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 28 March 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
28 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 108 102
Rank change year-on-year -59 -6 +2
Contract jobs citing Cisco 276 323 421
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.64% 2.56% 2.33%
As % of the Vendors category 3.71% 5.65% 5.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 217 273
10th Percentile £293 £315 £242
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £749
England median daily rate £489 £502 £488
% change year-on-year -2.59% +2.87% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 15
10th Percentile £21.40 £24.66 £18.90
25th Percentile £22.38 £27.56 £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.03% +26.92% +26.41%
75th Percentile £35.51 £57.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £93.88 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £37.07 £25.00
% change year-on-year +75.33% +48.29% -24.24%

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 7,431 5,721 7,255
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.10% 45.29% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,896 3,746 4,963
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 87 143
10th Percentile £18.04 £19.25 £13.51
25th Percentile £21.00 £23.80 £16.93
Median hourly rate £27.71 £30.00 £24.86
Median % change year-on-year -7.63% +20.70% -3.33%
75th Percentile £41.94 £55.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £68.12 £70.75 £71.00
England median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -32.87%

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 28 March 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 28 March 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 28 March 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 -45 20 £568 +3.32% 34
South London -5 14 £438 -10.26% 4
West London -30 4 £399 -0.31% 12
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England

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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 (4.71%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.54%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 12 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (3.99%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (3.62%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 74 (26.81%) Azure
2 41 (14.86%) AWS
3 32 (11.59%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (7.61%) GCP
5 15 (5.43%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.54%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (2.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (2.17%) GitHub
8 4 (1.45%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (1.09%) Rubrik
9 3 (1.09%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.72%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.72%) OCI
10 2 (0.72%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.72%) OpenDNS
10 2 (0.72%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.72%) ShareGate
10 2 (0.72%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 129 (46.74%) Firewall
2 110 (39.86%) WAN
3 76 (27.54%) Network Security
4 69 (25.00%) BGP
5 65 (23.55%) VPN
6 59 (21.38%) LAN
7 53 (19.20%) OSPF
8 51 (18.48%) SD-WAN
9 43 (15.58%) Wireless
10 29 (10.51%) MPLS
11 28 (10.14%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (9.42%) Cisco ASA
13 25 (9.06%) Cisco IOS
14 24 (8.70%) VLAN
15 23 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
15 23 (8.33%) Multicast
16 19 (6.88%) Cisco ISE
17 18 (6.52%) VXLAN
18 17 (6.16%) NX-OS
19 15 (5.43%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.72%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.36%) Big Data
2 1 (0.36%) Metadata
2 1 (0.36%) MySQL
2 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (3.26%) JIRA
2 8 (2.90%) Git
3 7 (2.54%) GitLab
4 6 (2.17%) Jenkins
5 5 (1.81%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (23.55%) Finance
2 58 (21.01%) Social Skills
3 29 (10.51%) Telecoms
4 26 (9.42%) Banking
4 26 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
6 15 (5.43%) Financial Institution
6 15 (5.43%) Legal
7 11 (3.99%) Marketing
8 10 (3.62%) Electronics
8 10 (3.62%) Manufacturing
9 8 (2.90%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (2.17%) Law
11 6 (2.17%) Retail
12 2 (0.72%) Front Office
12 2 (0.72%) Local Government
12 2 (0.72%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 97 (35.14%) Network Engineer
2 43 (15.58%) Architect
3 33 (11.96%) Senior
4 24 (8.70%) Network Architect
5 17 (6.16%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.07%) IT Support
7 13 (4.71%) Senior Network Engineer
7 13 (4.71%) Solutions Architect
8 12 (4.35%) Operations Engineer
8 12 (4.35%) Security Engineer
9 11 (3.99%) Cisco Engineer
10 10 (3.62%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 10 (3.62%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (3.26%) IT Engineer
11 9 (3.26%) Support Engineer
12 8 (2.90%) Network Manager
12 8 (2.90%) Network Security Engineer
13 7 (2.54%) Coordinator
