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 January 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 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 159 95 86
Rank change year-on-year -64 -9 +28
Contract jobs citing Cisco 237 371 457
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.66% 2.67% 2.51%
As % of the Vendors category 3.59% 6.12% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 245 296
10th Percentile £250 £280 £250
25th Percentile £360 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £504
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% +3.23% +0.75%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £706
England median daily rate £481 £500 £487
% change year-on-year -3.75% +2.72% +2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 4 17
10th Percentile £21.46 £15.27 £20.25
25th Percentile - £21.31 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -24.12% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £28.18 £41.25
90th Percentile £60.50 £34.52 £76.75
England median hourly rate £43.11 £22.52 £32.75
% change year-on-year +91.45% -31.24% +27.38%

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 6,602 6,060 7,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.21% 43.66% 40.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,332 3,748 4,997
10th Percentile £340 £313 £290
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £542 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -1.41% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 67 131
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.73 £14.18
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £18.52
Median hourly rate £25.77 £31.35 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.79% -2.05% +28.00%
75th Percentile £42.35 £59.75 £49.48
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.75 £83.25
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -20.58% -17.81% +14.38%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -44 21 £500 -5.21% 33
West London -12 9 £423 +5.63% 7
South London -2 7 £425 -10.53% 11
East London +1 3 £525 -16.67% 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 15 (6.33%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.38%) Confluence
2 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.27%) Appian
4 2 (0.84%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.42%) Apache
5 1 (0.42%) JBoss
5 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (8.86%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (4.64%) MS Visio
4 9 (3.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.42%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 6 (2.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.42%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 62 (26.16%) Azure
2 37 (15.61%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (13.50%) AWS
4 23 (9.70%) GCP
5 12 (5.06%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.11%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (2.11%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (2.11%) Cloudflare
6 5 (2.11%) GitHub
6 5 (2.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.69%) Akamai
7 4 (1.69%) Mimecast
7 4 (1.69%) OpenDNS
8 3 (1.27%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.27%) IaaS
8 3 (1.27%) PaaS
8 3 (1.27%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.84%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 97 (40.93%) Firewall
2 79 (33.33%) WAN
3 55 (23.21%) VPN
4 51 (21.52%) SD-WAN
5 50 (21.10%) Network Security
6 47 (19.83%) LAN
6 47 (19.83%) Wireless
7 44 (18.57%) BGP
8 40 (16.88%) OSPF
9 25 (10.55%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (8.86%) Cisco Nexus
11 17 (7.17%) DNS
11 17 (7.17%) VLAN
12 16 (6.75%) MPLS
13 15 (6.33%) Cisco IOS
14 14 (5.91%) EIGRP
15 13 (5.49%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (5.06%) IPsec
16 12 (5.06%) NX-OS
17 11 (4.64%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.84%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.42%) Metadata
2 1 (0.42%) MySQL
2 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.64%) GitLab
2 8 (3.38%) Git
2 8 (3.38%) JIRA
3 7 (2.95%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.27%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.27%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.27%) Selenium
4 3 (1.27%) SonarQube
4 3 (1.27%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 55 (23.21%) Finance
2 48 (20.25%) Social Skills
3 35 (14.77%) Telecoms
4 31 (13.08%) Public Sector
5 23 (9.70%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.70%) Banking
6 15 (6.33%) Manufacturing
6 15 (6.33%) Marketing
7 14 (5.91%) Electronics
7 14 (5.91%) Legal
8 6 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 6 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.11%) Law
9 5 (2.11%) Retail
10 3 (1.27%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.84%) Military
12 1 (0.42%) Games
12 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
12 1 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 69 (29.11%) Network Engineer
2 40 (16.88%) Architect
3 29 (12.24%) Network Architect
4 19 (8.02%) IT Support
4 19 (8.02%) Senior
5 16 (6.75%) Cisco Engineer
6 14 (5.91%) Support Engineer
