Cisco Certification Contracts 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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 73 76
Rank change year-on-year +12 +3 +15
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 39 38 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 3.22% 2.19% 2.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.07% 4.92% 6.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 26 15
10th Percentile £315 £469 £281
25th Percentile - £603 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +51.25% -17.53%
75th Percentile £550 £630 £470
90th Percentile £650 £693 £575
South East median daily rate £495 £588 £525
% change year-on-year -15.74% +11.90% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year - -13.64% -
75th Percentile - £19.50 £39.19
90th Percentile - - £63.83
South East median hourly rate £83.32 £19.00 £61.00
% change year-on-year +338.50% -68.85% +83.46%

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 430 772 620
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 35.51% 44.42% 34.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 265 408 342
10th Percentile £325 £325 £313
25th Percentile £425 £472 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £600 £526
Median % change year-on-year -12.83% +14.07% +5.20%
75th Percentile £603 £651 £622
90th Percentile £700 £738 £699
South East median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 70 42
10th Percentile £30.99 £41.48 £18.50
25th Percentile £42.91 £55.80 £54.56
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.65 £64.90
Median % change year-on-year +13.54% -5.00% +209.05%
75th Percentile £87.38 £85.65 £74.19
90th Percentile £88.87 £97.75 £76.06
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £57.35 £60.00
% change year-on-year -51.18% -4.42% +33.33%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in Berkshire

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in Berkshire.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in Berkshire

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in Berkshire over the 6 months to 3 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in Berkshire

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in Berkshire.

Hourly rate trend 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 3 August 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 +11 14 £450 -25.62% 10
Slough +7 11 £450 -
Bracknell +1 4 £550 +2.33% 6
Wokingham -9 3 £550 +243.75% 1
Cisco Certification
South East

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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 2 (5.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (5.13%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.21%) AWS
2 10 (25.64%) Azure
3 8 (20.51%) GCP
4 3 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.56%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (2.56%) OCI
5 1 (2.56%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 18 (46.15%) VPN
2 17 (43.59%) WAN
3 16 (41.03%) LAN
3 16 (41.03%) MPLS
4 14 (35.90%) Firewall
5 13 (33.33%) Ethernet
5 13 (33.33%) Network Security
6 12 (30.77%) SDH
6 12 (30.77%) Wireshark
7 11 (28.21%) ATM
7 11 (28.21%) BGP
7 11 (28.21%) Frame Relay
7 11 (28.21%) GPRS
7 11 (28.21%) GSM
7 11 (28.21%) LTE
7 11 (28.21%) SAN
7 11 (28.21%) UMTS
8 9 (23.08%) OSPF
9 8 (20.51%) TCP/IP
10 7 (17.95%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (51.28%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.77%) Telecoms
3 4 (10.26%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (10.26%) Finance
4 2 (5.13%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.56%) Billing
5 1 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 11 (28.21%) Test Engineer
3 10 (25.64%) IP Engineer
4 8 (20.51%) Architect
5 5 (12.82%) IP Network Engineer
5 5 (12.82%) Security Architect
6 3 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
6 3 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) IP Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) IP Network Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) Juniper Engineer
7 2 (5.13%) Network Architect
7 2 (5.13%) Network Consultant
7 2 (5.13%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.56%) IP Architect
8 1 (2.56%) IP Designer
8 1 (2.56%) IP Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.13%) NETCONF
1 2 (5.13%) RFC 2544
2 1 (2.56%) Jinja
2 1 (2.56%) JSON
2 1 (2.56%) REST
2 1 (2.56%) RESTCONF
2 1 (2.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.21%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 6 (15.38%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (12.82%) Data Centre
4 4 (10.26%) Security Posture
5 3 (7.69%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (7.69%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (7.69%) Public Cloud
6 2 (5.13%) Fibre Optics
7 1 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (2.56%) Life Science
7 1 (2.56%) Private Cloud
7 1 (2.56%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 11 (28.21%) Linux
1 11 (28.21%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (38.46%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (28.21%) Fault Management
2 11 (28.21%) Project Management
2 11 (28.21%) Regression Testing
2 11 (28.21%) SIEM
2 11 (28.21%) Test Strategy
3 7 (17.95%) Network Design
4 6 (15.38%) CI/CD
4 6 (15.38%) DevSecOps
4 6 (15.38%) Proactive Monitoring
4 6 (15.38%) Security Monitoring
4 6 (15.38%) Security Operations
5 5 (12.82%) Cloud Security
5 5 (12.82%) Infrastructure as Code
5 5 (12.82%) Security Architecture
5 5 (12.82%) Strategic Thinking
5 5 (12.82%) Test Automation
5 5 (12.82%) Threat Modelling
5 5 (12.82%) TOGAF
5 5 (12.82%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 11 (28.21%) Java
2 10 (25.64%) Python
3 1 (2.56%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 31 (79.49%) CCNP
2 11 (28.21%) ISEB
2 11 (28.21%) ISTQB
2 11 (28.21%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 11 (28.21%) Security Cleared
3 10 (25.64%) CCNA
3 10 (25.64%) SC Cleared
4 6 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 6 (15.38%) AWS Certification
4 6 (15.38%) CCSA
4 6 (15.38%) CCSE
4 6 (15.38%) CCSP
4 6 (15.38%) Check Point Certification
4 6 (15.38%) CISSP
5 5 (12.82%) Azure Certification
5 5 (12.82%) CCDP
6 3 (7.69%) CCDA
6 3 (7.69%) CCIE
6 3 (7.69%) Degree
6 3 (7.69%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.26%) GDPR
1 4 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (10.26%) NIST
1 4 (10.26%) PCI DSS
1 4 (10.26%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (10.26%) Docker
2 1 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (25.64%) Ansible
2 4 (10.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (71.79%) Cisco
2 16 (41.03%) Juniper
3 12 (30.77%) Microsoft
4 6 (15.38%) CheckPoint
4 6 (15.38%) Palo Alto
5 2 (5.13%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.13%) VMware
6 1 (2.56%) F5
6 1 (2.56%) Google
6 1 (2.56%) Meraki
6 1 (2.56%) Rapid7
6 1 (2.56%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.56%) Splunk