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 21 October 2025, 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
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 53 79
Rank change year-on-year -28 +26 +4
Contract jobs citing Cisco 35 83 71
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.06% 3.94% 2.48%
As % of the Vendors category 4.11% 8.87% 5.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 53 49
10th Percentile £341 £314 £295
25th Percentile £408 £350 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -6.86% +16.57%
75th Percentile £572 £598 £540
90th Percentile £656 £653 £626
Central London median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £12.18 -
25th Percentile £61.86 £13.56 £72.50
Median hourly rate £63.72 £16.75 £75.00
Median % change year-on-year +280.39% -77.67% +284.62%
75th Percentile £65.57 £19.56 £77.50
90th Percentile - £20.73 -
Central London median hourly rate £63.72 £16.75 £75.00
% change year-on-year +280.39% -77.67% +284.62%

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 851 936 1,191
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 50.18% 44.42% 41.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 595 594 818
10th Percentile £323 £338 £317
25th Percentile £421 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £750 £738 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £549 £550
% change year-on-year +0.27% -0.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 9
10th Percentile £18.43 £18.70 £16.05
25th Percentile £20.18 £25.38 £17.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £71.25 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -65.61% +216.67% +7.14%
75th Percentile £56.75 £118.38 £52.50
90th Percentile £64.11 £137.50 £57.90
Central London median hourly rate £24.50 £50.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -51.00% +140.96% -12.34%

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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 21 October 2025.

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 2 (5.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (5.71%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (34.29%) Azure
2 3 (8.57%) AWS
2 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
2 3 (8.57%) GCP
2 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (5.71%) IaaS
3 2 (5.71%) Mimecast
3 2 (5.71%) PaaS
4 1 (2.86%) Amazon ELB
4 1 (2.86%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 15 (42.86%) Firewall
2 7 (20.00%) BGP
2 7 (20.00%) WAN
3 6 (17.14%) OSPF
4 5 (14.29%) LAN
4 5 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (11.43%) MPLS
5 4 (11.43%) SAN
6 3 (8.57%) Cisco IOS
6 3 (8.57%) Cisco IPT
6 3 (8.57%) DNS
6 3 (8.57%) Ethernet VPN
6 3 (8.57%) IP Telephony
6 3 (8.57%) Network Security
6 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
6 3 (8.57%) VXLAN
7 2 (5.71%) Multicast
7 2 (5.71%) NX-OS
7 2 (5.71%) Structured Cabling
7 2 (5.71%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Git
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (34.29%) Finance
2 8 (22.86%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Banking
3 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.86%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
4 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (2.86%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 3 (8.57%) Audio Visual Technician
3 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 2 (5.71%) Active Directory Support
4 2 (5.71%) Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Cisco Project Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Support
4 2 (5.71%) IT Manager
4 2 (5.71%) IT Project Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Security Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 2 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (5.71%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Architect
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Project Manager
4 2 (5.71%) Technical Solutions Architect
5 1 (2.86%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) XMPP
2 2 (5.71%) Jinja
3 1 (2.86%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 3 (8.57%) Blackberry
2 3 (8.57%) Handset
2 3 (8.57%) iPhone
2 3 (8.57%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Storage
3 2 (5.71%) Fat Client
3 2 (5.71%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.86%) CCTV
4 1 (2.86%) Clustering
4 1 (2.86%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.86%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (11.43%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (14.29%) ITIL
1 5 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (11.43%) DevOps
2 4 (11.43%) Project Delivery
2 4 (11.43%) Project Management
3 3 (8.57%) Change Management
3 3 (8.57%) Logistics
3 3 (8.57%) Migration
3 3 (8.57%) Mobile Device Management
3 3 (8.57%) Time Management
4 2 (5.71%) Agile
4 2 (5.71%) Cybersecurity
4 2 (5.71%) High Availability
4 2 (5.71%) Information Security
4 2 (5.71%) Network Design
4 2 (5.71%) Network Management
4 2 (5.71%) Scrum
4 2 (5.71%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (5.71%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) Python
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) Perl
3 1 (2.86%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (17.14%) CCNA
2 6 (17.14%) CCNP
2 6 (17.14%) Degree
3 4 (11.43%) CCIE
3 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (11.43%) Security Cleared
4 2 (5.71%) Azure Certification
4 2 (5.71%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.86%) JNCIE
5 1 (2.86%) JNCIP
5 1 (2.86%) JNCIS
5 1 (2.86%) VCAP
5 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.71%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (5.71%) Firmware
4 1 (2.86%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.86%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (14.29%) Ansible
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (5.71%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.86%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (2.86%) Icinga
3 1 (2.86%) Nagios
3 1 (2.86%) Observium
3 1 (2.86%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.86%) Terraform
3 1 (2.86%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.86%) vMotion
Vendors
1 10 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.71%) Palo Alto
3 6 (17.14%) Arista
4 5 (14.29%) ServiceNow
5 4 (11.43%) F5
5 4 (11.43%) Meraki
5 4 (11.43%) VMware
6 3 (8.57%) Citrix
6 3 (8.57%) Juniper
6 3 (8.57%) Samsung
7 2 (5.71%) Dell
7 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
7 2 (5.71%) Google
7 2 (5.71%) Isilon
7 2 (5.71%) LogicMonitor
7 2 (5.71%) Veritas
8 1 (2.86%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.86%) Infoblox
8 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.86%) Splunk