Cisco Contracts

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 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 66 60 98
Rank change year-on-year -6 +38 -8
Contract jobs citing Cisco 1,326 2,044 2,344
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 3.08% 3.65% 2.68%
As % of the Vendors category 7.26% 8.40% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 816 1,336 1,555
10th Percentile £250 £235 £236
25th Percentile £363 £363 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% +11.46%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £450 £425
% change year-on-year +3.33% +5.88% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 72 108
10th Percentile £13.29 £12.70 £13.43
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +109.12% +19.55%
75th Percentile £41.25 £70.00 £46.97
90th Percentile £53.83 £80.93 £56.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £47.83 £22.00
% change year-on-year -60.28% +117.41% +10.00%

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 18,277 24,339 35,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 42.45% 43.42% 40.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,373 16,241 23,612
10th Percentile £263 £265 £300
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - +9.38%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £738 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,141 647 855
10th Percentile £12.13 £15.00 £12.25
25th Percentile £14.48 £18.97 £15.25
Median hourly rate £22.50 £42.50 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.06% +97.67% +4.88%
75th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £47.98
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -42.77% +92.31% +8.33%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Top 17 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 1 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
England +1 1,181 £500 +5.26% 439
UK excluding London -5 803 £465 +3.33% 347
London -5 400 £500 -4.76% 143
South East +9 366 £500 +11.11% 112
Work from Home -18 350 £475 -5.00% 189
North of England -11 134 £450 +5.88% 62
South West -11 115 £535 +1.90% 43
Midlands -14 100 £475 +11.76% 43
North West -6 90 £475 +8.57% 37
West Midlands -4 73 £475 +18.75% 30
Scotland -5 50 £331 -29.52% 43
East of England -22 50 £350 - 37
Yorkshire -5 34 £465 +6.29% 20
East Midlands -16 27 £500 +6.67% 13
North East +17 10 £388 +19.23% 6
Wales -22 10 £241 -52.93% 17
Northern Ireland 0 1 £363 - 5

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 43 (3.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 25 (1.89%) SharePoint
3 20 (1.51%) Confluence
4 10 (0.75%) Skype for Business
5 5 (0.38%) IIS
6 4 (0.30%) IBM Domino
7 3 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2007
7 3 (0.23%) nginx
7 3 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2010
9 1 (0.075%) Apache
9 1 (0.075%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
9 1 (0.075%) Exchange Server 2013
9 1 (0.075%) IBM Notes
Applications
1 73 (5.51%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 17 (1.28%) MS Visio
4 16 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.75%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
7 3 (0.23%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) Shopify
2 1 (0.075%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.075%) Dynamics GP
2 1 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.075%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 155 (11.69%) Azure
2 122 (9.20%) AWS
3 84 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
4 44 (3.32%) GCP
5 32 (2.41%) SaaS
6 27 (2.04%) Cloud Computing
7 24 (1.81%) Entra ID
8 23 (1.73%) PaaS
9 20 (1.51%) OCI
10 17 (1.28%) Nutanix
11 14 (1.06%) OneDrive
12 11 (0.83%) Twilio
13 10 (0.75%) GitHub
14 9 (0.68%) IaaS
15 8 (0.60%) Rubrik
16 7 (0.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 6 (0.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
17 6 (0.45%) Cloudflare
17 6 (0.45%) Power Platform
