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 14 December 2025, 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 94 85
Rank change year-on-year -44 -9 +29
Contract jobs citing Cisco 289 403 517
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.03% 2.64% 2.71%
As % of the Vendors category 4.31% 5.96% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 265 341
10th Percentile £312 £258 £252
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £515
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -0.97% +8.42%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +0.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 1 14
10th Percentile £22.57 - £22.05
25th Percentile - £11.25 £24.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +101.20% -61.24% +27.72%
75th Percentile - £13.75 £61.50
90th Percentile £54.08 - £77.13
England median hourly rate £32.50 £22.40 £40.00
% change year-on-year +45.09% -44.00% +55.58%

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 6,707 6,764 7,791
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.28% 40.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,368 4,243 5,389
10th Percentile £334 £313 £300
25th Percentile £420 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £509 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.05% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 67 107
10th Percentile £17.88 £19.37 £16.94
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £23.25
Median hourly rate £25.47 £35.00 £38.16
Median % change year-on-year -27.23% -8.27% +48.41%
75th Percentile £42.75 £64.38 £60.63
90th Percentile £65.96 £85.45 £86.35
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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
West London +15 36 £425 -5.56% 10
Central London -45 29 £513 +1.49% 21
South London +3 13 £438 -7.89% 8
East London +2 3 £525 +110.00% 7
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 (5.19%) SharePoint
2 10 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.42%) Confluence
4 3 (1.04%) Appian
5 2 (0.69%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.35%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) JBoss
6 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 28 (9.69%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.46%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.38%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.35%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 6 (2.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 60 (20.76%) Azure
2 46 (15.92%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (11.42%) AWS
4 21 (7.27%) GCP
5 14 (4.84%) Entra ID
6 10 (3.46%) Akamai
7 6 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (2.08%) Cloudflare
8 5 (1.73%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.73%) GitHub
8 5 (1.73%) IaaS
8 5 (1.73%) Nutanix
8 5 (1.73%) OpenDNS
9 4 (1.38%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.38%) PaaS
10 3 (1.04%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.04%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (1.04%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 136 (47.06%) Firewall
2 77 (26.64%) WAN
3 70 (24.22%) SD-WAN
4 67 (23.18%) LAN
5 62 (21.45%) BGP
6 59 (20.42%) VPN
7 57 (19.72%) OSPF
7 57 (19.72%) Wireless
8 54 (18.69%) Network Security
9 53 (18.34%) Cisco Nexus
10 49 (16.96%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (9.69%) DNS
12 22 (7.61%) Cisco ISE
13 20 (6.92%) VLAN
14 19 (6.57%) EIGRP
14 19 (6.57%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 19 (6.57%) MPLS
15 17 (5.88%) DHCP
16 16 (5.54%) IPsec
17 15 (5.19%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.04%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.35%) Metadata
2 1 (0.35%) MySQL
2 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.46%) Git
1 10 (3.46%) GitLab
2 7 (2.42%) Jenkins
3 6 (2.08%) JIRA
3 6 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.04%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.04%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.04%) Selenium
4 3 (1.04%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.35%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.35%) Snyk
5 1 (0.35%) Subversion
General
1 55 (19.03%) Social Skills
2 48 (16.61%) Finance
3 45 (15.57%) Telecoms
4 37 (12.80%) Public Sector
5 31 (10.73%) Banking
6 26 (9.00%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.84%) Manufacturing
7 14 (4.84%) Marketing
8 13 (4.50%) Electronics
9 8 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.42%) Retail
11 5 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.04%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.69%) Front Office
13 2 (0.69%) Law
13 2 (0.69%) Legal
13 2 (0.69%) Military
13 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.35%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 83 (28.72%) Network Engineer
2 48 (16.61%) Architect
3 36 (12.46%) Network Architect
4 25 (8.65%) Senior
5 22 (7.61%) Cisco Engineer
6 20 (6.92%) IT Support
7 19 (6.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 15 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 15 (5.19%) Project Manager
9 14 (4.84%) Support Engineer
10 12 (4.15%) IT Engineer
10 12 (4.15%) Juniper Engineer
