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 October 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
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 42 65
Rank change year-on-year 0 +23 +30
Contract jobs citing Cisco 22 37 27
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 3.61% 4.68% 2.71%
As % of the Vendors category 8.94% 12.33% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 18 13
10th Percentile £413 £200 £345
25th Percentile £422 £212 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £240 £475
Median % change year-on-year +87.50% -49.47% +2.93%
75th Percentile £471 £269 £538
90th Percentile £475 £391 £548
Scotland median daily rate £425 £325 £450
% change year-on-year +30.77% -27.78% +9.09%
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 246 300 420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 40.33% 37.93% 42.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 166 246
10th Percentile £335 £156 £164
25th Percentile £425 £231 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £420 £475
Median % change year-on-year +13.10% -11.58% -
75th Percentile £538 £518 £550
90th Percentile £625 £663 £611
Scotland median daily rate £450 £430 £475
% change year-on-year +4.65% -9.47% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 22 2
10th Percentile £17.00 £13.24 -
25th Percentile - £15.92 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £20.94 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -14.65% +18.16% -
75th Percentile £40.00 £24.11 -
90th Percentile £65.75 £24.18 -
Scotland median hourly rate £19.23 £19.59 £17.72
% change year-on-year -1.84% +10.55% -

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
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 (9.09%) AWS
1 2 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (4.55%) GCP
2 1 (4.55%) npm
2 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) LAN
2 7 (31.82%) Firewall
2 7 (31.82%) WAN
3 6 (27.27%) Cisco Nexus
3 6 (27.27%) Unified Communications
4 5 (22.73%) VPN
4 5 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (18.18%) IPsec
5 4 (18.18%) Network Security
5 4 (18.18%) SD-WAN
6 3 (13.64%) VLAN
6 3 (13.64%) VoIP
7 2 (9.09%) BGP
7 2 (9.09%) EIGRP
7 2 (9.09%) OSPF
8 1 (4.55%) DHCP
8 1 (4.55%) DNS
8 1 (4.55%) IP Telephony
8 1 (4.55%) Wireless
8 1 (4.55%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Cypress.io
1 1 (4.55%) Git
1 1 (4.55%) SonarQube
1 1 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
1 1 (4.55%) webpack
General
1 11 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (18.18%) Public Sector
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
3 3 (13.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (9.09%) Finance
5 1 (4.55%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Legal
5 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 9 (40.91%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Field Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Network Field Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Network Consultant
3 3 (13.64%) Network Specialist
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Desktop Support
5 1 (4.55%) Migration Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Design Authority
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Support
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Support Executive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) CSS
1 1 (4.55%) HTML
1 1 (4.55%) Jest
1 1 (4.55%) React
1 1 (4.55%) RESTful
1 1 (4.55%) Spring Boot
1 1 (4.55%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Linux
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (27.27%) Mentoring
1 6 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
1 6 (27.27%) Project Delivery
2 5 (22.73%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (18.18%) High Availability
3 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 4 (18.18%) Network Design
4 3 (13.64%) Coaching
5 2 (9.09%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 2 (9.09%) DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) Digital Strategy
5 2 (9.09%) Migration
5 2 (9.09%) Network Management
5 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
5 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
6 1 (4.55%) Agile
6 1 (4.55%) Change Management
6 1 (4.55%) Information Security
6 1 (4.55%) Web Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Java
1 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
1 1 (4.55%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 10 (45.45%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (31.82%) CCNA
3 6 (27.27%) CCIE
3 6 (27.27%) CCNP
4 3 (13.64%) CCIE Collaboration
5 1 (4.55%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (4.55%) COBIT
2 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) F5
1 4 (18.18%) Palo Alto
2 3 (13.64%) Meraki
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) SAP