CCIE Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 99 107
Rank change year-on-year +15 +8 +3
Contract jobs citing CCIE 13 11 11
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.05% 0.67% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.90% 1.64% 1.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 7 5
10th Percentile - £533 £353
25th Percentile £576 £602 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £658 £425
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +54.71% -24.44%
75th Percentile £609 £734 £506
90th Percentile - £769 £518
South East median daily rate £621 £658 £469
% change year-on-year -5.51% +40.27% -14.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

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 in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 448 670 732
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.13% 40.95% 41.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 362 436
10th Percentile £255 £283 £210
25th Percentile £400 £416 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £562 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.95% +6.95% -
75th Percentile £578 £644 £625
90th Percentile £638 £720 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 58 51
10th Percentile £20.43 £41.25 £40.69
25th Percentile £25.95 £56.04 £53.38
Median hourly rate £40.44 £61.60 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -34.36% -5.41% +177.13%
75th Percentile £79.63 £75.15 £73.80
90th Percentile £88.87 £100.00 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £60.83 £60.00
% change year-on-year -58.66% +1.38% +33.33%

CCIE
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCIE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

CCIE job vacancy trend in Berkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CCIE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CCIE

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CCIE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CCIE

CCIE
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Reading +34 13 £593 -12.71% 3
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South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire 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 12 (92.31%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) BGP
1 12 (92.31%) LAN
1 12 (92.31%) MPLS
1 12 (92.31%) WAN
2 6 (46.15%) OSPF
2 6 (46.15%) SNMP
2 6 (46.15%) TACACS
2 6 (46.15%) Wireless
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ICM
3 1 (7.69%) CTI
3 1 (7.69%) VoIP
3 1 (7.69%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Designer
1 6 (46.15%) IP Architect
1 6 (46.15%) IP Designer
1 6 (46.15%) IP Specialist
2 1 (7.69%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) NETCONF
1 6 (46.15%) REST
1 6 (46.15%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
2 6 (46.15%) Microservices
2 6 (46.15%) Network Architecture
2 6 (46.15%) Network Design
2 6 (46.15%) Network Segmentation
2 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
2 6 (46.15%) Strategic Thinking
2 6 (46.15%) TOGAF
2 6 (46.15%) Validation
3 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ICM Scripting
3 1 (7.69%) CRM
3 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (92.31%) JNCIE
3 6 (46.15%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.69%) CCIE Collaboration
4 1 (7.69%) CCNP
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (46.15%) VMware NSX
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Ansible
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) F5
2 6 (46.15%) Fortinet
2 6 (46.15%) Juniper
2 6 (46.15%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Avaya
3 1 (7.69%) Genesys