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 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 156 98 89
Rank change year-on-year -58 -9 +26
Contract jobs citing Cisco 254 356 445
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.67% 2.62% 2.42%
As % of the Vendors category 3.68% 5.94% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 158 240 281
10th Percentile £259 £267 £230
25th Percentile £361 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £509 £493
Median % change year-on-year -8.85% +3.30% -1.99%
75th Percentile £584 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £650 £725
England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -2.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 3 22
10th Percentile £21.46 - £21.85
25th Percentile £24.23 - £24.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £24.66 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -24.12% +30.00%
75th Percentile £25.68 £31.71 £41.25
90th Percentile £87.10 £35.93 £75.63
England median hourly rate £65.00 £24.66 £34.00
% change year-on-year +163.56% -27.47% +32.24%

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 6,911 5,993 7,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.33% 44.07% 40.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,539 3,707 5,070
10th Percentile £350 £313 £280
25th Percentile £425 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% -0.91% -2.74%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £751 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 73 144
10th Percentile £17.93 £21.50 £13.55
25th Percentile £22.02 £23.80 £17.59
Median hourly rate £27.92 £35.00 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.50 £43.88
90th Percentile £67.70 £80.60 £77.50
England median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £27.75
% change year-on-year -21.76% +9.73% -14.62%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -40 21 £525 -4.42% 24
South London -4 11 £438 -7.89% 2
West London -18 6 £399 +13.12% 11
East London +4 3 £525 -4.55% 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 13 (5.12%) SharePoint
2 8 (3.15%) Microsoft Exchange
3 7 (2.76%) Confluence
4 3 (1.18%) Appian
5 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.39%) Apache
6 1 (0.39%) JBoss
6 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
Applications
1 17 (6.69%) Microsoft Office
2 13 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.54%) MS Visio
4 8 (3.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.39%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 6 (2.36%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.39%) Actimize
Cloud Services
1 66 (25.98%) Azure
2 36 (14.17%) AWS
3 34 (13.39%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (9.84%) GCP
5 12 (4.72%) Entra ID
6 6 (2.36%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.97%) Azure Sentinel
7 5 (1.97%) Cloudflare
7 5 (1.97%) GitHub
7 5 (1.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 4 (1.57%) Akamai
8 4 (1.57%) Mimecast
8 4 (1.57%) OpenDNS
9 3 (1.18%) AWS CloudFormation
9 3 (1.18%) IaaS
9 3 (1.18%) PaaS
9 3 (1.18%) Tricentis Tosca
10 2 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
10 2 (0.79%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 101 (39.76%) Firewall
2 86 (33.86%) WAN
3 59 (23.23%) VPN
4 57 (22.44%) Network Security
5 52 (20.47%) LAN
6 48 (18.90%) BGP
7 47 (18.50%) Wireless
8 45 (17.72%) SD-WAN
9 41 (16.14%) OSPF
10 26 (10.24%) Wi-Fi
11 21 (8.27%) Cisco Nexus
12 19 (7.48%) MPLS
12 19 (7.48%) VLAN
13 18 (7.09%) Cisco ASA
14 16 (6.30%) Cisco ISE
15 15 (5.91%) DNS
15 15 (5.91%) EIGRP
16 12 (4.72%) Cisco IOS
17 11 (4.33%) Multicast
17 11 (4.33%) NetScaler
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.79%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.39%) Metadata
2 1 (0.39%) MySQL
2 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 10 (3.94%) GitLab
2 8 (3.15%) JIRA
3 6 (2.36%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.57%) Git
5 3 (1.18%) Cucumber
5 3 (1.18%) Robot Framework
5 3 (1.18%) Selenium
5 3 (1.18%) SonarQube
5 3 (1.18%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (23.62%) Finance
2 50 (19.69%) Social Skills
3 34 (13.39%) Telecoms
4 30 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 24 (9.45%) Analytical Skills
6 22 (8.66%) Banking
7 15 (5.91%) Manufacturing
7 15 (5.91%) Marketing
8 14 (5.51%) Electronics
8 14 (5.51%) Legal
9 9 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (2.76%) Financial Institution
10 7 (2.76%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.97%) Law
11 5 (1.97%) Retail
12 2 (0.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (0.79%) Local Government
12 2 (0.79%) Military
13 1 (0.39%) International Banking
13 1 (0.39%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 76 (29.92%) Network Engineer
2 39 (15.35%) Architect
3 27 (10.63%) Network Architect
4 22 (8.66%) Senior
5 17 (6.69%) IT Support
6 14 (5.51%) Support Engineer
7 13 (5.12%) Project Manager
8 12 (4.72%) Cisco Engineer
