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 12 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
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 70 60
Rank change year-on-year -5 -10 +18
Contract jobs citing Cisco 64 46 65
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.80% 2.56% 3.11%
As % of the Vendors category 6.38% 5.21% 7.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 36 38
10th Percentile £353 £310 £294
25th Percentile £406 £418 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £531 £419
Median % change year-on-year +3.68% +26.69% -18.69%
75th Percentile £675 £603 £534
90th Percentile £738 £725 £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 1,003 883 926
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.91% 49.19% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 708 584 605
10th Percentile £334 £322 £350
25th Percentile £445 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £553
Median % change year-on-year - -0.45% -0.45%
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
Central London median daily rate £538 £536 £550
% change year-on-year +0.28% -2.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 11
10th Percentile £18.75 £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.83 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.11% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £29.78 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.48 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +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 12 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 38 (59.38%) Firewall
2 18 (28.13%) VPN
3 17 (26.56%) BGP
4 16 (25.00%) WAN
5 15 (23.44%) Network Security
6 14 (21.88%) VLAN
7 13 (20.31%) LAN
7 13 (20.31%) Wireless
8 11 (17.19%) DNS
8 11 (17.19%) Multicast
8 11 (17.19%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (15.63%) SD-WAN
10 8 (12.50%) DHCP
11 7 (10.94%) Cisco Nexus
11 7 (10.94%) Cisco Wireless
11 7 (10.94%) Internet
12 6 (9.38%) OSPF
13 4 (6.25%) MPLS
13 4 (6.25%) Structured Cabling
13 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 20 (31.25%) Finance
2 12 (18.75%) Banking
3 10 (15.63%) Social Skills
4 4 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.13%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.13%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Law
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
5 7 (10.94%) Implementation Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 7 (10.94%) Senior
6 5 (7.81%) Network Security Architect
6 5 (7.81%) Security Architect
7 4 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
7 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Firewall Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Lead
8 3 (4.69%) Network Security Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Security Engineer
8 3 (4.69%) Security Hacker
9 2 (3.13%) Audio Visual Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
9 2 (3.13%) Lead Architect
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 11 (17.19%) 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 9 (14.06%) Migration
3 8 (12.50%) Load Balancing
4 7 (10.94%) Use Case
5 6 (9.38%) Incident Response
5 6 (9.38%) Validation
6 5 (7.81%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (7.81%) High Availability
6 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (7.81%) ITIL
6 5 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (7.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (6.25%) Change Control
7 4 (6.25%) Low Latency
7 4 (6.25%) Network Design
7 4 (6.25%) Network Virtualisation
8 3 (4.69%) Network Segmentation
8 3 (4.69%) Red Team
8 3 (4.69%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) Python
2 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.13%) SQL
3 1 (1.56%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (14.06%) CCNP
3 6 (9.38%) CCIE
4 4 (6.25%) CCNA
5 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
6 2 (3.13%) Degree
6 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.56%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 1 (1.56%) CCIE Security
7 1 (1.56%) CWNA
7 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.56%) Network+ Certification
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 5 (7.81%) Ansible
2 5 (7.81%) 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 6 (9.38%) 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