Hybrid/Remote Cisco IOS Contract Job Trends

Cisco IOS
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Cisco IOS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 302 319 363
Rank change year-on-year +17 +44 +169
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 2 16 53
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.020% 0.13% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 0.19% 1.17% 2.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 9 36
10th Percentile - £373 -
25th Percentile - £404 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £59 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year -86.90% +12.50% -23.81%
75th Percentile - £663 £459
90th Percentile - £725 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £408 £400
% change year-on-year +22.70% +1.88% -15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £25.85
25th Percentile - - £27.89
Median hourly rate - £38.00 £31.52
Median % change year-on-year - +20.56% +43.27%
75th Percentile - - £34.91
90th Percentile - - £36.79
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £51.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -41.75% +51.47% -33.03%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Work from Home

Cisco IOS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring communications or computer networking skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,026 1,370 2,499
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 10.47% 10.78% 12.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 657 861 1,664
10th Percentile £293 £313 £313
25th Percentile £403 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £520
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +5.77% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £625
90th Percentile £688 £688 £706
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 38 85
10th Percentile £21.25 £13.81 £17.78
25th Percentile £44.00 £37.50 £22.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £46.78 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.74% -6.44% -15.97%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.52 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.25 £87.46 £74.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £50.50 £56.49
% change year-on-year -15.84% -10.60% +37.73%

Cisco IOS
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cisco IOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cisco IOS trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Cisco IOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Cisco IOS

Cisco IOS
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Cisco IOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs with remote work options citing Cisco IOS

Cisco IOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
2 1 (50.00%) DHCP
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) SNMP
2 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WLAN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Life Science
1 1 (50.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Management
1 1 (50.00%) ITIL
1 1 (50.00%) Knowledge Transfer
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Management
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE Data Center
2 1 (50.00%) CCNA
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Meraki
2 1 (50.00%) NetScout
2 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (50.00%) SevOne
2 1 (50.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (50.00%) VMware