Cisco IOS Contract Job Trends in London

Cisco IOS
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Cisco IOS skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 328 343
Rank change year-on-year -50 +15 +149
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 21 34 54
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.13% 0.26% 0.29%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.57% 2.59% 2.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 22 39
10th Percentile £401 £430 £165
25th Percentile £438 £506 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £598 £550 £350
Median % change year-on-year +8.64% +57.14% +5.58%
75th Percentile £800 £656 £600
90th Percentile £838 £675 £605
England median daily rate £500 £550 £433
% change year-on-year -9.09% +27.17% -3.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £29.50
25th Percentile - - £36.25
Median hourly rate - - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £58.75
90th Percentile - - £65.50
England median hourly rate £17.50 - £25.00
% change year-on-year - - -46.81%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
London

Cisco IOS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 1,336 1,312 1,845
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.29% 10.12% 10.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 825 1,199
10th Percentile £258 £256 £200
25th Percentile £406 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -9.09%
75th Percentile £613 £626 £619
90th Percentile £694 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 13 74
10th Percentile £20.82 - £14.94
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% +59.09% -14.43%
75th Percentile £39.32 £43.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £60.35 £61.23
England median hourly rate £40.54 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +15.83% -12.50% +110.53%

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Cisco IOS job vacancy trend in London

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Cisco IOS
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco IOS in London over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco IOS in London

Cisco IOS
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Cisco IOS
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 IOS within the London region over the 6 months to 10 March 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 -15 1 £525 -8.70% 1
Cisco IOS
England

Cisco IOS
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 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (19.05%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) AWS
2 2 (9.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (9.52%) GCP
2 2 (9.52%) OCI
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (4.76%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) IaaS
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (4.76%) Nutanix
3 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.76%) PaaS
3 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (76.19%) Firewall
2 14 (66.67%) BGP
2 14 (66.67%) NX-OS
2 14 (66.67%) OSPF
3 13 (61.90%) WAN
4 11 (52.38%) SD-WAN
5 9 (42.86%) Network Security
6 8 (38.10%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (33.33%) LAN
8 6 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (28.57%) IOS XR
9 4 (19.05%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (19.05%) MPLS
9 4 (19.05%) VXLAN
10 3 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (14.29%) Junos
10 3 (14.29%) SNMP
11 2 (9.52%) Ethernet
11 2 (9.52%) Spanning Tree
11 2 (9.52%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Git
2 2 (9.52%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (38.10%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Financial Institution
3 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Network Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
2 4 (19.05%) Senior
3 3 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Network Support
5 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Security Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Operations Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Telecoms Test Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (19.05%) Jinja
2 1 (4.76%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 7 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
2 2 (9.52%) Public Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (4.76%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (4.76%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (4.76%) Android
2 1 (4.76%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Performance Management
2 8 (38.10%) Change Management
3 6 (28.57%) Break/Fix
3 6 (28.57%) Load Balancing
3 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (23.81%) Analytics
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (23.81%) Network Monitoring
5 4 (19.05%) Agile
5 4 (19.05%) AI
5 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
5 4 (19.05%) Customer Requirements
5 4 (19.05%) DevOps
5 4 (19.05%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (19.05%) Mentoring
5 4 (19.05%) Performance Tuning
5 4 (19.05%) Predictive Analytics
5 4 (19.05%) Proactive Management
6 3 (14.29%) Task Automation
7 2 (9.52%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 5 (23.81%) Python
2 2 (9.52%) ActionScript
3 1 (4.76%) Bash
3 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (23.81%) CCNP
1 5 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (19.05%) CCIE
3 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) Degree
5 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
5 1 (4.76%) CCSA
5 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) SLA
2 1 (4.76%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
3 1 (4.76%) Firmware
3 1 (4.76%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (28.57%) Ansible
1 6 (28.57%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (100.00%) Cisco
2 8 (38.10%) F5
3 5 (23.81%) Juniper
3 5 (23.81%) Palo Alto
4 4 (19.05%) Arista
4 4 (19.05%) Zscaler
5 3 (14.29%) Meraki
5 3 (14.29%) VMware
6 2 (9.52%) Fortinet
6 2 (9.52%) Infoblox
6 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
7 1 (4.76%) Broadcom
7 1 (4.76%) EMC
7 1 (4.76%) Microsoft