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 10 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
10 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 133 93 83
Rank change year-on-year -40 -10 +30
Contract jobs citing Cisco 294 410 529
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.06% 2.63% 2.71%
As % of the Vendors category 4.42% 5.96% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 270 348
10th Percentile £306 £258 £252
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.98% +2.25% +5.26%
75th Percentile £565 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £729
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 1 14
10th Percentile £22.94 - £22.05
25th Percentile - £11.25 £24.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.50 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +101.20% -61.24% +29.00%
75th Percentile - £13.75 £61.50
90th Percentile £50.24 - £77.13
England median hourly rate £30.00 £24.70 £43.83
% change year-on-year +21.46% -43.64% +70.46%

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 6,650 6,880 7,984
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.52% 44.10% 40.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,327 4,328 5,514
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £419 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £645 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £765
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 62 108
10th Percentile £17.98 £18.64 £16.96
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £23.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.50 £38.45
Median % change year-on-year -31.10% -5.08% +50.18%
75th Percentile £41.75 £65.00 £60.31
90th Percentile £63.32 £91.33 £86.33
England median hourly rate £23.83 £31.63 £44.50
% change year-on-year -24.68% -28.92% +71.15%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +16 37 £425 -5.56% 10
Central London -43 31 £505 - 20
South London +2 13 £438 -7.89% 8
East London +2 3 £525 +110.00% 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 15 (5.10%) SharePoint
2 13 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.38%) Confluence
4 3 (1.02%) Appian
5 1 (0.34%) Apache
5 1 (0.34%) JBoss
5 1 (0.34%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.34%) WebSphere
Applications
1 29 (9.86%) Microsoft Office
2 12 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 10 (3.40%) MS Visio
4 8 (2.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.34%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 6 (2.04%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.34%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 59 (20.07%) Azure
2 45 (15.31%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (10.54%) AWS
4 21 (7.14%) GCP
5 13 (4.42%) Entra ID
6 11 (3.74%) Akamai
7 6 (2.04%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (2.04%) Cloudflare
8 5 (1.70%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.70%) GitHub
8 5 (1.70%) IaaS
8 5 (1.70%) Nutanix
8 5 (1.70%) OpenDNS
9 4 (1.36%) Mimecast
9 4 (1.36%) PaaS
10 3 (1.02%) AWS CloudFormation
10 3 (1.02%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.02%) OneDrive
10 3 (1.02%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 137 (46.60%) Firewall
2 77 (26.19%) WAN
3 71 (24.15%) SD-WAN
4 69 (23.47%) LAN
5 64 (21.77%) BGP
6 60 (20.41%) VPN
7 58 (19.73%) OSPF
7 58 (19.73%) Wireless
8 55 (18.71%) Network Security
9 54 (18.37%) Cisco Nexus
10 48 (16.33%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (10.20%) DNS
12 22 (7.48%) Cisco ISE
12 22 (7.48%) VLAN
13 20 (6.80%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
13 20 (6.80%) MPLS
14 19 (6.46%) DHCP
15 18 (6.12%) EIGRP
16 17 (5.78%) IPsec
17 16 (5.44%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.02%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.34%) Metadata
2 1 (0.34%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.34%) MySQL
2 1 (0.34%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.34%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.40%) Git
1 10 (3.40%) GitLab
2 7 (2.38%) Jenkins
2 7 (2.38%) JIRA
3 6 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (1.02%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.02%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.02%) Selenium
4 3 (1.02%) SonarQube
5 1 (0.34%) Mercurial
5 1 (0.34%) Snyk
5 1 (0.34%) Subversion
General
1 55 (18.71%) Social Skills
2 53 (18.03%) Finance
3 44 (14.97%) Telecoms
4 37 (12.59%) Public Sector
5 32 (10.88%) Banking
6 29 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
7 14 (4.76%) Manufacturing
7 14 (4.76%) Marketing
8 13 (4.42%) Electronics
9 8 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.04%) Retail
12 5 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (1.02%) Financial Institution
13 3 (1.02%) Law
14 2 (0.68%) Front Office
14 2 (0.68%) Legal
14 2 (0.68%) Military
14 2 (0.68%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.34%) Prime Brokerage
Job Titles
1 86 (29.25%) Network Engineer
2 47 (15.99%) Architect
3 36 (12.24%) Network Architect
4 25 (8.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 25 (8.50%) Senior
5 20 (6.80%) IT Support
6 19 (6.46%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 15 (5.10%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 14 (4.76%) Project Manager