7 13 (5.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 13 (5.49%) Project Manager
8 12 (5.06%) Solutions Architect
9 11 (4.64%) Desktop Support
10 10 (4.22%) IT Engineer
10 10 (4.22%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.80%) Security Architect
12 8 (3.38%) Analyst
12 8 (3.38%) Coordinator
12 8 (3.38%) IT Support Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Juniper Engineer
12 8 (3.38%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.95%) Jinja
2 6 (2.53%) JSON
3 5 (2.11%) NETCONF
3 5 (2.11%) XML
3 5 (2.11%) YANG
4 4 (1.69%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.69%) HTML
4 4 (1.69%) VML
4 4 (1.69%) XMPP
5 3 (1.27%) REST
6 2 (0.84%) CSS
6 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.42%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (0.42%) Kafka
7 1 (0.42%) OpenConfig
7 1 (0.42%) Pandas
7 1 (0.42%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 72 (30.38%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.06%) PKI
3 10 (4.22%) Driving Licence
3 10 (4.22%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.38%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.95%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.53%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.53%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.11%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.69%) Blackberry
8 4 (1.69%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.27%) Handset
9 3 (1.27%) iPhone
9 3 (1.27%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.27%) SCADA
9 3 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.84%) BYOD
10 2 (0.84%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 38 (16.03%) Windows
2 28 (11.81%) Mac OS
3 27 (11.39%) Android
4 13 (5.49%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.64%) Windows 10
6 10 (4.22%) Linux
7 2 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.84%) Unix
7 2 (0.84%) VMS
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (16.03%) Migration
1 38 (16.03%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (10.13%) Agile
3 23 (9.70%) Change Management
4 22 (9.28%) Network Design
5 19 (8.02%) Infrastructure as Code
5 19 (8.02%) Network Architecture
5 19 (8.02%) Stakeholder Management
5 19 (8.02%) Zero Trust
6 18 (7.59%) Business Intelligence
6 18 (7.59%) DevOps
6 18 (7.59%) ITIL
7 17 (7.17%) CI/CD
8 16 (6.75%) Security Architecture
9 15 (6.33%) Network Monitoring
9 15 (6.33%) Programme Management
10 14 (5.91%) Digital Marketing
11 13 (5.49%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 13 (5.49%) Roadmaps
11 13 (5.49%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 43 (18.14%) Python
2 17 (7.17%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.91%) Bash
4 8 (3.38%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.95%) Perl
6 6 (2.53%) C++
7 4 (1.69%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.84%) C
9 1 (0.42%) Go
9 1 (0.42%) Java
9 1 (0.42%) SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (25.32%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (22.78%) Security Cleared
3 53 (22.36%) CCNP
4 48 (20.25%) SC Cleared
5 21 (8.86%) CCIE
6 18 (7.59%) Degree
6 18 (7.59%) DV Cleared
7 15 (6.33%) CCNA
8 8 (3.38%) CCSE
9 7 (2.95%) CISSP
10 6 (2.53%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.53%) JNCIE
11 5 (2.11%) JNCIA
11 5 (2.11%) JNCIP
11 5 (2.11%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.69%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.27%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.27%) PMP
14 2 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.22%) PMO
2 9 (3.80%) SLA
3 7 (2.95%) NIST
4 6 (2.53%) GDPR
4 6 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.27%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.84%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.42%) MiFID
7 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 15 (6.33%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.80%) Docker
3 9 (3.80%) Firmware
4 6 (2.53%) Hyper-V
4 6 (2.53%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.11%) Snort
6 4 (1.69%) Squid
6 4 (1.69%) vSphere
7 2 (0.84%) KVM
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 29 (12.24%) Ansible
2 27 (11.39%) FortiGate
3 21 (8.86%) Terraform
4 12 (5.06%) Kubernetes
5 11 (4.64%) SCCM
6 6 (2.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.53%) Nessus
7 4 (1.69%) Nexpose
7 4 (1.69%) Suricata
8 3 (1.27%) CASB
8 3 (1.27%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (1.27%) EMC NetWorker
8 3 (1.27%) Grafana
8 3 (1.27%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.84%) Istio
9 2 (0.84%) QRadar
9 2 (0.84%) Salt
9 2 (0.84%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 1 (0.42%) Dell DRAC
10 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 59 (24.89%) Palo Alto
2 43 (18.14%) Microsoft
3 40 (16.88%) Fortinet
4 37 (15.61%) Juniper
5 33 (13.92%) CheckPoint
6 32 (13.50%) Aruba
7 27 (11.39%) Dell
7 27 (11.39%) F5
7 27 (11.39%) HP
8 26 (10.97%) Apple
9 24 (10.13%) ServiceNow
10 22 (9.28%) Meraki
10 22 (9.28%) Zscaler
11 21 (8.86%) Arista
12 16 (6.75%) VMware
13 14 (5.91%) SAP
14 12 (5.06%) Remedy
15 11 (4.64%) Splunk
16 10 (4.22%) Google
17 9 (3.80%) SolarWinds