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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 157 110 101
Rank change year-on-year -47 -9 -17
Contract jobs citing Cisco 360 358 400
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.79% 2.63% 2.45%
As % of the Vendors category 4.26% 5.73% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 249 229 271
10th Percentile £324 £325 £250
25th Percentile £400 £406 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.85%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £550
90th Percentile £700 £655 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +8.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 16 13
10th Percentile £29.00 - £16.90
25th Percentile £40.13 - £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £24.18
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% +4.01% -13.26%
75th Percentile £61.88 £41.88 £30.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £63.41 -
England median hourly rate £54.88 £30.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year +82.92% +20.00% -42.86%

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 8,453 6,253 6,983
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.94% 45.86% 42.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,519 4,084 4,796
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £754 £763
England median daily rate £510 £510 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 121 88
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £16.68
25th Percentile £20.79 £22.50 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -13.95%
75th Percentile £57.86 £43.75 £60.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £35.52 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +41.21% -10.18% -29.20%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 -18 50 £550 +2.61% 36
South London -10 21 £463 -11.90% 8
West London -48 7 £513 +20.59% 9
East London +3 4 £470 -14.55% 7
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 (3.61%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.11%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.83%) JBoss
5 2 (0.56%) Apache
5 2 (0.56%) Confluence
6 1 (0.28%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.28%) CloudStack
Applications
1 12 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.56%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 102 (28.33%) Azure
2 51 (14.17%) AWS
3 25 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (5.83%) Entra ID
5 14 (3.89%) GCP
6 12 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 9 (2.50%) GitHub
7 9 (2.50%) OneDrive
8 8 (2.22%) SaaS
9 5 (1.39%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.39%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.83%) Mimecast
10 3 (0.83%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.83%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.56%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.56%) IaaS
11 2 (0.56%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.28%) Azure Sentinel
12 1 (0.28%) IBM Watson
12 1 (0.28%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 182 (50.56%) Firewall
2 99 (27.50%) WAN
3 96 (26.67%) BGP
4 85 (23.61%) Network Security
5 62 (17.22%) VPN
6 59 (16.39%) LAN
7 57 (15.83%) OSPF
8 54 (15.00%) Wireless
9 51 (14.17%) VLAN
10 41 (11.39%) DNS
11 39 (10.83%) Wi-Fi
12 34 (9.44%) Cisco ISE
13 33 (9.17%) SD-WAN
13 33 (9.17%) TCP/IP
14 31 (8.61%) Cisco IOS
14 31 (8.61%) MPLS
14 31 (8.61%) Multicast
15 29 (8.06%) VXLAN
16 27 (7.50%) DHCP
17 25 (6.94%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.83%) Big Data
2 3 (0.83%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.56%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.28%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.28%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.28%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 12 (3.33%) Git
2 6 (1.67%) JIRA
3 5 (1.39%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.56%) Jenkins
General
1 81 (22.50%) Social Skills
2 59 (16.39%) Finance
3 28 (7.78%) Banking
4 27 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (6.11%) Telecoms
6 20 (5.56%) Public Sector
7 19 (5.28%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (5.00%) Financial Institution
9 12 (3.33%) Legal
10 7 (1.94%) Law
11 6 (1.67%) Retail
12 5 (1.39%) Local Government
12 5 (1.39%) Marketing
13 4 (1.11%) Automotive
13 4 (1.11%) Front Office
14 3 (0.83%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.28%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 175 (48.61%) Network Engineer
2 50 (13.89%) Senior
3 47 (13.06%) Architect
4 32 (8.89%) Senior Network Engineer
5 31 (8.61%) Cisco Engineer
6 27 (7.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 25 (6.94%) Security Engineer
8 24 (6.67%) Network Architect
9 21 (5.83%) Network Security Engineer
10 16 (4.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 14 (3.89%) Audio Visual Engineer
12 13 (3.61%) Automation Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Implementation Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Operations Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Solutions Architect
14 10 (2.78%) Data Centre Engineer
15 9 (2.50%) Analyst
15 9 (2.50%) Senior Cisco Engineer
16 8 (2.22%) Cisco Architect
16 8 (2.22%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (5.28%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.22%) REST
