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 10 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
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 95 86
Rank change year-on-year -61 -9 +32
Contract jobs citing Cisco 240 367 465
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.69% 2.60% 2.56%
As % of the Vendors category 3.64% 5.92% 6.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 242 301
10th Percentile £254 £276 £252
25th Percentile £361 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £516 £515
Median % change year-on-year -10.17% +0.24% +3.00%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £700
England median daily rate £481 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.75% +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 2 16
10th Percentile £21.46 £12.59 £19.88
25th Percentile - £14.60 £23.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.58 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +35.36% -42.39% +29.00%
75th Percentile - £21.93 £44.50
90th Percentile £53.85 £23.57 £76.88
England median hourly rate £61.00 £20.19 £33.72
% change year-on-year +202.17% -40.13% +31.16%

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 6,595 6,199 7,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.48% 43.99% 40.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,314 3,848 5,018
10th Percentile £350 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £641 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £756
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 67 112
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.73 £15.50
25th Percentile £21.23 £23.80 £21.63
Median hourly rate £26.00 £31.50 £34.62
Median % change year-on-year -17.46% -9.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £41.85 £62.63 £55.00
90th Percentile £67.70 £85.45 £86.48
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.20 £44.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% -32.13% +53.45%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -49 22 £500 -4.76% 19
West London -8 14 £423 +5.63% 6
South London -5 9 £438 -7.89% 6
East London +4 3 £525 -16.67% 3
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 16 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 9 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
3 8 (3.33%) Confluence
4 3 (1.25%) Appian
5 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 22 (9.17%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (4.58%) MS Visio
4 9 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.42%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.42%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 61 (25.42%) Azure
2 40 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (12.92%) AWS
4 23 (9.58%) GCP
5 13 (5.42%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (2.08%) Cloudflare
6 5 (2.08%) GitHub
6 5 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.67%) Akamai
7 4 (1.67%) IaaS
7 4 (1.67%) Mimecast
7 4 (1.67%) OpenDNS
8 3 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (1.25%) OneDrive
8 3 (1.25%) PaaS
8 3 (1.25%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 102 (42.50%) Firewall
2 76 (31.67%) WAN
3 56 (23.33%) VPN
4 54 (22.50%) SD-WAN
5 51 (21.25%) Network Security
6 50 (20.83%) LAN
7 47 (19.58%) Wireless
8 44 (18.33%) BGP
9 40 (16.67%) OSPF
10 30 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (11.25%) Cisco Nexus
12 18 (7.50%) DNS
13 16 (6.67%) MPLS
13 16 (6.67%) VLAN
14 15 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
15 14 (5.83%) Cisco ISE
15 14 (5.83%) EIGRP
16 13 (5.42%) TCP/IP
17 12 (5.00%) IPsec
17 12 (5.00%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.42%) Metadata
2 1 (0.42%) MySQL
2 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.58%) GitLab
2 8 (3.33%) Git
2 8 (3.33%) JIRA
3 7 (2.92%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.25%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.25%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.25%) Selenium
5 3 (1.25%) SonarQube
General
1 52 (21.67%) Finance
2 48 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 37 (15.42%) Telecoms
4 31 (12.92%) Public Sector
5 24 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (10.00%) Banking
6 14 (5.83%) Manufacturing
6 14 (5.83%) Marketing
7 13 (5.42%) Electronics
8 10 (4.17%) Legal
9 7 (2.92%) Documentation Skills
10 5 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (2.08%) Retail
11 4 (1.67%) Law
12 3 (1.25%) Financial Institution
12 3 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.83%) Military
13 2 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Front Office
14 1 (0.42%) Games
Job Titles
1 66 (27.50%) Network Engineer
2 43 (17.92%) Architect
3 33 (13.75%) Network Architect
4 19 (7.92%) IT Support
5 18 (7.50%) Senior
6 16 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
