CCIE Security Contract Job Trends in Central London

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Security
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for CCIE Security qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 148 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CCIE Security 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Central London 0.084% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.32% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median daily rate £725 - £550
% change year-on-year - - +7.32%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

CCIE Security 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 Central London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 631 477 555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 26.46% 25.00% 23.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 449 322 334
10th Percentile £381 £322 £356
25th Percentile £460 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% - -
75th Percentile £638 £668 £650
90th Percentile £734 £736 £751
London median daily rate £550 £538 £538
% change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 9 6
10th Percentile £15.90 £23.45 £23.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £54.50 £28.15 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year +93.61% -5.38% -36.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £34.48 £92.44
90th Percentile £155.34 £54.84 £112.00
London median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £36.80
% change year-on-year +114.71% -31.66% -29.90%

CCIE Security
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCIE Security relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London.

CCIE Security job vacancy trend in Central London

CCIE Security
Daily Rate Trend in Central London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CCIE Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing CCIE Security

CCIE Security
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE Security within the Central London region over the 6 months to 9 October 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
City of London - 2 £725 - 1
CCIE Security
London

CCIE Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (50.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Firewall Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Security Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Security Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (50.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (50.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
1 1 (50.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto