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 10 August 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
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 410 330 350
Rank change year-on-year -80 +20 +52
Contract jobs citing Meraki 40 35 29
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.20% 0.26% 0.18%
As % of the Vendors category 0.47% 0.56% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 22 17
10th Percentile £319 £330 £345
25th Percentile £419 £391 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £438 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.71% -16.67% +31.25%
75th Percentile £500 £536 £556
90th Percentile £544 £598 £588
England median daily rate £450 £430 £458
% change year-on-year +4.71% -6.07% +7.65%
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% -3.85%
75th Percentile - £66.88 £13.75
90th Percentile - £68.00 -
England median hourly rate £39.11 £57.50 £12.50
% change year-on-year -31.98% +360.00% -3.85%

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 8,488 6,269 6,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 42.13% 45.85% 42.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,513 4,079 4,733
10th Percentile £350 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £415 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year - -0.94% -4.63%
75th Percentile £638 £654 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £751
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 123 87
10th Percentile £18.75 £15.84 £17.08
25th Percentile £19.85 £22.70 £20.50
Median hourly rate £35.50 £26.30 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +34.98% -4.36% -17.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £43.48 £60.63
90th Percentile £81.25 £63.75 £75.50
England median hourly rate £34.30 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +36.39% -16.17% -20.00%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 -24 5 £425 -23.63% 8
West London -26 3 £500 +24.92%
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 6 (15.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (50.00%) Azure
2 10 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.00%) GCP
4 4 (10.00%) OneDrive
5 3 (7.50%) AWS
5 3 (7.50%) Mimecast
6 1 (2.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (2.50%) Google Workspace
6 1 (2.50%) PaaS
6 1 (2.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 17 (42.50%) Firewall
2 14 (35.00%) Wireless
3 11 (27.50%) Wi-Fi
4 7 (17.50%) WAN
5 6 (15.00%) Network Security
5 6 (15.00%) VPN
6 5 (12.50%) BGP
6 5 (12.50%) DNS
6 5 (12.50%) LAN
7 4 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (10.00%) MPLS
7 4 (10.00%) OSPF
7 4 (10.00%) SD-WAN
8 3 (7.50%) 5G
8 3 (7.50%) 802.11
8 3 (7.50%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (7.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (7.50%) Wireless Security
8 3 (7.50%) WLAN
9 2 (5.00%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (7.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (5.00%) Git
General
1 15 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 10 (25.00%) Finance
3 5 (12.50%) Banking
3 5 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (10.00%) Legal
5 3 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (5.00%) Investment Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 17 (42.50%) Network Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Analyst
2 7 (17.50%) Security Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Senior
3 5 (12.50%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Network Security Engineer
3 5 (12.50%) Support Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support
4 4 (10.00%) Infrastructure Support Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 4 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 3 (7.50%) Applications Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Applications Support
5 3 (7.50%) Applications Support Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Implementation Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Wireless Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Network Analyst
6 2 (5.00%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.00%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (7.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (7.50%) IoT
3 3 (7.50%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (2.50%) Device Driver
5 1 (2.50%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (2.50%) Lidar
5 1 (2.50%) Robotics
5 1 (2.50%) Social Media
5 1 (2.50%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (30.00%) Windows
2 7 (17.50%) Windows Server
3 6 (15.00%) Linux
4 4 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 4 (10.00%) Windows 10
5 3 (7.50%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (5.00%) Mac OS
6 2 (5.00%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (2.50%) Debian
7 1 (2.50%) Oracle Linux
7 1 (2.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (15.00%) Asset Management
3 5 (12.50%) Runbook
4 4 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (10.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 4 (10.00%) Network Design
4 4 (10.00%) User Experience
5 3 (7.50%) Agile
5 3 (7.50%) Analytical Thinking
5 3 (7.50%) Computer Science
5 3 (7.50%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (7.50%) Impact Assessments
5 3 (7.50%) Information Security
5 3 (7.50%) Patch Management
5 3 (7.50%) Principle of Least Privilege
5 3 (7.50%) Privileged Access Management
5 3 (7.50%) Use Case
6 2 (5.00%) DDoS Mitigation
6 2 (5.00%) IT Asset Management
6 2 (5.00%) Social Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (17.50%) PowerShell
2 4 (10.00%) Bash
3 3 (7.50%) Python
4 1 (2.50%) Ladder Logic
Qualifications
1 8 (20.00%) CCNP
1 8 (20.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (10.00%) Degree
3 3 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (2.50%) CCIE
4 1 (2.50%) CCNA
4 1 (2.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.50%) QA
1 1 (2.50%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.50%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) Firmware
3 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.50%) KVM
3 1 (2.50%) QEMU
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (2.50%) VMware Server
Systems Management
1 9 (22.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (10.00%) Terraform
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
4 2 (5.00%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (5.00%) Grafana
5 1 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.50%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
5 1 (2.50%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 36 (90.00%) Cisco
2 16 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 7 (17.50%) Palo Alto
4 6 (15.00%) Aruba
4 6 (15.00%) VMware
5 4 (10.00%) Google
5 4 (10.00%) NetApp
5 4 (10.00%) Oracle
6 3 (7.50%) BeyondTrust
6 3 (7.50%) CheckPoint
6 3 (7.50%) CyberArk
6 3 (7.50%) Fortinet
6 3 (7.50%) iManage
6 3 (7.50%) Juniper
6 3 (7.50%) LogicMonitor
6 3 (7.50%) Red Hat
6 3 (7.50%) WALLIX
6 3 (7.50%) Zscaler
7 2 (5.00%) Ekahau
7 2 (5.00%) Okta