Cisco Contracts in the South East

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England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 22 32 51
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 -11
Contract jobs citing Cisco 355 344 347
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 6.53% 6.16% 4.54%
As % of the Vendors category 13.93% 12.41% 10.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 217 231
10th Percentile £327 £198 £246
25th Percentile £404 £313 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% +9.32%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £539
90th Percentile £688 £625 £688
England median daily rate £488 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +2.63% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 10 17
10th Percentile £22.60 £26.15 £20.45
25th Percentile £24.50 £47.81 £20.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £62.00 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.61% +188.37% +7.50%
75th Percentile £75.24 £75.94 £48.75
90th Percentile £75.59 £80.33 £83.85
England median hourly rate £27.50 £38.38 £23.91
% change year-on-year -28.34% +60.50% +19.55%

All Vendors
South East

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 advertised in the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,548 2,771 3,417
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 46.85% 49.59% 44.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,550 1,914 2,320
10th Percentile £213 £205 £188
25th Percentile £380 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £484
Median % change year-on-year - +3.36% +5.74%
75th Percentile £600 £610 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £520 £538 £525
% change year-on-year -3.26% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 183 126 141
10th Percentile £12.00 £16.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.47 £12.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +130.77% -11.36%
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.00 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.02 £75.38 £57.38
England median hourly rate £22.00 £36.00 £21.45
% change year-on-year -38.89% +67.83% +2.14%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the South East

