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 30 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
30 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 99 114
Rank change year-on-year -68 +15 -21
Contract jobs citing Cisco 323 357 396
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.68% 2.78% 2.27%
As % of the Vendors category 4.06% 6.14% 5.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 228 265
10th Percentile £313 £321 £250
25th Percentile £400 £407 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £576 £550
90th Percentile £675 £659 £683
England median daily rate £481 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.75% +2.56% +3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 19
10th Percentile £28.35 £24.76 £19.60
25th Percentile £36.25 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% +50.00% -18.70%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £55.75 £64.71 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +56.67% +9.09% -36.60%

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 7,954 5,817 7,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.29% 45.35% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,209 3,766 5,008
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.93% -2.73%
75th Percentile £638 £662 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
England median daily rate £510 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 110 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.25 £22.50 £17.78
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.33 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% +19.01% -21.32%
75th Percentile £60.21 £48.44 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £26.39 £24.65
% change year-on-year +32.65% +7.04% -32.47%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -30 41 £569 +6.11% 22
South London +3 19 £450 -14.29% 8
West London -36 7 £500 +21.21% 9
East London -1 4 £470 -14.55% 9
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 9 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.55%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.24%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.93%) Confluence
5 2 (0.62%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.31%) CloudStack
Applications
1 8 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.24%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 89 (27.55%) Azure
2 48 (14.86%) AWS
3 20 (6.19%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (4.02%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.41%) GCP
6 9 (2.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (2.48%) SaaS
8 6 (1.86%) GitHub
9 5 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.93%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.93%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.62%) AWS IoT
12 2 (0.62%) Rubrik
13 1 (0.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.31%) Cloudflare
13 1 (0.31%) IBM Watson
13 1 (0.31%) Nutanix
13 1 (0.31%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 157 (48.61%) Firewall
2 108 (33.44%) WAN
3 83 (25.70%) BGP
4 82 (25.39%) Network Security
5 59 (18.27%) LAN
6 56 (17.34%) VPN
7 51 (15.79%) OSPF
8 45 (13.93%) Wireless
9 41 (12.69%) SD-WAN
10 38 (11.76%) VLAN
11 32 (9.91%) MPLS
12 31 (9.60%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (8.98%) Cisco IOS
13 29 (8.98%) Cisco ISE
14 28 (8.67%) DNS
15 27 (8.36%) VXLAN
16 26 (8.05%) Multicast
17 22 (6.81%) Cisco ASA
17 22 (6.81%) Cisco Nexus
18 20 (6.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.93%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.62%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.31%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.31%) Big Data
3 1 (0.31%) ClickHouse
3 1 (0.31%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.31%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (2.17%) Git
2 5 (1.55%) JIRA
3 4 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
General
1 72 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 60 (18.58%) Finance
3 22 (6.81%) Telecoms
4 21 (6.50%) Banking
5 20 (6.19%) Legal
5 20 (6.19%) Public Sector
6 19 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (5.26%) Financial Institution
8 8 (2.48%) Law
9 7 (2.17%) Marketing
10 5 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.24%) Front Office
11 4 (1.24%) Local Government
11 4 (1.24%) Retail
12 3 (0.93%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.93%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.93%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.62%) Electronics
13 2 (0.62%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 148 (45.82%) Network Engineer
2 52 (16.10%) Architect
3 38 (11.76%) Senior
4 26 (8.05%) Network Architect
5 23 (7.12%) Security Engineer
6 21 (6.50%) Network Security Engineer
7 20 (6.19%) Cisco Engineer
7 20 (6.19%) Senior Network Engineer
8 18 (5.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 15 (4.64%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (4.02%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.41%) Operations Engineer
12 8 (2.48%) Analyst
12 8 (2.48%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 7 (2.17%) Audio Visual Engineer
13 7 (2.17%) Cisco Architect
13 7 (2.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.17%) Project Manager
13 7 (2.17%) Security Architect
14 6 (1.86%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.33%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.48%) REST
