Cisco Contracts in the West Midlands

Cisco
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 44 39 96
Rank change year-on-year -5 +57 -23
Contract jobs citing Cisco 74 114 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 3.62% 5.15% 2.33%
As % of the Vendors category 8.24% 10.79% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 55 55
10th Percentile £200 £263 £171
25th Percentile £300 £313 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £375
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +6.67% +15.38%
75th Percentile £638 £501 £500
90th Percentile £775 £606 £595
England median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 3
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.80
25th Percentile £13.44 £12.50 £16.75
Median hourly rate £13.75 £13.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -35.00% +33.33%
75th Percentile £13.94 £14.25 -
90th Percentile £13.98 £14.70 -
England median hourly rate £26.00 £43.75 £23.91
% change year-on-year -40.57% +82.98% +8.68%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 898 1,057 1,561
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 43.98% 47.76% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 661 1,070
10th Percentile £251 £206 £200
25th Percentile £350 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £620 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £519 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.03% +0.95% +6.92%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 27 25
10th Percentile £11.07 £12.99 £12.56
25th Percentile £13.25 £15.12 £14.00
Median hourly rate £16.82 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.90% +17.65% +5.43%
75th Percentile £28.75 £50.00 £20.51
90th Percentile £56.00 £78.60 £23.75
England median hourly rate £23.50 £37.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year -36.49% +72.09% +7.50%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 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
Birmingham -16 22 £475 +18.75% 13
Warwickshire +13 21 £661 +55.53% 8
Solihull -6 19 £285 -45.19% 7
Staffordshire +10 4 £238 -66.07% 4
Coventry -12 4 £450 +12.50%
Shropshire - 2 £117 -
Cisco
England

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 5 (6.76%) MS Visio
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.35%) CA PPM
Cloud Services
1 5 (6.76%) Azure
2 3 (4.05%) AWS
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (2.70%) OneDrive
3 2 (2.70%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 43 (58.11%) WAN
2 31 (41.89%) LAN
3 26 (35.14%) SD-WAN
4 22 (29.73%) Firewall
5 20 (27.03%) MPLS
6 17 (22.97%) VPN
7 14 (18.92%) Cisco Nexus
7 14 (18.92%) DNS
8 10 (13.51%) DHCP
8 10 (13.51%) NX-OS
8 10 (13.51%) VoIP
9 9 (12.16%) Network Security
9 9 (12.16%) PBX
9 9 (12.16%) Wi-Fi
9 9 (12.16%) WLAN
10 8 (10.81%) Ethernet
10 8 (10.81%) Internet
10 8 (10.81%) Wireless
11 7 (9.46%) BGP
11 7 (9.46%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 3 (4.05%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.35%) JIRA
2 1 (1.35%) Rational DOORS
General
1 17 (22.97%) Telecoms
2 13 (17.57%) Social Skills
3 10 (13.51%) Public Sector
4 7 (9.46%) Finance
5 2 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.35%) Aeronautics
6 1 (1.35%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.35%) Automotive
6 1 (1.35%) Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 30 (40.54%) Network Engineer
2 25 (33.78%) Architect
3 19 (25.68%) Network Architect
4 12 (16.22%) Support Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Network Support
5 8 (10.81%) Network Support Engineer
6 7 (9.46%) WAN Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 5 (6.76%) Enterprise Architect
8 4 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (5.41%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Lead
9 3 (4.05%) Administrator
9 3 (4.05%) Junior
10 2 (2.70%) 1st Line Support
10 2 (2.70%) Cisco Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Coordinator
10 2 (2.70%) Desktop Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 2 (2.70%) Project Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.16%) Web Services
2 1 (1.35%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 28 (37.84%) Data Centre
2 9 (12.16%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.35%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (10.81%) Windows
2 5 (6.76%) Linux
3 2 (2.70%) Mac OS
3 2 (2.70%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (18.92%) Network Virtualisation
2 11 (14.86%) ITIL
2 11 (14.86%) Project Delivery
3 10 (13.51%) Architectural Design
3 10 (13.51%) Network Packet Capture
4 9 (12.16%) Analytics
4 9 (12.16%) Computer Security
4 9 (12.16%) Data Analytics
4 9 (12.16%) Incident Response
4 9 (12.16%) Network Architecture
4 9 (12.16%) Password Management
4 9 (12.16%) Performance Management
4 9 (12.16%) Programme Management
4 9 (12.16%) SOA
4 9 (12.16%) Storage Management
5 8 (10.81%) Mentoring
6 7 (9.46%) Customer Requirements
7 6 (8.11%) Load Balancing
7 6 (8.11%) Proactive Monitoring
7 6 (8.11%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 35 (47.30%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (41.89%) Security Cleared
3 22 (29.73%) CCNA
4 19 (25.68%) SC Cleared
5 14 (18.92%) CCNP
6 10 (13.51%) CCIE
7 9 (12.16%) CCIE Data Center
8 7 (9.46%) Degree
9 3 (4.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (4.05%) JNCIS
10 2 (2.70%) BC Cleared
10 2 (2.70%) MCSE
10 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (1.35%) Azure Certification
11 1 (1.35%) CCSA
11 1 (1.35%) CISSP
11 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.35%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.35%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.46%) SLA
2 5 (6.76%) ISO 9000
3 2 (2.70%) QA
4 1 (1.35%) PMO
System Software
1 15 (20.27%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (14.86%) VMware NSX
3 10 (13.51%) vSphere
4 5 (6.76%) Hyper-V
5 2 (2.70%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 9 (12.16%) CSIRT
2 8 (10.81%) FortiGate
3 5 (6.76%) OpenView
4 3 (4.05%) Ansible
4 3 (4.05%) Terraform
5 2 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 16 (21.62%) Juniper
1 16 (21.62%) VMware
2 11 (14.86%) CheckPoint
2 11 (14.86%) F5
3 7 (9.46%) Palo Alto
4 6 (8.11%) Aruba
5 5 (6.76%) Infoblox
5 5 (6.76%) Microsoft
5 5 (6.76%) ServiceNow
5 5 (6.76%) Symantec
5 5 (6.76%) Zscaler
6 3 (4.05%) Fujitsu
7 2 (2.70%) Apple
7 2 (2.70%) BT
7 2 (2.70%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.70%) Openreach
8 1 (1.35%) AlgoSec
8 1 (1.35%) IBM
8 1 (1.35%) McAfee
8 1 (1.35%) Nokia