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 1 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
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 115 76 65
Rank change year-on-year -39 -11 +15
Contract jobs citing Cisco 17 43 65
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.79% 2.48% 2.82%
As % of the Vendors category 1.81% 5.56% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 30 46
10th Percentile £456 £350 £245
25th Percentile £522 £472 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £395
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +42.41% -23.86%
75th Percentile £675 £640 £544
90th Percentile £713 £753 £663
Central London median daily rate £593 £549 £420
% change year-on-year +7.87% +30.77% -11.58%

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 940 773 983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.68% 44.63% 42.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 506 719
10th Percentile £356 £313 £312
25th Percentile £429 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £670 £675 £675
90th Percentile £774 £751 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.82% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 4 6
10th Percentile - £32.09 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £33.72 £13.81
Median hourly rate £20.88 £48.58 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -57.01% +134.10% -1.19%
75th Percentile £37.76 £94.69 £23.75
90th Percentile £42.50 £150.38 £36.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £31.00 £18.97
% change year-on-year -17.84% +63.46% -11.79%

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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 1 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (11.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Visio
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (23.53%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (5.88%) AWS
3 1 (5.88%) Cloudflare
3 1 (5.88%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 9 (52.94%) Firewall
2 8 (47.06%) Network Security
2 8 (47.06%) WAN
3 6 (35.29%) LAN
3 6 (35.29%) SD-WAN
3 6 (35.29%) VPN
4 4 (23.53%) Internet
5 3 (17.65%) Cisco Nexus
5 3 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (11.76%) BGP
6 2 (11.76%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (11.76%) NX-OS
6 2 (11.76%) Structured Cabling
6 2 (11.76%) Wireless
7 1 (5.88%) 802.11
7 1 (5.88%) DNS
7 1 (5.88%) EIGRP
7 1 (5.88%) OSPF
7 1 (5.88%) TACACS
7 1 (5.88%) VRRP
General
1 5 (29.41%) Social Skills
2 4 (23.53%) Finance
3 3 (17.65%) Telecoms
4 2 (11.76%) Banking
4 2 (11.76%) Law
4 2 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (52.94%) Network Engineer
2 3 (17.65%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Project Manager
2 3 (17.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Manager
3 2 (11.76%) IT Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Network Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Network Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Network Project Manager
3 2 (11.76%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Security Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Firewall Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Project Manager
4 1 (5.88%) Lead Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Presales Solution Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (11.76%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.76%) Security Posture
3 1 (5.88%) BYOD
3 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.88%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (17.65%) Change Management
1 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (17.65%) Project Delivery
1 3 (17.65%) Project Management
1 3 (17.65%) Scrum
1 3 (17.65%) Time Management
1 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (11.76%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (11.76%) Cloud Security
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL
2 2 (11.76%) ITSM
2 2 (11.76%) Logistics
2 2 (11.76%) Network Architecture
2 2 (11.76%) Performance Tuning
2 2 (11.76%) Runbook
3 1 (5.88%) Business Analysis
3 1 (5.88%) Kanban
3 1 (5.88%) Matrix Management
3 1 (5.88%) Migration
3 1 (5.88%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) CCNP
3 2 (11.76%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (5.88%) CCIE
4 1 (5.88%) CCSE
4 1 (5.88%) DV Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) PMI Certification
4 1 (5.88%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) PMO
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) Juniper
2 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
2 4 (23.53%) Palo Alto
3 3 (17.65%) ServiceNow
3 3 (17.65%) Zscaler
4 2 (11.76%) Arista
4 2 (11.76%) Aruba
4 2 (11.76%) F5
5 1 (5.88%) 3PAR
5 1 (5.88%) Broadcom
5 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.88%) Forcepoint
5 1 (5.88%) ForeScout
5 1 (5.88%) Fortinet
5 1 (5.88%) HP
5 1 (5.88%) IBM
5 1 (5.88%) Infoblox
5 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
5 1 (5.88%) Splunk
5 1 (5.88%) Trend Micro