Cisco Contract Job Trends in London

Cisco
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within Cisco Systems, Inc.

6 months to
20 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 105 105
Rank change year-on-year -55 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Cisco 287 330 395
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.59% 2.66% 2.26%
As % of the Vendors category 3.80% 5.82% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 210 264
10th Percentile £315 £300 £243
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £583 £575
90th Percentile £675 £659 £738
England median daily rate £477 £501 £488
% change year-on-year -4.70% +2.67% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 18
10th Percentile £32.06 £24.66 £21.08
25th Percentile £40.13 £33.35 £23.90
Median hourly rate £47.00 £38.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +40.91% -1.35%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.94 £39.38
90th Percentile - £63.50 £41.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £36.65 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.26% +33.25% -13.73%

All Vendors
London

Cisco falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 7,557 5,669 7,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.98% 45.76% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,994 3,704 4,898
10th Percentile £350 £330 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £540
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% +0.97% -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £517
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.50% -3.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 95 127
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +28.89% -13.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.38
90th Percentile £78.36 £66.50 £59.00
England median hourly rate £32.36 £26.32 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.96% +16.98% -40.00%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in London

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in London

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cisco

Cisco
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco in London

Cisco
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 within the London region over the 6 months to 20 May 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 -41 24 £600 +10.65% 27
South London -8 15 £450 -14.29% 2
West London -38 6 £475 +15.15% 12
East London -7 4 £470 -8.74% 10
Cisco
England

