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 23 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 190 216 237
Rank change year-on-year +26 +21 +52
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 155 196 272
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 1.28% 1.13% 1.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.96% 4.79% 4.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 131 160
10th Percentile £325 £313 £250
25th Percentile £456 £378 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £663
90th Percentile £724 £751 £750
England median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £46.55 £31.00 £30.00
25th Percentile £47.75 £38.75 £45.00
Median hourly rate £56.00 £40.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +40.00% -42.86% +61.40%
75th Percentile £62.75 £41.25 £75.00
90th Percentile £63.05 - £78.00
England median hourly rate £57.50 £19.87 £65.50
% change year-on-year +189.38% -69.66% +129.82%

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 3,127 4,093 5,619
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.78% 23.51% 21.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,101 2,780 3,817
10th Percentile £356 £325 £363
25th Percentile £447 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% -6.52% +4.55%
75th Percentile £661 £650 £688
90th Percentile £763 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 109 84
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.21 £19.58
25th Percentile £24.06 £20.22 £21.24
Median hourly rate £28.60 £25.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +14.40% -47.37% +6.74%
75th Percentile £55.25 £41.25 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.63 £68.15 £87.50
England median hourly rate £35.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year -12.50% -25.93% +30.58%

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 23 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 23 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 +11 24 £593 +15.71% 20
West London +21 10 £400 -23.81% 36
East London - 4 £515 - 2
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 (1.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (4.52%) MS Visio
2 5 (3.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 33 (21.29%) AWS
2 32 (20.65%) Azure
3 9 (5.81%) GCP
4 4 (2.58%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (1.94%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (1.29%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (1.29%) IaaS
6 2 (1.29%) OCI
6 2 (1.29%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.29%) PaaS
6 2 (1.29%) SaaS
6 2 (1.29%) Serverless
7 1 (0.65%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.65%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (0.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.65%) Cloudflare
7 1 (0.65%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 90 (58.06%) Firewall
2 63 (40.65%) BGP
3 62 (40.00%) Network Security
4 60 (38.71%) OSPF
5 40 (25.81%) VPN
6 35 (22.58%) WAN
7 32 (20.65%) Wireless
8 31 (20.00%) DNS
9 29 (18.71%) LAN
10 24 (15.48%) MPLS
11 23 (14.84%) TCP/IP
12 20 (12.90%) EIGRP
13 18 (11.61%) DHCP
13 18 (11.61%) IPsec
13 18 (11.61%) SD-WAN
14 17 (10.97%) Multicast
15 15 (9.68%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (9.03%) HSRP
16 14 (9.03%) VLAN
17 13 (8.39%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 9 (5.81%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.65%) GitLab
2 1 (0.65%) Jenkins
2 1 (0.65%) JIRA
General
1 57 (36.77%) Social Skills
2 31 (20.00%) Finance
3 29 (18.71%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (7.10%) Banking
5 6 (3.87%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (3.87%) Public Sector
5 6 (3.87%) Telecoms
6 4 (2.58%) Financial Institution
6 4 (2.58%) Local Government
6 4 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.29%) French Language
7 2 (1.29%) Investment Banking
7 2 (1.29%) Legal
7 2 (1.29%) Multimedia
7 2 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.65%) Advertising
8 1 (0.65%) Aviation
8 1 (0.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.65%) Law
8 1 (0.65%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 81 (52.26%) Network Engineer
2 24 (15.48%) Architect
3 22 (14.19%) Cisco Engineer
4 21 (13.55%) Senior
5 20 (12.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 15 (9.68%) Security Engineer
7 13 (8.39%) Security Architect
