Cisco
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco over the 6 months to 18 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 68 63 100
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 -11
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,290 1,978 2,313
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.03% 3.47% 2.64%
As % of the Vendors category 7.13% 8.07% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 1,281 1,515
10th Percentile £246 £230 £221
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £550
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £464 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +3.11% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 78 114
10th Percentile £13.29 £12.90 £13.91
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.47 £20.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £50.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +109.12% +19.55%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.56 £46.88
90th Percentile £75.24 £80.48 £57.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year -47.37% +115.91% +10.00%

All Vendors
UK

Cisco is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,101 24,501 35,163
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.03% 40.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,253 16,404 23,407
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £638
90th Percentile £738 £742 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,116 662 881
10th Percentile £12.07 £15.02 £12.04
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £64.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £18.75
% change year-on-year -34.97% +76.00% +1.35%

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 18 May 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 18 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Top 16 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 18 May 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 +2 1,156 £488 +2.63% 491
UK excluding London -3 779 £464 +3.11% 376
London -1 395 £500 -4.76% 173
South East +13 355 £500 +11.11% 118
Work from Home -16 344 £475 -5.00% 184
North of England +3 133 £437 +2.79% 80
South West -19 99 £525 +5.00% 46
Midlands -11 93 £457 +14.13% 53
North West 0 87 £475 +11.76% 40
West Midlands -3 66 £450 +12.50% 31
East of England -19 50 £370 +5.71% 36
Scotland -4 48 £330 -30.53% 41
Yorkshire -8 36 £458 -1.08% 33
East Midlands -13 27 £538 +16.22% 22
North East +20 10 £375 -6.25% 8
Wales -20 10 £241 -52.93% 11

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 48 (3.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.09%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.55%) Confluence
4 12 (0.93%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.47%) IBM Domino
6 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2007
7 4 (0.31%) IIS
7 4 (0.31%) nginx
8 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
8 3 (0.23%) IBM Notes
8 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.16%) Apache
9 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.078%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 72 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.24%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.78%) Chatbot
6 6 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.078%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.078%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.078%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.078%) RMDS
2 1 (0.078%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 151 (11.71%) Azure
2 116 (8.99%) AWS
3 86 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (3.26%) GCP
5 32 (2.48%) SaaS
6 28 (2.17%) Cloud Computing
7 23 (1.78%) Entra ID
8 22 (1.71%) PaaS
9 20 (1.55%) OCI
10 17 (1.32%) Nutanix
11 15 (1.16%) OneDrive
12 11 (0.85%) Twilio
13 10 (0.78%) GitHub
13 10 (0.78%) IaaS
14 8 (0.62%) Rubrik
14 8 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (0.54%) Datadog
16 6 (0.47%) Cloudflare
16 6 (0.47%) Power Platform
