Cisco Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

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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 6 April 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
6 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 48 61
Rank change year-on-year +8 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing Cisco 24 17 14
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.58% 2.76% 1.71%
As % of the Vendors category 9.30% 6.42% 4.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 7 6
10th Percentile £406 £240 -
25th Percentile £411 £245 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -8.68% -12.40%
75th Percentile £472 £538 £447
90th Percentile £498 £638 £494
Scotland median daily rate £438 £375 £432
% change year-on-year +16.67% -13.09% -9.16%

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 258 265 324
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 38.45% 43.02% 39.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 138 176
10th Percentile £294 £181 £174
25th Percentile £408 £361 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £581 £538 £600
90th Percentile £686 £641 £688
Scotland median daily rate £475 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 21 24
10th Percentile £15.70 £20.30 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.13 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £59.50 £24.00 £17.86
Median % change year-on-year +147.92% +34.38% -15.99%
75th Percentile £73.50 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.38 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £25.05 £24.00 £17.72
% change year-on-year +4.35% +35.44% -68.50%

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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 6 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Edinburgh

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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 (12.50%) Azure
1 3 (12.50%) Catchpoint
2 2 (8.33%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.17%) AWS
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.17%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (62.50%) Firewall
2 14 (58.33%) Cisco Nexus
3 10 (41.67%) SD-WAN
3 10 (41.67%) Wi-Fi
4 9 (37.50%) WAN
5 8 (33.33%) BGP
5 8 (33.33%) OSPF
6 7 (29.17%) LAN
6 7 (29.17%) Network Security
6 7 (29.17%) VPN
7 4 (16.67%) Internet
8 3 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (12.50%) Cisco Firepower
8 3 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
8 3 (12.50%) EIGRP
8 3 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
8 3 (12.50%) IPsec
8 3 (12.50%) Unified Communications
9 2 (8.33%) SAN
10 1 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (4.17%) Finance
2 1 (4.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Network Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Field Engineer
2 3 (12.50%) Network Consultant
2 3 (12.50%) Network Field Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Architect
3 2 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Data Centre Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Network Architect
4 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (4.17%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 15 (62.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (12.50%) NVMe
3 1 (4.17%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (41.67%) Windows
2 9 (37.50%) Linux
3 3 (12.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (41.67%) Roadmaps
2 7 (29.17%) Agile
2 7 (29.17%) Load Balancing
2 7 (29.17%) Migration
3 6 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (25.00%) High Availability
3 6 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 6 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (20.83%) Network Management
5 4 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 4 (16.67%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (16.67%) Vulnerability Management
6 3 (12.50%) BCP
6 3 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 3 (12.50%) DevOps
6 3 (12.50%) Kanban
6 3 (12.50%) Platform Engineering
6 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 3 (12.50%) Security Architecture
6 3 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (20.83%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Bash
2 2 (8.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) Perl
Qualifications
1 15 (62.50%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (45.83%) CCNP
3 4 (16.67%) CCNA
4 2 (8.33%) CCIE
5 1 (4.17%) CCDP
5 1 (4.17%) NCDA
5 1 (4.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.17%) VCP6
5 1 (4.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) Disclosure Scotland
1 2 (8.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (25.00%) VMware NSX
2 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (12.50%) vSphere
4 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 3 (12.50%) Grafana
2 3 (12.50%) vMotion
3 2 (8.33%) vRealize
4 1 (4.17%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 9 (37.50%) F5
3 6 (25.00%) VMware
4 5 (20.83%) Juniper
5 4 (16.67%) Arista
6 2 (8.33%) AppNeta
6 2 (8.33%) Brocade
6 2 (8.33%) CheckPoint
6 2 (8.33%) Commvault
6 2 (8.33%) NetApp
6 2 (8.33%) Zscaler
7 1 (4.17%) Aruba
7 1 (4.17%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (4.17%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.17%) Microsoft
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