3 5 (1.55%) SAML
4 4 (1.24%) Jinja
5 2 (0.62%) .NET
5 2 (0.62%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.62%) ADO
5 2 (0.62%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.62%) Blazor
5 2 (0.62%) Middleware
6 1 (0.31%) CSS
6 1 (0.31%) Django
6 1 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.31%) HTML
6 1 (0.31%) Kafka
6 1 (0.31%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 83 (25.70%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.95%) Video Conferencing
3 14 (4.33%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (3.41%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (3.10%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.48%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.17%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.86%) IoT
8 6 (1.86%) PKI
8 6 (1.86%) Security Posture
9 5 (1.55%) Web Conferencing
10 4 (1.24%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.93%) Celerra
11 3 (0.93%) EMC Centera
11 3 (0.93%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (0.93%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.93%) IBM XIV
11 3 (0.93%) Symmetrix
11 3 (0.93%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 52 (16.10%) Windows
2 20 (6.19%) Windows Server
3 18 (5.57%) Linux
4 7 (2.17%) Unix
5 5 (1.55%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.93%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.93%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.93%) VMS
6 3 (0.93%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.31%) Android
8 1 (0.31%) CentOS
8 1 (0.31%) Debian
8 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (17.96%) Migration
2 28 (8.67%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (8.05%) ITIL
4 25 (7.74%) Agile
4 25 (7.74%) Network Design
5 23 (7.12%) Infrastructure as Code
5 23 (7.12%) Project Delivery
5 23 (7.12%) Runbook
5 23 (7.12%) Stakeholder Management
6 21 (6.50%) Validation
7 20 (6.19%) Data Protection
7 20 (6.19%) Mentoring
8 18 (5.57%) CI/CD
8 18 (5.57%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (5.26%) ITSM
9 17 (5.26%) Low Latency
10 16 (4.95%) Zero Trust
11 15 (4.64%) Change Management
11 15 (4.64%) Load Balancing
11 15 (4.64%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 50 (15.48%) Python
2 14 (4.33%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.55%) C
4 3 (0.93%) Bash
4 3 (0.93%) C++
4 3 (0.93%) Java
5 2 (0.62%) ActionScript
5 2 (0.62%) Lisp
6 1 (0.31%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.31%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (0.31%) SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (23.84%) Cisco Certification
2 67 (20.74%) CCNP
3 37 (11.46%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.98%) SC Cleared
5 24 (7.43%) Degree
6 20 (6.19%) CCIE
7 17 (5.26%) CCNA
8 10 (3.10%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.17%) Azure Certification
9 7 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (1.86%) CCSE
11 5 (1.55%) PMP
12 3 (0.93%) JNCIP
12 3 (0.93%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.62%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.62%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.62%) CISSP
13 2 (0.62%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.62%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.41%) SLA
2 5 (1.55%) NIST
2 5 (1.55%) PMO
2 5 (1.55%) QA
3 3 (0.93%) GDPR
3 3 (0.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.62%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.31%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.31%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.31%) GRC
5 1 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (8.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (7.12%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.86%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.55%) Firmware
6 4 (1.24%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.24%) vSphere
7 3 (0.93%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.62%) Docker
8 2 (0.62%) vCloud
8 2 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.31%) IAG
9 1 (0.31%) KVM
9 1 (0.31%) QEMU
9 1 (0.31%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.31%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (15.48%) Ansible
2 37 (11.46%) FortiGate
3 24 (7.43%) Terraform
4 18 (5.57%) Grafana
5 17 (5.26%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.79%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.17%) Kubernetes
8 6 (1.86%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (1.86%) SCCM
9 4 (1.24%) Salt
10 3 (0.93%) Avamar
10 3 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.93%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (0.93%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.93%) QRadar
11 2 (0.62%) Nessus
11 2 (0.62%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.31%) Check_MK
12 1 (0.31%) SCOM
12 1 (0.31%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 105 (32.51%) Palo Alto
2 64 (19.81%) Fortinet
3 58 (17.96%) Microsoft
4 52 (16.10%) Arista
5 44 (13.62%) Juniper
6 42 (13.00%) F5
7 41 (12.69%) CheckPoint
8 38 (11.76%) Aruba
9 34 (10.53%) VMware
10 27 (8.36%) Zscaler
11 26 (8.05%) Meraki
12 20 (6.19%) ServiceNow
13 13 (4.02%) Infoblox
14 10 (3.10%) SolarWinds
14 10 (3.10%) Splunk
15 9 (2.79%) EMC
16 8 (2.48%) Citrix
17 7 (2.17%) Dell
18 6 (1.86%) BT
19 5 (1.55%) Google