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 29 April 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
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 99 101
Rank change year-on-year -76 +2 +8
Contract jobs citing Cisco 276 335 416
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.56% 2.67% 2.35%
As % of the Vendors category 3.63% 5.88% 5.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 220 276
10th Percentile £300 £324 £250
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +0.55% -4.31%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £659 £748
England median daily rate £475 £510 £490
% change year-on-year -6.92% +4.14% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 6 21
10th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £23.25
25th Percentile £24.23 £27.56 £24.18
Median hourly rate £31.64 £41.25 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.31% +50.00% -10.57%
75th Percentile £50.00 £57.81 £41.25
90th Percentile - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £37.07 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.78% +34.81% -49.39%

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 7,607 5,699 7,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.08% 45.37% 40.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,030 3,746 4,927
10th Percentile £350 £325 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £660
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 93 137
10th Percentile £18.41 £15.97 £13.86
25th Percentile £22.41 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +21.85% -22.60%
75th Percentile £50.00 £51.25 £36.00
90th Percentile £69.25 £67.00 £62.25
England median hourly rate £30.49 £27.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +10.87% +22.22% -43.75%

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 29 April 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 29 April 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 29 April 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 -46 19 £600 +9.39% 20
South London -8 16 £450 -14.29% 2
West London -40 4 £500 +17.65% 11
East London -5 2 £334 -39.36% 5
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 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.54%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.81%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.81%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (1.81%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 78 (28.26%) Azure
2 43 (15.58%) AWS
3 28 (10.14%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (6.52%) GCP
5 12 (4.35%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (1.81%) SaaS
8 4 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.09%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.09%) GitHub
9 3 (1.09%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.09%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.72%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.72%) OCI
10 2 (0.72%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.72%) ShareGate
10 2 (0.72%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.36%) IBM Watson
11 1 (0.36%) OpenDNS
11 1 (0.36%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 133 (48.19%) Firewall
2 111 (40.22%) WAN
3 77 (27.90%) Network Security
4 72 (26.09%) BGP
5 62 (22.46%) VPN
6 57 (20.65%) LAN
7 53 (19.20%) OSPF
8 51 (18.48%) SD-WAN
9 39 (14.13%) Wireless
10 30 (10.87%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (10.51%) MPLS
12 28 (10.14%) VLAN
13 26 (9.42%) Cisco IOS
14 24 (8.70%) VXLAN
15 23 (8.33%) Cisco ASA
15 23 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
15 23 (8.33%) Multicast
16 20 (7.25%) Cisco ISE
17 19 (6.88%) NX-OS
18 16 (5.80%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.36%) Big Data
2 1 (0.36%) Metadata
2 1 (0.36%) MySQL
2 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.54%) Git
2 5 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.45%) JIRA
4 3 (1.09%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (20.65%) Social Skills
2 54 (19.57%) Finance
3 24 (8.70%) Banking
4 23 (8.33%) Telecoms
5 22 (7.97%) Analytical Skills
6 21 (7.61%) Public Sector
7 20 (7.25%) Legal
8 15 (5.43%) Financial Institution
9 10 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.90%) Law
10 8 (2.90%) Marketing
10 8 (2.90%) Retail
11 7 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.45%) Manufacturing
13 3 (1.09%) Electronics
14 2 (0.72%) Front Office
14 2 (0.72%) Local Government
14 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.36%) International Banking
15 1 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 114 (41.30%) Network Engineer
2 38 (13.77%) Architect
3 34 (12.32%) Senior
4 21 (7.61%) Network Architect
5 17 (6.16%) Security Engineer
6 15 (5.43%) Network Security Engineer
6 15 (5.43%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
8 11 (3.99%) Cisco Engineer
8 11 (3.99%) Support Engineer
9 10 (3.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 10 (3.62%) IT Engineer
9 10 (3.62%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.62%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 9 (3.26%) Automation Engineer
