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 October 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 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 42 26 19
Rank change year-on-year -16 -7 +1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 25 26 47
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 3.39% 6.19% 7.99%
As % of the Vendors category 9.29% 12.56% 14.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 16 33
10th Percentile £375 £483 £440
25th Percentile £500 £525 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £634 £600 £672
90th Percentile £738 £638 £715
South West median daily rate £525 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.32% -6.82%
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% +24.49%

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 269 207 330
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 36.45% 49.29% 56.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 143 238
10th Percentile £395 £378 £279
25th Percentile £480 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £635 £650 £640
90th Percentile £725 £723 £696
South West median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 13 0
10th Percentile £16.09 £18.58 -
25th Percentile £36.75 £18.87 -
Median hourly rate £41.71 £24.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +73.79% - -
75th Percentile - £24.50 -
90th Percentile £55.60 £25.15 -
South West median hourly rate £36.36 £22.63 £70.00
% change year-on-year +60.65% -67.67% +27.27%

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 October 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 October 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 -11 13 £538 -6.52% 8
Salisbury - 8 £700 - 7
Chippenham -9 2 £325 - 2
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 (32.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (8.00%) Confluence
2 2 (8.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (12.00%) AWS
1 3 (12.00%) Azure
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (4.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (48.00%) DNS
2 10 (40.00%) Firewall
3 8 (32.00%) DHCP
4 6 (24.00%) Cisco IOS
5 5 (20.00%) DMVPN
5 5 (20.00%) MPLS
6 4 (16.00%) BGP
6 4 (16.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (16.00%) SAN
6 4 (16.00%) VoIP
6 4 (16.00%) WAN
6 4 (16.00%) Wireless
7 3 (12.00%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (12.00%) LAN
7 3 (12.00%) Multicast
7 3 (12.00%) Network Security
7 3 (12.00%) VXLAN
8 2 (8.00%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (8.00%) NX-OS
8 2 (8.00%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (12.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
2 1 (4.00%) Bitbucket
General
1 9 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (28.00%) Military
3 4 (16.00%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (8.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (4.00%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (44.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (24.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Network Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) Cisco Administrator
5 2 (8.00%) IT Engineer
5 2 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (4.00%) Deployment Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Lead
6 1 (4.00%) Lead Network Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Network Field Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 7 (28.00%) PKI
2 3 (12.00%) Clustering
2 3 (12.00%) Fat Client
2 3 (12.00%) Smartcard
2 3 (12.00%) Thin Client
3 2 (8.00%) CCTV
3 2 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 1 (4.00%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 10 (40.00%) Windows
1 10 (40.00%) Windows Server
2 5 (20.00%) Linux
3 4 (16.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (8.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (28.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 7 (28.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 4 (16.00%) Patch Management
3 4 (16.00%) Server Management
3 4 (16.00%) Service Management
3 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (16.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (12.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (12.00%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (8.00%) Agile
5 2 (8.00%) Customer Service
5 2 (8.00%) ITIL
5 2 (8.00%) Network Architecture
5 2 (8.00%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (8.00%) PRINCE2
5 2 (8.00%) SIEM
5 2 (8.00%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (8.00%) TOGAF
6 1 (4.00%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (88.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (64.00%) DV Cleared
3 8 (32.00%) CCNP
3 8 (32.00%) Cisco Certification
3 8 (32.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (8.00%) Degree
5 1 (4.00%) CCDP
5 1 (4.00%) CCIE
5 1 (4.00%) CCNA
5 1 (4.00%) MCSE
5 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.00%) VCDX
5 1 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 9 (36.00%) Active Directory
2 4 (16.00%) Hyper-V
3 3 (12.00%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (12.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.00%) vSphere
4 2 (8.00%) VMware NSX
5 1 (4.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 5 (20.00%) WSUS
2 3 (12.00%) Failover Clustering
3 2 (8.00%) OPNET
4 1 (4.00%) SCCM
4 1 (4.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 8 (32.00%) Microsoft
1 8 (32.00%) VMware
2 5 (20.00%) Juniper
3 4 (16.00%) Red Hat
4 3 (12.00%) McAfee
5 2 (8.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (4.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (4.00%) Blue Coat
6 1 (4.00%) CheckPoint
6 1 (4.00%) F5
6 1 (4.00%) Google
6 1 (4.00%) Meraki
6 1 (4.00%) NetApp
6 1 (4.00%) Zscaler