Cisco Contract Job Trends in West London

Cisco
London > West London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West 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 1 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 23 32
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 +1
Contract jobs citing Cisco 24 5 8
As % of all contract jobs in West London 8.11% 2.39% 2.07%
As % of the Vendors category 17.39% 6.49% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 4 8
10th Percentile £388 £278 £290
25th Percentile £403 £324 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -11.11% +28.86%
75th Percentile £450 £450 £716
90th Percentile £500 - £808
London median daily rate £463 £516 £515
% change year-on-year -10.41% +0.24% +3.00%

All Vendors
West 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 West London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 138 77 167
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West London 46.62% 36.84% 43.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 93 58 126
10th Percentile £204 £217 £189
25th Percentile £375 £366 £264
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £573 £555
90th Percentile £636 £596 £631
London median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 9 7
10th Percentile £31.94 £20.87 £30.15
25th Percentile £32.62 - £31.25
Median hourly rate £34.00 £22.27 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year +52.67% -34.94% -45.23%
75th Percentile £36.44 £30.59 £52.48
90th Percentile £39.03 £46.00 £65.00
London median hourly rate £25.74 £33.00 £37.17
% change year-on-year -22.02% -11.22% +45.17%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in West London

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in West London

Cisco
Daily Rate Trend in West London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in West London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco in West London over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco in West London

Cisco
Hourly Rate Trend in West London

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

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

Cisco
Contract Job Locations in West 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 West London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Hillingdon - 15 £450 - 3
Hounslow +1 2 £275 -38.89%
Cisco
London

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West 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 2 (8.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (4.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (8.33%) MS Visio
2 1 (4.17%) OmniGraffle
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) Azure
1 2 (8.33%) Entra ID
1 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Purview
1 2 (8.33%) Mimecast
2 1 (4.17%) Akamai
2 1 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 21 (87.50%) Firewall
2 18 (75.00%) LAN
3 17 (70.83%) SD-WAN
4 16 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
5 15 (62.50%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (45.83%) WAN
7 7 (29.17%) VPN
8 4 (16.67%) Network Security
9 3 (12.50%) BGP
9 3 (12.50%) OSPF
10 2 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
10 2 (8.33%) Wireless
11 1 (4.17%) Cisco IOS
11 1 (4.17%) Cisco ISE
11 1 (4.17%) Cisco Wireless
11 1 (4.17%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
11 1 (4.17%) IPsec
11 1 (4.17%) NX-OS
11 1 (4.17%) Structured Cabling
11 1 (4.17%) Wireshark
General
1 6 (25.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (8.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (4.17%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (50.00%) Architect
2 10 (41.67%) Network Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Network Design Architect
3 7 (29.17%) Network Engineer
4 3 (12.50%) Designer
4 3 (12.50%) Network Designer
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Cisco Network Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Network Security Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Security Architect
5 2 (8.33%) Security Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Support Engineer
5 2 (8.33%) Technical Architect
6 1 (4.17%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Data Centre Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Juniper Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Security Designer
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Design Architect
6 1 (4.17%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 7 (29.17%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.17%) BYOD
2 1 (4.17%) CCTV
2 1 (4.17%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.17%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.17%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 7 (29.17%) Windows
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Mac OS
2 1 (4.17%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Network Design
2 2 (8.33%) Cloud Security
2 2 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (8.33%) DevSecOps
2 2 (8.33%) Migration
2 2 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (8.33%) Runbook
2 2 (8.33%) Security Operations
2 2 (8.33%) Vulnerability Management
3 1 (4.17%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (4.17%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (4.17%) Data Protection
3 1 (4.17%) High Availability
3 1 (4.17%) Network Segmentation
3 1 (4.17%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (4.17%) Resource Management
3 1 (4.17%) Security Architecture
3 1 (4.17%) System Testing
3 1 (4.17%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 8 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (29.17%) Cisco Certification
3 3 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
3 3 (12.50%) CCNP
4 2 (8.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (8.33%) CCIE
4 2 (8.33%) CCSP
4 2 (8.33%) CEH
4 2 (8.33%) CISSP
4 2 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CCNA
5 1 (4.17%) CCSE
5 1 (4.17%) JNCIE
5 1 (4.17%) JNCIP
5 1 (4.17%) MCITP
5 1 (4.17%) MCP
5 1 (4.17%) MCSA
5 1 (4.17%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (8.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (4.17%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.17%) Firmware
1 1 (4.17%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.17%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (4.17%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (8.33%) CASB
1 2 (8.33%) FortiGate
1 2 (8.33%) Nessus
2 1 (4.17%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (62.50%) Fortinet
2 6 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) Juniper
4 2 (8.33%) F5
4 2 (8.33%) Tenable
5 1 (4.17%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.17%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.17%) Remedy
5 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.17%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.17%) VMware
5 1 (4.17%) Zscaler