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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 113 125 150
Rank change year-on-year +12 +25 +44
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.14% 0.065%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.79% 1.56% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 1
10th Percentile £490 - -
25th Percentile £494 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £613 £525 £488
90th Percentile £643 - -
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £288
% change year-on-year +5.00% +73.91% -32.35%

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 168 192 294
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 9.59% 9.24% 9.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 121 112 190
10th Percentile £263 £350 £212
25th Percentile £361 £424 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £531 £543
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -2.17% +0.46%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £638
90th Percentile £738 £757 £714
Central London median daily rate £536 £525 £540
% change year-on-year +2.10% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £27.56 - £26.38
25th Percentile £33.28 - £34.06
Median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - - +87.50%
75th Percentile £55.49 - £64.06
90th Percentile £61.54 - £72.13
Central London median hourly rate £44.11 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +87.50%

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cisco IOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco IOS 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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

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