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 28 May 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
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 103 82 67
Rank change year-on-year -21 -15 +18
Contract jobs citing Cisco 28 37 57
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.20% 2.22% 2.65%
As % of the Vendors category 2.94% 4.90% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 22 39
10th Percentile £404 £278 £248
25th Percentile £497 £513 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £413
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +33.33% -19.12%
75th Percentile £678 £641 £570
90th Percentile £738 £773 £665
Central London median daily rate £600 £536 £433
% change year-on-year +11.94% +23.93% -3.89%

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 953 755 933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.99% 45.32% 43.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 618 456 685
10th Percentile £350 £313 £315
25th Percentile £443 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.55% -2.22% -2.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £683
90th Percentile £775 £751 £791
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 6
10th Percentile - £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.25 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +56.96% -5.95%
75th Percentile £24.22 £53.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.70 £100.00 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £20.88 £29.07 £19.75
% change year-on-year -28.16% +47.19% -14.13%

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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 28 May 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 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.57%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (32.14%) Azure
2 3 (10.71%) AWS
2 3 (10.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (7.14%) Rubrik
4 1 (3.57%) Cloudflare
4 1 (3.57%) Datadog
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
4 1 (3.57%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 13 (46.43%) Firewall
2 10 (35.71%) Network Security
3 9 (32.14%) WAN
4 8 (28.57%) LAN
4 8 (28.57%) VPN
5 5 (17.86%) Internet
5 5 (17.86%) SD-WAN
5 5 (17.86%) Wireless
6 4 (14.29%) BGP
6 4 (14.29%) DNS
7 3 (10.71%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (10.71%) DHCP
7 3 (10.71%) VLAN
7 3 (10.71%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (7.14%) Cisco Wireless
8 2 (7.14%) EIGRP
8 2 (7.14%) OSPF
8 2 (7.14%) TACACS
9 1 (3.57%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.57%) ClickHouse
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
General
1 7 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (21.43%) Finance
3 4 (14.29%) Banking
4 3 (10.71%) Law
5 2 (7.14%) Financial Institution
5 2 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.57%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (53.57%) Network Engineer
2 6 (21.43%) Architect
3 4 (14.29%) Network Architect
4 3 (10.71%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) LAN Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Lead
5 2 (7.14%) Lead Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.14%) Senior
5 2 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (7.14%) Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Applications Support
6 1 (3.57%) Applications Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (3.57%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.57%) IT Support Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Security Architect
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (3.57%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (7.14%) 802.1X
1 2 (7.14%) REST
2 1 (3.57%) .NET
2 1 (3.57%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.57%) ASP.NET
2 1 (3.57%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Data Centre
2 3 (10.71%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (7.14%) BYOD
3 2 (7.14%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (7.14%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.57%) Digital Signage
4 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (3.57%) Fat Client
4 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
4 1 (3.57%) PKI
4 1 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 1 (3.57%) Thin Client
4 1 (3.57%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (7.14%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.57%) Linux
3 1 (3.57%) VMS
3 1 (3.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (14.29%) High Availability
1 4 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (10.71%) Cloud Security
2 3 (10.71%) ITIL
2 3 (10.71%) Runbook
3 2 (7.14%) Agile
3 2 (7.14%) Analytics
3 2 (7.14%) ITSM
3 2 (7.14%) Mentoring
3 2 (7.14%) Migration
3 2 (7.14%) Network Design
3 2 (7.14%) Observability
3 2 (7.14%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (7.14%) Project Delivery
3 2 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (7.14%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (7.14%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (7.14%) Validation
4 1 (3.57%) Epics
4 1 (3.57%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.71%) Python
2 2 (7.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) CCNP
1 6 (21.43%) Cisco Certification
1 6 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (17.86%) SC Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) CCIE
4 2 (7.14%) Degree
5 1 (3.57%) Azure Certification
5 1 (3.57%) CCSE
5 1 (3.57%) CWNA
5 1 (3.57%) DV Cleared
5 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
5 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.14%) QA
2 1 (3.57%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (3.57%) PMO
2 1 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (10.71%) Active Directory
1 3 (10.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.57%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.57%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (3.57%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (10.71%) Ansible
2 2 (7.14%) Terraform
3 1 (3.57%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (3.57%) Grafana
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.57%) PowerCLI
3 1 (3.57%) SCCM
3 1 (3.57%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
1 5 (17.86%) Palo Alto
2 4 (14.29%) Fortinet
2 4 (14.29%) Juniper
2 4 (14.29%) VMware
3 3 (10.71%) F5
3 3 (10.71%) Zscaler
4 2 (7.14%) Aruba
4 2 (7.14%) ServiceNow
5 1 (3.57%) 3PAR
5 1 (3.57%) Brocade
5 1 (3.57%) CheckPoint
5 1 (3.57%) Forcepoint
5 1 (3.57%) Google
5 1 (3.57%) HP
5 1 (3.57%) IBM
5 1 (3.57%) Infoblox
5 1 (3.57%) Isilon
5 1 (3.57%) NetApp
5 1 (3.57%) Trend Micro