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 4 June 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
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 163 106 108
Rank change year-on-year -57 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Cisco 299 322 395
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.63% 2.67% 2.27%
As % of the Vendors category 3.90% 5.87% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 208 205 268
10th Percentile £310 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £661 £729
England median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.75% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 19
10th Percentile £33.11 £24.66 £21.80
25th Percentile £42.06 £33.35 £23.80
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 £41.25
90th Percentile £58.63 £63.50 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £32.70 £25.00
% change year-on-year +43.73% +30.80% -41.86%

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 7,660 5,485 7,144
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.66% 45.41% 41.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,037 3,544 4,905
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £538
Median % change year-on-year -3.63% +1.35% -4.44%
75th Percentile £638 £673 £650
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 103 133
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.91
25th Percentile £23.42 £22.39 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.60 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +20.17% -13.45%
75th Percentile £51.13 £42.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £64.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.38 £23.80
% change year-on-year +18.72% +15.02% -39.01%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 4 June 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 -36 28 £600 +11.94% 33
South London -6 15 £450 -14.29% 8
West London -37 6 £475 +11.76% 14
East London -6 4 £470 -14.55% 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 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.01%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.00%) Confluence
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 85 (28.43%) Azure
2 49 (16.39%) AWS
3 18 (6.02%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.68%) GCP
5 11 (3.68%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.68%) SaaS
7 7 (2.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.00%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.00%) GitHub
9 3 (1.00%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.00%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.67%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.67%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.67%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.33%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.33%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.33%) IBM Watson
11 1 (0.33%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.33%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 139 (46.49%) Firewall
2 110 (36.79%) WAN
3 81 (27.09%) Network Security
4 80 (26.76%) BGP
5 60 (20.07%) LAN
6 54 (18.06%) VPN
7 51 (17.06%) OSPF
8 42 (14.05%) SD-WAN
9 41 (13.71%) Wireless
10 32 (10.70%) VLAN
11 30 (10.03%) MPLS
12 28 (9.36%) VXLAN
12 28 (9.36%) Wi-Fi
13 26 (8.70%) Cisco ISE
13 26 (8.70%) Multicast
14 24 (8.03%) Cisco IOS
15 20 (6.69%) Cisco ASA
15 20 (6.69%) Cisco Nexus
15 20 (6.69%) DNS
16 16 (5.35%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.33%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.33%) Big Data
3 1 (0.33%) ClickHouse
3 1 (0.33%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.33%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Git
2 5 (1.67%) JIRA
3 4 (1.34%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.67%) GitLab
General
1 59 (19.73%) Finance
2 57 (19.06%) Social Skills
3 21 (7.02%) Legal
4 19 (6.35%) Telecoms
5 17 (5.69%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.69%) Banking
5 17 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 16 (5.35%) Financial Institution
7 14 (4.68%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.01%) Law
9 7 (2.34%) Marketing
10 6 (2.01%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.34%) Retail
12 3 (1.00%) Front Office
12 3 (1.00%) Investment Banking
12 3 (1.00%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.67%) Electronics
13 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.33%) Corporate Banking
14 1 (0.33%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (44.15%) Network Engineer
2 51 (17.06%) Architect
3 36 (12.04%) Senior
4 27 (9.03%) Network Architect
5 21 (7.02%) Security Engineer
6 19 (6.35%) Network Security Engineer
6 19 (6.35%) Senior Network Engineer
7 15 (5.02%) Cisco Engineer
8 13 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 13 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (4.01%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (3.68%) Operations Engineer
11 8 (2.68%) Project Manager
11 8 (2.68%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 7 (2.34%) Security Architect
13 6 (2.01%) Audio Visual Engineer
