Cisco Contract Job Trends in the City of Westminster

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Central London > City of Westminster

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of Westminster 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 25 September 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
25 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 9 15
Rank change year-on-year +2 +6 -3
Contract jobs citing Cisco 6 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 12.77% 8.33% 1.85%
As % of the Vendors category 26.09% 16.67% 4.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 1
10th Percentile £385 - -
25th Percentile £400 £440 £269
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £450 £288
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% +56.52% -43.90%
75th Percentile £600 £477 £306
90th Percentile £710 £506 -
Central London median daily rate £525 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +16.67% -5.26% +26.67%

All Vendors
City of Westminster

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 Westminster.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 23 24 23
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of Westminster 48.94% 50.00% 42.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 12 22
10th Percentile £415 £350 £219
25th Percentile £463 £359 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +28.89% -18.18% +29.41%
75th Percentile £784 £575 £634
90th Percentile £810 - £695
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £18.87 - -
Central London median hourly rate £28.33 £42.00 £20.75
% change year-on-year -32.56% +102.41% -1.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of Westminster

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the City of Westminster

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Cisco

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of Westminster

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the City of Westminster over the 6 months to 25 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in the City of Westminster

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of Westminster

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of Westminster citing Cisco

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Contract Job Locations in the City of Westminster

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the City of Westminster region over the 6 months to 25 September 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Mayfair - 3 £580 - 1
Westminster - 2 £773 - 3
Paddington -2 1 £375 -16.67%
Cisco
Central London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of Westminster 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (16.67%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
1 2 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 1 (16.67%) IaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Purview
2 1 (16.67%) Nutanix
2 1 (16.67%) OneDrive
2 1 (16.67%) Power Automate
2 1 (16.67%) PowerApps
2 1 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) BGP
2 2 (33.33%) HTTP
2 2 (33.33%) Network Security
2 2 (33.33%) SSL
2 2 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (16.67%) DKIM
3 1 (16.67%) DMARC
3 1 (16.67%) PSTN
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Robot Framework
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) SonarQube
General
1 3 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support
2 1 (16.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Collaboration Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Head of Engineering
2 1 (16.67%) PowerShell Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Jinja
1 1 (16.67%) JSON
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (16.67%) NETCONF
1 1 (16.67%) XML
1 1 (16.67%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Hedge funds
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Load Balancing
1 2 (33.33%) Network Performance Management
1 2 (33.33%) Performance Management
1 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
1 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (16.67%) Analytics
2 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (16.67%) Data Governance
2 1 (16.67%) Data-Driven Decision Making
2 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
2 1 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (16.67%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (16.67%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
2 1 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
2 1 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
3 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
1 1 (16.67%) VMware ESXi
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Arista
1 2 (33.33%) Meraki
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Veracode
2 1 (16.67%) VMware