Cisco Contracts in the West Midlands

Cisco
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 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 Systems, Inc.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 43 45
Rank change year-on-year -5 +2 +48
Contract jobs citing Cisco 50 74 109
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.72% 3.80% 4.57%
As % of the Vendors category 7.96% 8.80% 9.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 35 59
10th Percentile £145 £200 £263
25th Percentile £178 £300 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year -10.91% +15.75% +35.59%
75th Percentile £538 £609 £508
90th Percentile £551 £775 £620
England median daily rate £516 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.10% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £15.22 £13.25 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.13 £13.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +34.30% +3.85% -35.00%
75th Percentile - £13.88 £14.25
90th Percentile £32.44 £13.95 £14.70
England median hourly rate £37.07 £27.50 £54.34
% change year-on-year +34.81% -49.39% +127.25%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 628 841 1,169
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 46.69% 43.19% 49.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 410 538 735
10th Percentile £185 £250 £213
25th Percentile £320 £350 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £479 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.33% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £518 £538
% change year-on-year +1.30% -3.58% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 53 29
10th Percentile £12.25 £11.07 £13.15
25th Percentile £14.86 £13.25 £15.10
Median hourly rate £18.51 £19.95 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.22% +7.84% +7.06%
75th Percentile £29.25 £28.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £31.43 £55.00 £72.30
England median hourly rate £27.13 £22.50 £39.55
% change year-on-year +20.56% -43.11% +88.33%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the West Midlands

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the West Midlands

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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 within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Warwickshire 0 12 £551 -26.53% 8
Worcestershire +6 11 £145 -78.91%
Birmingham +5 9 £325 -31.58% 21
Staffordshire +4 6 £400 +68.42% 8
Coventry +9 5 £438 -2.78% 4
Solihull +4 3 £425 +17.24% 2
Shropshire -4 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 4 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (6.00%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (34.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (8.00%) Mimecast
3 2 (4.00%) OneDrive
3 2 (4.00%) Power Platform
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (2.00%) Amazon S3
4 1 (2.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (34.00%) VPN
2 10 (20.00%) Firewall
3 8 (16.00%) WAN
3 8 (16.00%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (14.00%) Network Security
5 6 (12.00%) Cisco Firepower
6 5 (10.00%) BGP
6 5 (10.00%) SD-WAN
6 5 (10.00%) Unified Communications
7 4 (8.00%) Internet
7 4 (8.00%) LAN
7 4 (8.00%) MPLS
8 3 (6.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (6.00%) DHCP
8 3 (6.00%) EIGRP
8 3 (6.00%) OSPF
9 2 (4.00%) Cisco ASA
9 2 (4.00%) Cisco ISE
9 2 (4.00%) Ethernet
9 2 (4.00%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) GitLab
1 1 (2.00%) JIRA
General
1 13 (26.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.00%) Finance
5 2 (4.00%) Retail
5 2 (4.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.00%) Electronics
6 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 8 (16.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (10.00%) Senior
2 5 (10.00%) Support Engineer
3 4 (8.00%) Desktop Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 3 (6.00%) 1st/2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (6.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) IT Engineer
4 3 (6.00%) Unified Communications Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) Consultant
5 2 (4.00%) Field Engineer
5 2 (4.00%) IT Support
5 2 (4.00%) Network Consultant
5 2 (4.00%) Senior Consultant
5 2 (4.00%) Windows Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (2.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.00%) CSOC
2 6 (12.00%) NHS
3 3 (6.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.00%) Device Driver
4 2 (4.00%) Driving Licence
4 2 (4.00%) PKI
5 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.00%) Operational Technology
5 1 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (54.00%) Windows
2 11 (22.00%) Windows 10
3 8 (16.00%) Linux
3 8 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (16.00%) VMS
4 2 (4.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (20.00%) SIEM
2 9 (18.00%) Customer Service
2 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (16.00%) Event Correlation
4 7 (14.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 5 (10.00%) Change Management
5 5 (10.00%) Mentoring
6 4 (8.00%) Decision-Making
6 4 (8.00%) Information Security
6 4 (8.00%) ITIL
6 4 (8.00%) Network Design
6 4 (8.00%) PLM
6 4 (8.00%) Strategic Planning
6 4 (8.00%) System Testing
6 4 (8.00%) Time Management
6 4 (8.00%) User Experience
7 3 (6.00%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (6.00%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (6.00%) Network Management
7 3 (6.00%) Service Catalogue
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.00%) Python
2 1 (2.00%) Perl
Qualifications
1 18 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (30.00%) Degree
2 15 (30.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.00%) Cisco Certification
4 4 (8.00%) CCNP
5 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (4.00%) CCNA
6 2 (4.00%) CISA
6 2 (4.00%) CISM
6 2 (4.00%) CISSP
6 2 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.00%) GIAC
6 2 (4.00%) ISACA
6 2 (4.00%) MCSE
6 2 (4.00%) SANS
7 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.00%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (8.00%) QA
2 3 (6.00%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (28.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (12.00%) BitLocker
3 2 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (2.00%) Firmware
4 1 (2.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 13 (26.00%) SCCM
2 8 (16.00%) FortiGate
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.00%) Ansible
4 1 (2.00%) logstash
4 1 (2.00%) Prometheus
4 1 (2.00%) QRadar
4 1 (2.00%) Trend Micro Deep Security
Vendors
1 13 (26.00%) ServiceNow
2 11 (22.00%) Citrix
2 11 (22.00%) Fortinet
2 11 (22.00%) Nexthink
2 11 (22.00%) Palo Alto
3 10 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 10 (20.00%) SolarWinds
4 9 (18.00%) F5
5 8 (16.00%) Red Hat
5 8 (16.00%) Splunk
6 5 (10.00%) Juniper
6 5 (10.00%) VMware
7 4 (8.00%) Proofpoint
8 3 (6.00%) Aruba
9 2 (4.00%) Apple
9 2 (4.00%) Meraki
9 2 (4.00%) Mitel
9 2 (4.00%) Tenable
10 1 (2.00%) BMC
10 1 (2.00%) CheckPoint