8 14 (4.76%) Support Engineer
9 13 (4.42%) Security Engineer
10 12 (4.08%) IT Engineer
10 12 (4.08%) Juniper Engineer
11 11 (3.74%) Analyst
11 11 (3.74%) Consultant
11 11 (3.74%) Desktop Support
11 11 (3.74%) Network Design Architect
12 9 (3.06%) Network Security Engineer
13 8 (2.72%) Network Specialist
13 8 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.38%) Jinja
1 7 (2.38%) JSON
1 7 (2.38%) XMPP
2 6 (2.04%) NETCONF
2 6 (2.04%) XML
2 6 (2.04%) YANG
3 5 (1.70%) REST
4 3 (1.02%) VML
5 2 (0.68%) 802.1X
5 2 (0.68%) HTML
5 2 (0.68%) Kafka
5 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.34%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.34%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.34%) eBPF
6 1 (0.34%) Node.js
6 1 (0.34%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.34%) Pandas
6 1 (0.34%) Regular Expression
6 1 (0.34%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 90 (30.61%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.44%) Driving Licence
3 11 (3.74%) PKI
4 10 (3.40%) Data Protection Act
5 9 (3.06%) Enterprise Storage
6 8 (2.72%) Video Conferencing
7 7 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
7 7 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.38%) Public Cloud
8 6 (2.04%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.70%) Blackberry
9 5 (1.70%) Cloud Native
10 4 (1.36%) SCADA
11 3 (1.02%) BYOD
11 3 (1.02%) Handset
11 3 (1.02%) iPhone
11 3 (1.02%) Legacy Systems
11 3 (1.02%) Security Operations Centre
12 2 (0.68%) Analytical Mindset
12 2 (0.68%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 43 (14.63%) Windows
2 36 (12.24%) Mac OS
3 35 (11.90%) Android
4 14 (4.76%) Linux
4 14 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 12 (4.08%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.02%) CentOS
6 3 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.68%) VMS
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.34%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (12.93%) Problem-Solving
2 36 (12.24%) Migration
3 29 (9.86%) Network Design
4 24 (8.16%) Change Management
5 22 (7.48%) Infrastructure as Code
5 22 (7.48%) Network Monitoring
6 20 (6.80%) Agile
6 20 (6.80%) Network Architecture
7 19 (6.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 18 (6.12%) CI/CD
8 18 (6.12%) DevOps
8 18 (6.12%) ITIL
9 17 (5.78%) High Availability
10 16 (5.44%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (5.44%) Customer Service
11 15 (5.10%) Load Balancing
11 15 (5.10%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (4.42%) Digital Marketing
12 13 (4.42%) Programme Management
12 13 (4.42%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 51 (17.35%) Python
2 20 (6.80%) PowerShell
3 17 (5.78%) Bash
4 8 (2.72%) C++
4 8 (2.72%) Perl
5 6 (2.04%) JavaScript
6 5 (1.70%) Kusto Query Language
7 3 (1.02%) C
7 3 (1.02%) Java
8 2 (0.68%) Go
8 2 (0.68%) SQL
9 1 (0.34%) PHP
9 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 77 (26.19%) SC Cleared
3 73 (24.83%) Cisco Certification
4 59 (20.07%) CCNP
5 25 (8.50%) CCIE
5 25 (8.50%) DV Cleared
6 21 (7.14%) CCNA
7 20 (6.80%) Degree
8 10 (3.40%) CISSP
9 8 (2.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.38%) CCSA
11 6 (2.04%) JNCIA
11 6 (2.04%) JNCIE
11 6 (2.04%) JNCIS
12 5 (1.70%) CCSE
13 4 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
13 4 (1.36%) JNCIP
14 3 (1.02%) Azure Certification
14 3 (1.02%) CISM
14 3 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.76%) SLA
2 8 (2.72%) PMO
3 7 (2.38%) NIST
4 5 (1.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.02%) GDPR
5 3 (1.02%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.34%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.34%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.34%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.34%) MiFID
7 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.34%) QA
System Software
1 25 (8.50%) Active Directory
2 16 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.76%) Firmware
4 11 (3.74%) Docker
5 6 (2.04%) Hyper-V
5 6 (2.04%) Snort
6 5 (1.70%) Squid
7 4 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
7 4 (1.36%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.68%) KVM
8 2 (0.68%) vSphere
9 1 (0.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 33 (11.22%) Ansible
2 26 (8.84%) FortiGate
3 20 (6.80%) Terraform
4 14 (4.76%) Kubernetes
5 13 (4.42%) SCCM
6 9 (3.06%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.38%) Nessus
8 6 (2.04%) NetBackup
9 5 (1.70%) Nexpose
9 5 (1.70%) Suricata
10 4 (1.36%) CA Spectrum
11 3 (1.02%) CASB
11 3 (1.02%) EMC NetWorker
11 3 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.68%) McAfee ePO
12 2 (0.68%) Tivoli Storage Manager
12 2 (0.68%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.34%) Cisco Prime
13 1 (0.34%) Cisco UCCE
13 1 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 69 (23.47%) Fortinet
2 53 (18.03%) Microsoft
3 51 (17.35%) Palo Alto
4 48 (16.33%) Juniper
5 43 (14.63%) F5
6 42 (14.29%) Dell
7 35 (11.90%) HP
8 34 (11.56%) Apple
9 30 (10.20%) CheckPoint
10 28 (9.52%) Meraki
11 23 (7.82%) VMware
12 21 (7.14%) ServiceNow
13 19 (6.46%) Arista
14 18 (6.12%) SolarWinds
15 17 (5.78%) Zscaler
16 14 (4.76%) Aruba
17 13 (4.42%) SAP
18 12 (4.08%) Splunk
19 11 (3.74%) Google
19 11 (3.74%) Isilon