Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Cisco Certification
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 49 62
Rank change year-on-year -23 +13 +15
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 52 49 46
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 2.87% 4.13% 2.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.18% 11.98% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 29 29
10th Percentile £329 £290 £394
25th Percentile £405 - £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £605
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -25.62% +34.44%
75th Percentile £650 £550 £638
90th Percentile £775 £773 £689
South East median daily rate £534 £450 £575
% change year-on-year +18.58% -21.74% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 0 1
10th Percentile £57.14 - -
25th Percentile £71.00 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £74.00 - £19.00
75th Percentile £104.00 - £19.50
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £71.00 £83.32 £19.00
% change year-on-year -14.78% +338.50% -68.85%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

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 Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 842 409 759
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 46.49% 34.46% 43.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 529 252 403
10th Percentile £375 £300 £325
25th Percentile £490 £406 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £574 £501 £585
Median % change year-on-year +14.69% -14.44% +11.43%
75th Percentile £675 £600 £658
90th Percentile £775 £700 £738
South East median daily rate £550 £523 £550
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 124 18 70
10th Percentile £21.85 £26.27 £41.50
25th Percentile £41.91 £32.05 £56.55
Median hourly rate £82.46 £54.49 £62.47
Median % change year-on-year +51.34% -12.79% -2.83%
75th Percentile £94.38 £82.94 £83.48
90th Percentile £104.85 £88.87 £97.75
South East median hourly rate £61.16 £25.15 £57.35
% change year-on-year +143.18% -56.15% -4.42%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in Berkshire

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Certification in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Certification in Berkshire

Cisco Certification
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 Cisco Certification within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 September 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
Reading -22 33 £575 +27.78% 5
Wokingham -7 5 £467 +3.67% 1
Bracknell -2 3 - - 1
Slough -3 3 £410 -8.89%
Maidenhead - 1 - -
Cisco Certification
South East

