Meraki
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Meraki products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Meraki over the 6 months to 7 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 Meraki.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 497 517 596
Rank change year-on-year +20 +79 -20
Contract jobs citing Meraki 88 176 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.21% 0.30% 0.29%
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 0.71% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 103 164
10th Percentile £227 £258 £277
25th Percentile £313 £322 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year - -5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £519 £525 £527
90th Percentile £666 £593 £649
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £400 £430
% change year-on-year +6.25% -6.98% +25.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 11
10th Percentile - £11.60 -
25th Percentile - £11.74 £20.75
Median hourly rate - £13.33 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year - -37.99% +7.50%
75th Percentile - £14.78 £22.25
90th Percentile - £14.84 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £21.50
% change year-on-year - - +7.50%

All Vendors
UK

Meraki 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 18,246 24,927 35,101
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.60% 42.91% 39.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,291 16,680 23,333
10th Percentile £263 £271 £293
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £630 £645 £635
90th Percentile £738 £743 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £465
% change year-on-year - +7.53% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,108 691 877
10th Percentile £12.09 £15.21 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.79 £15.04
Median hourly rate £22.00 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.24% +97.67% -2.27%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.26
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £18.70
% change year-on-year -42.77% +100.53% +1.08%

Meraki
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Meraki in the UK

Meraki
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Meraki in the UK

Meraki
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Meraki over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Meraki in the UK

Meraki
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Meraki in the UK

Meraki
Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Meraki within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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 +44 80 £425 - 103
UK excluding London +34 54 £425 +6.25% 79
North of England +23 29 £425 -10.53% 9
London +65 26 £450 +10.77% 39
Work from Home +49 20 £364 -23.42% 51
North West +14 15 £425 -9.57% 9
South East +12 15 £425 - 18
Yorkshire +33 14 £568 +15.82%
South West +13 5 £325 -18.75% 12
Scotland +41 4 £240 -46.67% 15
Midlands +18 1 - - 17
East Midlands +14 1 - - 6
East of England -3 1 £350 -43.43% 10

Meraki
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 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.41%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.45%) Azure
2 11 (12.50%) AWS
3 9 (10.23%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.55%) SaaS
5 3 (3.41%) BigCommerce
5 3 (3.41%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.41%) Google Workspace
6 2 (2.27%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (2.27%) GCP
6 2 (2.27%) IaaS
6 2 (2.27%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.27%) PaaS
7 1 (1.14%) Azure Stack
7 1 (1.14%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.14%) Nutanix
7 1 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 43 (48.86%) WAN
2 38 (43.18%) Firewall
2 38 (43.18%) Wi-Fi
3 32 (36.36%) LAN
4 22 (25.00%) SD-WAN
5 16 (18.18%) Wireless
6 15 (17.05%) DNS
7 14 (15.91%) DHCP
8 13 (14.77%) VPN
9 12 (13.64%) Network Security
10 10 (11.36%) Cisco ASA
10 10 (11.36%) OSPF
11 9 (10.23%) BGP
11 9 (10.23%) Cisco ISE
11 9 (10.23%) MPLS
12 8 (9.09%) TCP/IP
13 7 (7.95%) NetScaler
13 7 (7.95%) WLAN
14 6 (6.82%) Cisco Nexus
14 6 (6.82%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.27%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Git
1 3 (3.41%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.14%) Hudson
General
1 14 (15.91%) Social Skills
2 13 (14.77%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.95%) Marketing
4 7 (7.95%) Retail
5 5 (5.68%) Finance
6 1 (1.14%) Aviation
6 1 (1.14%) Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.14%) French Language
6 1 (1.14%) German Language
6 1 (1.14%) Law
6 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.14%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.14%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 46 (52.27%) Network Engineer
2 7 (7.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (6.82%) Senior
4 5 (5.68%) Architect
4 5 (5.68%) Network Architect
4 5 (5.68%) WAN Engineer
5 4 (4.55%) Security Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) Consultant
6 3 (3.41%) IT Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) LAN Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) Mobile Engineer
6 3 (3.41%) Network Consultant
6 3 (3.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (2.27%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 2 (2.27%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
7 2 (2.27%) 3rd Line Engineer
7 2 (2.27%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.82%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.41%) Jinja
2 3 (3.41%) JSON
2 3 (3.41%) NETCONF
2 3 (3.41%) RESTful
2 3 (3.41%) VML
2 3 (3.41%) XML
2 3 (3.41%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.77%) Data Centre
2 6 (6.82%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (5.68%) Driving Licence
4 4 (4.55%) Clustering
5 3 (3.41%) PKI
6 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.14%) Cyberattack
7 1 (1.14%) EPoS
7 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (1.14%) IoT
7 1 (1.14%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 10 (11.36%) Windows
2 6 (6.82%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.27%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.14%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (20.45%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (17.05%) Load Balancing
3 13 (14.77%) Break/Fix
4 11 (12.50%) Network Management
5 10 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (10.23%) Network Design
7 7 (7.95%) Network Architecture
7 7 (7.95%) Network Monitoring
8 5 (5.68%) Agile
8 5 (5.68%) High Availability
9 4 (4.55%) Cybersecurity
9 4 (4.55%) Migration
9 4 (4.55%) Technology Strategy
10 3 (3.41%) Customer Acquisition
10 3 (3.41%) Customer Experience
10 3 (3.41%) Investment Management
10 3 (3.41%) Kalman Filter
10 3 (3.41%) Presales
10 3 (3.41%) Product Management
10 3 (3.41%) Product Marketing
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.55%) PowerShell
1 4 (4.55%) Python
2 1 (1.14%) Bash
2 1 (1.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (27.27%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (19.32%) CCNP
3 12 (13.64%) CCNA
4 6 (6.82%) SC Cleared
4 6 (6.82%) Security Cleared
5 4 (4.55%) CCIE
6 3 (3.41%) CCDP
7 2 (2.27%) Degree
8 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
8 1 (1.14%) CCIE Routing and Switching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) SLA
2 3 (3.41%) NCSC
3 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 8 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 7 (7.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.41%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.27%) Firmware
4 2 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
5 1 (1.14%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (5.68%) Terraform
2 3 (3.41%) Ansible
2 3 (3.41%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.41%) Kibana
2 3 (3.41%) SCCM
3 1 (1.14%) CASB
3 1 (1.14%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 79 (89.77%) Cisco
2 30 (34.09%) Aruba
3 27 (30.68%) Palo Alto
4 17 (19.32%) Juniper
5 15 (17.05%) Citrix
6 13 (14.77%) Microsoft
7 12 (13.64%) CheckPoint
7 12 (13.64%) F5
8 11 (12.50%) 3Com
8 11 (12.50%) Brocade
9 9 (10.23%) SolarWinds
10 8 (9.09%) VMware
10 8 (9.09%) Zscaler
11 7 (7.95%) Dell
12 6 (6.82%) Fortinet
13 5 (5.68%) Google
13 5 (5.68%) HP
14 3 (3.41%) Adobe
14 3 (3.41%) Intel
14 3 (3.41%) Salesforce