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 8 July 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
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 167 102 111
Rank change year-on-year -65 +9 -21
Contract jobs citing Cisco 336 372 417
As % of all contract jobs in London 1.72% 2.78% 2.38%
As % of the Vendors category 4.13% 6.10% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 238 283
10th Percentile £313 £325 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.99%
75th Percentile £586 £579 £550
90th Percentile £675 £659 £675
England median daily rate £480 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -4.00% +2.56% +5.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 18
10th Percentile £28.35 - £22.43
25th Percentile £36.25 £25.15 £23.80
Median hourly rate £47.00 £31.33 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year +50.04% +19.33% -14.63%
75th Percentile £50.00 £45.63 £41.25
90th Percentile £55.75 £64.28 -
England median hourly rate £47.00 £30.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +56.67% +9.09% -33.73%

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 8,126 6,102 7,404
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 41.55% 45.67% 42.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,313 3,959 5,066
10th Percentile £350 £325 £310
25th Percentile £425 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% - -3.64%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £738 £765 £775
England median daily rate £510 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 129 114 126
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.04 £13.87
25th Percentile £23.50 £22.60 £18.13
Median hourly rate £35.50 £28.33 £24.52
Median % change year-on-year +25.33% +15.53% -20.27%
75th Percentile £58.92 £48.75 £38.75
90th Percentile £82.00 £65.00 £65.02
England median hourly rate £35.00 £25.23 £25.00
% change year-on-year +38.75% +0.90% -30.56%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 -22 45 £550 +2.23% 33
South London -2 19 £450 -14.29% 8
West London -44 7 £500 +17.65% 16
East London -2 4 £470 -14.55% 13
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 (2.68%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.19%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.89%) Confluence
3 3 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.60%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.30%) CloudStack
Applications
1 8 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.19%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 85 (25.30%) Azure
2 48 (14.29%) AWS
3 19 (5.65%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.87%) Entra ID
5 11 (3.27%) GCP
6 10 (2.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 8 (2.38%) SaaS
8 7 (2.08%) GitHub
9 5 (1.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 4 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
11 3 (0.89%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.89%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.60%) AWS IoT
12 2 (0.60%) Power Platform
12 2 (0.60%) Rubrik
13 1 (0.30%) Azure Sentinel
13 1 (0.30%) Cloudflare
13 1 (0.30%) IaaS
13 1 (0.30%) IBM Watson
13 1 (0.30%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 166 (49.40%) Firewall
2 103 (30.65%) WAN
3 89 (26.49%) BGP
4 83 (24.70%) Network Security
5 61 (18.15%) LAN
6 60 (17.86%) VPN
7 54 (16.07%) OSPF
8 48 (14.29%) Wireless
9 38 (11.31%) VLAN
10 35 (10.42%) SD-WAN
11 33 (9.82%) MPLS
12 32 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (8.93%) Cisco IOS
13 30 (8.93%) Cisco ISE
14 28 (8.33%) DNS
14 28 (8.33%) VXLAN
15 27 (8.04%) Multicast
16 24 (7.14%) Cisco Nexus
17 23 (6.85%) Cisco ASA
18 22 (6.55%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.89%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.60%) NoSQL
2 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.30%) Apache Hive
3 1 (0.30%) Big Data
3 1 (0.30%) ClickHouse
3 1 (0.30%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.30%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 7 (2.08%) Git
2 4 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (0.89%) JIRA
4 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (22.32%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.37%) Finance
3 24 (7.14%) Banking
4 22 (6.55%) Telecoms
5 21 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
7 17 (5.06%) Documentation Skills
7 17 (5.06%) Financial Institution
8 16 (4.76%) Legal
9 7 (2.08%) Law
9 7 (2.08%) Marketing
10 5 (1.49%) Local Government
10 5 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.19%) Front Office
11 4 (1.19%) Retail
12 3 (0.89%) Investment Banking
12 3 (0.89%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.89%) Organisational Skills
13 2 (0.60%) Electronics
13 2 (0.60%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 159 (47.32%) Network Engineer
2 50 (14.88%) Architect
3 41 (12.20%) Senior
4 26 (7.74%) Network Architect
5 24 (7.14%) Security Engineer
6 22 (6.55%) Cisco Engineer
6 22 (6.55%) Network Security Engineer
6 22 (6.55%) Senior Network Engineer
7 18 (5.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 13 (3.87%) Automation Engineer
8 13 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
9 12 (3.57%) Operations Engineer
10 9 (2.68%) Audio Visual Engineer
