CCIE Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 52 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing CCIE 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.56% 0.47% -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.53% 1.67% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - £582 -
25th Percentile £425 £585 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £590 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.97% - -
75th Percentile £600 £595 -
90th Percentile £618 £598 -
North West median daily rate £550 £525 £750
% change year-on-year +4.76% -30.00% +39.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

CCIE 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 262 120 124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 36.80% 27.97% 24.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 81 88
10th Percentile £313 £230 £158
25th Percentile £358 £335 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £447 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% -5.89% +6.74%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £543
90th Percentile £652 £600 £649
North West median daily rate £469 £496 £513
% change year-on-year -5.33% -3.32% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 6
10th Percentile £15.50 £24.13 -
25th Percentile £19.00 £29.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £32.23 £32.50 £20.33
Median % change year-on-year -0.85% +59.86% -59.94%
75th Percentile £83.75 £85.44 £26.66
90th Percentile £111.15 £86.00 £35.83
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year +39.88% +102.37% -57.17%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

CCIE job vacancy trend in Cheshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CCIE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CCIE

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Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE in Cheshire over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in Cheshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CCIE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CCIE

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Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 22 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
Knutsford -26 2 £599 +3.19% 1
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North West

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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 2 (50.00%) Azure
1 2 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Data Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Analytics
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) ITIL
1 2 (50.00%) Migration
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
1 2 (50.00%) SOAR
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Major Incident Management
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Smoke Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco
1 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 2 (50.00%) Splunk
1 2 (50.00%) Zscaler
2 1 (25.00%) Blue Coat
2 1 (25.00%) F5