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 16 April 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
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 169 98 98
Rank change year-on-year -71 0 +10
Contract jobs citing Cisco 275 345 421
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.59% 2.72% 2.35%
As % of the Vendors category 3.63% 6.03% 5.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 173 231 277
10th Percentile £309 £300 £246
25th Percentile £400 £425 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.99%
75th Percentile £600 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £747
England median daily rate £495 £501 £488
% change year-on-year -1.20% +2.67% +2.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 6 16
10th Percentile £21.40 £24.66 £19.63
25th Percentile £22.38 £27.56 £24.63
Median hourly rate £25.46 £41.25 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year -38.28% +27.91% +25.44%
75th Percentile £47.19 £57.81 £41.25
90th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £37.07 £27.50
% change year-on-year +31.42% +34.81% -52.22%

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 7,581 5,720 7,226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 43.78% 45.16% 40.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,000 3,751 4,960
10th Percentile £350 £325 £281
25th Percentile £425 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £769 £768
England median daily rate £500 £525 £520
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 88 143
10th Percentile £18.20 £15.84 £13.85
25th Percentile £21.46 £23.35 £16.93
Median hourly rate £32.50 £29.07 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.80% +18.65% -4.71%
75th Percentile £45.75 £51.88 £40.29
90th Percentile £68.75 £67.88 £69.20
England median hourly rate £29.00 £28.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year +0.87% +27.78% -41.56%

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 16 April 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 16 April 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 16 April 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
South London -3 19 £450 -14.29% 3
Central London -48 19 £600 +11.94% 28
East London -5 2 £334 -39.36% 10
West London -43 2 £399 -6.18% 12
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 (3.27%) SharePoint
2 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.82%) OpenStack
4 4 (1.45%) Confluence
5 1 (0.36%) Apache
5 1 (0.36%) JBoss
5 1 (0.36%) WebSphere
Applications
1 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 8 (2.91%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.91%) MS Visio
3 6 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.36%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 72 (26.18%) Azure
2 40 (14.55%) AWS
3 31 (11.27%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (6.18%) GCP
5 13 (4.73%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (1.09%) Cloudflare
8 3 (1.09%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.09%) Rubrik
8 3 (1.09%) SaaS
9 2 (0.73%) AWS IoT
9 2 (0.73%) GitHub
9 2 (0.73%) OCI
9 2 (0.73%) OpenShift
9 2 (0.73%) ShareGate
9 2 (0.73%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 1 (0.36%) IBM Watson
10 1 (0.36%) OpenDNS
10 1 (0.36%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 128 (46.55%) Firewall
2 106 (38.55%) WAN
3 73 (26.55%) Network Security
4 70 (25.45%) BGP
5 58 (21.09%) VPN
6 55 (20.00%) LAN
7 51 (18.55%) OSPF
8 49 (17.82%) SD-WAN
9 38 (13.82%) Wireless
10 28 (10.18%) MPLS
11 27 (9.82%) Wi-Fi
12 25 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
12 25 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
12 25 (9.09%) VLAN
13 23 (8.36%) Cisco Nexus
13 23 (8.36%) Multicast
13 23 (8.36%) VXLAN
14 21 (7.64%) Cisco ISE
15 18 (6.55%) NX-OS
16 14 (5.09%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.36%) Big Data
2 1 (0.36%) Metadata
2 1 (0.36%) MySQL
2 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Git
2 5 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
3 4 (1.45%) JIRA
4 3 (1.09%) GitLab
5 1 (0.36%) Jenkins
General
1 60 (21.82%) Finance
2 59 (21.45%) Social Skills
3 27 (9.82%) Telecoms
4 24 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 23 (8.36%) Banking
6 20 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
7 18 (6.55%) Legal
8 15 (5.45%) Financial Institution
9 10 (3.64%) Marketing
10 8 (2.91%) Law
11 7 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.55%) Electronics
11 7 (2.55%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.55%) Retail
12 6 (2.18%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (0.73%) Front Office
13 2 (0.73%) Local Government
13 2 (0.73%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.36%) International Banking
14 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 108 (39.27%) Network Engineer
2 38 (13.82%) Architect
3 33 (12.00%) Senior
4 22 (8.00%) Network Architect
5 14 (5.09%) Project Manager
5 14 (5.09%) Security Engineer
6 13 (4.73%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (4.36%) Cisco Engineer
7 12 (4.36%) Operations Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 11 (4.00%) IT Support