9 11 (4.33%) Desktop Support
9 11 (4.33%) Security Engineer
9 11 (4.33%) Solutions Architect
10 10 (3.94%) IT Engineer
10 10 (3.94%) Security Architect
11 9 (3.54%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 9 (3.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 8 (3.15%) Analyst
12 8 (3.15%) Coordinator
12 8 (3.15%) IT Support Engineer
12 8 (3.15%) Support Specialist
13 7 (2.76%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.36%) JSON
2 5 (1.97%) NETCONF
2 5 (1.97%) XML
2 5 (1.97%) YANG
3 4 (1.57%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.57%) HTML
3 4 (1.57%) VML
3 4 (1.57%) XMPP
4 3 (1.18%) Jinja
4 3 (1.18%) REST
5 2 (0.79%) CSS
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
6 1 (0.39%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.39%) Beautiful Soup
6 1 (0.39%) Django
6 1 (0.39%) Kafka
6 1 (0.39%) OpenConfig
6 1 (0.39%) Pandas
6 1 (0.39%) Regular Expression
Miscellaneous
1 70 (27.56%) Data Centre
2 11 (4.33%) PKI
3 10 (3.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (3.54%) Data Protection Act
5 7 (2.76%) Public Cloud
6 6 (2.36%) Cloud Native
6 6 (2.36%) Driving Licence
6 6 (2.36%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.36%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (1.57%) Blackberry
7 4 (1.57%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.18%) Handset
8 3 (1.18%) iPhone
8 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.18%) SCADA
8 3 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
9 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.79%) Life Science
9 2 (0.79%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 33 (12.99%) Windows
2 24 (9.45%) Mac OS
3 23 (9.06%) Android
4 13 (5.12%) Linux
5 11 (4.33%) Windows 10
5 11 (4.33%) Windows Server
6 7 (2.76%) Unix
7 2 (0.79%) VMS
8 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (15.35%) Migration
2 38 (14.96%) Problem-Solving
3 24 (9.45%) Network Design
4 22 (8.66%) Change Management
5 21 (8.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 20 (7.87%) Agile
7 19 (7.48%) Zero Trust
8 18 (7.09%) Network Architecture
9 17 (6.69%) Infrastructure as Code
10 16 (6.30%) Business Intelligence
10 16 (6.30%) ITIL
11 15 (5.91%) Load Balancing
11 15 (5.91%) Programme Management
12 14 (5.51%) CI/CD
12 14 (5.51%) DevOps
12 14 (5.51%) Digital Marketing
12 14 (5.51%) Network Monitoring
12 14 (5.51%) Security Architecture
13 13 (5.12%) SIEM
13 13 (5.12%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (15.75%) Python
2 16 (6.30%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.33%) Bash
4 8 (3.15%) JavaScript
5 6 (2.36%) Perl
6 5 (1.97%) C++
7 4 (1.57%) C
7 4 (1.57%) Kusto Query Language
8 1 (0.39%) Java
8 1 (0.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 58 (22.83%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (21.65%) Security Cleared
3 49 (19.29%) CCNP
4 48 (18.90%) SC Cleared
5 19 (7.48%) CCIE
5 19 (7.48%) Degree
6 17 (6.69%) CCNA
6 17 (6.69%) DV Cleared
7 7 (2.76%) CISSP
8 6 (2.36%) Azure Certification
9 5 (1.97%) CCSE
9 5 (1.97%) JNCIS
10 4 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (1.57%) JNCIA
10 4 (1.57%) JNCIE
10 4 (1.57%) JNCIP
11 3 (1.18%) Network+ Certification
12 2 (0.79%) CCSA
12 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (3.94%) PMO
2 7 (2.76%) NIST
3 6 (2.36%) GDPR
3 6 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 5 (1.97%) SLA
5 3 (1.18%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
6 2 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.39%) Accessibility
7 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.39%) MiFID
7 1 (0.39%) QA
System Software
1 16 (6.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.51%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.54%) Firmware
3 9 (3.54%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.15%) Docker
5 7 (2.76%) vSphere
6 5 (1.97%) Hyper-V
6 5 (1.97%) Snort
7 4 (1.57%) Squid
8 2 (0.79%) KVM
8 2 (0.79%) vCloud
9 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.39%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.39%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 29 (11.42%) Ansible
2 26 (10.24%) FortiGate
3 19 (7.48%) Terraform
4 11 (4.33%) Kubernetes
5 10 (3.94%) SCCM
6 9 (3.54%) Grafana
6 9 (3.54%) Prometheus
7 7 (2.76%) Microsoft Intune
8 6 (2.36%) Nessus
9 5 (1.97%) Salt
10 4 (1.57%) Nexpose
10 4 (1.57%) Suricata
11 3 (1.18%) CASB
11 3 (1.18%) Cisco Prime
11 3 (1.18%) EMC NetWorker
12 2 (0.79%) Istio
12 2 (0.79%) QRadar
12 2 (0.79%) Tivoli Storage Manager
13 1 (0.39%) Dell DRAC
13 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (29.92%) Palo Alto
2 43 (16.93%) Microsoft
3 41 (16.14%) Fortinet
4 40 (15.75%) CheckPoint
5 39 (15.35%) Juniper
6 38 (14.96%) Aruba
7 36 (14.17%) F5
8 26 (10.24%) Dell
8 26 (10.24%) ServiceNow
9 25 (9.84%) Arista
9 25 (9.84%) Meraki
10 23 (9.06%) Apple
10 23 (9.06%) HP
11 20 (7.87%) Zscaler
12 18 (7.09%) VMware
13 15 (5.91%) Splunk
14 14 (5.51%) SAP
15 12 (4.72%) SolarWinds
16 11 (4.33%) EMC
17 10 (3.94%) Google