Cisco Contracts in Central London

Cisco
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 78 75 74
Rank change year-on-year -3 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Cisco 51 60 107
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.55% 2.45% 2.78%
As % of the Vendors category 5.67% 5.79% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 44 64
10th Percentile £335 £240 £158
25th Percentile £475 £250 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £420 £469
Median % change year-on-year +30.60% -10.40% +16.46%
75th Percentile £613 £539 £574
90th Percentile £705 £663 £693
London median daily rate £505 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +1.00% -4.31% +10.00%

All Vendors
Central London

Cisco falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 900 1,037 1,517
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 45.07% 42.40% 39.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 579 763 1,020
10th Percentile £312 £310 £250
25th Percentile £450 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £750 £775 £791
London median daily rate £550 £549 £563
% change year-on-year +0.23% -2.44% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 7 8
10th Percentile £26.45 £12.75 £19.14
25th Percentile £28.23 £14.38 £20.81
Median hourly rate £31.00 £18.93 £21.50
Median % change year-on-year +63.76% -11.95% +2.38%
75th Percentile £53.75 £23.75 £31.94
90th Percentile £100.00 £25.05 £53.05
London median hourly rate £29.00 £23.99 £30.75
% change year-on-year +20.88% -21.98% -12.14%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Central London

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Central London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in Central London

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

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

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Central London

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in Central London

Cisco
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 within the Central London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -8 36 £563 +50.00% 29
City of Westminster +4 4 £438 -15.46%
West End of London - 4 £500 - 2
Cisco
London

Cisco
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (3.92%) Confluence
2 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 11 (21.57%) Azure
2 6 (11.76%) AWS
3 3 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 3 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.96%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.96%) GCP
4 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.96%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 21 (41.18%) Firewall
2 9 (17.65%) WAN
3 8 (15.69%) Network Security
4 7 (13.73%) BGP
4 7 (13.73%) LAN
5 6 (11.76%) Cisco ASA
5 6 (11.76%) Cisco Nexus
6 5 (9.80%) Unified Communications
6 5 (9.80%) VPN
6 5 (9.80%) WebEx
7 4 (7.84%) DNS
7 4 (7.84%) OSPF
7 4 (7.84%) SD-WAN
7 4 (7.84%) Software-Defined Networking
7 4 (7.84%) VoIP
7 4 (7.84%) Wireless
8 3 (5.88%) MGCP
8 3 (5.88%) MPLS
8 3 (5.88%) VLAN
8 3 (5.88%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.96%) Oracle Database
1 1 (1.96%) SQL Server
1 1 (1.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (9.80%) JIRA
2 2 (3.92%) GitLab
2 2 (3.92%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.96%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.96%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (27.45%) Finance
1 14 (27.45%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.61%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (13.73%) Banking
4 4 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 3 (5.88%) Multimedia
5 3 (5.88%) Retail Banking
6 2 (3.92%) Military
6 2 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.96%) Electronics
7 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.96%) French Language
7 1 (1.96%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.96%) Police
7 1 (1.96%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (35.29%) Network Engineer
2 8 (15.69%) Architect
2 8 (15.69%) Network Architect
3 6 (11.76%) Senior
4 4 (7.84%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (7.84%) Security Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Product Manager
5 3 (5.88%) Senior Network Engineer
5 3 (5.88%) Support Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Cisco Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Cisco Network Architect
6 2 (3.92%) Consultant
6 2 (3.92%) Data Centre Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (3.92%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (3.92%) Network Manager
6 2 (3.92%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.96%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.96%) JSON
1 1 (1.96%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (1.96%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.49%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.88%) Digital Signage
3 2 (3.92%) Hedge funds
3 2 (3.92%) NHS
3 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.96%) e-Health
4 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.96%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.96%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (11.76%) Windows
2 3 (5.88%) Linux
3 1 (1.96%) Unix
3 1 (1.96%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (13.73%) Project Management
2 7 (13.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (11.76%) Migration
4 5 (9.80%) Incident Management
4 5 (9.80%) Roadmaps
5 4 (7.84%) High Availability
5 4 (7.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 4 (7.84%) Low Latency
5 4 (7.84%) Network Design
5 4 (7.84%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (7.84%) Service Delivery
5 4 (7.84%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (7.84%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (5.88%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (5.88%) DevOps
6 3 (5.88%) Market Research
6 3 (5.88%) Mentoring
6 3 (5.88%) Patch Management
6 3 (5.88%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 11 (21.57%) Python
2 3 (5.88%) PowerShell
3 2 (3.92%) SQL
4 1 (1.96%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (31.37%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (27.45%) CCNP
3 9 (17.65%) Security Cleared
4 6 (11.76%) CCIE
4 6 (11.76%) SC Cleared
5 5 (9.80%) CCNA
6 4 (7.84%) Degree
7 2 (3.92%) CCSA
7 2 (3.92%) CCSE
8 1 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.96%) DV Cleared
8 1 (1.96%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.96%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.88%) SLA
2 1 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.96%) NIST
2 1 (1.96%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.96%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.84%) Firmware
2 2 (3.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.96%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (15.69%) Ansible
2 3 (5.88%) Cisco UCCE
3 2 (3.92%) CASB
3 2 (3.92%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (3.92%) Cisco LMS
3 2 (3.92%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (3.92%) Terraform
4 1 (1.96%) CA Spectrum
4 1 (1.96%) Netcool
4 1 (1.96%) OPNET
Vendors
1 13 (25.49%) Palo Alto
2 11 (21.57%) CheckPoint
3 9 (17.65%) Microsoft
4 8 (15.69%) Arista
4 8 (15.69%) Fortinet
5 6 (11.76%) F5
5 6 (11.76%) Juniper
6 5 (9.80%) Meraki
6 5 (9.80%) SolarWinds
7 4 (7.84%) Dell
7 4 (7.84%) HP
7 4 (7.84%) VMware
8 3 (5.88%) Google
8 3 (5.88%) Infoblox
8 3 (5.88%) Logitech
9 2 (3.92%) Forcepoint
9 2 (3.92%) NetScout
10 1 (1.96%) Apple
10 1 (1.96%) Citrix
10 1 (1.96%) NetApp