Cisco Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cisco
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 28 June 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
28 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 95 76 62
Rank change year-on-year -19 -14 +30
Contract jobs citing Cisco 40 43 65
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.65% 2.45% 3.03%
As % of the Vendors category 4.01% 5.33% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 27 41
10th Percentile £401 £290 £240
25th Percentile £450 £500 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £540 £350
Median % change year-on-year +5.32% +54.29% -30.00%
75th Percentile £675 £631 £538
90th Percentile £734 £775 £638
Central London median daily rate £569 £536 £413
% change year-on-year +6.11% +29.94% -2.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £61.86 £20.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £63.72 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -52.92% +203.40% -
75th Percentile £31.00 £65.57 £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £63.72 £21.00
% change year-on-year -52.92% +203.40% -

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 997 806 949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.05% 45.87% 44.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 655 495 692
10th Percentile £368 £313 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -1.63%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £681
90th Percentile £750 £751 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £543 £550
% change year-on-year +1.38% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 8
10th Percentile - £22.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.75 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +59.31% -40.00%
75th Percentile £28.39 £63.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £93.11 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £31.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year -25.29% +42.53% -13.00%

Cisco
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 28 June 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 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (30.00%) Azure
2 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (7.50%) AWS
3 3 (7.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (5.00%) Rubrik
5 1 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (2.50%) Cloudflare
5 1 (2.50%) Datadog
5 1 (2.50%) GCP
5 1 (2.50%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 21 (52.50%) Firewall
2 13 (32.50%) WAN
3 12 (30.00%) LAN
3 12 (30.00%) VPN
4 11 (27.50%) Network Security
5 8 (20.00%) DNS
5 8 (20.00%) SD-WAN
6 7 (17.50%) Wireless
7 6 (15.00%) DHCP
7 6 (15.00%) Internet
7 6 (15.00%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (12.50%) BGP
8 5 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (10.00%) VLAN
10 3 (7.50%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (7.50%) OSPF
11 2 (5.00%) Cisco Wireless
11 2 (5.00%) EIGRP
11 2 (5.00%) Structured Cabling
11 2 (5.00%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.50%) ClickHouse
2 1 (2.50%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.50%) PostgreSQL
General
1 13 (32.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (7.50%) Law
4 3 (7.50%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Financial Institution
5 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (55.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Architect
3 7 (17.50%) Network Architect
4 4 (10.00%) Senior
5 3 (7.50%) Network Security Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Network Security Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Security Architect
5 3 (7.50%) Security Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Cisco Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Cisco Network Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) LAN Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Server Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (5.00%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) .NET
3 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (2.50%) Blazor
Miscellaneous
1 7 (17.50%) Data Centre
2 3 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (5.00%) BYOD
3 2 (5.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.50%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.50%) Digital Signage
4 1 (2.50%) Driving Licence
4 1 (2.50%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (2.50%) Fat Client
4 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.50%) PKI
4 1 (2.50%) Product Ownership
4 1 (2.50%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 4 (10.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.50%) Linux
3 1 (2.50%) VMS
3 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (12.50%) ITIL
1 5 (12.50%) Migration
1 5 (12.50%) Project Delivery
2 4 (10.00%) High Availability
2 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (7.50%) Cloud Security
3 3 (7.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (7.50%) Runbook
3 3 (7.50%) Validation
4 2 (5.00%) Agile
4 2 (5.00%) Analytics
4 2 (5.00%) ITSM
4 2 (5.00%) Network Design
4 2 (5.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (5.00%) Observability
4 2 (5.00%) Service Delivery
4 2 (5.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (5.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (5.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
Programming Languages
1 3 (7.50%) Python
2 2 (5.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (22.50%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (20.00%) CCNP
3 6 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (12.50%) SC Cleared
5 3 (7.50%) CCIE
5 3 (7.50%) CCNA
5 3 (7.50%) Degree
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.50%) CCSE
6 1 (2.50%) CWNA
6 1 (2.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
6 1 (2.50%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.50%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 2 (5.00%) QA
2 1 (2.50%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (2.50%) PMO
2 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (17.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (15.00%) Active Directory
3 2 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
3 2 (5.00%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (5.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 3 (7.50%) Ansible
1 3 (7.50%) FortiGate
1 3 (7.50%) SCCM
2 2 (5.00%) Nessus
2 2 (5.00%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (2.50%) PowerCLI
3 1 (2.50%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 9 (22.50%) VMware
2 7 (17.50%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.50%) Palo Alto
3 6 (15.00%) Fortinet
4 5 (12.50%) Citrix
4 5 (12.50%) Juniper
4 5 (12.50%) Zscaler
5 4 (10.00%) F5
6 3 (7.50%) Meraki
6 3 (7.50%) ServiceNow
7 2 (5.00%) Aruba
7 2 (5.00%) Forcepoint
7 2 (5.00%) ForeScout
7 2 (5.00%) Tenable
8 1 (2.50%) CheckPoint
8 1 (2.50%) Dell
8 1 (2.50%) EMC
8 1 (2.50%) HP
8 1 (2.50%) IBM
8 1 (2.50%) NetApp