Cisco Contracts 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 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 75 86
Rank change year-on-year -8 +11 -4
Contract jobs citing Cisco 36 51 96
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.05% 2.32% 2.64%
As % of the Vendors category 4.60% 5.42% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 36 53
10th Percentile £474 £245 £166
25th Percentile £517 £250 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £363 £503
Median % change year-on-year +55.17% -27.86% +25.63%
75th Percentile £656 £558 £575
90th Percentile £768 £678 £695
Central London median daily rate £549 £415 £463
% change year-on-year +32.17% -10.27% +14.91%

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 782 941 1,423
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.51% 42.83% 39.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 491 691 939
10th Percentile £313 £319 £263
25th Percentile £450 £431 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year - -1.79% +1.82%
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 6
10th Percentile £25.77 £12.75 £18.42
25th Percentile £30.10 £13.56 £20.42
Median hourly rate £38.58 £19.75 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +95.32% -5.95% -
75th Percentile £72.81 £23.75 £44.86
90th Percentile £126.25 £25.38 £53.25
Central London median hourly rate £31.00 £18.93 £21.50
% change year-on-year +63.76% -11.95% +2.38%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in the City of London

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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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (5.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 3 (8.33%) AWS
2 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.78%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (2.78%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.78%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (47.22%) Firewall
2 6 (16.67%) Network Security
3 5 (13.89%) LAN
3 5 (13.89%) WAN
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (11.11%) DNS
4 4 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
4 4 (11.11%) VoIP
5 3 (8.33%) DHCP
5 3 (8.33%) SD-WAN
5 3 (8.33%) Wireless
6 2 (5.56%) BGP
6 2 (5.56%) BIG-IP
6 2 (5.56%) Unified Communications
6 2 (5.56%) VLAN
6 2 (5.56%) VPN
6 2 (5.56%) Wireshark
6 2 (5.56%) WLAN
7 1 (2.78%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (13.89%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) eggPlant
2 1 (2.78%) GitLab
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 10 (27.78%) Finance
3 9 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (19.44%) Banking
5 4 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 3 (8.33%) Retail Banking
7 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.78%) French Language
8 1 (2.78%) Investment Banking
8 1 (2.78%) Military
8 1 (2.78%) Multimedia
8 1 (2.78%) Police
8 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Architect
2 8 (22.22%) Network Architect
3 3 (8.33%) Product Manager
3 3 (8.33%) Security Engineer
3 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 2 (5.56%) Active Directory Support
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco Network Architect
4 2 (5.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Head of Engineering
4 2 (5.56%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) IT Support
4 2 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
4 2 (5.56%) Network Manager
4 2 (5.56%) Network Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.78%) Digital Signage
3 1 (2.78%) e-Health
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (13.89%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (16.67%) Project Management
3 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
3 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 4 (11.11%) Network Design
4 4 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
5 3 (8.33%) Asset Management
5 3 (8.33%) Change Management
5 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
5 3 (8.33%) DevOps
5 3 (8.33%) High Availability
5 3 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 3 (8.33%) Market Research
5 3 (8.33%) PLM
5 3 (8.33%) Product Strategy
5 3 (8.33%) SDLC
5 3 (8.33%) Service Delivery
5 3 (8.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (8.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) CCNP
1 10 (27.78%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (25.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) CCNA
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
5 2 (5.56%) CCIE
5 2 (5.56%) CCSA
5 2 (5.56%) CCSE
6 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.78%) JNCIP
6 1 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.78%) NIST
1 1 (2.78%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.78%) QA
1 1 (2.78%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 2 (5.56%) Firmware
2 1 (2.78%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (5.56%) CASB
2 2 (5.56%) Cisco CUCM
2 2 (5.56%) Terraform
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco LMS
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (2.78%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (2.78%) OPNET
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) Palo Alto
2 8 (22.22%) CheckPoint
3 7 (19.44%) Microsoft
4 5 (13.89%) Arista
4 5 (13.89%) Fortinet
4 5 (13.89%) Juniper
5 4 (11.11%) HP
5 4 (11.11%) Meraki
6 3 (8.33%) Dell
6 3 (8.33%) F5
6 3 (8.33%) Google
6 3 (8.33%) Infoblox
6 3 (8.33%) Logitech
7 2 (5.56%) Forcepoint
7 2 (5.56%) NetScout
7 2 (5.56%) SolarWinds
7 2 (5.56%) VMware
8 1 (2.78%) Barracuda Networks
8 1 (2.78%) Citrix
8 1 (2.78%) NetApp