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 24 February 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
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 101 92
Rank change year-on-year -61 -9 +14
Contract jobs citing Cisco 260 338 440
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.66% 2.55% 2.40%
As % of the Vendors category 3.69% 5.77% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 234 276
10th Percentile £266 £283 £228
25th Percentile £394 £416 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £505 £496
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +1.76% -2.22%
75th Percentile £581 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £738
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 19
10th Percentile £21.46 - £21.40
25th Percentile £23.31 - £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -24.12% +30.00%
75th Percentile £26.20 £31.71 £41.25
90th Percentile £93.75 £35.93 £47.00
England median hourly rate £65.00 £24.66 £30.00
% change year-on-year +163.57% -17.80% +16.69%

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 7,046 5,855 7,326
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.96% 44.13% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,656 3,684 4,998
10th Percentile £350 £319 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £671
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 105 78 145
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.50 £13.59
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.30 £17.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £35.00 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.29% +37.25% +2.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £61.31 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.12 £80.75 £74.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.17 £26.03
% change year-on-year -23.57% +19.76% -21.12%

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 24 February 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 24 February 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 24 February 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 -40 20 £550 +0.14% 33
South London -5 15 £425 -10.53% 2
West London -21 5 £399 +13.12% 13
East London +5 3 £525 -4.55% 15
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 13 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.08%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.31%) Confluence
4 3 (1.15%) Appian
5 2 (0.77%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (3.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (3.08%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.31%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.38%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 67 (25.77%) Azure
2 35 (13.46%) AWS
3 34 (13.08%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (8.46%) GCP
5 15 (5.77%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.92%) GitHub
8 4 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.54%) Cloudflare
8 4 (1.54%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.15%) Akamai
9 3 (1.15%) Mimecast
9 3 (1.15%) OpenDNS
9 3 (1.15%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.77%) OCI
10 2 (0.77%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.77%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.77%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 111 (42.69%) Firewall
2 92 (35.38%) WAN
3 67 (25.77%) Network Security
4 61 (23.46%) VPN
5 58 (22.31%) LAN
6 51 (19.62%) BGP
7 48 (18.46%) SD-WAN
8 47 (18.08%) Wireless
9 43 (16.54%) OSPF
10 28 (10.77%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (8.85%) MPLS
12 22 (8.46%) Cisco ASA
13 21 (8.08%) Cisco Nexus
14 19 (7.31%) VLAN
15 16 (6.15%) Cisco ISE
15 16 (6.15%) EIGRP
16 15 (5.77%) Cisco IOS
17 14 (5.38%) DNS
18 13 (5.00%) Multicast
19 12 (4.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.77%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.38%) Metadata
2 1 (0.38%) MySQL
2 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.85%) GitLab
2 8 (3.08%) JIRA
3 6 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.54%) Git
5 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.15%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.15%) Selenium
5 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
6 2 (0.77%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (24.62%) Finance
2 56 (21.54%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.46%) Telecoms
4 32 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.85%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (8.85%) Banking
6 15 (5.77%) Legal
6 15 (5.77%) Manufacturing
6 15 (5.77%) Marketing
7 14 (5.38%) Electronics
8 11 (4.23%) Financial Institution
9 9 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.69%) Law
12 5 (1.92%) Retail
13 2 (0.77%) Front Office
13 2 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 2 (0.77%) Local Government
13 2 (0.77%) Military
13 2 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (31.92%) Network Engineer
2 38 (14.62%) Architect
3 25 (9.62%) Network Architect
3 25 (9.62%) Senior
4 18 (6.92%) IT Support
5 13 (5.00%) Project Manager
