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 16 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 122 147
Rank change year-on-year +8 +25 +53
Contract jobs citing CCIE 8 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.45% 0.24% 0.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.83% 1.01% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 7
10th Percentile £468 £538 £483
25th Percentile £527 £569 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £640 £643 £650
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -1.15% +18.18%
75th Percentile £664 £719 £684
90th Percentile £697 £753 £738
Central London median daily rate £640 £643 £650
% change year-on-year -0.47% -1.15% +33.33%

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 436 495 621
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.79% 23.92% 20.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 304 373
10th Percentile £326 £383 £342
25th Percentile £449 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £560
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +0.45% -2.61%
75th Percentile £664 £664 £694
90th Percentile £738 £766 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 3
10th Percentile £22.28 £20.31 £16.89
25th Percentile £26.00 £20.43 £17.31
Median hourly rate £28.15 £24.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.29% +33.33% -58.26%
75th Percentile £64.66 £27.00 £47.75
90th Percentile £79.34 - £65.60
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £24.00 £18.00
% change year-on-year +43.67% +33.33% -58.26%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing CCIE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE 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 16 September 2025.

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 and Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) BGP
2 6 (75.00%) OSPF
3 4 (50.00%) Multicast
4 3 (37.50%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (37.50%) Firewall
4 3 (37.50%) MPLS
4 3 (37.50%) Unicast
4 3 (37.50%) VXLAN
5 2 (25.00%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (25.00%) Network Security
5 2 (25.00%) NX-OS
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco ASA
6 1 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (12.50%) DNS
6 1 (12.50%) IGMP
6 1 (12.50%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Git
2 1 (12.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (37.50%) Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Investment Banking
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Legal
2 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (25.00%) Senior
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Cisco Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Network Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Network Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Change Control
2 3 (37.50%) Business Case
2 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (12.50%) Adaptive Security
4 1 (12.50%) Business Strategy
4 1 (12.50%) Change Management
4 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Configuration Management
4 1 (12.50%) Data Protection
4 1 (12.50%) High Availability
4 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (12.50%) Network Design
4 1 (12.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
4 1 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
4 1 (12.50%) Service Migration
4 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (12.50%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (50.00%) CCNP
3 1 (12.50%) JNCIE
3 1 (12.50%) JNCIP
3 1 (12.50%) JNCIS
3 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
3 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 6 (75.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (75.00%) Arista
2 5 (62.50%) Cisco
3 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (12.50%) F5
4 1 (12.50%) Fortinet
4 1 (12.50%) Juniper
4 1 (12.50%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) SolarWinds