Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in Bristol

Cisco Certification
South West > Bristol

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 46 49
Rank change year-on-year -13 +3 +34
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 8 17 27
As % of all contract jobs in Bristol 0.95% 2.64% 2.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.10% 5.43% 5.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 15
10th Percentile £417 £492 £403
25th Percentile £508 £535 £622
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £650 £675
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -3.70% +35.00%
75th Percentile £575 £715 £700
90th Percentile - £750 £760
South West median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 6
10th Percentile - £11.75 -
25th Percentile - £27.56 £68.75
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £76.25
Median % change year-on-year - -1.64% +13.55%
75th Percentile - - £87.50
90th Percentile - - £92.50
South West median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year - +50.00% -23.66%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Bristol

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 Bristol.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 381 313 469
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 45.04% 48.53% 48.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 200 147 264
10th Percentile £301 £220 £338
25th Percentile £450 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -13.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £634 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £700
South West median daily rate £550 £550 £588
% change year-on-year - -6.38% +2.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 88 56 81
10th Percentile £17.69 £30.13 £47.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £60.75 £59.70
Median hourly rate £48.68 £65.75 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.97% -6.07% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.25 £70.00 £80.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
South West median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £62.05
% change year-on-year -61.31% +4.75% -4.54%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in Bristol

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Bristol

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in Bristol over the 6 months to 10 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in Bristol

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

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

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Bristol 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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
1 5 (62.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) PaaS
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) DHCP
1 5 (62.50%) DNS
1 5 (62.50%) Skype
1 5 (62.50%) Unified Communications
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) PBX
2 1 (12.50%) SD-WAN
2 1 (12.50%) VoIP
2 1 (12.50%) VXLAN
2 1 (12.50%) WAN
2 1 (12.50%) WLAN
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (62.50%) PKI
2 1 (12.50%) Blackberry
2 1 (12.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
1 5 (62.50%) Critical Thinking
1 5 (62.50%) ITIL
1 5 (62.50%) Service Management
1 5 (62.50%) System Testing
2 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (12.50%) Commercial Awareness
3 1 (12.50%) Cost Reduction
3 1 (12.50%) Customer Requirements
3 1 (12.50%) DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Impact Assessments
3 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Service Design
3 1 (12.50%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 5 (62.50%) PowerShell
1 5 (62.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) CCNP
2 6 (75.00%) CCNA
3 5 (62.50%) Degree
3 5 (62.50%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (62.50%) Master's Degree
3 5 (62.50%) MCSE
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (62.50%) SC Cleared
3 5 (62.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (12.50%) JNCIA
4 1 (12.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 6 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 5 (62.50%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (62.50%) SCCM
1 5 (62.50%) WSUS
2 1 (12.50%) Ansible
2 1 (12.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
2 6 (75.00%) VMware
3 5 (62.50%) Microsoft
3 5 (62.50%) SolarWinds
3 5 (62.50%) Splunk
3 5 (62.50%) Veeam
4 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
5 1 (12.50%) Avaya
5 1 (12.50%) Ericsson
5 1 (12.50%) F5
5 1 (12.50%) Juniper
5 1 (12.50%) Nokia
5 1 (12.50%) Ribbon
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