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 1 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
1 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 173 100 97
Rank change year-on-year -73 -3 +15
Contract jobs citing Cisco 274 329 425
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 2.61% 2.35%
As % of the Vendors category 3.68% 5.78% 5.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 222 275
10th Percentile £315 £319 £244
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +0.05% -4.31%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £748
England median daily rate £496 £505 £487
% change year-on-year -1.74% +3.75% +2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 6 15
10th Percentile £21.27 £24.66 £18.90
25th Percentile £21.46 £27.56 £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.25 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.03% +26.92% +26.41%
75th Percentile £29.02 £57.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £55.25 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £37.07 £25.00
% change year-on-year +75.33% +48.29% -24.24%

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 7,448 5,693 7,267
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.09% 45.09% 40.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,925 3,739 4,974
10th Percentile £350 £325 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% - -4.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £763 £763
England median daily rate £500 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 87 144
10th Percentile £18.01 £17.58 £13.55
25th Percentile £20.96 £23.80 £16.97
Median hourly rate £27.61 £29.07 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +16.62% -3.04%
75th Percentile £41.75 £55.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £67.26 £70.75 £71.25
England median hourly rate £25.77 £29.07 £24.00
% change year-on-year -11.35% +21.13% -33.33%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -47 19 £593 +7.87% 34
South London -3 17 £450 -7.69% 4
West London -37 3 £423 +5.63% 12
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England

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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 11 (4.01%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.55%) Confluence
4 3 (1.09%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 11 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.65%) Microsoft Office
3 9 (3.28%) MS Visio
4 7 (2.55%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (1.09%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 74 (27.01%) Azure
2 39 (14.23%) AWS
3 31 (11.31%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (7.30%) GCP
5 14 (5.11%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.92%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (2.92%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (2.19%) GitHub
8 4 (1.46%) Cloudflare
9 3 (1.09%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.73%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.73%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.73%) OCI
10 2 (0.73%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.73%) OpenDNS
10 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.73%) ShareGate
10 2 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.36%) Apigee
Communications & Networking
1 132 (48.18%) Firewall
2 110 (40.15%) WAN
3 74 (27.01%) Network Security
4 71 (25.91%) BGP
5 65 (23.72%) VPN
6 57 (20.80%) LAN
7 54 (19.71%) OSPF
8 52 (18.98%) SD-WAN
9 40 (14.60%) Wireless
10 29 (10.58%) MPLS
11 27 (9.85%) Cisco ASA
11 27 (9.85%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (9.12%) Cisco IOS
13 24 (8.76%) Multicast
13 24 (8.76%) VLAN
14 23 (8.39%) Cisco Nexus
15 19 (6.93%) Cisco ISE
16 18 (6.57%) VXLAN
17 17 (6.20%) NX-OS
18 15 (5.47%) 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%) JIRA
2 7 (2.55%) Git
2 7 (2.55%) GitLab
3 5 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 5 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 64 (23.36%) Finance
2 55 (20.07%) Social Skills
3 26 (9.49%) Telecoms
4 25 (9.12%) Banking
5 24 (8.76%) Public Sector
6 19 (6.93%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.47%) Financial Institution
7 15 (5.47%) Legal
8 11 (4.01%) Marketing
9 10 (3.65%) Electronics
9 10 (3.65%) Manufacturing
10 8 (2.92%) Law
11 7 (2.55%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.19%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (2.19%) Retail
13 2 (0.73%) Front Office
13 2 (0.73%) Local Government
13 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 99 (36.13%) Network Engineer
2 42 (15.33%) Architect
3 36 (13.14%) Senior
4 24 (8.76%) Network Architect
5 15 (5.47%) Project Manager
6 14 (5.11%) IT Support
6 14 (5.11%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (4.38%) Cisco Engineer
7 12 (4.38%) Operations Engineer
7 12 (4.38%) Security Engineer
7 12 (4.38%) Solutions Architect
8 11 (4.01%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 10 (3.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (3.28%) Security Architect
11 8 (2.92%) Automation Engineer
11 8 (2.92%) IT Engineer
11 8 (2.92%) Network Manager
11 8 (2.92%) Network Security Engineer
11 8 (2.92%) Support Engineer
12 7 (2.55%) Support Specialist
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%) Microsoft Graph
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%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.36%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.36%) Django
6 1 (0.36%) Kafka
6 1 (0.36%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.36%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 75 (27.37%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.01%) Hybrid Cloud
3 10 (3.65%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.92%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.92%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.19%) Cloud Native
5 6 (2.19%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.19%) PKI
5 6 (2.19%) Public Cloud
6 4 (1.46%) EMC VNX
6 4 (1.46%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (1.09%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
7 3 (1.09%) SCADA
8 2 (0.73%) Celerra
8 2 (0.73%) EMC Centera
8 2 (0.73%) IBM XIV
8 2 (0.73%) IoT
8 2 (0.73%) Private Cloud
8 2 (0.73%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.60%) Windows
2 17 (6.20%) Android
3 16 (5.84%) Mac OS
4 13 (4.74%) Linux
5 12 (4.38%) Windows 10
5 12 (4.38%) Windows Server
6 8 (2.92%) Unix
7 4 (1.46%) VMS
8 1 (0.36%) CentOS
8 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
8 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (14.96%) Migration
2 31 (11.31%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (9.12%) ITIL
4 24 (8.76%) Change Management
4 24 (8.76%) Network Design
5 23 (8.39%) Agile
6 22 (8.03%) Load Balancing
6 22 (8.03%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (7.30%) DevOps
8 19 (6.93%) Infrastructure as Code
9 18 (6.57%) CI/CD
9 18 (6.57%) Zero Trust
10 17 (6.20%) Network Architecture
11 16 (5.84%) ITSM
11 16 (5.84%) SIEM
12 14 (5.11%) AI
13 13 (4.74%) Incident Response
13 13 (4.74%) Low Latency
13 13 (4.74%) Project Delivery
13 13 (4.74%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.96%) Python
2 17 (6.20%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.82%) Bash
4 4 (1.46%) C
5 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.73%) ActionScript
6 2 (0.73%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 62 (22.63%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (18.98%) Security Cleared
3 51 (18.61%) CCNP
4 45 (16.42%) SC Cleared
5 24 (8.76%) CCIE
6 21 (7.66%) Degree
7 16 (5.84%) DV Cleared
8 14 (5.11%) CCNA
9 8 (2.92%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.55%) CISSP
11 6 (2.19%) CCSE
12 5 (1.82%) PMP
13 4 (1.46%) JNCIP
14 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
14 3 (1.09%) HND
14 3 (1.09%) JNCIE
14 3 (1.09%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.73%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
15 2 (0.73%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.65%) PMO
1 10 (3.65%) SLA
2 8 (2.92%) NIST
3 7 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (2.19%) GDPR
5 2 (0.73%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.36%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.36%) MiFID
6 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 14 (5.11%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (4.74%) Active Directory
3 7 (2.55%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.82%) vSphere
5 3 (1.09%) Docker
6 2 (0.73%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.73%) Firmware
6 2 (0.73%) Snort
6 2 (0.73%) Squid
6 2 (0.73%) vCloud
6 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.36%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.36%) IAG
7 1 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 40 (14.60%) Ansible
2 26 (9.49%) FortiGate
3 20 (7.30%) Terraform
4 17 (6.20%) Grafana
4 17 (6.20%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.65%) SCCM
6 7 (2.55%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.19%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.82%) QRadar
8 5 (1.82%) Salt
9 4 (1.46%) CASB
9 4 (1.46%) Nessus
10 3 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
11 2 (0.73%) Avamar
11 2 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
11 2 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.73%) Istio
11 2 (0.73%) Nexpose
11 2 (0.73%) Suricata
11 2 (0.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 92 (33.58%) Palo Alto
2 49 (17.88%) F5
2 49 (17.88%) Fortinet
3 47 (17.15%) CheckPoint
4 46 (16.79%) Arista
5 43 (15.69%) Aruba
6 42 (15.33%) Juniper
6 42 (15.33%) Microsoft
7 32 (11.68%) ServiceNow
8 26 (9.49%) Zscaler
9 23 (8.39%) Meraki
10 19 (6.93%) Dell
11 18 (6.57%) HP
12 17 (6.20%) Apple
12 17 (6.20%) VMware
13 14 (5.11%) Splunk
14 12 (4.38%) Infoblox
15 10 (3.65%) EMC
15 10 (3.65%) SAP
16 9 (3.28%) Remedy