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 22 December 2025, 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
22 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 91 80
Rank change year-on-year -50 -11 +38
Contract jobs citing Cisco 280 393 510
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.96% 2.63% 2.73%
As % of the Vendors category 4.15% 5.96% 6.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 258 338
10th Percentile £304 £255 £252
25th Percentile £400 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -1.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £743
England median daily rate £496 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -0.88% +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 1 15
10th Percentile £21.83 - £22.15
25th Percentile - £11.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.20% -61.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £13.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £27.04 - £77.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £20.38 £40.00
% change year-on-year +71.78% -49.06% +55.58%

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 6,747 6,590 7,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.12% 44.14% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,394 4,112 5,250
10th Percentile £340 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 126 69 107
10th Percentile £17.74 £19.66 £16.94
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £24.00
Median hourly rate £25.47 £34.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% -8.00% +45.86%
75th Percentile £41.89 £63.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £65.63 £83.10 £86.35
England median hourly rate £23.63 £30.45 £45.88
% change year-on-year -22.40% -33.63% +76.46%

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025.

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 22 December 2025. 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
West London +15 36 £425 -5.56% 10
Central London -46 26 £500 -1.96% 46
South London +1 13 £438 -7.89% 15
East London +2 3 £525 +110.00% 6
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 15 (5.36%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.50%) Confluence
4 3 (1.07%) Appian
5 2 (0.71%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.36%) Apache
6 1 (0.36%) JBoss
6 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 27 (9.64%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.29%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.57%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.36%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 6 (2.14%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 58 (20.71%) Azure
2 44 (15.71%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (12.86%) AWS
4 23 (8.21%) GCP
5 13 (4.64%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.50%) Akamai
7 6 (2.14%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (2.14%) Cloudflare
8 5 (1.79%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.79%) GitHub
8 5 (1.79%) IaaS
8 5 (1.79%) OpenDNS
9 4 (1.43%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.43%) Nutanix
9 4 (1.43%) PaaS
9 4 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (1.07%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.07%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.07%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 136 (48.57%) Firewall
2 80 (28.57%) WAN
3 72 (25.71%) SD-WAN
4 70 (25.00%) LAN
5 62 (22.14%) VPN
6 60 (21.43%) BGP
7 58 (20.71%) Wireless
8 56 (20.00%) Network Security
9 55 (19.64%) OSPF
10 51 (18.21%) Cisco Nexus
10 51 (18.21%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (9.64%) DNS
12 20 (7.14%) Cisco ISE
13 19 (6.79%) MPLS
13 19 (6.79%) VLAN
14 18 (6.43%) EIGRP
15 17 (6.07%) DHCP
16 16 (5.71%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 16 (5.71%) IPsec
17 15 (5.36%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.07%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.36%) Metadata
2 1 (0.36%) MySQL
2 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.57%) GitLab
2 9 (3.21%) Git
3 7 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.14%) JIRA
4 6 (2.14%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.07%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.07%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.07%) Selenium
5 3 (1.07%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 54 (19.29%) Social Skills
2 46 (16.43%) Finance
3 44 (15.71%) Telecoms
4 35 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 30 (10.71%) Banking
6 28 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.64%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.64%) Marketing
8 12 (4.29%) Electronics
9 7 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.50%) Retail
10 6 (2.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.07%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.07%) Legal
13 2 (0.71%) Front Office
13 2 (0.71%) Law
13 2 (0.71%) Military
13 2 (0.71%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 81 (28.93%) Network Engineer
2 48 (17.14%) Architect
3 37 (13.21%) Network Architect
4 23 (8.21%) Senior
5 20 (7.14%) IT Support
6 19 (6.79%) Cisco Engineer
