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 25 August 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
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 79 63
Rank change year-on-year -1 -16 +24
Contract jobs citing Cisco 58 47 63
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.50% 2.59% 3.04%
As % of the Vendors category 5.83% 5.33% 6.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 33 36
10th Percentile £366 £304 £281
25th Percentile £413 £445 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £536 £419
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% +28.00% -18.69%
75th Percentile £675 £613 £528
90th Percentile £738 £755 £638
Central London median daily rate £550 £536 £446
% change year-on-year +2.61% +20.11% -6.05%
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 995 881 914
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.94% 48.59% 44.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 691 570 620
10th Percentile £356 £320 £350
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
Central London median daily rate £538 £538 £543
% change year-on-year - -0.92% -1.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 11
10th Percentile - £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.06% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £28.57 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -25.52%

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 25 August 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.72%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.14%) Azure
2 10 (17.24%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.62%) AWS
4 3 (5.17%) GCP
5 2 (3.45%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (3.45%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.45%) Rubrik
6 1 (1.72%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.72%) Cloudflare
6 1 (1.72%) Datadog
6 1 (1.72%) GitHub
6 1 (1.72%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.72%) OCI
6 1 (1.72%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 33 (56.90%) Firewall
2 14 (24.14%) WAN
3 13 (22.41%) BGP
3 13 (22.41%) LAN
3 13 (22.41%) Network Security
3 13 (22.41%) VPN
4 12 (20.69%) VLAN
4 12 (20.69%) Wireless
5 10 (17.24%) DNS
6 9 (15.52%) Multicast
6 9 (15.52%) Wi-Fi
7 8 (13.79%) SD-WAN
8 7 (12.07%) Cisco Nexus
8 7 (12.07%) Cisco Wireless
8 7 (12.07%) DHCP
8 7 (12.07%) Internet
9 4 (6.90%) OSPF
9 4 (6.90%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (5.17%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (5.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.72%) ClickHouse
2 1 (1.72%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (1.72%) GitLab
General
1 15 (25.86%) Finance
2 11 (18.97%) Banking
3 10 (17.24%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Telecoms
5 3 (5.17%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.45%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.45%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.45%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 26 (44.83%) Network Engineer
2 11 (18.97%) Architect
3 10 (17.24%) Network Architect
4 6 (10.34%) Cisco Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Implementation Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 6 (10.34%) Senior
5 5 (8.62%) Network Security Architect
5 5 (8.62%) Security Architect
6 4 (6.90%) Support Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Lead
7 3 (5.17%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Security Engineer
7 3 (5.17%) Security Hacker
7 3 (5.17%) Senior Network Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Audio Visual Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) LAN Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.90%) 802.1X
2 3 (5.17%) REST
3 2 (3.45%) Terraform
4 1 (1.72%) .NET
4 1 (1.72%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.72%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.72%) Blazor
4 1 (1.72%) eBPF
4 1 (1.72%) JSON
4 1 (1.72%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.97%) Data Centre
2 6 (10.34%) Digital Signage
3 5 (8.62%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (3.45%) BYOD
4 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.45%) IoT
4 2 (3.45%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.72%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.72%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.72%) Fat Client
5 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.72%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.72%) PKI
5 1 (1.72%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.72%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.72%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 10 (17.24%) Windows
2 5 (8.62%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.45%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.72%) Linux
4 1 (1.72%) VMS
4 1 (1.72%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.72%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (17.24%) Project Delivery
2 9 (15.52%) Migration
3 7 (12.07%) ITIL
3 7 (12.07%) Load Balancing
4 6 (10.34%) Use Case
5 5 (8.62%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (8.62%) High Availability
5 5 (8.62%) Incident Response
5 5 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (6.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 4 (6.90%) ITSM
6 4 (6.90%) Low Latency
6 4 (6.90%) Network Design
6 4 (6.90%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (6.90%) Validation
7 3 (5.17%) Change Control
7 3 (5.17%) Mentoring
7 3 (5.17%) Network Architecture
7 3 (5.17%) Service Management
7 3 (5.17%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 5 (8.62%) Python
2 2 (3.45%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (22.41%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (17.24%) CCNP
3 6 (10.34%) CCIE
4 4 (6.90%) CCNA
5 3 (5.17%) Degree
5 3 (5.17%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.45%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.72%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 1 (1.72%) CCIE Security
7 1 (1.72%) CCSE
7 1 (1.72%) CWNA
7 1 (1.72%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.72%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (3.45%) QA
2 1 (1.72%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.72%) SLA
System Software
1 8 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (12.07%) Active Directory
3 3 (5.17%) VMware NSX
4 2 (3.45%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (3.45%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.72%) Docker
5 1 (1.72%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (10.34%) Cisco Prime
2 5 (8.62%) Ansible
3 4 (6.90%) FortiGate
4 3 (5.17%) SCCM
5 2 (3.45%) Nessus
5 2 (3.45%) vCenter Server
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.72%) Grafana
6 1 (1.72%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (1.72%) PowerCLI
6 1 (1.72%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.97%) F5
3 10 (17.24%) Fortinet
3 10 (17.24%) Palo Alto
3 10 (17.24%) VMware
4 6 (10.34%) Meraki
4 6 (10.34%) ServiceNow
5 5 (8.62%) CheckPoint
5 5 (8.62%) Citrix
6 4 (6.90%) Arista
6 4 (6.90%) Infoblox
6 4 (6.90%) Juniper
6 4 (6.90%) Zscaler
7 2 (3.45%) Adobe
7 2 (3.45%) Autodesk
7 2 (3.45%) Forcepoint
7 2 (3.45%) ForeScout
7 2 (3.45%) Samsung
7 2 (3.45%) Symantec
7 2 (3.45%) Tenable