Cisco Contract Job Trends in East London

Cisco
London > East London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in East 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 14 November 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
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 21 21
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +5
Contract jobs citing Cisco 4 7 19
As % of all contract jobs in East London 3.48% 4.90% 6.57%
As % of the Vendors category 7.02% 8.24% 14.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 7 14
10th Percentile £520 £192 £350
25th Percentile £531 £209 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £225 £520
Median % change year-on-year +146.67% -56.73% +76.27%
75th Percentile £573 £250 £540
90th Percentile £580 £402 £700
London median daily rate £463 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -7.50% - -

All Vendors
East 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 East London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 57 85 132
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in East London 49.57% 59.44% 45.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 74 115
10th Percentile £193 £300 £274
25th Percentile £415 £400 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £498 £540
Median % change year-on-year +5.53% -7.87% +20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £587 £638
90th Percentile £940 £650 £712
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £14.45
25th Percentile - - £14.85
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £15.52
Median % change year-on-year - - -37.94%
75th Percentile - - £16.18
90th Percentile - - £16.58
London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -29.15% -12.35% +62.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in East London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in East London.

Cisco job vacancy trend in East London

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Daily Rate Trend in East London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Cisco

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Hourly Rate Trend in East London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in East London citing Cisco

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Contract Job Locations in East London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the East London region over the 6 months to 14 November 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
Docklands, London - 3 £525 -
Tower Hamlets -3 1 £585 +134.00% 3
Cisco
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in East 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
3 1 (25.00%) Internet
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Hardware Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Migration Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (25.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (25.00%) Change Management
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) DDoS Mitigation
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
3 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) Threat Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) CheckPoint
1 3 (75.00%) F5
1 3 (75.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow