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 3 July 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
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 105 109
Rank change year-on-year -56 +4 -15
Contract jobs citing Cisco 332 361 410
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 2.76% 2.33%
As % of the Vendors category 4.15% 6.07% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 228 231 275
10th Percentile £313 £325 £240
25th Percentile £400 £410 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% -2.49%
75th Percentile £600 £578 £550
90th Percentile £675 £659 £670
England median daily rate £483 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -3.40% +2.56% +3.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 13 19
10th Percentile £28.35 - £19.60
25th Percentile £36.25 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% +50.00% -18.70%
75th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £41.25
90th Percentile £55.75 £64.71 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +56.67% +9.09% -36.60%

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 8,007 5,951 7,407
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.45% 45.42% 42.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,245 3,855 5,075
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £535
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -0.93% -3.17%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £764 £775
England median daily rate £510 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 112 126
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.91 £13.87
25th Percentile £24.38 £22.50 £17.87
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.33 £23.99
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% +18.07% -21.34%
75th Percentile £57.34 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £81.25 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.25% +2.00% -32.89%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -24 43 £563 +4.94% 83
South London +1 19 £450 -14.29% 9
West London -43 7 £500 +17.65% 12
East London -2 4 £470 -14.55% 11
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 (2.71%) SharePoint
2 5 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.20%) OpenStack
4 3 (0.90%) Confluence
5 2 (0.60%) Apache
6 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.30%) CloudStack
Applications
1 8 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 89 (26.81%) Azure
2 48 (14.46%) AWS
3 21 (6.33%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (4.22%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.31%) GCP
6 9 (2.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (2.41%) SaaS
8 6 (1.81%) GitHub
9 5 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.90%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.90%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.60%) AWS IoT
12 2 (0.60%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.60%) Rubrik
13 1 (0.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 1 (0.30%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.30%) Cloudflare
13 1 (0.30%) IBM Watson
13 1 (0.30%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 164 (49.40%) Firewall
2 107 (32.23%) WAN
3 86 (25.90%) BGP
4 83 (25.00%) Network Security
5 59 (17.77%) LAN
6 58 (17.47%) VPN
7 52 (15.66%) OSPF
8 46 (13.86%) Wireless
9 39 (11.75%) SD-WAN
10 37 (11.14%) VLAN
11 33 (9.94%) MPLS
12 31 (9.34%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (9.04%) Cisco IOS
14 28 (8.43%) Cisco ISE
14 28 (8.43%) DNS
15 27 (8.13%) VXLAN
16 26 (7.83%) Multicast
17 23 (6.93%) Cisco ASA
17 23 (6.93%) Cisco Nexus
18 22 (6.63%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.90%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.30%) Big Data
3 1 (0.30%) ClickHouse
3 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (2.11%) Git
2 5 (1.51%) JIRA
3 4 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
General
1 74 (22.29%) Social Skills
2 58 (17.47%) Finance
3 24 (7.23%) Banking
4 22 (6.63%) Telecoms
5 21 (6.33%) Public Sector
6 20 (6.02%) Legal
7 19 (5.72%) Analytical Skills
8 17 (5.12%) Documentation Skills
8 17 (5.12%) Financial Institution
9 7 (2.11%) Law
9 7 (2.11%) Marketing
10 5 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.20%) Front Office
11 4 (1.20%) Local Government
11 4 (1.20%) Retail
12 3 (0.90%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.90%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.60%) Electronics
13 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 153 (46.08%) Network Engineer
2 51 (15.36%) Architect
3 38 (11.45%) Senior
4 26 (7.83%) Network Architect
5 23 (6.93%) Security Engineer
6 22 (6.63%) Cisco Engineer
7 21 (6.33%) Network Security Engineer
8 20 (6.02%) Senior Network Engineer
9 18 (5.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 14 (4.22%) Solutions Architect
11 13 (3.92%) Automation Engineer
12 12 (3.61%) Operations Engineer
13 9 (2.71%) Audio Visual Engineer
14 8 (2.41%) Analyst
14 8 (2.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (2.41%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
14 8 (2.41%) Security Architect
