CCIE Contracts

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 429 466 575
Rank change year-on-year +37 +109 +63
Contract jobs citing CCIE 90 134 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.31% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.00% 1.00% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 80 89
10th Percentile £448 £363 £425
25th Percentile £493 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £550 £523
Median % change year-on-year -4.09% +5.26% -0.48%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £584
90th Percentile £750 £775 £701
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 0
10th Percentile - £37.50 -
25th Percentile £53.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £41.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCIE falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

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Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCIE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CCIE in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CCIE in the UK

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Top 13 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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
England +30 77 £534 -2.95% 30
London +19 45 £515 -6.36% 17
UK excluding London +43 33 £525 -4.55% 13
Work from Home +31 32 £500 -9.09% 21
South East +43 11 £575 +25.00% 2
South West +48 7 £550 +25.71% 3
North of England +21 7 £500 -16.67% 1
North West +6 7 £500 -33.33%
Wales - 5 £450 - 2
Midlands +15 4 £481 -35.83% 4
East Midlands - 3 £438 - 2
East of England +32 1 £540 +39.35%
West Midlands +4 1 £525 -30.00% 2

CCIE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 4 (4.44%) OpenStack
Applications
1 6 (6.67%) MS Visio
2 3 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.33%) AWS
2 19 (21.11%) Azure
3 9 (10.00%) Cloudflare
4 5 (5.56%) GCP
5 4 (4.44%) OpenShift
6 2 (2.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.22%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.22%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.22%) Serverless
7 1 (1.11%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 50 (55.56%) Firewall
2 48 (53.33%) BGP
3 46 (51.11%) OSPF
4 35 (38.89%) VPN
5 32 (35.56%) MPLS
6 28 (31.11%) WAN
7 26 (28.89%) Network Security
8 21 (23.33%) Multicast
9 19 (21.11%) Wireless
10 16 (17.78%) Cisco Firepower
11 15 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
12 13 (14.44%) TCP/IP
13 12 (13.33%) Broadband
14 11 (12.22%) IPv6
15 10 (11.11%) Internet
15 10 (11.11%) SD-WAN
16 9 (10.00%) Cisco IOS
17 8 (8.89%) Cisco Nexus
17 8 (8.89%) LAN
17 8 (8.89%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 17 (18.89%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Finance
5 7 (7.78%) Banking
5 7 (7.78%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.22%) Electronics
7 2 (2.22%) German Language
7 2 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Aviation
8 1 (1.11%) Legal
8 1 (1.11%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.11%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 53 (58.89%) Network Engineer
2 17 (18.89%) Cisco Engineer
3 14 (15.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 13 (14.44%) Senior
5 12 (13.33%) Architect
5 12 (13.33%) Network Architect
5 12 (13.33%) Principal Engineer
5 12 (13.33%) Principal Network Engineer
6 10 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Consultant
7 8 (8.89%) Implementation Engineer
7 8 (8.89%) Network Implementation Engineer
8 7 (7.78%) Network Consultant
9 5 (5.56%) Cloud Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Cloud Network Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
9 5 (5.56%) Security Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Cisco Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
10 4 (4.44%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.67%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.22%) LDAP
2 2 (2.22%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (18.89%) Data Centre
2 8 (8.89%) Hybrid Cloud
2 8 (8.89%) Public Cloud
3 5 (5.56%) PKI
4 4 (4.44%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.22%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.22%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (2.22%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.22%) NHS
5 2 (2.22%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.22%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.11%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.33%) Linux
2 2 (2.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (27.78%) Migration
2 21 (23.33%) Network Monitoring
3 20 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (21.11%) Network Architecture
5 17 (18.89%) Network Design
6 15 (16.67%) Project Delivery
7 14 (15.56%) Roadmaps
8 9 (10.00%) Architecture Roadmap
8 9 (10.00%) Zero Trust
9 8 (8.89%) Mentoring
10 7 (7.78%) Network Management
11 6 (6.67%) Service Design
12 5 (5.56%) Collaborative Working
12 5 (5.56%) Decision-Making
12 5 (5.56%) Network Virtualisation
12 5 (5.56%) Performance Optimisation
12 5 (5.56%) Root Cause Analysis
12 5 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (5.56%) Strategic Roadmap
12 5 (5.56%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 23 (25.56%) Python
2 4 (4.44%) PowerShell
3 3 (3.33%) Perl
Qualifications
1 90 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 55 (61.11%) CCNP
3 17 (18.89%) Security Cleared
4 13 (14.44%) SC Cleared
5 10 (11.11%) CCNA
6 8 (8.89%) Degree
7 7 (7.78%) DV Cleared
8 6 (6.67%) CCIE Data Center
8 6 (6.67%) CCIE Service Provider
9 5 (5.56%) CCIE Security
10 4 (4.44%) AWS Certification
10 4 (4.44%) Azure Certification
10 4 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (4.44%) JNCIE
11 3 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (3.33%) CCDP
11 3 (3.33%) JNCIP
12 2 (2.22%) CCIE Wireless
12 2 (2.22%) Master's Degree
12 2 (2.22%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.67%) NIST
2 5 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.44%) SLA
4 2 (2.22%) HIPAA
4 2 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (4.44%) vSphere
3 3 (3.33%) VMware NSX
4 2 (2.22%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.11%) Docker
5 1 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (26.67%) Ansible
2 6 (6.67%) ZABBIX
3 5 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
4 4 (4.44%) Progress Chef
5 3 (3.33%) FortiGate
5 3 (3.33%) Nagios
6 2 (2.22%) Puppet
7 1 (1.11%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.11%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (1.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 78 (86.67%) Cisco
2 28 (31.11%) Fortinet
3 16 (17.78%) SolarWinds
4 14 (15.56%) F5
4 14 (15.56%) VMware
5 10 (11.11%) CheckPoint
6 9 (10.00%) Arista
6 9 (10.00%) Palo Alto
7 8 (8.89%) Citrix
7 8 (8.89%) Zscaler
8 6 (6.67%) Juniper
9 5 (5.56%) Ericsson
9 5 (5.56%) Meraki
9 5 (5.56%) Nokia
10 4 (4.44%) Red Hat
11 3 (3.33%) Google
11 3 (3.33%) McAfee
11 3 (3.33%) Splunk
12 2 (2.22%) Ekahau
12 2 (2.22%) Microsoft