Cisco Contracts in Scotland

Cisco
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 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 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 79 98
Rank change year-on-year +5 +19 0
Contract jobs citing Cisco 48 98 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.23% 3.60% 2.23%
As % of the Vendors category 5.37% 8.57% 6.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 66 41
10th Percentile £201 £325 £165
25th Percentile £240 £418 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £475 £445
Median % change year-on-year -28.42% +6.86% +27.00%
75th Percentile £438 £500 £513
90th Percentile £461 £538 £581
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 7
10th Percentile - - £21.00
25th Percentile - - £31.38
Median hourly rate - - £50.77
75th Percentile - - £56.00
90th Percentile - - £57.10
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £50.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -45.00% +109.12% +19.55%

All Vendors
Scotland

Cisco is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 894 1,144 1,123
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 41.47% 42.06% 32.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 563 811 757
10th Percentile £179 £175 £185
25th Percentile £323 £369 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £473 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.86% +5.11% +5.88%
75th Percentile £575 £539 £538
90th Percentile £663 £626 £600
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 16 32
10th Percentile £11.94 £17.65 £12.58
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.57 £16.27
Median hourly rate £17.50 £59.03 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.35% +61.71% +16.80%
75th Percentile £19.75 £65.39 £47.97
90th Percentile £60.15 £69.38 £55.33
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -49.41% +97.67% -3.00%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Scotland

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in Scotland

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Scotland over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Scotland

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in Scotland

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
Edinburgh +18 26 £240 -52.00% 15
Glasgow -5 8 £413 -6.46% 13
Highlands -1 3 - -
Stirling - 3 £420 -
Fife +1 2 £365 -
South Lanarkshire - 2 £314 - 1
Lanarkshire +1 1 £330 -30.53% 6
Aberdeen -1 1 - - 11
West Lothian - 1 - - 1
Cisco
UK

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Applications
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 5 (10.42%) Azure
1 5 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (6.25%) Entra ID
3 1 (2.08%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (35.42%) VPN
2 16 (33.33%) Firewall
3 13 (27.08%) DHCP
3 13 (27.08%) DNS
4 5 (10.42%) LAN
5 4 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
5 4 (8.33%) WAN
6 3 (6.25%) BGP
6 3 (6.25%) FabricPath
6 3 (6.25%) MPLS
6 3 (6.25%) NAS
6 3 (6.25%) Network Security
6 3 (6.25%) NX-OS
6 3 (6.25%) SAN
7 2 (4.17%) Cisco ASA
7 2 (4.17%) OSPF
7 2 (4.17%) SD-WAN
7 2 (4.17%) SNMP
7 2 (4.17%) TCP/IP
7 2 (4.17%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) NonStop SQL
2 1 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (2.08%) Git
2 1 (2.08%) Hudson
General
1 10 (20.83%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.58%) Public Sector
3 6 (12.50%) Banking
3 6 (12.50%) Finance
4 5 (10.42%) Billing
5 4 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (8.33%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 8 (16.67%) Consultant
2 8 (16.67%) Desktop Engineer
3 6 (12.50%) Desktop Support
3 6 (12.50%) VMware Consultant
4 5 (10.42%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
5 4 (8.33%) Cisco Consultant
5 4 (8.33%) Data Consultant
5 4 (8.33%) Field Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (8.33%) Migration Consultant
5 4 (8.33%) Network Field Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) Senior
7 2 (4.17%) Administrator
7 2 (4.17%) Cloud Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Data Migration Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Enterprise Architecture Consultant
7 2 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.17%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.08%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (2.08%) JSON
1 1 (2.08%) NETCONF
1 1 (2.08%) XML
1 1 (2.08%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.17%) Operational Technology
2 2 (4.17%) VxBlock/Vblock
3 1 (2.08%) CMDB
3 1 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (2.08%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 21 (43.75%) Windows
2 13 (27.08%) Windows 10
3 10 (20.83%) Windows 7
4 3 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 3 (6.25%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (4.17%) Linux
6 1 (2.08%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (31.25%) ITIL
2 12 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 12 (25.00%) Migration
3 11 (22.92%) Break/Fix
3 11 (22.92%) Service Delivery
4 7 (14.58%) Data Migration
5 6 (12.50%) Agile
5 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (10.42%) Business Impact Analysis
6 5 (10.42%) Capacity Management
6 5 (10.42%) Impact Analysis
6 5 (10.42%) Kanban
6 5 (10.42%) Process Improvement
7 4 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (8.33%) Decision-Making
7 4 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (8.33%) Time Management
8 3 (6.25%) Data Protection
8 3 (6.25%) Proactive Management
8 3 (6.25%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.08%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (27.08%) SC Cleared
1 13 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 10 (20.83%) A+ Certification
3 7 (14.58%) Degree
4 6 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (6.25%) CCNA
5 3 (6.25%) CCNP
6 1 (2.08%) CCSA
6 1 (2.08%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.42%) PMO
2 2 (4.17%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 16 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 9 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (16.67%) VMware NSX
4 7 (14.58%) vSphere
5 4 (8.33%) Hyper-V
6 2 (4.17%) Firmware
7 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Virtual Server
7 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) SCCM
2 4 (8.33%) FortiGate
3 2 (4.17%) Nagios
3 2 (4.17%) OpenView
3 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
3 2 (4.17%) VxRail
4 1 (2.08%) Ansible
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.08%) Observium
Vendors
1 20 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (22.92%) VMware
3 7 (14.58%) Dell
3 7 (14.58%) Fortinet
4 6 (12.50%) SolarWinds
5 4 (8.33%) CheckPoint
6 3 (6.25%) Citrix
6 3 (6.25%) HP
6 3 (6.25%) Meraki
7 2 (4.17%) Palo Alto
8 1 (2.08%) AlienVault
8 1 (2.08%) Apple
8 1 (2.08%) F5
8 1 (2.08%) Mitel
8 1 (2.08%) Nokia
8 1 (2.08%) Progress
8 1 (2.08%) Zscaler