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 9 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
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 165 102 100
Rank change year-on-year -63 -2 +6
Contract jobs citing Cisco 283 334 413
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.58% 2.68% 2.33%
As % of the Vendors category 3.73% 5.89% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 187 214 274
10th Percentile £300 £315 £243
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £512 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.30% +2.35% -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £586
90th Percentile £675 £671 £741
England median daily rate £475 £508 £500
% change year-on-year -6.52% +1.63% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 8 20
10th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £22.53
25th Percentile £25.31 £33.35 £24.09
Median hourly rate £42.25 £38.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.03% +40.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.94 £35.63
90th Percentile - £63.50 £41.25
England median hourly rate £47.86 £37.07 £26.25
% change year-on-year +29.10% +41.23% -51.69%

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 7,586 5,668 7,228
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.42% 45.44% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,011 3,725 4,946
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £663 £665
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 95 131
10th Percentile £18.56 £16.10 £13.85
25th Percentile £22.79 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +29.20% -23.40%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.84 £34.25
90th Percentile £77.42 £66.50 £57.50
England median hourly rate £32.23 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +21.83% +17.56% -43.75%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -42 19 £650 +19.87% 30
South London -7 16 £450 -14.29%
West London -41 6 £475 +15.15% 11
East London -9 2 £334 -35.24% 11
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 (2.83%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.47%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.77%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.83%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.77%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 5 (1.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 80 (28.27%) Azure
2 44 (15.55%) AWS
3 24 (8.48%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (6.71%) GCP
5 12 (4.24%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.12%) SaaS
7 5 (1.77%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.06%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.06%) GitHub
9 3 (1.06%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.71%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.71%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.71%) OCI
10 2 (0.71%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.35%) IBM Watson
11 1 (0.35%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.35%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.35%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 134 (47.35%) Firewall
2 109 (38.52%) WAN
3 77 (27.21%) Network Security
4 73 (25.80%) BGP
5 56 (19.79%) LAN
5 56 (19.79%) VPN
6 53 (18.73%) OSPF
7 47 (16.61%) SD-WAN
8 40 (14.13%) Wireless
9 30 (10.60%) MPLS
9 30 (10.60%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (9.89%) VLAN
11 25 (8.83%) Cisco Nexus
12 24 (8.48%) Multicast
12 24 (8.48%) VXLAN
13 23 (8.13%) Cisco IOS
13 23 (8.13%) Cisco ISE
14 21 (7.42%) Cisco ASA
15 16 (5.65%) NX-OS
16 15 (5.30%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.35%) Big Data
2 1 (0.35%) ClickHouse
2 1 (0.35%) Metadata
2 1 (0.35%) MySQL
2 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.47%) Git
2 5 (1.77%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.41%) JIRA
4 3 (1.06%) GitLab
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (20.14%) Social Skills
2 56 (19.79%) Finance
3 22 (7.77%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (7.77%) Banking
3 22 (7.77%) Telecoms
4 21 (7.42%) Legal
5 19 (6.71%) Public Sector
6 14 (4.95%) Financial Institution
7 12 (4.24%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.83%) Law
8 8 (2.83%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.83%) Retail
9 7 (2.47%) Marketing
10 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.71%) Electronics
11 2 (0.71%) Front Office
11 2 (0.71%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.71%) Local Government
11 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 122 (43.11%) Network Engineer
2 40 (14.13%) Architect
3 35 (12.37%) Senior
4 20 (7.07%) Network Architect
5 18 (6.36%) Security Engineer
6 16 (5.65%) Network Security Engineer
6 16 (5.65%) Senior Network Engineer
7 13 (4.59%) Operations Engineer
8 12 (4.24%) Cisco Engineer
9 11 (3.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 11 (3.89%) Support Engineer
10 10 (3.53%) IT Engineer
10 10 (3.53%) Project Manager
