CatOS Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cisco Catalyst OS (CatOS)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring CatOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 - 111
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CatOS 2 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.090% - 0.27%
As % of the Operating Systems category 0.60% - 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £335 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - £425
75th Percentile £345 - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £340 - £325
% change year-on-year - - -40.91%

All Operating Systems
West Midlands

CatOS falls under the Operating Systems category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring operating system skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for operating system skills 336 272 296
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.20% 14.91% 15.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 163 208
10th Percentile £174 £188 £163
25th Percentile £290 £250 £206
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £435 £400
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% +8.75% -19.19%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £518
90th Percentile £618 £650 £625
England median daily rate £450 £475 £480
% change year-on-year -5.26% -1.04% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 17
10th Percentile - £13.71 £16.82
25th Percentile £17.14 £17.61 £17.72
Median hourly rate £19.84 £21.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% +7.95% +21.21%
75th Percentile £22.99 £23.53 £28.00
90th Percentile £38.50 £28.01 £28.75
England median hourly rate £25.00 £60.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -58.33% +84.62% +30.00%

CatOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CatOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

CatOS job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

CatOS
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CatOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CatOS

CatOS
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CatOS within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 December 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
Coventry - 1 - -
Warwickshire - 1 £340 -
CatOS
England

CatOS
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (100.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BIG-IP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Ethereal
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) HTTP
1 2 (100.00%) HTTPS
1 2 (100.00%) IPsec
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) SSL
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
1 2 (100.00%) Wireshark
General
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) LDAP
1 2 (100.00%) SAML
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (100.00%) Requirements Gathering
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (100.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) CheckPoint
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
1 2 (100.00%) F5
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 2 (100.00%) VMware