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 18 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
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 51 57
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 +8
Contract jobs citing Cisco 29 16 16
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.30% 2.53% 1.98%
As % of the Vendors category 10.78% 5.63% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 6 8
10th Percentile £406 £245 £367
25th Percentile £409 £288 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £413 £438
Median % change year-on-year +3.03% -5.82% -11.74%
75th Percentile £469 £588 £472
90th Percentile £490 £638 £538
Scotland median daily rate £450 £399 £423
% change year-on-year +12.78% -5.56% -11.05%

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 269 284 307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 39.91% 44.94% 38.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 141 168
10th Percentile £278 £185 £200
25th Percentile £407 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £488 £497
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -1.91% +4.63%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £600
90th Percentile £685 £638 £700
Scotland median daily rate £475 £455 £467
% change year-on-year +4.40% -2.57% -0.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 24
10th Percentile £15.70 £17.60 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.13 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £59.50 £23.50 £17.86
Median % change year-on-year +153.19% +31.58% -15.99%
75th Percentile £73.50 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.38 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £19.68 £23.00 £17.61
% change year-on-year -14.43% +30.61% -69.37%

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 18 April 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 4 (13.79%) Nutanix
2 3 (10.34%) Azure
2 3 (10.34%) Catchpoint
3 1 (3.45%) AWS
3 1 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (3.45%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 18 (62.07%) Firewall
2 16 (55.17%) Cisco Nexus
3 12 (41.38%) SD-WAN
3 12 (41.38%) Wi-Fi
4 11 (37.93%) WAN
5 10 (34.48%) VPN
6 9 (31.03%) LAN
7 8 (27.59%) BGP
7 8 (27.59%) Network Security
7 8 (27.59%) OSPF
8 4 (13.79%) Internet
8 4 (13.79%) IPsec
8 4 (13.79%) Unified Communications
9 3 (10.34%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (10.34%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (10.34%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (10.34%) EIGRP
9 3 (10.34%) Fibre Channel
10 2 (6.90%) SAN
11 1 (3.45%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (24.14%) Public Sector
2 1 (3.45%) Finance
2 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 19 (65.52%) Network Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Field Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Network Field Engineer
2 4 (13.79%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (10.34%) Consultant
3 3 (10.34%) Network Consultant
4 2 (6.90%) Architect
4 2 (6.90%) Industrial Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) Platform Engineer
4 2 (6.90%) SCADA Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Data Centre Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (3.45%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.45%) Storage Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 16 (55.17%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (10.34%) NVMe
3 2 (6.90%) Operational Technology
3 2 (6.90%) SCADA
4 1 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Windows
2 12 (41.38%) Linux
3 3 (10.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Roadmaps
2 9 (31.03%) Load Balancing
3 8 (27.59%) High Availability
3 8 (27.59%) Migration
4 7 (24.14%) Agile
4 7 (24.14%) Network Management
4 7 (24.14%) Network Monitoring
5 6 (20.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 6 (20.69%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (13.79%) Data Protection
6 4 (13.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (13.79%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (13.79%) Vulnerability Management
7 3 (10.34%) BCP
7 3 (10.34%) CI/CD
7 3 (10.34%) DevOps
7 3 (10.34%) Kanban
7 3 (10.34%) Platform Engineering
7 3 (10.34%) Security Architecture
7 3 (10.34%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) Python
2 2 (6.90%) Bash
2 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
3 1 (3.45%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (58.62%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (37.93%) CCNP
3 6 (20.69%) CCNA
4 2 (6.90%) CCIE
5 1 (3.45%) CCDP
5 1 (3.45%) NCDA
5 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
5 1 (3.45%) VCP6
5 1 (3.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) Disclosure Scotland
1 3 (10.34%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.69%) VMware NSX
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (10.34%) vSphere
4 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
4 1 (3.45%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Ansible
2 3 (10.34%) Grafana
2 3 (10.34%) vMotion
3 2 (6.90%) vRealize
4 1 (3.45%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Palo Alto
2 12 (41.38%) F5
3 6 (20.69%) VMware
4 5 (17.24%) Juniper
5 4 (13.79%) Arista
6 3 (10.34%) Fortinet
7 2 (6.90%) AppNeta
7 2 (6.90%) Brocade
7 2 (6.90%) CheckPoint
7 2 (6.90%) Commvault
7 2 (6.90%) NetApp
7 2 (6.90%) Veeam
7 2 (6.90%) Zscaler
8 1 (3.45%) Aruba
8 1 (3.45%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (3.45%) Microsoft