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in the South East over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the South East region over the 6 months to 16 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
Hampshire +3 152 £488 +4.00% 16
Thames Valley +13 150 £513 +6.65% 34
Berkshire +13 116 £513 +13.89% 24
Surrey +9 37 £500 +53.85% 17
Buckinghamshire +21 28 £625 +25.00% 6
Kent -2 19 £333 +2.31% 9
West Sussex +17 9 £400 - 4
East Sussex +11 7 £450 -35.71% 2
Oxfordshire +9 6 £438 +6.06% 4
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 7 (1.97%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.13%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (0.85%) Exchange Server 2013
4 2 (0.56%) Apache
4 2 (0.56%) IBM Domino
4 2 (0.56%) nginx
4 2 (0.56%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 27 (7.61%) Azure
2 23 (6.48%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (4.23%) AWS
4 14 (3.94%) OCI
5 4 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (1.13%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (1.13%) OneDrive
6 3 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
6 3 (0.85%) GCP
6 3 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 2 (0.56%) CloudFront
7 2 (0.56%) Datadog
7 2 (0.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.56%) Fastly
7 2 (0.56%) GitHub
7 2 (0.56%) Google Workspace
7 2 (0.56%) IaaS
7 2 (0.56%) PaaS
7 2 (0.56%) Route 53
7 2 (0.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 153 (43.10%) Firewall
2 110 (30.99%) WAN
3 74 (20.85%) BGP
3 74 (20.85%) LAN
4 61 (17.18%) VPN
5 51 (14.37%) Cisco ASA
6 44 (12.39%) MPLS
7 42 (11.83%) Cisco Firepower
8 38 (10.70%) OSPF
9 37 (10.42%) Wi-Fi
10 35 (9.86%) Cisco Nexus
10 35 (9.86%) DMZ
11 34 (9.58%) DNS
12 33 (9.30%) EIGRP
13 30 (8.45%) Cisco ISE
13 30 (8.45%) SSL
14 29 (8.17%) Network Security
15 26 (7.32%) Cisco IOS
16 23 (6.48%) DMVPN
17 22 (6.20%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.85%) Relational Database
1 3 (0.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.56%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 3 (0.85%) Hudson
2 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.56%) Git
3 1 (0.28%) JIRA
3 1 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 70 (19.72%) Finance
2 47 (13.24%) Social Skills
3 36 (10.14%) Banking
4 26 (7.32%) Public Sector
5 17 (4.79%) Telecoms
6 12 (3.38%) Analytical Skills
7 10 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 9 (2.54%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (0.85%) Electronics
11 3 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.85%) Marketing
12 2 (0.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.56%) Law
12 2 (0.56%) Legal
12 2 (0.56%) Military
13 1 (0.28%) Advertising
13 1 (0.28%) Aeronautics
13 1 (0.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 191 (53.80%) Network Engineer
2 70 (19.72%) Architect
3 63 (17.75%) Network Architect
4 50 (14.08%) Senior
5 43 (12.11%) Senior Network Engineer
6 36 (10.14%) Cisco Engineer
7 34 (9.58%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 22 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 17 (4.79%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
9 17 (4.79%) Network Specialist
10 16 (4.51%) Juniper Engineer
11 12 (3.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 12 (3.38%) Support Engineer
12 10 (2.82%) Blue Coat Engineer
12 10 (2.82%) Operations Engineer
12 10 (2.82%) Storage Engineer
13 9 (2.54%) Analyst
14 8 (2.25%) Audio Visual Technician
14 8 (2.25%) Network Operations Engineer
15 7 (1.97%) 2nd Line Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.41%) Django
2 3 (0.85%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.85%) EDI
2 3 (0.85%) JSON
2 3 (0.85%) REST
2 3 (0.85%) RESTful
2 3 (0.85%) XMPP
2 3 (0.85%) YANG
3 2 (0.56%) HornetQ
3 2 (0.56%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (0.56%) VCL
4 1 (0.28%) CSS
Miscellaneous
1 54 (15.21%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.10%) Driving Licence
4 9 (2.54%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (2.54%) Video Editing
5 6 (1.69%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.41%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.85%) Blackberry
7 3 (0.85%) CCTV
7 3 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (0.85%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 3 (0.85%) Operational Technology
7 3 (0.85%) SCADA
7 3 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.28%) Life Science
8 1 (0.28%) PKI
8 1 (0.28%) Renewable Energy
8 1 (0.28%) Replication
8 1 (0.28%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 40 (11.27%) Windows
2 32 (9.01%) Linux
3 24 (6.76%) Windows 10
4 20 (5.63%) Windows Server
5 14 (3.94%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (3.94%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (3.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (3.94%) Windows XP
6 9 (2.54%) Android
7 4 (1.13%) Mac OS
7 4 (1.13%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.85%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.56%) Debian
9 2 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (25.35%) Network Design
2 54 (15.21%) Customer Requirements
3 44 (12.39%) Migration
4 39 (10.99%) Project Management
5 35 (9.86%) Network Management
5 35 (9.86%) Problem-Solving
6 29 (8.17%) Technical Leadership
7 28 (7.89%) ITIL
7 28 (7.89%) Project Delivery
8 25 (7.04%) B2B
8 25 (7.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 21 (5.92%) Proactive Monitoring
10 19 (5.35%) Server Management
11 17 (4.79%) Converged Infrastructure
11 17 (4.79%) High Availability
12 16 (4.51%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (4.51%) Performance Tuning
13 14 (3.94%) Break/Fix
13 14 (3.94%) Change Control
13 14 (3.94%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 18 (5.07%) PowerShell
2 15 (4.23%) Python
3 10 (2.82%) Bash
4 4 (1.13%) Java
5 3 (0.85%) JavaScript
5 3 (0.85%) SQL
5 3 (0.85%) T-SQL
6 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 186 (52.39%) Security Cleared
2 116 (32.68%) Cisco Certification
3 73 (20.56%) DV Cleared
4 72 (20.28%) CCNP
5 66 (18.59%) SC Cleared
6 54 (15.21%) CCNA
7 29 (8.17%) Degree
8 14 (3.94%) JNCIA
9 9 (2.54%) CCIE
10 8 (2.25%) CISM
11 6 (1.69%) JNCIS
12 5 (1.41%) CCSA
12 5 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
13 4 (1.13%) BPSS Clearance
14 3 (0.85%) CEH
14 3 (0.85%) CISSP
15 2 (0.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 2 (0.56%) CCDP
15 2 (0.56%) CCSK
15 2 (0.56%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (4.23%) SLA
2 5 (1.41%) ISO 9000
3 2 (0.56%) GDPR
3 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (0.28%) QA
System Software
1 32 (9.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 25 (7.04%) Active Directory
3 17 (4.79%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (4.51%) Hyper-V
5 6 (1.69%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.13%) ProxySG
7 3 (0.85%) vSphere
8 2 (0.56%) KVM
8 2 (0.56%) Varnish
8 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.56%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 33 (9.30%) FortiGate
2 31 (8.73%) Endace
3 25 (7.04%) SCCM
4 17 (4.79%) SCOM
5 16 (4.51%) WSUS
6 14 (3.94%) EMC NetWorker
6 14 (3.94%) Nessus
6 14 (3.94%) NetBackup
6 14 (3.94%) vCenter Server
7 9 (2.54%) Ansible
8 7 (1.97%) AirWatch
9 5 (1.41%) Microsoft Intune
9 5 (1.41%) Terraform
10 3 (0.85%) AppManager
10 3 (0.85%) Netcool
11 2 (0.56%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
11 2 (0.56%) HAProxy
11 2 (0.56%) Nagios
11 2 (0.56%) Network Intrusion Detection System
11 2 (0.56%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 175 (49.30%) Juniper
2 77 (21.69%) Fortinet
3 65 (18.31%) CheckPoint
4 57 (16.06%) F5
5 56 (15.77%) Palo Alto
6 41 (11.55%) VMware
7 32 (9.01%) Microsoft
8 28 (7.89%) HP
9 25 (7.04%) Arista
10 20 (5.63%) Blue Coat
10 20 (5.63%) Dell
11 18 (5.07%) Apple
12 15 (4.23%) Veeam
13 14 (3.94%) 3PAR
13 14 (3.94%) EMC
13 14 (3.94%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (3.94%) Oracle
13 14 (3.94%) Symantec
14 12 (3.38%) ScienceLogic
15 11 (3.10%) Meraki