CCIE Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
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 qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 130 112 120
Rank change year-on-year -18 +8 +39
Contract jobs citing CCIE 5 9 6
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.21% 0.48% 0.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.82% 1.94% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 2
10th Percentile - £468 £538
25th Percentile £363 £527 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £657 £643
Median % change year-on-year -39.07% +2.18% -3.93%
75th Percentile £550 £691 £719
90th Percentile £745 £775 £753
Central London median daily rate £400 £657 £643
% change year-on-year -39.07% +2.18% -3.93%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 609 463 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.38% 24.58% 23.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 311 304
10th Percentile £413 £350 £400
25th Percentile £463 £462 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £641 £675 £677
90th Percentile £734 £760 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £565
% change year-on-year - -2.65% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 5
10th Percentile £19.42 £22.28 -
25th Percentile £21.88 £26.00 £20.22
Median hourly rate £31.03 £28.15 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.24% +34.05% -40.43%
75th Percentile £57.02 £64.66 £27.00
90th Percentile £70.88 £79.34 -
Central London median hourly rate £42.53 £31.78 £24.00
% change year-on-year +33.86% +32.40% -31.91%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

CCIE job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE in the City of London over the 6 months to 26 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

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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 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
1 1 (20.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) LAN
1 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 2 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) Internet
3 1 (20.00%) Multicast
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) TACACS
3 1 (20.00%) VLAN
3 1 (20.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) LAN Engineer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (20.00%) eBPF
1 1 (20.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
1 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
1 1 (20.00%) Network Design
1 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
1 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (20.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (20.00%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Arista
3 1 (20.00%) F5
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto