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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 105 107
Rank change year-on-year -61 +2 -5
Contract jobs citing Cisco 284 330 395
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.58% 2.64% 2.26%
As % of the Vendors category 3.77% 5.78% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 211 264
10th Percentile £307 £310 £243
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £501 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £586 £575
90th Percentile £675 £659 £738
England median daily rate £477 £505 £488
% change year-on-year -5.54% +3.59% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 18
10th Percentile £32.06 £24.66 £21.08
25th Percentile £40.13 £33.35 £23.90
Median hourly rate £47.00 £38.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +40.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.94 £39.38
90th Percentile - £63.50 £41.25
England median hourly rate £48.72 £36.65 £27.50
% change year-on-year +32.95% +33.25% -28.34%

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 7,537 5,708 7,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.99% 45.62% 40.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,979 3,741 4,898
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.76% +0.09% -3.54%
75th Percentile £638 £667 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -3.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 93 127
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.27 £16.86
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.07 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.12% +29.20% -16.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.38
90th Percentile £78.55 £67.00 £59.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
% change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -40.00%

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 18 May 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 May 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 May 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 -42 22 £600 +11.94% 33
South London -2 15 £450 -14.29% 1
West London -39 6 £475 +15.15% 14
East London -7 4 £470 -8.74% 10
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 8 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.76%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.41%) Confluence
5 1 (0.35%) Apache
5 1 (0.35%) JBoss
5 1 (0.35%) WebSphere
Applications
1 5 (1.76%) Microsoft Office
1 5 (1.76%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (1.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 83 (29.23%) Azure
2 47 (16.55%) AWS
3 18 (6.34%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (5.99%) GCP
5 12 (4.23%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.82%) SaaS
7 5 (1.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 4 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (1.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.06%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.06%) GitHub
9 3 (1.06%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.70%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.70%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.70%) OpenShift
11 1 (0.35%) IBM Watson
11 1 (0.35%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.35%) OpenDNS
11 1 (0.35%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.35%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 135 (47.54%) Firewall
2 111 (39.08%) WAN
3 78 (27.46%) Network Security
4 76 (26.76%) BGP
5 59 (20.77%) LAN
6 58 (20.42%) VPN
7 53 (18.66%) OSPF
8 45 (15.85%) SD-WAN
9 37 (13.03%) Wireless
10 31 (10.92%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (10.56%) MPLS
12 29 (10.21%) VLAN
13 25 (8.80%) Multicast
14 24 (8.45%) VXLAN
15 23 (8.10%) Cisco Nexus
16 22 (7.75%) Cisco ISE
17 21 (7.39%) Cisco IOS
18 20 (7.04%) Cisco ASA
19 16 (5.63%) EIGRP
20 15 (5.28%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.70%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.35%) Big Data
2 1 (0.35%) ClickHouse
2 1 (0.35%) Metadata
2 1 (0.35%) MySQL
2 1 (0.35%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.46%) Git
2 5 (1.76%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.41%) JIRA
4 3 (1.06%) GitLab
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
General
1 56 (19.72%) Finance
2 51 (17.96%) Social Skills
3 21 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (7.39%) Legal
4 20 (7.04%) Telecoms
5 18 (6.34%) Banking
6 17 (5.99%) Public Sector
7 14 (4.93%) Financial Institution
8 13 (4.58%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (2.82%) Law
10 7 (2.46%) Marketing
10 7 (2.46%) Retail
11 6 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.70%) Electronics
13 2 (0.70%) Front Office
13 2 (0.70%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.70%) Local Government
13 2 (0.70%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 124 (43.66%) Network Engineer
2 44 (15.49%) Architect
3 36 (12.68%) Senior
4 23 (8.10%) Network Architect
5 18 (6.34%) Security Engineer
5 18 (6.34%) Senior Network Engineer
6 16 (5.63%) Network Security Engineer
7 13 (4.58%) Cisco Engineer
8 12 (4.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 12 (4.23%) Operations Engineer
9 10 (3.52%) Project Manager
9 10 (3.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 10 (3.52%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.17%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (2.46%) IT Engineer
