Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends 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 14 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 306 227 231
Rank change year-on-year -79 +4 -35
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 157 135 164
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.77% 1.01% 1.03%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.67% 3.78% 4.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 92 101
10th Percentile £338 £351 £325
25th Percentile £413 £424 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% -2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £641 £650
90th Percentile £744 £700 £700
England median daily rate £500 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 2 2
10th Percentile £47.20 £46.45 £38.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £47.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £69.25 £56.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.66% +12.00% -32.20%
75th Percentile £78.75 £63.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £63.15 £62.00
England median hourly rate £68.75 £41.50 £22.40
% change year-on-year +65.66% +85.27% -34.12%

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 5,877 3,570 4,014
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.66% 26.65% 25.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,262 2,408 2,558
10th Percentile £369 £357 £350
25th Percentile £457 £436 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £765
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 109 85 64
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.38 - £25.93
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.65
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -31.38% -32.13%
75th Percentile £78.75 £35.00 £56.38
90th Percentile £155.00 £65.00 £75.88
England median hourly rate £48.83 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +94.14% -52.10% -2.17%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in London

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in London

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Certification in London over the 6 months to 14 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram 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 14 October 2026. 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 -18 27 £443 -31.92% 40
South London -10 6 £450 +20.00% 3
West London -33 1 £650 +73.33% 7
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.64%) Apache
2 1 (0.64%) CloudStack
2 1 (0.64%) IIS
2 1 (0.64%) OpenStack
Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.64%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 77 (49.04%) Azure
2 51 (32.48%) AWS
3 13 (8.28%) GCP
4 11 (7.01%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.73%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (3.18%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (3.18%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.55%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (1.91%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (1.91%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.91%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (1.91%) SaaS
9 2 (1.27%) Akamai
9 2 (1.27%) Amazon S3
9 2 (1.27%) GitHub
9 2 (1.27%) Google Compute Engine
9 2 (1.27%) IaaS
9 2 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.64%) Datadog
10 1 (0.64%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 68 (43.31%) Firewall
2 44 (28.03%) Network Security
2 44 (28.03%) WAN
3 28 (17.83%) BGP
4 26 (16.56%) VPN
5 25 (15.92%) DNS
5 25 (15.92%) LAN
6 20 (12.74%) DHCP
7 19 (12.10%) Wireless
8 16 (10.19%) TCP/IP
9 15 (9.55%) SD-WAN
10 14 (8.92%) VLAN
11 12 (7.64%) OSPF
11 12 (7.64%) VXLAN
12 10 (6.37%) Wi-Fi
13 9 (5.73%) Cisco ISE
14 8 (5.10%) Cisco IOS
14 8 (5.10%) VoIP
15 7 (4.46%) Multicast
15 7 (4.46%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.64%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (5.10%) Git
2 2 (1.27%) Burp Suite
2 2 (1.27%) Snyk
3 1 (0.64%) GitLab
3 1 (0.64%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.64%) JIRA
General
1 52 (33.12%) Social Skills
2 33 (21.02%) Finance
3 19 (12.10%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (12.10%) Public Sector
4 18 (11.46%) Banking
5 10 (6.37%) Documentation Skills
6 7 (4.46%) Telecoms
7 6 (3.82%) Legal
7 6 (3.82%) Local Government
8 5 (3.18%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (2.55%) Automotive
9 4 (2.55%) Financial Institution
9 4 (2.55%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.91%) Law
10 3 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.27%) French Language
11 2 (1.27%) Front Office
11 2 (1.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.27%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.27%) Retail
Job Titles
1 56 (35.67%) Network Engineer
2 29 (18.47%) Architect
3 28 (17.83%) Senior
4 21 (13.38%) Security Engineer
5 15 (9.55%) Security Architect
5 15 (9.55%) Senior Network Engineer
6 10 (6.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 10 (6.37%) Network Architect
7 9 (5.73%) Lead
7 9 (5.73%) Network Security Engineer
8 8 (5.10%) Analyst
8 8 (5.10%) Cisco Engineer
8 8 (5.10%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Azure Engineer
9 7 (4.46%) Security Officer
10 6 (3.82%) Firewall Engineer
11 5 (3.18%) Cloud Engineer
11 5 (3.18%) Cybersecurity Engineer
11 5 (3.18%) LAN Engineer
11 5 (3.18%) Unified Communications Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (14.65%) Terraform
2 8 (5.10%) 802.1X
3 4 (2.55%) REST
4 1 (0.64%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.64%) eBPF
4 1 (0.64%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.64%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.64%) OAuth
4 1 (0.64%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.64%) SAML
4 1 (0.64%) Spine.js
4 1 (0.64%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 40 (25.48%) Data Centre
2 17 (10.83%) Hybrid Cloud
3 13 (8.28%) Onboarding
3 13 (8.28%) Public Cloud
4 12 (7.64%) Cloud Native
5 10 (6.37%) Security Posture
6 9 (5.73%) Security Operations Centre
7 7 (4.46%) PKI
8 6 (3.82%) Virtual Team
9 5 (3.18%) Analytical Mindset
9 5 (3.18%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (3.18%) Management Information System
9 5 (3.18%) Video Conferencing
10 4 (2.55%) Driving Licence
10 4 (2.55%) Robotics
11 3 (1.91%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.91%) Cyber Threat
11 3 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.91%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 3 (1.91%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 29 (18.47%) Windows
2 12 (7.64%) Linux
3 6 (3.82%) Windows Server
4 5 (3.18%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.64%) VMS
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.64%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (25.48%) Cybersecurity
2 38 (24.20%) Cloud Security
3 33 (21.02%) Security Architecture
4 28 (17.83%) Migration
5 25 (15.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (14.01%) Agile
6 22 (14.01%) SIEM
6 22 (14.01%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (14.01%) Zero Trust
7 21 (13.38%) Incident Response
7 21 (13.38%) SABSA
7 21 (13.38%) Security Operations
8 20 (12.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 20 (12.74%) DevOps
8 20 (12.74%) Problem-Solving
8 20 (12.74%) Vulnerability Management
9 19 (12.10%) Validation
10 18 (11.46%) Identity Access Management
10 18 (11.46%) Threat Modelling
11 17 (10.83%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 27 (17.20%) Python
2 11 (7.01%) PowerShell
3 9 (5.73%) Bash
4 5 (3.18%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (1.27%) Bicep
5 2 (1.27%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.27%) Lisp
5 2 (1.27%) SQL
6 1 (0.64%) VB
Qualifications
1 91 (57.96%) CCNP
2 52 (33.12%) CISSP
3 48 (30.57%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 31 (19.75%) CCSP
5 30 (19.11%) CCNA
6 26 (16.56%) CCIE
6 26 (16.56%) Degree
6 26 (16.56%) Security Cleared
7 25 (15.92%) SC Cleared
8 24 (15.29%) CISM
9 15 (9.55%) CRISC
10 11 (7.01%) Azure Certification
10 11 (7.01%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (6.37%) AWS Certification
12 9 (5.73%) Microsoft Certification
13 8 (5.10%) CISA
13 8 (5.10%) GCIH
13 8 (5.10%) Network+ Certification
14 7 (4.46%) Computer Science Degree
15 6 (3.82%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (17.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 26 (16.56%) NIST
3 10 (6.37%) NCSC
4 6 (3.82%) NIST 800
4 6 (3.82%) PCI DSS
5 5 (3.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (1.91%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.91%) GDPR
7 2 (1.27%) GRC
8 1 (0.64%) COBIT
8 1 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.64%) Government Security Classifications
8 1 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.64%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.64%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27005
8 1 (0.64%) QA
8 1 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.64%) SLA
System Software
1 19 (12.10%) Active Directory
2 11 (7.01%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (2.55%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.91%) Docker
5 2 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.27%) vSphere
6 1 (0.64%) Firmware
6 1 (0.64%) ISA Server
6 1 (0.64%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.64%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 21 (13.38%) Ansible
2 12 (7.64%) FortiGate
3 8 (5.10%) Kubernetes
4 5 (3.18%) Cisco CUCM
4 5 (3.18%) Grafana
4 5 (3.18%) Prometheus
5 4 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.55%) systemd
6 3 (1.91%) Packer
6 3 (1.91%) QRadar
7 2 (1.27%) SCCM
8 1 (0.64%) CASB
8 1 (0.64%) Check_MK
8 1 (0.64%) TrustSec
8 1 (0.64%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 82 (52.23%) Cisco
2 45 (28.66%) Microsoft
3 33 (21.02%) Palo Alto
4 31 (19.75%) Fortinet
5 19 (12.10%) Juniper
6 14 (8.92%) Arista
7 13 (8.28%) VMware
8 12 (7.64%) Aruba
8 12 (7.64%) CheckPoint
8 12 (7.64%) Meraki
9 11 (7.01%) CrowdStrike
9 11 (7.01%) Splunk
10 9 (5.73%) Zscaler
11 7 (4.46%) F5
11 7 (4.46%) Google
12 5 (3.18%) Infoblox
12 5 (3.18%) Red Box
13 4 (2.55%) MikroTik
13 4 (2.55%) Qualys
14 3 (1.91%) NVIDIA