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 19 August 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
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 22 41
Rank change year-on-year -18 +19 -3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 26 34 36
As % of all contract jobs in Wiltshire 3.39% 7.26% 4.90%
As % of the Vendors category 9.12% 15.38% 9.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 18 24
10th Percentile £308 £425 £447
25th Percentile £425 £527 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £617
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -6.81% +12.18%
75th Percentile £573 £638 £669
90th Percentile £590 £661 £674
South West median daily rate £505 £556 £538
% change year-on-year -9.21% +3.49% +2.38%
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% +21.00%

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 285 221 398
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 37.11% 47.22% 54.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 155 309
10th Percentile £305 £325 £396
25th Percentile £410 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £588 £538
Median % change year-on-year -10.64% +9.20% +2.48%
75th Percentile £604 £649 £656
90th Percentile £696 £691 £700
South West median daily rate £510 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -2.39% -0.48% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 7 0
10th Percentile £14.36 £17.11 -
25th Percentile £17.25 £18.69 -
Median hourly rate £41.71 £18.87 -
Median % change year-on-year +121.04% - -
75th Percentile £50.75 £21.31 -
90th Percentile £51.00 £25.67 -
South West median hourly rate £32.50 £22.50 £70.00
% change year-on-year +44.44% -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 19 August 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 19 August 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 £513 -10.87% 2
Salisbury - 6 £560 -
Chippenham -5 2 £325 -
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 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
2 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) GCP
2 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (3.85%) Route 53
2 1 (3.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (38.46%) DNS
2 7 (26.92%) DHCP
2 7 (26.92%) Firewall
3 6 (23.08%) BGP
3 6 (23.08%) VoIP
4 5 (19.23%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (19.23%) MPLS
4 5 (19.23%) SAN
5 3 (11.54%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (11.54%) DMVPN
5 3 (11.54%) LAN
5 3 (11.54%) OSPF
5 3 (11.54%) VLAN
5 3 (11.54%) WAN
6 2 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (7.69%) Multicast
6 2 (7.69%) VXLAN
6 2 (7.69%) Wireless
7 1 (3.85%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (3.85%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (11.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Bitbucket
1 1 (3.85%) JIRA
General
1 8 (30.77%) Military
2 5 (19.23%) Documentation Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Social Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (11.54%) Public Sector
4 2 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.85%) Pharmaceutical
5 1 (3.85%) Police
5 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (53.85%) Network Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (15.38%) Senior
4 4 (15.38%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) Architect
5 2 (7.69%) Cisco Administrator
5 2 (7.69%) IT Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Systems Administrator
6 1 (3.85%) Field Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Network Field Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Project Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) SC Cleared Deployment Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) PKI
2 3 (11.54%) Clustering
2 3 (11.54%) Fat Client
2 3 (11.54%) Smartcard
2 3 (11.54%) Thin Client
3 2 (7.69%) CCTV
3 2 (7.69%) Data Centre
4 1 (3.85%) Driving Licence
4 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (30.77%) Windows
1 8 (30.77%) Windows Server
2 5 (19.23%) Linux
2 5 (19.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 2 (7.69%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (19.23%) Patch Management
2 5 (19.23%) Server Management
3 4 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (11.54%) Service Management
4 3 (11.54%) Systems Engineering
5 2 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (7.69%) Customer Service
5 2 (7.69%) ITIL
5 2 (7.69%) Migration
5 2 (7.69%) Network Architecture
5 2 (7.69%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (7.69%) Project Delivery
5 2 (7.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (3.85%) Cybersecurity
6 1 (3.85%) Knowledge Transfer
6 1 (3.85%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (3.85%) Protective Monitoring
6 1 (3.85%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 23 (88.46%) Security Cleared
2 15 (57.69%) DV Cleared
3 12 (46.15%) SC Cleared
4 6 (23.08%) CCNP
4 6 (23.08%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (7.69%) Degree
6 1 (3.85%) CCDP
6 1 (3.85%) CCIE
6 1 (3.85%) CCNA
6 1 (3.85%) VCDX
6 1 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 4 (15.38%) Hyper-V
3 2 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.69%) vSphere
4 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) WSUS
2 3 (11.54%) Failover Clustering
3 1 (3.85%) OPNET
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 5 (19.23%) Red Hat
2 5 (19.23%) VMware
3 4 (15.38%) Juniper
4 3 (11.54%) McAfee
5 2 (7.69%) Palo Alto
6 1 (3.85%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.85%) F5
6 1 (3.85%) FireEye
6 1 (3.85%) Google
6 1 (3.85%) Infoblox
6 1 (3.85%) Meraki
6 1 (3.85%) NetApp