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 27 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
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 106 111
Rank change year-on-year -63 +5 -7
Contract jobs citing Cisco 298 319 401
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 2.64% 2.30%
As % of the Vendors category 3.88% 5.78% 5.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 204 204 270
10th Percentile £307 £300 £239
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.31%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £661 £738
England median daily rate £476 £501 £490
% change year-on-year -4.90% +2.14% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 19
10th Percentile £33.11 £24.66 £21.80
25th Percentile £42.06 £33.35 £23.99
Median hourly rate £47.00 £38.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +40.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.94 £41.25
90th Percentile £58.63 £63.50 -
England median hourly rate £47.86 £33.52 £26.25
% change year-on-year +42.77% +27.70% -39.48%

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 7,671 5,520 7,133
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.92% 45.68% 40.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,065 3,597 4,903
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.23% -4.78%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% -3.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 98 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.55 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.34% +21.49% -11.32%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.25 £36.75
90th Percentile £80.25 £64.13 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £25.40 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.95% +12.89% -41.56%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 27 £600 +11.94% 20
South London -6 16 £450 -14.29% 3
West London -43 6 £475 +11.76% 12
East London -6 4 £470 -14.55% 13
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 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.01%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.34%) Confluence
5 2 (0.67%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (28.52%) Azure
2 49 (16.44%) AWS
3 18 (6.04%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (5.03%) GCP
5 12 (4.03%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.68%) SaaS
7 7 (2.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.34%) Azure DevOps
10 3 (1.01%) GitHub
10 3 (1.01%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.67%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.67%) Cloudflare
11 2 (0.67%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.67%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.34%) Apigee
12 1 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.34%) IBM Watson
12 1 (0.34%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.34%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 137 (45.97%) Firewall
2 112 (37.58%) WAN
3 80 (26.85%) BGP
3 80 (26.85%) Network Security
4 61 (20.47%) LAN
5 56 (18.79%) VPN
6 54 (18.12%) OSPF
7 42 (14.09%) SD-WAN
8 40 (13.42%) Wireless
9 31 (10.40%) VLAN
10 30 (10.07%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (9.73%) MPLS
11 29 (9.73%) VXLAN
12 26 (8.72%) Multicast
13 25 (8.39%) Cisco ISE
14 23 (7.72%) Cisco Nexus
15 21 (7.05%) Cisco IOS
16 20 (6.71%) Cisco ASA
17 18 (6.04%) DNS
18 15 (5.03%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.34%) Apache Hive
2 1 (0.34%) Big Data
2 1 (0.34%) ClickHouse
2 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.34%) Metadata
2 1 (0.34%) MySQL
2 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.35%) Git
2 5 (1.68%) JIRA
2 5 (1.68%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.67%) GitLab
General
1 58 (19.46%) Finance
2 56 (18.79%) Social Skills
3 21 (7.05%) Legal
4 18 (6.04%) Analytical Skills
4 18 (6.04%) Telecoms
5 17 (5.70%) Banking
5 17 (5.70%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.03%) Financial Institution
7 14 (4.70%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.68%) Law
9 7 (2.35%) Marketing
10 6 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.01%) Retail
11 3 (1.01%) Front Office
11 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.67%) Electronics
12 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
12 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 129 (43.29%) Network Engineer
2 50 (16.78%) Architect
3 36 (12.08%) Senior
4 28 (9.40%) Network Architect
5 19 (6.38%) Security Engineer
5 19 (6.38%) Senior Network Engineer
6 17 (5.70%) Network Security Engineer
7 16 (5.37%) Cisco Engineer
8 13 (4.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 12 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.69%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (3.69%) Operations Engineer
11 9 (3.02%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 8 (2.68%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.68%) Security Architect
13 7 (2.35%) Network Security Architect
14 6 (2.01%) Audio Visual Engineer
14 6 (2.01%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (2.01%) IT Engineer
14 6 (2.01%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.03%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.68%) REST
3 4 (1.34%) Jinja
4 3 (1.01%) HTML
4 3 (1.01%) SAML
4 3 (1.01%) VML
5 2 (0.67%) ADO
5 2 (0.67%) CSS
5 2 (0.67%) Middleware
6 1 (0.34%) .NET
6 1 (0.34%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.34%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.34%) Blazor
6 1 (0.34%) Django
6 1 (0.34%) JSON
6 1 (0.34%) Kafka
6 1 (0.34%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.34%) XML
6 1 (0.34%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 77 (25.84%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.03%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.36%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (3.02%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.68%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.35%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.01%) PKI
7 6 (2.01%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.68%) IoT
8 5 (1.68%) Web Conferencing
9 3 (1.01%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.01%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.67%) BYOD
10 2 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.67%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (0.67%) EMC VNX
10 2 (0.67%) IBM XIV
10 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 44 (14.77%) Windows
2 17 (5.70%) Linux
3 16 (5.37%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.68%) Unix
5 5 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.34%) Mac OS
7 3 (1.01%) Android
8 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.67%) VMS
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.34%) CentOS
9 1 (0.34%) Debian
9 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (16.44%) Migration
2 32 (10.74%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (8.72%) ITIL
4 25 (8.39%) Network Design
5 23 (7.72%) Agile
6 22 (7.38%) Runbook
6 22 (7.38%) Zero Trust
7 20 (6.71%) Mentoring
8 19 (6.38%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (6.04%) Data Protection
9 18 (6.04%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (5.70%) Validation
11 16 (5.37%) Change Management
11 16 (5.37%) CI/CD
11 16 (5.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (5.37%) Load Balancing
11 16 (5.37%) Low Latency
12 15 (5.03%) DevOps
12 15 (5.03%) Incident Response
12 15 (5.03%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 44 (14.77%) Python
2 14 (4.70%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.01%) C
4 4 (1.34%) Bash
5 3 (1.01%) C++
5 3 (1.01%) Java
5 3 (1.01%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.67%) ActionScript
6 2 (0.67%) Lisp
6 2 (0.67%) SQL
7 1 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 71 (23.83%) Cisco Certification
2 62 (20.81%) CCNP
3 42 (14.09%) Security Cleared
4 33 (11.07%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.38%) Degree
6 21 (7.05%) CCIE
7 13 (4.36%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.36%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.36%) CCNA
9 7 (2.35%) CCSE
10 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.68%) PMP
12 4 (1.34%) JNCIP
13 3 (1.01%) JNCIE
13 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.67%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.67%) CCIE Security
14 2 (0.67%) CISSP
14 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.02%) SLA
2 6 (2.01%) NIST
3 5 (1.68%) GDPR
3 5 (1.68%) PMO
4 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.34%) QA
5 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.34%) GRC
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 19 (6.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (6.04%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.01%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.68%) Firmware
4 5 (1.68%) vSphere
5 4 (1.34%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.67%) vCloud
6 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Docker
7 1 (0.34%) IAG
7 1 (0.34%) KVM
7 1 (0.34%) QEMU
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 48 (16.11%) Ansible
2 30 (10.07%) FortiGate
3 26 (8.72%) Terraform
4 18 (6.04%) Grafana
5 17 (5.70%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.02%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.01%) Kubernetes
7 6 (2.01%) SCCM
8 5 (1.68%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (1.68%) QRadar
8 5 (1.68%) Salt
9 4 (1.34%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.67%) Avamar
10 2 (0.67%) CASB
10 2 (0.67%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.67%) Istio
10 2 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
11 1 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.34%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 97 (32.55%) Palo Alto
2 55 (18.46%) Fortinet
3 53 (17.79%) Arista
4 49 (16.44%) Microsoft
5 48 (16.11%) CheckPoint
6 46 (15.44%) Aruba
7 44 (14.77%) F5
8 37 (12.42%) Juniper
9 28 (9.40%) Zscaler
10 25 (8.39%) Meraki
11 23 (7.72%) ServiceNow
11 23 (7.72%) VMware
12 11 (3.69%) Infoblox
12 11 (3.69%) Splunk
13 10 (3.36%) SolarWinds
14 8 (2.68%) Dell
14 8 (2.68%) EMC
15 6 (2.01%) BigPanda
15 6 (2.01%) BT
16 5 (1.68%) Qualys