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 contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 129 130 147
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +47
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 4 3 4
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.21% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.17% 1.15% 1.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 3
10th Percentile £491 £499 £264
25th Percentile £497 £534 £266
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £613 £288
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +113.04% -13.27%
75th Percentile £588 £684 £422
90th Percentile £633 £716 £491
London median daily rate £535 £550 £286
% change year-on-year -2.73% +92.14% -26.60%

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 184 260 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 9.61% 11.08% 10.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 171 188
10th Percentile £275 £350 £250
25th Percentile £413 £440 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £616
90th Percentile £738 £738 £700
London median daily rate £500 £523 £533
% change year-on-year -4.31% -1.88% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 4
10th Percentile £23.35 - -
25th Percentile - £31.25 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £32.50 £20.72
Median % change year-on-year -21.63% +56.89% -0.17%
75th Percentile £36.81 £33.75 £37.19
90th Percentile £54.73 - £61.38
London median hourly rate £25.15 £37.25 £25.75
% change year-on-year -32.48% +44.66% +3.00%

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Cisco IOS job vacancy trend 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 17 November 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 0 4 £525 -14.29% 3
Cisco IOS
London

Cisco IOS
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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) IOS XR
3 1 (25.00%) IPsec
3 1 (25.00%) Junos
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Designer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) ITSM
3 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Arista
3 1 (25.00%) Broadcom
3 1 (25.00%) F5
3 1 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (25.00%) Meraki
3 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds