Cisco IOS Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cisco IOS
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Cisco IOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 117 147
Rank change year-on-year -3 +30 +46
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.17% 0.19% 0.035%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.86% 1.80% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 0
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £494 £475 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - -
75th Percentile £613 £631 -
90th Percentile £643 £695 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £281
% change year-on-year +5.00% +77.78% -15.16%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
City of London

Cisco IOS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 161 222 271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.36% 10.48% 9.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 119 136 168
10th Percentile £263 £336 £263
25th Percentile £397 £429 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £531 £540
Median % change year-on-year +1.74% -1.71% -
75th Percentile £675 £641 £629
90th Percentile £738 £755 £704
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +2.10% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile £20.89 - £26.38
25th Percentile £21.96 £31.25 £34.06
Median hourly rate £24.50 £32.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% -33.33% +107.45%
75th Percentile £45.41 £33.75 £64.06
90th Percentile £57.51 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £32.50 £48.75
% change year-on-year -24.62% -33.33% +87.50%

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco IOS relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Cisco IOS job vacancy trend in the City of London

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cisco IOS.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cisco IOS

Cisco IOS
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cisco IOS.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Cisco IOS

Cisco IOS
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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) BGP
1 2 (66.67%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (66.67%) MPLS
1 2 (66.67%) NX-OS
1 2 (66.67%) OSPF
1 2 (66.67%) VXLAN
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) IOS XR
2 1 (33.33%) IPsec
2 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Designer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCIE
2 2 (66.67%) CCNP
3 1 (33.33%) CCNA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Arista
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Meraki