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 31 January 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
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 160 92 90
Rank change year-on-year -68 -2 +31
Contract jobs citing Cisco 240 365 460
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 2.64% 2.48%
As % of the Vendors category 3.52% 5.97% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 243 299
10th Percentile £254 £277 £230
25th Percentile £361 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.62% +4.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £713
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 4 22
10th Percentile £21.46 £15.27 £21.85
25th Percentile - £21.31 £24.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -24.12% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £28.18 £41.25
90th Percentile £73.80 £34.52 £75.63
England median hourly rate £54.86 £20.38 £34.00
% change year-on-year +169.25% -40.07% +32.24%

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 6,824 6,111 7,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.07% 44.16% 40.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,476 3,755 5,132
10th Percentile £340 £315 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 72 152
10th Percentile £17.98 £21.50 £13.85
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.80 £17.78
Median hourly rate £25.77 £32.75 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -21.31% +10.08% +19.00%
75th Percentile £41.94 £59.25 £43.88
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.68 £77.38
England median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.50
% change year-on-year -21.67% -1.64% -6.15%

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 31 January 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 31 January 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 31 January 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 -44 22 £525 -2.64% 27
South London -1 8 £450 -5.26% 9
West London -19 6 £399 -11.39% 9
East London 0 3 £525 -4.55% 8
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 13 (5.42%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.92%) Confluence
4 3 (1.25%) Appian
5 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.42%) Apache
6 1 (0.42%) JBoss
6 1 (0.42%) WebSphere
Applications
1 19 (7.92%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.75%) MS Visio
4 8 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.42%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 6 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.42%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 62 (25.83%) Azure
2 36 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (12.92%) AWS
4 22 (9.17%) GCP
5 12 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.08%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (2.08%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (2.08%) Cloudflare
6 5 (2.08%) GitHub
6 5 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 4 (1.67%) Akamai
7 4 (1.67%) Mimecast
7 4 (1.67%) OpenDNS
8 3 (1.25%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.25%) IaaS
8 3 (1.25%) PaaS
8 3 (1.25%) Tricentis Tosca
9 2 (0.83%) Serverless
9 2 (0.83%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 95 (39.58%) Firewall
2 81 (33.75%) WAN
3 55 (22.92%) VPN
4 53 (22.08%) Network Security
5 49 (20.42%) LAN
6 46 (19.17%) SD-WAN
7 45 (18.75%) Wireless
8 42 (17.50%) BGP
9 37 (15.42%) OSPF
10 25 (10.42%) Wi-Fi
11 20 (8.33%) Cisco Nexus
12 17 (7.08%) VLAN
13 16 (6.67%) MPLS
14 15 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (6.25%) DNS
14 15 (6.25%) EIGRP
15 13 (5.42%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
16 12 (5.00%) IPsec
17 10 (4.17%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.83%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.42%) Metadata
2 1 (0.42%) MySQL
2 1 (0.42%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (4.17%) GitLab
2 8 (3.33%) JIRA
3 6 (2.50%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.67%) Git
5 3 (1.25%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.25%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.25%) Selenium
5 3 (1.25%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 58 (24.17%) Finance
2 49 (20.42%) Social Skills
3 33 (13.75%) Telecoms
4 30 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 23 (9.58%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.58%) Banking
6 15 (6.25%) Manufacturing
6 15 (6.25%) Marketing
7 14 (5.83%) Electronics
7 14 (5.83%) Legal
8 8 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.92%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.50%) Financial Institution
11 5 (2.08%) Law
11 5 (2.08%) Retail
12 2 (0.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.83%) Military
13 1 (0.42%) Front Office
13 1 (0.42%) Investment Banking
13 1 (0.42%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 70 (29.17%) Network Engineer
2 37 (15.42%) Architect
3 26 (10.83%) Network Architect
4 20 (8.33%) Senior
5 18 (7.50%) IT Support
6 14 (5.83%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.83%) Support Engineer
