Cisco Contracts 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 17 August 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
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 60 91
Rank change year-on-year -25 +31 -12
Contract jobs citing Cisco 44 67 77
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.35% 3.25% 2.39%
As % of the Vendors category 4.88% 7.38% 5.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 39 54
10th Percentile £300 £250 £163
25th Percentile £500 £350 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £425 £513
Median % change year-on-year +27.06% -17.07% +33.99%
75th Percentile £650 £538 £550
90th Percentile £775 £638 £666
Central London median daily rate £536 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +19.11% - +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £12.18 -
25th Percentile £61.86 £13.56 -
Median hourly rate £63.72 £16.75 -
Median % change year-on-year +280.39% - -
75th Percentile £65.57 £19.56 -
90th Percentile - £20.73 -
Central London median hourly rate £63.72 £16.75 -
% change year-on-year +280.39% - -

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 902 908 1,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 48.21% 44.06% 41.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 585 634 918
10th Percentile £325 £350 £274
25th Percentile £423 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £675 £674 £695
90th Percentile £750 £757 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £538 £550
% change year-on-year +2.23% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 5
10th Percentile £20.67 £16.00 £13.99
25th Percentile £25.25 £19.50 £16.61
Median hourly rate £34.65 £27.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +28.33% +20.00% -14.84%
75th Percentile £63.75 £115.00 £52.50
90th Percentile £86.23 £137.50 £52.80
Central London median hourly rate £30.04 £34.25 £22.50
% change year-on-year -12.31% +52.22% -15.09%

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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 17 August 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 (4.55%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.82%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 15 (34.09%) Azure
2 6 (13.64%) Entra ID
3 4 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (4.55%) AWS
4 2 (4.55%) GCP
5 1 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (2.27%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 22 (50.00%) Firewall
2 8 (18.18%) BGP
2 8 (18.18%) WAN
3 7 (15.91%) OSPF
4 6 (13.64%) LAN
4 6 (13.64%) Network Security
4 6 (13.64%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (11.36%) DNS
5 5 (11.36%) SD-WAN
6 4 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
6 4 (9.09%) Cisco Nexus
6 4 (9.09%) MPLS
6 4 (9.09%) SAN
6 4 (9.09%) Software-Defined Networking
7 3 (6.82%) Cisco IOS
7 3 (6.82%) DHCP
7 3 (6.82%) Ethernet VPN
7 3 (6.82%) VoIP
7 3 (6.82%) VXLAN
8 2 (4.55%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) Git
2 2 (4.55%) JIRA
2 2 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (2.27%) eggPlant
General
1 15 (34.09%) Finance
2 10 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Banking
4 4 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.27%) Legal
6 1 (2.27%) Military
6 1 (2.27%) Multimedia
6 1 (2.27%) Police
6 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.27%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Architect
3 7 (15.91%) Network Architect
4 4 (9.09%) Active Directory Support
4 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (9.09%) Senior
5 3 (6.82%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.82%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Cisco Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Cisco Network Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Data Centre Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) IT Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Network Security Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Security Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.55%) Support Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Technical Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) Jinja
2 1 (2.27%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 2 (4.55%) Enterprise Storage
2 2 (4.55%) Fat Client
2 2 (4.55%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.55%) Thin Client
3 1 (2.27%) CCTV
3 1 (2.27%) Clustering
3 1 (2.27%) Digital Signage
3 1 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.27%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.27%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.64%) Windows
2 2 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.27%) Linux
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (13.64%) DevOps
2 5 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (11.36%) ITIL
2 5 (11.36%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (9.09%) Asset Management
3 4 (9.09%) Network Design
3 4 (9.09%) Network Management
3 4 (9.09%) Patch Management
3 4 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (6.82%) Business Strategy
4 3 (6.82%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (6.82%) High Availability
4 3 (6.82%) Low Latency
4 3 (6.82%) Project Management
4 3 (6.82%) Security Patching
5 2 (4.55%) Change Management
5 2 (4.55%) Cloud Security
5 2 (4.55%) Configuration Management
5 2 (4.55%) Integration Patterns
5 2 (4.55%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) Python
2 4 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (38.64%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (27.27%) CCNP
3 11 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (18.18%) SC Cleared
5 6 (13.64%) CCIE
5 6 (13.64%) CCNA
6 4 (9.09%) Degree
7 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
7 2 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
8 1 (2.27%) CCSE
8 1 (2.27%) DV Cleared
8 1 (2.27%) JNCIE
8 1 (2.27%) JNCIP
8 1 (2.27%) JNCIS
8 1 (2.27%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (2.27%) NIST
1 1 (2.27%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.27%) QA
1 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (15.91%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.55%) Firmware
4 1 (2.27%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.27%) Microsoft App-V
4 1 (2.27%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (15.91%) Ansible
2 2 (4.55%) CASB
2 2 (4.55%) NetBackup
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco LMS
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (2.27%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (2.27%) Icinga
3 1 (2.27%) Nagios
3 1 (2.27%) Observium
3 1 (2.27%) Terraform
3 1 (2.27%) vCenter Server
3 1 (2.27%) vMotion
Vendors
1 13 (29.55%) Palo Alto
2 9 (20.45%) Microsoft
3 8 (18.18%) Arista
4 6 (13.64%) Juniper
5 5 (11.36%) CheckPoint
5 5 (11.36%) Dell
5 5 (11.36%) F5
5 5 (11.36%) Fortinet
5 5 (11.36%) VMware
6 4 (9.09%) HP
7 3 (6.82%) Citrix
7 3 (6.82%) Google
7 3 (6.82%) Meraki
8 2 (4.55%) Infoblox
8 2 (4.55%) Isilon
8 2 (4.55%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (4.55%) ServiceNow
8 2 (4.55%) Veritas
9 1 (2.27%) NetApp
9 1 (2.27%) Oracle