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 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
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 153 106 101
Rank change year-on-year -47 -5 -11
Contract jobs citing Cisco 347 365 417
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.76% 2.69% 2.40%
As % of the Vendors category 4.21% 5.86% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 234 279
10th Percentile £324 £327 £230
25th Percentile £400 £407 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.96%
75th Percentile £575 £579 £550
90th Percentile £675 £658 £658
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.00% - +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 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 £45.63 £41.25
90th Percentile £55.75 £64.28 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +56.67% +9.09% -36.05%

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 8,244 6,233 7,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.72% 45.96% 42.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,382 4,041 5,054
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.57% +0.57% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £765
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 119 122
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.93
25th Percentile £22.46 £22.50 £18.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.48% +8.00% -21.68%
75th Percentile £57.34 £48.13 £41.25
90th Percentile £82.75 £65.00 £69.15
England median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.25
% change year-on-year +41.15% -0.40% -29.86%

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 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 16 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 16 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 -28 45 £550 +2.61% 30
South London -6 23 £450 -16.28% 7
West London -45 7 £500 +17.65% 11
East London +1 4 £470 -14.55% 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 (2.59%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.15%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.86%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.58%) Apache
4 2 (0.58%) Confluence
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.29%) CloudStack
Applications
1 8 (2.31%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.86%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 88 (25.36%) Azure
2 47 (13.54%) AWS
3 20 (5.76%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (4.61%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (3.17%) GCP
7 9 (2.59%) GitHub
8 8 (2.31%) SaaS
9 5 (1.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (1.15%) OneDrive
11 3 (0.86%) Mimecast
12 2 (0.58%) AWS IoT
12 2 (0.58%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.58%) 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
1 172 (49.57%) Firewall
2 98 (28.24%) WAN
3 94 (27.09%) BGP
4 86 (24.78%) Network Security
5 63 (18.16%) VPN
6 59 (17.00%) LAN
7 57 (16.43%) OSPF
8 49 (14.12%) Wireless
9 44 (12.68%) VLAN
10 34 (9.80%) Cisco ISE
10 34 (9.80%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (9.51%) DNS
12 32 (9.22%) MPLS
13 31 (8.93%) SD-WAN
14 30 (8.65%) Cisco IOS
15 27 (7.78%) Multicast
15 27 (7.78%) TCP/IP
15 27 (7.78%) VXLAN
16 26 (7.49%) Cisco Nexus
17 24 (6.92%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.44%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.58%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.58%) 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 10 (2.88%) Git
2 4 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (0.86%) JIRA
4 1 (0.29%) Jenkins
General
1 77 (22.19%) Social Skills
2 56 (16.14%) Finance
3 28 (8.07%) Banking
4 22 (6.34%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (5.76%) Telecoms
6 19 (5.48%) Documentation Skills
6 19 (5.48%) Financial Institution
6 19 (5.48%) Public Sector
7 12 (3.46%) Legal
8 7 (2.02%) Law
9 6 (1.73%) Retail
10 5 (1.44%) Local Government
10 5 (1.44%) Marketing
11 4 (1.15%) Front Office
11 4 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.86%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.58%) Automotive
13 2 (0.58%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 168 (48.41%) Network Engineer
2 46 (13.26%) Architect
3 43 (12.39%) Senior
4 26 (7.49%) Security Engineer
5 24 (6.92%) Senior Network Engineer
6 23 (6.63%) Cisco Engineer
6 23 (6.63%) Network Architect
6 23 (6.63%) Network Security Engineer
7 19 (5.48%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 13 (3.75%) Automation Engineer
9 12 (3.46%) Operations Engineer
9 12 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (2.88%) Audio Visual Engineer
10 10 (2.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 9 (2.59%) Analyst
11 9 (2.59%) Data Centre Engineer
12 8 (2.31%) Cisco Architect
12 8 (2.31%) Designer
12 8 (2.31%) Firewall Engineer
12 8 (2.31%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (4.61%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.31%) REST
3 6 (1.73%) SAML
4 4 (1.15%) Jinja
5 2 (0.58%) .NET
