Cisco Contracts 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 2 July 2025, 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
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 108 94
Rank change year-on-year +6 -14 +35
Contract jobs citing Cisco 357 407 682
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.75% 2.31% 2.70%
As % of the Vendors category 6.07% 5.52% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 274 460
10th Percentile £325 £241 £220
25th Percentile £407 £350 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £495 £503
Median % change year-on-year +1.01% -1.49% +0.50%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £638
90th Percentile £659 £671 £743
England median daily rate £500 £488 £470
% change year-on-year +2.56% +3.72% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 19 9
10th Percentile - £19.60 £18.30
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.80 £22.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £25.00 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -18.70% +28.61%
75th Percentile £47.50 £41.25 £31.13
90th Percentile £64.71 - £70.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £27.50 £43.38
% change year-on-year +9.09% -36.60% +81.41%

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 5,880 7,374 10,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.27% 41.87% 40.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,809 5,059 7,247
10th Percentile £325 £313 £325
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £535 £555
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% -3.60% +0.61%
75th Percentile £660 £650 £688
90th Percentile £765 £775 £798
England median daily rate £513 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -1.44% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 128 120
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.87 £16.12
25th Percentile £22.50 £17.78 £21.18
Median hourly rate £28.15 £23.99 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.34% -21.34% -12.86%
75th Percentile £48.75 £38.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.75 £24.65 £32.15
% change year-on-year +4.46% -23.33% +47.49%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in London

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in London

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in London

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in London over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

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 2 July 2025. 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 -11 57 £536 +34.00% 165
West London +19 34 £425 -15.00% 51
South London - 11 £525 - 17
East London +12 5 £550 +144.44% 17
North London - 1 £413 - 4
Cisco
England