8 11 (7.10%) Network Security Engineer
9 10 (6.45%) Network Architect
10 9 (5.81%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Implementation Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Principal Engineer
11 8 (5.16%) Principal Network Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) Analyst
12 7 (4.52%) Deployment Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) Network Deployment Engineer
12 7 (4.52%) Network Implementation Engineer
13 6 (3.87%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (3.87%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.39%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.29%) .NET
2 2 (1.29%) React
3 1 (0.65%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 23 (14.84%) Data Centre
2 8 (5.16%) Security Posture
3 7 (4.52%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (3.87%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (3.23%) PKI
6 4 (2.58%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (1.94%) NHS
8 2 (1.29%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 2 (1.29%) Digital Signage
8 2 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 2 (1.29%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.29%) Video\Live Streaming
8 2 (1.29%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.65%) Operational Technology
9 1 (0.65%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 11 (7.10%) Linux
2 8 (5.16%) Windows
3 6 (3.87%) Unix
4 5 (3.23%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (21.29%) Network Monitoring
1 33 (21.29%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (14.84%) Migration
3 20 (12.90%) ITIL
4 15 (9.68%) Project Delivery
5 14 (9.03%) Cybersecurity
5 14 (9.03%) Network Design
5 14 (9.03%) Security Operations
6 13 (8.39%) Computer Science
6 13 (8.39%) Service Management
7 12 (7.74%) Change Management
7 12 (7.74%) Matrix Organization
7 12 (7.74%) Network Architecture
7 12 (7.74%) SIEM
8 11 (7.10%) Vulnerability Management
9 10 (6.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 10 (6.45%) Risk Management
9 10 (6.45%) SOAR
10 9 (5.81%) Cloud Security
10 9 (5.81%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 28 (18.06%) Python
2 9 (5.81%) PowerShell
3 8 (5.16%) Bash
4 4 (2.58%) Perl
5 2 (1.29%) Java
5 2 (1.29%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.29%) PHP
5 2 (1.29%) TypeScript
6 1 (0.65%) Bicep
6 1 (0.65%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 93 (60.00%) CCNP
2 44 (28.39%) CCNA
3 40 (25.81%) CCIE
4 26 (16.77%) Degree
5 20 (12.90%) CISSP
5 20 (12.90%) Security Cleared
6 19 (12.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 16 (10.32%) SC Cleared
8 12 (7.74%) CCSP
9 10 (6.45%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (6.45%) GCIH
10 9 (5.81%) CCSA
10 9 (5.81%) JNCIA
11 7 (4.52%) CCSE
11 7 (4.52%) SANS
12 6 (3.87%) AWS Certification
12 6 (3.87%) CCIE Service Provider
12 6 (3.87%) CEH
12 6 (3.87%) GIAC
12 6 (3.87%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (9.03%) NIST
2 13 (8.39%) SLA
3 12 (7.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.87%) NIST 800
5 3 (1.94%) GDPR
5 3 (1.94%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.65%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.65%) NCSC
System Software
1 8 (5.16%) Firmware
1 8 (5.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (1.29%) Active Directory
2 2 (1.29%) Docker
2 2 (1.29%) Hyper-V
2 2 (1.29%) vSphere
3 1 (0.65%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 28 (18.06%) Ansible
2 8 (5.16%) Terraform
3 7 (4.52%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.87%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.94%) CA Spectrum
6 2 (1.29%) Cisco UCCE
6 2 (1.29%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.29%) Nagios
6 2 (1.29%) Progress Chef
6 2 (1.29%) Puppet
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco LMS
7 1 (0.65%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.65%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.65%) Opsgenie
7 1 (0.65%) SELinux
Vendors
1 100 (64.52%) Cisco
2 33 (21.29%) CheckPoint
3 32 (20.65%) Fortinet
4 22 (14.19%) F5
4 22 (14.19%) Juniper
4 22 (14.19%) Microsoft
5 18 (11.61%) Arista
5 18 (11.61%) Palo Alto
5 18 (11.61%) SolarWinds
6 16 (10.32%) Meraki
7 10 (6.45%) VMware
8 8 (5.16%) Aruba
9 7 (4.52%) Nokia
10 6 (3.87%) Infoblox
11 5 (3.23%) Ericsson
11 5 (3.23%) Google
11 5 (3.23%) Zscaler
12 4 (2.58%) Splunk
13 3 (1.94%) CrowdStrike
13 3 (1.94%) McAfee