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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 118 96 110
Rank change year-on-year -22 +14 +27
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 16 16 18
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.69% 0.95% 0.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.72% 3.88% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 12 14
10th Percentile £226 £501 £376
25th Percentile £363 £522 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +20.00% -11.50%
75th Percentile £543 £673 £552
90th Percentile £708 £768 £749
Central London median daily rate £410 £593 £500
% change year-on-year -30.86% +18.60% -9.09%

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 588 412 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.30% 24.55% 20.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 277 285
10th Percentile £413 £375 £385
25th Percentile £463 £459 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% +2.33% -6.52%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £533
% change year-on-year - +3.24% -6.45%
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 £28.61 £23.91
% change year-on-year +12.08% +19.67% -53.58%

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 25 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 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (6.25%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (43.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) AWS
2 3 (18.75%) GCP
3 2 (12.50%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (6.25%) Cloudflare
4 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (6.25%) Nutanix
4 1 (6.25%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 8 (50.00%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) LAN
2 5 (31.25%) VPN
3 4 (25.00%) Network Security
3 4 (25.00%) WAN
4 3 (18.75%) Wireless
5 2 (12.50%) BGP
5 2 (12.50%) DNS
5 2 (12.50%) IPsec
5 2 (12.50%) OSPF
5 2 (12.50%) SSL
5 2 (12.50%) TCP/IP
5 2 (12.50%) VLAN
6 1 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (6.25%) EIGRP
6 1 (6.25%) Internet
6 1 (6.25%) iSCSI
6 1 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
6 1 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (6.25%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Git
1 1 (6.25%) Snyk
General
1 7 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Mandarin Language
4 1 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Network Engineer
2 3 (18.75%) LAN Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (12.50%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (12.50%) Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Consultant
3 2 (12.50%) Security Architect
3 2 (12.50%) Senior
3 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (6.25%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Security Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Security Technical Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Strategy Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Technical Security Consultant
4 1 (6.25%) Web Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) 802.1X
1 1 (6.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (6.25%) Anti-Spyware
2 1 (6.25%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 1 (6.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (12.50%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.25%) VMS
3 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (25.00%) High Availability
1 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (18.75%) Collaborative Working
2 3 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (18.75%) Infrastructure as Code
3 2 (12.50%) AI
3 2 (12.50%) Change Management
3 2 (12.50%) Cloud Security
3 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 2 (12.50%) Information Security
3 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 2 (12.50%) ITIL
3 2 (12.50%) Knowledge Transfer
3 2 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (12.50%) SIEM
3 2 (12.50%) Software Deployment
3 2 (12.50%) Use Case
3 2 (12.50%) Validation
3 2 (12.50%) Zero Trust
4 1 (6.25%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
3 1 (6.25%) Bash
3 1 (6.25%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) CCNP
2 5 (31.25%) CCNA
2 5 (31.25%) Degree
3 4 (25.00%) CCIE
3 4 (25.00%) CISSP
4 3 (18.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (18.75%) CISM
5 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (6.25%) CCSE
6 1 (6.25%) CCSK
6 1 (6.25%) CCSP
6 1 (6.25%) CEH
6 1 (6.25%) CISA
6 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (6.25%) CRISC
6 1 (6.25%) CWNA
6 1 (6.25%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) NIST
2 1 (6.25%) EU AI Act
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 42001
2 1 (6.25%) NIST 800
2 1 (6.25%) PCI DSS
2 1 (6.25%) QA
2 1 (6.25%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) Firmware
2 1 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (6.25%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 3 (18.75%) Terraform
3 1 (6.25%) Packer
3 1 (6.25%) QRadar
3 1 (6.25%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco
2 3 (18.75%) Palo Alto
3 2 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Splunk
3 2 (12.50%) VMware
4 1 (6.25%) 3PAR
4 1 (6.25%) CheckPoint
4 1 (6.25%) EMC
4 1 (6.25%) Extreme Networks
4 1 (6.25%) Forcepoint
4 1 (6.25%) Google
4 1 (6.25%) HP
4 1 (6.25%) Juniper
4 1 (6.25%) Okta
4 1 (6.25%) Qualys
4 1 (6.25%) Tenable
4 1 (6.25%) Trend Micro