Cisco ISE Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cisco Identity Services Engine (Cisco ISE)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Cisco ISE skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 108 113
Rank change year-on-year -19 +5 +52
Contract jobs citing Cisco ISE 11 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.060% 0.27%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 3.16% 0.42% 1.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 5
10th Percentile £521 - £333
25th Percentile £534 - £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £400
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +50.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £584 - £475
90th Percentile £594 - -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £540
% change year-on-year +5.26% -12.04% +14.89%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
West Midlands

Cisco ISE falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 348 236 401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 15.40% 14.17% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 136 214
10th Percentile £211 £168 £208
25th Percentile £301 £291 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £444 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +4.41% -5.56%
75th Percentile £525 £583 £575
90th Percentile £582 £671 £688
England median daily rate £488 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -2.50% - -0.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 12 19
10th Percentile £18.50 £12.48 £20.55
25th Percentile £21.25 £15.22 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £18.13 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.47% -32.85% +11.34%
75th Percentile £33.00 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £49.00 - £67.75
England median hourly rate £34.00 £40.25 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.53% -28.75% +25.53%

Cisco ISE
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Cisco ISE job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cisco ISE
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Cisco ISE
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 Cisco ISE within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Birmingham +1 8 £600 -
Coventry - 1 £525 - 1
Warwickshire - 1 - -
Cisco ISE
England

Cisco ISE
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (63.64%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (63.64%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) AWS Direct Connect
1 2 (18.18%) Azure
1 2 (18.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 2 (18.18%) GCP
1 2 (18.18%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Wireless
2 10 (90.91%) BGP
3 9 (81.82%) DHCP
3 9 (81.82%) DNS
3 9 (81.82%) VXLAN
4 8 (72.73%) Cisco Wireless
5 7 (63.64%) NX-OS
6 4 (36.36%) Firewall
6 4 (36.36%) SD-WAN
6 4 (36.36%) WAN
7 3 (27.27%) LAN
7 3 (27.27%) OSPF
7 3 (27.27%) VLAN
7 3 (27.27%) WLAN
8 2 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 2 (18.18%) IPv4
8 2 (18.18%) IPv6
8 2 (18.18%) MPLS
8 2 (18.18%) VPN
General
1 7 (63.64%) Banking
1 7 (63.64%) Investment Banking
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Network Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) RF Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Wireless Engineer
1 7 (63.64%) Wireless Network Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Architect
2 3 (27.27%) Network Architect
3 2 (18.18%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (9.09%) Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Cisco Administrator
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 10 (90.91%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) User Experience
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Thinking
2 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
2 2 (18.18%) Cost Optimisation
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
2 2 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Incident Response
2 2 (18.18%) IT Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) ITIL
2 2 (18.18%) Load Balancing
2 2 (18.18%) Network Design
2 2 (18.18%) Network Virtualisation
2 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
2 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
2 2 (18.18%) Security Architecture
2 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (18.18%) Strategic Thinking
2 2 (18.18%) TOGAF
2 2 (18.18%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (63.64%) Lisp
2 2 (18.18%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (90.91%) CCNP
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) CCIE
2 3 (27.27%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 2 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 2 (18.18%) CCIE Security
3 2 (18.18%) CCSP
3 2 (18.18%) CISSP
3 2 (18.18%) JNCIE
3 2 (18.18%) JNCIP
3 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
4 1 (9.09%) CCIE Routing and Switching
4 1 (9.09%) CCIE Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (9.09%) CWSP
4 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) GDPR
1 2 (18.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (18.18%) NIST
1 2 (18.18%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (18.18%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) FortiGate
2 2 (18.18%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco
2 7 (63.64%) Ekahau
2 7 (63.64%) Remedy
2 7 (63.64%) ServiceNow
3 3 (27.27%) F5
3 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
4 2 (18.18%) Forcepoint
4 2 (18.18%) Juniper
4 2 (18.18%) Meraki
4 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 2 (18.18%) SolarWinds
4 2 (18.18%) VMware
5 1 (9.09%) Aruba
5 1 (9.09%) Zscaler