Cisco Contracts in the North of England

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England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 12 June 2024, 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 55 63
Rank change year-on-year -12 +8 -2
Contract jobs citing Cisco 133 199 276
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.75% 3.66% 3.88%
As % of the Vendors category 6.60% 8.87% 10.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 132 183
10th Percentile £273 £221 £230
25th Percentile £378 £347 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £415
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% +2.41% +3.75%
75th Percentile £530 £525 £500
90th Percentile £596 £588 £571
England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
10th Percentile - £18.43 £16.53
25th Percentile - £27.08 £16.95
Median hourly rate - £43.00 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year - +143.76% +4.38%
75th Percentile - £46.17 £28.13
90th Percentile - £47.16 £33.75
England median hourly rate £26.00 £43.75 £23.91
% change year-on-year -40.57% +82.98% +8.68%

All Vendors
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,016 2,243 2,755
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 41.61% 41.22% 38.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,169 1,476 1,871
10th Percentile £251 £220 £180
25th Percentile £400 £375 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £468
Median % change year-on-year - +6.84% +6.36%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £556
90th Percentile £650 £688 £645
England median daily rate £519 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 221 77 162
10th Percentile £10.95 £15.74 £10.20
25th Percentile £12.63 £17.70 £14.06
Median hourly rate £16.00 £28.70 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -44.25% +53.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £26.39 £43.75 £36.19
90th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £75.00
England median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the North of England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the North of England region over the 6 months to 12 June 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -6 92 £475 +8.57% 37
Yorkshire -11 32 £500 +11.11% 22
North East +13 9 £400 +23.08% 7
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (2.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 15 (11.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (7.52%) Azure
2 9 (6.77%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (3.76%) AWS
3 5 (3.76%) SaaS
4 3 (2.26%) Entra ID
5 2 (1.50%) GCP
5 2 (1.50%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.75%) IaaS
6 1 (0.75%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (38.35%) Firewall
2 29 (21.80%) Cisco Nexus
3 28 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
4 27 (20.30%) WAN
5 26 (19.55%) SD-WAN
6 21 (15.79%) Cisco ASA
6 21 (15.79%) Wireless
7 18 (13.53%) BGP
7 18 (13.53%) Cisco Firepower
8 17 (12.78%) Cisco ISE
8 17 (12.78%) EIGRP
8 17 (12.78%) LAN
8 17 (12.78%) OSPF
9 16 (12.03%) IPsec
9 16 (12.03%) NetScaler
9 16 (12.03%) Network Security
10 15 (11.28%) DMZ
11 14 (10.53%) HSRP
11 14 (10.53%) SNMP
12 13 (9.77%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.75%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (1.50%) JIRA
1 2 (1.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 22 (16.54%) Social Skills
2 15 (11.28%) Analytical Skills
2 15 (11.28%) Finance
3 8 (6.02%) Public Sector
4 4 (3.01%) Banking
4 4 (3.01%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.26%) Manufacturing
6 2 (1.50%) Investment Banking
6 2 (1.50%) Legal
6 2 (1.50%) Retail
7 1 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (63.16%) Network Engineer
2 21 (15.79%) Senior
3 16 (12.03%) Senior Network Engineer
4 14 (10.53%) Cisco Engineer
4 14 (10.53%) Support Engineer
5 11 (8.27%) Architect
6 10 (7.52%) Storage Engineer
7 9 (6.77%) Network Support
7 9 (6.77%) Network Support Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Network Architect
8 7 (5.26%) Network Operations Engineer
8 7 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) SAN Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) SAN Storage Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Security Architect
9 6 (4.51%) VMware Engineer
9 6 (4.51%) Wireless Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (9.02%) Jinja
2 2 (1.50%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.50%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 28 (21.05%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.02%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (3.76%) Driving Licence
4 3 (2.26%) EMC VNX
4 3 (2.26%) Replication
5 2 (1.50%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.50%) Private Cloud
6 1 (0.75%) Clustering
6 1 (0.75%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (10.53%) Windows
2 7 (5.26%) Windows 10
3 3 (2.26%) AIX
3 3 (2.26%) Linux
3 3 (2.26%) Solaris
3 3 (2.26%) Windows Server
4 2 (1.50%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.50%) Ubuntu
4 2 (1.50%) VMS
4 2 (1.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.75%) Unix
5 1 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (20.30%) ITSM
2 19 (14.29%) Network Management
3 18 (13.53%) Change Management
4 17 (12.78%) ITIL
4 17 (12.78%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (9.77%) Break/Fix
6 12 (9.02%) DevOps
6 12 (9.02%) Migration
7 9 (6.77%) Network Monitoring
8 7 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (4.51%) Agile
9 6 (4.51%) High Availability
9 6 (4.51%) Incident Response
10 5 (3.76%) Stakeholder Management
11 4 (3.01%) Network Design
12 3 (2.26%) Customer Requirements
12 3 (2.26%) Data Centre Operations
12 3 (2.26%) Data Protection
12 3 (2.26%) Presales
12 3 (2.26%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 17 (12.78%) Python
2 12 (9.02%) Perl
2 12 (9.02%) Tcl
3 1 (0.75%) Bash
3 1 (0.75%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (36.84%) Cisco Certification
2 45 (33.83%) CCNP
3 38 (28.57%) CCNA
4 24 (18.05%) Security Cleared
5 20 (15.04%) SC Cleared
6 11 (8.27%) CCIE
7 7 (5.26%) CISSP
8 4 (3.01%) CCIE Security
8 4 (3.01%) CCSA
8 4 (3.01%) JNCIA
8 4 (3.01%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 3 (2.26%) Degree
9 3 (2.26%) JNCIS
10 2 (1.50%) CCSE
10 2 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (1.50%) VCAP
11 1 (0.75%) AWS Certification
11 1 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (0.75%) CCDA
11 1 (0.75%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (4.51%) SLA
2 1 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.75%) NIST
2 1 (0.75%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (15.79%) Firmware
2 9 (6.77%) Active Directory
3 7 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (4.51%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (3.01%) Hyper-V
6 3 (2.26%) SRDF
7 2 (1.50%) NFS
7 2 (1.50%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.75%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (12.03%) Ansible
2 7 (5.26%) vCenter Server
3 5 (3.76%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (2.26%) EMC TimeFinder
4 3 (2.26%) Terraform
5 2 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.75%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.75%) SCCM
6 1 (0.75%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.75%) VxRail
6 1 (0.75%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (26.32%) Palo Alto
2 29 (21.80%) Meraki
3 26 (19.55%) Citrix
4 24 (18.05%) Juniper
5 22 (16.54%) SolarWinds
6 17 (12.78%) VMware
7 16 (12.03%) Brocade
8 15 (11.28%) Aruba
8 15 (11.28%) F5
9 14 (10.53%) Microsoft
10 11 (8.27%) 3Com
11 8 (6.02%) Fortinet
12 7 (5.26%) CheckPoint
12 7 (5.26%) Veeam
13 6 (4.51%) Dell
14 5 (3.76%) Dell Compellent
15 4 (3.01%) Zscaler
16 3 (2.26%) AlgoSec
16 3 (2.26%) EqualLogic
16 3 (2.26%) Nimble Storage