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 26 December 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
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 94 84
Rank change year-on-year -48 -10 +33
Contract jobs citing Cisco 274 395 507
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.90% 2.65% 2.72%
As % of the Vendors category 4.03% 5.98% 6.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 180 261 335
10th Percentile £304 £258 £252
25th Percentile £400 £400 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -2.86% +7.97%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £654 £650 £743
England median daily rate £486 £500 £490
% change year-on-year -2.75% +2.04% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 15
10th Percentile £21.46 - £22.15
25th Percentile - £11.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.20% -61.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £13.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £33.90 - £77.00
England median hourly rate £48.72 £20.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +143.60% -42.86% +36.13%

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 6,798 6,601 7,581
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.30% 40.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,428 4,119 5,213
10th Percentile £343 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £507 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 68 108
10th Percentile £17.55 £19.51 £16.62
25th Percentile £22.13 £23.75 £23.50
Median hourly rate £25.74 £34.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.94% -7.33% +45.86%
75th Percentile £41.89 £64.06 £61.88
90th Percentile £67.13 £84.28 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.66 £30.45 £45.21
% change year-on-year -22.29% -32.65% +68.29%

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 26 December 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 26 December 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 26 December 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
West London +10 35 £425 -5.56% 11
Central London -43 25 £513 +0.49% 39
South London +5 13 £438 -7.89% 11
East London 0 3 £525 +110.00% 5
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 15 (5.47%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.55%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) Appian
4 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (9.12%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.65%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.46%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.36%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 6 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 58 (21.17%) Azure
2 42 (15.33%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (12.41%) AWS
4 23 (8.39%) GCP
5 12 (4.38%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.19%) Akamai
7 5 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (1.82%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (1.82%) Cloudflare
7 5 (1.82%) GitHub
7 5 (1.82%) IaaS
7 5 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (1.46%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.46%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.46%) OpenDNS
8 4 (1.46%) PaaS
9 3 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.09%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 133 (48.54%) Firewall
2 84 (30.66%) WAN
3 73 (26.64%) LAN
3 73 (26.64%) SD-WAN
4 61 (22.26%) VPN
5 58 (21.17%) Network Security
6 55 (20.07%) BGP
6 55 (20.07%) Wireless
7 52 (18.98%) Wi-Fi
8 50 (18.25%) OSPF
9 49 (17.88%) Cisco Nexus
10 24 (8.76%) DNS
11 19 (6.93%) MPLS
12 18 (6.57%) Cisco ISE
12 18 (6.57%) VLAN
13 17 (6.20%) EIGRP
14 15 (5.47%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (5.47%) DHCP
14 15 (5.47%) IPsec
15 14 (5.11%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.36%) Metadata
2 1 (0.36%) MySQL
2 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.01%) GitLab
2 8 (2.92%) Git
3 7 (2.55%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.19%) JIRA
5 5 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.09%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.09%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.09%) Selenium
6 3 (1.09%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.36%) Snyk
General
1 52 (18.98%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.42%) Finance
3 44 (16.06%) Telecoms
4 37 (13.50%) Public Sector
5 27 (9.85%) Banking
6 26 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.74%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.74%) Marketing
8 12 (4.38%) Electronics
9 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.55%) Retail
10 5 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (1.46%) Legal
12 3 (1.09%) Financial Institution
13 2 (0.73%) Law
13 2 (0.73%) Military
13 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Front Office
14 1 (0.36%) Games
Job Titles
1 77 (28.10%) Network Engineer
2 54 (19.71%) Architect
3 42 (15.33%) Network Architect
4 20 (7.30%) Senior
5 19 (6.93%) IT Support
6 17 (6.20%) Cisco Engineer
7 15 (5.47%) Project Manager
