Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in Central London

Cisco Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 121 124
Rank change year-on-year +24 +3 +36
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 23 16 33
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 1.19% 0.69% 1.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.74% 2.92% 5.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 9 21
10th Percentile £356 £461 £160
25th Percentile £491 £475 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.39% +2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £664 £700 £575
90th Percentile £693 £738 £681
London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £56.00 £50.00 £73.75
% change year-on-year +12.00% -32.20% +22.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Cisco Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 485 548 653
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 25.06% 23.54% 20.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 322 333 398
10th Percentile £315 £363 £325
25th Percentile £450 £463 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.35%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £687
90th Percentile £738 £760 £804
London median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £24.24 £23.10 £16.89
25th Percentile £25.88 - £17.31
Median hourly rate £31.32 £27.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.98% +50.00% -58.26%
75th Percentile £47.74 £112.00 £47.75
90th Percentile £69.02 - £65.60
London median hourly rate £25.15 £36.65 £45.00
% change year-on-year -31.38% -18.56% -

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 1 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in Central London

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 October 2025. 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
City of London +5 20 £583 +13.66% 9
West End of London - 3 £650 - 3
City of Westminster - 2 £650 - 2
Cisco Certification
London

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (34.78%) Azure
2 5 (21.74%) AWS
3 3 (13.04%) GCP
4 2 (8.70%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (4.35%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 13 (56.52%) Firewall
2 11 (47.83%) BGP
3 10 (43.48%) OSPF
4 6 (26.09%) MPLS
5 4 (17.39%) Multicast
5 4 (17.39%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (13.04%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (13.04%) DNS
6 3 (13.04%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (13.04%) SD-WAN
6 3 (13.04%) Unicast
6 3 (13.04%) VXLAN
6 3 (13.04%) WAN
7 2 (8.70%) DHCP
7 2 (8.70%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (8.70%) Modbus
7 2 (8.70%) NX-OS
7 2 (8.70%) SAN
8 1 (4.35%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (4.35%) IOS XR
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) Git
2 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (34.78%) Finance
2 6 (26.09%) Banking
2 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Investment Banking
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 2 (8.70%) Manufacturing
4 2 (8.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Legal
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (43.48%) Network Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Senior
3 4 (17.39%) Architect
3 4 (17.39%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (13.04%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Senior Security Engineer
5 2 (8.70%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Architect
5 2 (8.70%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 2 (8.70%) WAN Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Consultant
6 1 (4.35%) Designer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Network Security Engineer
6 1 (4.35%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) Jinja
2 1 (4.35%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (17.39%) Data Centre
2 2 (8.70%) Insider Threat
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Applications
2 2 (8.70%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (8.70%) Life Science
2 2 (8.70%) Management Information System
2 2 (8.70%) Operational Technology
2 2 (8.70%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (8.70%) SCADA
2 2 (8.70%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.35%) CCTV
3 1 (4.35%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (4.35%) STIX
3 1 (4.35%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Linux
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Change Control
2 5 (21.74%) ITIL
3 4 (17.39%) DevOps
3 4 (17.39%) Network Segmentation
4 3 (13.04%) Business Case
4 3 (13.04%) CI/CD
4 3 (13.04%) Incident Response
4 3 (13.04%) Network Design
5 2 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (8.70%) Cybersecurity
5 2 (8.70%) Low Latency
5 2 (8.70%) Network Architecture
5 2 (8.70%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (8.70%) Patch Management
5 2 (8.70%) Project Management
5 2 (8.70%) SABSA
5 2 (8.70%) Time Management
5 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 2 (8.70%) Vulnerability Management
5 2 (8.70%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (47.83%) CCNP
2 9 (39.13%) CCNA
3 8 (34.78%) CCIE
4 5 (21.74%) Degree
5 3 (13.04%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 3 (13.04%) CISSP
5 3 (13.04%) JNCIS
6 2 (8.70%) Azure Certification
6 2 (8.70%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (8.70%) CASP
6 2 (8.70%) CCSP
6 2 (8.70%) CREST Certified
6 2 (8.70%) CSSLP
6 2 (8.70%) GIAC
7 1 (4.35%) GCIA
7 1 (4.35%) GCIH
7 1 (4.35%) JNCIE
7 1 (4.35%) JNCIP
7 1 (4.35%) SC Cleared
7 1 (4.35%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (17.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (13.04%) NIST
3 2 (8.70%) HMG Security Policy Framework
3 2 (8.70%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (8.70%) NCSC
System Software
1 6 (26.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.70%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.35%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 7 (30.43%) Ansible
2 2 (8.70%) SELinux
Vendors
1 12 (52.17%) Cisco
2 8 (34.78%) Microsoft
3 7 (30.43%) Arista
4 5 (21.74%) Fortinet
5 4 (17.39%) F5
5 4 (17.39%) SolarWinds
6 2 (8.70%) Citrix
6 2 (8.70%) Juniper
6 2 (8.70%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (8.70%) Meraki
6 2 (8.70%) Palo Alto
6 2 (8.70%) Rockwell
6 2 (8.70%) VMware
7 1 (4.35%) CheckPoint
7 1 (4.35%) ForeScout
7 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow