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 7 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 102 105
Rank change year-on-year -16 +3 +51
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 10 17 25
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.54% 0.87% 1.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.96% 3.37% 5.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 15
10th Percentile £344 £190 £390
25th Percentile £469 £503 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.26% +9.52% -4.55%
75th Percentile £669 £633 £634
90th Percentile £708 £646 £663
Central London median daily rate £538 £549 £525
% change year-on-year -2.01% +4.48% -
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 511 505 489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.67% 25.84% 20.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 296 310
10th Percentile £363 £343 £333
25th Percentile £425 £456 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -6.38%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £680
90th Percentile £738 £747 £788
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £26.30 £24.78 £29.39
25th Percentile £26.38 £28.94 £45.09
Median hourly rate £28.00 £72.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.25% -0.34% +68.60%
75th Percentile £47.25 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £57.90 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.49 £72.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -63.34% +20.42% +39.53%

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 7 January 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
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 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (20.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 2 (20.00%) GCP
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECR
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (10.00%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (10.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (10.00%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (10.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (10.00%) IaaS
3 1 (10.00%) Nutanix
3 1 (10.00%) OCI
3 1 (10.00%) PaaS
3 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) BGP
2 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (20.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (20.00%) Modbus
2 2 (20.00%) MPLS
2 2 (20.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (20.00%) OSPF
2 2 (20.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (10.00%) LAN
3 1 (10.00%) Network Security
3 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (10.00%) WAN
3 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (10.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Git
General
1 2 (20.00%) Finance
1 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Security Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (30.00%) Senior
3 2 (20.00%) Architect
3 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) AWS Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) SIEM Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Jinja
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) Spring
2 1 (10.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (30.00%) Security Posture
2 2 (20.00%) Insider Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Life Science
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (20.00%) SCADA
3 1 (10.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 1 (10.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) STIX
3 1 (10.00%) YARA
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) Agile
1 3 (30.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (30.00%) Network Architecture
1 3 (30.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (20.00%) Antivirus Management
2 2 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (20.00%) DevSecOps
2 2 (20.00%) Information Security
2 2 (20.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (20.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (20.00%) Security Management
2 2 (20.00%) SIEM
2 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (10.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 5 (50.00%) CCNP
2 4 (40.00%) CCNA
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 3 (30.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (30.00%) CCIE
4 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (20.00%) CISSP
5 1 (10.00%) AWS Certification
5 1 (10.00%) CCSP
5 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (10.00%) GCFA
5 1 (10.00%) GCIA
5 1 (10.00%) GCIH
5 1 (10.00%) MCP
5 1 (10.00%) MCSA
5 1 (10.00%) MCSE
5 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (10.00%) OSCP
5 1 (10.00%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (20.00%) NIST
3 1 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (10.00%) GRC
3 1 (10.00%) NCSC
3 1 (10.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
2 1 (10.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Packer
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Cisco
2 2 (20.00%) Arista
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (20.00%) Rockwell
3 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
3 1 (10.00%) Citrix
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Rapid7
3 1 (10.00%) VMware