7 13 (5.42%) Cisco Engineer
8 11 (4.58%) Desktop Support
8 11 (4.58%) Security Engineer
9 10 (4.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 10 (4.17%) IT Engineer
9 10 (4.17%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.75%) Security Architect
11 8 (3.33%) Analyst
11 8 (3.33%) Coordinator
11 8 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
11 8 (3.33%) Support Specialist
12 7 (2.92%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.50%) JSON
2 5 (2.08%) NETCONF
2 5 (2.08%) XML
2 5 (2.08%) YANG
3 4 (1.67%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.67%) HTML
3 4 (1.67%) Jinja
3 4 (1.67%) VML
3 4 (1.67%) XMPP
4 3 (1.25%) REST
5 2 (0.83%) CSS
5 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.42%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.42%) Django
6 1 (0.42%) Kafka
6 1 (0.42%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.42%) Pandas
6 1 (0.42%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 67 (27.92%) Data Centre
2 12 (5.00%) PKI
3 10 (4.17%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.75%) Data Protection Act
5 8 (3.33%) Driving Licence
6 7 (2.92%) Public Cloud
7 6 (2.50%) Cloud Native
7 6 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.50%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.67%) Blackberry
8 4 (1.67%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.25%) Handset
9 3 (1.25%) iPhone
9 3 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.25%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.25%) SCADA
9 3 (1.25%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.83%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.83%) EMC VNX
10 2 (0.83%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 33 (13.75%) Windows
2 26 (10.83%) Mac OS
3 25 (10.42%) Android
4 11 (4.58%) Windows 10
4 11 (4.58%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.33%) Linux
6 2 (0.83%) Unix
6 2 (0.83%) VMS
7 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (15.00%) Migration
3 23 (9.58%) Network Design
4 21 (8.75%) Agile
4 21 (8.75%) Change Management
5 20 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (7.92%) Zero Trust
7 18 (7.50%) Network Architecture
8 17 (7.08%) Infrastructure as Code
9 16 (6.67%) Business Intelligence
9 16 (6.67%) ITIL
10 15 (6.25%) DevOps
10 15 (6.25%) Programme Management
11 14 (5.83%) CI/CD
11 14 (5.83%) Digital Marketing
11 14 (5.83%) Security Architecture
12 13 (5.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 13 (5.42%) Roadmaps
12 13 (5.42%) SIEM
12 13 (5.42%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 38 (15.83%) Python
2 17 (7.08%) PowerShell
3 12 (5.00%) Bash
4 8 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 7 (2.92%) Perl
6 6 (2.50%) C++
7 4 (1.67%) C
7 4 (1.67%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.42%) Java
8 1 (0.42%) SQL
Qualifications
1 55 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 54 (22.50%) Cisco Certification
3 49 (20.42%) SC Cleared
4 46 (19.17%) CCNP
5 19 (7.92%) Degree
6 18 (7.50%) CCIE
7 17 (7.08%) DV Cleared
8 15 (6.25%) CCNA
9 7 (2.92%) CISSP
10 6 (2.50%) Azure Certification
11 5 (2.08%) CCSE
11 5 (2.08%) JNCIA
11 5 (2.08%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
12 4 (1.67%) JNCIE
13 3 (1.25%) JNCIP
13 3 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.25%) PMP
14 2 (0.83%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.17%) PMO
2 7 (2.92%) NIST
2 7 (2.92%) SLA
3 6 (2.50%) GDPR
3 6 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.25%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.83%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.42%) MiFID
6 1 (0.42%) QA
System Software
1 15 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.83%) Active Directory
3 10 (4.17%) Firmware
4 9 (3.75%) VMware NSX
5 8 (3.33%) Docker
6 7 (2.92%) vSphere
7 5 (2.08%) Hyper-V
7 5 (2.08%) Snort
8 4 (1.67%) Squid
9 2 (0.83%) KVM
9 2 (0.83%) vCloud
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.42%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 26 (10.83%) FortiGate
2 24 (10.00%) Ansible
3 18 (7.50%) Terraform
4 11 (4.58%) Kubernetes
5 10 (4.17%) SCCM
6 7 (2.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.50%) Nessus
8 4 (1.67%) Nexpose
8 4 (1.67%) Suricata
9 3 (1.25%) CASB
9 3 (1.25%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.25%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (1.25%) Grafana
9 3 (1.25%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.83%) Istio
10 2 (0.83%) QRadar
10 2 (0.83%) Salt
10 2 (0.83%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.42%) PowerCLI
11 1 (0.42%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 66 (27.50%) Palo Alto
2 43 (17.92%) Microsoft
3 39 (16.25%) Fortinet
4 35 (14.58%) CheckPoint
5 34 (14.17%) Juniper
6 32 (13.33%) Aruba
7 28 (11.67%) Dell
7 28 (11.67%) F5
8 25 (10.42%) Apple
8 25 (10.42%) HP
9 24 (10.00%) Meraki
10 23 (9.58%) ServiceNow
11 20 (8.33%) Zscaler
12 18 (7.50%) VMware
13 17 (7.08%) Arista
14 14 (5.83%) SAP
15 12 (5.00%) Splunk
16 11 (4.58%) SolarWinds
17 10 (4.17%) Google
17 10 (4.17%) Remedy