Cisco Contract Job Trends 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 26 September 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
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 55 31
Rank change year-on-year +17 -24 +54
Contract jobs citing Cisco 111 58 124
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 6.04% 3.04% 6.03%
As % of the Vendors category 11.70% 6.36% 11.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 46 64
10th Percentile £263 £164 £263
25th Percentile £363 £389 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £513 £385
Median % change year-on-year - +33.12% -3.75%
75th Percentile £575 £634 £475
90th Percentile £600 £675 £538
England median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 1 4
10th Percentile £24.01 - £15.65
25th Percentile £29.00 - £20.38
Median hourly rate £30.00 £60.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +160.87% +2.22%
75th Percentile £34.00 - -
90th Percentile £38.08 - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.59 £47.50
% change year-on-year +17.23% -46.13% +90.00%

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 949 912 1,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 51.66% 47.87% 50.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 594 658
10th Percentile £243 £222 £213
25th Percentile £385 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £624 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £700
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 13 19
10th Percentile £15.13 £14.40 £17.40
25th Percentile £19.25 £15.22 £18.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £31.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +36.96% +35.29%
75th Percentile £36.25 £48.75 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £59.00 £44.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +83.35%

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

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the West Midlands

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the West Midlands

Cisco
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 26 September 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 +3 32 £380 -39.68% 8
Birmingham +15 31 £550 +22.22% 15
Shropshire -9 12 £539 +360.26% 2
Staffordshire +15 11 £350 -17.65% 6
Coventry -3 9 £400 -11.11% 5
Solihull -6 6 - - 4
Herefordshire - 4 £525 - 1
Worcestershire - 2 £577 - 1
Walsall - 1 - -
Wolverhampton - 1 £425 - 6
Cisco
England

Cisco
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 12 (10.81%) Apache
1 12 (10.81%) WebLogic
2 3 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.70%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (7.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 24 (21.62%) AWS
2 22 (19.82%) Azure
3 12 (10.81%) Azure Monitor
4 7 (6.31%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (5.41%) GCP
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.90%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.90%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 52 (46.85%) Firewall
2 40 (36.04%) WAN
3 35 (31.53%) Wireless
4 31 (27.93%) DNS
5 24 (21.62%) LAN
5 24 (21.62%) VPN
6 22 (19.82%) Network Security
7 20 (18.02%) DHCP
8 19 (17.12%) IPsec
9 16 (14.41%) BGP
10 12 (10.81%) DMVPN
10 12 (10.81%) SD-WAN
11 11 (9.91%) SSL
11 11 (9.91%) Wireshark
12 10 (9.01%) MPLS
13 9 (8.11%) Cisco IPT
13 9 (8.11%) OSPF
13 9 (8.11%) VoIP
14 8 (7.21%) Unified Communications
14 8 (7.21%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (3.60%) JIRA
2 1 (0.90%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 33 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 16 (14.41%) Telecoms
3 13 (11.71%) Public Sector
4 9 (8.11%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 8 (7.21%) Manufacturing
6 7 (6.31%) Legal
7 6 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (5.41%) Finance
8 1 (0.90%) Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.90%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (31.53%) Network Engineer
2 12 (10.81%) Analyst
3 11 (9.91%) Support Engineer
4 7 (6.31%) Security Engineer
4 7 (6.31%) Support Analyst
5 6 (5.41%) Architect
5 6 (5.41%) Cisco Engineer
5 6 (5.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 6 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 6 (5.41%) Monitoring Engineer
5 6 (5.41%) Network Architect
5 6 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) Network Security Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 5 (4.50%) Test Engineer
7 4 (3.60%) Consultant
7 4 (3.60%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (3.60%) Product Owner
7 4 (3.60%) Senior
7 4 (3.60%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.01%) 802.1X
2 4 (3.60%) Flash
3 3 (2.70%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 25 (22.52%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.21%) Onboarding
3 6 (5.41%) Virtual Team
4 5 (4.50%) Cloud Native
4 5 (4.50%) PKI
4 5 (4.50%) Replication
5 4 (3.60%) Linux Command Line
5 4 (3.60%) Product Ownership
6 3 (2.70%) Driving Licence
6 3 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (2.70%) Security Posture
6 3 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (1.80%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.80%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (0.90%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.90%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.90%) Handset
8 1 (0.90%) Management Information System
8 1 (0.90%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 20 (18.02%) Windows
2 17 (15.32%) Linux
3 13 (11.71%) Unix
4 4 (3.60%) Windows 10
5 3 (2.70%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (18.92%) Service Management
2 19 (17.12%) Change Management
2 19 (17.12%) ITIL
3 17 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (12.61%) Agile
5 14 (12.61%) Incident Management
6 13 (11.71%) Incident Response
7 12 (10.81%) Analytics
7 12 (10.81%) Business Intelligence
7 12 (10.81%) Full-Stack Development
7 12 (10.81%) Log Analytics
7 12 (10.81%) Observability
7 12 (10.81%) Performance Monitoring
7 12 (10.81%) Proactive Management
7 12 (10.81%) Synthetic Monitoring
7 12 (10.81%) Test Strategy
7 12 (10.81%) Visualisation
8 11 (9.91%) Load Balancing
9 9 (8.11%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 14 (12.61%) SQL
2 6 (5.41%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.70%) Python
4 1 (0.90%) Lisp
4 1 (0.90%) Perl
Qualifications
1 52 (46.85%) Security Cleared
2 37 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 31 (27.93%) Cisco Certification
4 22 (19.82%) CCNP
5 15 (13.51%) CCNA
6 14 (12.61%) DV Cleared
7 12 (10.81%) Degree
8 10 (9.01%) CCIE
9 9 (8.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (3.60%) CCIE Routing and Switching
11 3 (2.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 2 (1.80%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (1.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.90%) CCSA
13 1 (0.90%) Citrix Certification
13 1 (0.90%) CWSP
13 1 (0.90%) MCP
13 1 (0.90%) MCSA
13 1 (0.90%) Network+ Certification
13 1 (0.90%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (3.60%) SLA
2 2 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
2 2 (1.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.90%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.90%) GDPR
3 1 (0.90%) ISO 22301
3 1 (0.90%) NCSC
3 1 (0.90%) NIST
System Software
1 8 (7.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (6.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (3.60%) GPFS
3 4 (3.60%) NFS
3 4 (3.60%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (3.60%) vSphere
4 2 (1.80%) Docker
5 1 (0.90%) Terminal Services
Systems Management
1 7 (6.31%) Ansible
1 7 (6.31%) Cisco CUCM
2 6 (5.41%) OpenView
3 5 (4.50%) HP ALM
4 4 (3.60%) vRealize
5 2 (1.80%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (1.80%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.80%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.80%) Nagios
6 1 (0.90%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.90%) Nessus
6 1 (0.90%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (0.90%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 32 (28.83%) Juniper
2 26 (23.42%) Microsoft
3 24 (21.62%) F5
4 18 (16.22%) Oracle
5 15 (13.51%) CheckPoint
6 13 (11.71%) SolarWinds
7 12 (10.81%) AppDynamics
7 12 (10.81%) Dynatrace
7 12 (10.81%) Splunk
8 11 (9.91%) Fortinet
9 10 (9.01%) ServiceNow
10 9 (8.11%) Blue Coat
11 7 (6.31%) Palo Alto
11 7 (6.31%) VMware
12 6 (5.41%) HP
12 6 (5.41%) Meraki
12 6 (5.41%) Remedy
12 6 (5.41%) Salesforce
13 5 (4.50%) Micro Focus
13 5 (4.50%) Peregrine