Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in Bedfordshire

Cisco Certification
East of England > Bedfordshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bedfordshire with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 30 27 -
Rank change year-on-year -3 - -
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in Bedfordshire 1.86% 2.47% -
As % of the Qualifications category 6.67% 7.55% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £95 £563 -
Median % change year-on-year -83.11% - -
East of England median daily rate £588 £551 £440
% change year-on-year +6.58% +25.28% +32.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £57.30 - -
25th Percentile £64.50 - -
Median hourly rate £79.00 - -
75th Percentile £93.50 - -
90th Percentile £100.70 - -
East of England median hourly rate £37.88 - £14.50

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bedfordshire

Cisco Certification 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 in Bedfordshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 60 53 70
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bedfordshire 27.91% 32.72% 28.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 25 39
10th Percentile £86 £121 £363
25th Percentile £220 £306 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.04%
75th Percentile £588 £513 £578
90th Percentile £640 £581 £662
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 10 3
10th Percentile £30.62 £28.80 £26.50
25th Percentile £64.00 £30.78 £36.25
Median hourly rate £90.00 £45.75 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +96.72% -16.82% -12.70%
75th Percentile £91.50 £55.00 £56.25
90th Percentile - £59.68 £57.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.79 £60.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -62.02% +96.88% +45.12%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Bedfordshire

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in Bedfordshire

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Bedfordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Bedfordshire citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in Bedfordshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Certification in Bedfordshire over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Certification in Bedfordshire

Cisco Certification
Contract Job Locations in Bedfordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the Bedfordshire region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Luton -10 2 £95 -83.11%
Bedford - 2 - - 2
Cisco Certification
East of England

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bedfordshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
1 2 (50.00%) DHCP
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) LAN
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 2 (50.00%) VPN
1 2 (50.00%) WAN
1 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTCONF
1 1 (25.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
1 1 (25.00%) Web Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 2 (50.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 2 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 2 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 2 (50.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Lean Six Sigma
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Six Sigma
2 1 (25.00%) Software Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) CCIE
1 3 (75.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) CCIE Security
2 2 (50.00%) CISSP
2 2 (50.00%) GIAC
3 1 (25.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (50.00%) NIST
2 1 (25.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) Zscaler