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 18 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
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 112 100
Rank change year-on-year -45 -12 -20
Contract jobs citing Cisco 367 343 393
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.83% 2.55% 2.43%
As % of the Vendors category 4.29% 5.53% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 261 219 263
10th Percentile £325 £325 £258
25th Percentile £413 £406 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.23%
75th Percentile £600 £578 £551
90th Percentile £725 £659 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 19 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 £39.38 £30.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £62.11 -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.40% +15.38% -43.11%

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 8,553 6,205 6,972
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.57% 46.09% 43.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,569 4,030 4,732
10th Percentile £349 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.72%
75th Percentile £638 £652 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 127 87
10th Percentile £18.14 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.76 £22.70 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £58.31 £38.75 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.45 £75.50
England median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £29.39
% change year-on-year +35.11% -14.41% -21.64%

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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -8 55 £550 +2.61% 26
South London -10 16 £475 -9.52% 10
West London -51 7 £513 +20.59% 10
East London +1 5 £500 -9.09% 11
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 17 (4.63%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.63%) JBoss
2 6 (1.63%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.09%) OpenStack
4 2 (0.54%) Apache
4 2 (0.54%) Confluence
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.27%) CloudStack
Applications
1 14 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.54%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 101 (27.52%) Azure
2 46 (12.53%) AWS
3 29 (7.90%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.72%) Entra ID
5 14 (3.81%) GitHub
6 13 (3.54%) OneDrive
7 11 (3.00%) GCP
8 10 (2.72%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (2.18%) SaaS
10 6 (1.63%) Azure DevOps
11 5 (1.36%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.82%) Mimecast
12 3 (0.82%) OpenShift
12 3 (0.82%) Power Platform
12 3 (0.82%) Rubrik
13 2 (0.54%) AWS IoT
13 2 (0.54%) IaaS
14 1 (0.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 1 (0.27%) Datadog
14 1 (0.27%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 180 (49.05%) Firewall
2 101 (27.52%) WAN
3 99 (26.98%) BGP
4 78 (21.25%) Network Security
5 61 (16.62%) LAN
6 55 (14.99%) VPN
7 54 (14.71%) OSPF
8 53 (14.44%) VLAN
9 49 (13.35%) Wireless
10 43 (11.72%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (10.90%) DNS
12 37 (10.08%) SD-WAN
13 35 (9.54%) VXLAN
14 34 (9.26%) Cisco ISE
15 33 (8.99%) TCP/IP
16 29 (7.90%) Cisco IOS
16 29 (7.90%) Cisco Nexus
16 29 (7.90%) MPLS
16 29 (7.90%) Multicast
17 28 (7.63%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.72%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.63%) Big Data
2 6 (1.63%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.54%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.54%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.27%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 16 (4.36%) Git
2 7 (1.91%) JIRA
3 5 (1.36%) GitLab
4 4 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (0.54%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
6 1 (0.27%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 81 (22.07%) Social Skills
2 64 (17.44%) Finance
3 32 (8.72%) Analytical Skills
4 28 (7.63%) Telecoms
5 25 (6.81%) Banking
6 19 (5.18%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (5.18%) Public Sector
7 17 (4.63%) Financial Institution
8 15 (4.09%) Legal
9 6 (1.63%) Law
9 6 (1.63%) Retail
10 5 (1.36%) Marketing
11 4 (1.09%) Automotive
11 4 (1.09%) Local Government
12 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.54%) Front Office
14 1 (0.27%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 176 (47.96%) Network Engineer
2 52 (14.17%) Architect
3 50 (13.62%) Senior
4 35 (9.54%) Cisco Engineer
5 34 (9.26%) Senior Network Engineer
6 31 (8.45%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 26 (7.08%) Network Architect
8 24 (6.54%) Security Engineer
9 20 (5.45%) Network Security Engineer
10 16 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 15 (4.09%) Automation Engineer
12 13 (3.54%) Audio Visual Engineer
13 11 (3.00%) Analyst
13 11 (3.00%) Implementation Engineer
13 11 (3.00%) Lead
13 11 (3.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
14 10 (2.72%) Data Centre Engineer
14 10 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.72%) Support Engineer
15 9 (2.45%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (5.99%) 802.1X
