Cisco
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 20 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
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 62 101
Rank change year-on-year -5 +39 -12
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,295 2,000 2,325
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.04% 3.49% 2.63%
As % of the Vendors category 7.16% 8.11% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 795 1,296 1,526
10th Percentile £247 £231 £219
25th Percentile £363 £361 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.46%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £552
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £460 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +2.22% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 78 117
10th Percentile £13.29 £12.90 £14.33
25th Percentile £17.25 £16.47 £20.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £50.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% +109.12% +19.55%
75th Percentile £41.25 £69.56 £47.25
90th Percentile £75.24 £80.48 £57.10
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £22.25
% change year-on-year -47.37% +113.48% +11.25%

All Vendors
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 18,083 24,657 35,435
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.51% 43.06% 40.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,274 16,502 23,585
10th Percentile £263 £270 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £627 £644 £638
90th Percentile £738 £740 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £468
% change year-on-year - +6.95% +7.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,114 666 891
10th Percentile £12.05 £15.11 £12.21
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £21.50 £40.55 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -46.97% +88.58% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.33 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £33.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year -34.97% +73.68% +0.89%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 20 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
England +3 1,160 £488 +2.63% 521
UK excluding London -6 781 £460 +2.22% 395
London -2 397 £500 -4.76% 198
South East +9 355 £500 +11.11% 132
Work from Home -12 350 £475 -5.00% 192
North of England 0 134 £440 +3.53% 79
South West -15 101 £525 +5.00% 48
Midlands -16 92 £450 +12.50% 57
North West -5 87 £475 +11.76% 40
West Midlands -5 66 £450 +12.50% 35
East of England -19 50 £365 +4.29% 37
Scotland +1 48 £330 -30.53% 40
Yorkshire -4 36 £458 -1.08% 32
East Midlands -12 26 £444 -4.05% 22
North East +21 11 £388 -3.13% 8
Wales -19 10 £241 -51.75% 11

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 48 (3.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 27 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.54%) Confluence
4 12 (0.93%) Skype for Business
5 5 (0.39%) Exchange Server 2007
5 5 (0.39%) IBM Domino
6 4 (0.31%) IIS
6 4 (0.31%) nginx
7 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2013
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) Apache
8 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.15%) IBM Notes
9 1 (0.077%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 72 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 21 (1.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 16 (1.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.24%) MS Visio
4 10 (0.77%) Chatbot
5 6 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
6 3 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
7 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.077%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.077%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.077%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 151 (11.66%) Azure
2 116 (8.96%) AWS
3 85 (6.56%) Microsoft 365
4 42 (3.24%) GCP
5 32 (2.47%) SaaS
6 28 (2.16%) Cloud Computing
7 23 (1.78%) Entra ID
8 22 (1.70%) PaaS
9 20 (1.54%) OCI
10 17 (1.31%) Nutanix
11 15 (1.16%) OneDrive
12 11 (0.85%) Twilio
13 10 (0.77%) GitHub
13 10 (0.77%) IaaS
14 8 (0.62%) Rubrik
