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 9 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
9 May 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 84 74
Rank change year-on-year -28 -10 +14
Contract jobs citing Cisco 18 36 52
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.78% 2.06% 2.39%
As % of the Vendors category 1.88% 4.63% 5.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 24 37
10th Percentile £438 £474 £246
25th Percentile £551 £517 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £375
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% +46.67% -25.19%
75th Percentile £700 £656 £549
90th Percentile £738 £768 £668
Central London median daily rate £650 £542 £413
% change year-on-year +19.87% +31.45% -8.33%

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 960 778 943
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.68% 44.56% 43.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 483 694
10th Percentile £369 £313 £313
25th Percentile £438 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £551
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -0.09% -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £682
90th Percentile £775 £751 £788
Central London median daily rate £532 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 8 6
10th Percentile - £25.77 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £30.10 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +95.32% -5.95%
75th Percentile £25.77 £72.81 £23.75
90th Percentile £41.65 £126.25 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 £31.00 £19.75
% change year-on-year -28.18% +56.96% -8.14%

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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 9 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 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (5.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 2 (11.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (5.56%) AWS
3 1 (5.56%) Cloudflare
3 1 (5.56%) Datadog
3 1 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
1 8 (44.44%) Network Security
2 6 (33.33%) VPN
2 6 (33.33%) WAN
3 5 (27.78%) LAN
3 5 (27.78%) SD-WAN
4 4 (22.22%) Internet
5 3 (16.67%) BGP
5 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (16.67%) DNS
5 3 (16.67%) Wireless
6 2 (11.11%) DHCP
6 2 (11.11%) EIGRP
6 2 (11.11%) OSPF
6 2 (11.11%) VLAN
6 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (5.56%) 802.11
7 1 (5.56%) SNMP
7 1 (5.56%) TACACS
7 1 (5.56%) VRRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) ClickHouse
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Finance
3 2 (11.11%) Banking
3 2 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Financial Institution
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 3 (16.67%) Architect
2 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Lead
3 2 (11.11%) Lead Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Network Architect
3 2 (11.11%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior
3 2 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Support
4 1 (5.56%) Applications Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Project Manager
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) 802.1X
1 1 (5.56%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) BYOD
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.56%) Fat Client
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Product Ownership
3 1 (5.56%) Thin Client
3 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.56%) Windows
1 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
1 1 (5.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (16.67%) Runbook
3 2 (11.11%) Analytics
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
3 2 (11.11%) High Availability
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL
3 2 (11.11%) Migration
3 2 (11.11%) Observability
3 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
4 1 (5.56%) Anomaly Detection
4 1 (5.56%) Dependency Management
4 1 (5.56%) Line Management
4 1 (5.56%) Low Latency
4 1 (5.56%) Matrix Management
4 1 (5.56%) Mentoring
4 1 (5.56%) Patch Management
4 1 (5.56%) Performance Analysis
4 1 (5.56%) Presales
4 1 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (5.56%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) CCNP
2 2 (11.11%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) Degree
3 1 (5.56%) CCSE
3 1 (5.56%) CWNA
3 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
3 1 (5.56%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) PMO
1 1 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Grafana
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Palo Alto
2 4 (22.22%) Juniper
3 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) Zscaler
4 2 (11.11%) Aruba
4 2 (11.11%) F5
5 1 (5.56%) 3PAR
5 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.56%) Citrix
5 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
5 1 (5.56%) Google
5 1 (5.56%) HP
5 1 (5.56%) IBM
5 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.56%) Meraki
5 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
5 1 (5.56%) SevOne
5 1 (5.56%) Splunk
5 1 (5.56%) Trend Micro
5 1 (5.56%) VMware
36 Cisco jobs in Central London