Cisco Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cisco
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh 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 20 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
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 46 36
Rank change year-on-year +9 -10 +27
Contract jobs citing Cisco 37 22 42
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.57% 3.44% 4.86%
As % of the Vendors category 10.60% 7.80% 12.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 10 24
10th Percentile £238 £249 £200
25th Percentile £406 £403 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £240
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +87.50% -51.64%
75th Percentile £459 £474 £438
90th Percentile £510 £638 £438
Scotland median daily rate £425 £403 £313
% change year-on-year +5.59% +28.80% -34.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £18.19
Median hourly rate - - £18.38
75th Percentile - - £18.56
90th Percentile - - -
Scotland median hourly rate - - £18.38

All Vendors
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 349 282 336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 43.09% 44.06% 38.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 134 188
10th Percentile £261 £208 £156
25th Percentile £406 £413 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £427
Median % change year-on-year - +11.24% -10.11%
75th Percentile £575 £520 £538
90th Percentile £643 £600 £691
Scotland median daily rate £463 £455 £440
% change year-on-year +1.65% +3.41% -7.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 13 27
10th Percentile £15.81 £16.70 £13.23
25th Percentile £17.67 - £15.16
Median hourly rate £55.00 £17.30 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +217.92% -3.89% -15.33%
75th Percentile £68.50 £23.00 £18.66
90th Percentile £77.40 £53.68 £36.51
Scotland median hourly rate £16.82 £18.51 £17.25
% change year-on-year -9.13% +7.30% -2.65%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 20 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Edinburgh

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Cisco

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 3 (8.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (8.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) Nutanix
3 3 (8.11%) AWS
3 3 (8.11%) Catchpoint
3 3 (8.11%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.11%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.11%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 20 (54.05%) Firewall
2 17 (45.95%) VPN
2 17 (45.95%) Wi-Fi
3 15 (40.54%) Network Security
4 14 (37.84%) Cisco Nexus
4 14 (37.84%) LAN
5 11 (29.73%) SD-WAN
6 8 (21.62%) IPsec
6 8 (21.62%) Unified Communications
6 8 (21.62%) WAN
7 5 (13.51%) BGP
7 5 (13.51%) Internet
7 5 (13.51%) OSPF
8 3 (8.11%) BIG-IP
8 3 (8.11%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (8.11%) NGFW
8 3 (8.11%) Wireless
9 2 (5.41%) SAN
9 2 (5.41%) Structured Cabling
10 1 (2.70%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (8.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (21.62%) Public Sector
2 3 (8.11%) Finance
3 2 (5.41%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 27 (72.97%) Network Engineer
2 4 (10.81%) Field Engineer
2 4 (10.81%) IT Engineer
2 4 (10.81%) Network Field Engineer
2 4 (10.81%) Telephony Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) IT Support
3 3 (8.11%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (8.11%) Support Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Industrial Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) LAN Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Network Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Network Security Consultant
4 2 (5.41%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) SCADA Engineer
4 2 (5.41%) Security Consultant
5 1 (2.70%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (2.70%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (43.24%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.11%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (8.11%) NVMe
3 2 (5.41%) Operational Technology
3 2 (5.41%) SCADA
4 1 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (2.70%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 19 (51.35%) Windows
2 16 (43.24%) Linux
3 3 (8.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (40.54%) Roadmaps
2 12 (32.43%) Load Balancing
3 11 (29.73%) High Availability
3 11 (29.73%) Network Management
4 9 (24.32%) Network Monitoring
5 8 (21.62%) Digital Innovation
5 8 (21.62%) Programme Delivery
6 7 (18.92%) Agile
6 7 (18.92%) Migration
6 7 (18.92%) Vulnerability Management
7 6 (16.22%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (16.22%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (10.81%) Data Protection
8 4 (10.81%) Kalman Filter
9 3 (8.11%) BCP
9 3 (8.11%) CI/CD
9 3 (8.11%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (8.11%) Kanban
9 3 (8.11%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (8.11%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 2 (5.41%) Bash
2 2 (5.41%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.70%) Perl
Qualifications
1 19 (51.35%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (35.14%) CCNP
3 6 (16.22%) CCNA
4 2 (5.41%) CCIE
5 1 (2.70%) CCDP
5 1 (2.70%) NCDA
5 1 (2.70%) VCP6
5 1 (2.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) QA
2 6 (16.22%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 6 (16.22%) VMware NSX
2 4 (10.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (8.11%) Active Directory
3 3 (8.11%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) Ansible
2 3 (8.11%) Grafana
2 3 (8.11%) vMotion
3 2 (5.41%) vRealize
4 1 (2.70%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 22 (59.46%) Palo Alto
2 17 (45.95%) F5
3 9 (24.32%) VMware
4 5 (13.51%) Juniper
5 4 (10.81%) Arista
6 3 (8.11%) Apple
6 3 (8.11%) Meraki
6 3 (8.11%) Microsoft
7 2 (5.41%) AppNeta
7 2 (5.41%) Brocade
7 2 (5.41%) CheckPoint
7 2 (5.41%) Commvault
7 2 (5.41%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.41%) NetApp
7 2 (5.41%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.41%) Splunk
7 2 (5.41%) Veeam
8 1 (2.70%) Zscaler