CCIE Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 114 89 89
Rank change year-on-year -25 0 +7
Contract jobs citing CCIE 4 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.17% 0.31% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.65% 0.96% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £333 - -
25th Percentile £344 - £544
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 - £563
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.27%
75th Percentile £381 - £581
90th Percentile £393 - -
England median daily rate £510 £561 £550
% change year-on-year -9.13% +2.05% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £103.00 -
England median hourly rate - £80.25 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 619 416 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 26.13% 31.90% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 290 160 156
10th Percentile £190 £200 £193
25th Percentile £400 £372 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +5.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £739 £676 £588
England median daily rate £528 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.57% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 179 141 131
10th Percentile £18.91 £16.30 £16.30
25th Percentile £46.00 £18.87 £32.50
Median hourly rate £67.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +166.40% -41.51% +86.96%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.50 £85.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £52.60 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +109.15% -53.43% -

CCIE
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCIE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

CCIE job vacancy trend in the East of England

CCIE
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCIE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCIE

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCIE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCIE

CCIE
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex - 2 £325 -
Cambridgeshire +3 1 - - 4
Hertfordshire - 1 £400 - 3
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England

CCIE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (50.00%) OpenStack
Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 2 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) OpenShift
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) BGP
1 3 (75.00%) LAN
1 3 (75.00%) MPLS
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) SNMP
2 2 (50.00%) TACACS
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
General
1 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) IP Network Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) NETCONF
1 2 (50.00%) OpenConfig
1 2 (50.00%) RESTCONF
1 2 (50.00%) YANG
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Analytical Mindset
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Private Cloud
1 2 (50.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) CMDB
2 1 (25.00%) Taxonomies
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (25.00%) ITSM
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Runbook
2 1 (25.00%) Service Management
2 1 (25.00%) Site Reliability Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
2 2 (50.00%) JNCIE
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
2 1 (25.00%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (75.00%) Juniper
3 2 (50.00%) F5
3 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (25.00%) Infoblox
4 1 (25.00%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds