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 27 December 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
27 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 148 93 86
Rank change year-on-year -55 -7 +33
Contract jobs citing Cisco 270 393 499
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.87% 2.65% 2.69%
As % of the Vendors category 3.97% 5.98% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 260 329
10th Percentile £304 £258 £252
25th Percentile £400 £400 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year -11.76% -1.92% +6.94%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £657 £650 £743
England median daily rate £489 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -2.25% +2.56% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 1 15
10th Percentile £21.46 - £22.15
25th Percentile - £11.25 £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.20% -61.54% +30.00%
75th Percentile - £13.75 £53.00
90th Percentile £33.90 - £77.00
England median hourly rate £48.72 £20.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +143.60% -42.86% +36.13%

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 6,794 6,574 7,554
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 47.02% 44.27% 40.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,429 4,108 5,195
10th Percentile £343 £313 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £649 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £763
England median daily rate £506 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 68 109
10th Percentile £17.55 £19.51 £16.63
25th Percentile £22.13 £23.75 £23.75
Median hourly rate £25.74 £34.75 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.94% -7.33% +45.86%
75th Percentile £41.89 £64.06 £61.25
90th Percentile £67.13 £84.28 £86.50
England median hourly rate £23.54 £30.43 £45.21
% change year-on-year -22.65% -32.69% +69.14%

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 27 December 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 27 December 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 27 December 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
West London +11 35 £425 -5.56% 11
Central London -49 25 £513 +0.49% 68
South London +6 13 £438 -7.89% 12
East London -1 3 £525 +110.00% 5
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 15 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.59%) Confluence
4 3 (1.11%) Appian
4 3 (1.11%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.37%) Apache
5 1 (0.37%) JBoss
5 1 (0.37%) WebSphere
Applications
1 25 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
2 11 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.70%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.37%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.37%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 57 (21.11%) Azure
2 42 (15.56%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (12.59%) AWS
4 23 (8.52%) GCP
5 12 (4.44%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.22%) Akamai
7 5 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (1.85%) Cloudflare
7 5 (1.85%) GitHub
7 5 (1.85%) IaaS
7 5 (1.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (1.48%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.48%) Nutanix
8 4 (1.48%) OpenDNS
8 4 (1.48%) PaaS
9 3 (1.11%) OneDrive
9 3 (1.11%) OpenShift
9 3 (1.11%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 131 (48.52%) Firewall
2 83 (30.74%) WAN
3 73 (27.04%) SD-WAN
4 72 (26.67%) LAN
5 60 (22.22%) VPN
6 56 (20.74%) Network Security
7 55 (20.37%) Wireless
8 54 (20.00%) BGP
9 51 (18.89%) Wi-Fi
10 49 (18.15%) OSPF
11 48 (17.78%) Cisco Nexus
12 24 (8.89%) DNS
13 18 (6.67%) MPLS
13 18 (6.67%) VLAN
14 17 (6.30%) Cisco ISE
14 17 (6.30%) EIGRP
15 15 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (5.56%) DHCP
15 15 (5.56%) IPsec
16 14 (5.19%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.74%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.37%) Metadata
2 1 (0.37%) MySQL
2 1 (0.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (4.07%) GitLab
2 8 (2.96%) Git
3 7 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 6 (2.22%) JIRA
5 5 (1.85%) Sonatype Nexus
6 3 (1.11%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.11%) Robot Framework
6 3 (1.11%) Selenium
6 3 (1.11%) SonarQube
7 1 (0.37%) Snyk
General
1 52 (19.26%) Social Skills
2 45 (16.67%) Finance
3 42 (15.56%) Telecoms
4 37 (13.70%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.00%) Banking
6 26 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (4.81%) Manufacturing
7 13 (4.81%) Marketing
8 12 (4.44%) Electronics
9 7 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (2.22%) Retail
11 5 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (1.48%) Legal
13 3 (1.11%) Financial Institution
14 2 (0.74%) Law
14 2 (0.74%) Military
14 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.37%) Games
15 1 (0.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 76 (28.15%) Network Engineer
2 54 (20.00%) Architect
3 42 (15.56%) Network Architect
4 19 (7.04%) IT Support
4 19 (7.04%) Senior
