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 26 July 2024, 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
26 Jul 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 65 57 93
Rank change year-on-year -8 +36 +10
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,236 2,097 2,485
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.08% 3.86% 2.78%
As % of the Vendors category 7.05% 8.70% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 1,360 1,722
10th Percentile £250 £240 £255
25th Percentile £369 £363 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.16% +5.56% +11.46%
75th Percentile £580 £575 £572
90th Percentile £660 £650 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 68 103
10th Percentile £16.65 £13.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.10 £21.88 £21.13
Median hourly rate £27.50 £50.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +96.08% +15.91%
75th Percentile £51.88 £71.31 £51.85
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.25 £66.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.75 £55.32 £40.58
% change year-on-year -20.91% +36.34% +93.21%

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 17,531 24,103 36,786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 43.65% 44.35% 41.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,983 15,764 24,734
10th Percentile £280 £263 £300
25th Percentile £412 £413 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £732 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 923 665 823
10th Percentile £13.31 £15.00 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.62 £18.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.00 £40.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.50% +81.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £47.96
90th Percentile £70.00 £72.50 £67.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £30.50 £19.81
% change year-on-year -18.03% +53.96% +12.68%

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 26 July 2024.

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 26 July 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Top 17 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 26 July 2024. 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 1,073 £500 +8.52% 256
UK excluding London -11 698 £475 +5.56% 247
London -16 411 £500 -2.91% 67
Work from Home -10 370 £494 -1.20% 99
South East 0 279 £503 +11.67% 77
North of England -8 132 £500 +17.65% 57
Midlands -11 102 £500 +25.00% 21
North West +3 85 £513 +13.89% 34
South West -32 84 £525 +5.00% 29
West Midlands -9 70 £500 +29.87% 16
Scotland +18 56 £310 -33.33% 20
East of England -19 46 £375 -9.09% 15
Yorkshire +3 43 £483 +16.97% 18
East Midlands -6 32 £375 -16.67% 5
Wales -23 18 £294 -44.05% 14
North East -2 4 £438 +25.00% 8
Northern Ireland +3 3 £363 - 22

Cisco
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 43 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 24 (1.94%) Confluence
4 9 (0.73%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.49%) IIS
6 5 (0.40%) OpenStack
7 4 (0.32%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) Apache
8 2 (0.16%) Appian
8 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2007
8 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.16%) Traefik
9 1 (0.081%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.081%) nginx
9 1 (0.081%) Tomcat
Applications
1 61 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 14 (1.13%) MS Visio
4 13 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.73%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.24%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.081%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Shopify
2 1 (0.081%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.081%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.081%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 175 (14.16%) Azure
2 121 (9.79%) AWS
3 84 (6.80%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (3.40%) GCP
5 28 (2.27%) Entra ID
6 22 (1.78%) Cloud Computing
6 22 (1.78%) SaaS
7 21 (1.70%) OCI
8 18 (1.46%) GitHub
9 12 (0.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 12 (0.97%) OneDrive
10 11 (0.89%) PaaS
10 11 (0.89%) Twilio
11 10 (0.81%) Cloudflare
12 8 (0.65%) IaaS
13 7 (0.57%) Azure DevOps
