Cisco Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 11 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
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 48 40 61
Rank change year-on-year -8 +21 +1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 797 1,149 1,151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.75% 5.06% 3.79%
As % of the Vendors category 8.88% 11.26% 9.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 745 737
10th Percentile £240 £243 £214
25th Percentile £363 £350 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +3.33% +5.88% +12.58%
75th Percentile £583 £550 £525
90th Percentile £671 £625 £600
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 50 72
10th Percentile £13.27 £12.65 £13.25
25th Percentile £13.82 £13.47 £19.94
Median hourly rate £18.69 £48.92 £25.75
Median % change year-on-year -61.80% +89.96% +17.05%
75th Percentile £46.39 £63.23 £52.75
90th Percentile £75.24 £80.33 £66.62
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -50.00% +109.12% +8.68%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,976 10,201 12,373
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.19% 44.93% 40.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,361 6,960 8,403
10th Percentile £210 £205 £189
25th Percentile £375 £363 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +7.95%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £660
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,001 427 637
10th Percentile £12.00 £14.25 £11.36
25th Percentile £14.36 £17.72 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £37.50 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -42.67% +92.31% +8.33%
75th Percentile £59.92 £59.28 £41.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £57.50
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 11 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
South East +7 360 £500 +11.11% 105
North of England -6 132 £450 +5.88% 66
South West -10 114 £535 +4.39% 43
Midlands -15 104 £475 +11.76% 46
North West -11 92 £475 +8.57% 38
West Midlands -11 75 £475 +18.75% 29
Scotland -5 54 £363 -23.68% 36
East of England -28 47 £345 -4.83% 29
Yorkshire -19 31 £491 +9.17% 22
East Midlands -17 29 £375 -18.92% 17
Wales -19 10 £241 -54.05% 14
North East +15 9 £400 +23.08% 7
Northern Ireland -1 1 £363 - 3
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 14 (1.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.25%) Confluence
3 9 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 3 (0.38%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.25%) IBM Domino
6 1 (0.13%) Appian
Applications
1 57 (7.15%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.00%) MS Visio
3 7 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 69 (8.66%) Azure
2 58 (7.28%) Microsoft 365
3 46 (5.77%) AWS
4 17 (2.13%) PaaS
4 17 (2.13%) SaaS
5 14 (1.76%) OCI
6 11 (1.38%) GCP
7 9 (1.13%) Entra ID
8 7 (0.88%) OneDrive
9 6 (0.75%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (0.75%) GitHub
10 4 (0.50%) Nutanix
10 4 (0.50%) OpenShift
11 3 (0.38%) BigCommerce
11 3 (0.38%) IaaS
11 3 (0.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.25%) Cloudflare
12 2 (0.25%) Google Workspace
12 2 (0.25%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.25%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 326 (40.90%) Firewall
2 221 (27.73%) WAN
3 157 (19.70%) LAN
4 142 (17.82%) VPN
5 109 (13.68%) BGP
6 92 (11.54%) Cisco Nexus
7 91 (11.42%) Network Security
8 89 (11.17%) Cisco ASA
8 89 (11.17%) Wi-Fi
9 88 (11.04%) SD-WAN
10 83 (10.41%) DNS
11 76 (9.54%) MPLS
12 71 (8.91%) Cisco Firepower
13 67 (8.41%) Cisco ISE
14 65 (8.16%) DHCP
15 62 (7.78%) OSPF
16 61 (7.65%) Wireless
17 51 (6.40%) DMZ
17 51 (6.40%) EIGRP
18 49 (6.15%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.63%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.25%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.25%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 23 (2.89%) JIRA
2 20 (2.51%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (1.13%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.50%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.50%) Hudson
General
1 135 (16.94%) Social Skills
2 103 (12.92%) Finance
3 76 (9.54%) Telecoms
4 71 (8.91%) Public Sector
5 50 (6.27%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (5.77%) Banking
7 27 (3.39%) Manufacturing
8 13 (1.63%) Investment Banking
8 13 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
9 12 (1.51%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (1.38%) Aerospace
11 10 (1.25%) Marketing
12 9 (1.13%) Legal
13 7 (0.88%) Aeronautics
13 7 (0.88%) Digital Economy
13 7 (0.88%) Retail
14 6 (0.75%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (0.75%) Electronics
15 5 (0.63%) Billing
16 4 (0.50%) Military
Job Titles
1 403 (50.56%) Network Engineer
2 150 (18.82%) Architect
3 104 (13.05%) Network Architect
4 85 (10.66%) Senior
5 64 (8.03%) Senior Network Engineer
6 61 (7.65%) Cisco Engineer
7 53 (6.65%) Support Engineer
8 51 (6.40%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 48 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 29 (3.64%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 29 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