11 8 (2.38%) Analyst
11 8 (2.38%) Cisco Architect
11 8 (2.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 8 (2.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 8 (2.38%) Security Architect
12 7 (2.08%) Cisco Network Architect
12 7 (2.08%) Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (3.87%) 802.1X
2 8 (2.38%) REST
3 6 (1.79%) SAML
4 4 (1.19%) Jinja
5 2 (0.60%) .NET
5 2 (0.60%) .NET Core
5 2 (0.60%) ADO
5 2 (0.60%) ASP.NET
5 2 (0.60%) Blazor
5 2 (0.60%) Middleware
6 1 (0.30%) CSS
6 1 (0.30%) Django
6 1 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (0.30%) HTML
6 1 (0.30%) Kafka
6 1 (0.30%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 82 (24.40%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
3 15 (4.46%) Data Protection Act
4 12 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (3.57%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.38%) IoT
5 8 (2.38%) Virtual Team
6 7 (2.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 6 (1.79%) Security Posture
7 6 (1.79%) Web Conferencing
8 4 (1.19%) Driving Licence
8 4 (1.19%) PKI
9 3 (0.89%) Celerra
9 3 (0.89%) EMC Centera
9 3 (0.89%) EMC VMAX
9 3 (0.89%) EMC VNX
9 3 (0.89%) IBM XIV
9 3 (0.89%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.89%) Symmetrix
Operating Systems
1 48 (14.29%) Windows
2 18 (5.36%) Linux
2 18 (5.36%) Windows Server
3 7 (2.08%) Unix
4 5 (1.49%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.89%) Mac OS
5 3 (0.89%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.89%) VMS
5 3 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.30%) Android
7 1 (0.30%) CentOS
7 1 (0.30%) Debian
7 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (18.15%) Migration
2 27 (8.04%) ITIL
2 27 (8.04%) Project Delivery
3 26 (7.74%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (7.44%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (7.14%) Runbook
6 23 (6.85%) Agile
6 23 (6.85%) Infrastructure as Code
6 23 (6.85%) Network Design
7 21 (6.25%) Data Protection
7 21 (6.25%) Validation
8 19 (5.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 19 (5.65%) Mentoring
9 18 (5.36%) Change Management
9 18 (5.36%) CI/CD
10 17 (5.06%) ITSM
10 17 (5.06%) Load Balancing
10 17 (5.06%) Low Latency
11 16 (4.76%) High Availability
11 16 (4.76%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 52 (15.48%) Python
2 14 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.49%) C
4 3 (0.89%) Bash
4 3 (0.89%) C++
4 3 (0.89%) Java
5 2 (0.60%) ActionScript
5 2 (0.60%) Lisp
6 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.30%) Ladder Logic
6 1 (0.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (23.81%) Cisco Certification
2 70 (20.83%) CCNP
3 37 (11.01%) Security Cleared
4 29 (8.63%) SC Cleared
5 25 (7.44%) Degree
6 20 (5.95%) CCIE
7 17 (5.06%) CCNA
8 10 (2.98%) DV Cleared
9 8 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 7 (2.08%) Azure Certification
11 6 (1.79%) CCSE
12 5 (1.49%) PMP
13 3 (0.89%) JNCIP
13 3 (0.89%) PMI Certification
14 2 (0.60%) AWS Certification
14 2 (0.60%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (0.60%) CISSP
14 2 (0.60%) JNCIE
14 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 2 (0.60%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (2.98%) SLA
2 5 (1.49%) NIST
2 5 (1.49%) PMO
2 5 (1.49%) QA
3 3 (0.89%) GDPR
3 3 (0.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (0.60%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (0.60%) Government Security Classifications
4 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.30%) GRC
5 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 1 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 29 (8.63%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (6.25%) Active Directory
3 8 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (1.79%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.49%) Firmware
6 4 (1.19%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.19%) vSphere
7 3 (0.89%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.60%) Docker
8 2 (0.60%) vCloud
8 2 (0.60%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.30%) IAG
9 1 (0.30%) KVM
9 1 (0.30%) QEMU
9 1 (0.30%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.30%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 51 (15.18%) Ansible
2 34 (10.12%) FortiGate
3 25 (7.44%) Terraform
4 18 (5.36%) Grafana
5 17 (5.06%) Prometheus
6 9 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
7 7 (2.08%) Kubernetes
8 6 (1.79%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (1.79%) SCCM
9 5 (1.49%) Cisco Prime
10 4 (1.19%) Salt
11 3 (0.89%) Avamar
11 3 (0.89%) EMC VPLEX
11 3 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
11 3 (0.89%) QRadar
12 2 (0.60%) Nessus
12 2 (0.60%) vCenter Server
13 1 (0.30%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.30%) SCOM
13 1 (0.30%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 105 (31.25%) Palo Alto
2 70 (20.83%) Fortinet
3 58 (17.26%) Microsoft
4 53 (15.77%) Arista
5 48 (14.29%) Juniper
6 46 (13.69%) F5
7 42 (12.50%) CheckPoint
8 35 (10.42%) Aruba
9 34 (10.12%) VMware
10 28 (8.33%) Meraki
10 28 (8.33%) Zscaler
11 18 (5.36%) ServiceNow
12 13 (3.87%) Infoblox
12 13 (3.87%) SolarWinds
13 10 (2.98%) Splunk
14 9 (2.68%) EMC
15 8 (2.38%) Citrix
16 7 (2.08%) Dell
16 7 (2.08%) Google
17 6 (1.79%) BT