18 5 (0.38%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 551 (41.55%) Firewall
2 367 (27.68%) WAN
3 281 (21.19%) LAN
4 235 (17.72%) BGP
5 230 (17.35%) VPN
6 162 (12.22%) Network Security
6 162 (12.22%) OSPF
6 162 (12.22%) SD-WAN
7 160 (12.07%) Cisco Nexus
8 153 (11.54%) Cisco ASA
9 150 (11.31%) MPLS
10 149 (11.24%) DNS
11 139 (10.48%) Wireless
12 122 (9.20%) Wi-Fi
13 111 (8.37%) Cisco ISE
13 111 (8.37%) DHCP
14 94 (7.09%) Cisco Firepower
15 93 (7.01%) EIGRP
16 88 (6.64%) Cisco IOS
17 85 (6.41%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (0.90%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.30%) NonStop SQL
2 4 (0.30%) Power BI
3 3 (0.23%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.23%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.075%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.075%) BusinessObjects
4 1 (0.075%) Data Mining
4 1 (0.075%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 32 (2.41%) JIRA
2 24 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
3 20 (1.51%) Rational DOORS
4 14 (1.06%) Git
5 6 (0.45%) Jenkins
6 5 (0.38%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.38%) TeamCity
7 4 (0.30%) GitLab
7 4 (0.30%) Hudson
General
1 250 (18.85%) Finance
2 244 (18.40%) Social Skills
3 124 (9.35%) Telecoms
4 106 (7.99%) Banking
5 97 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 88 (6.64%) Analytical Skills
7 31 (2.34%) Manufacturing
8 26 (1.96%) Presentation Skills
9 24 (1.81%) Retail
10 19 (1.43%) Marketing
11 16 (1.21%) Financial Institution
12 15 (1.13%) Legal
13 14 (1.06%) Investment Banking
14 13 (0.98%) Documentation Skills
14 13 (0.98%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.90%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 8 (0.60%) Billing
17 8 (0.60%) Electronics
17 8 (0.60%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 628 (47.36%) Network Engineer
2 202 (15.23%) Architect
3 140 (10.56%) Senior
4 132 (9.95%) Network Architect
5 109 (8.22%) Cisco Engineer
6 97 (7.32%) Senior Network Engineer
7 90 (6.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 79 (5.96%) Support Engineer
9 65 (4.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 50 (3.77%) Consultant
11 48 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
12 38 (2.87%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 35 (2.64%) Network Specialist
14 29 (2.19%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
14 29 (2.19%) Network Consultant
14 29 (2.19%) Storage Engineer
15 28 (2.11%) Analyst
15 28 (2.11%) Security Engineer
16 26 (1.96%) Network Security Engineer
16 26 (1.96%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (1.51%) 802.1X
1 20 (1.51%) Jinja
1 20 (1.51%) JSON
1 20 (1.51%) Web Services
2 16 (1.21%) XML
2 16 (1.21%) YANG
3 15 (1.13%) NETCONF
4 12 (0.90%) Middleware
5 11 (0.83%) FIX Protocol
6 8 (0.60%) LDAP
7 7 (0.53%) .NET
8 6 (0.45%) Flash
8 6 (0.45%) RESTful
8 6 (0.45%) SAML
8 6 (0.45%) XMPP
9 4 (0.30%) .NET Framework
9 4 (0.30%) Django
9 4 (0.30%) ModSecurity
10 3 (0.23%) Software Packaging
10 3 (0.23%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 211 (15.91%) Data Centre
2 59 (4.45%) Video Conferencing
3 39 (2.94%) Data Protection Act
4 31 (2.34%) PKI
5 22 (1.66%) Management Information System
6 21 (1.58%) Cloud Native
6 21 (1.58%) Operational Technology
7 18 (1.36%) Driving Licence
7 18 (1.36%) Public Cloud
8 17 (1.28%) Clustering
8 17 (1.28%) Replication
9 16 (1.21%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
10 15 (1.13%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 14 (1.06%) Blackberry
12 13 (0.98%) Hybrid Cloud
13 12 (0.90%) IVR
14 10 (0.75%) Video Editing
15 9 (0.68%) Linux Command Line
16 7 (0.53%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 197 (14.86%) Windows
2 103 (7.77%) Linux
3 71 (5.35%) Windows 10
4 65 (4.90%) Windows Server
5 36 (2.71%) Windows Server 2016
6 35 (2.64%) Windows Server 2012
7 27 (2.04%) Windows 7
8 25 (1.89%) Mac OS
9 22 (1.66%) Android
9 22 (1.66%) Unix
10 19 (1.43%) Windows Server 2019
11 16 (1.21%) Solaris
