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 16 October 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
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 128 98
Rank change year-on-year -39 -30 -18
Contract jobs citing Cisco 366 303 411
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.79% 2.26% 2.56%
As % of the Vendors category 4.15% 4.87% 5.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 200 267
10th Percentile £333 £325 £258
25th Percentile £419 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £510
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £600
90th Percentile £725 £659 £650
England median daily rate £495 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 22 9
10th Percentile £42.50 - £18.65
25th Percentile £45.25 - -
Median hourly rate £66.75 £25.15 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +165.41% +5.67% -22.60%
75th Percentile £78.75 £26.73 £30.25
90th Percentile - £63.02 £37.20
England median hourly rate £61.75 £30.00 £23.80
% change year-on-year +105.83% +26.05% -45.79%

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 8,820 6,218 6,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.02% 46.44% 43.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,753 4,040 4,416
10th Percentile £338 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.95% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £649 £650 £650
90th Percentile £740 £745 £750
England median daily rate £519 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +2.27% -3.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 120 73
10th Percentile £16.70 £17.40 £18.20
25th Percentile £19.50 £23.00 £24.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +45.13% -28.14% -13.04%
75th Percentile £62.75 £37.81 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.88 £90.15
England median hourly rate £25.28 £25.04 £35.00
% change year-on-year +0.98% -28.46% -21.35%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 16 October 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 +7 73 £500 -4.76% 20
South London -5 15 £475 -5.00% 7
West London -50 7 £513 +20.59% 2
East London +2 3 £600 +14.29% 3
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 16 (4.37%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.64%) JBoss
2 6 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.27%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
4 1 (0.27%) IIS
4 1 (0.27%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.27%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 15 (4.10%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (0.27%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.27%) Monis
1 1 (0.27%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 102 (27.87%) Azure
2 49 (13.39%) AWS
3 30 (8.20%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (6.83%) Entra ID
5 16 (4.37%) GitHub
6 14 (3.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 14 (3.83%) OneDrive
7 11 (3.01%) GCP
8 7 (1.91%) SaaS
9 5 (1.37%) AWS Direct Connect
9 5 (1.37%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.09%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.09%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.09%) Power Platform
10 4 (1.09%) Slack
11 3 (0.82%) IaaS
11 3 (0.82%) Rubrik
12 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.55%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 173 (47.27%) Firewall
2 98 (26.78%) BGP
3 92 (25.14%) WAN
4 81 (22.13%) Network Security
5 61 (16.67%) VPN
6 58 (15.85%) LAN
7 56 (15.30%) VLAN
8 53 (14.48%) Wireless
9 47 (12.84%) OSPF
10 44 (12.02%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (10.93%) SD-WAN
12 38 (10.38%) DNS
13 37 (10.11%) MPLS
14 34 (9.29%) TCP/IP
15 31 (8.47%) Cisco ISE
16 28 (7.65%) Multicast
17 27 (7.38%) DHCP
18 25 (6.83%) VXLAN
19 24 (6.56%) Cisco Nexus
20 21 (5.74%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.73%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.64%) Hadoop
3 5 (1.37%) Big Data
4 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
4 2 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.27%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.27%) ClickHouse
5 1 (0.27%) Metadata
5 1 (0.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 16 (4.37%) Git
2 6 (1.64%) JIRA
3 5 (1.37%) GitLab
4 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.27%) Robot Framework
5 1 (0.27%) Sonatype Nexus
5 1 (0.27%) Tricentis qTest
5 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 89 (24.32%) Finance
2 80 (21.86%) Social Skills
3 42 (11.48%) Banking
4 34 (9.29%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (7.38%) Telecoms
6 21 (5.74%) Documentation Skills
7 18 (4.92%) Legal
8 17 (4.64%) Public Sector
9 13 (3.55%) Financial Institution
10 7 (1.91%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.37%) Retail
12 4 (1.09%) Automotive
12 4 (1.09%) Law
12 4 (1.09%) Local Government
12 4 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
14 2 (0.55%) Front Office
14 2 (0.55%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.55%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 175 (47.81%) Network Engineer
2 54 (14.75%) Architect
3 51 (13.93%) Senior
4 39 (10.66%) Senior Network Engineer
5 36 (9.84%) Cisco Engineer
6 30 (8.20%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 29 (7.92%) Network Architect
8 24 (6.56%) Security Engineer
9 20 (5.46%) Network Security Engineer
10 18 (4.92%) Support Engineer
