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 28 May 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
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 164 107 113
Rank change year-on-year -57 +6 -10
Contract jobs citing Cisco 297 317 401
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.62% 2.62% 2.30%
As % of the Vendors category 3.87% 5.76% 5.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 205 203 270
10th Percentile £302 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.31%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £673 £738
England median daily rate £480 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.05% +0.05% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 19
10th Percentile £33.11 £24.66 £21.80
25th Percentile £42.06 £33.35 £23.99
Median hourly rate £47.00 £38.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +40.91% -10.57%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.94 £41.25
90th Percentile £58.63 £63.50 -
England median hourly rate £47.86 £33.52 £26.25
% change year-on-year +42.77% +27.70% -39.48%

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 7,675 5,506 7,147
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.83% 45.57% 40.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,066 3,579 4,913
10th Percentile £350 £329 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% -4.42%
75th Percentile £638 £674 £656
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £505 £521 £518
% change year-on-year -3.07% +0.68% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 106 99 129
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.31 £22.27 £17.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.50 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.56% +21.28% -11.32%
75th Percentile £50.56 £42.75 £36.75
90th Percentile £80.00 £64.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.18 £22.50
% change year-on-year +24.14% +16.36% -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 28 May 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 28 May 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 28 May 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 -38 28 £600 +11.94% 16
South London -6 16 £450 -14.29% 5
West London -38 6 £475 +11.76% 12
East London -7 4 £470 -14.55% 12
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 9 (3.03%) SharePoint
2 6 (2.02%) OpenStack
3 5 (1.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (1.35%) Confluence
5 2 (0.67%) Apache
6 1 (0.34%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.68%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 84 (28.28%) Azure
2 48 (16.16%) AWS
3 19 (6.40%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.71%) GCP
5 11 (3.70%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.69%) SaaS
7 7 (2.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.01%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (1.01%) GitHub
9 3 (1.01%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.67%) AWS IoT
10 2 (0.67%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.67%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.67%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 1 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.34%) Datadog
11 1 (0.34%) IBM Watson
11 1 (0.34%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 136 (45.79%) Firewall
2 111 (37.37%) WAN
3 80 (26.94%) Network Security
4 78 (26.26%) BGP
5 61 (20.54%) LAN
6 55 (18.52%) VPN
7 53 (17.85%) OSPF
8 42 (14.14%) SD-WAN
9 40 (13.47%) Wireless
10 31 (10.44%) VLAN
11 29 (9.76%) MPLS
11 29 (9.76%) Wi-Fi
12 28 (9.43%) VXLAN
13 26 (8.75%) Multicast
14 25 (8.42%) Cisco ISE
15 21 (7.07%) Cisco IOS
15 21 (7.07%) Cisco Nexus
16 20 (6.73%) Cisco ASA
17 18 (6.06%) DNS
18 15 (5.05%) TACACS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.01%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.34%) Apache Hive
2 1 (0.34%) Big Data
2 1 (0.34%) ClickHouse
2 1 (0.34%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.34%) Metadata
2 1 (0.34%) MySQL
2 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.36%) Git
2 5 (1.68%) JIRA
3 4 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.67%) GitLab
General
1 58 (19.53%) Finance
2 55 (18.52%) Social Skills
3 21 (7.07%) Legal
4 18 (6.06%) Telecoms
5 17 (5.72%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.72%) Banking
5 17 (5.72%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.05%) Financial Institution
7 14 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
8 9 (3.03%) Law
9 7 (2.36%) Marketing
10 6 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.68%) Retail
12 3 (1.01%) Front Office
12 3 (1.01%) Manufacturing
13 2 (0.67%) Electronics
13 2 (0.67%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.67%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 128 (43.10%) Network Engineer
2 50 (16.84%) Architect
3 36 (12.12%) Senior
4 28 (9.43%) Network Architect
5 19 (6.40%) Security Engineer
5 19 (6.40%) Senior Network Engineer
6 17 (5.72%) Network Security Engineer
7 15 (5.05%) Cisco Engineer
8 13 (4.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 12 (4.04%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.70%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (3.70%) Operations Engineer
