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 17 September 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
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 120 103 80
Rank change year-on-year -17 -23 +36
Contract jobs citing Cisco 319 385 640
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.37% 2.38% 2.92%
As % of the Vendors category 5.15% 5.49% 7.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 210 248 436
10th Percentile £331 £250 £228
25th Percentile £406 £361 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £583 £588 £600
90th Percentile £660 £650 £743
England median daily rate £500 £500 £461
% change year-on-year - +8.52% -2.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 10 12
10th Percentile - £19.58 £21.85
25th Percentile - £23.80 £22.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.99 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +4.84% -21.98% +28.61%
75th Percentile £35.35 £30.25 £46.06
90th Percentile £62.55 £33.73 £77.38
England median hourly rate £30.00 £25.59 £47.50
% change year-on-year +17.23% -46.13% +90.00%

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 6,195 7,007 8,967
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.12% 43.39% 40.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,009 4,543 6,289
10th Percentile £325 £313 £315
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% -3.08%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 120 78 113
10th Percentile £16.50 £18.13 £16.88
25th Percentile £23.00 £23.80 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.30 £30.80 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -17.88% +50.00%
75th Percentile £38.75 £64.69 £57.50
90th Percentile £63.88 £79.13 £69.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £33.25 £42.75
% change year-on-year -24.36% -22.22% +78.80%

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
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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -19 50 £525 +16.67% 30
West London +20 41 £425 -15.00% 9
South London +8 16 £525 +16.67% 6
East London +5 4 £550 +144.44% 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 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (2.19%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.25%) Skype for Business
4 3 (0.94%) Confluence
5 2 (0.63%) Appian
5 2 (0.63%) nginx
6 1 (0.31%) Apache
6 1 (0.31%) IIS
6 1 (0.31%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (5.96%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (2.19%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.31%) AutoCAD
4 1 (0.31%) OmniGraffle
4 1 (0.31%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.31%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 65 (20.38%) Azure
2 51 (15.99%) AWS
3 31 (9.72%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (5.33%) Entra ID
5 13 (4.08%) GCP
6 10 (3.13%) Akamai
7 6 (1.88%) Nutanix
8 5 (1.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 5 (1.57%) Azure Sentinel
8 5 (1.57%) IaaS
8 5 (1.57%) Serverless
9 4 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (1.25%) PaaS
9 4 (1.25%) Power Platform
9 4 (1.25%) SaaS
10 3 (0.94%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (0.94%) OneDrive
10 3 (0.94%) OpenDNS
10 3 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 160 (50.16%) Firewall
2 79 (24.76%) WAN
3 77 (24.14%) BGP
3 77 (24.14%) LAN
4 74 (23.20%) SD-WAN
5 72 (22.57%) OSPF
6 65 (20.38%) Cisco Nexus
7 58 (18.18%) Network Security
8 57 (17.87%) DNS
8 57 (17.87%) VPN
9 47 (14.73%) Wi-Fi
10 46 (14.42%) Wireless
11 37 (11.60%) DHCP
12 29 (9.09%) VLAN
13 27 (8.46%) MPLS
13 27 (8.46%) TCP/IP
14 25 (7.84%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
15 24 (7.52%) Cisco ASA
15 24 (7.52%) Cisco ISE
15 24 (7.52%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.51%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.57%) MySQL
2 5 (1.57%) NoSQL
3 3 (0.94%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.63%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.31%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.31%) Power BI
5 1 (0.31%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (4.08%) Sonatype Nexus
2 12 (3.76%) GitLab
3 10 (3.13%) Git
4 6 (1.88%) JIRA
5 2 (0.63%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.63%) Cucumber
5 2 (0.63%) eggPlant
5 2 (0.63%) Robot Framework
5 2 (0.63%) Selenium
5 2 (0.63%) Snyk
5 2 (0.63%) SonarQube
6 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.31%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.31%) Mercurial
6 1 (0.31%) Subversion
General
1 57 (17.87%) Finance
2 54 (16.93%) Social Skills
3 29 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 28 (8.78%) Banking
5 23 (7.21%) Telecoms
6 9 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
6 9 (2.82%) Legal
7 8 (2.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (2.51%) Law
8 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 3 (0.94%) Electronics
9 3 (0.94%) Financial Institution
9 3 (0.94%) Local Government
9 3 (0.94%) Marketing
9 3 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Front Office
10 2 (0.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (0.63%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.63%) Retail
Job Titles
1 109 (34.17%) Network Engineer
2 51 (15.99%) Architect
3 36 (11.29%) Network Architect
4 35 (10.97%) Cisco Engineer
5 33 (10.34%) Senior
6 29 (9.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 17 (5.33%) Consultant
8 16 (5.02%) Security Engineer
9 14 (4.39%) Juniper Engineer
9 14 (4.39%) Senior Network Engineer
