Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends 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 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 100 109
Rank change year-on-year -19 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 22 21 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.02% 1.22% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.99% 4.88% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 10
10th Percentile £212 £334 £468
25th Percentile £363 £488 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £625 £524
Median % change year-on-year -24.00% +19.33% -0.24%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £672
90th Percentile £805 £700 £734
Central London median daily rate £443 £650 £513
% change year-on-year -31.92% +26.83% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £34.20 - -
25th Percentile £42.00 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £63.25 - -
90th Percentile £64.30 - -
Central London median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 552 430 522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.69% 24.97% 24.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 295 309
10th Percentile £400 £344 £363
25th Percentile £463 £457 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -2.22% +1.81%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £663
90th Percentile £738 £738 £764
Central London median daily rate £545 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £23.30 £20.55 £23.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £27.50 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year +118.18% -7.56% -36.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £28.91 £92.44
90th Percentile £119.20 £50.91 £112.00
Central London median hourly rate £54.50 £28.15 £29.75
% change year-on-year +93.61% -5.38% -36.02%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cisco Certification

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 10 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the City of London

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Certification in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the City of London

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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:

Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (27.27%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) AWS
3 2 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (4.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (4.55%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 13 (59.09%) Firewall
2 8 (36.36%) LAN
2 8 (36.36%) WAN
3 7 (31.82%) Network Security
4 5 (22.73%) VPN
5 4 (18.18%) BGP
5 4 (18.18%) DNS
5 4 (18.18%) OSPF
5 4 (18.18%) VLAN
6 3 (13.64%) Multicast
6 3 (13.64%) SD-WAN
7 2 (9.09%) DHCP
7 2 (9.09%) NGFW
7 2 (9.09%) SAN
7 2 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (9.09%) Wireless
8 1 (4.55%) Internet
8 1 (4.55%) MPLS
8 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
General
1 7 (31.82%) Finance
2 6 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Public Sector
4 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
6 1 (4.55%) Mandarin Language
6 1 (4.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) LAN Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) Network Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Security Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Field Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Field Service Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Field Service Technician
4 2 (9.09%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) IT Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) IT Technician
4 2 (9.09%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Cisco Security Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Firewall Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Firewall Consultant
5 1 (4.55%) Firewall Support
5 1 (4.55%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.55%) eBPF
1 1 (4.55%) REST
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 8 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.64%) Driving Licence
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (4.55%) IoT
4 1 (4.55%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
2 1 (4.55%) VMS
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (22.73%) High Availability
1 5 (22.73%) Migration
2 4 (18.18%) Network Design
2 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (13.64%) Coaching
3 3 (13.64%) Load Balancing
3 3 (13.64%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (13.64%) Security Architecture
3 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (13.64%) Zero Trust
4 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (9.09%) ITIL
4 2 (9.09%) Network Architecture
4 2 (9.09%) Network Segmentation
4 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (9.09%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (9.09%) Validation
4 2 (9.09%) Vulnerability Management
5 1 (4.55%) Change Control
5 1 (4.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Python
2 1 (4.55%) VB
Qualifications
1 13 (59.09%) CCNP
2 10 (45.45%) CCIE
3 8 (36.36%) CCNA
4 4 (18.18%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (13.64%) Degree
5 3 (13.64%) MCSE
5 3 (13.64%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (9.09%) A+ Certification
6 2 (9.09%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (9.09%) CCIE Security
6 2 (9.09%) CCSP
6 2 (9.09%) CISSP
6 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared
6 2 (9.09%) Security Cleared
7 1 (4.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
7 1 (4.55%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 1 (4.55%) CISM
7 1 (4.55%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.55%) Firmware
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (4.55%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.55%) VMware NSX
3 1 (4.55%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Ansible
2 1 (4.55%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.55%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 16 (72.73%) Cisco
2 8 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 7 (31.82%) Fortinet
4 3 (13.64%) Arista
4 3 (13.64%) CheckPoint
4 3 (13.64%) F5
4 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
4 3 (13.64%) VMware
5 2 (9.09%) Dell
5 2 (9.09%) Juniper
6 1 (4.55%) Citrix
6 1 (4.55%) EMC
6 1 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (4.55%) Forcepoint
6 1 (4.55%) ForeScout
6 1 (4.55%) Google
6 1 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (4.55%) Meraki
6 1 (4.55%) ServiceNow