5 2 (0.58%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.58%) ADO
5 2 (0.58%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.58%) Blazor
5 2 (0.58%) Middleware
6 1 (0.29%) Django
6 1 (0.29%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.29%) Kafka
6 1 (0.29%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 84 (24.21%) Data Centre
2 19 (5.48%) Video Conferencing
3 17 (4.90%) Onboarding
4 16 (4.61%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (4.03%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (2.31%) IoT
6 8 (2.31%) Virtual Team
7 7 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (2.02%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.73%) Security Posture
8 6 (1.73%) Web Conferencing
9 5 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
9 5 (1.44%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.44%) PKI
10 4 (1.15%) Driving Licence
11 3 (0.86%) Distributed Systems
11 3 (0.86%) EMC VMAX
11 3 (0.86%) EMC VNX
11 3 (0.86%) IBM XIV
11 3 (0.86%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 48 (13.83%) Windows
2 22 (6.34%) Linux
3 19 (5.48%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.02%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.73%) Unix
5 6 (1.73%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.86%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.86%) VMS
6 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.58%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.29%) Android
8 1 (0.29%) CentOS
8 1 (0.29%) Debian
8 1 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (17.87%) Migration
2 29 (8.36%) Project Delivery
3 28 (8.07%) Problem-Solving
4 26 (7.49%) Runbook
5 25 (7.20%) Infrastructure as Code
5 25 (7.20%) ITIL
5 25 (7.20%) Validation
6 24 (6.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (6.34%) Data Protection
7 22 (6.34%) Network Design
8 20 (5.76%) Agile
8 20 (5.76%) CI/CD
9 19 (5.48%) Change Management
9 19 (5.48%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (5.48%) Load Balancing
10 18 (5.19%) High Availability
10 18 (5.19%) Mentoring
10 18 (5.19%) Zero Trust
11 17 (4.90%) ITSM
11 17 (4.90%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 57 (16.43%) Python
2 16 (4.61%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.02%) Bash
4 5 (1.44%) C
5 3 (0.86%) C++
5 3 (0.86%) Java
6 2 (0.58%) ActionScript
6 2 (0.58%) Lisp
6 2 (0.58%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.29%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (22.77%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (19.88%) CCNP
3 34 (9.80%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.78%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.20%) Degree
6 20 (5.76%) CCIE
7 17 (4.90%) CCNA
8 10 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.59%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.02%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.44%) PMP
12 4 (1.15%) CCSE
12 4 (1.15%) JNCIP
13 3 (0.86%) JNCIS
13 3 (0.86%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.58%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.58%) CCIE Security
14 2 (0.58%) CISSP
14 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.58%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (2.59%) SLA
2 5 (1.44%) NIST
2 5 (1.44%) QA
3 3 (0.86%) GDPR
3 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (0.86%) PMO
4 2 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.58%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.58%) 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 (8.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (6.63%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.31%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.73%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.44%) Firmware
6 4 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.15%) vSphere
7 3 (0.86%) Docker
7 3 (0.86%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.86%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.58%) vCloud
8 2 (0.58%) 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 54 (15.56%) Ansible
2 34 (9.80%) FortiGate
3 28 (8.07%) Terraform
4 17 (4.90%) Grafana
5 16 (4.61%) Prometheus
6 10 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
7 8 (2.31%) Kubernetes
8 6 (1.73%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (1.44%) SCCM
10 4 (1.15%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (0.86%) Avamar
11 3 (0.86%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.86%) QRadar
11 3 (0.86%) Salt
12 2 (0.58%) Nessus
12 2 (0.58%) systemd
12 2 (0.58%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.29%) SCOM
13 1 (0.29%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 101 (29.11%) Palo Alto
2 72 (20.75%) Fortinet
3 58 (16.71%) Microsoft
4 54 (15.56%) Arista
5 49 (14.12%) F5
5 49 (14.12%) Juniper
6 38 (10.95%) CheckPoint
7 36 (10.37%) VMware
8 31 (8.93%) Aruba
8 31 (8.93%) Meraki
9 28 (8.07%) Zscaler
10 16 (4.61%) ServiceNow
11 13 (3.75%) Infoblox
11 13 (3.75%) SolarWinds
12 9 (2.59%) EMC
12 9 (2.59%) Splunk
13 8 (2.31%) Citrix
14 7 (2.02%) Dell
14 7 (2.02%) Google
14 7 (2.02%) NetApp