2 14 (3.81%) REST
3 5 (1.36%) JSON
3 5 (1.36%) YAML
4 4 (1.09%) Jinja
4 4 (1.09%) SAML
5 3 (0.82%) Middleware
6 2 (0.54%) .NET
6 2 (0.54%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.54%) ADO
6 2 (0.54%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.54%) Blazor
6 2 (0.54%) eBPF
6 2 (0.54%) RFC 2544
7 1 (0.27%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.27%) Kafka
7 1 (0.27%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.27%) Spine.js
7 1 (0.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 99 (26.98%) Data Centre
2 25 (6.81%) Video Conferencing
3 23 (6.27%) Onboarding
4 18 (4.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (4.09%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (3.00%) IoT
7 10 (2.72%) Cloud Native
8 9 (2.45%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (2.18%) Virtual Team
10 7 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
10 7 (1.91%) PKI
10 7 (1.91%) Web Conferencing
11 6 (1.63%) Clustering
11 6 (1.63%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.36%) Digital Signage
12 5 (1.36%) Public Cloud
12 5 (1.36%) Robotics
12 5 (1.36%) Security Posture
13 4 (1.09%) Driving Licence
13 4 (1.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 62 (16.89%) Windows
2 27 (7.36%) Linux
3 25 (6.81%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.72%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.18%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.36%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.82%) VMS
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.27%) CentOS
8 1 (0.27%) Debian
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (18.80%) Migration
2 42 (11.44%) Project Delivery
3 36 (9.81%) ITIL
4 35 (9.54%) Infrastructure as Code
4 35 (9.54%) Validation
5 34 (9.26%) Problem-Solving
6 33 (8.99%) Stakeholder Management
7 28 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
8 27 (7.36%) Runbook
9 26 (7.08%) CI/CD
10 25 (6.81%) Agile
10 25 (6.81%) Change Management
11 24 (6.54%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 23 (6.27%) Data Protection
12 23 (6.27%) Network Design
13 22 (5.99%) DevOps
13 22 (5.99%) Low Latency
14 21 (5.72%) Load Balancing
15 20 (5.45%) Mentoring
15 20 (5.45%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 64 (17.44%) Python
2 14 (3.81%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.00%) Bash
4 3 (0.82%) C
4 3 (0.82%) C++
4 3 (0.82%) Java
5 2 (0.54%) Lisp
5 2 (0.54%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.27%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.27%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (0.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 82 (22.34%) Cisco Certification
2 73 (19.89%) CCNP
3 39 (10.63%) Security Cleared
4 31 (8.45%) SC Cleared
5 28 (7.63%) Degree
6 21 (5.72%) CCIE
7 17 (4.63%) CCNA
8 11 (3.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 7 (1.91%) Azure Certification
9 7 (1.91%) DV Cleared
10 4 (1.09%) CCSE
10 4 (1.09%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.09%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.09%) PMP
11 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.54%) CCIE Security
12 2 (0.54%) CISSP
12 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.54%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.54%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.54%) SLA
2 7 (1.91%) QA
3 6 (1.63%) NIST
4 3 (0.82%) GDPR
4 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.82%) PMO
5 2 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.54%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 38 (10.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 30 (8.17%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.18%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (1.91%) Docker
5 6 (1.63%) Firmware
5 6 (1.63%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.82%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.27%) IAG
8 1 (0.27%) KVM
8 1 (0.27%) QEMU
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.27%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 56 (15.26%) Ansible
2 38 (10.35%) FortiGate
3 30 (8.17%) Terraform
4 15 (4.09%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (3.27%) Kubernetes
6 9 (2.45%) Grafana
7 8 (2.18%) Cisco Prime
7 8 (2.18%) Prometheus
8 6 (1.63%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (1.63%) Puppet
8 6 (1.63%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (1.36%) Failover Clustering
9 5 (1.36%) SCCM
10 4 (1.09%) systemd
11 3 (0.82%) Avamar
11 3 (0.82%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.82%) QRadar
12 2 (0.54%) Dell DRAC
12 2 (0.54%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 88 (23.98%) Palo Alto
2 76 (20.71%) Microsoft
3 73 (19.89%) Fortinet
4 52 (14.17%) Arista
5 47 (12.81%) VMware
6 45 (12.26%) Juniper
7 43 (11.72%) F5
8 37 (10.08%) Meraki
9 32 (8.72%) Aruba
9 32 (8.72%) Zscaler
10 30 (8.17%) CheckPoint
11 17 (4.63%) ServiceNow
12 16 (4.36%) Red Hat
13 15 (4.09%) Infoblox
14 13 (3.54%) SolarWinds
15 10 (2.72%) Google
16 9 (2.45%) NetApp
17 8 (2.18%) HP
18 7 (1.91%) Citrix
19 6 (1.63%) Dell