Cisco Contracts with Work from Home Options

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The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 70 112
Rank change year-on-year -19 +42 +4
Contract jobs citing Cisco 350 757 1,001
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.39% 3.12% 2.26%
As % of the Vendors category 5.65% 7.14% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 225 491 700
10th Percentile £275 £344 £313
25th Percentile £363 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £625 £606 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £638
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 24 24
10th Percentile £13.25 £12.50 -
25th Percentile £14.22 £18.50 £20.75
Median hourly rate £21.25 £50.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.50% +92.31% +30.00%
75th Percentile £29.06 £79.13 £41.69
90th Percentile £30.25 £80.78 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -50.00% +109.12% +19.55%

All Vendors
Work from Home

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 WFH option and 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 6,190 10,605 17,518
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 42.27% 43.75% 39.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,936 7,138 12,016
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +8.25%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £630
90th Percentile £725 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 204 251 249
10th Percentile £13.31 £16.61 £13.50
25th Percentile £16.50 £25.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £52.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.71% +22.09% +65.38%
75th Percentile £51.25 £66.00 £57.38
90th Percentile £71.75 £80.00 £73.00
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
% change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cisco trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cisco.

Cisco daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cisco over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Cisco daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Cisco.

Cisco hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Cisco over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Cisco hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 13 (3.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (2.86%) Confluence
3 2 (0.57%) nginx
3 2 (0.57%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.29%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.29%) IBM Notes
4 1 (0.29%) IIS
4 1 (0.29%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 7 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.71%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 41 (11.71%) Azure
2 39 (11.14%) AWS
3 18 (5.14%) GCP
4 17 (4.86%) Microsoft 365
5 13 (3.71%) Cloud Computing
6 7 (2.00%) GitHub
6 7 (2.00%) SaaS
6 7 (2.00%) Twilio
7 6 (1.71%) Entra ID
7 6 (1.71%) IaaS
7 6 (1.71%) PaaS
8 5 (1.43%) Nutanix
8 5 (1.43%) Rubrik
9 4 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.86%) Datadog
10 3 (0.86%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.57%) Amazon EKS
11 2 (0.57%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.57%) Route 53
12 1 (0.29%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 157 (44.86%) Firewall
2 88 (25.14%) WAN
3 73 (20.86%) BGP
4 65 (18.57%) LAN
5 63 (18.00%) Cisco ASA
6 60 (17.14%) OSPF
7 59 (16.86%) SD-WAN
8 53 (15.14%) Network Security
9 49 (14.00%) VPN
10 48 (13.71%) Cisco Nexus
11 42 (12.00%) Cisco ISE
12 40 (11.43%) MPLS
13 35 (10.00%) Wireless
14 30 (8.57%) EIGRP
15 28 (8.00%) IPsec
16 26 (7.43%) DNS
16 26 (7.43%) TCP/IP
17 25 (7.14%) Wi-Fi
18 24 (6.86%) SAN
19 22 (6.29%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.43%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.86%) Power BI
2 3 (0.86%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.57%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (0.57%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 12 (3.43%) Sonatype Nexus
2 9 (2.57%) JIRA
3 6 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.43%) Git
4 5 (1.43%) TeamCity
5 4 (1.14%) GitLab
5 4 (1.14%) Rational DOORS
General
1 88 (25.14%) Finance
2 56 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 40 (11.43%) Telecoms
4 34 (9.71%) Banking
5 15 (4.29%) Analytical Skills
6 13 (3.71%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.43%) Manufacturing
8 10 (2.86%) Retail
9 9 (2.57%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (1.71%) Billing
11 5 (1.43%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.43%) Financial Institution
11 5 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
12 4 (1.14%) Aeronautics
13 3 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.57%) Electronics
14 2 (0.57%) Legal
14 2 (0.57%) Pharmaceutical
15 1 (0.29%) Investment Banking
15 1 (0.29%) Military
Job Titles
1 147 (42.00%) Network Engineer
2 51 (14.57%) Architect
3 35 (10.00%) Senior
4 29 (8.29%) Network Architect
5 27 (7.71%) Cisco Engineer
6 24 (6.86%) Consultant
7 19 (5.43%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 18 (5.14%) Solutions Architect
8 18 (5.14%) Support Engineer
9 16 (4.57%) Senior Network Engineer
