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 19 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
19 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 170 106 107
Rank change year-on-year -64 +1 -1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 287 329 395
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.60% 2.65% 2.26%
As % of the Vendors category 3.80% 5.80% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 210 264
10th Percentile £302 £309 £243
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £583 £575
90th Percentile £675 £659 £738
England median daily rate £476 £503 £488
% change year-on-year -5.32% +3.13% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 18
10th Percentile £32.06 £24.66 £21.08
25th Percentile £40.13 £33.35 £23.90
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 £39.38
90th Percentile - £63.50 £41.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £36.65 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.26% +33.25% -13.73%

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 7,554 5,677 7,138
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.99% 45.70% 40.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,988 3,718 4,899
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% -3.63%
75th Percentile £638 £669 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.67% +1.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 94 127
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £23.16 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.04 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.27% +29.04% -13.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.38
90th Percentile £78.55 £66.75 £59.00
England median hourly rate £32.11 £26.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +21.94% +17.04% -40.00%

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 19 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 19 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 19 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 -38 23 £600 +10.65% 28
South London -2 15 £450 -14.29% 1
West London -38 6 £475 +15.15% 13
East London -6 4 £470 -8.74% 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 (2.79%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.74%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.39%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
Applications
1 6 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.74%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 85 (29.62%) Azure
2 49 (17.07%) AWS
3 18 (6.27%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (5.57%) GCP
5 12 (4.18%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.79%) SaaS
7 5 (1.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.05%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.05%) GitHub
9 3 (1.05%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.70%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.70%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.70%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.35%) Apigee
11 1 (0.35%) Datadog
11 1 (0.35%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 134 (46.69%) Firewall
2 111 (38.68%) WAN
3 79 (27.53%) Network Security
4 76 (26.48%) BGP
5 59 (20.56%) LAN
6 58 (20.21%) VPN
7 53 (18.47%) OSPF
8 45 (15.68%) SD-WAN
9 37 (12.89%) Wireless
10 31 (10.80%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (10.10%) MPLS
11 29 (10.10%) VLAN
12 25 (8.71%) Multicast
13 24 (8.36%) VXLAN
14 23 (8.01%) Cisco Nexus
15 22 (7.67%) Cisco ISE
16 21 (7.32%) Cisco IOS
17 20 (6.97%) Cisco ASA
18 16 (5.57%) EIGRP
19 15 (5.23%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.35%) Big Data
1 1 (0.35%) ClickHouse
1 1 (0.35%) Metadata
1 1 (0.35%) MySQL
1 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.44%) Git
2 5 (1.74%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.39%) JIRA
4 3 (1.05%) GitLab
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (19.86%) Finance
2 53 (18.47%) Social Skills
3 22 (7.67%) Legal
4 20 (6.97%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.62%) Telecoms
6 18 (6.27%) Banking
7 17 (5.92%) Public Sector
8 14 (4.88%) Documentation Skills
8 14 (4.88%) Financial Institution
9 8 (2.79%) Law
10 7 (2.44%) Marketing
10 7 (2.44%) Retail
11 6 (2.09%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.05%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.70%) Electronics
13 2 (0.70%) Front Office
13 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.70%) Local Government
13 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 123 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 46 (16.03%) Architect
3 36 (12.54%) Senior
4 25 (8.71%) Network Architect
5 18 (6.27%) Security Engineer
5 18 (6.27%) Senior Network Engineer
6 16 (5.57%) Network Security Engineer
7 13 (4.53%) Cisco Engineer
8 12 (4.18%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 12 (4.18%) Operations Engineer