8 14 (5.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 14 (5.11%) Support Engineer
9 13 (4.74%) Security Engineer
10 12 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.01%) Desktop Support
11 11 (4.01%) IT Engineer
11 11 (4.01%) Network Design Architect
12 10 (3.65%) Security Architect
13 9 (3.28%) Consultant
13 9 (3.28%) Network Security Engineer
13 9 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
14 8 (2.92%) Analyst
14 8 (2.92%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.55%) Jinja
2 6 (2.19%) JSON
3 5 (1.82%) NETCONF
3 5 (1.82%) XML
3 5 (1.82%) YANG
4 4 (1.46%) VML
4 4 (1.46%) XMPP
5 3 (1.09%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.09%) HTML
5 3 (1.09%) REST
6 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.36%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.36%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (0.36%) CSS
7 1 (0.36%) eBPF
7 1 (0.36%) Kafka
7 1 (0.36%) OpenConfig
7 1 (0.36%) Pandas
7 1 (0.36%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 84 (30.66%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.74%) Driving Licence
3 11 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.65%) PKI
5 9 (3.28%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.55%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.55%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.82%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.46%) Blackberry
8 4 (1.46%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.09%) Handset
9 3 (1.09%) iPhone
9 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.09%) SCADA
9 3 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.73%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.73%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.60%) Windows
2 32 (11.68%) Mac OS
3 31 (11.31%) Android
4 12 (4.38%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.01%) Windows 10
6 9 (3.28%) Linux
7 2 (0.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.73%) VMS
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (13.87%) Migration
3 31 (11.31%) Network Design
4 20 (7.30%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (7.30%) Network Architecture
4 20 (7.30%) Network Monitoring
5 19 (6.93%) Agile
5 19 (6.93%) Change Management
6 18 (6.57%) DevOps
7 17 (6.20%) CI/CD
7 17 (6.20%) ITIL
7 17 (6.20%) Zero Trust
8 16 (5.84%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (5.47%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (5.47%) Security Architecture
9 15 (5.47%) Stakeholder Management
10 14 (5.11%) Load Balancing
11 13 (4.74%) Roadmaps
12 12 (4.38%) Break/Fix
12 12 (4.38%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 45 (16.42%) Python
2 19 (6.93%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.11%) Bash
4 7 (2.55%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.55%) Perl
5 6 (2.19%) C++
6 4 (1.46%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.09%) C
8 1 (0.36%) Go
8 1 (0.36%) Java
8 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (28.83%) Security Cleared
2 71 (25.91%) SC Cleared
3 67 (24.45%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (20.07%) CCNP
5 24 (8.76%) CCIE
6 22 (8.03%) DV Cleared
7 18 (6.57%) Degree
8 17 (6.20%) CCNA
9 9 (3.28%) CISSP
10 6 (2.19%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.19%) CCSA
10 6 (2.19%) CCSE
10 6 (2.19%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.82%) JNCIA
11 5 (1.82%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.46%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.46%) JNCIP
13 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
13 3 (1.09%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.01%) SLA
2 8 (2.92%) PMO
3 7 (2.55%) NIST
4 6 (2.19%) GDPR
4 6 (2.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.36%) MiFID
7 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 17 (6.20%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.38%) Firmware
4 9 (3.28%) Docker
5 6 (2.19%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.82%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.82%) Snort
7 4 (1.46%) Squid
7 4 (1.46%) vSphere
8 2 (0.73%) KVM
8 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.36%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (12.04%) Ansible
2 23 (8.39%) FortiGate
3 21 (7.66%) Terraform
4 13 (4.74%) Kubernetes
5 11 (4.01%) SCCM
6 9 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.19%) Nessus
8 4 (1.46%) Nexpose
8 4 (1.46%) Suricata
9 3 (1.09%) CA Spectrum
9 3 (1.09%) CASB
9 3 (1.09%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (1.09%) QRadar
10 2 (0.73%) Grafana
10 2 (0.73%) Istio
10 2 (0.73%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.36%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 65 (23.72%) Fortinet
2 53 (19.34%) Palo Alto
3 44 (16.06%) Juniper
4 43 (15.69%) Microsoft
5 35 (12.77%) F5
6 34 (12.41%) CheckPoint
7 32 (11.68%) Dell
8 31 (11.31%) HP
9 30 (10.95%) Apple
10 27 (9.85%) Meraki
11 23 (8.39%) Aruba
11 23 (8.39%) ServiceNow
12 21 (7.66%) Arista
13 20 (7.30%) Zscaler
14 19 (6.93%) VMware
15 12 (4.38%) SAP
15 12 (4.38%) SolarWinds
15 12 (4.38%) Splunk
16 11 (4.01%) Remedy
17 10 (3.65%) Google