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 20 April 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
20 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 166 102 100
Rank change year-on-year -64 -2 +11
Contract jobs citing Cisco 274 343 420
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.57% 2.70% 2.35%
As % of the Vendors category 3.61% 5.96% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 226 279
10th Percentile £313 £318 £248
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -3.15%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £746
England median daily rate £485 £505 £490
% change year-on-year -3.99% +3.06% +3.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 6 18
10th Percentile £21.46 £24.66 £21.08
25th Percentile £23.31 £27.56 £24.38
Median hourly rate £25.77 £41.25 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.53% +38.66% +15.71%
75th Percentile £50.00 £57.81 £41.25
90th Percentile - £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £37.07 £30.00
% change year-on-year +31.42% +23.58% -45.77%

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 7,580 5,758 7,202
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.52% 45.30% 40.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,000 3,783 4,951
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £667
90th Percentile £738 £770 £775
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 119 89 144
10th Percentile £18.24 £15.84 £13.86
25th Percentile £21.84 £23.50 £16.97
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +16.62% -4.13%
75th Percentile £46.13 £51.25 £39.41
90th Percentile £69.00 £67.75 £69.85
England median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -41.56%

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 20 April 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 20 April 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 20 April 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 -46 19 £600 +9.24% 30
South London -4 18 £450 -14.29% 3
West London -43 4 £423 -0.59% 13
East London -6 2 £334 -39.36% 9
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 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
1 8 (2.92%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.82%) OpenStack
3 4 (1.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) JBoss
4 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.55%) MS Visio
3 5 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 73 (26.64%) Azure
2 42 (15.33%) AWS
3 29 (10.58%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (6.20%) GCP
5 13 (4.74%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (1.46%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (1.46%) SaaS
8 3 (1.09%) Cloudflare
8 3 (1.09%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.09%) Rubrik
9 2 (0.73%) AWS IoT
9 2 (0.73%) GitHub
9 2 (0.73%) OCI
9 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.73%) ShareGate
9 2 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.36%) Amazon Kinesis
10 1 (0.36%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 128 (46.72%) Firewall
2 107 (39.05%) WAN
3 74 (27.01%) Network Security
4 70 (25.55%) BGP
5 60 (21.90%) VPN
6 55 (20.07%) LAN
7 51 (18.61%) OSPF
8 50 (18.25%) SD-WAN
9 37 (13.50%) Wireless
10 28 (10.22%) MPLS
11 27 (9.85%) Wi-Fi
12 26 (9.49%) VLAN
13 25 (9.12%) Cisco ASA
13 25 (9.12%) Cisco IOS
14 23 (8.39%) Cisco Nexus
14 23 (8.39%) Multicast
14 23 (8.39%) VXLAN
15 20 (7.30%) Cisco ISE
16 18 (6.57%) NX-OS
17 14 (5.11%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.36%) Big Data
2 1 (0.36%) Metadata
2 1 (0.36%) MySQL
2 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 8 (2.92%) Git
2 5 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.46%) JIRA
4 3 (1.09%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (20.80%) Finance
1 57 (20.80%) Social Skills
2 26 (9.49%) Telecoms
3 23 (8.39%) Banking
3 23 (8.39%) Public Sector
4 21 (7.66%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (6.57%) Legal
6 15 (5.47%) Financial Institution
7 9 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 9 (3.28%) Marketing
8 8 (2.92%) Law
9 7 (2.55%) Retail
10 6 (2.19%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.82%) Electronics
11 5 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Front Office
13 2 (0.73%) Local Government
14 1 (0.36%) International Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 108 (39.42%) Network Engineer
2 37 (13.50%) Architect
3 33 (12.04%) Senior
4 21 (7.66%) Network Architect
5 15 (5.47%) Security Engineer
6 13 (4.74%) Project Manager
6 13 (4.74%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (4.38%) Network Security Engineer
7 12 (4.38%) Operations Engineer
8 11 (4.01%) Cisco Engineer
9 10 (3.65%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) IT Support
10 9 (3.28%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.28%) Support Engineer
11 8 (2.92%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (2.92%) IT Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Field Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.55%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.19%) REST
