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 22 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
22 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 107 82 69
Rank change year-on-year -25 -13 +19
Contract jobs citing Cisco 24 34 54
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.04% 2.01% 2.49%
As % of the Vendors category 2.53% 4.46% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 21 37
10th Percentile £400 £300 £246
25th Percentile £488 £515 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +46.67% -26.47%
75th Percentile £675 £613 £549
90th Percentile £738 £775 £668
Central London median daily rate £600 £536 £413
% change year-on-year +11.94% +29.94% +3.13%

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 948 762 935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.93% 45.14% 43.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 463 689
10th Percentile £356 £310 £313
25th Percentile £430 £431 £432
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -0.18% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £681
90th Percentile £775 £760 £790
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 6
10th Percentile - £23.40 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £27.39 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +75.44% -5.95%
75th Percentile £23.43 £63.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £25.77 £117.50 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 £30.04 £19.75
% change year-on-year -35.08% +52.08% -5.95%

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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 22 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 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.17%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 7 (29.17%) Azure
2 3 (12.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (8.33%) AWS
3 2 (8.33%) Rubrik
4 1 (4.17%) Cloudflare
4 1 (4.17%) Datadog
4 1 (4.17%) GCP
4 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.17%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 12 (50.00%) Firewall
2 9 (37.50%) Network Security
2 9 (37.50%) WAN
3 8 (33.33%) LAN
3 8 (33.33%) VPN
4 5 (20.83%) Internet
4 5 (20.83%) SD-WAN
4 5 (20.83%) Wireless
5 4 (16.67%) BGP
6 3 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
6 3 (12.50%) DNS
6 3 (12.50%) VLAN
6 3 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (8.33%) Cisco Wireless
7 2 (8.33%) DHCP
7 2 (8.33%) EIGRP
7 2 (8.33%) OSPF
8 1 (4.17%) IPFIX
8 1 (4.17%) iSCSI
8 1 (4.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.17%) ClickHouse
General
1 6 (25.00%) Finance
2 5 (20.83%) Social Skills
3 3 (12.50%) Banking
4 2 (8.33%) Financial Institution
4 2 (8.33%) Law
5 1 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (58.33%) Network Engineer
2 4 (16.67%) Architect
3 3 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) LAN Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Lead
4 2 (8.33%) Lead Architect
4 2 (8.33%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.17%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Project Manager
5 1 (4.17%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.17%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Senior Support Engineer
5 1 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.17%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (20.83%) Data Centre
2 3 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (8.33%) BYOD
3 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (8.33%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.17%) Digital Signage
4 1 (4.17%) Fat Client
4 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Product Ownership
4 1 (4.17%) Thin Client
4 1 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Windows
1 1 (4.17%) Windows 10
1 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (12.50%) Cloud Security
2 3 (12.50%) High Availability
2 3 (12.50%) Runbook
3 2 (8.33%) Analytics
3 2 (8.33%) ITIL
3 2 (8.33%) Migration
3 2 (8.33%) Network Design
3 2 (8.33%) Observability
3 2 (8.33%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (8.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
3 2 (8.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (8.33%) Validation
4 1 (4.17%) Business Analysis
4 1 (4.17%) Load Balancing
4 1 (4.17%) Matrix Management
4 1 (4.17%) Scrum
4 1 (4.17%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (4.17%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.33%) Python
2 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (20.83%) CCNP
1 5 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (20.83%) SC Cleared
1 5 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) CCIE
2 2 (8.33%) Degree
3 1 (4.17%) Azure Certification
3 1 (4.17%) CCSE
3 1 (4.17%) CWNA
3 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMI Certification
3 1 (4.17%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) PMO
1 1 (4.17%) QA
1 1 (4.17%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.17%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) Ansible
1 2 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (4.17%) Grafana
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (20.83%) Palo Alto
2 4 (16.67%) Juniper
2 4 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) F5
3 3 (12.50%) Fortinet
3 3 (12.50%) Zscaler
4 2 (8.33%) Aruba
4 2 (8.33%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) Brocade
5 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.17%) Forcepoint
5 1 (4.17%) Google
5 1 (4.17%) iManage
5 1 (4.17%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.17%) Meraki
5 1 (4.17%) NetApp
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) SevOne
5 1 (4.17%) Splunk
5 1 (4.17%) Trend Micro
23 Cisco jobs in the City of London