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 24 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 321 339
Rank change year-on-year -62 +18 +150
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 15 31 55
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.096% 0.23% 0.30%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.14% 2.31% 2.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 20 41
10th Percentile £378 £424 £165
25th Percentile £408 £519 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £252
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +118.25% -23.98%
75th Percentile £545 £675 £600
90th Percentile £611 - -
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 - - +8.70%

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 1,320 1,340 1,843
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.42% 10.10% 10.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 815 1,204
10th Percentile £252 £255 £206
25th Percentile £405 £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 £625
90th Percentile £693 £738 £750
England median daily rate £495 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.00% +5.26% -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 14 72
10th Percentile £20.01 £23.91 £14.63
25th Percentile £21.65 £24.66 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.31 £33.75 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.01% +40.63% -6.65%
75th Percentile £28.47 £43.00 £41.25
90th Percentile £93.88 £58.90 £64.25
England median hourly rate £28.38 £35.00 £45.88
% change year-on-year -18.91% -23.71% +130.78%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -7 1 £525 -8.70% 2
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 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (26.67%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) AWS
2 2 (13.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 2 (13.33%) GCP
2 2 (13.33%) OCI
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
3 1 (6.67%) Entra ID
3 1 (6.67%) IaaS
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
3 1 (6.67%) OneDrive
3 1 (6.67%) PaaS
3 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (73.33%) Firewall
2 9 (60.00%) BGP
2 9 (60.00%) NX-OS
2 9 (60.00%) OSPF
3 8 (53.33%) Network Security
3 8 (53.33%) WAN
4 7 (46.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 6 (40.00%) LAN
5 6 (40.00%) SD-WAN
6 5 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (20.00%) Junos
8 2 (13.33%) DMZ
8 2 (13.33%) Ethernet
8 2 (13.33%) IOS XR
8 2 (13.33%) SNMP
8 2 (13.33%) Spanning Tree
8 2 (13.33%) VLAN
8 2 (13.33%) VPN
8 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 7 (46.67%) Finance
2 5 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (73.33%) Network Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 2 (13.33%) Network Support
3 2 (13.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Network Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Operations Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) EMC VMAX
3 1 (6.67%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
3 1 (6.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (6.67%) Android
2 1 (6.67%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Change Management
2 5 (33.33%) Break/Fix
2 5 (33.33%) Load Balancing
2 5 (33.33%) Performance Management
2 5 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (13.33%) B2B
3 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
3 2 (13.33%) Migration
3 2 (13.33%) Network Virtualisation
3 2 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (13.33%) Project Management
3 2 (13.33%) Runbook
3 2 (13.33%) Security Hardening
3 2 (13.33%) Task Automation
3 2 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 1 (6.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (6.67%) Identity Management
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL
4 1 (6.67%) ITSM
4 1 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) ActionScript
1 1 (6.67%) Bash
1 1 (6.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) CCNP
3 1 (6.67%) CCSA
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
2 1 (6.67%) HMG Security Policy Framework
System Software
1 3 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (13.33%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
3 1 (6.67%) Firmware
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) FortiGate
2 1 (6.67%) Ansible
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (6.67%) SCCM
2 1 (6.67%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (40.00%) F5
3 5 (33.33%) Juniper
4 4 (26.67%) Palo Alto
5 3 (20.00%) Meraki
5 3 (20.00%) VMware
5 3 (20.00%) Zscaler
6 2 (13.33%) Fortinet
6 2 (13.33%) SolarWinds
7 1 (6.67%) Broadcom
7 1 (6.67%) EMC
7 1 (6.67%) Infoblox
7 1 (6.67%) Microsoft