Cisco
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.68%) Confluence
4 5 (1.40%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.56%) IIS
5 2 (0.56%) nginx
6 1 (0.28%) Apache
6 1 (0.28%) JBoss
6 1 (0.28%) Mattermost
Applications
1 19 (5.32%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (3.64%) MS Visio
3 10 (2.80%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.12%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.56%) Revit
6 1 (0.28%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 1 (0.28%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 69 (19.33%) Azure
2 56 (15.69%) AWS
3 40 (11.20%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (5.32%) Entra ID
5 8 (2.24%) GCP
6 6 (1.68%) Akamai
6 6 (1.68%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.40%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.40%) GitHub
7 5 (1.40%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 4 (1.12%) SaaS
9 3 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.84%) IaaS
9 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.84%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.84%) Serverless
10 2 (0.56%) Azure Pipelines
10 2 (0.56%) Google Workspace
10 2 (0.56%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 189 (52.94%) Firewall
2 96 (26.89%) BGP
3 87 (24.37%) OSPF
4 83 (23.25%) WAN
5 76 (21.29%) Network Security
6 72 (20.17%) LAN
7 67 (18.77%) VPN
8 63 (17.65%) DNS
9 54 (15.13%) SD-WAN
9 54 (15.13%) Wireless
10 50 (14.01%) Cisco Nexus
11 41 (11.48%) DHCP
12 40 (11.20%) VLAN
12 40 (11.20%) Wi-Fi
13 32 (8.96%) Cisco ASA
13 32 (8.96%) IPsec
14 31 (8.68%) MPLS
15 30 (8.40%) Multicast
15 30 (8.40%) TCP/IP
16 29 (8.12%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 6 (1.68%) MySQL
3 5 (1.40%) NoSQL
4 4 (1.12%) MongoDB
4 4 (1.12%) Power BI
5 2 (0.56%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.56%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.28%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.28%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.28%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.28%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (4.48%) Sonatype Nexus
2 15 (4.20%) JIRA
3 11 (3.08%) GitLab
4 8 (2.24%) Git
5 2 (0.56%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.56%) eggPlant
5 2 (0.56%) Snyk
6 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.28%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.28%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.28%) Subversion
6 1 (0.28%) TeamCity
General
1 93 (26.05%) Social Skills
2 71 (19.89%) Finance
3 49 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (9.24%) Banking
5 29 (8.12%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.36%) Telecoms
7 9 (2.52%) Legal
8 8 (2.24%) Documentation Skills
8 8 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (2.24%) Local Government
9 7 (1.96%) Law
10 5 (1.40%) Manufacturing
11 4 (1.12%) Financial Institution
11 4 (1.12%) Marketing
11 4 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (0.84%) Electronics
12 3 (0.84%) Multimedia
12 3 (0.84%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.56%) Front Office
13 2 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 146 (40.90%) Network Engineer
2 42 (11.76%) Architect
3 40 (11.20%) Cisco Engineer
4 39 (10.92%) Senior
5 35 (9.80%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 26 (7.28%) Network Architect
7 24 (6.72%) Security Engineer
8 22 (6.16%) Network Security Engineer
9 18 (5.04%) Senior Network Engineer
10 17 (4.76%) Consultant
11 16 (4.48%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (3.92%) Lead
13 12 (3.36%) Analyst
13 12 (3.36%) Support Engineer
14 11 (3.08%) Implementation Engineer
15 10 (2.80%) Juniper Engineer
16 9 (2.52%) Audio Visual Engineer
16 9 (2.52%) IT Engineer
16 9 (2.52%) Network Implementation Engineer
16 9 (2.52%) Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.76%) 802.1X
2 7 (1.96%) JSON
3 6 (1.68%) XMPP
4 4 (1.12%) .NET
4 4 (1.12%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.12%) XML
5 3 (0.84%) Kafka
5 3 (0.84%) REST
6 2 (0.56%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.56%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (0.56%) Blazor
6 2 (0.56%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.56%) React
6 2 (0.56%) RESTCONF
6 2 (0.56%) YAML
6 2 (0.56%) YANG
7 1 (0.28%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.28%) RESTful
7 1 (0.28%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 68 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 13 (3.64%) Video Conferencing
3 11 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (2.52%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 7 (1.96%) Driving Licence
6 7 (1.96%) Enterprise Storage
6 7 (1.96%) Hedge funds
7 6 (1.68%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.68%) PKI
8 5 (1.40%) Digital Signage
8 5 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
8 5 (1.40%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (1.12%) Video\Live Streaming
10 3 (0.84%) Clustering
10 3 (0.84%) Derivative
10 3 (0.84%) IVR
10 3 (0.84%) NHS
10 3 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 48 (13.45%) Windows
2 28 (7.84%) Linux
3 16 (4.48%) Windows Server
4 11 (3.08%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.80%) Android
6 8 (2.24%) Mac OS
6 8 (2.24%) Unix
7 5 (1.40%) CatOS
8 4 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.84%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.84%) VMS
9 3 (0.84%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.56%) CentOS
10 2 (0.56%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.56%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.28%) Solaris
11 1 (0.28%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.28%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (15.97%) Network Monitoring
1 57 (15.97%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (12.89%) Migration
3 38 (10.64%) ITIL
4 24 (6.72%) High Availability
5 23 (6.44%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 22 (6.16%) Network Design
7 20 (5.60%) Change Management
8 19 (5.32%) Project Delivery
8 19 (5.32%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (5.04%) Low Latency
10 16 (4.48%) Computer Science
10 16 (4.48%) Roadmaps
10 16 (4.48%) Service Management
11 15 (4.20%) Patch Management
11 15 (4.20%) Process Improvement
12 14 (3.92%) Agile
12 14 (3.92%) DevOps
12 14 (3.92%) Network Management
12 14 (3.92%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 56 (15.69%) Python
2 20 (5.60%) SQL
3 18 (5.04%) PowerShell
4 8 (2.24%) Bash
4 8 (2.24%) Perl
5 5 (1.40%) Java
6 3 (0.84%) C#
7 2 (0.56%) C++
7 2 (0.56%) Go
7 2 (0.56%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.56%) VB
8 1 (0.28%) ActionScript
8 1 (0.28%) ActionScript 2.0
8 1 (0.28%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.28%) PHP
8 1 (0.28%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.28%) Tcl
8 1 (0.28%) VBA
8 1 (0.28%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 110 (30.81%) Cisco Certification
2 84 (23.53%) CCNP
3 68 (19.05%) Security Cleared
4 56 (15.69%) SC Cleared
5 32 (8.96%) CCNA
6 31 (8.68%) Degree
7 25 (7.00%) CCIE
8 16 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (3.64%) CCSA
9 13 (3.64%) DV Cleared
10 12 (3.36%) JNCIA
11 7 (1.96%) CCSE
11 7 (1.96%) JNCIS
12 6 (1.68%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.68%) CCIE Service Provider
12 6 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (1.40%) CISSP
14 4 (1.12%) Network+ Certification
15 2 (0.56%) CISA
15 2 (0.56%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (3.92%) SLA
2 11 (3.08%) NIST
3 6 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.40%) GDPR
5 2 (0.56%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.56%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.56%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.56%) QA
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.28%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.28%) GRC
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.28%) PSD2
6 1 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (12.89%) Active Directory
2 27 (7.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (5.60%) Firmware
4 9 (2.52%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.40%) Docker
5 5 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (1.40%) vSphere
6 4 (1.12%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.84%) Hyper-V
7 3 (0.84%) KVM
7 3 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
8 2 (0.56%) XenApp
9 1 (0.28%) FreeRADIUS
9 1 (0.28%) iptables
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft App-V
9 1 (0.28%) Snort
9 1 (0.28%) Squid
9 1 (0.28%) Xen
Systems Management
1 55 (15.41%) Ansible
2 19 (5.32%) Terraform
3 14 (3.92%) FortiGate
4 12 (3.36%) ZABBIX
5 9 (2.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 8 (2.24%) CA Spectrum
6 8 (2.24%) NetBackup
7 7 (1.96%) Puppet
8 6 (1.68%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (1.68%) SCCM
9 5 (1.40%) Cisco Prime
9 5 (1.40%) Cisco UCCX
9 5 (1.40%) Kubernetes
9 5 (1.40%) QRadar
10 4 (1.12%) McAfee ePO
10 4 (1.12%) Nagios
10 4 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
11 3 (0.84%) logstash
11 3 (0.84%) Prometheus
11 3 (0.84%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 66 (18.49%) Microsoft
2 64 (17.93%) Palo Alto
3 63 (17.65%) Fortinet
4 62 (17.37%) CheckPoint
5 58 (16.25%) F5
6 56 (15.69%) Juniper
7 45 (12.61%) VMware
8 41 (11.48%) Arista
9 40 (11.20%) SolarWinds
10 35 (9.80%) Meraki
11 24 (6.72%) Dell
12 20 (5.60%) HP
13 16 (4.48%) Infoblox
14 15 (4.20%) Splunk
15 14 (3.92%) ServiceNow
16 12 (3.36%) Zscaler
17 11 (3.08%) Apple
18 10 (2.80%) Aruba
18 10 (2.80%) Nokia
19 9 (2.52%) Veritas