CCIE Security Contract Job Trends in the City of London

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 138 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CCIE Security 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.093% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £725 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 552 432 523
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.69% 25.01% 24.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 392 297 310
10th Percentile £401 £346 £362
25th Percentile £463 £458 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% -2.22% +0.90%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £661
90th Percentile £735 £738 £768
Central London median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 6
10th Percentile £23.30 £20.55 £23.75
25th Percentile £29.00 £25.75 £27.00
Median hourly rate £60.00 £27.50 £29.75
Median % change year-on-year +118.18% -7.56% -36.02%
75th Percentile £65.00 £28.91 £92.44
90th Percentile £119.20 £50.91 £112.00
Central London median hourly rate £54.50 £28.15 £29.75
% change year-on-year +93.61% -5.38% -36.02%

CCIE Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

CCIE Security job vacancy trend in the City of London

CCIE Security
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCIE Security.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCIE Security

CCIE Security
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of 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