11 9 (3.03%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 8 (2.69%) Project Manager
12 8 (2.69%) Security Architect
13 7 (2.36%) IT Support
13 7 (2.36%) Network Security Architect
14 6 (2.02%) Azure Engineer
14 6 (2.02%) Cisco Architect
14 6 (2.02%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (4.04%) 802.1X
2 7 (2.36%) REST
3 4 (1.35%) Jinja
4 3 (1.01%) HTML
4 3 (1.01%) SAML
5 2 (0.67%) ADO
5 2 (0.67%) CSS
5 2 (0.67%) Middleware
5 2 (0.67%) VML
6 1 (0.34%) .NET
6 1 (0.34%) .NET Core
6 1 (0.34%) ASP.NET
6 1 (0.34%) Blazor
6 1 (0.34%) Django
6 1 (0.34%) JSON
6 1 (0.34%) Kafka
6 1 (0.34%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.34%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.34%) XML
6 1 (0.34%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 76 (25.59%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.04%) Data Protection Act
2 12 (4.04%) Hybrid Cloud
3 11 (3.70%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (3.03%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.69%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.36%) Security Posture
7 6 (2.02%) PKI
7 6 (2.02%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.68%) IoT
8 5 (1.68%) Web Conferencing
9 3 (1.01%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.67%) BYOD
10 2 (0.67%) Celerra
10 2 (0.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 2 (0.67%) EMC VMAX
10 2 (0.67%) EMC VNX
10 2 (0.67%) IBM XIV
10 2 (0.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 46 (15.49%) Windows
2 17 (5.72%) Linux
3 16 (5.39%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.69%) Unix
5 5 (1.68%) Mac OS
5 5 (1.68%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.01%) Android
6 3 (1.01%) VMS
7 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.34%) CentOS
8 1 (0.34%) Debian
8 1 (0.34%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (16.16%) Migration
2 31 (10.44%) Problem-Solving
3 25 (8.42%) ITIL
3 25 (8.42%) Network Design
4 22 (7.41%) Agile
4 22 (7.41%) Runbook
5 21 (7.07%) Mentoring
5 21 (7.07%) Zero Trust
6 19 (6.40%) Infrastructure as Code
7 18 (6.06%) Data Protection
7 18 (6.06%) Technical Leadership
8 16 (5.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 16 (5.39%) ITSM
8 16 (5.39%) Low Latency
8 16 (5.39%) Validation
9 15 (5.05%) Change Management
9 15 (5.05%) CI/CD
9 15 (5.05%) Incident Response
9 15 (5.05%) Load Balancing
9 15 (5.05%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.48%) Python
2 15 (5.05%) PowerShell
3 6 (2.02%) C
4 4 (1.35%) Bash
5 3 (1.01%) C++
5 3 (1.01%) Java
5 3 (1.01%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.67%) ActionScript
6 2 (0.67%) Lisp
6 2 (0.67%) SQL
7 1 (0.34%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 69 (23.23%) Cisco Certification
2 60 (20.20%) CCNP
3 42 (14.14%) Security Cleared
4 33 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 22 (7.41%) Degree
6 20 (6.73%) CCIE
7 13 (4.38%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.37%) CCNA
9 9 (3.03%) Azure Certification
10 7 (2.36%) CCSE
11 6 (2.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (1.68%) PMP
13 4 (1.35%) JNCIP
14 3 (1.01%) JNCIE
14 3 (1.01%) PMI Certification
15 2 (0.67%) CCIE Security
15 2 (0.67%) CISSP
15 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Certification
16 1 (0.34%) HND
16 1 (0.34%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.37%) SLA
2 5 (1.68%) GDPR
2 5 (1.68%) NIST
2 5 (1.68%) PMO
3 4 (1.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (1.35%) QA
4 2 (0.67%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.34%) GRC
5 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
System Software
1 20 (6.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (6.06%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.02%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.68%) Firmware
4 5 (1.68%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.68%) vSphere
5 4 (1.35%) Hyper-V
6 2 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.67%) vCloud
6 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
6 2 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.34%) Docker
7 1 (0.34%) IAG
7 1 (0.34%) KVM
7 1 (0.34%) QEMU
7 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.34%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 47 (15.82%) Ansible
2 30 (10.10%) FortiGate
3 25 (8.42%) Terraform
4 18 (6.06%) Grafana
5 17 (5.72%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.02%) Kubernetes
7 6 (2.02%) SCCM
8 5 (1.68%) Cisco CUCM
8 5 (1.68%) QRadar
8 5 (1.68%) Salt
9 4 (1.35%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.67%) Avamar
11 2 (0.67%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.67%) Istio
12 1 (0.34%) CASB
12 1 (0.34%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.34%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 97 (32.66%) Palo Alto
2 55 (18.52%) Fortinet
3 53 (17.85%) Arista
4 50 (16.84%) Microsoft
5 47 (15.82%) CheckPoint
6 45 (15.15%) Aruba
7 43 (14.48%) F5
8 37 (12.46%) Juniper
9 28 (9.43%) Zscaler
10 24 (8.08%) Meraki
10 24 (8.08%) ServiceNow
10 24 (8.08%) VMware
11 11 (3.70%) Infoblox
12 10 (3.37%) SolarWinds
12 10 (3.37%) Splunk
13 9 (3.03%) Dell
13 9 (3.03%) EMC
14 6 (2.02%) BigPanda
14 6 (2.02%) BT
15 5 (1.68%) Salesforce