17 5 (0.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 526 (40.78%) Firewall
2 375 (29.07%) WAN
3 284 (22.02%) LAN
4 232 (17.98%) VPN
5 217 (16.82%) BGP
6 153 (11.86%) Network Security
6 153 (11.86%) OSPF
7 152 (11.78%) Cisco Nexus
8 151 (11.71%) MPLS
9 144 (11.16%) DNS
10 143 (11.09%) Cisco ASA
11 142 (11.01%) Wireless
12 139 (10.78%) SD-WAN
13 124 (9.61%) Wi-Fi
14 109 (8.45%) Cisco ISE
15 100 (7.75%) DHCP
16 90 (6.98%) Cisco IOS
17 82 (6.36%) Cisco Firepower
18 81 (6.28%) VoIP
19 80 (6.20%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.01%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (0.31%) Power BI
3 3 (0.23%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.16%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.078%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.078%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.078%) MySQL
5 1 (0.078%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (2.33%) JIRA
2 25 (1.94%) Sonatype Nexus
3 20 (1.55%) Rational DOORS
4 19 (1.47%) Git
5 7 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.47%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.31%) GitLab
7 4 (0.31%) Hudson
General
1 251 (19.46%) Finance
2 241 (18.68%) Social Skills
3 116 (8.99%) Telecoms
4 103 (7.98%) Banking
5 98 (7.60%) Public Sector
6 81 (6.28%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (2.09%) Manufacturing
9 21 (1.63%) Retail
10 19 (1.47%) Marketing
11 18 (1.40%) Legal
12 17 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
13 15 (1.16%) Financial Institution
13 15 (1.16%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.93%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.70%) Billing
16 9 (0.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (0.62%) Mandarin Language
18 7 (0.54%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 598 (46.36%) Network Engineer
2 191 (14.81%) Architect
3 135 (10.47%) Senior
4 122 (9.46%) Network Architect
5 108 (8.37%) Cisco Engineer
6 94 (7.29%) Senior Network Engineer
7 89 (6.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 80 (6.20%) Support Engineer
9 63 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 47 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
11 44 (3.41%) Consultant
12 37 (2.87%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 36 (2.79%) Network Specialist
14 31 (2.40%) Analyst
15 29 (2.25%) Project Manager
15 29 (2.25%) Storage Engineer
16 26 (2.02%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 26 (2.02%) Network Consultant
17 25 (1.94%) Juniper Engineer
17 25 (1.94%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (1.86%) JSON
2 22 (1.71%) Jinja
3 21 (1.63%) 802.1X
4 20 (1.55%) Web Services
5 19 (1.47%) XML
5 19 (1.47%) YANG
6 18 (1.40%) NETCONF
7 12 (0.93%) Middleware
8 11 (0.85%) FIX Protocol
8 11 (0.85%) LDAP
9 6 (0.47%) .NET
9 6 (0.47%) Flash
9 6 (0.47%) RESTful
9 6 (0.47%) SAML
9 6 (0.47%) XMPP
10 5 (0.39%) Django
11 3 (0.23%) Elastic Stack
11 3 (0.23%) REST
11 3 (0.23%) Ultra Messaging
11 3 (0.23%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 198 (15.35%) Data Centre
2 61 (4.73%) Video Conferencing
3 37 (2.87%) Data Protection Act
4 29 (2.25%) PKI
5 24 (1.86%) Management Information System
6 20 (1.55%) Operational Technology
7 19 (1.47%) Driving Licence
8 18 (1.40%) Clustering
9 17 (1.32%) Replication
10 16 (1.24%) Blackberry
11 15 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 15 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (0.93%) IVR
13 10 (0.78%) Security Posture
13 10 (0.78%) Video Editing
14 9 (0.70%) iPhone
14 9 (0.70%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.54%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 201 (15.58%) Windows
2 105 (8.14%) Linux
3 69 (5.35%) Windows Server
4 68 (5.27%) Windows 10
5 37 (2.87%) Windows Server 2012
6 35 (2.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 27 (2.09%) Windows 7
8 25 (1.94%) Mac OS
9 24 (1.86%) Android
10 23 (1.78%) Unix
11 19 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
12 17 (1.32%) Solaris
13 15 (1.16%) Windows XP
14 13 (1.01%) Mac OS X
15 12 (0.93%) AIX