14 8 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 7 (0.54%) Datadog
16 6 (0.46%) Cloudflare
16 6 (0.46%) Power Platform
17 5 (0.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 534 (41.24%) Firewall
2 375 (28.96%) WAN
3 284 (21.93%) LAN
4 231 (17.84%) VPN
5 223 (17.22%) BGP
6 160 (12.36%) OSPF
7 155 (11.97%) Cisco Nexus
8 152 (11.74%) Network Security
9 151 (11.66%) Cisco ASA
10 149 (11.51%) MPLS
11 143 (11.04%) DNS
12 142 (10.97%) SD-WAN
12 142 (10.97%) Wireless
13 124 (9.58%) Wi-Fi
14 115 (8.88%) Cisco ISE
15 100 (7.72%) DHCP
16 90 (6.95%) Cisco IOS
17 89 (6.87%) Cisco Firepower
18 87 (6.72%) EIGRP
19 84 (6.49%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (1.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.31%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (0.31%) Power BI
3 3 (0.23%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.15%) Data Mining
5 1 (0.077%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.077%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.077%) MySQL
5 1 (0.077%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 30 (2.32%) JIRA
2 25 (1.93%) Sonatype Nexus
3 20 (1.54%) Rational DOORS
4 18 (1.39%) Git
5 7 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 6 (0.46%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.31%) Bitbucket
7 4 (0.31%) GitLab
7 4 (0.31%) Hudson
General
1 249 (19.23%) Finance
2 242 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 116 (8.96%) Telecoms
4 102 (7.88%) Banking
5 100 (7.72%) Public Sector
6 83 (6.41%) Analytical Skills
7 28 (2.16%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (2.08%) Manufacturing
9 20 (1.54%) Retail
10 19 (1.47%) Marketing
11 18 (1.39%) Legal
12 17 (1.31%) Organisational Skills
13 14 (1.08%) Financial Institution
13 14 (1.08%) Investment Banking
14 13 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
15 12 (0.93%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.69%) Billing
16 9 (0.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (0.62%) Mandarin Language
18 7 (0.54%) Military
Job Titles
1 606 (46.80%) Network Engineer
2 189 (14.59%) Architect
3 135 (10.42%) Senior
4 122 (9.42%) Network Architect
5 107 (8.26%) Cisco Engineer
6 94 (7.26%) Senior Network Engineer
7 88 (6.80%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 80 (6.18%) Support Engineer
9 63 (4.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 46 (3.55%) Solutions Architect
11 44 (3.40%) Consultant
12 40 (3.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 37 (2.86%) Network Specialist
14 30 (2.32%) Analyst
15 29 (2.24%) Project Manager
15 29 (2.24%) Storage Engineer
16 26 (2.01%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
16 26 (2.01%) Network Consultant
17 25 (1.93%) Juniper Engineer
17 25 (1.93%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (1.70%) JSON
2 21 (1.62%) 802.1X
2 21 (1.62%) Jinja
3 20 (1.54%) Web Services
4 17 (1.31%) XML
4 17 (1.31%) YANG
5 16 (1.24%) NETCONF
6 12 (0.93%) Middleware
7 11 (0.85%) FIX Protocol
7 11 (0.85%) LDAP
8 6 (0.46%) .NET
8 6 (0.46%) Flash
8 6 (0.46%) RESTful
8 6 (0.46%) SAML
8 6 (0.46%) XMPP
9 5 (0.39%) Django
10 3 (0.23%) EDI
10 3 (0.23%) REST
10 3 (0.23%) Ultra Messaging
10 3 (0.23%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 197 (15.21%) Data Centre
2 61 (4.71%) Video Conferencing
3 37 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
4 29 (2.24%) PKI
5 24 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 20 (1.54%) Operational Technology
7 19 (1.47%) Driving Licence
8 18 (1.39%) Clustering
9 17 (1.31%) Replication
10 16 (1.24%) Blackberry
11 15 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 15 (1.16%) Public Cloud
11 15 (1.16%) Self-Motivation
12 12 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
12 12 (0.93%) IVR
12 12 (0.93%) Security Posture
13 10 (0.77%) Video Editing
14 9 (0.69%) iPhone
14 9 (0.69%) Linux Command Line
15 7 (0.54%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 198 (15.29%) Windows
2 104 (8.03%) Linux
3 68 (5.25%) Windows 10
3 68 (5.25%) Windows Server
4 37 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
5 35 (2.70%) Windows Server 2016
6 27 (2.08%) Windows 7