Cisco
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 8 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.74%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 85 (29.62%) Azure
2 49 (17.07%) AWS
3 17 (5.92%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (5.57%) GCP
5 12 (4.18%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.79%) SaaS
7 6 (2.09%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.05%) GitHub
9 3 (1.05%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.70%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.70%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.70%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.35%) IBM Watson
11 1 (0.35%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 135 (47.04%) Firewall
2 111 (38.68%) WAN
3 79 (27.53%) Network Security
4 76 (26.48%) BGP
5 59 (20.56%) LAN
6 58 (20.21%) VPN
7 53 (18.47%) OSPF
8 44 (15.33%) SD-WAN
9 35 (12.20%) Wireless
10 30 (10.45%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (10.10%) MPLS
11 29 (10.10%) VLAN
12 25 (8.71%) Multicast
13 24 (8.36%) VXLAN
14 23 (8.01%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (7.67%) Cisco ISE
16 21 (7.32%) Cisco IOS
17 20 (6.97%) Cisco ASA
18 16 (5.57%) EIGRP
19 15 (5.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.35%) Big Data
1 1 (0.35%) ClickHouse
1 1 (0.35%) Metadata
1 1 (0.35%) MySQL
1 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.44%) Git
2 5 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.39%) JIRA
4 3 (1.05%) GitLab
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (19.86%) Finance
2 53 (18.47%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.67%) Legal
4 20 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.62%) Telecoms
6 17 (5.92%) Banking
7 16 (5.57%) Public Sector
8 15 (5.23%) Financial Institution
9 14 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.79%) Law
11 7 (2.44%) Marketing
11 7 (2.44%) Retail
12 6 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.70%) Electronics
14 2 (0.70%) Front Office
14 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 125 (43.55%) Network Engineer
2 46 (16.03%) Architect
3 36 (12.54%) Senior
4 25 (8.71%) Network Architect
5 19 (6.62%) Security Engineer
6 18 (6.27%) Senior Network Engineer
7 17 (5.92%) Network Security Engineer
8 13 (4.53%) Cisco Engineer
9 12 (4.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 12 (4.18%) Operations Engineer
10 10 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.14%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.14%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 7 (2.44%) Security Architect
13 6 (2.09%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (2.09%) Cisco Architect
13 6 (2.09%) IT Engineer
13 6 (2.09%) Network Operations Engineer
13 6 (2.09%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.14%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.74%) REST
3 4 (1.39%) HTML
3 4 (1.39%) Jinja
3 4 (1.39%) VML
4 2 (0.70%) ADO
4 2 (0.70%) CSS
4 2 (0.70%) JSON
4 2 (0.70%) Middleware
4 2 (0.70%) SAML
5 1 (0.35%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (0.35%) Django
5 1 (0.35%) Kafka
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.35%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.35%) Pandas
5 1 (0.35%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.35%) XML
5 1 (0.35%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 72 (25.09%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.18%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (4.18%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.14%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.79%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (2.44%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.44%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.74%) IoT
6 5 (1.74%) PKI
6 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
6 5 (1.74%) Web Conferencing
7 3 (1.05%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.05%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.05%) Product Ownership
8 2 (0.70%) BYOD
8 2 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
8 2 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.70%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (0.70%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.94%) Windows
2 16 (5.57%) Linux
3 15 (5.23%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.79%) Unix
5 5 (1.74%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.05%) Android
6 3 (1.05%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.70%) VMS
7 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.35%) CentOS
8 1 (0.35%) Debian
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (16.38%) Migration
2 33 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (9.41%) ITIL
4 25 (8.71%) Network Design
5 23 (8.01%) Zero Trust
6 21 (7.32%) Agile
6 21 (7.32%) Runbook
7 19 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
7 19 (6.62%) Validation
8 18 (6.27%) Data Protection
8 18 (6.27%) Mentoring
9 17 (5.92%) Change Management
9 17 (5.92%) Load Balancing
9 17 (5.92%) Technical Leadership
10 16 (5.57%) Incident Response
11 15 (5.23%) CI/CD
11 15 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (5.23%) DevOps
11 15 (5.23%) ITSM
11 15 (5.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.98%) Python
2 15 (5.23%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.44%) C
4 5 (1.74%) Bash
5 3 (1.05%) C++
5 3 (1.05%) Java
5 3 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.70%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 64 (22.30%) Cisco Certification
2 56 (19.51%) CCNP
3 40 (13.94%) Security Cleared
4 32 (11.15%) SC Cleared
5 21 (7.32%) Degree
6 18 (6.27%) CCIE
7 12 (4.18%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.48%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.48%) CCNA
9 6 (2.09%) CCSE
9 6 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.09%) PMP
10 4 (1.39%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.39%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.05%) JNCIE
12 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.70%) CISSP
12 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.79%) SLA
2 6 (2.09%) PMO
3 5 (1.74%) NIST
4 4 (1.39%) GDPR
4 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.39%) QA
5 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.35%) GRC
5 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.35%) MiFID
5 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.09%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.74%) Firmware
4 5 (1.74%) vSphere
5 4 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.05%) Docker
6 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.70%) vCloud
7 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.35%) IAG
8 1 (0.35%) KVM
8 1 (0.35%) QEMU
8 1 (0.35%) Snort
8 1 (0.35%) Squid
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 44 (15.33%) Ansible
2 31 (10.80%) FortiGate
3 25 (8.71%) Terraform
4 18 (6.27%) Grafana
5 17 (5.92%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.44%) Kubernetes
8 6 (2.09%) SCCM
9 5 (1.74%) QRadar
9 5 (1.74%) Salt
10 4 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (1.39%) Cisco Prime
11 2 (0.70%) Avamar
11 2 (0.70%) CASB
11 2 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.70%) Istio
12 1 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.35%) Nexpose
12 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.35%) Suricata
Vendors
1 97 (33.80%) Palo Alto
2 52 (18.12%) Fortinet
3 50 (17.42%) Arista
3 50 (17.42%) CheckPoint
4 46 (16.03%) Microsoft
5 43 (14.98%) Aruba
5 43 (14.98%) F5
6 36 (12.54%) Juniper
7 30 (10.45%) Zscaler
8 29 (10.10%) Meraki
9 23 (8.01%) ServiceNow
10 20 (6.97%) VMware
11 12 (4.18%) Splunk
12 11 (3.83%) Infoblox
13 10 (3.48%) SolarWinds
14 8 (2.79%) Dell
14 8 (2.79%) EMC
15 6 (2.09%) BigPanda
15 6 (2.09%) BT
15 6 (2.09%) Qualys