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 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 104 108
Rank change year-on-year -14 +4 +31
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 12 16 17
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.52% 0.92% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.03% 3.73% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 13
10th Percentile £215 £513 £371
25th Percentile £303 £525 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £600 £530
Median % change year-on-year -18.71% +13.21% -7.02%
75th Percentile £622 £663 £644
90th Percentile £751 £775 £735
Central London median daily rate £410 £568 £525
% change year-on-year -27.82% +8.19% -4.55%

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 592 429 441
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.71% 24.57% 20.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 285 290
10th Percentile £402 £406 £369
25th Percentile £459 £461 £451
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.24% -7.35%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £18.50 £23.62 -
25th Percentile £22.56 £26.04 £20.22
Median hourly rate £32.07 £45.33 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -29.26% +117.75% -59.58%
75th Percentile £58.58 £72.81 £24.20
90th Percentile £69.70 £89.13 £25.88
Central London median hourly rate £32.07 £29.07 £25.99
% change year-on-year +10.30% +11.87% -49.54%

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 9 May 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 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
4 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
4 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (8.33%) IaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
4 1 (8.33%) OCI
4 1 (8.33%) Rubrik
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security
2 3 (25.00%) VPN
3 2 (16.67%) BGP
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) IPsec
3 2 (16.67%) OSPF
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
3 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 2 (16.67%) VLAN
3 2 (16.67%) Wireless
4 1 (8.33%) EIGRP
4 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Snyk
General
1 6 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Financial Institution
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Mandarin Language
3 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Consultant
1 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
1 2 (16.67%) Security Architect
1 2 (16.67%) Senior
1 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Integration Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Project Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Security Administrator
2 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Technical Security Consultant
2 1 (8.33%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) .NET
1 1 (8.33%) REST
1 1 (8.33%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (33.33%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Mac OS
3 1 (8.33%) VMS
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) AI
2 3 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 3 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (25.00%) High Availability
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 2 (16.67%) DevSecOps
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (16.67%) Software Deployment
3 2 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
4 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) CCNA
1 5 (41.67%) CISSP
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 4 (33.33%) CCNP
3 3 (25.00%) CISM
4 2 (16.67%) CCSP
5 1 (8.33%) CCSE
5 1 (8.33%) CCSK
5 1 (8.33%) CEH
5 1 (8.33%) CISA
5 1 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (8.33%) CRISC
5 1 (8.33%) CWNA
5 1 (8.33%) MCSE
5 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (8.33%) OSCP
5 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) NIST
2 2 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (16.67%) PCI DSS
3 1 (8.33%) EU AI Act
3 1 (8.33%) GDPR
3 1 (8.33%) GRC
3 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 42001
3 1 (8.33%) NCSC
3 1 (8.33%) NIST 800
3 1 (8.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Firmware
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (8.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Ansible
2 3 (25.00%) Terraform
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Packer
3 1 (8.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (16.67%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Google
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 2 (16.67%) VMware
3 1 (8.33%) 3PAR
3 1 (8.33%) EMC
3 1 (8.33%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (8.33%) Forcepoint
3 1 (8.33%) HP
3 1 (8.33%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (8.33%) Okta
3 1 (8.33%) Qualys
3 1 (8.33%) Rapid7
3 1 (8.33%) Tenable
3 1 (8.33%) Trend Micro