9 10 (3.48%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.48%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.14%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (3.14%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 7 (2.44%) IT Engineer
11 7 (2.44%) Security Architect
11 7 (2.44%) Support Engineer
12 6 (2.09%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (2.09%) Cisco Architect
12 6 (2.09%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.14%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.74%) REST
3 4 (1.39%) HTML
3 4 (1.39%) Jinja
3 4 (1.39%) VML
4 2 (0.70%) ADO
4 2 (0.70%) CSS
4 2 (0.70%) JSON
4 2 (0.70%) Middleware
4 2 (0.70%) 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 71 (24.74%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.18%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.14%) Cloud Native
5 8 (2.79%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.44%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.09%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.74%) IoT
8 5 (1.74%) PKI
8 5 (1.74%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.74%) Web Conferencing
9 4 (1.39%) Driving Licence
10 3 (1.05%) Operational Technology
10 3 (1.05%) Product Ownership
11 2 (0.70%) BYOD
11 2 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
11 2 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 2 (0.70%) EMC VMAX
11 2 (0.70%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.29%) Windows
2 16 (5.57%) Linux
3 15 (5.23%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.79%) Unix
5 6 (2.09%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.39%) Android
6 4 (1.39%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.70%) VMS
7 2 (0.70%) 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 46 (16.03%) Migration
2 33 (11.50%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (9.41%) ITIL
4 25 (8.71%) Network Design
5 23 (8.01%) Zero Trust
6 21 (7.32%) Runbook
7 20 (6.97%) Agile
8 19 (6.62%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (6.27%) Change Management
9 18 (6.27%) Data Protection
9 18 (6.27%) Mentoring
9 18 (6.27%) Validation
10 17 (5.92%) Load Balancing
11 16 (5.57%) Incident Response
11 16 (5.57%) ITSM
11 16 (5.57%) Technical Leadership
12 15 (5.23%) CI/CD
12 15 (5.23%) Continuous Improvement
12 15 (5.23%) DevOps
12 15 (5.23%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.33%) Python
2 15 (5.23%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.44%) C
4 5 (1.74%) Bash
5 3 (1.05%) C++
5 3 (1.05%) Java
5 3 (1.05%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.70%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (21.95%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (19.16%) CCNP
3 40 (13.94%) Security Cleared
4 33 (11.50%) SC Cleared
5 21 (7.32%) Degree
6 18 (6.27%) CCIE
7 12 (4.18%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.48%) CCNA
9 9 (3.14%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.09%) CCSE
10 6 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 6 (2.09%) PMP
11 4 (1.39%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.39%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.05%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.70%) CISSP
14 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
14 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Certification
14 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.79%) SLA
2 6 (2.09%) PMO
3 5 (1.74%) NIST
4 4 (1.39%) GDPR
4 4 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.05%) 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 16 (5.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.23%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.09%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.74%) Firmware
4 5 (1.74%) vSphere
5 4 (1.39%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.05%) Docker
6 3 (1.05%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.70%) vCloud
7 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.70%) 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 44 (15.33%) Ansible
2 31 (10.80%) FortiGate
3 24 (8.36%) Terraform
4 18 (6.27%) Grafana
5 17 (5.92%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.14%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.44%) Kubernetes
7 7 (2.44%) SCCM
8 5 (1.74%) QRadar
8 5 (1.74%) Salt
9 4 (1.39%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (1.39%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.70%) Avamar
10 2 (0.70%) CASB
10 2 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.70%) 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 97 (33.80%) Palo Alto
2 53 (18.47%) Fortinet
3 51 (17.77%) CheckPoint
4 49 (17.07%) Arista
5 45 (15.68%) Microsoft
6 44 (15.33%) Aruba
7 43 (14.98%) F5
8 36 (12.54%) Juniper
9 30 (10.45%) Meraki
9 30 (10.45%) Zscaler
10 24 (8.36%) ServiceNow
11 20 (6.97%) VMware
12 12 (4.18%) Splunk
13 11 (3.83%) Infoblox
14 10 (3.48%) SolarWinds
15 9 (3.14%) Dell
16 8 (2.79%) EMC
17 6 (2.09%) BT
17 6 (2.09%) HP
17 6 (2.09%) Remedy