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 13 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 44 48
Rank change year-on-year +16 +4 -11
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 7 1 10
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.86% 0.36% 2.00%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.80% 1.33% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 1
10th Percentile £478 - -
25th Percentile £501 £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +54.29% -17.65% +30.77%
75th Percentile - £375 £463
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £400 £550 £300
% change year-on-year -27.27% +83.33% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
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 103 75 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 27.39% 27.17% 34.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 31 38
10th Percentile £168 £195 £350
25th Percentile £183 £198 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £467 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.36% -5.76% -1.00%
75th Percentile £615 £550 £700
90th Percentile £675 £605 £800
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 98
10th Percentile £16.87 - £14.00
25th Percentile £20.50 £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate £25.15 £15.44 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +62.89% -5.28% +5.16%
75th Percentile £35.91 £16.30 £21.46
90th Percentile £48.00 £26.75 £31.13
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £60.00 £35.65
% change year-on-year -58.08% +68.30% +69.76%

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 13 May 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 +1 6 £540 +54.29%
Huntingdon - 2 £540 -
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 4 (57.14%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 3 (42.86%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Direct Connect
3 2 (28.57%) Entra ID
3 2 (28.57%) GitHub
3 2 (28.57%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) AWS KMS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure AKS
4 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (14.29%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (14.29%) Google Kubernetes Engine
4 1 (14.29%) Route 53
4 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (71.43%) Firewall
1 5 (71.43%) VPN
2 2 (28.57%) 4G
2 2 (28.57%) DNS
2 2 (28.57%) IPsec
2 2 (28.57%) MPLS
2 2 (28.57%) VLAN
3 1 (14.29%) BGP
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security
3 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) GitLab
1 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) DevOps Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps
2 2 (28.57%) AWS DevOps Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) AWS Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Network Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) eBPF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Cloud Native
1 2 (28.57%) Operational Technology
1 2 (28.57%) SCADA
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Security Posture
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
2 3 (42.86%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (42.86%) SIEM
3 2 (28.57%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (28.57%) Security Operations
3 2 (28.57%) Vulnerability Scanning
4 1 (14.29%) Business Enablement
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Dashboard Development
4 1 (14.29%) ITIL
4 1 (14.29%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (14.29%) RBAC
4 1 (14.29%) Security Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Security Management
4 1 (14.29%) SOAR
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
4 1 (14.29%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (71.43%) CCNP
2 3 (42.86%) AWS Certification
3 2 (28.57%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (28.57%) CCIE
3 2 (28.57%) CCNA
4 1 (14.29%) Azure Certification
4 1 (14.29%) CCSP
4 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
2 1 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Kubernetes
1 3 (42.86%) Terraform
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Cisco
3 2 (28.57%) Google
3 2 (28.57%) Qualys
3 2 (28.57%) Rockwell
4 1 (14.29%) CheckPoint
4 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (14.29%) Splunk