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 July 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 83 58
Rank change year-on-year -6 -25 +35
Contract jobs citing Cisco 48 44 67
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.01% 2.36% 3.23%
As % of the Vendors category 4.88% 4.99% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 30 39
10th Percentile £350 £298 £243
25th Percentile £413 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £400
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +34.50% -20.00%
75th Percentile £666 £641 £538
90th Percentile £738 £775 £628
Central London median daily rate £533 £536 £425
% change year-on-year -0.65% +26.12% -5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £61.86 £20.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £63.72 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.92% +203.40% -
75th Percentile £31.00 £65.57 £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £63.72 £21.00
% change year-on-year -52.92% +203.40% -

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 984 882 919
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.15% 47.22% 44.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 562 653
10th Percentile £350 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £663 £679 £670
90th Percentile £750 £751 £763
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 11
10th Percentile - £22.53 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £19.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +42.87% -25.52%
75th Percentile £25.12 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.13 £89.67 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £34.25
% change year-on-year -31.45% -4.16% +37.00%

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 28 July 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 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.08%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (31.25%) Azure
2 6 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (8.33%) AWS
4 3 (6.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (4.17%) GCP
5 2 (4.17%) Rubrik
6 1 (2.08%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.08%) Cloudflare
6 1 (2.08%) Datadog
6 1 (2.08%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.08%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 27 (56.25%) Firewall
2 14 (29.17%) VPN
3 13 (27.08%) LAN
3 13 (27.08%) WAN
4 11 (22.92%) Network Security
4 11 (22.92%) VLAN
4 11 (22.92%) Wireless
5 9 (18.75%) BGP
5 9 (18.75%) DNS
5 9 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (16.67%) SD-WAN
7 7 (14.58%) DHCP
7 7 (14.58%) Internet
8 6 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
8 6 (12.50%) Multicast
9 4 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (8.33%) OSPF
9 4 (8.33%) Structured Cabling
10 3 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
11 2 (4.17%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.08%) ClickHouse
2 1 (2.08%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.08%) PostgreSQL
General
1 13 (27.08%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.92%) Finance
3 8 (16.67%) Banking
4 3 (6.25%) Law
4 3 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 2 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.17%) Financial Institution
5 2 (4.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 25 (52.08%) Network Engineer
2 11 (22.92%) Architect
3 9 (18.75%) Network Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Implementation Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 5 (10.42%) Network Security Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Security Architect
4 5 (10.42%) Senior
5 3 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Security Engineer
5 3 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Cisco Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Cisco Network Architect
6 2 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) LAN Engineer
6 2 (4.17%) Lead
6 2 (4.17%) Lead Architect
6 2 (4.17%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.17%) REST
3 1 (2.08%) .NET
3 1 (2.08%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.08%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.08%) Blazor
3 1 (2.08%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (10.42%) Digital Signage
3 3 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (4.17%) BYOD
4 2 (4.17%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (4.17%) IoT
4 2 (4.17%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.17%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (2.08%) Cloud Native
5 1 (2.08%) Driving Licence
5 1 (2.08%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (2.08%) Fat Client
5 1 (2.08%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.08%) PKI
5 1 (2.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.08%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.58%) Windows
2 4 (8.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.08%) Linux
3 1 (2.08%) VMS
3 1 (2.08%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) Project Delivery
2 6 (12.50%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (10.42%) ITIL
3 5 (10.42%) Load Balancing
3 5 (10.42%) Migration
3 5 (10.42%) Use Case
4 4 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (6.25%) Cloud Security
5 3 (6.25%) High Availability
5 3 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (6.25%) Validation
6 2 (4.17%) Low Latency
6 2 (4.17%) Mentoring
6 2 (4.17%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (4.17%) Observability
6 2 (4.17%) Performance Tuning
6 2 (4.17%) Runbook
6 2 (4.17%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (4.17%) Technical Leadership
6 2 (4.17%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.25%) Python
2 2 (4.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 10 (20.83%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (18.75%) CCNP
3 4 (8.33%) CCIE
4 3 (6.25%) CCNA
4 3 (6.25%) Degree
4 3 (6.25%) Security Cleared
5 2 (4.17%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.08%) CCSE
6 1 (2.08%) CWNA
6 1 (2.08%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.08%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.17%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (4.17%) QA
2 1 (2.08%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.08%) PMO
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (14.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 2 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (4.17%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.17%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.08%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (10.42%) Cisco Prime
2 3 (6.25%) Ansible
2 3 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 3 (6.25%) SCCM
3 2 (4.17%) Nessus
3 2 (4.17%) Terraform
3 2 (4.17%) vCenter Server
4 1 (2.08%) Grafana
4 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.08%) PowerCLI
4 1 (2.08%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 9 (18.75%) Fortinet
1 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 9 (18.75%) VMware
2 8 (16.67%) F5
2 8 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 5 (10.42%) Citrix
3 5 (10.42%) Juniper
3 5 (10.42%) Zscaler
4 3 (6.25%) Arista
4 3 (6.25%) Meraki
4 3 (6.25%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.17%) Aruba
5 2 (4.17%) Forcepoint
5 2 (4.17%) ForeScout
5 2 (4.17%) Tenable
6 1 (2.08%) 3PAR
6 1 (2.08%) iManage
6 1 (2.08%) Isilon
6 1 (2.08%) SevOne
6 1 (2.08%) Splunk