Cisco Contracts 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 29 May 2025, 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 107 114 102
Rank change year-on-year +7 -12 +30
Contract jobs citing Cisco 313 403 635
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.58% 2.31% 2.49%
As % of the Vendors category 5.68% 5.63% 6.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 201 271 420
10th Percentile £300 £250 £220
25th Percentile £425 £350 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% +6.07%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £675 £738 £738
England median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 11
10th Percentile £24.66 £21.80 £12.46
25th Percentile £33.35 £23.99 £21.25
Median hourly rate £38.75 £27.50 £30.75
Median % change year-on-year +40.91% -10.57% +28.61%
75th Percentile £50.94 £41.25 £50.56
90th Percentile £63.50 - £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.70 £26.25 £43.00
% change year-on-year +24.57% -38.95% +79.84%

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 5,513 7,161 10,109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 45.48% 40.99% 39.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,583 4,924 7,174
10th Percentile £330 £300 £331
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £538 £570
Median % change year-on-year +1.35% -5.66% +3.64%
75th Percentile £674 £650 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £798
England median daily rate £520 £515 £535
% change year-on-year +0.97% -3.74% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 129 126
10th Percentile £15.84 £13.87 £16.13
25th Percentile £22.27 £17.00 £21.00
Median hourly rate £28.50 £23.50 £26.50
Median % change year-on-year +21.28% -11.32% -24.29%
75th Percentile £42.75 £36.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £64.00 £65.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £26.45 £22.50 £36.50
% change year-on-year +17.56% -38.36% +69.77%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in London

Cisco
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco in London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco in London

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in London

Cisco
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco in London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco in London

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Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco in London over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

