Meraki Contracts

Meraki
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of Meraki products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Meraki over the 6 months leading up to 31 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 Meraki.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 419 486 523
Rank change year-on-year +67 +37 +63
Contract jobs citing Meraki 100 86 166
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.34% 0.20% 0.30%
As % of the Vendors category 0.72% 0.47% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 48 96
10th Percentile £270 £229 £226
25th Percentile £370 £322 £348
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £425 £429
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -0.87% -4.72%
75th Percentile £538 £509 £541
90th Percentile £577 £653 £600
UK excluding London median daily rate £394 £425 £400
% change year-on-year -7.35% +6.25% -6.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £54.25 - £11.60
25th Percentile £55.00 - £11.74
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £13.33
75th Percentile £65.00 - £14.78
90th Percentile £67.25 - £14.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Vendors
UK

Meraki 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 13,948 18,154 24,264
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 47.83% 42.32% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,628 11,325 16,214
10th Percentile £280 £263 £270
25th Percentile £405 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.97% -1.90% -
75th Percentile £615 £625 £644
90th Percentile £715 £738 £739
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 603 1,135 650
10th Percentile £14.84 £12.13 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.48 £18.80
Median hourly rate £25.50 £22.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +15.12% -47.88% +97.67%
75th Percentile £55.75 £57.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.50 £21.46 £37.50
% change year-on-year +4.85% -42.77% +95.64%

Meraki
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Meraki in the UK

Meraki
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Meraki in the UK

Meraki
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Meraki over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Meraki in the UK

Meraki
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Meraki in the UK

Meraki
Top 14 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Meraki within the UK over the 6 months to 31 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 +61 87 £488 +14.71% 161
UK excluding London +54 53 £394 -7.35% 115
London +64 39 £525 +16.67% 62
North of England +19 30 £375 -11.76% 26
North West +20 25 £375 -11.76% 11
Work from Home +43 20 £475 +30.58% 65
South East +43 10 £469 +10.29% 29
Midlands +16 5 £525 +5.00% 23
Yorkshire +6 5 £275 -54.92% 12
Scotland +6 5 £394 +64.06% 11
West Midlands - 5 £525 - 9
South West +42 2 £400 +23.08% 14
East of England +24 1 - - 8
Wales +3 1 £455 +40.00% 3

Meraki
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 12 (12.00%) SharePoint
2 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.00%) IBM Domino
Applications
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (24.00%) Azure
2 19 (19.00%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (12.00%) AWS
4 5 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.00%) IaaS
5 3 (3.00%) PaaS
6 2 (2.00%) Akamai
6 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.00%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.00%) Nutanix
6 2 (2.00%) Serverless
7 1 (1.00%) Asana
7 1 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.00%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.00%) GCP
7 1 (1.00%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 67 (67.00%) Firewall
2 46 (46.00%) WAN
2 46 (46.00%) Wi-Fi
3 28 (28.00%) Wireless
4 26 (26.00%) Cisco ISE
4 26 (26.00%) Network Security
5 25 (25.00%) BGP
6 24 (24.00%) SD-WAN
7 23 (23.00%) VPN
8 21 (21.00%) LAN
8 21 (21.00%) OSPF
9 16 (16.00%) NetScaler
10 14 (14.00%) VLAN
11 13 (13.00%) WLAN
12 12 (12.00%) DNS
13 11 (11.00%) EIGRP
13 11 (11.00%) MPLS
13 11 (11.00%) TCP/IP
14 9 (9.00%) DHCP
15 8 (8.00%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.00%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 29 (29.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (15.00%) Finance
3 10 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (5.00%) Local Government
6 4 (4.00%) Legal
6 4 (4.00%) Manufacturing
7 3 (3.00%) Games
7 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Social Housing
Job Titles
1 56 (56.00%) Network Engineer
2 12 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (12.00%) Senior
3 9 (9.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 9 (9.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 8 (8.00%) Architect
4 8 (8.00%) IT Engineer
5 5 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (4.00%) Analyst
6 4 (4.00%) Wireless Engineer
7 3 (3.00%) Administrator
7 3 (3.00%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (3.00%) Cloud Security Architect
7 3 (3.00%) Firewall Architect
7 3 (3.00%) IT Support
7 3 (3.00%) Network Administrator
7 3 (3.00%) Platform Engineer
7 3 (3.00%) Security Architect
8 2 (2.00%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (23.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.00%) JSON
2 1 (1.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.00%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (3.00%) Security Posture
4 2 (2.00%) CMDB
4 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.00%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (2.00%) Life Science
4 2 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.00%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.00%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.00%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 14 (14.00%) Windows
2 7 (7.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.00%) Android
3 4 (4.00%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.00%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (30.00%) Network Design
2 23 (23.00%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (19.00%) Load Balancing
4 18 (18.00%) Network Management
5 16 (16.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 14 (14.00%) Network Monitoring
7 13 (13.00%) Network Architecture
8 10 (10.00%) Impact Assessments
8 10 (10.00%) Migration
9 9 (9.00%) Computer Science
9 9 (9.00%) Project Delivery
10 7 (7.00%) ITIL
10 7 (7.00%) ITSM
11 6 (6.00%) Cloud Security
12 5 (5.00%) Customer Service
12 5 (5.00%) Project Management
13 4 (4.00%) High Availability
13 4 (4.00%) Network Performance Management
13 4 (4.00%) Service Delivery
13 4 (4.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (3.00%) Python
2 2 (2.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (33.00%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (24.00%) CCNP
3 17 (17.00%) Security Cleared
4 15 (15.00%) SC Cleared
5 14 (14.00%) CCNA
5 14 (14.00%) Degree
6 9 (9.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (5.00%) CCIE
7 5 (5.00%) CCSA
8 3 (3.00%) JNCIA
9 1 (1.00%) CCDP
9 1 (1.00%) CWNA
9 1 (1.00%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.00%) NIST
2 1 (1.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 20 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (5.00%) Firmware
4 3 (3.00%) vSphere
5 2 (2.00%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.00%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (6.00%) FortiGate
2 6 (6.00%) SCCM
3 3 (3.00%) CA Spectrum
3 3 (3.00%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (2.00%) Ansible
4 2 (2.00%) Nagios
4 2 (2.00%) Terraform
5 1 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (1.00%) OPNET
5 1 (1.00%) Plesk
Vendors
1 90 (90.00%) Cisco
2 46 (46.00%) Palo Alto
3 25 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 15 (15.00%) Fortinet
4 15 (15.00%) VMware
5 14 (14.00%) SolarWinds
6 12 (12.00%) Juniper
7 10 (10.00%) F5
8 9 (9.00%) Aruba
9 6 (6.00%) Zscaler
10 5 (5.00%) Ekahau
11 4 (4.00%) AirMagnet
11 4 (4.00%) CheckPoint
11 4 (4.00%) Extreme Networks
11 4 (4.00%) Splunk
12 3 (3.00%) Arista
12 3 (3.00%) Ubiquiti
12 3 (3.00%) Veeam
13 2 (2.00%) Facebook
13 2 (2.00%) Riverbed