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 11 July 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
11 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 162 103 98
Rank change year-on-year -59 -5 -12
Contract jobs citing Cisco 341 373 421
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 2.76% 2.40%
As % of the Vendors category 4.12% 6.02% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 241 284
10th Percentile £315 £325 £237
25th Percentile £400 £408 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £581 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £659 £671
England median daily rate £476 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.80% +2.56% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 17
10th Percentile £28.35 - £22.15
25th Percentile £36.25 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% +0.60% -18.70%
75th Percentile £50.00 £43.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £55.75 £63.84 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +56.67% +9.09% -31.25%

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 8,274 6,196 7,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.67% 45.81% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,413 4,024 5,086
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £529 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.76% +0.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £768
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 117 119
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.24 £13.87
25th Percentile £23.25 £22.50 £18.19
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.40 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.56% +9.60% -21.68%
75th Percentile £58.13 £48.75 £40.00
90th Percentile £81.63 £65.00 £65.23
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +41.15% +0.60% -31.51%

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 11 July 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 11 July 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 11 July 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 -22 45 £550 +2.61% 34
South London -4 19 £450 -14.29% 7
West London -45 7 £500 +17.65% 13
East London 0 4 £470 -14.55% 12
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 (2.35%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.17%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.88%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.59%) Apache
4 2 (0.59%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) CloudStack
Applications
1 8 (2.35%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 86 (25.22%) Azure
2 47 (13.78%) AWS
3 19 (5.57%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (4.40%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.23%) GCP
6 10 (2.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (2.35%) SaaS
8 7 (2.05%) GitHub
9 5 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.17%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.88%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.88%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.59%) AWS IoT
12 2 (0.59%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.59%) Rubrik
13 1 (0.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.29%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.29%) Cloudflare
13 1 (0.29%) IBM Watson
13 1 (0.29%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 169 (49.56%) Firewall
2 102 (29.91%) WAN
3 90 (26.39%) BGP
4 84 (24.63%) Network Security
5 60 (17.60%) LAN
5 60 (17.60%) VPN
6 55 (16.13%) OSPF
7 48 (14.08%) Wireless
8 39 (11.44%) VLAN
9 35 (10.26%) SD-WAN
10 33 (9.68%) MPLS
10 33 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
11 32 (9.38%) Cisco ISE
12 30 (8.80%) Cisco IOS
13 29 (8.50%) DNS
14 27 (7.92%) Multicast
14 27 (7.92%) VXLAN
15 26 (7.62%) Cisco Nexus
16 24 (7.04%) Cisco ASA
17 23 (6.74%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.47%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.59%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.59%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.29%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.29%) Big Data
3 1 (0.29%) ClickHouse
3 1 (0.29%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.29%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (2.05%) Git
2 4 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (0.88%) JIRA
4 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.42%) Finance
3 27 (7.92%) Banking
4 20 (5.87%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (5.87%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.57%) Documentation Skills
5 19 (5.57%) Financial Institution
5 19 (5.57%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.69%) Legal
7 7 (2.05%) Law
8 5 (1.47%) Local Government
8 5 (1.47%) Marketing
9 4 (1.17%) Front Office
9 4 (1.17%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.17%) Retail
10 3 (0.88%) Investment Banking
10 3 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (0.59%) Influencing Skills
12 1 (0.29%) Corporate Banking
12 1 (0.29%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 162 (47.51%) Network Engineer
2 48 (14.08%) Architect
3 42 (12.32%) Senior
4 25 (7.33%) Security Engineer
5 24 (7.04%) Network Architect
6 23 (6.74%) Cisco Engineer
6 23 (6.74%) Senior Network Engineer
7 22 (6.45%) Network Security Engineer
8 19 (5.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 13 (3.81%) Automation Engineer
9 13 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
10 12 (3.52%) Operations Engineer
11 10 (2.93%) Audio Visual Engineer
12 8 (2.35%) Analyst
12 8 (2.35%) Cisco Architect
12 8 (2.35%) Firewall Engineer
12 8 (2.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (2.35%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 7 (2.05%) Cisco Network Architect
13 7 (2.05%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.81%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.35%) REST
3 6 (1.76%) SAML
4 4 (1.17%) Jinja
5 2 (0.59%) .NET
5 2 (0.59%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.59%) ADO
5 2 (0.59%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.59%) Blazor
5 2 (0.59%) Middleware
6 1 (0.29%) CSS
6 1 (0.29%) Django
6 1 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.29%) HTML
6 1 (0.29%) Kafka
6 1 (0.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 81 (23.75%) Data Centre
2 18 (5.28%) Video Conferencing
3 16 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
3 16 (4.69%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (2.35%) IoT
5 8 (2.35%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.05%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.05%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.05%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.76%) Web Conferencing
8 5 (1.47%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.17%) Driving Licence
9 4 (1.17%) PKI
10 3 (0.88%) Celerra
10 3 (0.88%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (0.88%) EMC VNX
10 3 (0.88%) Hedge funds
10 3 (0.88%) IBM XIV
10 3 (0.88%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 49 (14.37%) Windows
2 20 (5.87%) Linux
2 20 (5.87%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.05%) Unix
4 5 (1.47%) Ubuntu
4 5 (1.47%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.88%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.88%) VMS
5 3 (0.88%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.59%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.29%) Android
7 1 (0.29%) CentOS
7 1 (0.29%) Debian
7 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (17.60%) Migration
2 29 (8.50%) Problem-Solving
3 28 (8.21%) Project Delivery
4 27 (7.92%) ITIL
5 25 (7.33%) Runbook
6 23 (6.74%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (6.74%) Network Design
6 23 (6.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (6.45%) Data Protection
7 22 (6.45%) Validation
8 21 (6.16%) Agile
9 19 (5.57%) Change Management
10 18 (5.28%) CI/CD
10 18 (5.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (5.28%) High Availability
10 18 (5.28%) Mentoring
11 17 (4.99%) ITSM
11 17 (4.99%) Load Balancing
11 17 (4.99%) Low Latency
12 16 (4.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 51 (14.96%) Python
2 16 (4.69%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.47%) Bash
3 5 (1.47%) C
4 3 (0.88%) C++
4 3 (0.88%) Java
5 2 (0.59%) ActionScript
5 2 (0.59%) Lisp
6 1 (0.29%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.29%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (0.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (23.46%) Cisco Certification
2 70 (20.53%) CCNP
3 36 (10.56%) Security Cleared
4 28 (8.21%) SC Cleared
5 26 (7.62%) Degree
6 20 (5.87%) CCIE
7 18 (5.28%) CCNA
8 10 (2.93%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (2.93%) DV Cleared
9 7 (2.05%) Azure Certification
10 5 (1.47%) PMP
11 4 (1.17%) CCSE
12 3 (0.88%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.59%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.59%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.59%) CCIE Security
13 2 (0.59%) CISSP
13 2 (0.59%) JNCIP
13 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.59%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.93%) SLA
2 5 (1.47%) NIST
2 5 (1.47%) QA
3 3 (0.88%) GDPR
3 3 (0.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.88%) PMO
4 2 (0.59%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.59%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.59%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.29%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.29%) GRC
5 1 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (8.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (6.74%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.76%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.47%) Firmware
6 4 (1.17%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.17%) vSphere
7 3 (0.88%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.59%) Docker
8 2 (0.59%) vCloud
8 2 (0.59%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.29%) IAG
9 1 (0.29%) KVM
9 1 (0.29%) QEMU
9 1 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.29%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (14.66%) Ansible
2 34 (9.97%) FortiGate
3 24 (7.04%) Terraform
4 18 (5.28%) Grafana
5 17 (4.99%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.05%) Kubernetes
8 6 (1.76%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (1.76%) SCCM
9 5 (1.47%) Cisco Prime
10 4 (1.17%) Salt
11 3 (0.88%) Avamar
11 3 (0.88%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.88%) QRadar
12 2 (0.59%) Nessus
12 2 (0.59%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.29%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.29%) SCOM
13 1 (0.29%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 105 (30.79%) Palo Alto
2 71 (20.82%) Fortinet
3 58 (17.01%) Microsoft
4 53 (15.54%) Arista
5 46 (13.49%) Juniper
6 45 (13.20%) F5
7 40 (11.73%) CheckPoint
8 36 (10.56%) VMware
9 34 (9.97%) Aruba
10 31 (9.09%) Meraki
11 27 (7.92%) Zscaler
12 17 (4.99%) ServiceNow
13 14 (4.11%) SolarWinds
14 13 (3.81%) Infoblox
15 10 (2.93%) Splunk
16 9 (2.64%) EMC
17 8 (2.35%) Citrix
18 7 (2.05%) Dell
18 7 (2.05%) Google
18 7 (2.05%) NetApp