5 17 (6.30%) Cisco Engineer
6 15 (5.56%) Project Manager
7 14 (5.19%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 14 (5.19%) Support Engineer
8 12 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 12 (4.44%) Security Engineer
9 11 (4.07%) Desktop Support
9 11 (4.07%) IT Engineer
9 11 (4.07%) Network Design Architect
10 10 (3.70%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
12 8 (2.96%) Analyst
12 8 (2.96%) Consultant
12 8 (2.96%) IT Support Engineer
12 8 (2.96%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.59%) Jinja
2 6 (2.22%) JSON
3 5 (1.85%) NETCONF
3 5 (1.85%) XML
3 5 (1.85%) YANG
4 4 (1.48%) VML
4 4 (1.48%) XMPP
5 3 (1.11%) 802.1X
5 3 (1.11%) HTML
5 3 (1.11%) REST
6 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.37%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.37%) Beautiful Soup
7 1 (0.37%) CSS
7 1 (0.37%) eBPF
7 1 (0.37%) Kafka
7 1 (0.37%) OpenConfig
7 1 (0.37%) Pandas
7 1 (0.37%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 82 (30.37%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.81%) Driving Licence
3 11 (4.07%) Data Protection Act
4 10 (3.70%) PKI
5 9 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 7 (2.59%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.59%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.59%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.48%) Blackberry
9 3 (1.11%) Enterprise Storage
9 3 (1.11%) Handset
9 3 (1.11%) iPhone
9 3 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.11%) SCADA
9 3 (1.11%) Security Operations Centre
10 2 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
10 2 (0.74%) Life Science
10 2 (0.74%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 40 (14.81%) Windows
2 32 (11.85%) Mac OS
3 31 (11.48%) Android
4 12 (4.44%) Windows Server
5 11 (4.07%) Windows 10
6 9 (3.33%) Linux
7 2 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.74%) VMS
7 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.37%) CentOS
8 1 (0.37%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (14.44%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (13.70%) Migration
3 31 (11.48%) Network Design
4 20 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (7.41%) Network Monitoring
5 19 (7.04%) Agile
5 19 (7.04%) Change Management
5 19 (7.04%) Network Architecture
6 18 (6.67%) DevOps
7 17 (6.30%) CI/CD
7 17 (6.30%) ITIL
7 17 (6.30%) Zero Trust
8 16 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 15 (5.56%) Business Intelligence
9 15 (5.56%) Security Architecture
9 15 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (4.81%) Load Balancing
10 13 (4.81%) Roadmaps
11 12 (4.44%) Customer Service
11 12 (4.44%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 44 (16.30%) Python
2 19 (7.04%) PowerShell
3 14 (5.19%) Bash
4 7 (2.59%) JavaScript
4 7 (2.59%) Perl
5 6 (2.22%) C++
6 4 (1.48%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.11%) C
8 1 (0.37%) Go
8 1 (0.37%) Java
8 1 (0.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 77 (28.52%) Security Cleared
2 69 (25.56%) SC Cleared
3 67 (24.81%) Cisco Certification
4 55 (20.37%) CCNP
5 24 (8.89%) CCIE
6 22 (8.15%) DV Cleared
7 18 (6.67%) Degree
8 17 (6.30%) CCNA
9 9 (3.33%) CISSP
10 6 (2.22%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.22%) CCSA
10 6 (2.22%) CCSE
10 6 (2.22%) JNCIE
11 5 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (1.85%) JNCIA
11 5 (1.85%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 4 (1.48%) JNCIP
13 3 (1.11%) CISM
13 3 (1.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.07%) SLA
2 8 (2.96%) PMO
3 7 (2.59%) NIST
4 6 (2.22%) GDPR
4 6 (2.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.11%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.37%) MiFID
7 1 (0.37%) QA
System Software
1 17 (6.30%) Active Directory
2 14 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 12 (4.44%) Firmware
4 9 (3.33%) Docker
5 6 (2.22%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.85%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.85%) Snort
7 4 (1.48%) Squid
7 4 (1.48%) vSphere
8 2 (0.74%) KVM
8 2 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 32 (11.85%) Ansible
2 23 (8.52%) FortiGate
3 21 (7.78%) Terraform
4 13 (4.81%) Kubernetes
5 11 (4.07%) SCCM
6 9 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
7 6 (2.22%) Nessus
8 4 (1.48%) Nexpose
8 4 (1.48%) Suricata
9 3 (1.11%) CA Spectrum
9 3 (1.11%) CASB
9 3 (1.11%) EMC NetWorker
9 3 (1.11%) QRadar
10 2 (0.74%) Grafana
10 2 (0.74%) Istio
10 2 (0.74%) Prometheus
10 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.74%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.37%) EMC VPLEX
11 1 (0.37%) Salt
Vendors
1 65 (24.07%) Fortinet
2 53 (19.63%) Palo Alto
3 44 (16.30%) Juniper
4 43 (15.93%) Microsoft
5 34 (12.59%) F5
6 33 (12.22%) CheckPoint
7 31 (11.48%) Dell
7 31 (11.48%) HP
8 30 (11.11%) Apple
9 27 (10.00%) Meraki
10 23 (8.52%) Aruba
10 23 (8.52%) ServiceNow
11 21 (7.78%) Arista
12 20 (7.41%) Zscaler
13 19 (7.04%) VMware
14 12 (4.44%) SAP
14 12 (4.44%) SolarWinds
15 11 (4.07%) Remedy
15 11 (4.07%) Splunk
16 10 (3.70%) Google