CCIE Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 65 80
Rank change year-on-year +3 +15 +31
Contract jobs citing CCIE 5 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 0.83% 0.50% 0.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.95% 2.59% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £416 - £340
25th Percentile £422 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 - £371
Median % change year-on-year - - -25.75%
75th Percentile £471 - £388
90th Percentile £473 - £395
Scotland median daily rate £463 £400 £550
% change year-on-year +15.63% -27.27% +10.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 101 116 186
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 16.86% 19.27% 20.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 66 106
10th Percentile £68 £191 £153
25th Percentile £413 £366 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +3.83%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £685 £638
Scotland median daily rate £455 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +1.11% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 14 14
10th Percentile £17.23 £21.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £30.00 £21.01 £17.91
Median hourly rate £75.00 £23.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +226.09% -48.89% +20.51%
75th Percentile £81.24 £24.54 £60.00
90th Percentile - £57.51 £62.20
Scotland median hourly rate £19.38 £23.00 £55.70
% change year-on-year -15.74% -58.71% +168.30%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

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

CCIE job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CCIE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CCIE

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Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CCIE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing CCIE

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh 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 2 (40.00%) Catchpoint
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
3 3 (60.00%) Unified Communications
3 3 (60.00%) VoIP
4 2 (40.00%) BGP
4 2 (40.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (40.00%) OSPF
4 2 (40.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (60.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Network Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
1 2 (40.00%) Digital Strategy
1 2 (40.00%) Kalman Filter
1 2 (40.00%) Kanban
2 1 (20.00%) BCP
2 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (20.00%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
2 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (20.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCNP
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CCIE Collaboration
2 3 (60.00%) CCNA
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
1 2 (40.00%) vSphere
2 1 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (40.00%) AppNeta
2 2 (40.00%) Arista
2 2 (40.00%) Juniper
2 2 (40.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (40.00%) VMware