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 December 2025, 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 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 56 69
Rank change year-on-year -40 +13 +3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 28 77 73
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.55% 3.58% 2.81%
As % of the Vendors category 3.15% 8.17% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 52 49
10th Percentile £361 £316 £343
25th Percentile £413 £350 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £491 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.84% +3.38% -
75th Percentile £560 £628 £538
90th Percentile £575 £672 £591
Central London median daily rate £518 £500 £475
% change year-on-year +3.50% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £12.18 -
25th Percentile £61.86 £13.56 £72.50
Median hourly rate £63.72 £16.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +280.39% -77.67% +284.62%
75th Percentile £65.57 £19.56 £77.50
90th Percentile - £20.73 -
Central London median hourly rate £63.72 £16.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year +280.39% -77.67% +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 889 942 1,120
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 49.20% 43.85% 43.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 636 596 800
10th Percentile £338 £313 £320
25th Percentile £417 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -1.35%
75th Percentile £675 £670 £675
90th Percentile £744 £750 £800
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £543
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.38% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 11 6
10th Percentile £20.06 £18.50 -
25th Percentile £34.48 £23.75 £17.00
Median hourly rate £42.89 £57.50 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.41% +177.11% +1.22%
75th Percentile £58.50 £112.00 £42.50
90th Percentile £64.30 £137.50 £63.13
Central London median hourly rate £32.99 £42.50 £19.00
% change year-on-year -22.39% +123.68% -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 December 2025.

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 (10.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft Project
1 3 (10.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) GCP
3 2 (7.14%) AWS
3 2 (7.14%) Entra ID
3 2 (7.14%) IaaS
3 2 (7.14%) Mimecast
3 2 (7.14%) PaaS
4 1 (3.57%) Amazon ELB
Communications & Networking
1 12 (42.86%) Firewall
2 7 (25.00%) WAN
3 6 (21.43%) BGP
3 6 (21.43%) LAN
4 5 (17.86%) OSPF
5 4 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
5 4 (14.29%) MPLS
5 4 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
6 3 (10.71%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (10.71%) DNS
6 3 (10.71%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (10.71%) IP Telephony
6 3 (10.71%) Network Security
6 3 (10.71%) NX-OS
6 3 (10.71%) SD-WAN
6 3 (10.71%) Structured Cabling
6 3 (10.71%) VPN
6 3 (10.71%) VXLAN
7 2 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (7.14%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Git
2 1 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 9 (32.14%) Finance
2 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
4 3 (10.71%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Legal
Job Titles
1 6 (21.43%) Network Engineer
2 5 (17.86%) Project Manager
3 3 (10.71%) Audio Visual Technician
3 3 (10.71%) IT Manager
3 3 (10.71%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Cisco Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Network Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Network Project Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Senior
4 2 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Manager
4 2 (7.14%) Technical Project Manager
5 1 (3.57%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) Designer
5 1 (3.57%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (3.57%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) Senior Network Specialist
5 1 (3.57%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.71%) XMPP
2 2 (7.14%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 8 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) Blackberry
2 3 (10.71%) Handset
2 3 (10.71%) iPhone
2 3 (10.71%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (7.14%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.57%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.57%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.57%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
1 5 (17.86%) Project Management
2 4 (14.29%) Change Management
2 4 (14.29%) DevOps
2 4 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 4 (14.29%) Logistics
2 4 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 3 (10.71%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (10.71%) Scrum
3 3 (10.71%) Time Management
3 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (7.14%) Agile
4 2 (7.14%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (7.14%) Information Security
4 2 (7.14%) ITIL
4 2 (7.14%) ITSM
4 2 (7.14%) Migration
4 2 (7.14%) Network Design
4 2 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 4 (14.29%) Python
2 1 (3.57%) Perl
2 1 (3.57%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.57%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (21.43%) CCNP
3 5 (17.86%) CCIE
3 5 (17.86%) Degree
4 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
5 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared
6 2 (7.14%) CCNA
7 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
7 1 (3.57%) JNCIE
7 1 (3.57%) JNCIP
7 1 (3.57%) JNCIS
7 1 (3.57%) VCAP
7 1 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (3.57%) Firmware
3 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
3 1 (3.57%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (7.14%) NetBackup
3 1 (3.57%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (3.57%) PowerCLI
3 1 (3.57%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 8 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 6 (21.43%) Arista
2 6 (21.43%) Palo Alto
3 5 (17.86%) ServiceNow
4 4 (14.29%) F5
5 3 (10.71%) Juniper
5 3 (10.71%) Meraki
5 3 (10.71%) Samsung
5 3 (10.71%) VMware
6 2 (7.14%) Citrix
6 2 (7.14%) Dell
6 2 (7.14%) Fortinet
6 2 (7.14%) Google
6 2 (7.14%) Isilon
6 2 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (7.14%) SolarWinds
6 2 (7.14%) Veritas
7 1 (3.57%) Broadcom
7 1 (3.57%) Infoblox
7 1 (3.57%) Splunk