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 28 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 124 125 125
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 +62
Contract jobs citing CCIE 4 2 8
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.22% 0.098% 0.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.79% 0.38% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 5
10th Percentile £435 £622 -
25th Percentile £469 £635 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £664 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.34% +26.38% -11.02%
75th Percentile £663 £685 £675
90th Percentile £663 £694 £683
Central London median daily rate £575 £627 £500
% change year-on-year -8.29% +25.40% -9.09%

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 505 527 501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.52% 25.86% 20.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 386 313 317
10th Percentile £354 £335 £358
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £658 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £743 £794
Central London median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 3
10th Percentile £25.90 £24.78 £29.39
25th Percentile £26.13 £28.94 £45.09
Median hourly rate £27.75 £72.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.59% -0.34% +68.60%
75th Percentile £38.38 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £54.35 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £26.50 £72.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -63.32% +20.42% +39.53%

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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 28 December 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 & 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:

Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (50.00%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) NX-OS
2 2 (50.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (25.00%) LAN
3 1 (25.00%) Multicast
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Unicast
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (25.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Git
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Business Case
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Change Control
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Arista
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco