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 1 March 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
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 161 101 93
Rank change year-on-year -60 -8 +20
Contract jobs citing Cisco 262 334 446
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.65% 2.50% 2.42%
As % of the Vendors category 3.70% 5.65% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 234 282
10th Percentile £270 £272 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £742
England median daily rate £481 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -3.75% +5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 3 18
10th Percentile £21.46 - £20.73
25th Percentile £23.31 - £24.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £32.25
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -23.53% +27.19%
75th Percentile £26.20 £31.71 £41.25
90th Percentile £93.75 £35.93 -
England median hourly rate £65.00 £24.66 £30.00
% change year-on-year +163.58% -17.80% +16.69%

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 7,079 5,916 7,352
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 44.72% 44.32% 39.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,676 3,741 5,012
10th Percentile £350 £319 £275
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £670
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £508 £525 £518
% change year-on-year -3.33% +1.35% -3.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 80 144
10th Percentile £17.99 £21.48 £13.55
25th Percentile £21.00 £24.09 £16.97
Median hourly rate £26.14 £34.25 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.69% +35.64% +1.00%
75th Percentile £42.14 £60.94 £41.25
90th Percentile £66.52 £80.75 £69.40
England median hourly rate £24.00 £31.42 £26.00
% change year-on-year -23.62% +20.86% -21.80%

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -37 19 £550 +0.27% 33
South London -5 15 £425 -10.53% 4
West London -21 5 £399 +13.12% 12
East London +3 3 £525 -4.55% 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 13 (4.96%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.29%) Confluence
4 3 (1.15%) Appian
5 2 (0.76%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.38%) Apache
6 1 (0.38%) JBoss
6 1 (0.38%) WebSphere
Applications
1 18 (6.87%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (4.96%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.44%) MS Visio
4 8 (3.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 6 (2.29%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.38%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 65 (24.81%) Azure
2 34 (12.98%) Microsoft 365
3 32 (12.21%) AWS
4 20 (7.63%) GCP
5 15 (5.73%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.91%) Cloudflare
7 5 (1.91%) GitHub
8 4 (1.53%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 3 (1.15%) OpenDNS
9 3 (1.15%) Rubrik
9 3 (1.15%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.76%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.76%) OCI
10 2 (0.76%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.76%) ShareGate
10 2 (0.76%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 113 (43.13%) Firewall
2 94 (35.88%) WAN
3 69 (26.34%) Network Security
4 59 (22.52%) VPN
5 57 (21.76%) LAN
6 53 (20.23%) BGP
7 49 (18.70%) SD-WAN
7 49 (18.70%) Wireless
8 45 (17.18%) OSPF
9 30 (11.45%) Wi-Fi
10 26 (9.92%) MPLS
11 22 (8.40%) Cisco ASA
12 21 (8.02%) Cisco Nexus
13 19 (7.25%) VLAN
14 17 (6.49%) Cisco IOS
15 16 (6.11%) Cisco ISE
16 15 (5.73%) EIGRP
16 15 (5.73%) Multicast
17 12 (4.58%) DNS
17 12 (4.58%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.38%) Metadata
2 1 (0.38%) MySQL
2 1 (0.38%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.82%) GitLab
2 8 (3.05%) JIRA
3 6 (2.29%) Git
3 6 (2.29%) Jenkins
4 3 (1.15%) Cucumber
4 3 (1.15%) Robot Framework
4 3 (1.15%) Selenium
4 3 (1.15%) SonarQube
5 2 (0.76%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 65 (24.81%) Finance
2 55 (20.99%) Social Skills
3 35 (13.36%) Telecoms
4 31 (11.83%) Public Sector
5 27 (10.31%) Banking
6 23 (8.78%) Analytical Skills
7 15 (5.73%) Legal
7 15 (5.73%) Manufacturing
7 15 (5.73%) Marketing
8 14 (5.34%) Electronics
9 12 (4.58%) Financial Institution
10 9 (3.44%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (3.05%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.67%) Law
13 5 (1.91%) Retail
14 2 (0.76%) Front Office
14 2 (0.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 2 (0.76%) Local Government
14 2 (0.76%) Military
14 2 (0.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 86 (32.82%) Network Engineer
2 39 (14.89%) Architect
3 28 (10.69%) Senior
4 24 (9.16%) Network Architect
5 18 (6.87%) IT Support
6 15 (5.73%) Project Manager
7 12 (4.58%) Solutions Architect
7 12 (4.58%) Support Engineer
8 10 (3.82%) Desktop Support
8 10 (3.82%) Security Architect
8 10 (3.82%) Security Engineer
9 9 (3.44%) IT Engineer
10 8 (3.05%) Coordinator
10 8 (3.05%) Network Manager
10 8 (3.05%) Network Security Engineer
10 8 (3.05%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (3.05%) Support Specialist
11 7 (2.67%) 2nd Line Support
11 7 (2.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 7 (2.67%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.29%) JSON
2 5 (1.91%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.91%) Jinja
2 5 (1.91%) NETCONF
2 5 (1.91%) XML
2 5 (1.91%) YANG
3 4 (1.53%) HTML
3 4 (1.53%) REST
3 4 (1.53%) VML
4 2 (0.76%) CSS
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Graph
4 2 (0.76%) SAML
5 1 (0.38%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.38%) Beautiful Soup
5 1 (0.38%) Django
5 1 (0.38%) Kafka
5 1 (0.38%) OpenConfig
5 1 (0.38%) Pandas
5 1 (0.38%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 69 (26.34%) Data Centre
2 10 (3.82%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (3.44%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.44%) PKI
4 7 (2.67%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.29%) Driving Licence
5 6 (2.29%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.91%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.91%) Security Posture
7 3 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.15%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.15%) SCADA
7 3 (1.15%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.76%) Blackberry
8 2 (0.76%) EMC VNX
8 2 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.76%) Life Science
8 2 (0.76%) NHS
8 2 (0.76%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.60%) Windows
2 24 (9.16%) Mac OS
3 23 (8.78%) Android
4 11 (4.20%) Linux
4 11 (4.20%) Windows 10
5 9 (3.44%) Windows Server
6 8 (3.05%) Unix
7 2 (0.76%) VMS
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (14.50%) Migration
2 36 (13.74%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (9.92%) Network Design
4 24 (9.16%) Change Management
5 23 (8.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 22 (8.40%) Agile
7 19 (7.25%) ITIL
8 18 (6.87%) CI/CD
8 18 (6.87%) Zero Trust
9 17 (6.49%) Load Balancing
9 17 (6.49%) Network Architecture
10 16 (6.11%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (6.11%) Network Monitoring
11 15 (5.73%) Programme Management
12 14 (5.34%) Digital Marketing
12 14 (5.34%) Infrastructure as Code
12 14 (5.34%) Security Architecture
13 13 (4.96%) Break/Fix
13 13 (4.96%) Project Management
13 13 (4.96%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (14.12%) Python
2 16 (6.11%) PowerShell
3 8 (3.05%) Bash
4 6 (2.29%) JavaScript
5 4 (1.53%) C
6 3 (1.15%) C++
6 3 (1.15%) Kusto Query Language
6 3 (1.15%) Perl
7 1 (0.38%) ActionScript
7 1 (0.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 60 (22.90%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (19.85%) Security Cleared
3 49 (18.70%) CCNP
4 45 (17.18%) SC Cleared
5 21 (8.02%) CCIE
5 21 (8.02%) Degree
6 17 (6.49%) CCNA
7 16 (6.11%) DV Cleared
8 7 (2.67%) CISSP
9 6 (2.29%) Azure Certification
9 6 (2.29%) CCSE
10 5 (1.91%) PMP
11 4 (1.53%) JNCIP
12 3 (1.15%) JNCIE
12 3 (1.15%) JNCIS
12 3 (1.15%) Network+ Certification
12 3 (1.15%) PMI Certification
13 2 (0.76%) CCSP
13 2 (0.76%) ITIL Certification
13 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (4.20%) PMO
2 8 (3.05%) SLA
3 7 (2.67%) NIST
4 6 (2.29%) GDPR
4 6 (2.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (1.15%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.38%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.38%) MiFID
7 1 (0.38%) QA
System Software
1 13 (4.96%) Active Directory
1 13 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.67%) Docker
2 7 (2.67%) Firmware
2 7 (2.67%) VMware NSX
3 6 (2.29%) vSphere
4 3 (1.15%) Hyper-V
4 3 (1.15%) Snort
4 3 (1.15%) Squid
5 2 (0.76%) vCloud
5 2 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.38%) IAG
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
6 1 (0.38%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 32 (12.21%) Ansible
2 27 (10.31%) FortiGate
3 16 (6.11%) Terraform
4 11 (4.20%) Grafana
4 11 (4.20%) Prometheus
5 10 (3.82%) SCCM
6 6 (2.29%) Kubernetes
6 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.91%) Nessus
7 5 (1.91%) Salt
8 4 (1.53%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (1.15%) CASB
9 3 (1.15%) Nexpose
9 3 (1.15%) Suricata
10 2 (0.76%) EMC NetWorker
10 2 (0.76%) Istio
10 2 (0.76%) QRadar
10 2 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
10 2 (0.76%) Tivoli Storage Manager
11 1 (0.38%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 84 (32.06%) Palo Alto
2 44 (16.79%) CheckPoint
3 43 (16.41%) Fortinet
3 43 (16.41%) Juniper
4 42 (16.03%) Aruba
4 42 (16.03%) Microsoft
5 41 (15.65%) F5
6 30 (11.45%) Arista
7 28 (10.69%) ServiceNow
8 26 (9.92%) Meraki
9 25 (9.54%) Dell
10 23 (8.78%) Apple
10 23 (8.78%) HP
10 23 (8.78%) Zscaler
11 16 (6.11%) VMware
12 14 (5.34%) SAP
12 14 (5.34%) Splunk
13 12 (4.58%) Infoblox
14 11 (4.20%) EMC
14 11 (4.20%) SolarWinds