Cisco Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 46 45 62
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 -1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 780 1,091 1,128
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.84% 4.74% 3.71%
As % of the Vendors category 9.02% 10.64% 9.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 710 709
10th Percentile £240 £240 £197
25th Percentile £352 £330 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £518
90th Percentile £675 £638 £605
UK median daily rate £475 £475 £450
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 55 75
10th Percentile £13.29 £12.80 £13.25
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.65 £16.49
Median hourly rate £25.00 £47.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.37% +115.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £46.39 £65.74 £51.11
90th Percentile £76.99 £80.25 £64.72
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £50.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -45.00% +109.12% +19.55%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 8,644 10,255 12,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 42.60% 44.58% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,201 7,046 8,257
10th Percentile £208 £205 £188
25th Percentile £363 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year - +7.53% +8.90%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -1.90% - +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 457 645
10th Percentile £11.84 £14.25 £10.77
25th Percentile £14.16 £17.50 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.46 £37.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -42.77% +97.37% +2.70%
75th Percentile £58.59 £62.00 £36.50
90th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £57.11
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £41.98 £21.50
% change year-on-year -48.78% +95.24% -2.27%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London 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
South East +10 355 £500 +11.11% 92
North of England -2 132 £437 +2.79% 74
South West -18 99 £525 +5.00% 47
Midlands -6 93 £457 +14.13% 46
North West -3 86 £475 +11.76% 39
West Midlands -1 66 £450 +12.50% 24
East of England -18 50 £370 +5.71% 34
Scotland -6 49 £330 -30.53% 39
Yorkshire -8 36 £458 -1.08% 27
East Midlands -12 27 £538 +16.22% 22
North East +18 10 £375 -6.25% 9
Wales -18 10 £241 -52.93% 12
Northern Ireland +3 1 £210 - 2
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UK

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 17 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.28%) Confluence
2 10 (1.28%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.51%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2007
4 3 (0.38%) Exchange Server 2013
5 2 (0.26%) Apache
5 2 (0.26%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.26%) nginx
Applications
1 52 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (1.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.38%) Shopify
2 1 (0.13%) CA PPM
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.13%) Refinitiv Enterprise Platform
2 1 (0.13%) RMDS
Cloud Services
1 64 (8.21%) Azure
2 57 (7.31%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (5.77%) AWS
4 15 (1.92%) OCI
4 15 (1.92%) PaaS
4 15 (1.92%) SaaS
5 9 (1.15%) Entra ID
6 8 (1.03%) GitHub
7 7 (0.90%) GCP
7 7 (0.90%) OneDrive
8 6 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (0.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (0.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 4 (0.51%) Nutanix
10 4 (0.51%) Route 53
11 3 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
11 3 (0.38%) BigCommerce
11 3 (0.38%) IaaS
12 2 (0.26%) Amazon S3
12 2 (0.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 317 (40.64%) Firewall
2 229 (29.36%) WAN
3 161 (20.64%) LAN
4 138 (17.69%) VPN
5 107 (13.72%) BGP
6 89 (11.41%) Cisco ASA
6 89 (11.41%) Wi-Fi
7 88 (11.28%) Cisco Nexus
8 83 (10.64%) Network Security
9 79 (10.13%) DNS
10 77 (9.87%) MPLS
11 74 (9.49%) SD-WAN
12 73 (9.36%) Cisco ISE
13 68 (8.72%) Cisco Firepower
14 66 (8.46%) OSPF
15 59 (7.56%) DHCP
15 59 (7.56%) Wireless
16 51 (6.54%) EIGRP
17 50 (6.41%) Cisco IOS
17 50 (6.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (0.51%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (0.38%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.26%) NonStop SQL
Development Applications
1 22 (2.82%) JIRA
2 20 (2.56%) Rational DOORS
3 9 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.51%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.51%) Hudson
5 3 (0.38%) Git
General
1 133 (17.05%) Social Skills
2 106 (13.59%) Finance
3 72 (9.23%) Public Sector
4 71 (9.10%) Telecoms
5 46 (5.90%) Analytical Skills
5 46 (5.90%) Banking
6 25 (3.21%) Manufacturing
7 14 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 12 (1.54%) Aerospace
9 12 (1.54%) Investment Banking
9 12 (1.54%) Legal
10 9 (1.15%) Marketing
11 7 (0.90%) Aeronautics
11 7 (0.90%) Digital Economy
11 7 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (0.90%) Military
12 5 (0.64%) Billing
12 5 (0.64%) Electronics
12 5 (0.64%) Retail
Job Titles
1 390 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 140 (17.95%) Architect
3 95 (12.18%) Network Architect
4 82 (10.51%) Senior
5 64 (8.21%) Senior Network Engineer
6 62 (7.95%) Cisco Engineer
7 52 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 52 (6.67%) Support Engineer
8 49 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 30 (3.85%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 29 (3.72%) Solutions Architect
