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 15 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
15 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 168 99 98
Rank change year-on-year -69 -1 +11
Contract jobs citing Cisco 271 342 420
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.57% 2.70% 2.36%
As % of the Vendors category 3.58% 5.98% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 170 230 276
10th Percentile £305 £309 £250
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £748
England median daily rate £492 £503 £488
% change year-on-year -2.09% +3.08% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 6 16
10th Percentile £21.33 £24.66 £19.63
25th Percentile £21.46 £27.56 £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.25 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -39.03% +27.91% +25.44%
75th Percentile £38.75 £57.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £54.86 £37.07 £27.50
% change year-on-year +47.98% +34.81% -52.22%

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 7,567 5,719 7,178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.77% 45.16% 40.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,991 3,744 4,925
10th Percentile £350 £323 £281
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £768 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 116 88 141
10th Percentile £18.18 £15.84 £13.85
25th Percentile £21.35 £23.35 £16.86
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +18.65% -4.71%
75th Percentile £45.00 £51.88 £39.95
90th Percentile £68.75 £67.88 £68.00
England median hourly rate £28.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -2.61% +27.78% -41.56%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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
South London 0 19 £450 -14.29% 3
Central London -51 19 £600 +11.94% 31
East London -5 2 £334 -39.36% 9
West London -42 2 £399 -6.18% 13
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 9 (3.32%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.85%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.48%) Confluence
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 10 (3.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.95%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.95%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.37%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 71 (26.20%) Azure
2 39 (14.39%) AWS
3 30 (11.07%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (6.27%) GCP
5 12 (4.43%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.11%) Cloudflare
8 3 (1.11%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.11%) Rubrik
9 2 (0.74%) AWS IoT
9 2 (0.74%) GitHub
9 2 (0.74%) OCI
9 2 (0.74%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.74%) SaaS
9 2 (0.74%) ShareGate
9 2 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) IBM Watson
10 1 (0.37%) OpenDNS
10 1 (0.37%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 125 (46.13%) Firewall
2 103 (38.01%) WAN
3 72 (26.57%) Network Security
4 69 (25.46%) BGP
5 56 (20.66%) VPN
6 55 (20.30%) LAN
7 51 (18.82%) OSPF
8 48 (17.71%) SD-WAN
9 37 (13.65%) Wireless
10 28 (10.33%) MPLS
11 27 (9.96%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (9.23%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (8.86%) Cisco IOS
13 24 (8.86%) VLAN
14 23 (8.49%) Multicast
14 23 (8.49%) VXLAN
15 22 (8.12%) Cisco Nexus
16 21 (7.75%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (6.27%) NX-OS
18 14 (5.17%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.74%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.37%) Big Data
2 1 (0.37%) Metadata
2 1 (0.37%) MySQL
2 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.58%) Git
2 5 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.48%) JIRA
4 3 (1.11%) GitLab
5 1 (0.37%) Jenkins
General
1 61 (22.51%) Finance
2 60 (22.14%) Social Skills
3 27 (9.96%) Telecoms
4 24 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.49%) Banking
6 19 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (6.27%) Legal
8 15 (5.54%) Financial Institution
9 10 (3.69%) Marketing
10 8 (2.95%) Electronics
10 8 (2.95%) Law
10 8 (2.95%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.58%) Retail
12 6 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.74%) Front Office
13 2 (0.74%) Local Government
13 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.37%) International Banking
14 1 (0.37%) Military
Job Titles
1 104 (38.38%) Network Engineer
2 38 (14.02%) Architect
3 33 (12.18%) Senior
4 22 (8.12%) Network Architect
5 14 (5.17%) Project Manager
6 13 (4.80%) Security Engineer
6 13 (4.80%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (4.43%) Cisco Engineer
7 12 (4.43%) Operations Engineer
8 11 (4.06%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 11 (4.06%) IT Support
9 10 (3.69%) Network Security Engineer
9 10 (3.69%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.32%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 9 (3.32%) Support Engineer
11 7 (2.58%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.58%) Coordinator
11 7 (2.58%) IT Engineer
11 7 (2.58%) Security Architect
11 7 (2.58%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.58%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.21%) REST
