Cisco Contract Job Trends in Wiltshire

Cisco
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 15 July 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
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 13 56
Rank change year-on-year -23 +43 -10
Contract jobs citing Cisco 29 55 32
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 3.74% 11.85% 3.64%
As % of the Vendors category 10.86% 23.61% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 37 23
10th Percentile £313 £423 £440
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £614
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -6.35% +11.64%
75th Percentile £573 £625 £670
90th Percentile £575 £665 £674
South West median daily rate £518 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.91% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £71.50 - -
Median hourly rate £73.00 - -
75th Percentile £74.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South West median hourly rate £82.77 £17.79 £72.50
% change year-on-year +365.23% -75.46% -3.33%

All Vendors
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 267 233 450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 34.41% 50.22% 51.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 169 343
10th Percentile £306 £325 £327
25th Percentile £413 £485 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £585 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.26% +8.74% -2.18%
75th Percentile £603 £644 £675
90th Percentile £691 £688 £773
South West median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 6 5
10th Percentile £17.25 £18.69 -
25th Percentile £28.25 - £14.54
Median hourly rate £41.71 £18.87 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +121.04% -33.79% -58.70%
75th Percentile £51.00 £22.53 £30.25
90th Percentile - £26.15 -
South West median hourly rate £51.00 £28.55 £57.50
% change year-on-year +78.63% -50.35% +1.79%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Wiltshire

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Wiltshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Wiltshire over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Wiltshire

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wiltshire citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Wiltshire region over the 6 months to 15 July 2026. 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
Corsham -21 16 £531 -7.61% 1
Salisbury - 6 £560 -
Chippenham -5 2 £325 -46.15% 1
Cisco
South West

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wiltshire 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 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (6.90%) AWS
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (3.45%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.45%) Azure
2 1 (3.45%) GCP
2 1 (3.45%) Route 53
2 1 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (34.48%) BGP
2 9 (31.03%) Cisco IOS
2 9 (31.03%) DNS
2 9 (31.03%) MPLS
3 7 (24.14%) DHCP
4 6 (20.69%) Cisco ASA
4 6 (20.69%) Network Security
4 6 (20.69%) TACACS
4 6 (20.69%) VoIP
4 6 (20.69%) VPN
5 5 (17.24%) Cisco Nexus
5 5 (17.24%) Firewall
5 5 (17.24%) SAN
6 3 (10.34%) DMVPN
6 3 (10.34%) LAN
6 3 (10.34%) OSPF
6 3 (10.34%) VLAN
6 3 (10.34%) WAN
7 2 (6.90%) Cisco ISE
7 2 (6.90%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 6 (20.69%) Military
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Police
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Network Engineer
2 10 (34.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (20.69%) Security Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Security Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Senior
5 4 (13.79%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Architect
7 2 (6.90%) IT Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Administrator
8 1 (3.45%) Field Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Network Field Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Network Security Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
8 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
8 1 (3.45%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.69%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (37.93%) PKI
2 3 (10.34%) Clustering
2 3 (10.34%) Fat Client
2 3 (10.34%) Smartcard
2 3 (10.34%) Thin Client
3 2 (6.90%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.45%) CCTV
4 1 (3.45%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.45%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (37.93%) Linux
2 7 (24.14%) Windows
2 7 (24.14%) Windows Server
3 6 (20.69%) Ubuntu
4 5 (17.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (24.14%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (17.24%) Patch Management
3 5 (17.24%) Server Management
4 4 (13.79%) Agile
4 4 (13.79%) Penetration Testing
4 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (10.34%) Project Management
5 3 (10.34%) Systems Engineering
5 3 (10.34%) Waterfall
6 2 (6.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.90%) ITIL
6 2 (6.90%) Migration
6 2 (6.90%) Network Architecture
6 2 (6.90%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (6.90%) Service Management
7 1 (3.45%) Critical Thinking
7 1 (3.45%) Network Virtualisation
7 1 (3.45%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.79%) PHP
1 4 (13.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (93.10%) Security Cleared
2 18 (62.07%) SC Cleared
3 17 (58.62%) DV Cleared
4 6 (20.69%) CCNP
4 6 (20.69%) Cisco Certification
5 4 (13.79%) APMG
5 4 (13.79%) CompTIA Security+
5 4 (13.79%) GIAC
5 4 (13.79%) SSCP
6 3 (10.34%) Degree
6 3 (10.34%) GSEC
7 1 (3.45%) CCDP
7 1 (3.45%) CCIE
7 1 (3.45%) CCNA
7 1 (3.45%) VCDX
7 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (20.69%) NIST
3 4 (13.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (13.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (3.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 8 (27.59%) VMware ESXi
1 8 (27.59%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (24.14%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.79%) Hyper-V
4 2 (6.90%) vSphere
5 1 (3.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (20.69%) vCenter Server
2 5 (17.24%) WSUS
3 3 (10.34%) Failover Clustering
3 3 (10.34%) SCOM
4 1 (3.45%) OPNET
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) VMware
2 5 (17.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (17.24%) Red Hat
3 3 (10.34%) McAfee
4 2 (6.90%) Juniper
4 2 (6.90%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.45%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.45%) F5
5 1 (3.45%) FireEye
5 1 (3.45%) Google
5 1 (3.45%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.45%) NetApp