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 13 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
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 107 107
Rank change year-on-year -49 0 -25
Contract jobs citing Cisco 364 344 396
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.81% 2.54% 2.44%
As % of the Vendors category 4.28% 5.51% 5.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 260 222 268
10th Percentile £325 £326 £253
25th Percentile £411 £406 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -2.91%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £551
90th Percentile £710 £659 £650
England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 11
10th Percentile £29.00 - £20.50
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 £39.69 £30.25
90th Percentile £78.75 £62.55 -
England median hourly rate £48.72 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year +62.40% +15.38% -35.00%

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 8,514 6,239 6,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.30% 46.01% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,544 4,061 4,735
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% -4.50%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 126 88
10th Percentile £18.07 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.50 £22.60 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.25 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.03% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £40.56 £60.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.38
England median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.17% -16.17% -20.00%

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 13 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 13 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 13 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 -25 55 £550 +2.61% 32
South London -7 19 £475 -9.52% 10
West London -49 7 £513 +20.59% 6
East London +3 5 £500 -9.09% 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 14 (3.85%) SharePoint
2 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (1.37%) JBoss
4 4 (1.10%) OpenStack
5 2 (0.55%) Apache
5 2 (0.55%) Confluence
6 1 (0.27%) Apache Spark
6 1 (0.27%) CloudStack
Applications
1 12 (3.30%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 103 (28.30%) Azure
2 47 (12.91%) AWS
3 28 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (6.32%) Entra ID
5 12 (3.30%) GitHub
5 12 (3.30%) OneDrive
6 11 (3.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 11 (3.02%) GCP
7 8 (2.20%) SaaS
8 6 (1.65%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.37%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 3 (0.82%) Mimecast
10 3 (0.82%) OpenShift
10 3 (0.82%) Power Platform
10 3 (0.82%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.55%) AWS IoT
11 2 (0.55%) IaaS
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 1 (0.27%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.27%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 184 (50.55%) Firewall
2 98 (26.92%) BGP
3 97 (26.65%) WAN
4 84 (23.08%) Network Security
5 59 (16.21%) LAN
5 59 (16.21%) VPN
6 54 (14.84%) OSPF
7 52 (14.29%) Wireless
8 50 (13.74%) VLAN
9 41 (11.26%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (10.99%) DNS
11 34 (9.34%) Cisco ISE
11 34 (9.34%) SD-WAN
12 33 (9.07%) TCP/IP
13 31 (8.52%) MPLS
13 31 (8.52%) VXLAN
14 30 (8.24%) Cisco IOS
15 29 (7.97%) Cisco Nexus
16 28 (7.69%) Multicast
17 26 (7.14%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (2.75%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.37%) Big Data
2 5 (1.37%) Hadoop
3 2 (0.55%) NoSQL
3 2 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.27%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.27%) ClickHouse
4 1 (0.27%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 14 (3.85%) Git
2 7 (1.92%) JIRA
3 5 (1.37%) Sonatype Nexus
4 3 (0.82%) GitLab
5 2 (0.55%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.27%) Tricentis qTest
6 1 (0.27%) Zephyr
General
1 85 (23.35%) Social Skills
2 60 (16.48%) Finance
3 31 (8.52%) Analytical Skills
4 26 (7.14%) Banking
5 24 (6.59%) Telecoms
6 20 (5.49%) Public Sector
7 19 (5.22%) Documentation Skills
8 18 (4.95%) Financial Institution
9 15 (4.12%) Legal
10 7 (1.92%) Law
11 6 (1.65%) Retail
12 5 (1.37%) Marketing
13 4 (1.10%) Automotive
13 4 (1.10%) Front Office
13 4 (1.10%) Local Government
14 3 (0.82%) Influencing Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.82%) Organisational Skills
14 3 (0.82%) Presentation Skills
15 1 (0.27%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 174 (47.80%) Network Engineer
2 48 (13.19%) Architect
2 48 (13.19%) Senior
3 34 (9.34%) Cisco Engineer
4 31 (8.52%) Senior Network Engineer
5 30 (8.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 25 (6.87%) Network Architect
6 25 (6.87%) Security Engineer
7 21 (5.77%) Network Security Engineer
8 16 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 14 (3.85%) Audio Visual Engineer
9 14 (3.85%) Automation Engineer
10 11 (3.02%) Implementation Engineer
11 10 (2.75%) Analyst
11 10 (2.75%) Data Centre Engineer
11 10 (2.75%) Operations Engineer
11 10 (2.75%) Senior Cisco Engineer
11 10 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (2.75%) Support Engineer
12 9 (2.47%) Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.04%) 802.1X
2 12 (3.30%) REST
3 6 (1.65%) SAML
4 4 (1.10%) Jinja
5 3 (0.82%) JSON
5 3 (0.82%) Middleware
5 3 (0.82%) YAML
6 2 (0.55%) .NET
6 2 (0.55%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.55%) ADO
6 2 (0.55%) ASP.NET
6 2 (0.55%) Blazor
6 2 (0.55%) eBPF
7 1 (0.27%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.27%) Kafka
7 1 (0.27%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.27%) Spine.js
7 1 (0.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 90 (24.73%) Data Centre
2 25 (6.87%) Video Conferencing
3 20 (5.49%) Onboarding
4 19 (5.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 16 (4.40%) Data Protection Act
6 10 (2.75%) Cloud Native
7 9 (2.47%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.47%) IoT
8 8 (2.20%) Virtual Team
9 7 (1.92%) Linux Command Line
9 7 (1.92%) PKI
9 7 (1.92%) Web Conferencing
10 6 (1.65%) Management Information System
10 6 (1.65%) Security Posture
11 5 (1.37%) Clustering
11 5 (1.37%) Digital Signage
11 5 (1.37%) Public Cloud
11 5 (1.37%) Robotics
12 4 (1.10%) Driving Licence
13 3 (0.82%) Distributed Systems
Operating Systems
1 58 (15.93%) Windows
2 27 (7.42%) Linux
3 25 (6.87%) Windows Server
4 10 (2.75%) Ubuntu
5 7 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (1.92%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.37%) Mac OS
7 3 (0.82%) VMS
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.82%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.27%) Android
8 1 (0.27%) CentOS
8 1 (0.27%) Debian
8 1 (0.27%) Oracle Linux
8 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (18.68%) Migration
2 41 (11.26%) Project Delivery
3 36 (9.89%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (9.62%) ITIL
5 31 (8.52%) Infrastructure as Code
5 31 (8.52%) Stakeholder Management
6 30 (8.24%) Validation
7 27 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (7.14%) Runbook
9 25 (6.87%) Agile
9 25 (6.87%) Change Management
10 24 (6.59%) Data Protection
10 24 (6.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 22 (6.04%) CI/CD
11 22 (6.04%) Network Design
12 21 (5.77%) Load Balancing
12 21 (5.77%) Low Latency
12 21 (5.77%) Zero Trust
13 20 (5.49%) DevOps
13 20 (5.49%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 60 (16.48%) Python
2 16 (4.40%) PowerShell
3 11 (3.02%) Bash
4 3 (0.82%) C
4 3 (0.82%) C++
4 3 (0.82%) Java
5 2 (0.55%) ActionScript
5 2 (0.55%) Lisp
5 2 (0.55%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.27%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (0.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 81 (22.25%) Cisco Certification
2 72 (19.78%) CCNP
3 36 (9.89%) Security Cleared
4 28 (7.69%) Degree
4 28 (7.69%) SC Cleared
5 21 (5.77%) CCIE
6 15 (4.12%) CCNA
7 11 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
8 7 (1.92%) Azure Certification
8 7 (1.92%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.10%) CCSE
9 4 (1.10%) JNCIP
9 4 (1.10%) JNCIS
9 4 (1.10%) PMP
10 2 (0.55%) CCIE Security
10 2 (0.55%) CISSP
10 2 (0.55%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.55%) Network+ Certification
10 2 (0.55%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (3.57%) SLA
2 7 (1.92%) QA
3 6 (1.65%) NIST
4 3 (0.82%) GDPR
4 3 (0.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.82%) PMO
5 2 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
5 2 (0.55%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.27%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.27%) GRC
6 1 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 36 (9.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 29 (7.97%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.20%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.65%) Docker
4 6 (1.65%) Firmware
5 5 (1.37%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (0.82%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (0.82%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.55%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.27%) IAG
9 1 (0.27%) KVM
9 1 (0.27%) QEMU
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.27%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 54 (14.84%) Ansible
2 38 (10.44%) FortiGate
3 30 (8.24%) Terraform
4 15 (4.12%) Microsoft Intune
5 12 (3.30%) Kubernetes
6 11 (3.02%) Grafana
7 10 (2.75%) Prometheus
8 8 (2.20%) Cisco Prime
9 6 (1.65%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (1.37%) Puppet
10 5 (1.37%) Red Hat Satellite
10 5 (1.37%) SCCM
11 4 (1.10%) Failover Clustering
11 4 (1.10%) systemd
12 3 (0.82%) Avamar
12 3 (0.82%) EMC VPLEX
12 3 (0.82%) Jamf Pro
12 3 (0.82%) QRadar
13 2 (0.55%) Nessus
13 2 (0.55%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 93 (25.55%) Palo Alto
2 75 (20.60%) Fortinet
3 74 (20.33%) Microsoft
4 51 (14.01%) Arista
5 48 (13.19%) Juniper
6 47 (12.91%) VMware
7 46 (12.64%) F5
8 35 (9.62%) Meraki
9 34 (9.34%) Zscaler
10 32 (8.79%) CheckPoint
11 31 (8.52%) Aruba
12 16 (4.40%) ServiceNow
13 15 (4.12%) Infoblox
14 13 (3.57%) Red Hat
14 13 (3.57%) SolarWinds
15 9 (2.47%) Google
15 9 (2.47%) NetApp
16 8 (2.20%) HP
17 7 (1.92%) Citrix
17 7 (1.92%) EMC