13 7 (0.57%) Nutanix
13 7 (0.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 6 (0.49%) Power Platform
15 5 (0.40%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 538 (43.53%) Firewall
2 320 (25.89%) WAN
3 265 (21.44%) LAN
4 239 (19.34%) BGP
5 226 (18.28%) VPN
6 189 (15.29%) Network Security
7 183 (14.81%) OSPF
8 171 (13.83%) SD-WAN
9 156 (12.62%) DNS
10 143 (11.57%) Wireless
11 138 (11.17%) MPLS
12 135 (10.92%) Cisco Nexus
13 131 (10.60%) Cisco ASA
14 113 (9.14%) DHCP
15 104 (8.41%) Wi-Fi
16 99 (8.01%) Cisco ISE
17 98 (7.93%) Cisco Firepower
18 93 (7.52%) EIGRP
19 88 (7.12%) TCP/IP
20 85 (6.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (1.62%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.32%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (0.32%) Power BI
3 3 (0.24%) MongoDB
3 3 (0.24%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.16%) Hadoop
4 2 (0.16%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.16%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.081%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.081%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.081%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.081%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.081%) MySQL
5 1 (0.081%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 38 (3.07%) Sonatype Nexus
2 36 (2.91%) JIRA
3 11 (0.89%) Git
4 5 (0.40%) Bitbucket
4 5 (0.40%) GitLab
5 4 (0.32%) Hudson
5 4 (0.32%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.081%) Artifactory
6 1 (0.081%) Maven
6 1 (0.081%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.081%) Selenium
6 1 (0.081%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.081%) TeamCity
General
1 237 (19.17%) Social Skills
2 212 (17.15%) Finance
3 111 (8.98%) Telecoms
4 92 (7.44%) Banking
5 87 (7.04%) Public Sector
6 83 (6.72%) Analytical Skills
7 33 (2.67%) Manufacturing
8 29 (2.35%) Legal
9 25 (2.02%) Retail
10 19 (1.54%) Marketing
11 17 (1.38%) Financial Institution
12 16 (1.29%) Investment Banking
13 15 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (1.05%) Electronics
15 12 (0.97%) Billing
16 11 (0.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 10 (0.81%) Organisational Skills
18 9 (0.73%) Military
19 6 (0.49%) Police
Job Titles
1 577 (46.68%) Network Engineer
2 174 (14.08%) Architect
3 117 (9.47%) Network Architect
4 115 (9.30%) Senior
5 111 (8.98%) Cisco Engineer
6 89 (7.20%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 81 (6.55%) Support Engineer
8 79 (6.39%) Senior Network Engineer
9 63 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 49 (3.96%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 47 (3.80%) Security Engineer
12 46 (3.72%) Consultant
13 42 (3.40%) Network Security Engineer
14 31 (2.51%) Network Support
15 28 (2.27%) Network Support Engineer
16 27 (2.18%) Storage Engineer
17 25 (2.02%) Network Specialist
18 24 (1.94%) Juniper Engineer
18 24 (1.94%) Network Consultant
18 24 (1.94%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (1.38%) Web Services
2 14 (1.13%) 802.1X
2 14 (1.13%) Middleware
3 12 (0.97%) Jinja
3 12 (0.97%) JSON
4 10 (0.81%) FIX Protocol
5 9 (0.73%) .NET
6 7 (0.57%) XML
6 7 (0.57%) YANG
7 6 (0.49%) .NET Framework
7 6 (0.49%) NETCONF
7 6 (0.49%) SAML
8 5 (0.40%) Flash
9 4 (0.32%) ModSecurity
9 4 (0.32%) REST
9 4 (0.32%) RFC 2544
10 3 (0.24%) Apache NiFi
10 3 (0.24%) Django
10 3 (0.24%) Elastic Stack
10 3 (0.24%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 221 (17.88%) Data Centre
2 38 (3.07%) Video Conferencing
3 33 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 29 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
5 28 (2.27%) PKI
6 24 (1.94%) Public Cloud
7 23 (1.86%) Cloud Native
7 23 (1.86%) Hybrid Cloud
8 19 (1.54%) Driving Licence
9 18 (1.46%) IVR
10 16 (1.29%) Operational Technology
10 16 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 13 (1.05%) Replication
12 12 (0.97%) Clustering
13 10 (0.81%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 10 (0.81%) Security Posture
14 9 (0.73%) iPhone
14 9 (0.73%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.73%) Private Cloud
15 8 (0.65%) Video Editing
Operating Systems
1 201 (16.26%) Windows
2 114 (9.22%) Linux
3 68 (5.50%) Windows Server
4 64 (5.18%) Windows 10