10 10 (3.53%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 10 (3.53%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.18%) Automation Engineer
12 8 (2.83%) IT Support
13 7 (2.47%) Field Engineer
13 7 (2.47%) Network Operations Engineer
13 7 (2.47%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.18%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.77%) REST
3 4 (1.41%) HTML
3 4 (1.41%) Jinja
3 4 (1.41%) VML
4 2 (0.71%) ADO
4 2 (0.71%) CSS
4 2 (0.71%) JSON
4 2 (0.71%) Middleware
4 2 (0.71%) 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 (25.44%) Data Centre
2 14 (4.95%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.89%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (2.83%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.47%) Security Posture
5 7 (2.47%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (2.12%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.12%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.77%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.77%) IoT
7 5 (1.77%) PKI
7 5 (1.77%) Web Conferencing
8 4 (1.41%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.06%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.06%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.71%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.71%) EMC Centera
10 2 (0.71%) Management Information System
10 2 (0.71%) Public Cloud
10 2 (0.71%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.55%) Windows
2 17 (6.01%) Windows Server
3 16 (5.65%) Linux
4 11 (3.89%) Windows 10
5 10 (3.53%) Android
5 10 (3.53%) Mac OS
6 8 (2.83%) Unix
7 2 (0.71%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.71%) VMS
7 2 (0.71%) 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 43 (15.19%) Migration
2 35 (12.37%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (9.19%) ITIL
4 25 (8.83%) Network Design
5 21 (7.42%) Zero Trust
6 19 (6.71%) Agile
6 19 (6.71%) Change Management
6 19 (6.71%) Data Protection
6 19 (6.71%) ITSM
7 18 (6.36%) Load Balancing
7 18 (6.36%) Mentoring
7 18 (6.36%) Validation
8 17 (6.01%) Runbook
9 16 (5.65%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (5.30%) CI/CD
10 15 (5.30%) DevOps
11 14 (4.95%) AI
11 14 (4.95%) Incident Management
11 14 (4.95%) Low Latency
11 14 (4.95%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.55%) Python
2 15 (5.30%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.47%) C
4 5 (1.77%) Bash
5 3 (1.06%) C++
5 3 (1.06%) Java
5 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.71%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (20.85%) Cisco Certification
2 51 (18.02%) CCNP
3 48 (16.96%) Security Cleared
4 40 (14.13%) SC Cleared
5 20 (7.07%) Degree
6 17 (6.01%) CCIE
7 15 (5.30%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.53%) CCNA
9 9 (3.18%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.12%) CCSE
10 6 (2.12%) PMP
11 5 (1.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.41%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.41%) PMI Certification
13 3 (1.06%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.71%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.71%) CISSP
15 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 1 (0.35%) VCDX
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.18%) SLA
2 6 (2.12%) PMO
3 5 (1.77%) NIST
4 4 (1.41%) GDPR
4 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.71%) QA
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (6.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.30%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.12%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.77%) Firmware
4 5 (1.77%) vSphere
5 4 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.06%) Docker
6 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.71%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.71%) vCloud
7 2 (0.71%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.71%) 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 43 (15.19%) Ansible
2 30 (10.60%) FortiGate
3 22 (7.77%) Terraform
4 18 (6.36%) Grafana
5 17 (6.01%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.18%) Microsoft Intune
6 9 (3.18%) SCCM
7 7 (2.47%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.77%) QRadar
8 5 (1.77%) Salt
9 3 (1.06%) Cisco CUCM
9 3 (1.06%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.71%) Avamar
10 2 (0.71%) CASB
10 2 (0.71%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.71%) Istio
11 1 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.35%) Nexpose
11 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.35%) Suricata
Vendors
1 99 (34.98%) Palo Alto
2 53 (18.73%) CheckPoint
3 51 (18.02%) Fortinet
4 48 (16.96%) Arista
5 45 (15.90%) F5
5 45 (15.90%) Microsoft
6 43 (15.19%) Aruba
7 39 (13.78%) Juniper
8 31 (10.95%) Meraki
9 29 (10.25%) Zscaler
10 26 (9.19%) ServiceNow
11 20 (7.07%) VMware
12 15 (5.30%) Dell
13 12 (4.24%) HP
13 12 (4.24%) Infoblox
13 12 (4.24%) Splunk
14 11 (3.89%) Apple
15 8 (2.83%) EMC
15 8 (2.83%) Remedy
15 8 (2.83%) SolarWinds