12 15 (1.13%) Windows XP
13 12 (0.90%) AIX
14 10 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 9 (0.68%) Mac OS X
16 7 (0.53%) CentOS
17 5 (0.38%) Oracle Linux
18 3 (0.23%) VMS
19 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 162 (12.22%) ITIL
2 158 (11.92%) Problem-Solving
3 156 (11.76%) Network Design
4 144 (10.86%) Migration
5 87 (6.56%) Agile
6 78 (5.88%) Change Management
7 77 (5.81%) Customer Requirements
7 77 (5.81%) Customer Service
8 73 (5.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 72 (5.43%) Project Management
10 70 (5.28%) Network Management
10 70 (5.28%) Project Delivery
11 64 (4.83%) Computer Science
12 62 (4.68%) High Availability
13 61 (4.60%) Load Balancing
14 60 (4.52%) DevOps
14 60 (4.52%) ITSM
15 59 (4.45%) Disaster Recovery
16 55 (4.15%) Network Virtualisation
17 53 (4.00%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 102 (7.69%) Python
2 55 (4.15%) PowerShell
3 30 (2.26%) Bash
4 23 (1.73%) SQL
5 18 (1.36%) Perl
6 12 (0.90%) Tcl
7 8 (0.60%) Java
8 4 (0.30%) C#
9 3 (0.23%) C
9 3 (0.23%) Go
9 3 (0.23%) JavaScript
9 3 (0.23%) Ruby
9 3 (0.23%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.075%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 431 (32.50%) Cisco Certification
2 424 (31.98%) Security Cleared
3 291 (21.95%) CCNP
4 237 (17.87%) SC Cleared
5 210 (15.84%) CCNA
6 130 (9.80%) Degree
7 122 (9.20%) DV Cleared
8 106 (7.99%) CCIE
9 31 (2.34%) JNCIA
10 29 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
11 28 (2.11%) AWS Certification
12 25 (1.89%) Master's Degree
13 22 (1.66%) CISSP
13 22 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
14 19 (1.43%) Azure Certification
15 17 (1.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 16 (1.21%) A+ Certification
16 16 (1.21%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
17 15 (1.13%) JNCIS
18 14 (1.06%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (3.77%) SLA
2 21 (1.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (1.21%) GDPR
4 14 (1.06%) PCI DSS
5 11 (0.83%) PMO
6 10 (0.75%) ISO 9000
6 10 (0.75%) QA
7 8 (0.60%) HIPAA
7 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 8 (0.60%) SOC 2
8 6 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 5 (0.38%) NIST
10 4 (0.30%) NCSC
11 2 (0.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 2 (0.15%) GRC
12 1 (0.075%) Actionable Recommendations
12 1 (0.075%) COBIT
12 1 (0.075%) GLBA
12 1 (0.075%) ISAE 3402
12 1 (0.075%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 141 (10.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 118 (8.90%) Active Directory
3 70 (5.28%) VMware NSX
4 43 (3.24%) vSphere
5 41 (3.09%) Hyper-V
6 40 (3.02%) VMware ESXi
7 39 (2.94%) Firmware
8 13 (0.98%) Docker
9 11 (0.83%) Virtual Servers
10 8 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (0.45%) KVM
12 4 (0.30%) BitLocker
12 4 (0.30%) ProxySG
13 3 (0.23%) Microsoft App-V
13 3 (0.23%) SRDF
13 3 (0.23%) XenApp
14 2 (0.15%) Squid
15 1 (0.075%) Microsoft Virtual Server
15 1 (0.075%) NFS
15 1 (0.075%) Varnish
Systems Management
1 85 (6.41%) Ansible
2 75 (5.66%) SCCM
3 73 (5.51%) FortiGate
4 51 (3.85%) Terraform
5 42 (3.17%) vCenter Server
6 32 (2.41%) Endace
7 28 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
8 27 (2.04%) EMC NetWorker
9 25 (1.89%) NetBackup
10 22 (1.66%) SCOM
11 20 (1.51%) Kubernetes
11 20 (1.51%) WSUS
12 15 (1.13%) CSIRT
13 14 (1.06%) Nessus
14 12 (0.90%) SolarWinds Orion
15 10 (0.75%) Nagios
15 10 (0.75%) VxRail
16 9 (0.68%) OpenView
17 8 (0.60%) Netcool
18 6 (0.45%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 311 (23.45%) Juniper
2 256 (19.31%) Palo Alto
3 205 (15.46%) Microsoft
4 190 (14.33%) F5
5 184 (13.88%) Fortinet
6 181 (13.65%) VMware
7 169 (12.75%) CheckPoint
8 81 (6.11%) Meraki
8 81 (6.11%) SolarWinds
9 79 (5.96%) Citrix
10 69 (5.20%) Dell
11 63 (4.75%) Aruba
11 63 (4.75%) HP
12 55 (4.15%) Arista
13 54 (4.07%) EMC
14 52 (3.92%) Nokia
15 49 (3.70%) Avaya
16 39 (2.94%) Zscaler
17 36 (2.71%) Google
18 33 (2.49%) Brocade