CCDE Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCDE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 575 468 -
Rank change year-on-year -107 - -
Contract jobs citing CCDE 2 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.005% 0.004% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.013% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £415 - -
25th Percentile £438 £563 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -17.39% - -
75th Percentile £513 £588 -
90th Percentile £535 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £575 -
% change year-on-year -17.39% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CCDE 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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,013 7,706 11,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.90% 31.44% 31.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,730 4,933 7,174
10th Percentile £340 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £623 £629 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -1.43% -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 985 430 960
10th Percentile £17.02 £18.13 £14.00
25th Percentile £21.25 £24.54 £17.86
Median hourly rate £47.00 £50.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +25.00% -23.81%
75th Percentile £71.50 £68.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.36 £82.25 £75.42
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.96% +6.25% -25.93%

CCDE
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CCDE job vacancy trend in England

CCDE
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCDE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCDE

CCDE
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCDE in England over the 6 months to 21 April 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCDE in England

CCDE
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCDE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCDE

CCDE
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCDE within the England region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
South East -55 1 £400 -30.43% 1
London - 1 £550 - 1
CCDE
UK

CCDE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (50.00%) IaaS
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (50.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) LAN
1 2 (100.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) MPLS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) NGFW
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 1 (50.00%) Billing
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (50.00%) Fibre Optics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (50.00%) Benchmarking
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Management
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Reduction
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
2 1 (50.00%) Financial Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) SABSA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) CCNP
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCDP
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) Palo Alto