7 25 (1.93%) Mac OS
8 24 (1.85%) Android
9 23 (1.78%) Unix
10 19 (1.47%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (1.31%) Solaris
12 15 (1.16%) Windows XP
13 13 (1.00%) Mac OS X
14 12 (0.93%) AIX
15 11 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 7 (0.54%) CentOS
17 6 (0.46%) Oracle Linux
18 3 (0.23%) VMS
19 2 (0.15%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 160 (12.36%) ITIL
2 154 (11.89%) Problem-Solving
3 153 (11.81%) Network Design
4 132 (10.19%) Migration
5 83 (6.41%) Agile
6 76 (5.87%) Customer Requirements
7 75 (5.79%) Customer Service
8 74 (5.71%) Change Management
9 72 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 72 (5.56%) Project Management
10 71 (5.48%) Network Management
11 70 (5.41%) Project Delivery
12 68 (5.25%) Load Balancing
13 62 (4.79%) Computer Science
14 61 (4.71%) DevOps
15 58 (4.48%) High Availability
16 57 (4.40%) ITSM
17 55 (4.25%) Roadmaps
18 52 (4.02%) Data Protection
19 51 (3.94%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 101 (7.80%) Python
2 52 (4.02%) PowerShell
3 32 (2.47%) Bash
4 28 (2.16%) SQL
5 22 (1.70%) Perl
6 12 (0.93%) Tcl
7 10 (0.77%) Java
8 4 (0.31%) C#
8 4 (0.31%) Ruby
9 3 (0.23%) C
9 3 (0.23%) Go
9 3 (0.23%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.15%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 430 (33.20%) Cisco Certification
2 411 (31.74%) Security Cleared
3 287 (22.16%) CCNP
4 221 (17.07%) SC Cleared
5 205 (15.83%) CCNA
6 134 (10.35%) Degree
7 124 (9.58%) DV Cleared
8 105 (8.11%) CCIE
9 29 (2.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 28 (2.16%) JNCIA
11 24 (1.85%) AWS Certification
12 23 (1.78%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.70%) CISSP
13 22 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
14 18 (1.39%) Azure Certification
15 17 (1.31%) CISM
16 16 (1.24%) JNCIS
17 15 (1.16%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 15 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 13 (1.00%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (3.94%) SLA
2 21 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 17 (1.31%) GDPR
4 13 (1.00%) PCI DSS
4 13 (1.00%) QA
5 11 (0.85%) PMO
6 10 (0.77%) ISO 9000
7 9 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 8 (0.62%) HIPAA
8 8 (0.62%) SOC 2
9 6 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 5 (0.39%) NIST
11 4 (0.31%) NCSC
12 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
12 2 (0.15%) Disclosure Scotland
12 2 (0.15%) GRC
13 1 (0.077%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.077%) COBIT
13 1 (0.077%) ISAE 3402
13 1 (0.077%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 117 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 116 (8.96%) Active Directory
3 54 (4.17%) VMware NSX
4 41 (3.17%) Hyper-V
5 40 (3.09%) VMware ESXi
6 39 (3.01%) Firmware
7 26 (2.01%) vSphere
8 13 (1.00%) Virtual Servers
9 12 (0.93%) Docker
10 8 (0.62%) Virtual Machines
11 7 (0.54%) KVM
12 4 (0.31%) ProxySG
13 3 (0.23%) BitLocker
13 3 (0.23%) SRDF
13 3 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
13 3 (0.23%) XenApp
14 2 (0.15%) Microsoft App-V
14 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.15%) Squid
14 2 (0.15%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 82 (6.33%) Ansible
2 76 (5.87%) FortiGate
3 71 (5.48%) SCCM
4 48 (3.71%) Terraform
5 41 (3.17%) vCenter Server
6 31 (2.39%) Endace
7 28 (2.16%) EMC NetWorker
8 24 (1.85%) Microsoft Intune
8 24 (1.85%) NetBackup
9 22 (1.70%) SCOM
10 21 (1.62%) WSUS
11 18 (1.39%) Kubernetes
12 15 (1.16%) Nessus
13 11 (0.85%) Nagios
13 11 (0.85%) SolarWinds Orion
14 9 (0.69%) Netcool
14 9 (0.69%) OpenView
14 9 (0.69%) VxRail
15 7 (0.54%) AirWatch
16 6 (0.46%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 314 (24.25%) Juniper
2 238 (18.38%) Palo Alto
3 191 (14.75%) Microsoft
4 178 (13.75%) F5
5 177 (13.67%) Fortinet
6 159 (12.28%) VMware
7 157 (12.12%) CheckPoint
8 80 (6.18%) Citrix
8 80 (6.18%) SolarWinds
9 79 (6.10%) Meraki
10 70 (5.41%) Dell
11 64 (4.94%) HP
12 61 (4.71%) Aruba
13 53 (4.09%) EMC
14 52 (4.02%) Arista
14 52 (4.02%) Nokia
15 47 (3.63%) Avaya
16 36 (2.78%) Google
16 36 (2.78%) Zscaler
17 35 (2.70%) Apple