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 22 October 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
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 128 97 82
Rank change year-on-year -31 -15 +30
Contract jobs citing Cisco 300 418 591
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.24% 2.62% 2.86%
As % of the Vendors category 4.83% 6.00% 6.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 272 393
10th Percentile £322 £258 £253
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.80% - -
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £658 £650 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £466
% change year-on-year - +7.24% -1.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 7 14
10th Percentile - £16.80 £22.05
25th Percentile - £22.15 £23.31
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.80 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +5.67% -22.60% +23.00%
75th Percentile £26.73 £27.03 £35.44
90th Percentile £63.02 £44.15 £77.13
England median hourly rate £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
% change year-on-year +26.05% -40.50% +60.00%

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 6,205 6,972 8,533
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.36% 43.74% 41.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,016 4,390 5,935
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £424 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £644 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £510 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 69 112
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -13.04% +61.00%
75th Percentile £37.50 £65.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £94.00 £76.13
England median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.20
% change year-on-year -28.57% -20.81% +76.80%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 22 October 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
Central London -30 39 £525 +10.53% 50
West London +23 38 £425 -13.92% 6
South London +3 12 £500 +5.26% 5
East London +1 4 £555 +146.67%
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 13 (4.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 13 (4.33%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.00%) Confluence
3 3 (1.00%) Appian
4 2 (0.67%) nginx
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Mattermost
5 1 (0.33%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.33%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 27 (9.00%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (3.00%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (1.00%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.33%) Acrobat
5 1 (0.33%) AutoCAD
5 1 (0.33%) OmniGraffle
5 1 (0.33%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (21.67%) Azure
2 41 (13.67%) AWS
3 39 (13.00%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (6.33%) GCP
5 14 (4.67%) Entra ID
6 11 (3.67%) Akamai
7 7 (2.33%) GitHub
8 6 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.00%) Nutanix
9 5 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.67%) IaaS
9 5 (1.67%) Microsoft Purview
9 5 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.33%) Cloudflare
10 4 (1.33%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.33%) OpenDNS
10 4 (1.33%) PaaS
10 4 (1.33%) SaaS
11 3 (1.00%) OneDrive
11 3 (1.00%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 146 (48.67%) Firewall
2 73 (24.33%) LAN
2 73 (24.33%) WAN
3 69 (23.00%) BGP
4 64 (21.33%) OSPF
4 64 (21.33%) SD-WAN
5 61 (20.33%) Cisco Nexus
6 56 (18.67%) VPN
7 49 (16.33%) Network Security
7 49 (16.33%) Wireless
8 45 (15.00%) DNS
9 43 (14.33%) Wi-Fi
10 31 (10.33%) DHCP
11 25 (8.33%) VLAN
12 24 (8.00%) TCP/IP
13 22 (7.33%) IPsec
14 21 (7.00%) MPLS
15 20 (6.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
16 17 (5.67%) Cisco ISE
17 16 (5.33%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.67%) NoSQL
1 2 (0.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.33%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.33%) MySQL
2 1 (0.33%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.33%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 11 (3.67%) Git
1 11 (3.67%) GitLab
2 10 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
3 8 (2.67%) JIRA
4 6 (2.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.00%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.00%) Selenium
5 3 (1.00%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.67%) Snyk
7 1 (0.33%) Mercurial
7 1 (0.33%) Subversion
General
1 57 (19.00%) Finance
2 53 (17.67%) Social Skills
3 38 (12.67%) Telecoms
4 35 (11.67%) Public Sector
5 28 (9.33%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (8.67%) Banking
7 13 (4.33%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.33%) Marketing
8 12 (4.00%) Electronics
9 8 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 7 (2.33%) Law
11 6 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.00%) Legal
12 4 (1.33%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.00%) Local Government
13 3 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.67%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.67%) Front Office
14 2 (0.67%) Military
14 2 (0.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 93 (31.00%) Network Engineer
2 45 (15.00%) Architect
3 33 (11.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 30 (10.00%) Network Architect
5 27 (9.00%) Senior
6 26 (8.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 15 (5.00%) Consultant