6 12 (4.62%) Security Engineer
6 12 (4.62%) Solutions Architect
6 12 (4.62%) Support Engineer
7 10 (3.85%) Desktop Support
7 10 (3.85%) Security Architect
8 9 (3.46%) IT Engineer
9 8 (3.08%) Cisco Engineer
9 8 (3.08%) Coordinator
9 8 (3.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 8 (3.08%) Network Security Engineer
9 8 (3.08%) Support Specialist
10 7 (2.69%) IT Support Engineer
10 7 (2.69%) Network Manager
10 7 (2.69%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.31%) JSON
2 5 (1.92%) NETCONF
2 5 (1.92%) XML
2 5 (1.92%) YANG
3 4 (1.54%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.54%) HTML
3 4 (1.54%) VML
4 3 (1.15%) Jinja
4 3 (1.15%) REST
4 3 (1.15%) XMPP
5 2 (0.77%) CSS
5 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
5 2 (0.77%) SAML
6 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.38%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.38%) Django
6 1 (0.38%) Kafka
6 1 (0.38%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.38%) Pandas
6 1 (0.38%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 68 (26.15%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (3.85%) PKI
3 9 (3.46%) Data Protection Act
4 7 (2.69%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.31%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.31%) Public Cloud
5 6 (2.31%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.92%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.15%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.15%) SCADA
7 3 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (0.77%) EMC VNX
8 2 (0.77%) Handset
8 2 (0.77%) Life Science
8 2 (0.77%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.77%) NHS
8 2 (0.77%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 34 (13.08%) Windows
2 24 (9.23%) Mac OS
3 23 (8.85%) Android
4 12 (4.62%) Linux
5 11 (4.23%) Windows 10
6 9 (3.46%) Windows Server
7 8 (3.08%) Unix
8 2 (0.77%) VMS
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (15.38%) Migration
2 39 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (9.62%) Change Management
4 24 (9.23%) Network Design
4 24 (9.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (7.69%) Agile
6 18 (6.92%) ITIL
6 18 (6.92%) Zero Trust
7 17 (6.54%) Load Balancing
7 17 (6.54%) Network Architecture
8 16 (6.15%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (5.77%) Network Monitoring
9 15 (5.77%) Programme Management
10 14 (5.38%) CI/CD
10 14 (5.38%) Digital Marketing
10 14 (5.38%) Security Architecture
11 13 (5.00%) Break/Fix
11 13 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (5.00%) Time Management
12 12 (4.62%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 35 (13.46%) Python
2 16 (6.15%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.46%) Bash
4 7 (2.69%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.54%) C
5 4 (1.54%) C++
5 4 (1.54%) Perl
6 3 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.38%) Java
7 1 (0.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 59 (22.69%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (20.38%) Security Cleared
3 48 (18.46%) CCNP
4 46 (17.69%) SC Cleared
5 20 (7.69%) Degree
6 19 (7.31%) CCIE
7 18 (6.92%) CCNA
8 16 (6.15%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.69%) CISSP
10 6 (2.31%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.92%) CCSE
12 4 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.54%) JNCIE
12 4 (1.54%) JNCIP
12 4 (1.54%) JNCIS
13 3 (1.15%) JNCIA
13 3 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
13 3 (1.15%) PMP
14 2 (0.77%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.23%) PMO
2 7 (2.69%) NIST
2 7 (2.69%) SLA
3 6 (2.31%) GDPR
3 6 (2.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.38%) MiFID
6 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 14 (5.38%) Active Directory
2 13 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.08%) Firmware
4 7 (2.69%) Docker
4 7 (2.69%) VMware NSX
5 6 (2.31%) vSphere
6 4 (1.54%) Snort
7 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.15%) Squid
8 2 (0.77%) vCloud
8 2 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (11.15%) Ansible
2 27 (10.38%) FortiGate
3 17 (6.54%) Terraform
4 11 (4.23%) Grafana
4 11 (4.23%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.85%) SCCM
6 7 (2.69%) Kubernetes
6 7 (2.69%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.92%) Nessus
7 5 (1.92%) Salt
8 4 (1.54%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.15%) CASB
9 3 (1.15%) Nexpose
9 3 (1.15%) Suricata
10 2 (0.77%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.77%) Istio
10 2 (0.77%) QRadar
10 2 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.77%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.38%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 83 (31.92%) Palo Alto
2 44 (16.92%) CheckPoint
3 43 (16.54%) Fortinet
3 43 (16.54%) Juniper
4 41 (15.77%) Aruba
4 41 (15.77%) Microsoft
5 40 (15.38%) F5
6 26 (10.00%) Arista
6 26 (10.00%) ServiceNow
7 25 (9.62%) Dell
7 25 (9.62%) Meraki
8 23 (8.85%) Apple
9 22 (8.46%) HP
9 22 (8.46%) Zscaler
10 16 (6.15%) VMware
11 14 (5.38%) SAP
11 14 (5.38%) Splunk
12 12 (4.62%) SolarWinds
13 11 (4.23%) EMC
14 10 (3.85%) Remedy