15 12 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 7 (0.54%) CentOS
17 6 (0.47%) Oracle Linux
18 3 (0.23%) VMS
19 2 (0.16%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (12.40%) ITIL
2 152 (11.78%) Problem-Solving
3 151 (11.71%) Network Design
4 132 (10.23%) Migration
5 83 (6.43%) Agile
6 76 (5.89%) Customer Requirements
6 76 (5.89%) Customer Service
7 74 (5.74%) Change Management
8 72 (5.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 72 (5.58%) Project Management
9 69 (5.35%) Project Delivery
10 68 (5.27%) Load Balancing
11 64 (4.96%) Network Management
12 62 (4.81%) Computer Science
12 62 (4.81%) DevOps
13 58 (4.50%) High Availability
14 55 (4.26%) Roadmaps
15 52 (4.03%) Data Protection
16 51 (3.95%) Disaster Recovery
16 51 (3.95%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 102 (7.91%) Python
2 52 (4.03%) PowerShell
3 32 (2.48%) Bash
4 28 (2.17%) SQL
5 22 (1.71%) Perl
6 12 (0.93%) Tcl
7 10 (0.78%) Java
8 4 (0.31%) C#
8 4 (0.31%) Ruby
9 3 (0.23%) C
9 3 (0.23%) Go
9 3 (0.23%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.16%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 430 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 405 (31.40%) Security Cleared
3 286 (22.17%) CCNP
4 217 (16.82%) SC Cleared
5 205 (15.89%) CCNA
6 134 (10.39%) Degree
7 124 (9.61%) DV Cleared
8 106 (8.22%) CCIE
9 29 (2.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (2.17%) JNCIA
11 24 (1.86%) AWS Certification
12 23 (1.78%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.71%) CISSP
13 22 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (1.40%) Azure Certification
15 17 (1.32%) CISM
16 16 (1.24%) JNCIS
17 15 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 15 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 13 (1.01%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.95%) SLA
2 22 (1.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.32%) GDPR
4 14 (1.09%) PCI DSS
5 13 (1.01%) QA
6 11 (0.85%) PMO
7 10 (0.78%) ISO 9000
8 9 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 8 (0.62%) HIPAA
9 8 (0.62%) SOC 2
10 6 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 5 (0.39%) NIST
12 4 (0.31%) NCSC
13 2 (0.16%) Cyber Essentials
13 2 (0.16%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.16%) GRC
14 1 (0.078%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.078%) COBIT
14 1 (0.078%) ISAE 3402
14 1 (0.078%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 118 (9.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 116 (8.99%) Active Directory
3 54 (4.19%) VMware NSX
4 41 (3.18%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.10%) VMware ESXi
6 39 (3.02%) Firmware
7 26 (2.02%) vSphere
8 13 (1.01%) Docker
8 13 (1.01%) Virtual Servers
9 8 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
10 7 (0.54%) KVM
11 4 (0.31%) ProxySG
12 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.23%) SRDF
12 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
12 3 (0.23%) XenApp
13 2 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 2 (0.16%) Squid
13 2 (0.16%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 82 (6.36%) Ansible
2 76 (5.89%) FortiGate
3 71 (5.50%) SCCM
4 48 (3.72%) Terraform
5 41 (3.18%) vCenter Server
6 31 (2.40%) Endace
7 28 (2.17%) EMC NetWorker
8 24 (1.86%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (1.86%) NetBackup
9 22 (1.71%) SCOM
10 21 (1.63%) WSUS
11 19 (1.47%) Kubernetes
12 15 (1.16%) Nessus
13 11 (0.85%) Nagios
13 11 (0.85%) SolarWinds Orion
14 9 (0.70%) Netcool
14 9 (0.70%) OpenView
14 9 (0.70%) VxRail
15 7 (0.54%) AirWatch
16 6 (0.47%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 315 (24.42%) Juniper
2 231 (17.91%) Palo Alto
3 193 (14.96%) Microsoft
4 177 (13.72%) F5
5 176 (13.64%) Fortinet
6 160 (12.40%) VMware
7 157 (12.17%) CheckPoint
8 78 (6.05%) Meraki
9 74 (5.74%) Citrix
10 73 (5.66%) SolarWinds
11 70 (5.43%) Dell
12 64 (4.96%) HP
13 61 (4.73%) Aruba
14 54 (4.19%) Nokia
15 53 (4.11%) Arista
15 53 (4.11%) EMC
16 47 (3.64%) Avaya
17 36 (2.79%) Google
17 36 (2.79%) Zscaler
18 35 (2.71%) Apple