11 7 (2.46%) Security Architect
11 7 (2.46%) Support Engineer
12 6 (2.11%) Azure Engineer
12 6 (2.11%) IT Support
12 6 (2.11%) Network Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.17%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.76%) REST
3 4 (1.41%) HTML
3 4 (1.41%) Jinja
3 4 (1.41%) VML
4 2 (0.70%) ADO
4 2 (0.70%) CSS
4 2 (0.70%) JSON
4 2 (0.70%) Middleware
4 2 (0.70%) SAML
5 1 (0.35%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (0.35%) Django
5 1 (0.35%) Kafka
5 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
5 1 (0.35%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.35%) Pandas
5 1 (0.35%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.35%) XML
5 1 (0.35%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 72 (25.35%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.58%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.87%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.17%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.46%) Security Posture
5 7 (2.46%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (2.11%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.76%) IoT
7 5 (1.76%) PKI
7 5 (1.76%) Web Conferencing
8 4 (1.41%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.41%) Virtual Team
9 3 (1.06%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.06%) Product Ownership
10 2 (0.70%) BYOD
10 2 (0.70%) Cloud Security Posture
10 2 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.70%) EMC VNX
10 2 (0.70%) IBM XIV
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.08%) Windows
2 16 (5.63%) Linux
3 15 (5.28%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.82%) Unix
5 6 (2.11%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.41%) Android
6 4 (1.41%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.70%) VMS
7 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.35%) CentOS
8 1 (0.35%) Debian
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (15.85%) Migration
2 33 (11.62%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (9.51%) ITIL
4 26 (9.15%) Network Design
5 23 (8.10%) Zero Trust
6 20 (7.04%) Runbook
7 19 (6.69%) Agile
8 18 (6.34%) Change Management
8 18 (6.34%) Data Protection
8 18 (6.34%) Load Balancing
8 18 (6.34%) Mentoring
8 18 (6.34%) Validation
9 17 (5.99%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (5.63%) Incident Response
10 16 (5.63%) ITSM
10 16 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
11 15 (5.28%) CI/CD
11 15 (5.28%) DevOps
11 15 (5.28%) Stakeholder Management
12 14 (4.93%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 44 (15.49%) Python
2 15 (5.28%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.46%) C
4 5 (1.76%) Bash
5 3 (1.06%) C++
5 3 (1.06%) Java
5 3 (1.06%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.70%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.35%) SQL
Qualifications
1 63 (22.18%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (19.37%) CCNP
3 41 (14.44%) Security Cleared
4 34 (11.97%) SC Cleared
5 20 (7.04%) Degree
6 19 (6.69%) CCIE
7 12 (4.23%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.52%) CCNA
9 9 (3.17%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.11%) CCSE
10 6 (2.11%) PMP
11 5 (1.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.41%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.41%) PMI Certification
13 3 (1.06%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.70%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.70%) CISSP
15 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
15 1 (0.35%) CCSM
15 1 (0.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.82%) SLA
2 6 (2.11%) PMO
3 5 (1.76%) NIST
4 4 (1.41%) GDPR
4 4 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.06%) QA
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 17 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.28%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.11%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.76%) Firmware
4 5 (1.76%) vSphere
5 4 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.06%) Docker
6 3 (1.06%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.70%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.70%) vCloud
7 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.70%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.35%) IAG
8 1 (0.35%) KVM
8 1 (0.35%) QEMU
8 1 (0.35%) Snort
8 1 (0.35%) Squid
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 44 (15.49%) Ansible
2 31 (10.92%) FortiGate
3 23 (8.10%) Terraform
4 18 (6.34%) Grafana
5 17 (5.99%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.17%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.46%) Kubernetes
7 7 (2.46%) SCCM
8 5 (1.76%) QRadar
8 5 (1.76%) Salt
9 4 (1.41%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (1.06%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.70%) Avamar
11 2 (0.70%) CASB
11 2 (0.70%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.70%) Istio
12 1 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.35%) Jamf Pro
12 1 (0.35%) Nexpose
12 1 (0.35%) Suricata
Vendors
1 98 (34.51%) Palo Alto
2 53 (18.66%) Fortinet
3 52 (18.31%) CheckPoint
4 49 (17.25%) Arista
5 44 (15.49%) F5
5 44 (15.49%) Microsoft
6 43 (15.14%) Aruba
7 37 (13.03%) Juniper
8 30 (10.56%) Meraki
8 30 (10.56%) Zscaler
9 24 (8.45%) ServiceNow
10 20 (7.04%) VMware
11 12 (4.23%) Splunk
12 11 (3.87%) Infoblox
13 10 (3.52%) SolarWinds
14 9 (3.17%) Dell
15 8 (2.82%) EMC
16 6 (2.11%) BT
16 6 (2.11%) HP
16 6 (2.11%) Remedy