10 12 (3.76%) Analyst
10 12 (3.76%) Network Security Engineer
11 11 (3.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (3.45%) Network Design Architect
11 11 (3.45%) Network Specialist
12 10 (3.13%) IT Engineer
12 10 (3.13%) Technical Architect
12 10 (3.13%) WAN Engineer
13 9 (2.82%) Python Engineer
13 9 (2.82%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.82%) XMPP
2 8 (2.51%) JSON
3 7 (2.19%) Jinja
4 6 (1.88%) 802.1X
5 5 (1.57%) XML
6 4 (1.25%) .NET
6 4 (1.25%) ASP.NET
6 4 (1.25%) NETCONF
6 4 (1.25%) YANG
7 3 (0.94%) Kafka
7 3 (0.94%) REST
8 2 (0.63%) .NET Core
8 2 (0.63%) .NET Framework
8 2 (0.63%) ASP.NET MVC
8 2 (0.63%) Blazor
8 2 (0.63%) React
8 2 (0.63%) RESTCONF
9 1 (0.31%) eBPF
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Graph
9 1 (0.31%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 66 (20.69%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.08%) Driving Licence
3 12 (3.76%) Data Protection Act
3 12 (3.76%) PKI
4 10 (3.13%) Security Posture
5 8 (2.51%) Enterprise Storage
5 8 (2.51%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.51%) Video Conferencing
6 6 (1.88%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.57%) Blackberry
7 5 (1.57%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.25%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.25%) Hedge funds
8 4 (1.25%) iPhone
8 4 (1.25%) Video\Live Streaming
9 3 (0.94%) BYOD
9 3 (0.94%) Handset
9 3 (0.94%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.94%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.99%) Windows
2 26 (8.15%) Linux
3 16 (5.02%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.08%) Android
5 12 (3.76%) Mac OS
6 5 (1.57%) Windows 10
7 4 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (1.25%) Unix
8 3 (0.94%) CentOS
8 3 (0.94%) Mac OS X
8 3 (0.94%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.63%) VMS
9 2 (0.63%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
9 2 (0.63%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.31%) CatOS
10 1 (0.31%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (11.91%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (11.60%) Network Monitoring
3 33 (10.34%) ITIL
4 31 (9.72%) Migration
5 24 (7.52%) Network Design
6 20 (6.27%) High Availability
7 18 (5.64%) Change Management
7 18 (5.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (5.33%) Customer Service
8 17 (5.33%) DevOps
9 16 (5.02%) Agile
9 16 (5.02%) Infrastructure as Code
10 15 (4.70%) Network Segmentation
11 14 (4.39%) CI/CD
11 14 (4.39%) Computer Science
12 13 (4.08%) Cybersecurity
12 13 (4.08%) Data Protection
13 12 (3.76%) Incident Response
13 12 (3.76%) Network Architecture
13 12 (3.76%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 57 (17.87%) Python
2 17 (5.33%) PowerShell
3 15 (4.70%) Bash
3 15 (4.70%) SQL
4 10 (3.13%) Perl
5 7 (2.19%) C++
6 6 (1.88%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.94%) Go
7 3 (0.94%) Java
7 3 (0.94%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.63%) C#
8 2 (0.63%) VB
9 1 (0.31%) C
9 1 (0.31%) PHP
9 1 (0.31%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (26.02%) Cisco Certification
1 83 (26.02%) Security Cleared
2 77 (24.14%) SC Cleared
3 66 (20.69%) CCNP
4 23 (7.21%) Degree
5 21 (6.58%) CCIE
6 20 (6.27%) CCNA
7 17 (5.33%) DV Cleared
8 14 (4.39%) Computer Science Degree
9 11 (3.45%) JNCIA
10 9 (2.82%) CCSA
11 7 (2.19%) JNCIS
12 6 (1.88%) AWS Certification
12 6 (1.88%) CISSP
12 6 (1.88%) JNCIE
13 5 (1.57%) CCSE
13 5 (1.57%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.25%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (1.25%) JNCIP
15 2 (0.63%) CCIE Data Center
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.08%) SLA
2 10 (3.13%) NIST
3 5 (1.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.94%) GDPR
5 2 (0.63%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.63%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.63%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.31%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.31%) QA
System Software
1 41 (12.85%) Active Directory
2 25 (7.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (5.96%) Firmware
4 9 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (2.51%) Hyper-V
6 7 (2.19%) Docker
7 6 (1.88%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.25%) KVM
8 4 (1.25%) Snort
8 4 (1.25%) vSphere
9 3 (0.94%) Squid
9 3 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.63%) XenApp
11 1 (0.31%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.31%) Xen
Systems Management
1 46 (14.42%) Ansible
2 18 (5.64%) FortiGate
3 15 (4.70%) Terraform
4 11 (3.45%) Kubernetes
5 9 (2.82%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.88%) NetBackup
6 6 (1.88%) SCCM
7 5 (1.57%) CA Spectrum
7 5 (1.57%) QRadar
8 4 (1.25%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (1.25%) McAfee ePO
9 3 (0.94%) Nagios
9 3 (0.94%) Nessus
9 3 (0.94%) Nexpose
9 3 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.94%) Suricata
9 3 (0.94%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.63%) CASB
10 2 (0.63%) Observium
10 2 (0.63%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 76 (23.82%) Fortinet
2 59 (18.50%) Palo Alto
3 55 (17.24%) Microsoft
4 50 (15.67%) Juniper
5 49 (15.36%) F5
6 42 (13.17%) CheckPoint
7 40 (12.54%) VMware
8 29 (9.09%) SolarWinds
9 28 (8.78%) Meraki
10 27 (8.46%) Arista
11 24 (7.52%) Dell
12 17 (5.33%) HP
12 17 (5.33%) ServiceNow
13 14 (4.39%) Splunk
14 13 (4.08%) Apple
15 12 (3.76%) Google
15 12 (3.76%) Infoblox
16 11 (3.45%) Zscaler
17 8 (2.51%) AlgoSec
17 8 (2.51%) Brocade