11 27 (3.46%) Storage Engineer
12 23 (2.95%) Analyst
12 23 (2.95%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 22 (2.82%) Network Specialist
14 21 (2.69%) Network Support
15 19 (2.44%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 19 (2.44%) Network Support Engineer
16 18 (2.31%) WAN Engineer
17 17 (2.18%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (1.54%) Jinja
2 9 (1.15%) Web Services
3 8 (1.03%) 802.1X
4 5 (0.64%) Django
4 5 (0.64%) Flash
5 4 (0.51%) JSON
5 4 (0.51%) YANG
6 3 (0.38%) EDI
6 3 (0.38%) REST
6 3 (0.38%) RESTful
6 3 (0.38%) VML
6 3 (0.38%) XMPP
7 2 (0.26%) .NET
7 2 (0.26%) .NET Framework
7 2 (0.26%) HornetQ
7 2 (0.26%) ModSecurity
7 2 (0.26%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (0.26%) VCL
8 1 (0.13%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.13%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 124 (15.90%) Data Centre
2 21 (2.69%) Video Conferencing
3 19 (2.44%) Driving Licence
4 18 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
5 15 (1.92%) Operational Technology
6 13 (1.67%) Blackberry
7 12 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 10 (1.28%) Replication
9 9 (1.15%) Security Posture
9 9 (1.15%) Video Editing
10 8 (1.03%) Public Cloud
11 6 (0.77%) Clustering
11 6 (0.77%) HP Storage
11 6 (0.77%) Management Information System
12 5 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
12 5 (0.64%) PKI
12 5 (0.64%) Private Cloud
13 4 (0.51%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 4 (0.51%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.51%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 122 (15.64%) Windows
2 62 (7.95%) Linux
3 54 (6.92%) Windows 10
4 48 (6.15%) Windows Server
5 24 (3.08%) Windows Server 2012
6 23 (2.95%) Windows Server 2016
7 18 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
8 16 (2.05%) Windows 7
9 14 (1.79%) Windows XP
10 12 (1.54%) AIX
11 11 (1.41%) Android
11 11 (1.41%) Solaris
12 9 (1.15%) Mac OS
13 4 (0.51%) Unix
14 3 (0.38%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 2 (0.26%) Data ONTAP
15 2 (0.26%) Debian
15 2 (0.26%) VMS
16 1 (0.13%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 121 (15.51%) ITIL
2 111 (14.23%) Network Design
3 94 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
4 75 (9.62%) Customer Requirements
5 74 (9.49%) Migration
6 57 (7.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 57 (7.31%) Network Management
7 56 (7.18%) Project Delivery
8 46 (5.90%) Project Management
9 41 (5.26%) Customer Service
10 39 (5.00%) Break/Fix
11 38 (4.87%) Agile
11 38 (4.87%) ITSM
12 37 (4.74%) Decision-Making
13 36 (4.62%) Change Management
14 35 (4.49%) Technical Leadership
14 35 (4.49%) TOGAF
15 32 (4.10%) High Availability
16 30 (3.85%) Data Protection
17 29 (3.72%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 40 (5.13%) Python
2 27 (3.46%) PowerShell
3 15 (1.92%) Bash
4 12 (1.54%) Perl
4 12 (1.54%) Tcl
5 11 (1.41%) SQL
6 4 (0.51%) Java
7 3 (0.38%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.38%) T-SQL
8 2 (0.26%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.13%) C
Qualifications
1 343 (43.97%) Security Cleared
2 253 (32.44%) Cisco Certification
3 168 (21.54%) SC Cleared
4 163 (20.90%) CCNP
5 144 (18.46%) CCNA
6 111 (14.23%) DV Cleared
7 69 (8.85%) Degree
8 33 (4.23%) CCIE
9 25 (3.21%) JNCIA
10 14 (1.79%) JNCIS
11 13 (1.67%) A+ Certification
11 13 (1.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 12 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.54%) CISSP
12 12 (1.54%) TOGAF Certification
13 11 (1.41%) HND
14 9 (1.15%) CCIE Data Center
14 9 (1.15%) CCSA
14 9 (1.15%) CISM
14 9 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (4.36%) SLA
2 13 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 10 (1.28%) ISO 9000
4 7 (0.90%) QA
5 6 (0.77%) PMO
6 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.26%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.26%) GDPR
7 2 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.13%) Cyber Essentials
8 1 (0.13%) NCSC
8 1 (0.13%) NEBOSH
8 1 (0.13%) NIST
System Software
1 74 (9.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 65 (8.33%) Active Directory
3 34 (4.36%) VMware ESXi
4 31 (3.97%) Hyper-V
5 30 (3.85%) VMware NSX
6 25 (3.21%) Firmware
7 12 (1.54%) vSphere
8 4 (0.51%) ProxySG
8 4 (0.51%) Virtual Servers
9 3 (0.38%) Docker
9 3 (0.38%) SRDF
9 3 (0.38%) XenApp
10 2 (0.26%) KVM
10 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 2 (0.26%) Varnish
10 2 (0.26%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.13%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.13%) NFS
11 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 51 (6.54%) FortiGate
2 49 (6.28%) SCCM
3 34 (4.36%) Ansible
3 34 (4.36%) vCenter Server
4 31 (3.97%) Endace
5 22 (2.82%) EMC NetWorker
5 22 (2.82%) NetBackup
6 19 (2.44%) SCOM
6 19 (2.44%) Terraform
7 18 (2.31%) WSUS
8 14 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
8 14 (1.79%) Nessus
9 7 (0.90%) AirWatch
9 7 (0.90%) OpenView
10 6 (0.77%) HP Data Protector
11 5 (0.64%) Kubernetes
12 4 (0.51%) Autotask
12 4 (0.51%) Nagios
13 3 (0.38%) AppManager
13 3 (0.38%) Netcool
Vendors
1 258 (33.08%) Juniper
2 128 (16.41%) Palo Alto
3 112 (14.36%) Fortinet
4 110 (14.10%) Microsoft
5 102 (13.08%) VMware
6 97 (12.44%) CheckPoint
7 96 (12.31%) F5
8 50 (6.41%) Meraki
9 44 (5.64%) SolarWinds
10 42 (5.38%) Dell
11 41 (5.26%) Citrix
11 41 (5.26%) HP
12 38 (4.87%) Aruba
13 32 (4.10%) Nokia
14 29 (3.72%) Brocade
14 29 (3.72%) Veeam
15 26 (3.33%) Symantec
16 25 (3.21%) Arista
16 25 (3.21%) EMC
17 24 (3.08%) IBM