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 28 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 95 104
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 +33
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 12 23 22
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.56% 1.33% 0.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.04% 5.17% 4.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 15 15
10th Percentile £215 £314 £380
25th Percentile £331 £525 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £586 £530
Median % change year-on-year -14.59% +10.57% -11.67%
75th Percentile £688 £630 £644
90th Percentile £750 £721 £768
Central London median daily rate £425 £575 £528
% change year-on-year -26.09% +9.00% -7.46%

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 589 445 454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.47% 25.72% 19.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 432 291 296
10th Percentile £384 £371 £363
25th Percentile £450 £456 £447
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -5.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £671
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £535 £530
% change year-on-year -1.87% +0.94% -7.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 4
10th Percentile £18.71 £23.85 £19.32
25th Percentile £24.16 £26.63 £19.90
Median hourly rate £30.03 £32.50 £20.82
Median % change year-on-year -7.59% +56.14% -59.97%
75th Percentile £55.37 £48.75 £34.49
90th Percentile £68.53 £57.75 £58.05
Central London median hourly rate £25.77 £30.79 £24.97
% change year-on-year -16.29% +23.29% -51.98%

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 28 March 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 Office
1 1 (8.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) AWS
3 4 (33.33%) GCP
4 3 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECR
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Fargate
5 1 (8.33%) Azure AKS
5 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (8.33%) Cloudflare
5 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (8.33%) GitHub
5 1 (8.33%) Google Kubernetes Engine
5 1 (8.33%) IaaS
5 1 (8.33%) Nutanix
5 1 (8.33%) OCI
5 1 (8.33%) Rubrik
5 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
1 4 (33.33%) VPN
2 3 (25.00%) Network Security
3 2 (16.67%) DNS
3 2 (16.67%) IPsec
3 2 (16.67%) SSL
3 2 (16.67%) TCP/IP
4 1 (8.33%) BGP
4 1 (8.33%) iSCSI
4 1 (8.33%) LAN
4 1 (8.33%) OSPF
4 1 (8.33%) SD-WAN
4 1 (8.33%) VLAN
4 1 (8.33%) WAN
4 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (8.33%) Wireless
4 1 (8.33%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Git
2 1 (8.33%) Snyk
General
1 5 (41.67%) 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%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Architect
2 3 (25.00%) Security Architect
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
3 2 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Consultant
3 2 (16.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
4 1 (8.33%) AWS Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (8.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) DevOps Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Security Consultant
4 1 (8.33%) Strategy Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Consultant
4 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 3 (25.00%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (33.33%) Cloud Security
1 4 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (25.00%) AI
2 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (25.00%) DevSecOps
2 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (25.00%) SIEM
3 2 (16.67%) Change Management
3 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
3 2 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (16.67%) Information Security
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) Software Deployment
3 2 (16.67%) Use Case
4 1 (8.33%) Application Security
4 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Culture
4 1 (8.33%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) SOAR
4 1 (8.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 5 (41.67%) CISSP
2 4 (33.33%) CCNA
2 4 (33.33%) CCNP
2 4 (33.33%) Degree
3 3 (25.00%) CISM
4 2 (16.67%) CCSP
5 1 (8.33%) AWS Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CCIE
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%) 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%) Docker
1 1 (8.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (33.33%) Terraform
2 2 (16.67%) Ansible
3 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (8.33%) Packer
3 1 (8.33%) QRadar
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
1 2 (16.67%) Cisco
1 2 (16.67%) Google
1 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
1 2 (16.67%) Splunk
2 1 (8.33%) 3PAR
2 1 (8.33%) Forcepoint
2 1 (8.33%) HP
2 1 (8.33%) Juniper
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Okta
2 1 (8.33%) Qualys
2 1 (8.33%) Rapid7
2 1 (8.33%) Tenable
2 1 (8.33%) Trend Micro
2 1 (8.33%) VMware