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 16 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
16 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 109 80 69
Rank change year-on-year -29 -11 +22
Contract jobs citing Cisco 21 35 54
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.91% 2.01% 2.50%
As % of the Vendors category 2.20% 4.50% 5.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 38
10th Percentile £393 £470 £247
25th Percentile £481 £517 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £363
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +51.72% -27.68%
75th Percentile £681 £638 £548
90th Percentile £738 £770 £666
Central London median daily rate £600 £536 £375
% change year-on-year +11.94% +42.93% -16.67%

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 953 778 934
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.31% 44.66% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 609 479 687
10th Percentile £367 £313 £316
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% -0.27%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £795
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 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 £25.77 £63.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.65 £117.50 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £30.04 £19.75
% change year-on-year -25.87% +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 16 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 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (28.57%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (4.76%) Cloudflare
3 1 (4.76%) Datadog
3 1 (4.76%) GCP
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) Mimecast
3 1 (4.76%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (47.62%) Firewall
2 9 (42.86%) Network Security
3 8 (38.10%) VPN
3 8 (38.10%) WAN
4 7 (33.33%) LAN
5 5 (23.81%) Internet
5 5 (23.81%) SD-WAN
6 4 (19.05%) Wireless
7 3 (14.29%) BGP
7 3 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (14.29%) DNS
7 3 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (9.52%) DHCP
8 2 (9.52%) EIGRP
8 2 (9.52%) OSPF
8 2 (9.52%) VLAN
9 1 (4.76%) Cisco ISE
9 1 (4.76%) HSRP
9 1 (4.76%) IPsec
9 1 (4.76%) iSCSI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) ClickHouse
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
3 2 (9.52%) Law
4 1 (4.76%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Network Architect
3 3 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) LAN Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Lead Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Network Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Security Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Support
5 1 (4.76%) Applications Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Network Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Firewall Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Manager
5 1 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
1 1 (4.76%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) BYOD
2 2 (9.52%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (9.52%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.76%) Fat Client
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
3 1 (4.76%) Thin Client
3 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (14.29%) Cloud Security
2 3 (14.29%) Runbook
3 2 (9.52%) Analytics
3 2 (9.52%) High Availability
3 2 (9.52%) ITIL
3 2 (9.52%) Migration
3 2 (9.52%) Network Design
3 2 (9.52%) Observability
3 2 (9.52%) Performance Tuning
3 2 (9.52%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (9.52%) Validation
4 1 (4.76%) Incident Response
4 1 (4.76%) Inversion of Control
4 1 (4.76%) Kanban
4 1 (4.76%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (4.76%) Project Governance
4 1 (4.76%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (4.76%) SIEM
4 1 (4.76%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Python
2 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) SC Cleared
1 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (19.05%) CCNP
2 4 (19.05%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (9.52%) CCIE
3 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 1 (4.76%) CCSE
4 1 (4.76%) CWNA
4 1 (4.76%) PMI Certification
4 1 (4.76%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) PMO
1 1 (4.76%) QA
1 1 (4.76%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.76%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.76%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Ansible
2 1 (4.76%) Grafana
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) Palo Alto
2 4 (19.05%) Juniper
3 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
3 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 3 (14.29%) Zscaler
4 2 (9.52%) Aruba
4 2 (9.52%) F5
5 1 (4.76%) 3PAR
5 1 (4.76%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.76%) Citrix
5 1 (4.76%) Forcepoint
5 1 (4.76%) HP
5 1 (4.76%) IBM
5 1 (4.76%) iManage
5 1 (4.76%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.76%) Meraki
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) SevOne
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk
5 1 (4.76%) Trend Micro
33 Cisco jobs in the City of London