Cisco Certification Contracts in the City of London

Cisco Certification
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 104 109 138
Rank change year-on-year +5 +29 -16
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 15 17 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.85% 0.77% 0.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.49% 3.80% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 13 20
10th Percentile £511 £371 £393
25th Percentile £524 £406 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £533 £570
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% -6.58% +8.57%
75th Percentile £625 £644 £706
90th Percentile £775 £772 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £528 £550
% change year-on-year +4.27% -4.09% +4.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 430 447 710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.47% 20.35% 19.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 293 409
10th Percentile £404 £382 £375
25th Percentile £459 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% -7.83% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £723
90th Percentile £763 £775 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £525 £568
% change year-on-year +4.76% -7.49% +3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 5
10th Percentile £23.62 - £18.06
25th Percentile £26.04 £20.22 £20.22
Median hourly rate £45.33 £20.82 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +117.75% -59.58% +13.19%
75th Percentile £72.81 £24.20 £53.75
90th Percentile £89.13 £25.88 £71.75
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £25.99 £51.50
% change year-on-year +11.87% -49.54% +13.19%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the City of London

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the City of London

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in the City of London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the City of London

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the City of London

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (6.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 9 (60.00%) Firewall
2 7 (46.67%) Network Security
3 5 (33.33%) VPN
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 3 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 3 (20.00%) DNS
4 3 (20.00%) LAN
5 2 (13.33%) BGP
5 2 (13.33%) DHCP
5 2 (13.33%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (13.33%) WAN
5 2 (13.33%) Wireless
6 1 (6.67%) BIG-IP
6 1 (6.67%) Internet
6 1 (6.67%) IPsec
6 1 (6.67%) MPLS
6 1 (6.67%) OSPF
6 1 (6.67%) SSL
6 1 (6.67%) VLAN
6 1 (6.67%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Banking
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Law
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Network Engineer
2 4 (26.67%) Architect
2 4 (26.67%) Network Architect
3 3 (20.00%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Cisco Network Architect
4 2 (13.33%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cisco Security Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Operational Security Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Operations Manager
5 1 (6.67%) SAP Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Security Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Security Operations Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) e-Health
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (20.00%) Migration
1 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (13.33%) Adaptive Security
2 2 (13.33%) Application Security
2 2 (13.33%) Business Strategy
2 2 (13.33%) Change Management
2 2 (13.33%) High Availability
2 2 (13.33%) Network Design
2 2 (13.33%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (13.33%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (13.33%) Zero Trust
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analysis
3 1 (6.67%) Electronic Trading
3 1 (6.67%) Incident Management
3 1 (6.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (6.67%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (6.67%) Security Testing
3 1 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Bicep
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (86.67%) CCNP
2 5 (33.33%) Degree
2 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (20.00%) CCIE
4 3 (20.00%) CCNA
5 2 (13.33%) CCSA
5 2 (13.33%) CCSE
6 1 (6.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (6.67%) CCSP
6 1 (6.67%) CISA
6 1 (6.67%) CISM
6 1 (6.67%) CISSP
6 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 1 (6.67%) JNCIP
6 1 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) NIST 800
1 1 (6.67%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Ansible
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco LMS
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Prime
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 5 (33.33%) Fortinet
3 3 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (13.33%) Arista
4 2 (13.33%) F5
4 2 (13.33%) Forcepoint
4 2 (13.33%) Infoblox
4 2 (13.33%) Juniper
4 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
4 2 (13.33%) NetScout
4 2 (13.33%) SAP
4 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
5 1 (6.67%) 3PAR
5 1 (6.67%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (6.67%) Citrix
5 1 (6.67%) ForeScout
5 1 (6.67%) HP
5 1 (6.67%) Meraki
5 1 (6.67%) Trend Micro