Cisco Certification Contracts in London

Cisco Certification
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 198 193 251
Rank change year-on-year -5 +58 +40
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 159 211 271
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.27% 1.18% 1.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.95% 4.92% 4.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 140 162
10th Percentile £325 £311 £254
25th Percentile £462 £375 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £605 £630 £658
90th Percentile £750 £775 £749
England median daily rate £536 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +4.54% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 3
10th Percentile £46.55 £24.05 £30.00
25th Percentile £47.75 £36.25 £45.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £40.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -42.86% +62.79%
75th Percentile £62.75 £41.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £63.05 £47.00 £78.00
England median hourly rate £72.50 £24.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year +202.08% -62.35% +123.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

Cisco Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,210 4,292 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.58% 24.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,903 3,919
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 111 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.25 £19.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £82.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in London

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in London

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in London

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in London

Cisco Certification
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Central London +5 22 £550 +4.27% 15
West London +18 10 £400 -23.81%
East London +17 3 £480 -20.00%
South London - 2 £600 -
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (1.26%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (4.40%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (20.75%) Azure
2 31 (19.50%) AWS
3 8 (5.03%) GCP
4 4 (2.52%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.26%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (1.26%) IaaS
6 2 (1.26%) OCI
6 2 (1.26%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.26%) PaaS
6 2 (1.26%) SaaS
6 2 (1.26%) Serverless
7 1 (0.63%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.63%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.63%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 92 (57.86%) Firewall
2 67 (42.14%) Network Security
3 61 (38.36%) BGP
4 58 (36.48%) OSPF
5 44 (27.67%) VPN
6 38 (23.90%) WAN
7 30 (18.87%) LAN
7 30 (18.87%) Wireless
8 29 (18.24%) DNS
9 23 (14.47%) EIGRP
9 23 (14.47%) MPLS
10 22 (13.84%) TCP/IP
11 16 (10.06%) Cisco IOS
11 16 (10.06%) DHCP
11 16 (10.06%) Multicast
11 16 (10.06%) SD-WAN
12 15 (9.43%) IPsec
13 14 (8.81%) VLAN
14 13 (8.18%) HSRP
15 12 (7.55%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 7 (4.40%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.63%) GitLab
2 1 (0.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 53 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 36 (22.64%) Finance
3 32 (20.13%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (6.92%) Public Sector
5 9 (5.66%) Banking
6 8 (5.03%) Telecoms
7 7 (4.40%) Financial Institution
8 6 (3.77%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.26%) Electronics
10 2 (1.26%) French Language
10 2 (1.26%) Legal
10 2 (1.26%) Local Government
10 2 (1.26%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.26%) Marketing
10 2 (1.26%) Multimedia
10 2 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.63%) Advertising
11 1 (0.63%) Law
Job Titles
1 78 (49.06%) Network Engineer
2 24 (15.09%) Architect
3 22 (13.84%) Cisco Engineer
3 22 (13.84%) Senior
4 18 (11.32%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 17 (10.69%) Security Engineer
6 13 (8.18%) Network Security Engineer
7 12 (7.55%) Security Architect
8 11 (6.92%) Network Architect
9 10 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (5.66%) Consultant
10 9 (5.66%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (5.03%) Implementation Engineer
11 8 (5.03%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (5.03%) Principal Network Engineer
12 7 (4.40%) Analyst
12 7 (4.40%) Deployment Engineer
12 7 (4.40%) Network Deployment Engineer
12 7 (4.40%) Network Implementation Engineer
13 6 (3.77%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.18%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.26%) .NET
2 2 (1.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.72%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.03%) Management Information System
2 8 (5.03%) Security Posture
3 6 (3.77%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (3.14%) Data Protection Act
4 5 (3.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.14%) NHS
4 5 (3.14%) PKI
5 4 (2.52%) Security Operations Centre
6 3 (1.89%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (1.89%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.26%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 2 (1.26%) Digital Signage
7 2 (1.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (1.26%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (1.26%) Video\Live Streaming
7 2 (1.26%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.63%) e-Health
8 1 (0.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (6.29%) Linux
2 9 (5.66%) Windows
3 6 (3.77%) Unix
4 5 (3.14%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (19.50%) Network Monitoring
3 24 (15.09%) Migration
4 19 (11.95%) ITIL
5 18 (11.32%) Cybersecurity
6 16 (10.06%) Change Management
6 16 (10.06%) Network Design
7 15 (9.43%) Project Delivery
7 15 (9.43%) Security Operations
8 14 (8.81%) Service Management
9 13 (8.18%) SIEM
10 12 (7.55%) Computer Science
10 12 (7.55%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 12 (7.55%) Matrix Organization
11 11 (6.92%) High Availability
11 11 (6.92%) Network Architecture
11 11 (6.92%) Risk Management
11 11 (6.92%) Vulnerability Management
12 10 (6.29%) Cloud Security
12 10 (6.29%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (17.61%) Python
2 10 (6.29%) PowerShell
3 8 (5.03%) Bash
4 4 (2.52%) Perl
5 2 (1.26%) Java
5 2 (1.26%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.26%) PHP
5 2 (1.26%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.63%) Bicep
6 1 (0.63%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 95 (59.75%) CCNP
2 47 (29.56%) CCNA
3 41 (25.79%) CCIE
4 28 (17.61%) Degree
4 28 (17.61%) Security Cleared
5 22 (13.84%) SC Cleared
6 21 (13.21%) CISSP
7 19 (11.95%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 12 (7.55%) CCSP
9 11 (6.92%) CCSA
10 10 (6.29%) GCIH
11 9 (5.66%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (5.66%) DV Cleared
12 8 (5.03%) CCSE
12 8 (5.03%) JNCIA
13 7 (4.40%) CISA
13 7 (4.40%) SANS
14 6 (3.77%) AWS Certification
14 6 (3.77%) CCIE Service Provider
14 6 (3.77%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (8.81%) NIST
2 13 (8.18%) SLA
3 12 (7.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (4.40%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.89%) GDPR
5 3 (1.89%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.26%) DICOM
6 2 (1.26%) HL7
6 2 (1.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (6.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (5.03%) Firmware
3 2 (1.26%) Docker
3 2 (1.26%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.26%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.26%) vSphere
4 1 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 23 (14.47%) Ansible
2 8 (5.03%) FortiGate
3 7 (4.40%) Terraform
4 6 (3.77%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.89%) CA Spectrum
5 3 (1.89%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (1.26%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (1.26%) Cisco UCCE
6 2 (1.26%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.26%) Nagios
6 2 (1.26%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.26%) Puppet
7 1 (0.63%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.63%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 105 (66.04%) Cisco
2 31 (19.50%) CheckPoint
2 31 (19.50%) Fortinet
3 22 (13.84%) F5
3 22 (13.84%) Juniper
3 22 (13.84%) Microsoft
4 21 (13.21%) SolarWinds
5 19 (11.95%) Palo Alto
6 16 (10.06%) Meraki
7 15 (9.43%) Arista
8 12 (7.55%) VMware
9 7 (4.40%) Aruba
9 7 (4.40%) Nokia
10 5 (3.14%) Ericsson
10 5 (3.14%) Google
10 5 (3.14%) Infoblox
10 5 (3.14%) Zscaler
11 4 (2.52%) Extreme Networks
11 4 (2.52%) SAP
11 4 (2.52%) Splunk