CCIE Contract Job Trends in Chester

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 3 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 25 19 -
Rank change year-on-year -6 - -
Contract jobs citing CCIE 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.28% 1.41% -
As % of the Qualifications category 4.55% 5.00% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 -
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% - -
75th Percentile £588 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £575 £475 -
% change year-on-year +21.05% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 44 20 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 28.21% 28.17% 13.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 6
10th Percentile £383 - £320
25th Percentile - - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 £458
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -29.00% -8.45%
75th Percentile £578 £463 £497
90th Percentile £681 £650 £619
Cheshire median daily rate £456 £421 £451
% change year-on-year +8.31% -6.55% -16.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile - £31.24 -
25th Percentile £29.99 £40.36 -
Median hourly rate £32.23 £55.58 -
Median % change year-on-year -42.02% - -
75th Percentile £35.58 £70.79 -
90th Percentile £36.25 £79.92 -
Cheshire median hourly rate £82.50 £32.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year +153.85% +132.14% -65.00%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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

CCIE job vacancy trend in Chester

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Daily Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing CCIE

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Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing CCIE

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) DNS
1 2 (100.00%) Wireless
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (50.00%) DMZ
2 1 (50.00%) DWDM
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (50.00%) IPsec
2 1 (50.00%) L2TP
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SSL
2 1 (50.00%) TACACS
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Architecture Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) Change Management
1 1 (50.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (50.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Lisp
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCIE Security
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Arista
2 1 (50.00%) Aruba
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (50.00%) McAfee
2 1 (50.00%) Splunk