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 29 May 2025. 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 -4 53 £536 +23.93% 35
West London +16 20 £425 -15.00% 20
South London - 9 £525 - 5
East London +20 5 £550 +144.44% 6
North London - 1 £413 -
Cisco
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 13 (4.15%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (1.92%) Confluence
4 5 (1.60%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.64%) IIS
5 2 (0.64%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.32%) JBoss
6 1 (0.32%) Mattermost
Applications
1 15 (4.79%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (4.47%) MS Visio
3 8 (2.56%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (1.28%) AutoCAD
5 2 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 1 (0.32%) Acrobat
6 1 (0.32%) Revit
Business Applications
1 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
Cloud Services
1 55 (17.57%) Azure
2 49 (15.65%) AWS
3 34 (10.86%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (5.11%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.92%) GCP
6 5 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (1.60%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 3 (0.96%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (0.96%) IaaS
8 3 (0.96%) Nutanix
8 3 (0.96%) OneDrive
8 3 (0.96%) Serverless
9 2 (0.64%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (0.64%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.64%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.64%) GitHub
9 2 (0.64%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.64%) PaaS
9 2 (0.64%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 162 (51.76%) Firewall
2 88 (28.12%) BGP
3 80 (25.56%) OSPF
4 75 (23.96%) Network Security
5 73 (23.32%) WAN
6 64 (20.45%) VPN
7 57 (18.21%) LAN
8 51 (16.29%) DNS
9 45 (14.38%) Wireless
10 40 (12.78%) SD-WAN
11 34 (10.86%) Cisco Nexus
11 34 (10.86%) MPLS
12 33 (10.54%) DHCP
12 33 (10.54%) Wi-Fi
13 30 (9.58%) Multicast
13 30 (9.58%) VLAN
14 29 (9.27%) Cisco ASA
15 27 (8.63%) IPsec
15 27 (8.63%) TCP/IP
16 24 (7.67%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (4.79%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.60%) MySQL
3 4 (1.28%) NoSQL
4 3 (0.96%) MongoDB
4 3 (0.96%) Power BI
5 2 (0.64%) Hadoop
5 2 (0.64%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.64%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.32%) Data Lake
6 1 (0.32%) Elasticsearch
6 1 (0.32%) Sybase ASE
6 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 17 (5.43%) Sonatype Nexus
2 15 (4.79%) JIRA
3 9 (2.88%) GitLab
4 5 (1.60%) Git
5 2 (0.64%) eggPlant
5 2 (0.64%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.32%) JIRA Agile
6 1 (0.32%) TeamCity
General
1 92 (29.39%) Social Skills
2 67 (21.41%) Finance
3 42 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 33 (10.54%) Banking
5 23 (7.35%) Public Sector
6 8 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
6 8 (2.56%) Telecoms
7 7 (2.24%) Local Government
8 6 (1.92%) Legal
9 5 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 4 (1.28%) Financial Institution
10 4 (1.28%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.28%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (0.96%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (0.96%) Law
11 3 (0.96%) Marketing
11 3 (0.96%) Multimedia
11 3 (0.96%) Police
11 3 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (0.96%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 132 (42.17%) Network Engineer
2 39 (12.46%) Senior
3 36 (11.50%) Architect
4 29 (9.27%) Cisco Engineer
5 26 (8.31%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 24 (7.67%) Network Architect
7 19 (6.07%) Senior Network Engineer
8 18 (5.75%) Network Security Engineer
8 18 (5.75%) Security Engineer
9 15 (4.79%) Consultant
10 14 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 14 (4.47%) Support Engineer
11 13 (4.15%) Lead
12 11 (3.51%) Principal Engineer
12 11 (3.51%) Principal Network Engineer
13 10 (3.19%) Implementation Engineer
14 9 (2.88%) Analyst
14 9 (2.88%) Network Consultant
15 8 (2.56%) Data Centre Engineer
15 8 (2.56%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (5.43%) 802.1X
2 6 (1.92%) .NET
3 5 (1.60%) JSON
4 4 (1.28%) ASP.NET
4 4 (1.28%) XMPP
5 3 (0.96%) RESTful
6 2 (0.64%) .NET Core
6 2 (0.64%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.64%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (0.64%) Blazor
6 2 (0.64%) Kafka
6 2 (0.64%) NETCONF
6 2 (0.64%) React
6 2 (0.64%) XML
7 1 (0.32%) ADO
7 1 (0.32%) EDI
7 1 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (0.32%) LDAP
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Graph
7 1 (0.32%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 61 (19.49%) Data Centre
2 13 (4.15%) Video Conferencing
3 10 (3.19%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (2.56%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.24%) Security Posture
6 6 (1.92%) Digital Signage
6 6 (1.92%) Hybrid Cloud
7 5 (1.60%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (0.96%) Clustering
9 3 (0.96%) Driving Licence
9 3 (0.96%) IVR
9 3 (0.96%) Management Information System
9 3 (0.96%) NHS
9 3 (0.96%) PKI
9 3 (0.96%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.96%) Self-Motivation
10 2 (0.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 2 (0.64%) Replication
10 2 (0.64%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 43 (13.74%) Windows
2 21 (6.71%) Linux
3 14 (4.47%) Windows Server
4 13 (4.15%) Windows 10
5 9 (2.88%) Unix
6 7 (2.24%) Android
7 5 (1.60%) CatOS
7 5 (1.60%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.28%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.96%) Mac OS X
9 3 (0.96%) VMS
9 3 (0.96%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.64%) Windows 8
10 2 (0.64%) Windows XP
11 1 (0.32%) Oracle Linux
11 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.32%) Solaris
11 1 (0.32%) Windows 7
11 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (16.29%) Network Monitoring
3 50 (15.97%) Migration
4 36 (11.50%) ITIL
5 24 (7.67%) Project Delivery
6 21 (6.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 20 (6.39%) High Availability
7 20 (6.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 20 (6.39%) Network Design
8 19 (6.07%) Low Latency
9 18 (5.75%) Roadmaps
10 17 (5.43%) Service Management
11 16 (5.11%) Agile
11 16 (5.11%) Service Delivery
12 15 (4.79%) Change Management
12 15 (4.79%) Project Management
13 14 (4.47%) DevOps
14 13 (4.15%) Customer Service
14 13 (4.15%) Matrix Organization
14 13 (4.15%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 55 (17.57%) Python
2 18 (5.75%) SQL
3 13 (4.15%) PowerShell
4 6 (1.92%) Perl
5 5 (1.60%) Bash
6 4 (1.28%) JavaScript
7 3 (0.96%) C#
7 3 (0.96%) Java
8 2 (0.64%) VB
9 1 (0.32%) ActionScript
9 1 (0.32%) ActionScript 2.0
9 1 (0.32%) Bicep
9 1 (0.32%) Shell Script
9 1 (0.32%) Tcl
9 1 (0.32%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 99 (31.63%) Cisco Certification
2 72 (23.00%) CCNP
3 45 (14.38%) Security Cleared
4 35 (11.18%) SC Cleared
5 30 (9.58%) CCIE
6 27 (8.63%) CCNA
6 27 (8.63%) Degree
7 11 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (2.88%) CCSA
8 9 (2.88%) JNCIA
9 8 (2.56%) DV Cleared
10 7 (2.24%) AWS Certification
10 7 (2.24%) CCSE
11 6 (1.92%) CCIE Service Provider
11 6 (1.92%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (1.60%) JNCIS
13 4 (1.28%) Azure Certification
13 4 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
14 3 (0.96%) CCIE Data Center
15 2 (0.64%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (3.51%) SLA
2 8 (2.56%) NIST
3 4 (1.28%) Government Security Classifications
3 4 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.96%) GDPR
4 3 (0.96%) QA
5 2 (0.64%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.64%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.32%) GRC
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.32%) PSD2
6 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (12.14%) Active Directory
2 26 (8.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (4.15%) Firmware
4 7 (2.24%) vSphere
5 6 (1.92%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.60%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.28%) Docker
8 3 (0.96%) KVM
8 3 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.64%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.64%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.64%) XenApp
10 1 (0.32%) FreeRADIUS
10 1 (0.32%) iptables
10 1 (0.32%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 55 (17.57%) Ansible
2 24 (7.67%) Terraform
3 12 (3.83%) ZABBIX
4 8 (2.56%) FortiGate
5 7 (2.24%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (2.24%) Puppet
6 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
7 5 (1.60%) Cisco UCCX
7 5 (1.60%) Nagios
8 4 (1.28%) CA Spectrum
8 4 (1.28%) Cisco Prime
9 3 (0.96%) Cisco UCCE
9 3 (0.96%) Kubernetes
9 3 (0.96%) logstash
9 3 (0.96%) Netcool
9 3 (0.96%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.96%) Prometheus
9 3 (0.96%) SCCM
10 2 (0.64%) McAfee ePO
10 2 (0.64%) WSUS
Vendors
1 60 (19.17%) Palo Alto
2 57 (18.21%) Microsoft
3 56 (17.89%) CheckPoint
4 48 (15.34%) Fortinet
5 43 (13.74%) F5
6 42 (13.42%) Arista
6 42 (13.42%) Juniper
7 41 (13.10%) VMware
8 32 (10.22%) SolarWinds
9 30 (9.58%) Meraki
10 17 (5.43%) HP
10 17 (5.43%) Infoblox
11 14 (4.47%) Dell
12 13 (4.15%) ServiceNow
13 10 (3.19%) Zscaler
14 9 (2.88%) Aruba
14 9 (2.88%) Nokia
14 9 (2.88%) Splunk
15 8 (2.56%) Apple
15 8 (2.56%) Citrix