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 12 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 39 37
Rank change year-on-year +4 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 7 5 13
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.82% 1.69% 2.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.29% 7.35% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - £227
25th Percentile £443 £538 £230
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 £575 £235
Median % change year-on-year -22.61% +144.68% -27.69%
75th Percentile £468 £613 £240
90th Percentile £480 - £243
East of England median daily rate £321 £558 £363
% change year-on-year -42.38% +53.79% +11.54%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 11
Median hourly rate - - £14.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.75 £72.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year -71.38% +417.86% -3.45%

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 96 68 177
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 24.94% 22.97% 37.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 24 58
10th Percentile £221 £251 £275
25th Percentile £400 £411 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £467 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.79% -6.70% -3.61%
75th Percentile £590 £591 £650
90th Percentile £625 £639 £731
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 14 86
10th Percentile £16.15 £15.13 £13.41
25th Percentile £20.50 £16.95 £14.16
Median hourly rate £23.83 £21.46 £14.80
Median % change year-on-year +11.02% +45.00% -4.52%
75th Percentile £27.25 - £21.46
90th Percentile £41.40 £26.38 £31.96
East of England median hourly rate £22.50 £63.00 £28.84
% change year-on-year -64.29% +118.48% +37.31%

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 12 February 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
Cambridge -6 6 £445 -22.61% 1
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) VPN
3 2 (28.57%) 802.11
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco Nexus
3 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
3 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (28.57%) Wireless
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) DNS
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Sonatype Nexus
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) DevOps Administrator
2 2 (28.57%) Security Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Systems Administrator
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) 802.1X
2 1 (14.29%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Native
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
1 2 (28.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
2 2 (28.57%) Network Management
2 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
2 2 (28.57%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
2 2 (28.57%) Server Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Enablement
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Operations
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security
3 1 (14.29%) DevSecOps
3 1 (14.29%) Generative AI
3 1 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) RBAC
3 1 (14.29%) SOAR
3 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (42.86%) CCIE
2 2 (28.57%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) AWS Certification
3 1 (14.29%) CCSP
3 1 (14.29%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) HIPAA
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (14.29%) NIST
1 1 (14.29%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (28.57%) Active Directory
1 2 (28.57%) VMware ESXi
1 2 (28.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
2 1 (14.29%) Kubernetes
2 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Cisco
1 5 (71.43%) Palo Alto
2 2 (28.57%) Dell
2 2 (28.57%) Intel
2 2 (28.57%) Meraki
2 2 (28.57%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
3 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (14.29%) Splunk