10 12 (3.43%) Network Consultant
11 11 (3.14%) Security Engineer
12 10 (2.86%) Network Security Engineer
13 9 (2.57%) Developer
13 9 (2.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 9 (2.57%) Operations Engineer
13 9 (2.57%) Project Manager
14 8 (2.29%) Analyst
14 8 (2.29%) Automation Engineer
15 7 (2.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (2.86%) FIX Protocol
1 10 (2.86%) Web Services
2 7 (2.00%) LDAP
2 7 (2.00%) Middleware
3 6 (1.71%) Jinja
4 4 (1.14%) JSON
5 3 (0.86%) 802.1X
5 3 (0.86%) Django
5 3 (0.86%) EDI
5 3 (0.86%) REST
5 3 (0.86%) RESTful
5 3 (0.86%) YANG
6 2 (0.57%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (0.57%) Regular Expression
6 2 (0.57%) Ultra Messaging
6 2 (0.57%) XML
7 1 (0.29%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.29%) Data Centre
2 17 (4.86%) Video Conferencing
3 12 (3.43%) Clustering
4 9 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 8 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.29%) IVR
5 8 (2.29%) Operational Technology
5 8 (2.29%) Replication
6 6 (1.71%) PKI
6 6 (1.71%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (1.14%) Cloud Native
9 3 (0.86%) CCTV
9 3 (0.86%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (0.86%) IoT
9 3 (0.86%) Linux Command Line
9 3 (0.86%) SCADA
10 2 (0.57%) Hedge funds
10 2 (0.57%) HP Storage
Operating Systems
1 42 (12.00%) Windows
2 22 (6.29%) Linux
3 13 (3.71%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (3.14%) Windows Server
5 8 (2.29%) Solaris
5 8 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
6 7 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 7 (2.00%) Windows 10
7 6 (1.71%) Mac OS
7 6 (1.71%) Unix
8 5 (1.43%) Oracle Linux
9 3 (0.86%) AIX
9 3 (0.86%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.29%) Android
10 1 (0.29%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (11.71%) Migration
2 36 (10.29%) ITIL
3 32 (9.14%) Agile
4 31 (8.86%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (8.29%) Change Management
6 27 (7.71%) DevOps
7 26 (7.43%) Network Design
8 24 (6.86%) Load Balancing
9 22 (6.29%) Low Latency
10 21 (6.00%) High Availability
11 19 (5.43%) Network Management
12 18 (5.14%) Network Architecture
13 17 (4.86%) Roadmaps
13 17 (4.86%) Stakeholder Management
14 16 (4.57%) Disaster Recovery
14 16 (4.57%) SIEM
15 15 (4.29%) Computer Science
16 14 (4.00%) Customer Service
16 14 (4.00%) ITSM
16 14 (4.00%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 42 (12.00%) Python
2 12 (3.43%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.14%) Bash
3 11 (3.14%) SQL
4 8 (2.29%) Perl
5 6 (1.71%) Tcl
6 3 (0.86%) Java
6 3 (0.86%) JavaScript
6 3 (0.86%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 141 (40.29%) Cisco Certification
2 113 (32.29%) CCNP
3 65 (18.57%) Security Cleared
4 61 (17.43%) CCNA
5 49 (14.00%) CCIE
6 47 (13.43%) SC Cleared
7 27 (7.71%) Degree
8 15 (4.29%) JNCIA
9 12 (3.43%) AWS Certification
9 12 (3.43%) DV Cleared
10 9 (2.57%) Azure Certification
10 9 (2.57%) Computer Science Degree
11 8 (2.29%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (2.29%) CCDP
11 8 (2.29%) CISSP
11 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Certification
12 7 (2.00%) Master's Degree
13 6 (1.71%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 6 (1.71%) CCSA
13 6 (1.71%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (5.43%) SLA
2 9 (2.57%) GDPR
2 9 (2.57%) PCI DSS
3 7 (2.00%) QA
4 6 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 5 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.43%) PMO
6 4 (1.14%) HIPAA
6 4 (1.14%) SOC 2
7 1 (0.29%) GLBA
7 1 (0.29%) ISAE 3402
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 9000
7 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
System Software
1 36 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (8.29%) Active Directory
3 26 (7.43%) VMware NSX
4 12 (3.43%) Firmware
5 11 (3.14%) vSphere
6 5 (1.43%) Docker
6 5 (1.43%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.57%) Squid
8 2 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.57%) XenApp
9 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.29%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (10.29%) Ansible
2 18 (5.14%) Terraform
3 14 (4.00%) FortiGate
4 10 (2.86%) SCCM
5 9 (2.57%) Kubernetes
6 8 (2.29%) EMC NetWorker
7 5 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.43%) Netcool
7 5 (1.43%) Tivoli
7 5 (1.43%) Tivoli Storage Manager
8 4 (1.14%) AirWatch
8 4 (1.14%) Nessus
8 4 (1.14%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.14%) VxRail
9 3 (0.86%) CSIRT
9 3 (0.86%) Kibana
9 3 (0.86%) SolarWinds Orion
10 2 (0.57%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.57%) HP Data Protector
10 2 (0.57%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 89 (25.43%) Palo Alto
2 59 (16.86%) F5
3 52 (14.86%) Fortinet
4 44 (12.57%) Juniper
5 42 (12.00%) VMware
6 39 (11.14%) CheckPoint
6 39 (11.14%) Microsoft
7 33 (9.43%) SolarWinds
8 32 (9.14%) Citrix
9 25 (7.14%) HP
10 20 (5.71%) Meraki
10 20 (5.71%) Splunk
11 17 (4.86%) Avaya
11 17 (4.86%) Dell
11 17 (4.86%) EMC
12 16 (4.57%) Arista
13 14 (4.00%) Aruba
14 13 (3.71%) Zscaler
15 12 (3.43%) ServiceNow
16 10 (2.86%) Genesys