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 15 November 2025, 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
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 46 63
Rank change year-on-year +2 +17 +35
Contract jobs citing Cisco 23 25 24
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.68% 3.49% 2.44%
As % of the Vendors category 9.06% 9.84% 5.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 7 10
10th Percentile - £224 £334
25th Percentile £413 - £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £240 £450
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -46.67% -4.66%
75th Percentile £471 £394 £503
90th Percentile £475 £415 £554
Scotland median daily rate £425 £375 £450
% change year-on-year +13.33% -16.67% +3.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £18.38 -
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 254 254 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.64% 35.43% 41.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 120 241
10th Percentile £285 £162 £164
25th Percentile £413 £315 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £538 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £685 £614
Scotland median daily rate £450 £439 £500
% change year-on-year +2.62% -12.30% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 24 5
10th Percentile £16.43 £14.11 -
25th Percentile - £19.28 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £23.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.25% +33.13% -2.82%
75th Percentile £45.00 £24.18 £22.87
90th Percentile £72.75 - £46.05
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £22.88 £17.72
% change year-on-year +9.95% +29.09% +0.62%

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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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 2 (8.70%) AWS
1 2 (8.70%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) GCP
2 1 (4.35%) npm
2 1 (4.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 10 (43.48%) Firewall
1 10 (43.48%) WAN
2 8 (34.78%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (34.78%) LAN
3 7 (30.43%) SD-WAN
4 6 (26.09%) Unified Communications
5 5 (21.74%) BGP
5 5 (21.74%) EIGRP
5 5 (21.74%) OSPF
5 5 (21.74%) VPN
5 5 (21.74%) Wi-Fi
6 4 (17.39%) IPsec
6 4 (17.39%) Network Security
7 3 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (13.04%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (13.04%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (13.04%) VLAN
7 3 (13.04%) VoIP
8 1 (4.35%) IP Telephony
8 1 (4.35%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
1 1 (4.35%) Git
1 1 (4.35%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (4.35%) webpack
General
1 9 (39.13%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
4 1 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Banking
4 1 (4.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Network Engineer
2 6 (26.09%) Consultant
2 6 (26.09%) Network Consultant
3 4 (17.39%) Field Engineer
3 4 (17.39%) Network Field Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Network Specialist
5 2 (8.70%) Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Desktop Support
6 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Migration Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Architect
6 1 (4.35%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Support
6 1 (4.35%) Technical Support Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.35%) CSS
1 1 (4.35%) HTML
1 1 (4.35%) Jest
1 1 (4.35%) React
1 1 (4.35%) RESTful
1 1 (4.35%) Spring Boot
1 1 (4.35%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (30.43%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
1 5 (21.74%) Windows
2 3 (13.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) Project Delivery
2 6 (26.09%) Mentoring
2 6 (26.09%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (17.39%) High Availability
4 4 (17.39%) Load Balancing
5 3 (13.04%) DevOps
5 3 (13.04%) Network Design
5 3 (13.04%) Strategic Thinking
6 2 (8.70%) Digital Strategy
6 2 (8.70%) Migration
6 2 (8.70%) Network Management
6 2 (8.70%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.70%) Roadmaps
6 2 (8.70%) Service Delivery
7 1 (4.35%) Agile
7 1 (4.35%) Change Management
7 1 (4.35%) Information Security
7 1 (4.35%) Information Security Management
7 1 (4.35%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.35%) Java
1 1 (4.35%) JavaScript
1 1 (4.35%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (34.78%) CCNA
2 8 (34.78%) CCNP
3 5 (21.74%) CCIE
4 3 (13.04%) CCIE Collaboration
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.35%) COBIT
2 1 (4.35%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (17.39%) F5
1 4 (17.39%) Palo Alto
2 3 (13.04%) Meraki
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.35%) Oracle
3 1 (4.35%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) SAP