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 22 January 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
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 54 62
Rank change year-on-year +17 +8 +22
Contract jobs citing Cisco 27 12 17
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.51% 1.97% 1.90%
As % of the Vendors category 11.64% 5.24% 4.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 2 7
10th Percentile £410 £256 £368
25th Percentile £413 £280 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £320 £450
Median % change year-on-year +32.81% -28.89% -5.26%
75th Percentile £473 £360 £469
90th Percentile £501 £384 £496
Scotland median daily rate £425 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% -

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 232 229 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.73% 37.54% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 107 220
10th Percentile £312 £159 £196
25th Percentile £413 £361 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £611 £552 £575
90th Percentile £683 £660 £638
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £484
% change year-on-year +3.33% -6.98% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 24 11
10th Percentile - £21.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £22.43 £16.25
Median hourly rate £19.94 £24.09 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year -17.25% +5.33% +15.21%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £60.38
90th Percentile £68.13 £27.26 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 £23.59 £19.50
% change year-on-year -6.74% +20.97% +10.05%

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

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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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 22 January 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

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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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (11.11%) Azure
2 2 (7.41%) AWS
2 2 (7.41%) Catchpoint
3 1 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.70%) Nutanix
3 1 (3.70%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (51.85%) Firewall
2 10 (37.04%) Cisco Nexus
3 8 (29.63%) SD-WAN
3 8 (29.63%) WAN
4 7 (25.93%) Wi-Fi
5 6 (22.22%) BGP
5 6 (22.22%) Network Security
5 6 (22.22%) OSPF
6 5 (18.52%) LAN
6 5 (18.52%) Unified Communications
7 4 (14.81%) VPN
8 3 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (11.11%) EIGRP
8 3 (11.11%) IPsec
8 3 (11.11%) VoIP
9 2 (7.41%) Fibre Channel
9 2 (7.41%) Internet
10 1 (3.70%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (22.22%) Public Sector
2 5 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Finance
4 1 (3.70%) Legal
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Network Engineer
2 6 (22.22%) Consultant
2 6 (22.22%) Network Consultant
3 3 (11.11%) Architect
3 3 (11.11%) Field Engineer
3 3 (11.11%) Network Field Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Architect
4 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.41%) Network Specialist
4 2 (7.41%) Platform Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Migration Architect
5 1 (3.70%) Network Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 12 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.41%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.41%) NVMe
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 8 (29.63%) Windows
2 7 (25.93%) Linux
3 3 (11.11%) Unix
4 2 (7.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 6 (22.22%) Migration
3 5 (18.52%) Agile
3 5 (18.52%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (18.52%) Load Balancing
3 5 (18.52%) Mentoring
3 5 (18.52%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (18.52%) Roadmaps
3 5 (18.52%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (14.81%) High Availability
4 4 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (11.11%) CI/CD
5 3 (11.11%) DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) Security Architecture
5 3 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
5 3 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
6 2 (7.41%) Data Protection
6 2 (7.41%) Kalman Filter
6 2 (7.41%) Kanban
6 2 (7.41%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (3.70%) Bash
2 1 (3.70%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (51.85%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (37.04%) CCNP
3 7 (25.93%) CCNA
4 4 (14.81%) CCIE
5 3 (11.11%) CCIE Collaboration
6 1 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 1 (3.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.70%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) VMware NSX
2 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (7.41%) vSphere
4 1 (3.70%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.70%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (11.11%) Ansible
2 2 (7.41%) Grafana
2 2 (7.41%) vMotion
3 1 (3.70%) PowerCLI
3 1 (3.70%) vRealize
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) Palo Alto
2 5 (18.52%) F5
3 4 (14.81%) VMware
4 3 (11.11%) Arista
4 3 (11.11%) Juniper
5 2 (7.41%) Meraki
6 1 (3.70%) AppNeta
6 1 (3.70%) Aruba
6 1 (3.70%) Brocade
6 1 (3.70%) CheckPoint
6 1 (3.70%) Commvault
6 1 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 1 (3.70%) Microsoft
6 1 (3.70%) NetApp
6 1 (3.70%) Zscaler