Cisco Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cisco
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 8 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

6 months to
8 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 108 66 67
Rank change year-on-year -42 +1 +17
Contract jobs citing Cisco 18 53 67
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.96% 2.86% 2.79%
As % of the Vendors category 2.04% 6.59% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 38 46
10th Percentile £361 £339 £245
25th Percentile £395 £463 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £539 £438
Median % change year-on-year -8.44% +23.26% -13.79%
75th Percentile £575 £638 £538
90th Percentile £675 £675 £644
Central London median daily rate £525 £539 £450
% change year-on-year -2.64% +19.83% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £75.00
% change year-on-year - - +284.62%

All Vendors
City of London

Cisco falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 881 804 1,018
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.79% 43.34% 42.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 604 485 731
10th Percentile £338 £302 £312
25th Percentile £416 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £20.02 £55.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £20.50 £76.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -76.99% +489.47% -7.78%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £23.75
90th Percentile £44.16 - £54.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -8.88%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the City of London over the 6 months to 8 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (16.67%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (16.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (16.67%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 2 (11.11%) IaaS
2 2 (11.11%) Mimecast
2 2 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (5.56%) Amazon ELB
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (27.78%) Firewall
1 5 (27.78%) WAN
2 4 (22.22%) LAN
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (16.67%) IP Telephony
3 3 (16.67%) Network Security
3 3 (16.67%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (11.11%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (11.11%) NX-OS
4 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 2 (11.11%) VPN
5 1 (5.56%) BGP
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (5.56%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (5.56%) Junos
5 1 (5.56%) NetScaler
5 1 (5.56%) SNMP
5 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
5 1 (5.56%) WLAN
General
1 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.56%) Banking
5 1 (5.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Audio Visual Technician
3 3 (16.67%) IT Manager
3 3 (16.67%) IT Project Manager
3 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Network Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Network Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Security Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (5.56%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (16.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (16.67%) Blackberry
2 3 (16.67%) Handset
2 3 (16.67%) iPhone
2 3 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Linux
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Project Management
3 3 (16.67%) Change Management
3 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (16.67%) Logistics
3 3 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
3 3 (16.67%) Scrum
3 3 (16.67%) Time Management
3 3 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (11.11%) ITSM
4 2 (11.11%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Anomaly Detection
5 1 (5.56%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (5.56%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
5 1 (5.56%) Remediation Plan
5 1 (5.56%) Virtual Infrastructure
5 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Scanning
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Perl
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) Degree
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) CCIE
3 1 (5.56%) CCNP
3 1 (5.56%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 1 (5.56%) VCAP
3 1 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (16.67%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Firmware
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
1 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Dell DRAC
2 1 (5.56%) PowerCLI
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) ServiceNow
3 3 (16.67%) Arista
3 3 (16.67%) Samsung
4 2 (11.11%) Google
4 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.56%) Broadcom
5 1 (5.56%) F5
5 1 (5.56%) Juniper
5 1 (5.56%) Meraki
5 1 (5.56%) Pure Storage
5 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.56%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) Tenable
5 1 (5.56%) VMware