3 4 (1.46%) HTML
3 4 (1.46%) Jinja
3 4 (1.46%) VML
4 3 (1.09%) JSON
5 2 (0.73%) ADO
5 2 (0.73%) CSS
5 2 (0.73%) Middleware
5 2 (0.73%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.73%) SAML
5 2 (0.73%) XML
5 2 (0.73%) YANG
6 1 (0.36%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.36%) Django
6 1 (0.36%) Kafka
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.36%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.36%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 69 (25.18%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.01%) Data Protection Act
3 10 (3.65%) Hybrid Cloud
4 8 (2.92%) Cloud Native
5 7 (2.55%) Driving Licence
5 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.55%) Security Posture
6 5 (1.82%) IoT
6 5 (1.82%) PKI
7 4 (1.46%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.46%) EMC VNX
7 4 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (1.46%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.73%) Celerra
9 2 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.73%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.73%) SCADA
9 2 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 43 (15.69%) Windows
2 16 (5.84%) Linux
2 16 (5.84%) Windows Server
3 13 (4.74%) Android
3 13 (4.74%) Mac OS
4 12 (4.38%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.92%) Unix
6 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.73%) VMS
6 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Debian
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (16.06%) Migration
2 33 (12.04%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (9.85%) ITIL
4 24 (8.76%) Network Design
5 23 (8.39%) Change Management
6 20 (7.30%) Load Balancing
7 19 (6.93%) ITSM
8 18 (6.57%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (6.57%) Zero Trust
9 17 (6.20%) Agile
10 16 (5.84%) DevOps
11 15 (5.47%) CI/CD
11 15 (5.47%) Data Protection
11 15 (5.47%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (5.47%) Mentoring
12 14 (5.11%) AI
12 14 (5.11%) Validation
13 13 (4.74%) SIEM
14 12 (4.38%) Low Latency
14 12 (4.38%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 43 (15.69%) Python
2 17 (6.20%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.55%) C
4 5 (1.82%) Bash
5 3 (1.09%) C++
5 3 (1.09%) Java
5 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.73%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.36%) Ladder Logic
7 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (22.26%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (18.98%) CCNP
3 51 (18.61%) Security Cleared
4 42 (15.33%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.39%) CCIE
6 20 (7.30%) Degree
7 17 (6.20%) DV Cleared
8 13 (4.74%) CCNA
9 8 (2.92%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.19%) CCSE
10 6 (2.19%) PMP
11 4 (1.46%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.46%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.09%) CISSP
12 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.09%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.73%) HND
13 2 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
14 1 (0.36%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.01%) SLA
2 8 (2.92%) PMO
3 5 (1.82%) NIST
4 4 (1.46%) GDPR
4 4 (1.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.73%) QA
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 15 (5.47%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.11%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.55%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.82%) vSphere
5 3 (1.09%) Docker
5 3 (1.09%) Firmware
5 3 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.73%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.73%) vCloud
6 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
6 2 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) IAG
7 1 (0.36%) KVM
7 1 (0.36%) QEMU
7 1 (0.36%) Snort
7 1 (0.36%) Squid
7 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 38 (13.87%) Ansible
2 29 (10.58%) FortiGate
3 19 (6.93%) Terraform
4 17 (6.20%) Grafana
4 17 (6.20%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.65%) SCCM
6 9 (3.28%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.55%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.82%) QRadar
8 5 (1.82%) Salt
9 3 (1.09%) CASB
9 3 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.73%) Avamar
10 2 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.73%) Istio
10 2 (0.73%) Nessus
10 2 (0.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.36%) Dell DRAC
11 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 90 (32.85%) Palo Alto
2 50 (18.25%) CheckPoint
2 50 (18.25%) Fortinet
3 46 (16.79%) F5
4 45 (16.42%) Arista
5 43 (15.69%) Microsoft
6 40 (14.60%) Juniper
7 39 (14.23%) Aruba
8 29 (10.58%) ServiceNow
9 26 (9.49%) Meraki
10 25 (9.12%) Zscaler
11 18 (6.57%) Dell
11 18 (6.57%) VMware
12 15 (5.47%) HP
13 14 (5.11%) Apple
14 12 (4.38%) Splunk
15 11 (4.01%) Infoblox
16 10 (3.65%) EMC
17 9 (3.28%) Remedy
17 9 (3.28%) SolarWinds