Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Cisco Certification
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 53 40 29
Rank change year-on-year -13 -11 +35
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 4 8 24
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.70% 2.82% 4.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.50% 6.02% 10.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 22
10th Percentile £528 £482 £500
25th Percentile £550 £573 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 £682 £672
Median % change year-on-year -12.70% +1.49% +34.31%
75th Percentile £627 £743 £825
90th Percentile £635 - £934
South East median daily rate £475 £550 £513
% change year-on-year -13.64% +7.32% +0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate £57.02 £19.00 £63.00
% change year-on-year +200.09% -69.84% +88.06%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 266 133 229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 46.83% 46.83% 40.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 98 188
10th Percentile £355 £200 £308
25th Percentile £463 £350 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £454 £510
Median % change year-on-year +21.21% -11.03% +12.09%
75th Percentile £610 £575 £611
90th Percentile £640 £630 £691
South East median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 5 13
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £15.85
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £18.32 £19.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -3.58% +5.56% +24.14%
75th Percentile £27.43 £67.50 £22.52
90th Percentile £29.61 - £27.50
South East median hourly rate £29.61 £56.75 £58.30
% change year-on-year -47.82% -2.67% +22.74%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

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

Cisco Certification
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 March 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
Milton Keynes -16 4 £595 -12.70% 6
Cisco Certification
South East

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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 4 (100.00%) AWS
1 4 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
2 1 (25.00%) IaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) PaaS
2 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) BGP
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 1 (25.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
1 1 (25.00%) IPsec
1 1 (25.00%) IPv6
1 1 (25.00%) MPLS
1 1 (25.00%) Multicast
1 1 (25.00%) OSPF
1 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (25.00%) SNMP
1 1 (25.00%) VoIP
1 1 (25.00%) VPN
1 1 (25.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (25.00%) WAN
1 1 (25.00%) Wireless
1 1 (25.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Architect
2 3 (75.00%) Technical Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Architect
3 1 (25.00%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) VMS
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) DevOps
1 3 (75.00%) Enterprise Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Microservices
1 3 (75.00%) TOGAF
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) IT Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Technology Strategy
3 1 (25.00%) Behavioural Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
3 1 (25.00%) Data Loss Prevention
3 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
3 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
3 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 1 (25.00%) SOAR
3 1 (25.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (75.00%) MCSE
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) DV Cleared
3 2 (50.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (25.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (25.00%) CCDA
4 1 (25.00%) CCDP
4 1 (25.00%) CCIE
4 1 (25.00%) CCIP
4 1 (25.00%) CCNA
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) NCSC
2 3 (75.00%) NIST
3 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) CASB
1 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (25.00%) Arista
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (25.00%) HP
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Meraki
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler