Cisco Contract Job Trends 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 17 October 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
17 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 51 74
Rank change year-on-year -34 +23 +6
Contract jobs citing Cisco 41 91 82
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 2.16% 3.87% 2.65%
As % of the Vendors category 4.42% 8.90% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 60 58
10th Percentile £357 £320 £251
25th Percentile £408 £350 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £485 £488
Median % change year-on-year +8.34% -0.60% +14.71%
75th Percentile £575 £598 £540
90th Percentile £664 £639 £611
London median daily rate £475 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -6.86% +2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £12.18 -
25th Percentile £61.86 £13.56 £72.50
Median hourly rate £63.72 £16.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +280.39% -77.67% +284.62%
75th Percentile £65.57 £19.56 £77.50
90th Percentile - £20.73 -
London median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £30.75
% change year-on-year +5.67% -22.60% +25.51%

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 928 1,022 1,303
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 48.97% 43.51% 42.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 659 901
10th Percentile £325 £313 £281
25th Percentile £421 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £650 £681
90th Percentile £761 £738 £788
London median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 14 9
10th Percentile £18.96 £19.10 £12.25
25th Percentile £20.08 £25.80 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.33 £50.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.35% +122.22% -4.94%
75th Percentile £53.31 £112.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £137.50 £57.90
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -13.04% +61.00%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Central London

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Central London over the 6 months to 17 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in Central London

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

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

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 17 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 -30 36 £518 +6.79% 25
City of Westminster -1 4 £600 +33.33% 1
West End of London - 2 £773 - 1
Cisco
London

Cisco
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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.44%) Appian
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (4.88%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (34.15%) Azure
2 4 (9.76%) AWS
2 4 (9.76%) Entra ID
2 4 (9.76%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.32%) GCP
3 3 (7.32%) IaaS
4 2 (4.88%) Mimecast
4 2 (4.88%) Nutanix
4 2 (4.88%) PaaS
5 1 (2.44%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (2.44%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.44%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.44%) Power Platform
5 1 (2.44%) PowerApps
5 1 (2.44%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 16 (39.02%) Firewall
2 9 (21.95%) BGP
2 9 (21.95%) WAN
3 7 (17.07%) OSPF
3 7 (17.07%) Wi-Fi
4 6 (14.63%) LAN
5 4 (9.76%) MPLS
5 4 (9.76%) Network Security
5 4 (9.76%) SAN
5 4 (9.76%) SD-WAN
6 3 (7.32%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (7.32%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (7.32%) DNS
6 3 (7.32%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (7.32%) IP Telephony
6 3 (7.32%) Multicast
6 3 (7.32%) VXLAN
7 2 (4.88%) DHCP
7 2 (4.88%) VLAN
7 2 (4.88%) VPN
Development Applications
1 3 (7.32%) Git
2 1 (2.44%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.44%) eggPlant
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
2 1 (2.44%) Selenium
2 1 (2.44%) SonarQube
2 1 (2.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (31.71%) Finance
2 9 (21.95%) Social Skills
3 4 (9.76%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.32%) Banking
4 3 (7.32%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.44%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.44%) Legal
5 1 (2.44%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (21.95%) Network Engineer
2 5 (12.20%) Project Manager
3 3 (7.32%) Audio Visual Technician
3 3 (7.32%) Senior
4 2 (4.88%) Active Directory Support
4 2 (4.88%) Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Cisco Project Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Consultant
4 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (4.88%) IT Manager
4 2 (4.88%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Security Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (4.88%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (4.88%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Technical Architect
4 2 (4.88%) Technical Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (4.88%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.32%) Jinja
1 3 (7.32%) XMPP
2 1 (2.44%) JSON
2 1 (2.44%) NETCONF
2 1 (2.44%) WebRTC
2 1 (2.44%) XML
2 1 (2.44%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 8 (19.51%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.32%) Blackberry
2 3 (7.32%) Handset
2 3 (7.32%) iPhone
2 3 (7.32%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (4.88%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (4.88%) Fat Client
3 2 (4.88%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.44%) CCTV
4 1 (2.44%) Clustering
4 1 (2.44%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.44%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.44%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.44%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (12.20%) Windows
2 3 (7.32%) Linux
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (14.63%) ITIL
2 5 (12.20%) DevOps
2 5 (12.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (12.20%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (12.20%) Project Management
3 4 (9.76%) Mobile Device Management
3 4 (9.76%) Project Delivery
4 3 (7.32%) Change Management
4 3 (7.32%) CI/CD
4 3 (7.32%) Logistics
4 3 (7.32%) Low Latency
4 3 (7.32%) Migration
4 3 (7.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (7.32%) Time Management
5 2 (4.88%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (4.88%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (4.88%) Load Balancing
5 2 (4.88%) Platform Engineering
5 2 (4.88%) Proactive Monitoring
5 2 (4.88%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.07%) Python
2 2 (4.88%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.88%) SQL
3 1 (2.44%) JavaScript
3 1 (2.44%) Perl
Qualifications
1 11 (26.83%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (14.63%) CCNA
2 6 (14.63%) CCNP
2 6 (14.63%) Degree
3 5 (12.20%) SC Cleared
3 5 (12.20%) Security Cleared
4 4 (9.76%) CCIE
5 2 (4.88%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.88%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.44%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.44%) JNCIE
6 1 (2.44%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.44%) JNCIS
6 1 (2.44%) VCAP
6 1 (2.44%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.88%) PMO
2 1 (2.44%) QA
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (9.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.88%) Firmware
3 2 (4.88%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.44%) Docker
4 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.44%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Ansible
2 3 (7.32%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (4.88%) NetBackup
4 1 (2.44%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (2.44%) Icinga
4 1 (2.44%) Nagios
4 1 (2.44%) Observium
4 1 (2.44%) PowerCLI
4 1 (2.44%) Terraform
4 1 (2.44%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.44%) vMotion
Vendors
1 11 (26.83%) Microsoft
2 10 (24.39%) Palo Alto
3 8 (19.51%) Arista
4 6 (14.63%) ServiceNow
5 5 (12.20%) Meraki
5 5 (12.20%) VMware
6 4 (9.76%) F5
6 4 (9.76%) Fortinet
7 3 (7.32%) Citrix
7 3 (7.32%) Juniper
7 3 (7.32%) Samsung
8 2 (4.88%) Dell
8 2 (4.88%) Google
8 2 (4.88%) Isilon
8 2 (4.88%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (4.88%) Veritas
9 1 (2.44%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.44%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.44%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.44%) Splunk