Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Cisco Certification
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 17 31
Rank change year-on-year -14 +14 +4
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 9 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 3.77% 2.02% 0.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 14.52% 14.29% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 0
10th Percentile - £194 -
25th Percentile £450 £196 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £210 -
Median % change year-on-year +126.19% - -
75th Percentile £538 £221 -
90th Percentile £561 £222 -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £525 £425
% change year-on-year -14.29% +23.53% -23.42%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Coventry

Cisco Certification 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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 62 14 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 25.94% 14.14% 14.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 11 20
10th Percentile £262 £193 £448
25th Percentile £305 £208 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £513
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -26.83% +13.89%
75th Percentile £547 £504 £606
90th Percentile £656 £550 £639
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £518 £450
% change year-on-year -3.38% +15.00% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £76.59
Median hourly rate - - £78.19
75th Percentile - - £79.78
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.87 £29.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -34.93% -17.14% +79.49%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry.

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in Coventry

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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 6 (66.67%) AWS
1 6 (66.67%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (22.22%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (22.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (11.11%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (55.56%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) VPN
3 3 (33.33%) BGP
3 3 (33.33%) DNS
3 3 (33.33%) IPv4
3 3 (33.33%) IPv6
3 3 (33.33%) LAN
3 3 (33.33%) MPLS
3 3 (33.33%) Network Security
3 3 (33.33%) OSPF
3 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 3 (33.33%) VXLAN
3 3 (33.33%) WAN
3 3 (33.33%) WLAN
4 2 (22.22%) BIG-IP
4 2 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (22.22%) DHCP
4 2 (22.22%) EIGRP
4 2 (22.22%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
4 2 (22.22%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Architect
2 6 (66.67%) Network Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Network Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Network Security Architect
4 2 (22.22%) Security Architect
5 1 (11.11%) AWS Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Azure Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Identity Management Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth
1 1 (11.11%) OAuth2
1 1 (11.11%) OpenID
1 1 (11.11%) SailPoint
1 1 (11.11%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Operational Technology
2 1 (11.11%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 5 (55.56%) ITIL
2 5 (55.56%) Network Design
2 5 (55.56%) Security Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
3 4 (44.44%) Network Architecture
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
4 3 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 3 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 3 (33.33%) TOGAF
5 2 (22.22%) Agile
5 2 (22.22%) Computer Science
5 2 (22.22%) Data Protection
5 2 (22.22%) Enterprise Architecture
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) Network Management
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Monitoring
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (77.78%) CCNP
2 6 (66.67%) CISSP
3 5 (55.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 5 (55.56%) CCIE
4 4 (44.44%) AWS Certification
4 4 (44.44%) CCSP
5 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
5 2 (22.22%) CCIE Security
5 2 (22.22%) Degree
6 1 (11.11%) JNCIE
6 1 (11.11%) JNCIP
6 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) NIST
2 4 (44.44%) GDPR
2 4 (44.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (33.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (22.22%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (22.22%) VMware NSX
2 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) Terraform
2 3 (33.33%) Ansible
3 1 (11.11%) FortiGate
3 1 (11.11%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (77.78%) Palo Alto
2 6 (66.67%) Cisco
3 5 (55.56%) F5
4 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
4 3 (33.33%) Meraki
5 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
5 2 (22.22%) SolarWinds
5 2 (22.22%) VMware
6 1 (11.11%) BeyondTrust
6 1 (11.11%) CheckPoint
6 1 (11.11%) CyberArk
6 1 (11.11%) Forcepoint
6 1 (11.11%) Juniper
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
6 1 (11.11%) Okta