13 6 (2.01%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (2.01%) Cisco Architect
13 6 (2.01%) Cloud Architect
13 6 (2.01%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.01%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.68%) REST
3 4 (1.34%) Jinja
4 3 (1.00%) SAML
5 2 (0.67%) .NET
5 2 (0.67%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.67%) ADO
5 2 (0.67%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.67%) Blazor
5 2 (0.67%) CSS
5 2 (0.67%) HTML
5 2 (0.67%) Middleware
6 1 (0.33%) Django
6 1 (0.33%) JSON
6 1 (0.33%) Kafka
6 1 (0.33%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.33%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.33%) VML
6 1 (0.33%) XML
6 1 (0.33%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 77 (25.75%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.68%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (3.01%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.01%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.34%) PKI
5 7 (2.34%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.01%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.67%) IoT
7 5 (1.67%) Web Conferencing
8 2 (0.67%) BYOD
8 2 (0.67%) Celerra
8 2 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 2 (0.67%) Driving Licence
8 2 (0.67%) EMC VMAX
8 2 (0.67%) EMC VNX
8 2 (0.67%) IBM XIV
8 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 45 (15.05%) Windows
2 17 (5.69%) Linux
2 17 (5.69%) Windows Server
3 8 (2.68%) Unix
4 4 (1.34%) Mac OS
4 4 (1.34%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.00%) VMS
6 2 (0.67%) Android
6 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Debian
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (17.06%) Migration
2 30 (10.03%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (8.70%) Network Design
4 25 (8.36%) ITIL
5 23 (7.69%) Agile
6 22 (7.36%) Mentoring
7 21 (7.02%) Runbook
7 21 (7.02%) Zero Trust
8 20 (6.69%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (6.02%) Data Protection
10 17 (5.69%) Stakeholder Management
10 17 (5.69%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (5.69%) Validation
11 16 (5.35%) CI/CD
11 16 (5.35%) ITSM
11 16 (5.35%) Low Latency
12 15 (5.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (5.02%) Incident Response
12 15 (5.02%) Load Balancing
13 14 (4.68%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 45 (15.05%) Python
2 15 (5.02%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.67%) C
4 3 (1.00%) Bash
4 3 (1.00%) C++
4 3 (1.00%) Java
5 2 (0.67%) ActionScript
5 2 (0.67%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.67%) Lisp
6 1 (0.33%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (0.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 68 (22.74%) Cisco Certification
2 60 (20.07%) CCNP
3 40 (13.38%) Security Cleared
4 31 (10.37%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.36%) Degree
6 19 (6.35%) CCIE
7 12 (4.01%) DV Cleared
8 9 (3.01%) Azure Certification
8 9 (3.01%) CCNA
9 6 (2.01%) CCSE
9 6 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
10 5 (1.67%) PMP
11 3 (1.00%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.00%) PMI Certification
12 2 (0.67%) CCIE Security
12 2 (0.67%) CISSP
12 2 (0.67%) JNCIE
12 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.33%) CSPO
13 1 (0.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.34%) SLA
2 5 (1.67%) GDPR
2 5 (1.67%) NIST
2 5 (1.67%) PMO
2 5 (1.67%) QA
3 4 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.67%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.33%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.33%) GRC
5 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 22 (7.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 19 (6.35%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.01%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.67%) Firmware
4 5 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.67%) vSphere
5 4 (1.34%) Hyper-V
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 (0.33%) Docker
7 1 (0.33%) IAG
7 1 (0.33%) KVM
7 1 (0.33%) QEMU
7 1 (0.33%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.33%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 49 (16.39%) Ansible
2 32 (10.70%) FortiGate
3 25 (8.36%) Terraform
4 18 (6.02%) Grafana
5 17 (5.69%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.01%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.34%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (1.67%) QRadar
8 5 (1.67%) Salt
8 5 (1.67%) SCCM
9 4 (1.34%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.67%) Avamar
11 2 (0.67%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.67%) Istio
12 1 (0.33%) CASB
12 1 (0.33%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.33%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 98 (32.78%) Palo Alto
2 59 (19.73%) Fortinet
3 56 (18.73%) Arista
4 52 (17.39%) Microsoft
5 45 (15.05%) CheckPoint
6 43 (14.38%) Aruba
7 41 (13.71%) F5
8 37 (12.37%) Juniper
9 27 (9.03%) Zscaler
10 26 (8.70%) VMware
11 24 (8.03%) Meraki
12 22 (7.36%) ServiceNow
13 10 (3.34%) Infoblox
13 10 (3.34%) SolarWinds
13 10 (3.34%) Splunk
14 9 (3.01%) EMC
15 8 (2.68%) Dell
16 6 (2.01%) BigPanda
16 6 (2.01%) BT
17 5 (1.67%) Salesforce