5 32 (2.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 31 (2.51%) Windows Server 2012
7 28 (2.27%) Windows 7
8 27 (2.18%) Unix
9 24 (1.94%) AIX
10 20 (1.62%) Android
11 19 (1.54%) Windows Server 2019
12 12 (0.97%) Mac OS
12 12 (0.97%) Solaris
13 11 (0.89%) Windows XP
14 9 (0.73%) Mac OS X
15 8 (0.65%) CentOS
16 7 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
17 3 (0.24%) Ubuntu
17 3 (0.24%) VMS
18 2 (0.16%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (12.46%) Problem-Solving
2 152 (12.30%) Migration
3 136 (11.00%) ITIL
4 122 (9.87%) Network Design
5 84 (6.80%) Agile
6 78 (6.31%) Change Management
7 75 (6.07%) Project Management
8 72 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 72 (5.83%) Project Delivery
9 64 (5.18%) Load Balancing
10 63 (5.10%) Disaster Recovery
10 63 (5.10%) High Availability
10 63 (5.10%) Network Management
11 61 (4.94%) Network Monitoring
12 59 (4.77%) Computer Science
13 56 (4.53%) Cybersecurity
14 52 (4.21%) DevOps
15 51 (4.13%) Customer Service
16 50 (4.05%) ITSM
17 46 (3.72%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 101 (8.17%) Python
2 54 (4.37%) PowerShell
3 25 (2.02%) SQL
4 21 (1.70%) Bash
5 19 (1.54%) Perl
6 12 (0.97%) Tcl
7 7 (0.57%) Java
7 7 (0.57%) Lisp
8 6 (0.49%) C#
9 5 (0.40%) C
9 5 (0.40%) JavaScript
10 3 (0.24%) Go
10 3 (0.24%) Ruby
10 3 (0.24%) T-SQL
11 2 (0.16%) Embedded C
11 2 (0.16%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.16%) VB
11 2 (0.16%) VBScript
12 1 (0.081%) Bicep
12 1 (0.081%) XPath
Qualifications
1 402 (32.52%) Cisco Certification
2 399 (32.28%) Security Cleared
3 277 (22.41%) CCNP
4 262 (21.20%) SC Cleared
5 222 (17.96%) CCNA
6 111 (8.98%) Degree
7 108 (8.74%) DV Cleared
8 96 (7.77%) CCIE
9 29 (2.35%) CISSP
10 28 (2.27%) AWS Certification
10 28 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (2.27%) JNCIA
10 28 (2.27%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (2.10%) Master's Degree
12 24 (1.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 16 (1.29%) A+ Certification
13 16 (1.29%) Azure Certification
13 16 (1.29%) CCSA
13 16 (1.29%) MCSE
14 14 (1.13%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (3.07%) SLA
2 21 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (1.05%) PCI DSS
4 11 (0.89%) GDPR
4 11 (0.89%) ISO 9000
4 11 (0.89%) PMO
5 9 (0.73%) NIST
5 9 (0.73%) QA
6 8 (0.65%) HIPAA
6 8 (0.65%) SOC 2
7 7 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 5 (0.40%) NCSC
9 2 (0.16%) Government Security Classifications
9 2 (0.16%) GRC
9 2 (0.16%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 1 (0.081%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.081%) COBIT
10 1 (0.081%) Disclosure Scotland
10 1 (0.081%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 150 (12.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 130 (10.52%) Active Directory
3 62 (5.02%) VMware NSX
4 46 (3.72%) Firmware
5 42 (3.40%) Hyper-V
6 39 (3.16%) vSphere
7 33 (2.67%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.81%) SRDF
9 9 (0.73%) Docker
10 8 (0.65%) ProxySG
11 6 (0.49%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.24%) Virtual Servers
12 3 (0.24%) XenApp
13 2 (0.16%) NFS
13 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
14 1 (0.081%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.081%) Squid
14 1 (0.081%) vCloud
14 1 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 97 (7.85%) Ansible
2 79 (6.39%) SCCM
3 74 (5.99%) FortiGate
4 55 (4.45%) Terraform
5 34 (2.75%) vCenter Server
6 30 (2.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 25 (2.02%) NetBackup
8 23 (1.86%) EMC NetWorker
9 21 (1.70%) SCOM
9 21 (1.70%) WSUS
10 20 (1.62%) Endace
10 20 (1.62%) Kubernetes
11 17 (1.38%) CSIRT
12 16 (1.29%) Cisco CUCM
13 12 (0.97%) OpenView
14 10 (0.81%) EMC TimeFinder
15 9 (0.73%) Nagios
15 9 (0.73%) Puppet
15 9 (0.73%) SolarWinds Orion
16 8 (0.65%) VxRail
Vendors
1 252 (20.39%) Palo Alto
2 240 (19.42%) Juniper
3 223 (18.04%) F5
4 202 (16.34%) Fortinet
5 195 (15.78%) VMware
6 193 (15.61%) Microsoft
7 164 (13.27%) CheckPoint
8 77 (6.23%) Meraki
8 77 (6.23%) SolarWinds
9 70 (5.66%) Citrix
9 70 (5.66%) HP
10 69 (5.58%) Dell
11 65 (5.26%) Aruba
12 53 (4.29%) Avaya
13 52 (4.21%) EMC
14 51 (4.13%) Arista
15 44 (3.56%) Zscaler
16 33 (2.67%) Blue Coat
17 32 (2.59%) Brocade
18 30 (2.43%) Oracle