13 7 (2.54%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.54%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.17%) REST
3 4 (1.45%) HTML
3 4 (1.45%) Jinja
3 4 (1.45%) VML
4 3 (1.09%) JSON
5 2 (0.72%) ADO
5 2 (0.72%) CSS
5 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.72%) Middleware
5 2 (0.72%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.72%) SAML
5 2 (0.72%) XML
5 2 (0.72%) YANG
6 1 (0.36%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.36%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.36%) Django
6 1 (0.36%) Kafka
6 1 (0.36%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.36%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 76 (27.54%) Data Centre
2 11 (3.99%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.62%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.26%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.54%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.17%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.17%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.17%) PKI
6 6 (2.17%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.45%) EMC VNX
7 4 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.09%) SCADA
9 2 (0.72%) Celerra
9 2 (0.72%) EMC Centera
9 2 (0.72%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.72%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.72%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.86%) Windows
2 19 (6.88%) Mac OS
3 18 (6.52%) Android
4 12 (4.35%) Linux
5 11 (3.99%) Windows 10
5 11 (3.99%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.90%) Unix
7 4 (1.45%) VMS
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (14.86%) Migration
2 34 (12.32%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (9.42%) Network Design
4 25 (9.06%) Change Management
4 25 (9.06%) ITIL
5 23 (8.33%) Agile
6 22 (7.97%) Load Balancing
6 22 (7.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (6.52%) CI/CD
7 18 (6.52%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (6.52%) Zero Trust
8 17 (6.16%) Network Architecture
9 16 (5.80%) DevOps
9 16 (5.80%) ITSM
9 16 (5.80%) SIEM
10 14 (5.07%) AI
10 14 (5.07%) Project Delivery
10 14 (5.07%) Project Management
11 13 (4.71%) Incident Response
11 13 (4.71%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 40 (14.49%) Python
2 16 (5.80%) PowerShell
3 4 (1.45%) Bash
3 4 (1.45%) C
4 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
5 2 (0.72%) ActionScript
5 2 (0.72%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.36%) C++
6 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (22.46%) Cisco Certification
2 50 (18.12%) CCNP
2 50 (18.12%) Security Cleared
3 43 (15.58%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.06%) Degree
5 24 (8.70%) CCIE
6 16 (5.80%) DV Cleared
7 15 (5.43%) CCNA
8 8 (2.90%) Azure Certification
8 8 (2.90%) CISSP
9 6 (2.17%) CCSE
10 5 (1.81%) PMP
11 4 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
11 4 (1.45%) JNCIP
12 3 (1.09%) HND
12 3 (1.09%) JNCIE
12 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.72%) HNC
13 2 (0.72%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.72%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.99%) PMO
2 10 (3.62%) SLA
3 9 (3.26%) NIST
4 8 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 7 (2.54%) GDPR
6 3 (1.09%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
8 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 1 (0.36%) MiFID
8 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 15 (5.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (4.71%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.54%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.17%) vSphere
5 3 (1.09%) Docker
5 3 (1.09%) Firmware
6 2 (0.72%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.72%) Snort
6 2 (0.72%) Squid
6 2 (0.72%) vCloud
6 2 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.72%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.72%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) IAG
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 41 (14.86%) Ansible
2 26 (9.42%) FortiGate
3 21 (7.61%) Terraform
4 17 (6.16%) Grafana
4 17 (6.16%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.62%) SCCM
6 8 (2.90%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.17%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.81%) QRadar
8 5 (1.81%) Salt
9 4 (1.45%) CASB
9 4 (1.45%) Nessus
10 3 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
11 2 (0.72%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.72%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.72%) Istio
11 2 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.72%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.72%) Suricata
11 2 (0.72%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 94 (34.06%) Palo Alto
2 49 (17.75%) F5
3 47 (17.03%) CheckPoint
4 45 (16.30%) Arista
4 45 (16.30%) Fortinet
4 45 (16.30%) Microsoft
5 43 (15.58%) Juniper
6 42 (15.22%) Aruba
7 33 (11.96%) ServiceNow
8 25 (9.06%) Zscaler
9 23 (8.33%) Meraki
10 20 (7.25%) Dell
11 19 (6.88%) HP
12 18 (6.52%) Apple
12 18 (6.52%) VMware
13 15 (5.43%) Splunk
14 12 (4.35%) Infoblox
15 10 (3.62%) EMC
15 10 (3.62%) SAP
16 9 (3.26%) Remedy