Cisco Contract Job Trends in Warrington

Cisco
Cheshire > Warrington

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Warrington 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 8 September 2026, 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
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 12 11
Rank change year-on-year -17 -1 +12
Contract jobs citing Cisco 3 6 5
As % of all contract jobs in Warrington 1.85% 9.52% 8.93%
As % of the Vendors category 4.92% 17.65% 18.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £525 £325 £380
25th Percentile £563 £339 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £626 £378 £450
Median % change year-on-year +65.83% -16.11% -
75th Percentile £626 £414 £500
90th Percentile £626 £428 £530
Cheshire median daily rate £505 £438 £525
% change year-on-year +15.43% -16.67% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £66.50 -
Cheshire median hourly rate - £66.50 -

All Vendors
Warrington

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 in Warrington.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 61 34 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington 37.65% 53.97% 48.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 11 17
10th Percentile £156 £163 £260
25th Percentile £246 £313 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £388 £375
Median % change year-on-year +16.13% +3.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £545 £444 £475
90th Percentile £608 £450 £602
Cheshire median daily rate £475 £443 £532
% change year-on-year +7.34% -16.75% +1.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 0
10th Percentile £23.60 - -
25th Percentile £26.25 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 £12.82 -
Median % change year-on-year +329.02% - -
75th Percentile £57.50 £29.19 -
90th Percentile £89.50 £67.25 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £26.75 £16.00 £17.00
% change year-on-year +67.19% -5.88% -24.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Warrington

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Warrington.

Cisco job vacancy trend in Warrington

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Daily Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Cisco

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Hourly Rate Trend in Warrington

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Warrington citing Cisco

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Warrington by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
2 2 (66.67%) Wireshark
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (100.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) PKI
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Capacity Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) High Availability
1 2 (66.67%) IT Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) ITIL
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Network Design
1 2 (66.67%) Network Management
1 2 (66.67%) Principle of Least Privilege
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Risk Register
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Data Protection
2 1 (33.33%) Fault Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Firmware
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Juniper
2 2 (66.67%) F5
2 2 (66.67%) Forcepoint
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) HP
3 1 (33.33%) SolarWinds