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 17 April 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
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 175 98 98
Rank change year-on-year -77 0 +12
Contract jobs citing Cisco 275 343 425
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.59% 2.71% 2.37%
As % of the Vendors category 3.63% 6.00% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 229 279
10th Percentile £302 £308 £248
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £746
England median daily rate £490 £505 £488
% change year-on-year -2.97% +3.59% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 18
10th Percentile £21.40 £24.66 £21.08
25th Percentile £22.38 £27.56 £24.38
Median hourly rate £25.46 £41.25 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -38.28% +38.66% +15.71%
75th Percentile £47.19 £57.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £37.07 £28.75
% change year-on-year +31.42% +28.95% -50.05%

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 7,570 5,716 7,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.66% 45.13% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,990 3,747 4,965
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £424 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £767 £769
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 87 146
10th Percentile £18.20 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.20 £17.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.68
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +17.80% -4.02%
75th Percentile £45.75 £52.50 £39.77
90th Percentile £68.75 £68.00 £68.75
England median hourly rate £29.50 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +2.61% +27.78% -41.56%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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
South London -1 19 £450 -14.29% 3
Central London -42 19 £600 +11.94% 29
West London -41 3 £423 -0.59% 13
East London -6 2 £334 -39.36% 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 9 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.82%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.91%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 71 (25.82%) Azure
2 40 (14.55%) AWS
3 31 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (6.18%) GCP
5 13 (4.73%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.09%) Cloudflare
8 3 (1.09%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.09%) Rubrik
8 3 (1.09%) SaaS
9 2 (0.73%) AWS IoT
9 2 (0.73%) GitHub
9 2 (0.73%) OCI
9 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.73%) ShareGate
9 2 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.36%) IBM Watson
10 1 (0.36%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 126 (45.82%) Firewall
2 105 (38.18%) WAN
3 73 (26.55%) Network Security
4 70 (25.45%) BGP
5 59 (21.45%) VPN
6 54 (19.64%) LAN
7 51 (18.55%) OSPF
8 49 (17.82%) SD-WAN
9 38 (13.82%) Wireless
10 28 (10.18%) MPLS
11 27 (9.82%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (9.45%) VLAN
13 25 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
13 25 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
14 23 (8.36%) Cisco Nexus
14 23 (8.36%) Multicast
14 23 (8.36%) VXLAN
15 20 (7.27%) Cisco ISE
16 18 (6.55%) NX-OS
17 14 (5.09%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.73%) 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 8 (2.91%) Git
2 5 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.45%) JIRA
4 3 (1.09%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 60 (21.82%) Finance
2 58 (21.09%) Social Skills
3 27 (9.82%) Telecoms
4 24 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.36%) Banking
6 20 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.55%) Legal
8 15 (5.45%) Financial Institution
9 10 (3.64%) Marketing
10 8 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.91%) Law
11 7 (2.55%) Electronics
11 7 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.55%) Retail
12 6 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.73%) Front Office
14 2 (0.73%) Local Government
15 1 (0.36%) International Banking
15 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 107 (38.91%) Network Engineer
2 37 (13.45%) Architect
3 33 (12.00%) Senior
4 21 (7.64%) Network Architect
5 14 (5.09%) Project Manager
5 14 (5.09%) Security Engineer
6 13 (4.73%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (4.36%) Operations Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) Cisco Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) IT Support
8 11 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
9 10 (3.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 9 (3.27%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 9 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.27%) Support Engineer
11 8 (2.91%) Automation Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) IT Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.55%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.18%) REST
3 4 (1.45%) HTML
3 4 (1.45%) Jinja
3 4 (1.45%) VML
4 3 (1.09%) JSON
5 2 (0.73%) ADO
5 2 (0.73%) CSS
5 2 (0.73%) Middleware
5 2 (0.73%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.73%) SAML
5 2 (0.73%) XML
5 2 (0.73%) YANG
6 1 (0.36%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.36%) Django
6 1 (0.36%) Kafka
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.36%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.36%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 72 (26.18%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (2.91%) Cloud Native
4 8 (2.91%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.55%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.55%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.82%) IoT
6 5 (1.82%) PKI
7 4 (1.45%) EMC VNX
7 4 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.09%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.73%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.73%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.73%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.64%) Windows
2 16 (5.82%) Linux
3 15 (5.45%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.09%) Android
4 14 (5.09%) Mac OS
5 12 (4.36%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.91%) Unix
7 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.73%) VMS
7 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Debian
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (16.00%) Migration
2 33 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (9.82%) ITIL
4 24 (8.73%) Network Design
5 23 (8.36%) Change Management
6 20 (7.27%) Load Balancing
7 19 (6.91%) ITSM
7 19 (6.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (6.55%) Agile
9 17 (6.18%) Zero Trust
10 16 (5.82%) DevOps
11 15 (5.45%) CI/CD
11 15 (5.45%) Data Protection
11 15 (5.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (5.45%) Mentoring
12 14 (5.09%) AI
12 14 (5.09%) Validation
13 13 (4.73%) SIEM
14 12 (4.36%) Low Latency
14 12 (4.36%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 42 (15.27%) Python
2 17 (6.18%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.55%) C
4 5 (1.82%) Bash
5 3 (1.09%) C++
5 3 (1.09%) Java
5 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.73%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.36%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (21.82%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (18.91%) Security Cleared
3 51 (18.55%) CCNP
4 43 (15.64%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.36%) CCIE
6 21 (7.64%) Degree
7 17 (6.18%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.73%) CCNA
9 8 (2.91%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.18%) CCSE
10 6 (2.18%) PMP
11 4 (1.45%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.45%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.09%) CISSP
12 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.09%) HND
12 3 (1.09%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.73%) HNC
13 2 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.00%) SLA
2 9 (3.27%) PMO
3 5 (1.82%) NIST
4 4 (1.45%) GDPR
4 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.73%) QA
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 14 (5.09%) Active Directory
1 14 (5.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.55%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.82%) vSphere
4 3 (1.09%) Docker
4 3 (1.09%) Firmware
5 2 (0.73%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.73%) vCloud
5 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.36%) IAG
6 1 (0.36%) KVM
6 1 (0.36%) QEMU
6 1 (0.36%) Snort
6 1 (0.36%) Squid
6 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 37 (13.45%) Ansible
2 28 (10.18%) FortiGate
3 18 (6.55%) Terraform
4 17 (6.18%) Grafana
4 17 (6.18%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.00%) SCCM
6 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.55%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.82%) QRadar
8 5 (1.82%) Salt
9 3 (1.09%) CASB
9 3 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.73%) Avamar
10 2 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.73%) Istio
10 2 (0.73%) Nessus
10 2 (0.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.36%) Nexpose
11 1 (0.36%) Suricata
Vendors
1 90 (32.73%) Palo Alto
2 50 (18.18%) CheckPoint
3 48 (17.45%) Fortinet
4 46 (16.73%) Arista
4 46 (16.73%) F5
5 42 (15.27%) Microsoft
6 40 (14.55%) Juniper
7 39 (14.18%) Aruba
8 30 (10.91%) ServiceNow
9 26 (9.45%) Meraki
10 25 (9.09%) Zscaler
11 19 (6.91%) Dell
12 17 (6.18%) VMware
13 16 (5.82%) HP
14 15 (5.45%) Apple
15 12 (4.36%) Splunk
16 11 (4.00%) Infoblox
17 10 (3.64%) EMC
18 9 (3.27%) Remedy
18 9 (3.27%) SolarWinds