3 6 (1.67%) SAML
4 4 (1.11%) Jinja
5 2 (0.56%) .NET
5 2 (0.56%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.56%) ADO
5 2 (0.56%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.56%) Blazor
5 2 (0.56%) eBPF
5 2 (0.56%) Middleware
6 1 (0.28%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.28%) Kafka
6 1 (0.28%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 90 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 22 (6.11%) Video Conferencing
3 19 (5.28%) Onboarding
4 17 (4.72%) Hybrid Cloud
5 15 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.78%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.50%) IoT
8 8 (2.22%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.94%) Analytical Mindset
9 7 (1.94%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.94%) PKI
9 7 (1.94%) Web Conferencing
10 6 (1.67%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.67%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.39%) Digital Signage
11 5 (1.39%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.39%) Robotics
12 4 (1.11%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.83%) EMC VMAX
13 3 (0.83%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.00%) Windows
2 30 (8.33%) Linux
3 25 (6.94%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.78%) Ubuntu
5 6 (1.67%) Unix
5 6 (1.67%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.83%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.83%) VMS
7 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.83%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.28%) Android
8 1 (0.28%) CentOS
8 1 (0.28%) Debian
8 1 (0.28%) Oracle Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (18.61%) Migration
2 38 (10.56%) Project Delivery
3 32 (8.89%) Problem-Solving
4 30 (8.33%) ITIL
5 27 (7.50%) Infrastructure as Code
5 27 (7.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 26 (7.22%) Change Management
6 26 (7.22%) Runbook
7 25 (6.94%) Agile
7 25 (6.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (6.94%) Validation
8 23 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (6.39%) Load Balancing
8 23 (6.39%) Network Design
9 22 (6.11%) Data Protection
10 21 (5.83%) CI/CD
10 21 (5.83%) Low Latency
10 21 (5.83%) Mentoring
11 20 (5.56%) Zero Trust
12 19 (5.28%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 58 (16.11%) Python
2 16 (4.44%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.06%) Bash
4 3 (0.83%) C
4 3 (0.83%) C++
4 3 (0.83%) Java
5 2 (0.56%) ActionScript
5 2 (0.56%) Lisp
5 2 (0.56%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.28%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (0.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 83 (23.06%) Cisco Certification
2 73 (20.28%) CCNP
3 33 (9.17%) Security Cleared
4 27 (7.50%) Degree
5 26 (7.22%) SC Cleared
6 21 (5.83%) CCIE
7 17 (4.72%) CCNA
8 11 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
9 9 (2.50%) DV Cleared
10 7 (1.94%) Azure Certification
11 5 (1.39%) JNCIP
11 5 (1.39%) JNCIS
12 4 (1.11%) CCSE
12 4 (1.11%) PMP
13 2 (0.56%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.56%) CISSP
13 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Certification
13 2 (0.56%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (0.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.61%) SLA
2 6 (1.67%) NIST
3 5 (1.39%) QA
4 3 (0.83%) GDPR
4 3 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.83%) PMO
5 2 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.56%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.28%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.28%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.28%) GRC
6 1 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.28%) NIST 800
System Software
1 33 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
2 28 (7.78%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.22%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (1.39%) Firmware
4 5 (1.39%) VMware ESXi
5 4 (1.11%) Docker
6 3 (0.83%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 3 (0.83%) Hyper-V
6 3 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.56%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.28%) IAG
8 1 (0.28%) KVM
8 1 (0.28%) QEMU
8 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.28%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 55 (15.28%) Ansible
2 35 (9.72%) FortiGate
3 30 (8.33%) Terraform
4 17 (4.72%) Grafana
5 16 (4.44%) Prometheus
6 14 (3.89%) Microsoft Intune
7 11 (3.06%) Kubernetes
8 7 (1.94%) Cisco Prime
9 6 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (1.39%) SCCM
11 4 (1.11%) systemd
12 3 (0.83%) Avamar
12 3 (0.83%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.83%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.83%) Puppet
12 3 (0.83%) QRadar
12 3 (0.83%) Red Hat Satellite
12 3 (0.83%) Salt
13 2 (0.56%) Dell DRAC
13 2 (0.56%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 99 (27.50%) Palo Alto
2 74 (20.56%) Fortinet
3 70 (19.44%) Microsoft
4 57 (15.83%) Arista
5 51 (14.17%) F5
5 51 (14.17%) Juniper
6 44 (12.22%) VMware
7 34 (9.44%) CheckPoint
8 33 (9.17%) Aruba
8 33 (9.17%) Meraki
9 32 (8.89%) Zscaler
10 14 (3.89%) ServiceNow
11 12 (3.33%) Infoblox
12 11 (3.06%) SolarWinds
13 9 (2.50%) Citrix
13 9 (2.50%) Google
13 9 (2.50%) Splunk
14 8 (2.22%) EMC
14 8 (2.22%) HP
14 8 (2.22%) Red Hat