15 7 (2.11%) Cisco Architect
15 7 (2.11%) Firewall Engineer
15 7 (2.11%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.22%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.41%) REST
3 6 (1.81%) SAML
4 4 (1.20%) Jinja
5 2 (0.60%) .NET
5 2 (0.60%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.60%) ADO
5 2 (0.60%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.60%) Blazor
5 2 (0.60%) Middleware
6 1 (0.30%) CSS
6 1 (0.30%) Django
6 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.30%) HTML
6 1 (0.30%) Kafka
6 1 (0.30%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 83 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.82%) Video Conferencing
3 14 (4.22%) Data Protection Act
4 11 (3.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 11 (3.31%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.41%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.11%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.11%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.11%) IoT
7 6 (1.81%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.81%) Web Conferencing
8 5 (1.51%) PKI
9 4 (1.20%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.90%) Celerra
10 3 (0.90%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (0.90%) EMC Centera
10 3 (0.90%) EMC VMAX
10 3 (0.90%) EMC VNX
10 3 (0.90%) IBM XIV
10 3 (0.90%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 51 (15.36%) Windows
2 20 (6.02%) Windows Server
3 18 (5.42%) Linux
4 7 (2.11%) Unix
5 5 (1.51%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.90%) Mac OS
6 3 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.90%) VMS
6 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.30%) Android
8 1 (0.30%) CentOS
8 1 (0.30%) Debian
8 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (18.07%) Migration
2 27 (8.13%) ITIL
3 26 (7.83%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (7.53%) Agile
4 25 (7.53%) Project Delivery
4 25 (7.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (7.23%) Network Design
6 23 (6.93%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (6.93%) Runbook
7 21 (6.33%) Validation
8 20 (6.02%) Data Protection
8 20 (6.02%) Mentoring
9 19 (5.72%) Continuous Improvement
10 18 (5.42%) Change Management
10 18 (5.42%) CI/CD
10 18 (5.42%) ITSM
11 17 (5.12%) Low Latency
12 16 (4.82%) Load Balancing
12 16 (4.82%) Zero Trust
13 15 (4.52%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 51 (15.36%) Python
2 14 (4.22%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.51%) C
4 3 (0.90%) Bash
4 3 (0.90%) C++
4 3 (0.90%) Java
5 2 (0.60%) ActionScript
5 2 (0.60%) Lisp
6 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.30%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (0.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 79 (23.80%) Cisco Certification
2 69 (20.78%) CCNP
3 37 (11.14%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.73%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.53%) Degree
6 20 (6.02%) CCIE
7 17 (5.12%) CCNA
8 10 (3.01%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.11%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.81%) CCSE
12 5 (1.51%) PMP
13 3 (0.90%) JNCIP
13 3 (0.90%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.60%) CISSP
14 2 (0.60%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.31%) SLA
2 5 (1.51%) NIST
2 5 (1.51%) PMO
2 5 (1.51%) QA
3 3 (0.90%) GDPR
3 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.30%) GRC
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (8.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 23 (6.93%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.41%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.81%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.51%) Firmware
6 4 (1.20%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.20%) vSphere
7 3 (0.90%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.60%) Docker
8 2 (0.60%) vCloud
8 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.30%) IAG
9 1 (0.30%) KVM
9 1 (0.30%) QEMU
9 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 50 (15.06%) Ansible
2 36 (10.84%) FortiGate
3 24 (7.23%) Terraform
4 18 (5.42%) Grafana
5 17 (5.12%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.71%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.11%) Kubernetes
8 6 (1.81%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (1.81%) SCCM
9 4 (1.20%) Salt
10 3 (0.90%) Avamar
10 3 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
10 3 (0.90%) EMC VPLEX
10 3 (0.90%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.90%) QRadar
11 2 (0.60%) Nessus
11 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
12 1 (0.30%) Docker Swarm
12 1 (0.30%) PowerCLI
12 1 (0.30%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 105 (31.63%) Palo Alto
2 69 (20.78%) Fortinet
3 60 (18.07%) Microsoft
4 53 (15.96%) Arista
5 46 (13.86%) Juniper
6 43 (12.95%) F5
7 41 (12.35%) CheckPoint
8 36 (10.84%) Aruba
9 34 (10.24%) VMware
10 27 (8.13%) Zscaler
11 26 (7.83%) Meraki
12 20 (6.02%) ServiceNow
13 13 (3.92%) Infoblox
14 12 (3.61%) SolarWinds
15 10 (3.01%) Splunk
16 9 (2.71%) EMC
17 8 (2.41%) Citrix
18 7 (2.11%) Dell
18 7 (2.11%) Google
19 6 (1.81%) BT