Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Cisco Certification
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 33 24
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +6
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 9 5 20
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.30% 1.53% 4.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.68% 7.35% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile - - £208
25th Percentile £443 £538 £219
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £575 £235
Median % change year-on-year -22.61% +144.68% -27.69%
75th Percentile £468 £613 £322
90th Percentile £480 - £460
East of England median daily rate £588 £551 £440
% change year-on-year +6.58% +25.28% +29.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £14.00
Median hourly rate - - £14.50
75th Percentile - - £14.75
90th Percentile - - £34.29
East of England median hourly rate £37.88 - £14.50

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 93 68 145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 23.72% 20.86% 33.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 21 41
10th Percentile £328 £247 £275
25th Percentile £443 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -3.61%
75th Percentile £617 £588 £613
90th Percentile £650 £613 £650
East of England median daily rate £500 £475 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 13 67
10th Percentile £16.00 - £13.41
25th Percentile £20.50 - £13.71
Median hourly rate £22.27 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year +3.75% +51.55% -16.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £25.50 £20.56
90th Percentile - £28.49 £21.68
East of England median hourly rate £22.79 £62.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -63.54% +108.33% +42.86%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

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

Cisco Certification
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
Cambridge -11 6 £445 -22.61%
Cisco Certification
East of England

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) AWS KMS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (22.22%) 802.11
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (22.22%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) PuTTY
4 2 (22.22%) SD-WAN
4 2 (22.22%) VLAN
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (22.22%) Wireless
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security
5 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Network Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Network Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Administrator
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps Administrator
4 2 (22.22%) Network Support
4 2 (22.22%) Network Support Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Security Analyst
4 2 (22.22%) Senior
4 2 (22.22%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Support Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
5 1 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Analyst
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (11.11%) Network Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) 802.1X
2 1 (11.11%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Linux
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) Network Management
2 2 (22.22%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (22.22%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (22.22%) Security Operations
2 2 (22.22%) Server Management
3 1 (11.11%) Business Enablement
3 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (11.11%) DevSecOps
3 1 (11.11%) Incident Response
3 1 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (11.11%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (11.11%) RBAC
3 1 (11.11%) SOAR
3 1 (11.11%) Threat Detection
3 1 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) CCIE
2 2 (22.22%) CCNA
2 2 (22.22%) CCNP
2 2 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
3 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
3 1 (11.11%) CCSP
3 1 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) HIPAA
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
1 1 (11.11%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) Active Directory
1 2 (22.22%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) Palo Alto
3 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (33.33%) ServiceNow
4 2 (22.22%) Dell
4 2 (22.22%) Intel
4 2 (22.22%) Meraki
4 2 (22.22%) VMware
5 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 1 (11.11%) Splunk