Cisco Contract Job Trends in South London

Cisco
London > South London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South 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 3 January 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
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 33 44
Rank change year-on-year -2 +11 +4
Contract jobs citing Cisco 11 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in South London 5.34% 2.60% 0.39%
As % of the Vendors category 10.89% 6.32% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 5 1
10th Percentile £336 £428 -
25th Percentile £356 £450 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £475 £190
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +150.00% -63.46%
75th Percentile £553 £488 -
90th Percentile £613 £510 -
London median daily rate £450 £520 £518
% change year-on-year -13.46% +0.48% +3.50%

All Vendors
South 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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 101 95 113
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 49.03% 41.13% 43.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 64 58 86
10th Percentile £296 £380 £169
25th Percentile £409 £463 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £588 £510
Median % change year-on-year -16.26% +15.20% -7.27%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £638
90th Percentile £581 £691 £675
London median daily rate £525 £540 £550
% change year-on-year -2.78% -1.82% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 12
10th Percentile £55.87 - £13.51
25th Percentile £57.84 - £18.60
Median hourly rate £63.32 - £41.00
Median % change year-on-year - - -5.99%
75th Percentile £66.60 - £53.69
90th Percentile £67.26 - £71.76
London median hourly rate £25.47 £33.00 £36.84
% change year-on-year -22.82% -10.42% +43.88%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in South London

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in South London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Cisco.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Cisco

Cisco
Daily Rate Histogram in South London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in South London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in South London

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in South London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Cisco.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South London citing Cisco

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in South 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 South London region over the 6 months to 3 January 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
Bromley - 5 £475 - 15
Kingston Upon Thames - 3 £335 -
Croydon -3 1 £625 -
Cisco
London

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Akamai
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
2 5 (45.45%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (27.27%) Cisco ISE
5 2 (18.18%) BGP
5 2 (18.18%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 2 (18.18%) LAN
5 2 (18.18%) OSPF
5 2 (18.18%) SD-WAN
5 2 (18.18%) SNMP
5 2 (18.18%) Wireshark
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (9.09%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (9.09%) MPLS
6 1 (9.09%) VPN
6 1 (9.09%) WAN
6 1 (9.09%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
2 1 (9.09%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Designer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Support
2 2 (18.18%) IT Support Specialist
2 2 (18.18%) Network Designer
2 2 (18.18%) Support Specialist
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Juniper Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Network Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Telephony Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (18.18%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
2 2 (18.18%) Data Protection
2 2 (18.18%) High Availability
2 2 (18.18%) Inventory Management
2 2 (18.18%) Network Design
2 2 (18.18%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (9.09%) BCP
3 1 (9.09%) ITSM
3 1 (9.09%) Load Balancing
3 1 (9.09%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
3 1 (9.09%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) CCNP
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (27.27%) CCNA
3 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 2 (18.18%) HNC
3 2 (18.18%) HND
3 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (18.18%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (36.36%) FortiGate
2 2 (18.18%) SCCM
3 1 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Juniper
2 3 (27.27%) F5
2 3 (27.27%) Fortinet
2 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow
2 3 (27.27%) SolarWinds
3 2 (18.18%) Infoblox
3 2 (18.18%) Palo Alto
4 1 (9.09%) CheckPoint
4 1 (9.09%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (9.09%) NetScout
4 1 (9.09%) Remedy