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 30 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 97 120
Rank change year-on-year -4 +23 +37
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 20 24 28
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.18% 1.14% 1.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.50% 4.52% 4.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 14 15
10th Percentile £311 £255 £390
25th Percentile £477 £475 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £524 £500
Median % change year-on-year +21.72% +4.75% -4.76%
75th Percentile £679 £623 £566
90th Percentile £700 £720 £679
Central London median daily rate £650 £513 £488
% change year-on-year +26.83% +5.13% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £75.00

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 444 531 576
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 26.09% 25.31% 20.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 315 347
10th Percentile £330 £352 £345
25th Percentile £441 £463 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £555
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +1.35% -5.33%
75th Percentile £663 £657 £688
90th Percentile £734 £770 £816
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 2
10th Percentile £20.55 £23.10 £23.45
25th Percentile £25.75 £27.00 £31.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -30.11% +7.54%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £51.14 - £71.55
Central London median hourly rate £27.50 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -15.38% +80.56% -58.37%

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 30 October 2025.

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
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 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 5 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (5.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) Firewall
2 11 (55.00%) BGP
3 10 (50.00%) OSPF
4 6 (30.00%) MPLS
5 4 (20.00%) Multicast
5 4 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (15.00%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (15.00%) DNS
6 3 (15.00%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
6 3 (15.00%) Unicast
6 3 (15.00%) VXLAN
6 3 (15.00%) WAN
7 2 (10.00%) DHCP
7 2 (10.00%) Intrusion Detection
7 2 (10.00%) Modbus
7 2 (10.00%) NX-OS
7 2 (10.00%) SAN
8 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (5.00%) IOS XR
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Banking
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Investment Banking
3 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.00%) Manufacturing
4 2 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Legal
5 1 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (15.00%) Architect
3 3 (15.00%) Automation Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Security Engineer
3 3 (15.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 2 (10.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (10.00%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 2 (10.00%) Technical Solutions Architect
4 2 (10.00%) WAN Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
5 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (5.00%) AWS Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Cloud Security Architect
5 1 (5.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (5.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Jinja
2 1 (5.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.00%) Insider Threat
2 2 (10.00%) Life Science
2 2 (10.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (10.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (10.00%) SCADA
2 2 (10.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.00%) CCTV
3 1 (5.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (5.00%) STIX
3 1 (5.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.00%) Windows
2 1 (5.00%) Linux
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (30.00%) Change Control
2 5 (25.00%) ITIL
3 4 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (15.00%) Business Case
4 3 (15.00%) Incident Response
4 3 (15.00%) Network Design
5 2 (10.00%) Agile
5 2 (10.00%) Antivirus Management
5 2 (10.00%) Data Flow Diagram
5 2 (10.00%) Information Security
5 2 (10.00%) Information Security Management
5 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.00%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
5 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (10.00%) Project Management
5 2 (10.00%) Risk Assessment
5 2 (10.00%) Security Management
5 2 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (5.00%) Kusto Query Language
2 1 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (45.00%) CCNP
2 8 (40.00%) CCNA
3 7 (35.00%) CCIE
4 5 (25.00%) Degree
5 3 (15.00%) JNCIS
6 2 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (10.00%) Azure Certification
6 2 (10.00%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (5.00%) AWS Certification
7 1 (5.00%) CISSP
7 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (5.00%) JNCIE
7 1 (5.00%) JNCIP
7 1 (5.00%) MCP
7 1 (5.00%) MCSA
7 1 (5.00%) MCSE
7 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
7 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (5.00%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.00%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Ansible
2 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (50.00%) Cisco
2 8 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (30.00%) Arista
4 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
5 3 (15.00%) F5
5 3 (15.00%) SolarWinds
6 2 (10.00%) Citrix
6 2 (10.00%) Juniper
6 2 (10.00%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (10.00%) Meraki
6 2 (10.00%) Palo Alto
6 2 (10.00%) Rockwell
7 1 (5.00%) ForeScout
7 1 (5.00%) ServiceNow
7 1 (5.00%) VMware