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 5 November 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
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 91 83
Rank change year-on-year -40 -8 +30
Contract jobs citing Cisco 296 413 555
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.15% 2.64% 2.76%
As % of the Vendors category 4.63% 6.06% 6.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 194 272 374
10th Percentile £325 £258 £252
25th Percentile £400 £387 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £653 £650 £700
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 11
10th Percentile - £14.03 £21.75
25th Percentile - £18.19 £23.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.40 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -27.15% +23.00%
75th Percentile - £34.10 £56.13
90th Percentile £68.39 £52.64 £77.50
England median hourly rate £30.00 £23.10 £43.38
% change year-on-year +29.87% -46.74% +68.71%

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 6,395 6,818 8,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.48% 43.64% 41.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,130 4,281 5,746
10th Percentile £325 £313 £306
25th Percentile £420 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.50% -3.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £775
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 61 112
10th Percentile £17.50 £20.50 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.50 £25.75 £22.69
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -2.47% +60.40%
75th Percentile £38.13 £66.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.75 £100.00 £85.95
England median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.36% -21.35% +73.08%

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 5 November 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 5 November 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 5 November 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 -39 40 £525 +9.42% 157
West London +22 38 £425 -12.82% 66
South London 0 13 £563 +18.42% 92
East London +3 4 £555 +146.67% 56
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 (4.39%) SharePoint
2 12 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.03%) Confluence
4 3 (1.01%) Appian
5 2 (0.68%) nginx
6 1 (0.34%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Mattermost
6 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.34%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 26 (8.78%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.38%) MS Visio
4 6 (2.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.34%) AutoCAD
6 1 (0.34%) OmniGraffle
6 1 (0.34%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.34%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 61 (20.61%) Azure
2 37 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (11.82%) AWS
4 19 (6.42%) GCP
5 15 (5.07%) Entra ID
6 11 (3.72%) Akamai
7 7 (2.36%) GitHub
8 6 (2.03%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.03%) Nutanix
9 5 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.69%) IaaS
10 4 (1.35%) Cloudflare
10 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
10 4 (1.35%) Mimecast
10 4 (1.35%) OpenDNS
10 4 (1.35%) PaaS
10 4 (1.35%) SaaS
11 3 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (1.01%) Tricentis Tosca
11 3 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 142 (47.97%) Firewall
2 73 (24.66%) LAN
2 73 (24.66%) WAN
3 66 (22.30%) SD-WAN
4 63 (21.28%) BGP
5 58 (19.59%) OSPF
6 56 (18.92%) Cisco Nexus
7 54 (18.24%) VPN
8 51 (17.23%) Wireless
9 47 (15.88%) Network Security
10 42 (14.19%) Wi-Fi
11 38 (12.84%) DNS
12 26 (8.78%) DHCP
12 26 (8.78%) VLAN
13 21 (7.09%) IPsec
13 21 (7.09%) TCP/IP
14 19 (6.42%) Cisco ISE
14 19 (6.42%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
14 19 (6.42%) MPLS
15 16 (5.41%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.68%) NoSQL
1 2 (0.68%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.34%) MySQL
2 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.34%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (4.05%) Git
2 11 (3.72%) GitLab
3 8 (2.70%) JIRA
4 7 (2.36%) Sonatype Nexus
5 6 (2.03%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.01%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.01%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.01%) Selenium
6 3 (1.01%) SonarQube
7 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.68%) Snyk
8 1 (0.34%) Mercurial
8 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 56 (18.92%) Finance
2 52 (17.57%) Social Skills
3 40 (13.51%) Telecoms
4 32 (10.81%) Public Sector
5 28 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
6 26 (8.78%) Banking
7 13 (4.39%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.39%) Marketing
8 12 (4.05%) Electronics
9 7 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.03%) Law
11 5 (1.69%) Legal
12 4 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Local Government
13 3 (1.01%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.68%) Front Office
14 2 (0.68%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.68%) Military
14 2 (0.68%) Retail
Job Titles
1 88 (29.73%) Network Engineer
2 46 (15.54%) Architect
3 31 (10.47%) Network Architect
4 30 (10.14%) Cisco Engineer
5 25 (8.45%) Senior
6 23 (7.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 15 (5.07%) IT Support
7 15 (5.07%) Security Engineer
8 14 (4.73%) Consultant
8 14 (4.73%) Project Manager
9 13 (4.39%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 13 (4.39%) Juniper Engineer
10 11 (3.72%) Network Design Architect
11 10 (3.38%) Analyst
11 10 (3.38%) Desktop Support
11 10 (3.38%) Solutions Architect
12 9 (3.04%) IT Engineer
12 9 (3.04%) Network Security Engineer
13 8 (2.70%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
13 8 (2.70%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.04%) XMPP
2 8 (2.70%) Jinja
3 6 (2.03%) JSON
3 6 (2.03%) NETCONF
3 6 (2.03%) XML
3 6 (2.03%) YANG
4 5 (1.69%) REST
5 2 (0.68%) RESTCONF
6 1 (0.34%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.34%) 802.1X
6 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.34%) Blazor
6 1 (0.34%) eBPF
6 1 (0.34%) Kafka
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.34%) Node.js
6 1 (0.34%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.34%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.34%) Spring Boot
6 1 (0.34%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 82 (27.70%) Data Centre
2 11 (3.72%) Driving Licence
2 11 (3.72%) PKI
3 9 (3.04%) Enterprise Storage
4 8 (2.70%) Onboarding
4 8 (2.70%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.36%) Management Information System
5 7 (2.36%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.03%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.69%) Blackberry
8 4 (1.35%) SCADA
8 4 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 3 (1.01%) BYOD
9 3 (1.01%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (1.01%) Handset
9 3 (1.01%) iPhone
10 2 (0.68%) Clustering
10 2 (0.68%) Thin Client
10 2 (0.68%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 37 (12.50%) Windows
2 25 (8.45%) Mac OS
3 24 (8.11%) Android
4 18 (6.08%) Linux
5 11 (3.72%) Windows Server
6 4 (1.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (1.01%) CentOS
8 2 (0.68%) VMS
8 2 (0.68%) Windows 10
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
9 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (13.18%) Problem-Solving
2 31 (10.47%) Migration
3 29 (9.80%) Network Design
4 28 (9.46%) Network Monitoring
5 25 (8.45%) ITIL
6 19 (6.42%) Agile
6 19 (6.42%) Change Management
6 19 (6.42%) Infrastructure as Code
6 19 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 19 (6.42%) Network Architecture
7 18 (6.08%) High Availability
8 16 (5.41%) CI/CD
8 16 (5.41%) DevOps
9 15 (5.07%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (5.07%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (4.39%) Customer Service
11 12 (4.05%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (4.05%) Digital Marketing
11 12 (4.05%) Network Segmentation
11 12 (4.05%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 53 (17.91%) Python
2 21 (7.09%) PowerShell
3 15 (5.07%) Bash
4 9 (3.04%) Perl
5 8 (2.70%) C++
6 6 (2.03%) SQL
7 5 (1.69%) JavaScript
8 4 (1.35%) Kusto Query Language
9 3 (1.01%) Go
9 3 (1.01%) Java
10 1 (0.34%) C
10 1 (0.34%) PHP
10 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 78 (26.35%) Cisco Certification
3 74 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 57 (19.26%) CCNP
5 27 (9.12%) Degree
6 21 (7.09%) CCNA
7 20 (6.76%) CCIE
8 18 (6.08%) DV Cleared
9 12 (4.05%) CISSP
10 10 (3.38%) Computer Science Degree
11 9 (3.04%) JNCIA
12 7 (2.36%) CCSA
12 7 (2.36%) JNCIS
13 6 (2.03%) JNCIE
14 5 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
15 4 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
15 4 (1.35%) CCSE
15 4 (1.35%) CISM
15 4 (1.35%) JNCIP
15 4 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.05%) SLA
2 9 (3.04%) NIST
3 7 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (2.36%) PMO
4 5 (1.69%) GDPR
5 3 (1.01%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 30 (10.14%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (6.08%) Firmware
4 9 (3.04%) Docker
5 7 (2.36%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.03%) Hyper-V
7 5 (1.69%) Snort
7 5 (1.69%) VMware NSX
8 4 (1.35%) Squid
9 3 (1.01%) vSphere
10 2 (0.68%) KVM
11 1 (0.34%) Microsoft App-V
11 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.34%) Xen
Systems Management
1 42 (14.19%) Ansible
2 24 (8.11%) FortiGate
3 17 (5.74%) Terraform
4 12 (4.05%) Kubernetes
5 9 (3.04%) Microsoft Intune
6 7 (2.36%) SCCM
7 6 (2.03%) Nessus
7 6 (2.03%) NetBackup
8 4 (1.35%) CA Spectrum
8 4 (1.35%) Nexpose
8 4 (1.35%) Suricata
9 3 (1.01%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (1.01%) QRadar
9 3 (1.01%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (1.01%) vCenter Server
10 2 (0.68%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.68%) HAProxy
10 2 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
10 2 (0.68%) vMotion
Vendors
1 69 (23.31%) Fortinet
2 59 (19.93%) Microsoft
3 58 (19.59%) Palo Alto
4 49 (16.55%) Juniper
5 41 (13.85%) F5
6 31 (10.47%) Dell
7 29 (9.80%) CheckPoint
8 28 (9.46%) VMware
9 24 (8.11%) HP
10 23 (7.77%) Apple
11 22 (7.43%) Arista
12 21 (7.09%) Meraki
13 20 (6.76%) ServiceNow
14 18 (6.08%) SolarWinds
15 14 (4.73%) Splunk
16 12 (4.05%) SAP
16 12 (4.05%) Zscaler
17 11 (3.72%) Isilon
18 9 (3.04%) Aruba
18 9 (3.04%) Google