Cisco Certification
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 8 (15.38%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (5.77%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 19 (36.54%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (7.69%) GCP
3 4 (7.69%) GitHub
3 4 (7.69%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (5.77%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.85%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.85%) SaaS
5 2 (3.85%) Serverless
6 1 (1.92%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.92%) Cohesity
6 1 (1.92%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 27 (51.92%) WAN
2 25 (48.08%) BGP
2 25 (48.08%) LAN
3 16 (30.77%) Firewall
3 16 (30.77%) OSPF
4 14 (26.92%) MPLS
4 14 (26.92%) SD-WAN
5 11 (21.15%) VXLAN
6 10 (19.23%) Network Security
7 9 (17.31%) DNS
8 8 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
9 7 (13.46%) BIG-IP
9 7 (13.46%) DHCP
9 7 (13.46%) VLAN
10 6 (11.54%) EIGRP
10 6 (11.54%) Junos
11 5 (9.62%) Cisco IOS
11 5 (9.62%) Cisco ISE
11 5 (9.62%) SNMP
11 5 (9.62%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) GitLab
1 4 (7.69%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.92%) Git
General
1 24 (46.15%) Social Skills
2 10 (19.23%) Telecoms
3 9 (17.31%) Aerospace
3 9 (17.31%) Influencing Skills
4 8 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.62%) Finance
6 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Legal
7 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Architect
2 11 (21.15%) Network Architect
3 7 (13.46%) Network Engineer
3 7 (13.46%) Senior
4 6 (11.54%) Consultant
5 5 (9.62%) IP Architect
5 5 (9.62%) Security Architect
6 4 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (7.69%) Cybersecurity Consultant
6 4 (7.69%) Firewall Specialist
6 4 (7.69%) Network Specialist
6 4 (7.69%) Security Consultant
7 3 (5.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (5.77%) DevSecOps Engineer
7 3 (5.77%) Network Delivery Manager
7 3 (5.77%) Network Manager
8 2 (3.85%) Cloud Security Architect
8 2 (3.85%) Network Consultant
8 2 (3.85%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (19.23%) NETCONF
2 9 (17.31%) Terraform
3 8 (15.38%) REST
3 8 (15.38%) YANG
4 5 (9.62%) 802.1X
5 4 (7.69%) RESTCONF
6 3 (5.77%) ARM Templates
6 3 (5.77%) OpenConfig
7 2 (3.85%) gRPC
8 1 (1.92%) HTML
8 1 (1.92%) JSON
8 1 (1.92%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 13 (25.00%) Data Centre
1 13 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 7 (13.46%) Cyber Threat
3 5 (9.62%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.69%) Clustering
4 4 (7.69%) PKI
5 3 (5.77%) Security Posture
6 2 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (3.85%) CMDB
6 2 (3.85%) Operational Technology
6 2 (3.85%) Private Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Public Cloud
6 2 (3.85%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Cloud
7 1 (1.92%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.92%) Life Science
7 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.92%) SCADA
7 1 (1.92%) TM Forum
7 1 (1.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (7.69%) Windows
2 1 (1.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (28.85%) DevOps
2 14 (26.92%) Stakeholder Management
3 13 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 13 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 13 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 11 (21.15%) SIEM
4 11 (21.15%) TOGAF
5 10 (19.23%) DevSecOps
5 10 (19.23%) ITIL
5 10 (19.23%) Network Architecture
6 9 (17.31%) Network Design
6 9 (17.31%) Roadmaps
7 8 (15.38%) Change Management
7 8 (15.38%) CI/CD
7 8 (15.38%) High Availability
7 8 (15.38%) SDLC
7 8 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
7 8 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (13.46%) Incident Response
8 7 (13.46%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 19 (36.54%) Python
2 7 (13.46%) PowerShell
3 6 (11.54%) Bash
4 4 (7.69%) Bicep
5 1 (1.92%) Java
5 1 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 21 (40.38%) Security Cleared
2 17 (32.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 17 (32.69%) CCIE
2 17 (32.69%) SC Cleared
3 15 (28.85%) CCNP
3 15 (28.85%) CISSP
4 11 (21.15%) JNCIE
5 10 (19.23%) CISM
6 9 (17.31%) CCNA
7 5 (9.62%) AWS Certification
8 4 (7.69%) Azure Certification
8 4 (7.69%) CCSP
8 4 (7.69%) CEH
8 4 (7.69%) CompTIA Security+
8 4 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
8 4 (7.69%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
9 3 (5.77%) PMI Certification
9 3 (5.77%) PMP
10 2 (3.85%) Degree
11 1 (1.92%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (26.92%) NIST
2 8 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 8 (15.38%) NIST 800
3 4 (7.69%) COBIT
3 4 (7.69%) Def Stans
3 4 (7.69%) NCSC
4 3 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials
4 3 (5.77%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.92%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.92%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.77%) Firmware
2 2 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (3.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.92%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 19 (36.54%) Ansible
2 9 (17.31%) Kubernetes
3 7 (13.46%) FortiGate
4 3 (5.77%) Nagios
5 2 (3.85%) CASB
6 1 (1.92%) Amdocs OSS
Vendors
1 30 (57.69%) Cisco
2 17 (32.69%) Juniper
3 14 (26.92%) F5
4 11 (21.15%) Fortinet
5 10 (19.23%) SolarWinds
6 6 (11.54%) ServiceNow
7 5 (9.62%) Aruba
7 5 (9.62%) Extreme Networks
7 5 (9.62%) Microsoft
8 4 (7.69%) Splunk
8 4 (7.69%) VMware
9 3 (5.77%) Arista
9 3 (5.77%) Google
9 3 (5.77%) Meraki
9 3 (5.77%) SevOne
10 2 (3.85%) Dell
10 2 (3.85%) NetScout
10 2 (3.85%) Palo Alto
11 1 (1.92%) Nokia
11 1 (1.92%) Veeam