7 14 (5.83%) Support Engineer
8 13 (5.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 13 (5.42%) Project Manager
9 11 (4.58%) Desktop Support
9 11 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 10 (4.17%) IT Engineer
10 10 (4.17%) Security Engineer
11 9 (3.75%) Security Architect
12 8 (3.33%) Analyst
12 8 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
12 8 (3.33%) Juniper Engineer
13 7 (2.92%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
13 7 (2.92%) SC Cleared Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.92%) Jinja
2 6 (2.50%) JSON
3 5 (2.08%) NETCONF
3 5 (2.08%) XML
3 5 (2.08%) YANG
4 4 (1.67%) 802.1X
4 4 (1.67%) VML
4 4 (1.67%) XMPP
5 3 (1.25%) HTML
5 3 (1.25%) REST
6 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.42%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (0.42%) CSS
7 1 (0.42%) Kafka
7 1 (0.42%) OpenConfig
7 1 (0.42%) Pandas
7 1 (0.42%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 74 (30.83%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.58%) Driving Licence
2 11 (4.58%) PKI
3 9 (3.75%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.92%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.67%) Blackberry
8 4 (1.67%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.25%) Handset
9 3 (1.25%) iPhone
9 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.25%) SCADA
9 3 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.25%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.83%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 39 (16.25%) Windows
2 29 (12.08%) Mac OS
3 28 (11.67%) Android
4 12 (5.00%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.58%) Windows 10
6 8 (3.33%) Linux
7 2 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.83%) VMS
8 1 (0.42%) CentOS
8 1 (0.42%) Unix
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (16.25%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (15.00%) Migration
3 25 (10.42%) Network Design
4 22 (9.17%) Agile
5 21 (8.75%) Change Management
6 19 (7.92%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (7.92%) Zero Trust
7 18 (7.50%) DevOps
7 18 (7.50%) ITIL
7 18 (7.50%) Network Architecture
8 17 (7.08%) Business Intelligence
8 17 (7.08%) CI/CD
8 17 (7.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 16 (6.67%) Security Architecture
10 15 (6.25%) Network Monitoring
11 14 (5.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (5.42%) Digital Marketing
12 13 (5.42%) Load Balancing
12 13 (5.42%) Roadmaps
12 13 (5.42%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 44 (18.33%) Python
2 18 (7.50%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.83%) Bash
4 7 (2.92%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.92%) Perl
5 6 (2.50%) C++
6 4 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.83%) C
8 1 (0.42%) Go
8 1 (0.42%) Java
8 1 (0.42%) SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (25.83%) Security Cleared
2 60 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
3 57 (23.75%) SC Cleared
4 50 (20.83%) CCNP
5 24 (10.00%) CCIE
6 18 (7.50%) DV Cleared
7 16 (6.67%) Degree
8 14 (5.83%) CCNA
9 7 (2.92%) CCSE
9 7 (2.92%) CISSP
10 6 (2.50%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.50%) JNCIE
11 5 (2.08%) JNCIA
11 5 (2.08%) JNCIP
11 5 (2.08%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
13 3 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
14 2 (0.83%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.75%) PMO
1 9 (3.75%) SLA
2 7 (2.92%) NIST
3 6 (2.50%) GDPR
3 6 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 16 (6.67%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.75%) Docker
3 9 (3.75%) Firmware
4 6 (2.50%) VMware NSX
5 5 (2.08%) Hyper-V
5 5 (2.08%) Snort
6 4 (1.67%) Squid
6 4 (1.67%) vSphere
7 2 (0.83%) KVM
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (12.92%) Ansible
2 25 (10.42%) FortiGate
3 21 (8.75%) Terraform
4 12 (5.00%) Kubernetes
5 10 (4.17%) SCCM
6 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.50%) Nessus
8 4 (1.67%) Nexpose
8 4 (1.67%) Suricata
9 3 (1.25%) CASB
9 3 (1.25%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.83%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.83%) Grafana
10 2 (0.83%) Istio
10 2 (0.83%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.83%) QRadar
10 2 (0.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.42%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 55 (22.92%) Palo Alto
2 43 (17.92%) Fortinet
3 41 (17.08%) Microsoft
4 35 (14.58%) Juniper
5 28 (11.67%) Aruba
5 28 (11.67%) CheckPoint
5 28 (11.67%) Dell
5 28 (11.67%) F5
5 28 (11.67%) HP
6 27 (11.25%) Apple
7 24 (10.00%) ServiceNow
8 22 (9.17%) Meraki
9 21 (8.75%) Zscaler
10 20 (8.33%) Arista
11 16 (6.67%) VMware
12 13 (5.42%) SAP
13 12 (5.00%) Remedy
14 10 (4.17%) Google
14 10 (4.17%) Splunk
15 8 (3.33%) SolarWinds