10 (0.89%) Presentation Skills
13 9 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
14 8 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.72%) Retail
15 7 (0.63%) Electronics
15 7 (0.63%) Marketing
16 6 (0.54%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 486 (43.47%) Network Engineer
2 122 (10.91%) Architect
3 102 (9.12%) Cisco Engineer
4 88 (7.87%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 73 (6.53%) Senior
6 70 (6.26%) Network Architect
7 67 (5.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 59 (5.28%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 51 (4.56%) Security Engineer
10 47 (4.20%) Analyst
11 43 (3.85%) Network Security Engineer
11 43 (3.85%) Support Engineer
12 40 (3.58%) Senior Network Engineer
13 36 (3.22%) Consultant
14 31 (2.77%) IT Engineer
15 28 (2.50%) Technical Architect
15 28 (2.50%) Test Engineer
16 23 (2.06%) Lead
17 21 (1.88%) Implementation Engineer
17 21 (1.88%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 53 (4.74%) 802.1X
2 20 (1.79%) REST
2 20 (1.79%) RFC 2544
3 14 (1.25%) XMPP
4 12 (1.07%) SOAP
5 11 (0.98%) NETCONF
5 11 (0.98%) RESTCONF
6 10 (0.89%) JSON
7 9 (0.81%) Flash
8 6 (0.54%) XML
9 5 (0.45%) Spine.js
9 5 (0.45%) YAML
10 4 (0.36%) .NET
10 4 (0.36%) ASP.NET
10 4 (0.36%) HTML
10 4 (0.36%) Jinja
10 4 (0.36%) Kafka
10 4 (0.36%) React
10 4 (0.36%) RESTful
11 3 (0.27%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 184 (16.46%) Data Centre
2 33 (2.95%) Video Conferencing
3 30 (2.68%) Data Protection Act
4 25 (2.24%) Cloud Native
5 24 (2.15%) Onboarding
6 23 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 23 (2.06%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
7 20 (1.79%) Driving Licence
8 17 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
8 17 (1.52%) PKI
9 16 (1.43%) Fibre Optics
9 16 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.34%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.16%) Clustering
12 12 (1.07%) CMDB
13 11 (0.98%) Blackberry
14 9 (0.81%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.72%) Enterprise Storage
16 7 (0.63%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 161 (14.40%) Windows
2 121 (10.82%) Linux
3 66 (5.90%) Windows Server
4 38 (3.40%) Mac OS
5 32 (2.86%) Android
5 32 (2.86%) Windows 10
6 24 (2.15%) Unix
7 17 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (0.89%) VMS
9 9 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
10 8 (0.72%) Windows Server 2019
11 6 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.45%) CatOS
12 5 (0.45%) CentOS
12 5 (0.45%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.27%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.27%) Windows 8
13 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2003
14 2 (0.18%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.18%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
2 131 (11.72%) Migration
3 119 (10.64%) ITIL
4 112 (10.02%) Network Design
5 99 (8.86%) Network Monitoring
6 97 (8.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 96 (8.59%) Agile
8 81 (7.25%) Service Management
9 74 (6.62%) Change Management
9 74 (6.62%) Network Architecture
10 72 (6.44%) Computer Science
10 72 (6.44%) High Availability
11 62 (5.55%) Project Management
12 61 (5.46%) Load Balancing
13 60 (5.37%) Validation
14 57 (5.10%) Network Management
14 57 (5.10%) Roadmaps
15 44 (3.94%) Project Delivery
16 43 (3.85%) Problem Management
17 41 (3.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 132 (11.81%) Python
2 85 (7.60%) PowerShell
3 55 (4.92%) SQL
4 44 (3.94%) Bash
5 27 (2.42%) Perl
6 24 (2.15%) Java
7 17 (1.52%) Bicep
7 17 (1.52%) PL/SQL
8 10 (0.89%) VB
9 5 (0.45%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.27%) C#
10 3 (0.27%) C++
10 3 (0.27%) Go
11 2 (0.18%) PHP
11 2 (0.18%) Rust
11 2 (0.18%) TypeScript
11 2 (0.18%) VBScript
12 1 (0.089%) ActionScript
12 1 (0.089%) C
12 1 (0.089%) VBA
Qualifications
1 407 (36.40%) Cisco Certification
2 380 (33.99%) Security Cleared
3 301 (26.92%) SC Cleared
4 279 (24.96%) CCNP
5 144 (12.88%) CCNA
6 123 (11.00%) Degree
7 97 (8.68%) DV Cleared
8 69 (6.17%) CCIE
9 55 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
10 38 (3.40%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 21 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
12 20 (1.79%) CCSA
12 20 (1.79%) JNCIS
12 20 (1.79%) Master's Degree
13 17 (1.52%) ISTQB
14 16 (1.43%) ISEB
14 16 (1.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
14 16 (1.43%) JNCIA
14 16 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (1.34%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (2.77%) SLA
2 16 (1.43%) NIST
3 15 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (0.81%) GDPR
4 9 (0.81%) QA
5 4 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.36%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.27%) NCSC
6 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
7 2 (0.18%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 2 (0.18%) Accessibility
7 2 (0.18%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.18%) GRC
7 2 (0.18%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.18%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 2 (0.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.18%) PSD2
8 1 (0.089%) Def Stans
8 1 (0.089%) GxP
8 1 (0.089%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 144 (12.88%) Active Directory
2 99 (8.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
4 30 (2.68%) Firmware
5 19 (1.70%) VMware NSX
6 13 (1.16%) Docker
6 13 (1.16%) vSphere
7 11 (0.98%) Hyper-V
8 7 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.54%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.36%) Ceph
10 4 (0.36%) XenApp
11 3 (0.27%) KVM
12 2 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.089%) FreeRADIUS
13 1 (0.089%) iptables
13 1 (0.089%) Squid
13 1 (0.089%) SRDF
13 1 (0.089%) Terminal Services
13 1 (0.089%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 134 (11.99%) Ansible
2 63 (5.64%) Terraform
3 54 (4.83%) FortiGate
4 44 (3.94%) Microsoft Intune
5 43 (3.85%) SCCM
6 35 (3.13%) vCenter Server
7 20 (1.79%) Puppet
8 15 (1.34%) ZABBIX
9 14 (1.25%) Kubernetes
10 13 (1.16%) Cisco CUCM
10 13 (1.16%) Cisco Prime
10 13 (1.16%) Progress Chef
11 11 (0.98%) NetBackup
12 10 (0.89%) Nagios
12 10 (0.89%) SCOM
13 7 (0.63%) CA Spectrum
13 7 (0.63%) HP ALM
13 7 (0.63%) OpenView
14 6 (0.54%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.54%) QRadar
Vendors
1 233 (20.84%) Palo Alto
2 224 (20.04%) Microsoft
3 176 (15.74%) Juniper
4 153 (13.69%) F5
4 153 (13.69%) Fortinet
4 153 (13.69%) VMware
5 150 (13.42%) CheckPoint
6 110 (9.84%) Meraki
7 107 (9.57%) SolarWinds
8 61 (5.46%) Splunk
9 56 (5.01%) Arista
10 49 (4.38%) HP
11 44 (3.94%) ServiceNow
12 42 (3.76%) Dell
13 38 (3.40%) Aruba
14 36 (3.22%) Oracle
15 34 (3.04%) Zscaler
16 32 (2.86%) Citrix
16 32 (2.86%) Nokia
17 25 (2.24%) Red Hat