Cisco Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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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 21 September 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
21 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 80 64
Rank change year-on-year +2 -16 +14
Contract jobs citing Cisco 64 41 68
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.88% 2.37% 3.23%
As % of the Vendors category 6.43% 4.81% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 31 42
10th Percentile £353 £300 £263
25th Percentile £406 £384 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £433
Median % change year-on-year - +21.39% -15.61%
75th Percentile £669 £575 £549
90th Percentile £753 £675 £638
Central London median daily rate £508 £525 £450
% change year-on-year -3.33% +16.67% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £12.18
25th Percentile £29.00 £61.86 £13.56
Median hourly rate £30.00 £63.72 £16.75
Median % change year-on-year -52.92% +280.39% -77.67%
75th Percentile £31.00 £65.57 £19.56
90th Percentile - - £20.73
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £63.72 £16.75
% change year-on-year -52.92% +280.39% -77.67%

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 996 853 936
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.74% 49.28% 44.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 703 569 606
10th Percentile £336 £320 £345
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -0.05% +0.05%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £740 £755
Central London median daily rate £538 £538 £550
% change year-on-year - -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 12 13
10th Percentile £17.41 £20.01 £16.50
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.31 £20.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £35.50 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.69% -38.26% +177.11%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £112.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.39 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £28.50 £41.50
% change year-on-year -15.79% -31.33% +100.00%

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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 21 September 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 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Monis
Cloud Services
1 17 (26.56%) Azure
2 11 (17.19%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (12.50%) AWS
4 3 (4.69%) GCP
4 3 (4.69%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.56%) Datadog
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub
6 1 (1.56%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.56%) OCI
6 1 (1.56%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.56%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (60.94%) Firewall
2 18 (28.13%) BGP
3 17 (26.56%) VPN
4 16 (25.00%) WAN
5 15 (23.44%) Network Security
6 14 (21.88%) VLAN
7 13 (20.31%) Wireless
8 12 (18.75%) LAN
8 12 (18.75%) Multicast
9 11 (17.19%) DNS
9 11 (17.19%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (14.06%) SD-WAN
11 8 (12.50%) DHCP
12 7 (10.94%) Cisco Wireless
13 6 (9.38%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (9.38%) Internet
13 6 (9.38%) OSPF
14 4 (6.25%) MPLS
14 4 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
14 4 (6.25%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.56%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) GitLab
General
1 22 (34.38%) Finance
2 12 (18.75%) Banking
3 9 (14.06%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.13%) Financial Institution
5 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
5 2 (3.13%) Law
5 2 (3.13%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 30 (46.88%) Network Engineer
2 11 (17.19%) Architect
3 10 (15.63%) Network Architect
4 8 (12.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 8 (12.50%) Senior
5 7 (10.94%) Implementation Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Network Implementation Engineer
6 6 (9.38%) Network Security Architect
6 6 (9.38%) Security Architect
7 5 (7.81%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Firewall Engineer
9 3 (4.69%) Security Hacker
10 2 (3.13%) Audio Visual Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Cisco Architect
10 2 (3.13%) Cisco Network Architect
10 2 (3.13%) Desktop Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.25%) Terraform
2 3 (4.69%) 802.1X
2 3 (4.69%) REST
3 1 (1.56%) .NET
3 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.56%) Blazor
3 1 (1.56%) eBPF
3 1 (1.56%) JSON
3 1 (1.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (20.31%) Data Centre
2 7 (10.94%) Digital Signage
3 5 (7.81%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (4.69%) IoT
5 2 (3.13%) BYOD
5 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.56%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.56%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.56%) PKI
6 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.56%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 12 (18.75%) Windows
2 5 (7.81%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.56%) Linux
4 1 (1.56%) VMS
4 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (17.19%) Project Delivery
2 10 (15.63%) Migration
3 9 (14.06%) Load Balancing
4 7 (10.94%) Use Case
5 6 (9.38%) Incident Response
5 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure as Code
5 6 (9.38%) Validation
6 5 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (7.81%) High Availability
6 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (7.81%) ITIL
6 5 (7.81%) Low Latency
6 5 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.25%) Change Control
7 4 (6.25%) Network Segmentation
7 4 (6.25%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (6.25%) Zero Trust
8 3 (4.69%) Red Team
8 3 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) Python
2 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.13%) SQL
3 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 13 (20.31%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (14.06%) CCNP
3 6 (9.38%) CCIE
4 5 (7.81%) CCNA
5 2 (3.13%) Degree
5 2 (3.13%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.56%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (1.56%) CCIE Security
6 1 (1.56%) CCSP
6 1 (1.56%) CWNA
6 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (1.56%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (3.13%) QA
2 1 (1.56%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 8 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (10.94%) Active Directory
3 3 (4.69%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.13%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.56%) Docker
5 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (10.94%) Cisco Prime
2 6 (9.38%) Ansible
2 6 (9.38%) FortiGate
3 3 (4.69%) SCCM
4 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.13%) Nessus
4 2 (3.13%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.56%) Grafana
5 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.56%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.56%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Palo Alto
2 12 (18.75%) F5
2 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 10 (15.63%) Fortinet
3 10 (15.63%) VMware
4 8 (12.50%) Meraki
5 7 (10.94%) Arista
6 5 (7.81%) Citrix
6 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
7 4 (6.25%) CheckPoint
8 3 (4.69%) Infoblox
8 3 (4.69%) Juniper
8 3 (4.69%) Zscaler
9 2 (3.13%) Adobe
9 2 (3.13%) Autodesk
9 2 (3.13%) Bloomberg
9 2 (3.13%) Reuters
9 2 (3.13%) Samsung
9 2 (3.13%) Symantec
9 2 (3.13%) Tenable