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 29 April 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
29 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 80 74
Rank change year-on-year -31 -6 +14
Contract jobs citing Cisco 18 38 53
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.79% 2.16% 2.41%
As % of the Vendors category 1.87% 4.85% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 26 38
10th Percentile £413 £406 £247
25th Percentile £491 £516 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £363
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +55.17% -28.57%
75th Percentile £675 £648 £548
90th Percentile £713 £763 £672
Central London median daily rate £600 £549 £415
% change year-on-year +9.39% +32.17% -11.47%

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 963 783 944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 42.22% 44.51% 42.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 492 690
10th Percentile £357 £313 £313
25th Percentile £428 £453 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £680
90th Percentile £775 £751 £775
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% - -
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 £22.71 £31.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -26.73% +63.76% -11.95%

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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 29 April 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%) GCP
3 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
3 1 (5.56%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Firewall
2 9 (50.00%) Network Security
3 7 (38.89%) VPN
3 7 (38.89%) WAN
4 6 (33.33%) SD-WAN
5 5 (27.78%) LAN
6 4 (22.22%) Internet
7 3 (16.67%) BGP
7 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 3 (16.67%) DNS
7 3 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (16.67%) Wireless
8 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (11.11%) DHCP
8 2 (11.11%) EIGRP
8 2 (11.11%) NX-OS
8 2 (11.11%) OSPF
8 2 (11.11%) VLAN
8 2 (11.11%) WLAN
9 1 (5.56%) TACACS
General
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Banking
2 2 (11.11%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Law
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
3 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%) 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
4 1 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Lead Architect
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
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 2 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
2 2 (11.11%) High Availability
2 2 (11.11%) ITIL
2 2 (11.11%) ITSM
2 2 (11.11%) Migration
2 2 (11.11%) Network Architecture
2 2 (11.11%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (11.11%) Runbook
3 1 (5.56%) Dependency Management
3 1 (5.56%) Kanban
3 1 (5.56%) Matrix Management
3 1 (5.56%) Network Management
3 1 (5.56%) Project Governance
3 1 (5.56%) SIEM
3 1 (5.56%) Time Management
3 1 (5.56%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (5.56%) User Stories
3 1 (5.56%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 3 (16.67%) CCNP
3 3 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (11.11%) Degree
5 1 (5.56%) CCIE
5 1 (5.56%) CCSE
5 1 (5.56%) CWNA
5 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (5.56%) PMI Certification
5 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
1 1 (5.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
1 1 (5.56%) Terraform
1 1 (5.56%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (27.78%) Juniper
1 5 (27.78%) Palo Alto
2 3 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 3 (16.67%) Zscaler
3 2 (11.11%) Aruba
3 2 (11.11%) F5
4 1 (5.56%) 3PAR
4 1 (5.56%) Broadcom
4 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.56%) Citrix
4 1 (5.56%) Forcepoint
4 1 (5.56%) HP
4 1 (5.56%) IBM
4 1 (5.56%) iManage
4 1 (5.56%) Infoblox
4 1 (5.56%) Meraki
4 1 (5.56%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Splunk
4 1 (5.56%) Trend Micro
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