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 30 September 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
30 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 26 20
Rank change year-on-year -12 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Cisco 30 25 45
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 3.91% 6.01% 7.68%
As % of the Vendors category 10.56% 12.56% 13.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 18 31
10th Percentile £346 £425 £440
25th Percentile £500 £525 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £575 £614
Median % change year-on-year -3.52% -6.35% +11.64%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £672
90th Percentile £728 £641 £725
South West median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% -0.94%
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 £75.00
% change year-on-year +365.23% -76.28% +29.33%

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 284 199 337
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 37.03% 47.84% 57.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 172 141 250
10th Percentile £333 £375 £220
25th Percentile £450 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +9.25% +2.43%
75th Percentile £613 £650 £639
90th Percentile £715 £695 £691
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 11 0
10th Percentile £14.94 £18.51 -
25th Percentile £33.68 £18.87 -
Median hourly rate £41.71 £22.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +85.38% - -
75th Percentile - £24.83 -
90th Percentile £51.00 £25.15 -
South West median hourly rate £26.14 £22.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +16.18% -67.86% +23.92%

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 30 September 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 30 September 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 -16 14 £525 -8.70% 2
Salisbury - 9 £700 - 12
Chippenham - 2 £325 - 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 8 (26.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (6.67%) Confluence
2 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (10.00%) AWS
1 3 (10.00%) Azure
1 3 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 14 (46.67%) DNS
2 11 (36.67%) Firewall
3 10 (33.33%) DHCP
4 6 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
4 6 (20.00%) VoIP
5 5 (16.67%) BGP
5 5 (16.67%) MPLS
5 5 (16.67%) SAN
5 5 (16.67%) WAN
6 4 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (13.33%) DMVPN
6 4 (13.33%) LAN
6 4 (13.33%) Wireless
7 3 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (10.00%) Network Security
8 2 (6.67%) Asterisk PBX
8 2 (6.67%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (6.67%) Multicast
8 2 (6.67%) PABX
8 2 (6.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (6.67%) JIRA
2 1 (3.33%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Military
3 5 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.33%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (3.33%) Police
6 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 15 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 3 (10.00%) Network Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Administrator
5 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (6.67%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (23.33%) PKI
2 3 (10.00%) Clustering
2 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.00%) Fat Client
2 3 (10.00%) Smartcard
2 3 (10.00%) Thin Client
3 2 (6.67%) CCTV
4 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.33%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 11 (36.67%) Windows
1 11 (36.67%) Windows Server
2 6 (20.00%) Linux
3 5 (16.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (6.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (26.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (16.67%) Patch Management
2 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
2 5 (16.67%) Server Management
3 4 (13.33%) Service Management
3 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (13.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (10.00%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (6.67%) Agile
5 2 (6.67%) Customer Service
5 2 (6.67%) ITIL
5 2 (6.67%) Migration
5 2 (6.67%) Network Architecture
5 2 (6.67%) Network Design
5 2 (6.67%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (6.67%) SIEM
5 2 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (6.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 27 (90.00%) Security Cleared
2 19 (63.33%) DV Cleared
3 13 (43.33%) SC Cleared
4 7 (23.33%) CCNP
4 7 (23.33%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (6.67%) Degree
6 1 (3.33%) CCDP
6 1 (3.33%) CCIE
6 1 (3.33%) CCNA
6 1 (3.33%) MCSE
6 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (3.33%) VCDX
6 1 (3.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 10 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.33%) Hyper-V
3 3 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (6.67%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (6.67%) VMware NSX
4 2 (6.67%) vSphere
5 1 (3.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (20.00%) WSUS
2 3 (10.00%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (6.67%) OPNET
4 1 (3.33%) SCCM
4 1 (3.33%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 7 (23.33%) VMware
3 5 (16.67%) Juniper
3 5 (16.67%) Red Hat
4 3 (10.00%) McAfee
4 3 (10.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.33%) Blue Coat
5 1 (3.33%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.33%) F5
5 1 (3.33%) FireEye
5 1 (3.33%) Google
5 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.33%) Meraki
5 1 (3.33%) NetApp
5 1 (3.33%) Zscaler