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 4 January 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
4 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 55 64
Rank change year-on-year -50 +9 +16
Contract jobs citing Cisco 19 63 75
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.04% 3.21% 3.07%
As % of the Vendors category 2.15% 7.40% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 45 50
10th Percentile £361 £350 £346
25th Percentile £406 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +10.53% -
75th Percentile £575 £638 £540
90th Percentile £605 £675 £612
Central London median daily rate £513 £525 £475
% change year-on-year -2.38% +10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.25 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £12.50 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year - -83.33% +284.62%
75th Percentile - £13.75 £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - £12.50 £75.00
% change year-on-year - -83.33% +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 884 851 1,023
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 48.33% 43.31% 41.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 522 734
10th Percentile £338 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £457 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 8 6
10th Percentile £19.98 £32.25 -
25th Percentile £20.34 £50.63 £17.00
Median hourly rate £31.38 £98.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -68.14% +374.70% +1.22%
75th Percentile £41.89 £118.38 £42.50
90th Percentile £44.72 £137.50 £63.13
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £71.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -64.25% +275.00% -7.32%

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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 4 January 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 (15.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (15.79%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 4 (21.05%) Azure
2 3 (15.79%) GCP
3 2 (10.53%) AWS
3 2 (10.53%) IaaS
3 2 (10.53%) Mimecast
3 2 (10.53%) PaaS
4 1 (5.26%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (36.84%) Firewall
2 5 (26.32%) LAN
2 5 (26.32%) WAN
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco IPT
3 3 (15.79%) IP Telephony
3 3 (15.79%) NX-OS
3 3 (15.79%) Structured Cabling
4 2 (10.53%) BGP
4 2 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (10.53%) Ethernet VPN
4 2 (10.53%) MPLS
4 2 (10.53%) Network Security
4 2 (10.53%) OSPF
4 2 (10.53%) VPN
4 2 (10.53%) VXLAN
4 2 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
5 1 (5.26%) SNMP
5 1 (5.26%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (10.53%) Git
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Social Skills
3 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
4 2 (10.53%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Network Engineer
1 4 (21.05%) Project Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Audio Visual Technician
2 3 (15.79%) IT Manager
2 3 (15.79%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Network Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Deployment Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) XMPP
2 2 (10.53%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Data Centre
2 3 (15.79%) Blackberry
2 3 (15.79%) Handset
2 3 (15.79%) iPhone
2 3 (15.79%) Video Conferencing
3 1 (5.26%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.26%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
1 2 (10.53%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (21.05%) Logistics
2 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
2 4 (21.05%) Project Management
3 3 (15.79%) Change Management
3 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (15.79%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (15.79%) Scrum
3 3 (15.79%) Time Management
3 3 (15.79%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Agile
4 2 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (10.53%) DevOps
4 2 (10.53%) Information Security
4 2 (10.53%) ITSM
4 2 (10.53%) Migration
4 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (5.26%) Computer Science
5 1 (5.26%) Network Design
5 1 (5.26%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) Perl
2 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (21.05%) Degree
2 3 (15.79%) CCIE
2 3 (15.79%) CCNP
2 3 (15.79%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) VCAP
4 1 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) Firmware
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
2 1 (5.26%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (15.79%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (5.26%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (5.26%) PowerCLI
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Arista
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
3 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
3 3 (15.79%) Samsung
4 2 (10.53%) Google
4 2 (10.53%) VMware
5 1 (5.26%) Broadcom
5 1 (5.26%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.26%) Citrix
5 1 (5.26%) F5
5 1 (5.26%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.26%) Juniper
5 1 (5.26%) Meraki
5 1 (5.26%) Pure Storage
5 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.26%) Splunk
5 1 (5.26%) Tenable
46 Cisco jobs in the City of London