10 12 (4.15%) Security Engineer
11 11 (3.81%) Analyst
11 11 (3.81%) Desktop Support
11 11 (3.81%) Network Design Architect
12 10 (3.46%) Consultant
13 9 (3.11%) Network Specialist
14 8 (2.77%) IT Support Engineer
14 8 (2.77%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.42%) Jinja
2 6 (2.08%) JSON
3 5 (1.73%) NETCONF
3 5 (1.73%) XML
3 5 (1.73%) YANG
4 4 (1.38%) REST
4 4 (1.38%) VML
4 4 (1.38%) XMPP
5 2 (0.69%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.69%) HTML
5 2 (0.69%) Kafka
5 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.35%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.35%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.35%) eBPF
6 1 (0.35%) Node.js
6 1 (0.35%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.35%) Pandas
6 1 (0.35%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.35%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 91 (31.49%) Data Centre
2 15 (5.19%) Driving Licence
3 11 (3.81%) PKI
4 10 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.77%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (2.77%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.42%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.42%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.08%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.73%) Blackberry
8 5 (1.73%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (1.38%) SCADA
10 3 (1.04%) BYOD
10 3 (1.04%) Handset
10 3 (1.04%) iPhone
10 3 (1.04%) Legacy Systems
10 3 (1.04%) Security Operations Centre
11 2 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
11 2 (0.69%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 44 (15.22%) Windows
2 35 (12.11%) Mac OS
3 34 (11.76%) Android
4 14 (4.84%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.15%) Linux
5 12 (4.15%) Windows 10
6 2 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (0.69%) VMS
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.35%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (13.15%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (12.46%) Migration
3 30 (10.38%) Network Design
4 22 (7.61%) Infrastructure as Code
4 22 (7.61%) Network Monitoring
5 21 (7.27%) Change Management
6 20 (6.92%) Network Architecture
7 19 (6.57%) Agile
7 19 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (6.23%) CI/CD
8 18 (6.23%) DevOps
8 18 (6.23%) ITIL
9 16 (5.54%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (5.54%) High Availability
10 15 (5.19%) Customer Service
10 15 (5.19%) Load Balancing
10 15 (5.19%) Stakeholder Management
11 13 (4.50%) Break/Fix
11 13 (4.50%) Digital Marketing
11 13 (4.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 50 (17.30%) Python
2 21 (7.27%) PowerShell
3 16 (5.54%) Bash
4 8 (2.77%) C++
4 8 (2.77%) Perl
5 6 (2.08%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.04%) C
7 3 (1.04%) Java
8 2 (0.69%) Go
9 1 (0.35%) PHP
9 1 (0.35%) SQL
9 1 (0.35%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (29.07%) Security Cleared
2 76 (26.30%) SC Cleared
3 71 (24.57%) Cisco Certification
4 58 (20.07%) CCNP
5 26 (9.00%) CCIE
6 24 (8.30%) DV Cleared
7 19 (6.57%) CCNA
8 17 (5.88%) Degree
9 10 (3.46%) CISSP
10 7 (2.42%) CCSA
11 6 (2.08%) JNCIA
11 6 (2.08%) JNCIE
11 6 (2.08%) JNCIS
12 5 (1.73%) Azure Certification
12 5 (1.73%) CCSE
12 5 (1.73%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.38%) JNCIP
14 3 (1.04%) CISM
14 3 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.50%) SLA
2 8 (2.77%) PMO
3 7 (2.42%) NIST
4 6 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 5 (1.73%) GDPR
6 3 (1.04%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.35%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.35%) MiFID
8 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.35%) QA
System Software
1 22 (7.61%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.84%) Firmware
4 10 (3.46%) Docker
5 6 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.08%) Snort
6 5 (1.73%) Squid
6 5 (1.73%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.04%) vSphere
9 2 (0.69%) KVM
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.35%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (11.42%) Ansible
2 24 (8.30%) FortiGate
3 20 (6.92%) Terraform
4 14 (4.84%) Kubernetes
5 13 (4.50%) SCCM
6 10 (3.46%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.42%) Nessus
8 6 (2.08%) NetBackup
9 5 (1.73%) Nexpose
9 5 (1.73%) Suricata
10 4 (1.38%) CA Spectrum
11 3 (1.04%) CASB
11 3 (1.04%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (1.04%) QRadar
11 3 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.69%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.69%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 2 (0.69%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.35%) Cisco Prime
13 1 (0.35%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 68 (23.53%) Fortinet
2 51 (17.65%) Microsoft
3 50 (17.30%) Palo Alto
4 48 (16.61%) Juniper
5 41 (14.19%) Dell
5 41 (14.19%) F5
6 34 (11.76%) HP
7 33 (11.42%) Apple
8 31 (10.73%) CheckPoint
9 28 (9.69%) Meraki
10 22 (7.61%) ServiceNow
10 22 (7.61%) VMware
11 20 (6.92%) Arista
12 17 (5.88%) SolarWinds
12 17 (5.88%) Zscaler
13 16 (5.54%) Aruba
14 13 (4.50%) SAP
15 12 (4.15%) Splunk
16 11 (3.81%) Google
16 11 (3.81%) Isilon