7 16 (5.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 15 (5.36%) Project Manager
9 14 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (5.00%) Support Engineer
10 13 (4.64%) Security Engineer
11 12 (4.29%) IT Engineer
12 11 (3.93%) Analyst
12 11 (3.93%) Desktop Support
12 11 (3.93%) Network Design Architect
13 9 (3.21%) Consultant
13 9 (3.21%) Juniper Engineer
13 9 (3.21%) Network Security Engineer
13 9 (3.21%) Network Specialist
14 8 (2.86%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.50%) Jinja
2 6 (2.14%) JSON
3 5 (1.79%) NETCONF
3 5 (1.79%) XML
3 5 (1.79%) YANG
4 4 (1.43%) VML
4 4 (1.43%) XMPP
5 3 (1.07%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.07%) HTML
5 3 (1.07%) REST
6 2 (0.71%) Kafka
6 2 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.36%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.36%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (0.36%) CSS
7 1 (0.36%) eBPF
7 1 (0.36%) Pandas
7 1 (0.36%) Regular Expression
7 1 (0.36%) Spring
7 1 (0.36%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 87 (31.07%) Data Centre
2 14 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 10 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.57%) PKI
4 8 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.14%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.14%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.14%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.79%) Blackberry
7 5 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.43%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.07%) BYOD
9 3 (1.07%) Handset
9 3 (1.07%) iPhone
9 3 (1.07%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.07%) SCADA
9 3 (1.07%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
10 2 (0.71%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.00%) Windows
2 34 (12.14%) Mac OS
3 33 (11.79%) Android
4 13 (4.64%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.29%) Windows 10
6 10 (3.57%) Linux
7 2 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.71%) VMS
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (13.93%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (12.86%) Migration
3 30 (10.71%) Network Design
4 22 (7.86%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (7.86%) Network Monitoring
5 21 (7.50%) Change Management
5 21 (7.50%) Network Architecture
6 19 (6.79%) Agile
7 18 (6.43%) DevOps
7 18 (6.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (6.43%) ITIL
8 17 (6.07%) CI/CD
9 15 (5.36%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (5.36%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (5.00%) Customer Service
10 14 (5.00%) High Availability
10 14 (5.00%) Load Balancing
10 14 (5.00%) Zero Trust
11 13 (4.64%) Break/Fix
11 13 (4.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 48 (17.14%) Python
2 20 (7.14%) PowerShell
3 15 (5.36%) Bash
4 7 (2.50%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.50%) Perl
5 6 (2.14%) C++
6 5 (1.79%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.07%) C
8 2 (0.71%) Java
9 1 (0.36%) Go
9 1 (0.36%) SQL
9 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 79 (28.21%) Security Cleared
2 71 (25.36%) Cisco Certification
2 71 (25.36%) SC Cleared
3 58 (20.71%) CCNP
4 25 (8.93%) CCIE
5 23 (8.21%) DV Cleared
6 19 (6.79%) Degree
7 18 (6.43%) CCNA
8 9 (3.21%) CISSP
9 7 (2.50%) CCSA
10 6 (2.14%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.14%) CCSE
10 6 (2.14%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.79%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.79%) JNCIA
11 5 (1.79%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.43%) JNCIP
13 3 (1.07%) CISM
13 3 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.29%) SLA
2 8 (2.86%) PMO
3 6 (2.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (2.14%) NIST
4 5 (1.79%) GDPR
5 3 (1.07%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 20 (7.14%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.64%) Firmware
4 10 (3.57%) Docker
5 6 (2.14%) Snort
6 5 (1.79%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.79%) Squid
6 5 (1.79%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.07%) vSphere
8 2 (0.71%) KVM
8 2 (0.71%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 34 (12.14%) Ansible
2 22 (7.86%) FortiGate
3 20 (7.14%) Terraform
4 14 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 12 (4.29%) SCCM
6 9 (3.21%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.50%) Nessus
8 5 (1.79%) Nexpose
8 5 (1.79%) Suricata
9 4 (1.43%) CA Spectrum
10 3 (1.07%) CASB
10 3 (1.07%) EMC NetWorker
10 3 (1.07%) QRadar
11 2 (0.71%) Grafana
11 2 (0.71%) Prometheus
11 2 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
11 2 (0.71%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 1 (0.36%) Cisco Prime
12 1 (0.36%) NetBackup
12 1 (0.36%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 68 (24.29%) Fortinet
2 54 (19.29%) Palo Alto
3 49 (17.50%) Microsoft
4 46 (16.43%) Juniper
5 39 (13.93%) F5
6 35 (12.50%) CheckPoint
6 35 (12.50%) Dell
7 33 (11.79%) HP
8 32 (11.43%) Apple
9 28 (10.00%) Meraki
10 23 (8.21%) ServiceNow
11 21 (7.50%) Arista
12 20 (7.14%) Aruba
13 19 (6.79%) VMware
14 18 (6.43%) Zscaler
15 15 (5.36%) SolarWinds
16 13 (4.64%) Splunk
17 12 (4.29%) SAP
18 11 (3.93%) Google
18 11 (3.93%) Remedy