11 27 (3.39%) Storage Engineer
12 26 (3.26%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
12 26 (3.26%) Network Support
13 23 (2.89%) Network Support Engineer
14 21 (2.63%) Analyst
15 19 (2.38%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 19 (2.38%) Network Specialist
16 18 (2.26%) Juniper Engineer
16 18 (2.26%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.51%) Jinja
2 9 (1.13%) Web Services
3 8 (1.00%) 802.1X
4 4 (0.50%) .NET
4 4 (0.50%) .NET Framework
4 4 (0.50%) Flash
4 4 (0.50%) ModSecurity
5 3 (0.38%) Django
5 3 (0.38%) EDI
5 3 (0.38%) JSON
5 3 (0.38%) REST
5 3 (0.38%) RESTful
5 3 (0.38%) VML
5 3 (0.38%) XMPP
5 3 (0.38%) YANG
6 2 (0.25%) LDAP
7 1 (0.13%) CSS
7 1 (0.13%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.13%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 139 (17.44%) Data Centre
2 20 (2.51%) Data Protection Act
3 19 (2.38%) Driving Licence
4 17 (2.13%) Video Conferencing
5 15 (1.88%) Security Posture
6 14 (1.76%) Cloud Native
6 14 (1.76%) Operational Technology
7 12 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
8 11 (1.38%) Replication
9 10 (1.25%) Blackberry
10 9 (1.13%) Public Cloud
10 9 (1.13%) Video Editing
11 6 (0.75%) HP Storage
11 6 (0.75%) Management Information System
11 6 (0.75%) Product Ownership
12 5 (0.63%) Clustering
12 5 (0.63%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.63%) PKI
12 5 (0.63%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.50%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 118 (14.81%) Windows
2 64 (8.03%) Linux
3 58 (7.28%) Windows 10
4 42 (5.27%) Windows Server
5 23 (2.89%) Windows Server 2016
6 22 (2.76%) Windows Server 2012
7 17 (2.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (2.01%) Windows 7
9 14 (1.76%) Windows XP
10 12 (1.51%) AIX
11 11 (1.38%) Solaris
12 9 (1.13%) Android
12 9 (1.13%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.50%) Unix
14 2 (0.25%) Data ONTAP
14 2 (0.25%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.25%) VMS
15 1 (0.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (15.18%) ITIL
2 108 (13.55%) Network Design
3 98 (12.30%) Problem-Solving
4 81 (10.16%) Migration
5 74 (9.28%) Customer Requirements
6 58 (7.28%) Network Management
7 55 (6.90%) Project Delivery
8 54 (6.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 50 (6.27%) Project Management
10 44 (5.52%) Break/Fix
11 40 (5.02%) Customer Service
11 40 (5.02%) ITSM
12 39 (4.89%) Agile
13 37 (4.64%) Decision-Making
13 37 (4.64%) TOGAF
14 36 (4.52%) Network Monitoring
15 35 (4.39%) Change Management
15 35 (4.39%) High Availability
16 34 (4.27%) Technical Leadership
17 33 (4.14%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 39 (4.89%) Python
2 28 (3.51%) PowerShell
3 13 (1.63%) Bash
4 12 (1.51%) Perl
4 12 (1.51%) Tcl
5 9 (1.13%) SQL
6 4 (0.50%) Java
7 3 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
8 1 (0.13%) C
Qualifications
1 347 (43.54%) Security Cleared
2 244 (30.61%) Cisco Certification
3 180 (22.58%) SC Cleared
4 160 (20.08%) CCNP
5 139 (17.44%) CCNA
6 111 (13.93%) DV Cleared
7 68 (8.53%) Degree
8 35 (4.39%) CCIE
9 22 (2.76%) JNCIA
10 15 (1.88%) A+ Certification
11 14 (1.76%) CISSP
12 13 (1.63%) HND
12 13 (1.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 12 (1.51%) CCSA
13 12 (1.51%) TOGAF Certification
14 11 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
15 10 (1.25%) JNCIS
16 9 (1.13%) CCIE Data Center
16 9 (1.13%) Master's Degree
17 7 (0.88%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (3.76%) SLA
2 13 (1.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.25%) ISO 9000
4 7 (0.88%) PMO
4 7 (0.88%) QA
5 4 (0.50%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.25%) GDPR
6 2 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 2 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.13%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.13%) NEBOSH
7 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 89 (11.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 68 (8.53%) Active Directory
3 42 (5.27%) VMware NSX
4 33 (4.14%) VMware ESXi
5 31 (3.89%) Hyper-V
6 25 (3.14%) Firmware
7 23 (2.89%) vSphere
8 4 (0.50%) Docker
8 4 (0.50%) ProxySG
9 3 (0.38%) SRDF
10 2 (0.25%) KVM
10 2 (0.25%) NFS
10 2 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.25%) XenApp
11 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (6.65%) SCCM
2 49 (6.15%) FortiGate
3 34 (4.27%) Ansible
3 34 (4.27%) vCenter Server
4 32 (4.02%) Endace
5 22 (2.76%) EMC NetWorker
5 22 (2.76%) NetBackup
6 19 (2.38%) Terraform
7 18 (2.26%) SCOM
8 17 (2.13%) WSUS
9 15 (1.88%) Microsoft Intune
10 13 (1.63%) Nessus
11 11 (1.38%) CSIRT
12 9 (1.13%) OpenView
13 6 (0.75%) HP Data Protector
13 6 (0.75%) Kubernetes
14 4 (0.50%) Autotask
14 4 (0.50%) OPNET
14 4 (0.50%) PowerCLI
15 3 (0.38%) EMC TimeFinder
Vendors
1 241 (30.24%) Juniper
2 141 (17.69%) Palo Alto
3 121 (15.18%) Microsoft
4 116 (14.55%) VMware
5 110 (13.80%) Fortinet
6 109 (13.68%) F5
7 101 (12.67%) CheckPoint
8 50 (6.27%) Meraki
9 42 (5.27%) Dell
10 39 (4.89%) Citrix
10 39 (4.89%) SolarWinds
11 38 (4.77%) Aruba
12 37 (4.64%) HP
13 31 (3.89%) Nokia
14 29 (3.64%) Brocade
14 29 (3.64%) Veeam
15 26 (3.26%) EMC
15 26 (3.26%) Symantec
16 25 (3.14%) Arista
16 25 (3.14%) Blue Coat