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 21 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 106 106
Rank change year-on-year -55 0 -2
Contract jobs citing Cisco 289 328 397
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.60% 2.66% 2.27%
As % of the Vendors category 3.82% 5.80% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 209 264
10th Percentile £310 £300 £243
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £575
90th Percentile £675 £660 £738
England median daily rate £477 £503 £488
% change year-on-year -5.12% +3.13% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 8 18
10th Percentile £32.06 £24.66 £21.08
25th Percentile £40.13 £33.35 £23.90
Median hourly rate £47.00 £38.75 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.29% +40.91% -1.35%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.94 £39.38
90th Percentile - £63.50 £41.25
England median hourly rate £47.00 £37.07 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.78% +34.81% -13.73%

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 7,574 5,654 7,142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.96% 45.77% 40.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,008 3,687 4,906
10th Percentile £350 £331 £300
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £541
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +0.69% -4.20%
75th Percentile £638 £672 £663
90th Percentile £738 £775 £775
England median daily rate £501 £523 £515
% change year-on-year -4.21% +1.46% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 97 126
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £13.87
25th Percentile £25.15 £22.27 £16.90
Median hourly rate £35.50 £29.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.41% +28.89% -13.46%
75th Percentile £50.00 £50.50 £35.69
90th Percentile £78.55 £66.00 £59.38
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -36 24 £600 +11.94% 24
South London -8 15 £450 -14.29% 2
West London -41 6 £475 +11.76% 12
East London -6 4 £470 -8.74% 10
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 8 (2.77%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.73%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.38%) Confluence
5 2 (0.69%) Apache
6 1 (0.35%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 7 (2.42%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.73%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.35%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 85 (29.41%) Azure
2 50 (17.30%) AWS
3 17 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (5.54%) GCP
5 13 (4.50%) Entra ID
6 8 (2.77%) SaaS
7 6 (2.08%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (1.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (1.38%) Azure DevOps
9 4 (1.38%) GitHub
10 3 (1.04%) Cloudflare
10 3 (1.04%) Mimecast
11 2 (0.69%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.69%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.69%) OpenShift
11 2 (0.69%) Rubrik
12 1 (0.35%) IBM Watson
12 1 (0.35%) Nutanix
12 1 (0.35%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.35%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 135 (46.71%) Firewall
2 110 (38.06%) WAN
3 80 (27.68%) Network Security
4 75 (25.95%) BGP
5 59 (20.42%) LAN
6 57 (19.72%) VPN
7 52 (17.99%) OSPF
8 44 (15.22%) SD-WAN
9 37 (12.80%) Wireless
10 29 (10.03%) MPLS
10 29 (10.03%) VLAN
10 29 (10.03%) Wi-Fi
11 25 (8.65%) Multicast
12 24 (8.30%) VXLAN
13 22 (7.61%) Cisco ISE
13 22 (7.61%) Cisco Nexus
14 21 (7.27%) Cisco IOS
15 20 (6.92%) Cisco ASA
16 15 (5.19%) DNS
16 15 (5.19%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.69%) Metadata
2 1 (0.35%) Apache Hive
2 1 (0.35%) Big Data
2 1 (0.35%) ClickHouse
2 1 (0.35%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.35%) MySQL
2 1 (0.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.42%) Git
2 5 (1.73%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.38%) JIRA
4 3 (1.04%) GitLab
5 1 (0.35%) Jenkins
General
1 57 (19.72%) Finance
2 54 (18.69%) Social Skills
3 21 (7.27%) Legal
4 20 (6.92%) Analytical Skills
5 19 (6.57%) Telecoms
6 17 (5.88%) Banking
7 16 (5.54%) Public Sector
8 15 (5.19%) Financial Institution
9 14 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (2.77%) Law
11 7 (2.42%) Marketing
12 6 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (2.08%) Retail
13 3 (1.04%) Front Office
13 3 (1.04%) Manufacturing
14 2 (0.69%) Electronics
14 2 (0.69%) Investment Banking
14 2 (0.69%) Organisational Skills
15 1 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 123 (42.56%) Network Engineer
2 47 (16.26%) Architect
3 36 (12.46%) Senior
4 26 (9.00%) Network Architect
5 19 (6.57%) Security Engineer
6 18 (6.23%) Senior Network Engineer
7 17 (5.88%) Network Security Engineer
8 13 (4.50%) Cisco Engineer
9 12 (4.15%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 12 (4.15%) Operations Engineer
10 11 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
11 9 (3.11%) Automation Engineer
11 9 (3.11%) Project Manager
11 9 (3.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 7 (2.42%) Security Architect
13 6 (2.08%) Azure Engineer
13 6 (2.08%) Cisco Architect
13 6 (2.08%) IT Engineer
13 6 (2.08%) Network Security Architect
13 6 (2.08%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.11%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.73%) REST
3 4 (1.38%) HTML
3 4 (1.38%) Jinja
4 3 (1.04%) SAML
4 3 (1.04%) VML
5 2 (0.69%) ADO
5 2 (0.69%) CSS
5 2 (0.69%) JSON
5 2 (0.69%) Kafka
5 2 (0.69%) Middleware
6 1 (0.35%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.35%) Django
6 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.35%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.35%) Pandas
6 1 (0.35%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.35%) XML
6 1 (0.35%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 71 (24.57%) Data Centre
2 12 (4.15%) Data Protection Act
3 11 (3.81%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.11%) Cloud Native
4 9 (3.11%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (2.42%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.42%) Security Posture
6 6 (2.08%) Virtual Team
7 5 (1.73%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (1.73%) IoT
7 5 (1.73%) PKI
7 5 (1.73%) Web Conferencing
8 3 (1.04%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.04%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.04%) Product Ownership
9 2 (0.69%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.69%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 2 (0.69%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.69%) EMC VMAX
9 2 (0.69%) EMC VNX
Operating Systems
1 41 (14.19%) Windows
2 16 (5.54%) Linux
3 15 (5.19%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.77%) Unix
5 5 (1.73%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.04%) Android
6 3 (1.04%) Mac OS
7 2 (0.69%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.69%) VMS
7 2 (0.69%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.35%) CentOS
8 1 (0.35%) Debian
8 1 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (16.61%) Migration
2 32 (11.07%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (9.34%) ITIL
4 25 (8.65%) Network Design
5 23 (7.96%) Agile
5 23 (7.96%) Zero Trust
6 22 (7.61%) Runbook
7 20 (6.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 19 (6.57%) Validation
9 18 (6.23%) Data Protection
9 18 (6.23%) Mentoring
9 18 (6.23%) Technical Leadership
10 17 (5.88%) Change Management
10 17 (5.88%) CI/CD
11 16 (5.54%) Continuous Improvement
11 16 (5.54%) DevOps
11 16 (5.54%) Incident Response
11 16 (5.54%) Load Balancing
12 15 (5.19%) AI
12 15 (5.19%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 43 (14.88%) Python
2 15 (5.19%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.42%) C
4 5 (1.73%) Bash
5 3 (1.04%) C++
5 3 (1.04%) Java
5 3 (1.04%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.69%) ActionScript
6 2 (0.69%) SQL
7 1 (0.35%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.35%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 63 (21.80%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (19.03%) CCNP
3 40 (13.84%) Security Cleared
4 32 (11.07%) SC Cleared
5 21 (7.27%) Degree
6 17 (5.88%) CCIE
7 12 (4.15%) DV Cleared
8 10 (3.46%) Azure Certification
8 10 (3.46%) CCNA
9 6 (2.08%) CCSE
9 6 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
9 6 (2.08%) PMP
10 4 (1.38%) JNCIP
10 4 (1.38%) PMI Certification
11 3 (1.04%) JNCIE
12 2 (0.69%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.69%) CISSP
12 2 (0.69%) Microsoft Certification
13 1 (0.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.35%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (2.77%) SLA
2 6 (2.08%) PMO
3 5 (1.73%) GDPR
3 5 (1.73%) NIST
4 4 (1.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.38%) QA
5 2 (0.69%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.35%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.35%) GRC
6 1 (0.35%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.35%) MiFID
6 1 (0.35%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (5.54%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (5.19%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.08%) VMware NSX
4 5 (1.73%) Firmware
4 5 (1.73%) vSphere
5 4 (1.38%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.04%) Docker
6 3 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.69%) vCloud
7 2 (0.69%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.69%) VMware ESXi
8 1 (0.35%) IAG
8 1 (0.35%) KVM
8 1 (0.35%) QEMU
8 1 (0.35%) Snort
8 1 (0.35%) Squid
8 1 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.35%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 45 (15.57%) Ansible
2 31 (10.73%) FortiGate
3 25 (8.65%) Terraform
4 18 (6.23%) Grafana
5 17 (5.88%) Prometheus
6 9 (3.11%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.42%) Kubernetes
8 6 (2.08%) SCCM
9 5 (1.73%) Cisco CUCM
9 5 (1.73%) QRadar
9 5 (1.73%) Salt
10 4 (1.38%) Cisco Prime
11 2 (0.69%) Avamar
11 2 (0.69%) CASB
11 2 (0.69%) EMC VPLEX
11 2 (0.69%) Istio
12 1 (0.35%) Dell DRAC
12 1 (0.35%) Nexpose
12 1 (0.35%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.35%) Suricata
Vendors
1 98 (33.91%) Palo Alto
2 52 (17.99%) Fortinet
3 50 (17.30%) Arista
4 49 (16.96%) CheckPoint
5 48 (16.61%) Microsoft
6 44 (15.22%) Aruba
7 42 (14.53%) F5
8 37 (12.80%) Juniper
9 29 (10.03%) Zscaler
10 27 (9.34%) Meraki
11 23 (7.96%) ServiceNow
12 20 (6.92%) VMware
13 12 (4.15%) Splunk
14 11 (3.81%) Infoblox
15 10 (3.46%) SolarWinds
16 8 (2.77%) Dell
16 8 (2.77%) EMC
17 6 (2.08%) BigPanda
17 6 (2.08%) BT
17 6 (2.08%) Qualys