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 1 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 102 107
Rank change year-on-year -17 +5 +14
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 19 20 16
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.86% 1.15% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.38% 4.61% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 16 9
10th Percentile £343 £311 £461
25th Percentile £363 £477 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £583 £513
Median % change year-on-year -18.45% +13.66% -2.38%
75th Percentile £583 £666 £700
90th Percentile £819 £695 £738
Central London median daily rate £443 £638 £513
% change year-on-year -30.59% +24.39% +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 562 434 519
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.51% 24.94% 24.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 293 311
10th Percentile £405 £327 £363
25th Percentile £463 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - -
75th Percentile £638 £668 £660
90th Percentile £736 £738 £775
Central London median daily rate £544 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 5
10th Percentile £23.30 £21.41 £23.10
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.88 -
Median hourly rate £60.00 £27.83 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +115.63% +3.06% +50.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £56.41 £112.00
90th Percentile £119.20 £82.79 -
Central London median hourly rate £56.00 £31.32 £27.00
% change year-on-year +78.83% +15.98% +50.00%

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 1 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 1 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 (10.53%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) Firewall
2 8 (42.11%) LAN
2 8 (42.11%) WAN
3 6 (31.58%) Network Security
4 4 (21.05%) BGP
4 4 (21.05%) OSPF
4 4 (21.05%) VLAN
4 4 (21.05%) VPN
5 3 (15.79%) DNS
5 3 (15.79%) Multicast
5 3 (15.79%) SD-WAN
6 2 (10.53%) DHCP
6 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (10.53%) Wireless
7 1 (5.26%) BIG-IP
7 1 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
7 1 (5.26%) IP Telephony
7 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
7 1 (5.26%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
General
1 7 (36.84%) Finance
2 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
4 2 (10.53%) Banking
4 2 (10.53%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
5 1 (5.26%) Financial Institution
5 1 (5.26%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Network Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
3 3 (15.79%) LAN Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Firewall Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Network Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Security Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Field Service Technician
5 1 (5.26%) Firewall Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Firewall Support
5 1 (5.26%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) IT Technician
5 1 (5.26%) Network Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Network Design Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Network Security Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Telephony Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) 802.1X
1 1 (5.26%) eBPF
1 1 (5.26%) REST
1 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) Driving Licence
2 2 (10.53%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (5.26%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) VMS
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) High Availability
2 4 (21.05%) Migration
2 4 (21.05%) Network Design
3 3 (15.79%) Network Virtualisation
3 3 (15.79%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (10.53%) Coaching
4 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (10.53%) ITIL
4 2 (10.53%) Load Balancing
4 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (10.53%) Validation
4 2 (10.53%) Zero Trust
5 1 (5.26%) Change Control
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.26%) Low Latency
5 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
5 1 (5.26%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) VB
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) CCNP
2 9 (47.37%) CCIE
3 7 (36.84%) CCNA
4 3 (15.79%) Degree
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (10.53%) MCSE
5 2 (10.53%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (5.26%) A+ Certification
6 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.26%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (5.26%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (5.26%) CCIE Security
6 1 (5.26%) CCSP
6 1 (5.26%) CWNA
6 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
6 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (5.26%) Firmware
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
3 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.26%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 7 (36.84%) Palo Alto
3 6 (31.58%) Fortinet
4 3 (15.79%) Arista
4 3 (15.79%) F5
4 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
4 3 (15.79%) VMware
5 2 (10.53%) CheckPoint
5 2 (10.53%) Juniper
6 1 (5.26%) Citrix
6 1 (5.26%) Dell
6 1 (5.26%) EMC
6 1 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
6 1 (5.26%) Forcepoint
6 1 (5.26%) ForeScout
6 1 (5.26%) LogicMonitor
6 1 (5.26%) Meraki
6 1 (5.26%) ServiceNow