3 4 (1.48%) HTML
3 4 (1.48%) Jinja
3 4 (1.48%) VML
4 3 (1.11%) JSON
5 2 (0.74%) ADO
5 2 (0.74%) CSS
5 2 (0.74%) Middleware
5 2 (0.74%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.74%) SAML
5 2 (0.74%) XML
5 2 (0.74%) YANG
6 1 (0.37%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.37%) Django
6 1 (0.37%) Kafka
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.37%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.37%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 71 (26.20%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.69%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (3.69%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.95%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.95%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.58%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.21%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.85%) IoT
6 5 (1.85%) PKI
7 4 (1.48%) EMC VNX
7 4 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.11%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.74%) Analytical Mindset
9 2 (0.74%) Celerra
9 2 (0.74%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.74%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.74%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.74%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.74%) Symmetrix DMX
9 2 (0.74%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.76%) Windows
2 14 (5.17%) Android
2 14 (5.17%) Linux
2 14 (5.17%) Mac OS
3 13 (4.80%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.43%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.95%) Unix
6 2 (0.74%) VMS
7 1 (0.37%) CentOS
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (15.87%) Migration
2 33 (12.18%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (9.96%) ITIL
4 24 (8.86%) Network Design
5 23 (8.49%) Change Management
6 20 (7.38%) Load Balancing
6 20 (7.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 19 (7.01%) Agile
7 19 (7.01%) ITSM
8 16 (5.90%) DevOps
8 16 (5.90%) Zero Trust
9 15 (5.54%) CI/CD
10 14 (5.17%) AI
10 14 (5.17%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (5.17%) Validation
11 13 (4.80%) Mentoring
11 13 (4.80%) SIEM
12 12 (4.43%) Data Protection
12 12 (4.43%) Low Latency
12 12 (4.43%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 40 (14.76%) Python
2 16 (5.90%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.58%) C
4 4 (1.48%) Bash
5 3 (1.11%) C++
5 3 (1.11%) Java
5 3 (1.11%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.74%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.37%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (22.14%) Cisco Certification
2 51 (18.82%) CCNP
3 50 (18.45%) Security Cleared
4 42 (15.50%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.49%) CCIE
6 21 (7.75%) Degree
7 16 (5.90%) DV Cleared
8 14 (5.17%) CCNA
9 8 (2.95%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.21%) CCSE
10 6 (2.21%) PMP
11 4 (1.48%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.48%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.11%) CISSP
12 3 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.11%) HND
12 3 (1.11%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.74%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.74%) HNC
13 2 (0.74%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.06%) SLA
2 10 (3.69%) PMO
3 5 (1.85%) NIST
4 4 (1.48%) GDPR
4 4 (1.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.37%) MiFID
5 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 14 (5.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (4.43%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.58%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.85%) vSphere
5 3 (1.11%) Firmware
6 2 (0.74%) Docker
6 2 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.74%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.74%) vCloud
6 2 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.74%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.74%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.37%) IAG
7 1 (0.37%) Snort
7 1 (0.37%) Squid
7 1 (0.37%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 35 (12.92%) Ansible
2 28 (10.33%) FortiGate
3 17 (6.27%) Terraform
4 16 (5.90%) Grafana
4 16 (5.90%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.69%) SCCM
6 8 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.58%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.85%) QRadar
8 5 (1.85%) Salt
9 3 (1.11%) CASB
9 3 (1.11%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.74%) Avamar
10 2 (0.74%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.74%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.74%) Istio
10 2 (0.74%) Nessus
10 2 (0.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.37%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.37%) Suricata
Vendors
1 89 (32.84%) Palo Alto
2 50 (18.45%) CheckPoint
3 47 (17.34%) Fortinet
4 46 (16.97%) F5
5 45 (16.61%) Arista
6 41 (15.13%) Juniper
7 40 (14.76%) Microsoft
8 38 (14.02%) Aruba
9 30 (11.07%) ServiceNow
10 25 (9.23%) Zscaler
11 24 (8.86%) Meraki
12 18 (6.64%) Dell
13 17 (6.27%) VMware
14 16 (5.90%) HP
15 15 (5.54%) Apple
16 12 (4.43%) Splunk
17 11 (4.06%) Infoblox
18 10 (3.69%) EMC
19 9 (3.32%) Remedy
19 9 (3.32%) SolarWinds