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 11 August 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
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 109 107
Rank change year-on-year -52 -2 -26
Contract jobs citing Cisco 360 350 394
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.79% 2.58% 2.43%
As % of the Vendors category 4.24% 5.63% 5.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 225 266
10th Percentile £325 £328 £252
25th Percentile £405 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £552
90th Percentile £705 £658 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 17 11
10th Percentile £29.00 - £20.50
25th Percentile £40.13 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% +4.01% -13.26%
75th Percentile £61.88 £40.00 £30.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £62.98 -
England median hourly rate £51.50 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +71.67% +15.38% -35.00%

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 8,489 6,220 6,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.11% 45.83% 42.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,517 4,047 4,733
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £510 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.52% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 142 121 87
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.85 £22.90 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £56.75 £43.21 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.50
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.19% -16.17% -20.00%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -26 54 £550 +2.61% 29
South London -8 19 £475 -9.52% 10
West London -50 7 £513 +20.59% 7
East London +5 4 £470 -14.55% 8
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 14 (3.89%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.39%) JBoss
4 4 (1.11%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.56%) Apache
5 2 (0.56%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) CloudStack
Applications
1 12 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.28%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 102 (28.33%) Azure
2 49 (13.61%) AWS
3 27 (7.50%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (6.11%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.33%) GCP
6 11 (3.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (3.06%) GitHub
6 11 (3.06%) OneDrive
7 8 (2.22%) SaaS
8 6 (1.67%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.83%) Mimecast
10 3 (0.83%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.83%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.56%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.56%) IaaS
11 2 (0.56%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.28%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.28%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 182 (50.56%) Firewall
2 97 (26.94%) WAN
3 95 (26.39%) BGP
4 83 (23.06%) Network Security
5 61 (16.94%) VPN
6 58 (16.11%) LAN
7 55 (15.28%) OSPF
8 53 (14.72%) Wireless
9 50 (13.89%) VLAN
10 40 (11.11%) DNS
10 40 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (9.44%) Cisco ISE
11 34 (9.44%) SD-WAN
12 33 (9.17%) TCP/IP
13 32 (8.89%) MPLS
14 31 (8.61%) Cisco IOS
15 29 (8.06%) Multicast
15 29 (8.06%) VXLAN
16 28 (7.78%) Cisco Nexus
17 26 (7.22%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.39%) Big Data
2 5 (1.39%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.28%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (3.89%) Git
2 7 (1.94%) JIRA
3 5 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.56%) GitLab
4 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.28%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (0.28%) Zephyr
General
1 84 (23.33%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.39%) Finance
3 28 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.22%) Banking
5 22 (6.11%) Telecoms
6 20 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 18 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (5.00%) Financial Institution
8 12 (3.33%) Legal
9 7 (1.94%) Law
10 6 (1.67%) Retail
11 5 (1.39%) Marketing
12 4 (1.11%) Automotive
12 4 (1.11%) Front Office
12 4 (1.11%) Local Government
13 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
13 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 171 (47.50%) Network Engineer
2 49 (13.61%) Senior
3 47 (13.06%) Architect
4 32 (8.89%) Cisco Engineer
4 32 (8.89%) Senior Network Engineer
5 28 (7.78%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 25 (6.94%) Network Architect
6 25 (6.94%) Security Engineer
7 21 (5.83%) Network Security Engineer
8 16 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (3.89%) Audio Visual Engineer
10 13 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (3.06%) Implementation Engineer
12 10 (2.78%) Analyst
12 10 (2.78%) Data Centre Engineer
12 10 (2.78%) Operations Engineer
12 10 (2.78%) Senior Cisco Engineer
12 10 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
13 9 (2.50%) Designer
13 9 (2.50%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.28%) 802.1X
2 10 (2.78%) REST
3 6 (1.67%) SAML
4 4 (1.11%) Jinja
5 3 (0.83%) Middleware
6 2 (0.56%) .NET
6 2 (0.56%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.56%) ADO
6 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.56%) Blazor
6 2 (0.56%) eBPF
6 2 (0.56%) JSON
6 2 (0.56%) YAML
7 1 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.28%) Kafka
7 1 (0.28%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 88 (24.44%) Data Centre
2 24 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
3 20 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 18 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.44%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.50%) IoT
8 8 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.94%) PKI
9 7 (1.94%) Web Conferencing
10 6 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.67%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.39%) Clustering
11 5 (1.39%) Digital Signage
11 5 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.39%) Robotics
12 4 (1.11%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.83%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 57 (15.83%) Windows
2 30 (8.33%) Linux
3 25 (6.94%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.94%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.94%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.11%) Mac OS
6 4 (1.11%) Unix
7 3 (0.83%) VMS
7 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Debian
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (18.61%) Migration
2 39 (10.83%) Project Delivery
3 33 (9.17%) ITIL
3 33 (9.17%) Problem-Solving
4 28 (7.78%) Infrastructure as Code
4 28 (7.78%) Stakeholder Management
5 27 (7.50%) Validation
6 26 (7.22%) Change Management
6 26 (7.22%) Continuous Improvement
6 26 (7.22%) Runbook
7 25 (6.94%) Agile
8 23 (6.39%) Data Protection
8 23 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (6.11%) CI/CD
9 22 (6.11%) Network Design
10 21 (5.83%) Load Balancing
10 21 (5.83%) Zero Trust
11 20 (5.56%) DevOps
11 20 (5.56%) Low Latency
11 20 (5.56%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.11%) Python
2 16 (4.44%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.06%) Bash
4 3 (0.83%) C
4 3 (0.83%) C++
4 3 (0.83%) Java
5 2 (0.56%) ActionScript
5 2 (0.56%) Lisp
5 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.28%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (0.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 78 (21.67%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (19.17%) CCNP
3 35 (9.72%) Security Cleared
4 28 (7.78%) Degree
5 27 (7.50%) SC Cleared
6 19 (5.28%) CCIE
7 15 (4.17%) CCNA
8 11 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.94%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.94%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.11%) CCSE
10 4 (1.11%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.11%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.11%) PMP
11 2 (0.56%) CCIE Security
11 2 (0.56%) CISSP
11 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.28%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.61%) SLA
2 6 (1.67%) NIST
2 6 (1.67%) QA
3 3 (0.83%) GDPR
3 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.83%) PMO
4 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.28%) GRC
5 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 36 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (8.06%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.39%) Docker
4 5 (1.39%) Firmware
4 5 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.11%) VMware NSX
6 3 (0.83%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (0.83%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.28%) IAG
8 1 (0.28%) KVM
8 1 (0.28%) QEMU
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.28%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (15.56%) Ansible
2 36 (10.00%) FortiGate
3 31 (8.61%) Terraform
4 15 (4.17%) Grafana
4 15 (4.17%) Microsoft Intune
5 13 (3.61%) Prometheus
6 11 (3.06%) Kubernetes
7 7 (1.94%) Cisco Prime
8 6 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (1.39%) Puppet
9 5 (1.39%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (1.39%) SCCM
10 4 (1.11%) Failover Clustering
10 4 (1.11%) systemd
11 3 (0.83%) Avamar
11 3 (0.83%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.83%) QRadar
11 3 (0.83%) Salt
12 2 (0.56%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 95 (26.39%) Palo Alto
2 74 (20.56%) Fortinet
3 72 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 53 (14.72%) Arista
5 49 (13.61%) F5
6 48 (13.33%) Juniper
7 47 (13.06%) VMware
8 36 (10.00%) Meraki
9 35 (9.72%) CheckPoint
10 33 (9.17%) Zscaler
11 31 (8.61%) Aruba
12 17 (4.72%) ServiceNow
13 14 (3.89%) Infoblox
14 12 (3.33%) Red Hat
14 12 (3.33%) SolarWinds
15 9 (2.50%) Google
15 9 (2.50%) Splunk
16 8 (2.22%) Citrix
16 8 (2.22%) HP
16 8 (2.22%) NetApp