Meraki Contract Job Trends in London

Meraki
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring knowledge or experience of Meraki products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Meraki over the 6 months leading up to 8 September 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 Meraki.

6 months to
8 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 399 336 346
Rank change year-on-year -63 +10 +39
Contract jobs citing Meraki 42 32 43
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.24% 0.27%
As % of the Vendors category 0.48% 0.52% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 20 23
10th Percentile £259 £370 £383
25th Percentile £417 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -11.90% +31.25%
75th Percentile £528 £547 £588
90th Percentile £550 £600 £738
England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - £55.00 -
25th Percentile - £56.88 £11.25
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £12.50
Median % change year-on-year - +400.00% -63.24%
75th Percentile - £66.88 £13.75
90th Percentile - £68.00 -
England median hourly rate £39.11 £62.00 £12.50
% change year-on-year -36.92% +396.00% -63.24%

All Vendors
London

Meraki 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 8,662 6,152 6,982
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.91% 46.31% 43.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,633 3,976 4,610
10th Percentile £340 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year - -1.87% -2.77%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
England median daily rate £513 £504 £525
% change year-on-year +1.79% -4.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 131 124 79
10th Percentile £18.75 £16.50 £18.13
25th Percentile £20.82 £23.00 £23.80
Median hourly rate £36.50 £26.38 £30.59
Median % change year-on-year +38.39% -13.78% -16.76%
75th Percentile £69.38 £39.06 £64.38
90th Percentile £85.22 £63.75 £79.00
England median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 £35.00
% change year-on-year +28.13% -28.14% -17.65%

Meraki
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Meraki relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Meraki job vacancy trend in London

Meraki
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Meraki.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Meraki

Meraki
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Meraki in London over the 6 months to 8 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Meraki in London

Meraki
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Meraki.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing Meraki

Meraki
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 Meraki within the London region over the 6 months to 8 September 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 7 £500 -10.15% 6
West London -20 3 £500 +24.84%
Meraki
England

Meraki
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 7 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (54.76%) Azure
2 10 (23.81%) Microsoft 365
3 9 (21.43%) Entra ID
4 5 (11.90%) OneDrive
5 3 (7.14%) AWS
5 3 (7.14%) GCP
5 3 (7.14%) Mimecast
6 2 (4.76%) Google Workspace
7 1 (2.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (2.38%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 19 (45.24%) Firewall
2 13 (30.95%) Wireless
3 12 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
4 8 (19.05%) VPN
4 8 (19.05%) WAN
5 7 (16.67%) SD-WAN
6 6 (14.29%) DNS
6 6 (14.29%) Network Security
7 5 (11.90%) BGP
7 5 (11.90%) Cisco Nexus
7 5 (11.90%) LAN
7 5 (11.90%) MPLS
7 5 (11.90%) OSPF
8 4 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
9 3 (7.14%) 5G
9 3 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (7.14%) DHCP
9 3 (7.14%) WLAN
10 2 (4.76%) Structured Cabling
10 2 (4.76%) Wireless Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Git
General
1 14 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 12 (28.57%) Finance
3 6 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (14.29%) Legal
4 5 (11.90%) Banking
5 4 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.14%) Financial Institution
7 2 (4.76%) Investment Banking
7 2 (4.76%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.38%) Local Government
8 1 (2.38%) Retail
8 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 7 (16.67%) Analyst
2 7 (16.67%) Security Engineer
3 6 (14.29%) Senior
3 6 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Support
4 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 5 (11.90%) Network Security Engineer
4 5 (11.90%) Support Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Applications Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Applications Support
6 3 (7.14%) Applications Support Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Implementation Engineer
6 3 (7.14%) Security Hacker
7 2 (4.76%) Business Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Environment Support Analyst
7 2 (4.76%) Mac Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.14%) Terraform
2 2 (4.76%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (26.19%) Onboarding
2 5 (11.90%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (7.14%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.14%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.76%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (4.76%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) IoT
5 1 (2.38%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.38%) Lidar
5 1 (2.38%) Robotics
5 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (30.95%) Windows
2 7 (16.67%) Linux
2 7 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (11.90%) Windows 10
4 4 (9.52%) Ubuntu
5 3 (7.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (4.76%) Mac OS
6 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.38%) Debian
7 1 (2.38%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.38%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (14.29%) Asset Management
2 6 (14.29%) Customer Service
2 6 (14.29%) Runbook
3 5 (11.90%) Agile
4 4 (9.52%) ITIL
4 4 (9.52%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (9.52%) User Experience
5 3 (7.14%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (7.14%) Blue Team
5 3 (7.14%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (7.14%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (7.14%) Incident Response
5 3 (7.14%) Migration
5 3 (7.14%) Patch Management
5 3 (7.14%) PRINCE2
5 3 (7.14%) Principle of Least Privilege
5 3 (7.14%) Privileged Access Management
5 3 (7.14%) Red Team
5 3 (7.14%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (9.52%) Bash
3 2 (4.76%) Python
4 1 (2.38%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (23.81%) CCNP
3 4 (9.52%) Degree
4 3 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (4.76%) CCNA
6 1 (2.38%) CCIE
6 1 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.38%) PMP
6 1 (2.38%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.38%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.38%) PCI DSS
1 1 (2.38%) QA
1 1 (2.38%) SLA
System Software
1 12 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (4.76%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.38%) Docker
4 1 (2.38%) Firmware
4 1 (2.38%) KVM
4 1 (2.38%) QEMU
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (2.38%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (2.38%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (4.76%) Ansible
2 2 (4.76%) Dell DRAC
2 2 (4.76%) SCCM
3 1 (2.38%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.38%) Grafana
3 1 (2.38%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.38%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 39 (92.86%) Cisco
2 16 (38.10%) Microsoft
3 7 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 7 (16.67%) VMware
4 5 (11.90%) Google
4 5 (11.90%) NetApp
4 5 (11.90%) Zscaler
5 4 (9.52%) Aruba
5 4 (9.52%) CheckPoint
5 4 (9.52%) Fortinet
5 4 (9.52%) Oracle
6 3 (7.14%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (7.14%) CyberArk
6 3 (7.14%) iManage
6 3 (7.14%) Infoblox
6 3 (7.14%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (7.14%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.14%) WALLIX
7 2 (4.76%) Juniper
7 2 (4.76%) Okta