8 11 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
9 10 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
10 9 (3.27%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 9 (3.27%) Support Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) Automation Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) Azure Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) IT Engineer
11 7 (2.55%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.55%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.18%) REST
3 4 (1.45%) HTML
3 4 (1.45%) Jinja
3 4 (1.45%) VML
4 3 (1.09%) JSON
5 2 (0.73%) ADO
5 2 (0.73%) CSS
5 2 (0.73%) Middleware
5 2 (0.73%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.73%) SAML
5 2 (0.73%) XML
5 2 (0.73%) YANG
6 1 (0.36%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.36%) Django
6 1 (0.36%) Kafka
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.36%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.36%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 72 (26.18%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
2 10 (3.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (2.91%) Cloud Native
3 8 (2.91%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.55%) Security Posture
5 6 (2.18%) Driving Licence
6 5 (1.82%) IoT
6 5 (1.82%) PKI
7 4 (1.45%) EMC VNX
7 4 (1.45%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.09%) Product Ownership
8 3 (1.09%) Web Conferencing
9 2 (0.73%) Celerra
9 2 (0.73%) Cloud Security Posture
9 2 (0.73%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.73%) Operational Technology
9 2 (0.73%) SCADA
9 2 (0.73%) Symmetrix DMX
Operating Systems
1 42 (15.27%) Windows
2 15 (5.45%) Linux
3 14 (5.09%) Android
3 14 (5.09%) Mac OS
3 14 (5.09%) Windows Server
4 12 (4.36%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.91%) Unix
6 2 (0.73%) VMS
6 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.36%) CentOS
7 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.36%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (16.00%) Migration
2 33 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (9.82%) ITIL
4 24 (8.73%) Network Design
5 23 (8.36%) Change Management
6 20 (7.27%) Load Balancing
7 19 (6.91%) ITSM
7 19 (6.91%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (6.55%) Agile
9 17 (6.18%) Zero Trust
10 16 (5.82%) DevOps
11 15 (5.45%) CI/CD
11 15 (5.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (5.45%) Mentoring
12 14 (5.09%) AI
12 14 (5.09%) Data Protection
12 14 (5.09%) Validation
13 13 (4.73%) SIEM
14 12 (4.36%) Low Latency
14 12 (4.36%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (14.91%) Python
2 16 (5.82%) PowerShell
3 7 (2.55%) C
4 4 (1.45%) Bash
5 3 (1.09%) C++
5 3 (1.09%) Java
5 3 (1.09%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.73%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.36%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.36%) SQL
Qualifications
1 61 (22.18%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (18.91%) CCNP
3 51 (18.55%) Security Cleared
4 42 (15.27%) SC Cleared
5 23 (8.36%) CCIE
6 21 (7.64%) Degree
7 17 (6.18%) DV Cleared
8 14 (5.09%) CCNA
9 8 (2.91%) Azure Certification
10 6 (2.18%) CCSE
10 6 (2.18%) PMP
11 4 (1.45%) JNCIP
11 4 (1.45%) PMI Certification
12 3 (1.09%) CISSP
12 3 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.09%) HND
12 3 (1.09%) JNCIE
13 2 (0.73%) AWS Certification
13 2 (0.73%) HNC
13 2 (0.73%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.00%) SLA
2 9 (3.27%) PMO
3 5 (1.82%) NIST
4 4 (1.45%) GDPR
4 4 (1.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.36%) MiFID
5 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.36%) QA
System Software
1 14 (5.09%) Active Directory
1 14 (5.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.55%) VMware NSX
3 5 (1.82%) vSphere
4 3 (1.09%) Firmware
5 2 (0.73%) Docker
5 2 (0.73%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (0.73%) Hyper-V
5 2 (0.73%) vCloud
5 2 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
5 2 (0.73%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
5 2 (0.73%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.36%) IAG
6 1 (0.36%) Snort
6 1 (0.36%) Squid
6 1 (0.36%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 36 (13.09%) Ansible
2 28 (10.18%) FortiGate
3 18 (6.55%) Terraform
4 16 (5.82%) Grafana
4 16 (5.82%) Prometheus
5 11 (4.00%) SCCM
6 9 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.55%) Kubernetes
8 5 (1.82%) QRadar
8 5 (1.82%) Salt
9 3 (1.09%) CASB
9 3 (1.09%) Cisco Prime
10 2 (0.73%) Avamar
10 2 (0.73%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.73%) EMC VPLEX
10 2 (0.73%) Istio
10 2 (0.73%) Nessus
10 2 (0.73%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.36%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 90 (32.73%) Palo Alto
2 50 (18.18%) CheckPoint
3 48 (17.45%) Fortinet
4 46 (16.73%) Arista
4 46 (16.73%) F5
5 42 (15.27%) Microsoft
6 41 (14.91%) Juniper
7 39 (14.18%) Aruba
8 30 (10.91%) ServiceNow
9 25 (9.09%) Meraki
9 25 (9.09%) Zscaler
10 18 (6.55%) Dell
11 17 (6.18%) VMware
12 16 (5.82%) HP
13 15 (5.45%) Apple
14 12 (4.36%) Splunk
15 11 (4.00%) Infoblox
16 10 (3.64%) EMC
17 9 (3.27%) Remedy
17 9 (3.27%) SolarWinds