CCIE Contracts 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 3 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 118 164
Rank change year-on-year +10 +46 +31
Contract jobs citing CCIE 7 7 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.39% 0.33% 0.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.60% 1.49% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 4
10th Percentile £481 £538 £578
25th Percentile £567 £569 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £657 £643 £669
Median % change year-on-year +2.18% -3.93% +19.37%
75th Percentile £747 £719 £719
90th Percentile £775 £753 £775
Central London median daily rate £657 £643 £669
% change year-on-year +2.18% -3.93% +27.38%

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 438 470 703
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 24.37% 22.01% 20.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 299 414
10th Percentile £362 £380 £400
25th Percentile £463 £461 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £676 £675 £700
90th Percentile £763 £775 £824
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 6
10th Percentile £21.41 - £17.31
25th Percentile £26.16 £20.22 £18.56
Median hourly rate £45.33 £21.00 £36.10
Median % change year-on-year +115.83% -41.83% -17.01%
75th Percentile £65.12 £27.00 £53.50
90th Percentile £82.79 - £68.75
Central London median hourly rate £34.48 £24.00 £36.10
% change year-on-year +43.67% -33.52% -17.01%

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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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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCIE in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for CCIE in the City of London

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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 3 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCIE in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for CCIE in the City of London

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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 5 (71.43%) BGP
2 4 (57.14%) OSPF
3 3 (42.86%) Multicast
3 3 (42.86%) Network Security
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (28.57%) Firewall
4 2 (28.57%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (28.57%) Unicast
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (14.29%) DNS
5 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (14.29%) IGMP
5 1 (14.29%) MPLS
5 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Cisco Network Architect
2 2 (28.57%) Network Architect
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Automation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
1 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Change Control
2 2 (28.57%) Adaptive Security
2 2 (28.57%) Business Case
2 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
2 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
2 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (28.57%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (14.29%) Change Management
3 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
3 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
3 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
3 1 (14.29%) DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) High Availability
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
3 1 (14.29%) Network Design
3 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
3 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) CCNP
3 2 (28.57%) SC Cleared
3 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) JNCIE
4 1 (14.29%) JNCIP
4 1 (14.29%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Arista
3 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 1 (14.29%) Juniper
4 1 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds