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

6 months to
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 397 329 346
Rank change year-on-year -68 +17 +112
Contract jobs citing Cisco IOS 26 27 46
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.21% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 1.85% 2.03% 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 13 36
10th Percentile £408 £415 £165
25th Percentile £510 £475 £210
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £550 £365
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +50.68% -6.41%
75th Percentile £750 £575 £600
90th Percentile £826 £595 -
England median daily rate £539 £550 £433
% change year-on-year -2.05% +27.17% +2.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
England median hourly rate - - £30.00
% change year-on-year - - -57.14%

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 1,402 1,327 1,746
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 8.00% 10.42% 9.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 858 1,166
10th Percentile £300 £264 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - -10.23%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £614
90th Percentile £700 £729 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £488
% change year-on-year - +2.56% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 66
10th Percentile £19.93 £24.66 £14.48
25th Percentile £21.46 £25.60 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.47 £43.75 £22.75
Median % change year-on-year -41.78% +92.31% -50.54%
75th Percentile £29.04 £51.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £88.00 £62.65 £60.00
England median hourly rate £42.60 £36.65 £40.00
% change year-on-year +16.26% -8.39% +111.30%

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 April 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 April 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 -10 1 £525 +23.53% 3
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 (3.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (7.69%) AWS
2 2 (7.69%) GCP
2 2 (7.69%) OCI
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (80.77%) Firewall
2 19 (73.08%) BGP
3 18 (69.23%) NX-OS
3 18 (69.23%) WAN
4 14 (53.85%) OSPF
5 11 (42.31%) SD-WAN
6 10 (38.46%) IOS XR
7 9 (34.62%) LAN
7 9 (34.62%) Network Security
8 6 (23.08%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (23.08%) Cisco Nexus
9 4 (15.38%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (15.38%) MPLS
9 4 (15.38%) VXLAN
10 3 (11.54%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (11.54%) Junos
10 3 (11.54%) SNMP
11 2 (7.69%) DMZ
11 2 (7.69%) Ethernet
11 2 (7.69%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (15.38%) Git
2 2 (7.69%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (30.77%) Finance
2 6 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (23.08%) Financial Institution
2 6 (23.08%) Social Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (69.23%) Network Engineer
2 5 (19.23%) Automation Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Architect
3 4 (15.38%) Senior
3 4 (15.38%) Senior Network Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Cisco Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Network Security Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Network Support
5 2 (7.69%) Security Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Cloud Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Desktop Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Telecoms Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Telecoms Test Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (15.38%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Data Centre
2 2 (7.69%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.69%) Onboarding
2 2 (7.69%) Public Cloud
3 1 (3.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (11.54%) Windows
2 1 (3.85%) Android
2 1 (3.85%) CentOS
2 1 (3.85%) Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Mac OS
2 1 (3.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (3.85%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (38.46%) Performance Management
2 8 (30.77%) Change Management
2 8 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
2 8 (30.77%) Mentoring
3 6 (23.08%) Break/Fix
3 6 (23.08%) Load Balancing
3 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (15.38%) Agile
4 4 (15.38%) AI
4 4 (15.38%) Analytics
4 4 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 4 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (15.38%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (15.38%) DevOps
4 4 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (15.38%) Performance Tuning
4 4 (15.38%) Predictive Analytics
4 4 (15.38%) Proactive Management
5 3 (11.54%) Knowledge Transfer
6 2 (7.69%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 10 (38.46%) Python
2 2 (7.69%) ActionScript
3 1 (3.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 8 (30.77%) CCNP
1 8 (30.77%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (15.38%) CCIE
3 2 (7.69%) Security Cleared
4 1 (3.85%) Degree
4 1 (3.85%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (23.08%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (7.69%) Virtual Servers
1 2 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (3.85%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.85%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (38.46%) Ansible
2 6 (23.08%) FortiGate
3 4 (15.38%) Terraform
4 1 (3.85%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (3.85%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 26 (100.00%) Cisco
2 10 (38.46%) Palo Alto
3 8 (30.77%) Arista
4 7 (26.92%) F5
4 7 (26.92%) Fortinet
5 6 (23.08%) Juniper
6 4 (15.38%) Zscaler
7 2 (7.69%) Infoblox
7 2 (7.69%) VMware
8 1 (3.85%) Apple
8 1 (3.85%) Broadcom
8 1 (3.85%) Dell
8 1 (3.85%) Meraki
8 1 (3.85%) Microsoft
8 1 (3.85%) SolarWinds