10 9 (3.26%) Solutions Architect
11 8 (2.90%) IT Support
12 7 (2.54%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Field Engineer
12 7 (2.54%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.26%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.17%) REST
3 4 (1.45%) HTML
3 4 (1.45%) Jinja
3 4 (1.45%) VML
4 2 (0.72%) ADO
4 2 (0.72%) CSS
4 2 (0.72%) JSON
4 2 (0.72%) Middleware
4 2 (0.72%) SAML
5 1 (0.36%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (0.36%) Django
5 1 (0.36%) Kafka
5 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.36%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.36%) Pandas
5 1 (0.36%) XML
5 1 (0.36%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 69 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.35%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (4.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.90%) Cloud Native
4 7 (2.54%) Driving Licence
4 7 (2.54%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.17%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.17%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.81%) IoT
6 5 (1.81%) Web Conferencing
7 4 (1.45%) EMC VNX
7 4 (1.45%) PKI
8 3 (1.09%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.09%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.72%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.72%) EMC Centera
9 2 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.72%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 45 (16.30%) Windows
2 18 (6.52%) Windows Server
3 16 (5.80%) Linux
4 13 (4.71%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.35%) Android
5 12 (4.35%) Mac OS
6 8 (2.90%) Unix
7 2 (0.72%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.72%) VMS
7 2 (0.72%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Debian
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (15.94%) Migration
2 33 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (9.78%) ITIL
4 26 (9.42%) Network Design
5 22 (7.97%) Change Management
6 20 (7.25%) Load Balancing
6 20 (7.25%) Zero Trust
7 19 (6.88%) ITSM
8 17 (6.16%) Agile
8 17 (6.16%) Data Protection
8 17 (6.16%) Mentoring
8 17 (6.16%) Validation
9 16 (5.80%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (5.43%) CI/CD
10 15 (5.43%) DevOps
10 15 (5.43%) Stakeholder Management
11 14 (5.07%) AI
12 13 (4.71%) Disaster Recovery
12 13 (4.71%) Incident Management
12 13 (4.71%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 45 (16.30%) Python
2 18 (6.52%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.54%) C
4 5 (1.81%) Bash
5 3 (1.09%) C++
5 3 (1.09%) Java
5 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.72%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.36%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (22.10%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (19.20%) CCNP
3 49 (17.75%) Security Cleared
4 40 (14.49%) SC Cleared
5 21 (7.61%) CCIE
6 19 (6.88%) Degree
7 17 (6.16%) DV Cleared
8 11 (3.99%) CCNA
9 8 (2.90%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.17%) CCSE
10 6 (2.17%) PMP
11 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.45%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.45%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.09%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.72%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.72%) CISSP
13 2 (0.72%) CWNA
13 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.99%) SLA
2 6 (2.17%) PMO
3 4 (1.45%) GDPR
3 4 (1.45%) NIST
4 3 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.72%) QA
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (6.16%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.43%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.54%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.81%) vSphere
5 4 (1.45%) Firmware
5 4 (1.45%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.09%) Docker
6 3 (1.09%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.72%) vCloud
7 2 (0.72%) Virtual Desktop
7 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.36%) IAG
8 1 (0.36%) KVM
8 1 (0.36%) QEMU
8 1 (0.36%) Snort
8 1 (0.36%) Squid
8 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (14.86%) Ansible
2 29 (10.51%) FortiGate
3 22 (7.97%) Terraform
4 17 (6.16%) Grafana
4 17 (6.16%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (3.62%) SCCM
6 7 (2.54%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.81%) QRadar
7 5 (1.81%) Salt
8 3 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.72%) Avamar
9 2 (0.72%) CASB
9 2 (0.72%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
9 2 (0.72%) Istio
9 2 (0.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 95 (34.42%) Palo Alto
2 53 (19.20%) Fortinet
3 52 (18.84%) CheckPoint
4 46 (16.67%) F5
5 45 (16.30%) Arista
6 44 (15.94%) Microsoft
7 42 (15.22%) Aruba
8 40 (14.49%) Juniper
9 31 (11.23%) Meraki
10 27 (9.78%) Zscaler
11 25 (9.06%) ServiceNow
12 20 (7.25%) VMware
13 17 (6.16%) Dell
14 14 (5.07%) HP
15 13 (4.71%) Apple
16 12 (4.35%) Splunk
17 11 (3.99%) Infoblox
18 10 (3.62%) EMC
19 9 (3.26%) SolarWinds
20 8 (2.90%) Remedy