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 21 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 120 138
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 +57
Contract jobs citing CCIE 7 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.41% 0.28% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.63% 1.15% 1.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 7
10th Percentile £462 £554 £438
25th Percentile £514 £609 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £700 £550
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% -12.70%
75th Percentile £663 £738 £678
90th Percentile £664 £760 £684
Central London median daily rate £625 £700 £550
% change year-on-year -10.71% +27.27% -

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 430 522 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.35% 24.77% 20.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 308 356
10th Percentile £344 £360 £349
25th Percentile £457 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £659 £688
90th Percentile £738 £766 £823
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £19.68 £23.10 £23.45
25th Percentile £23.58 £27.00 £31.63
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% -30.11% +7.84%
75th Percentile £37.96 £112.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £54.53 - £71.55
Central London median hourly rate £30.99 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -4.65% +80.56% -58.26%

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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 21 October 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 7 (100.00%) BGP
2 6 (85.71%) OSPF
3 4 (57.14%) Multicast
4 3 (42.86%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (42.86%) Firewall
4 3 (42.86%) MPLS
4 3 (42.86%) Unicast
4 3 (42.86%) VXLAN
5 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (28.57%) NX-OS
6 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (14.29%) DNS
6 1 (14.29%) IGMP
6 1 (14.29%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (42.86%) Banking
1 3 (42.86%) Investment Banking
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
3 1 (14.29%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Network Engineer
2 3 (42.86%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Automation Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Network Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Automation Engineer
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
4 1 (14.29%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Change Control
2 3 (42.86%) Business Case
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (14.29%) Configuration Management
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) High Availability
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Low Latency
4 1 (14.29%) Network Design
4 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Service Migration
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (42.86%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIE
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIP
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIS
Systems Management
1 6 (85.71%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Arista
2 4 (57.14%) Cisco
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