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 11 May 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
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 67 64
Rank change year-on-year 0 -3 +40
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,050 1,320 1,953
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.56% 3.07% 3.37%
As % of the Vendors category 7.49% 7.23% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 813 1,263
10th Percentile £311 £250 £235
25th Percentile £413 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £588 £590 £588
90th Percentile £650 £689 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +3.89% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 41 81
10th Percentile £15.80 £13.29 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.58 £18.50 £17.47
Median hourly rate £37.50 £27.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -45.00% +109.12%
75th Percentile £63.13 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.75 £75.24 £80.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.70 £24.75 £50.00
% change year-on-year +11.92% -50.50% +129.89%

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 14,024 18,260 24,812
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.61% 42.47% 42.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,756 11,330 16,592
10th Percentile £281 £263 £270
25th Percentile £406 £405 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £622 £630 £645
90th Percentile £716 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £494 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.20% - +7.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 580 1,110 686
10th Percentile £14.80 £12.11 £15.23
25th Percentile £17.44 £14.48 £18.75
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.91% -48.24% +97.67%
75th Percentile £56.31 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £21.46 £38.00
% change year-on-year +7.18% -43.53% +100.00%

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 11 May 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 11 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
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 11 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 +2 897 £510 +4.14% 1,087
UK excluding London +2 596 £494 +3.89% 889
London +1 336 £519 +3.70% 387
Work from Home +7 283 £500 +5.26% 430
North of England +35 203 £500 +13.64% 220
South East -20 139 £500 - 293
North West +27 128 £495 +7.03% 112
South West +23 99 £550 +2.80% 87
Midlands +6 81 £450 -4.05% 139
Yorkshire +38 65 £503 +9.95% 88
West Midlands +5 55 £438 -4.16% 82
Scotland +3 40 £399 +6.40% 66
Wales +20 26 £425 +61.90% 20
East Midlands +7 26 £475 -11.63% 49
East of England -11 18 £438 +18.24% 74
North East -6 9 £325 -13.33% 26
Northern Ireland -7 2 £350 +66.67% 16
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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 32 (3.05%) Confluence
2 29 (2.76%) SharePoint
3 21 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (1.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 10 (0.95%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.57%) Mattermost
7 5 (0.48%) IIS
7 5 (0.48%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2013
9 2 (0.19%) CMS
10 1 (0.095%) Apache
10 1 (0.095%) JBoss
Applications
1 52 (4.95%) Microsoft Office
2 22 (2.10%) MS Visio
3 14 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 8 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (0.38%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.19%) Acrobat
6 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.095%) Revit
7 1 (0.095%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.095%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.095%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.095%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 156 (14.86%) Azure
2 127 (12.10%) AWS
3 85 (8.10%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (3.71%) PaaS
5 37 (3.52%) GCP
6 34 (3.24%) SaaS
7 29 (2.76%) Entra ID
7 29 (2.76%) IaaS
8 23 (2.19%) AWS CloudFormation
9 9 (0.86%) OneDrive
9 9 (0.86%) Power Platform
10 8 (0.76%) GitHub
10 8 (0.76%) OpenShift
11 7 (0.67%) Cloud Computing
11 7 (0.67%) Cloudflare
11 7 (0.67%) Mimecast
12 5 (0.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 5 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
13 4 (0.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 4 (0.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 495 (47.14%) Firewall
2 272 (25.90%) BGP
3 254 (24.19%) WAN
4 246 (23.43%) OSPF
5 231 (22.00%) VPN
6 209 (19.90%) Network Security
7 188 (17.90%) LAN
8 156 (14.86%) Wireless
9 155 (14.76%) DNS
10 114 (10.86%) MPLS
11 113 (10.76%) Cisco ASA
12 109 (10.38%) Cisco Nexus
13 108 (10.29%) SD-WAN
13 108 (10.29%) TCP/IP
14 100 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
15 99 (9.43%) IPsec
16 94 (8.95%) Cisco Firepower
17 91 (8.67%) DHCP
18 90 (8.57%) Cisco ISE
19 87 (8.29%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (2.19%) Oracle Database
2 22 (2.10%) SQL Server
3 7 (0.67%) MySQL
4 6 (0.57%) NoSQL
5 5 (0.48%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.48%) Power BI
6 3 (0.29%) PostgreSQL
7 2 (0.19%) Data Lake
7 2 (0.19%) Hadoop
8 1 (0.095%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.095%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.095%) Looker
8 1 (0.095%) Redis
8 1 (0.095%) Sybase ASE
8 1 (0.095%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 46 (4.38%) JIRA
2 24 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 19 (1.81%) Git
4 16 (1.52%) GitLab
5 13 (1.24%) Jenkins
6 11 (1.05%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.19%) eggPlant
7 2 (0.19%) Selenium
7 2 (0.19%) TestNG
8 1 (0.095%) JIRA Agile
8 1 (0.095%) Katalon Studio
8 1 (0.095%) Postman
8 1 (0.095%) SonarQube
8 1 (0.095%) TeamCity
General
1 298 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 110 (10.48%) Analytical Skills
2 110 (10.48%) Finance
3 92 (8.76%) Public Sector
4 84 (8.00%) Telecoms
5 44 (4.19%) Banking
6 30 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
7 19 (1.81%) Manufacturing
8 18 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (1.62%) Legal
10 12 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
11 11 (1.05%) Electronics
12 10 (0.95%) Local Government
12 10 (0.95%) Marketing
13 9 (0.86%) Military
14 8 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
14 8 (0.76%) Retail
15 7 (0.67%) Financial Institution
15 7 (0.67%) Law
Job Titles
1 456 (43.43%) Network Engineer
2 126 (12.00%) Architect
3 89 (8.48%) Senior
4 85 (8.10%) Cisco Engineer
5 73 (6.95%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 73 (6.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 69 (6.57%) Network Architect
7 54 (5.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 51 (4.86%) Senior Network Engineer
9 46 (4.38%) Security Engineer
10 36 (3.43%) Consultant
10 36 (3.43%) IT Engineer
10 36 (3.43%) Network Security Engineer
11 35 (3.33%) Technical Architect
12 31 (2.95%) Support Engineer
13 27 (2.57%) Analyst
14 23 (2.19%) Network Consultant
15 22 (2.10%) IP Engineer
15 22 (2.10%) Lead
16 20 (1.90%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 54 (5.14%) 802.1X
2 16 (1.52%) REST
3 12 (1.14%) Flash
3 12 (1.14%) SOAP
4 9 (0.86%) JSON
5 8 (0.76%) XMPP
6 7 (0.67%) .NET
6 7 (0.67%) NETCONF
6 7 (0.67%) YAML
7 6 (0.57%) RFC 2544
8 5 (0.48%) Spine.js
8 5 (0.48%) XML
9 4 (0.38%) ASP.NET
9 4 (0.38%) RESTful
10 3 (0.29%) Kafka
10 3 (0.29%) LDAP
10 3 (0.29%) RESTCONF
11 2 (0.19%) .NET Core
11 2 (0.19%) Blazor
11 2 (0.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 162 (15.43%) Data Centre
2 37 (3.52%) Video Conferencing
3 32 (3.05%) Data Protection Act
4 30 (2.86%) Cloud Native
5 26 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
6 25 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 23 (2.19%) Linux Command Line
8 18 (1.71%) Management Information System
9 17 (1.62%) Driving Licence
10 15 (1.43%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.43%) Security Posture
11 14 (1.33%) Clustering
11 14 (1.33%) NHS
12 13 (1.24%) PKI
13 11 (1.05%) Blackberry
13 11 (1.05%) Onboarding
14 10 (0.95%) CMDB
14 10 (0.95%) CSOC
15 9 (0.86%) Fibre Optics
16 8 (0.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 165 (15.71%) Windows
2 127 (12.10%) Linux
3 72 (6.86%) Windows Server
4 46 (4.38%) Windows 10
5 31 (2.95%) Unix
6 17 (1.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 16 (1.52%) VMS
8 14 (1.33%) Mac OS
9 13 (1.24%) Windows Server 2012
10 9 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
10 9 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.76%) Android
12 5 (0.48%) CatOS
12 5 (0.48%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.38%) CentOS
14 3 (0.29%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.29%) Windows 8
14 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2003
14 3 (0.29%) Windows XP
15 2 (0.19%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 200 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
2 131 (12.48%) Migration
3 109 (10.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 105 (10.00%) ITIL
5 102 (9.71%) Network Design
6 96 (9.14%) Agile
7 89 (8.48%) Network Monitoring
8 74 (7.05%) Network Architecture
9 67 (6.38%) Network Management
10 62 (5.90%) Load Balancing
11 61 (5.81%) High Availability
12 60 (5.71%) Roadmaps
13 58 (5.52%) Change Management
14 56 (5.33%) Service Management
15 55 (5.24%) Computer Science
15 55 (5.24%) Project Management
15 55 (5.24%) Validation
16 52 (4.95%) Customer Service
17 47 (4.48%) Stakeholder Management
18 46 (4.38%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 129 (12.29%) Python
2 56 (5.33%) PowerShell
3 54 (5.14%) SQL
4 46 (4.38%) Bash
5 26 (2.48%) Perl
6 21 (2.00%) Bicep
7 20 (1.90%) Java
8 18 (1.71%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.76%) VB
10 5 (0.48%) JavaScript
11 3 (0.29%) C#
12 2 (0.19%) Rust
12 2 (0.19%) VBScript
13 1 (0.095%) ActionScript
13 1 (0.095%) ActionScript 2.0
13 1 (0.095%) C
13 1 (0.095%) Go
13 1 (0.095%) Lisp
13 1 (0.095%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.095%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 387 (36.86%) Cisco Certification
2 360 (34.29%) Security Cleared
3 301 (28.67%) SC Cleared
4 264 (25.14%) CCNP
5 137 (13.05%) CCNA
6 107 (10.19%) Degree
7 79 (7.52%) DV Cleared
8 75 (7.14%) CCIE
9 45 (4.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 36 (3.43%) Computer Science Degree
11 21 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.90%) Master's Degree
13 19 (1.81%) ISTQB
14 18 (1.71%) CCSA
14 18 (1.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
15 17 (1.62%) ISEB
15 17 (1.62%) JNCIS
16 16 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
17 15 (1.43%) CCSE
18 12 (1.14%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (2.29%) SLA
2 22 (2.10%) NIST
3 20 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (1.24%) QA
5 8 (0.76%) PCI DSS
6 7 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 7 (0.67%) GDPR
7 6 (0.57%) NCSC
8 5 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
9 4 (0.38%) HIPAA
10 2 (0.19%) 21 CFR Part 11
10 2 (0.19%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.19%) GRC
10 2 (0.19%) HMG Security Policy Framework
10 2 (0.19%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.19%) PSD2
11 1 (0.095%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.095%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.095%) SOC 2
System Software
1 127 (12.10%) Active Directory
2 118 (11.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (3.71%) VMware NSX
4 22 (2.10%) Firmware
5 21 (2.00%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (1.43%) Hyper-V
6 15 (1.43%) vSphere
7 11 (1.05%) Docker
8 7 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
9 6 (0.57%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.38%) XenApp
11 3 (0.29%) KVM
12 2 (0.19%) Ceph
12 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
13 1 (0.095%) FreeRADIUS
13 1 (0.095%) iptables
13 1 (0.095%) SRDF
13 1 (0.095%) Terminal Server
13 1 (0.095%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 114 (10.86%) Ansible
2 64 (6.10%) Terraform
3 55 (5.24%) FortiGate
4 33 (3.14%) vCenter Server
5 27 (2.57%) SCCM
6 20 (1.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 19 (1.81%) Cisco Prime
7 19 (1.81%) Puppet
8 17 (1.62%) Progress Chef
9 15 (1.43%) ZABBIX
10 14 (1.33%) Kubernetes
11 10 (0.95%) Cisco CUCM
12 8 (0.76%) SCOM
13 7 (0.67%) Nagios
14 6 (0.57%) Cacti
14 6 (0.57%) Cisco UCCX
14 6 (0.57%) EMC NetWorker
14 6 (0.57%) NetBackup
15 4 (0.38%) CA Spectrum
15 4 (0.38%) logstash
Vendors
1 259 (24.67%) Palo Alto
2 176 (16.76%) Microsoft
3 166 (15.81%) VMware
4 149 (14.19%) Juniper
5 145 (13.81%) Fortinet
6 144 (13.71%) CheckPoint
7 127 (12.10%) F5
8 98 (9.33%) SolarWinds
9 89 (8.48%) Meraki
10 54 (5.14%) Arista
11 48 (4.57%) HP
12 43 (4.10%) Aruba
13 42 (4.00%) Citrix
14 36 (3.43%) Oracle
15 34 (3.24%) ServiceNow
16 31 (2.95%) Nokia
16 31 (2.95%) Splunk
17 30 (2.86%) Dell
18 28 (2.67%) Red Hat
19 26 (2.48%) Infoblox