Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Cisco Certification
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 59 80
Rank change year-on-year +2 +21 +48
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 11 14 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.72% 1.70% 1.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.97% 7.69% 9.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile £413 £368 £339
25th Percentile £422 £376 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £516
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -22.48% +9.21%
75th Percentile £471 £410 £538
90th Percentile £475 £416 £549
Scotland median daily rate £425 £400 £400
% change year-on-year +6.25% - +18.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 0
Median hourly rate - £14.00 -
Scotland median hourly rate - £14.50 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 138 182 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 21.60% 22.09% 17.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 113 107
10th Percentile £225 £156 £164
25th Percentile £406 £240 £334
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £340 £450
Median % change year-on-year +32.35% -24.44% -2.70%
75th Percentile £528 £534 £519
90th Percentile £600 £595 £596
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £475
% change year-on-year - -5.26% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 12 3
10th Percentile £34.27 £12.12 £43.74
25th Percentile £40.67 £13.43 £47.48
Median hourly rate £55.01 £17.10 £53.70
Median % change year-on-year +221.78% -68.17% +170.53%
75th Percentile £67.50 £21.48 £58.10
90th Percentile £72.00 £51.81 £60.74
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £18.00 £59.03
% change year-on-year +11.11% -69.51% +24.27%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in Edinburgh

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

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

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

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Communications & Networking
1 7 (63.64%) Firewall
2 6 (54.55%) LAN
2 6 (54.55%) Unified Communications
2 6 (54.55%) WAN
3 5 (45.45%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (36.36%) IPsec
4 4 (36.36%) Network Security
4 4 (36.36%) SD-WAN
4 4 (36.36%) VPN
4 4 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
5 3 (27.27%) VoIP
6 2 (18.18%) BGP
6 2 (18.18%) EIGRP
6 2 (18.18%) OSPF
6 2 (18.18%) VLAN
7 1 (9.09%) Intrusion Detection
7 1 (9.09%) SSL
General
1 4 (36.36%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Network Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Field Engineer
2 4 (36.36%) Network Field Engineer
3 2 (18.18%) Network Specialist
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Design Authority
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Cyber Security Posture
2 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) Linux
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
2 3 (27.27%) Unix
3 1 (9.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Network Monitoring
2 5 (45.45%) Network Design
3 4 (36.36%) High Availability
3 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Network Management
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
5 1 (9.09%) Change Control
5 1 (9.09%) Configuration Management
5 1 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
5 1 (9.09%) Data Protection
5 1 (9.09%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (9.09%) Inventory Management
5 1 (9.09%) Migration
5 1 (9.09%) Network Planning
5 1 (9.09%) Patch Management
5 1 (9.09%) Programme Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Project Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) Service Delivery
5 1 (9.09%) SIEM
Qualifications
1 7 (63.64%) CCNA
1 7 (63.64%) CCNP
2 6 (54.55%) CCIE
3 3 (27.27%) CCIE Collaboration
4 1 (9.09%) CCDP
4 1 (9.09%) CISM
4 1 (9.09%) CISSP
4 1 (9.09%) MCSE
4 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (9.09%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (9.09%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Host Intrusion Detection System
1 1 (9.09%) Nagios
Vendors
1 10 (90.91%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) F5
2 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 1 (9.09%) Fortinet
3 1 (9.09%) McAfee
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Veeam