7 15 (5.00%) Security Engineer
8 13 (4.33%) IT Support
8 13 (4.33%) Juniper Engineer
9 12 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (4.00%) Project Manager
10 11 (3.67%) Desktop Support
10 11 (3.67%) Network Design Architect
11 10 (3.33%) Analyst
11 10 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.33%) Support Engineer
12 9 (3.00%) 2nd Line Support
12 9 (3.00%) Network Security Engineer
12 9 (3.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.00%) XMPP
2 8 (2.67%) Jinja
3 5 (1.67%) JSON
3 5 (1.67%) NETCONF
3 5 (1.67%) XML
3 5 (1.67%) YANG
4 3 (1.00%) REST
5 2 (0.67%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.33%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.33%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.33%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.33%) ASP.NET MVC
6 1 (0.33%) Blazor
6 1 (0.33%) eBPF
6 1 (0.33%) Kafka
6 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.33%) Node.js
6 1 (0.33%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.33%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.33%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 84 (28.00%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 11 (3.67%) PKI
4 10 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (2.67%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.67%) Video Conferencing
6 7 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.33%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (2.00%) Security Posture
8 5 (1.67%) Blackberry
9 4 (1.33%) Cloud Native
10 3 (1.00%) BYOD
10 3 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (1.00%) Handset
10 3 (1.00%) iPhone
10 3 (1.00%) SCADA
11 2 (0.67%) CCTV
11 2 (0.67%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 40 (13.33%) Windows
2 24 (8.00%) Mac OS
3 23 (7.67%) Android
4 19 (6.33%) Linux
5 11 (3.67%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 4 (1.33%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.00%) CentOS
8 2 (0.67%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.67%) VMS
8 2 (0.67%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.67%) Windows XP
9 1 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (13.00%) Problem-Solving
2 34 (11.33%) Network Monitoring
3 31 (10.33%) Migration
4 28 (9.33%) Network Design
5 26 (8.67%) ITIL
6 19 (6.33%) High Availability
6 19 (6.33%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (6.00%) Agile
7 18 (6.00%) Change Management
7 18 (6.00%) CI/CD
7 18 (6.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (5.67%) DevOps
8 17 (5.67%) Network Architecture
9 16 (5.33%) Customer Service
10 15 (5.00%) Business Intelligence
11 13 (4.33%) Computer Science
11 13 (4.33%) Cybersecurity
12 12 (4.00%) Digital Marketing
12 12 (4.00%) Programme Management
12 12 (4.00%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 57 (19.00%) Python
2 18 (6.00%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.67%) Bash
4 10 (3.33%) Perl
5 8 (2.67%) C++
5 8 (2.67%) SQL
6 5 (1.67%) JavaScript
7 4 (1.33%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.00%) Go
8 3 (1.00%) Java
9 1 (0.33%) C
9 1 (0.33%) PHP
9 1 (0.33%) VBA
Qualifications
1 81 (27.00%) Security Cleared
2 75 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 74 (24.67%) Cisco Certification
4 53 (17.67%) CCNP
5 29 (9.67%) Degree
6 20 (6.67%) CCNA
7 18 (6.00%) DV Cleared
8 16 (5.33%) CCIE
9 13 (4.33%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (4.00%) CISSP
11 9 (3.00%) JNCIA
12 7 (2.33%) CCSA
12 7 (2.33%) JNCIS
13 6 (2.00%) JNCIE
14 4 (1.33%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (1.33%) CCSE
14 4 (1.33%) CISM
14 4 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.33%) JNCIP
14 4 (1.33%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.67%) SLA
2 9 (3.00%) NIST
3 7 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.67%) GDPR
4 5 (1.67%) PMO
5 3 (1.00%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.33%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.33%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.33%) NIST 800
System Software
1 31 (10.33%) Active Directory
2 20 (6.67%) Firmware
3 19 (6.33%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (3.00%) Docker
5 7 (2.33%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.00%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.67%) Snort
7 5 (1.67%) VMware NSX
7 5 (1.67%) vSphere
8 4 (1.33%) Squid
9 2 (0.67%) KVM
9 2 (0.67%) XenApp
10 1 (0.33%) Microsoft App-V
10 1 (0.33%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.33%) Xen
Systems Management
1 49 (16.33%) Ansible
2 21 (7.00%) FortiGate
3 19 (6.33%) Terraform
4 12 (4.00%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (2.00%) Nessus
6 6 (2.00%) NetBackup
6 6 (2.00%) SCCM
7 4 (1.33%) CA Spectrum
7 4 (1.33%) McAfee ePO
7 4 (1.33%) Nexpose
7 4 (1.33%) Suricata
8 3 (1.00%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (1.00%) QRadar
8 3 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (1.00%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.67%) HAProxy
9 2 (0.67%) Norton AntiVirus
9 2 (0.67%) PowerCLI
9 2 (0.67%) vMotion
Vendors
1 72 (24.00%) Fortinet
2 61 (20.33%) Microsoft
3 57 (19.00%) Palo Alto
4 50 (16.67%) Juniper
5 43 (14.33%) F5
6 33 (11.00%) CheckPoint
7 32 (10.67%) Dell
8 30 (10.00%) VMware
9 26 (8.67%) Arista
10 25 (8.33%) HP
11 23 (7.67%) SolarWinds
12 22 (7.33%) Apple
13 21 (7.00%) Meraki
14 20 (6.67%) ServiceNow
15 14 (4.67%) Splunk
16 13 (4.33%) Zscaler
17 12 (4.00%) SAP
18 11 (3.67%) Google
19 10 (3.33%) Aruba
20 9 (3.00%) Isilon