Cisco IOS Contract Job Trends in Central London

Cisco IOS
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Central London requiring Cisco IOS skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 127 159
Rank change year-on-year +3 +32 +37
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 3 3 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.15% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.51% 1.34% 1.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile £490 - £264
25th Percentile £494 £475 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £288
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +73.91% -23.38%
75th Percentile £613 £525 £397
90th Percentile £643 - £451
London median daily rate £538 £350 £330
% change year-on-year +53.57% +6.06% -22.35%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
Central London

Cisco IOS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 199 224 315
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 10.20% 9.66% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 136 206
10th Percentile £258 £261 £200
25th Percentile £372 £418 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £525 £534
Median % change year-on-year +1.86% -1.64% +1.67%
75th Percentile £664 £625 £623
90th Percentile £746 £745 £688
London median daily rate £500 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.75
% change year-on-year -28.14% +13.82% +28.37%

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Job postings citing Cisco IOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco IOS in Central London

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Cisco IOS
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Cisco IOS
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 IOS within the Central London region over the 6 months to 18 September 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 +11 3 £525 +5.00% 2
Cisco IOS
London

Cisco IOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (66.67%) MPLS
1 2 (66.67%) NX-OS
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) VXLAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) IOS XR
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCIE
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Arista
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Meraki