11 17 (4.64%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (4.10%) Lead
13 14 (3.83%) Analyst
13 14 (3.83%) Audio Visual Engineer
14 13 (3.55%) Implementation Engineer
15 12 (3.28%) Consultant
15 12 (3.28%) Data Centre Engineer
16 11 (3.01%) Automation Engineer
17 10 (2.73%) Security Architect
17 10 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (9.02%) Terraform
2 20 (5.46%) 802.1X
3 16 (4.37%) REST
4 6 (1.64%) JSON
5 5 (1.37%) YAML
6 4 (1.09%) SAML
7 2 (0.55%) .NET
7 2 (0.55%) .NET Core
7 2 (0.55%) ASP.NET
7 2 (0.55%) Blazor
7 2 (0.55%) eBPF
7 2 (0.55%) NETCONF
7 2 (0.55%) RFC 2544
7 2 (0.55%) YANG
8 1 (0.27%) Django
8 1 (0.27%) Elastic Stack
8 1 (0.27%) Kafka
8 1 (0.27%) Middleware
8 1 (0.27%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 110 (30.05%) Data Centre
2 24 (6.56%) Hybrid Cloud
2 24 (6.56%) Video Conferencing
3 22 (6.01%) Onboarding
4 11 (3.01%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (3.01%) IoT
4 11 (3.01%) Management Information System
5 9 (2.46%) Digital Signage
6 8 (2.19%) Cloud Native
6 8 (2.19%) Virtual Team
7 7 (1.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (1.91%) Linux Command Line
7 7 (1.91%) PKI
7 7 (1.91%) Public Cloud
8 6 (1.64%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.64%) Clustering
9 5 (1.37%) Hedge funds
9 5 (1.37%) Robotics
10 4 (1.09%) Driving Licence
10 4 (1.09%) IVR
Operating Systems
1 67 (18.31%) Windows
2 27 (7.38%) Linux
3 22 (6.01%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.46%) Ubuntu
5 8 (2.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (2.19%) Windows 10
6 6 (1.64%) macOS
7 3 (0.82%) Android
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
9 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
9 1 (0.27%) VMS
9 1 (0.27%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (21.86%) Migration
2 58 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
3 45 (12.30%) Project Delivery
4 41 (11.20%) Validation
5 38 (10.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 37 (10.11%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (8.47%) Runbook
7 31 (8.47%) Zero Trust
8 30 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 28 (7.65%) ITIL
10 27 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
11 25 (6.83%) Data Protection
11 25 (6.83%) High Availability
12 23 (6.28%) Load Balancing
13 22 (6.01%) Agile
13 22 (6.01%) Change Management
13 22 (6.01%) Incident Response
13 22 (6.01%) Low Latency
14 21 (5.74%) AI
14 21 (5.74%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 58 (15.85%) Python
2 13 (3.55%) Bash
2 13 (3.55%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.64%) SQL
4 2 (0.55%) Lisp
4 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
5 1 (0.27%) Bicep
5 1 (0.27%) C++
5 1 (0.27%) Go
5 1 (0.27%) Java
5 1 (0.27%) Ladder Logic
5 1 (0.27%) R
Qualifications
1 80 (21.86%) Cisco Certification
2 71 (19.40%) CCNP
3 38 (10.38%) Security Cleared
4 33 (9.02%) SC Cleared
5 24 (6.56%) Degree
6 22 (6.01%) CCIE
7 18 (4.92%) CCNA
8 9 (2.46%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (1.37%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.37%) CCSE
9 5 (1.37%) DV Cleared
9 5 (1.37%) PMI Certification
10 4 (1.09%) CCIE Security
10 4 (1.09%) CISSP
10 4 (1.09%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.09%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.09%) PMP
11 3 (0.82%) ISTQB
12 2 (0.55%) CCSP
12 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.73%) NIST
1 10 (2.73%) SLA
2 8 (2.19%) QA
3 7 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (1.64%) PCI DSS
5 4 (1.09%) GDPR
6 3 (0.82%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
7 2 (0.55%) GRC
7 2 (0.55%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 31000
8 1 (0.27%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 37 (10.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (9.02%) Active Directory
3 7 (1.91%) Docker
4 6 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.64%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.09%) Firmware
5 4 (1.09%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.09%) vSphere
6 3 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.55%) IAG
8 1 (0.27%) ISA Server
8 1 (0.27%) KVM
8 1 (0.27%) QEMU
8 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.27%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 51 (13.93%) Ansible
2 37 (10.11%) FortiGate
3 13 (3.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (3.01%) Cisco Prime
4 11 (3.01%) Kubernetes
5 7 (1.91%) Puppet
6 6 (1.64%) Cisco CUCM
6 6 (1.64%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (1.37%) Failover Clustering
8 4 (1.09%) Grafana
8 4 (1.09%) SCCM
8 4 (1.09%) systemd
9 2 (0.55%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.55%) Docker Swarm
9 2 (0.55%) EMC NetWorker
9 2 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.55%) Nessus
9 2 (0.55%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.55%) TrustSec
9 2 (0.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 90 (24.59%) Palo Alto
2 80 (21.86%) Microsoft
3 71 (19.40%) Fortinet
4 48 (13.11%) VMware
5 46 (12.57%) Arista
6 42 (11.48%) Juniper
7 40 (10.93%) Meraki
8 35 (9.56%) Aruba
9 33 (9.02%) F5
10 29 (7.92%) Zscaler
11 22 (6.01%) CheckPoint
12 17 (4.64%) Red Hat
13 13 (3.55%) ServiceNow
14 10 (2.73%) Citrix
14 10 (2.73%) Google
14 10 (2.73%) Infoblox
14 10 (2.73%) SolarWinds
15 8 (2.19%) NetApp
16 6 (1.64%) Dell
16 6 (1.64%) Genesys