CCIE Data Center Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Data Center
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCIE Data Center qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 533 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CCIE Data Center 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.010% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.031% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £561 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £573 - -
75th Percentile £584 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £573 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CCIE Data Center 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 9,560 9,260 11,705
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 32.78% 29.73% 29.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,146 5,678 7,535
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £528 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £713 £728 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 816 416 706
10th Percentile £17.69 £20.06 £17.19
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.00 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.10% - +16.67%
75th Percentile £43.75 £68.32 £70.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +16.67%

CCIE Data Center
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CCIE Data Center job vacancy trend in England

CCIE Data Center
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCIE Data Center.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCIE Data Center

CCIE Data Center
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 CCIE Data Center within the England region over the 6 months to 1 November 2025. 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
London - 2 £573 -
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
North of England - 1 - - 2
CCIE Data Center
UK

CCIE Data Center
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) GCP
1 1 (33.33%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) BGP
1 3 (100.00%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (66.67%) Ethernet VPN
2 2 (66.67%) VXLAN
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) FabricPath
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) Multicast
3 1 (33.33%) Network Security
3 1 (33.33%) NGFW
3 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (33.33%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (33.33%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) AI
1 1 (33.33%) Benchmarking
1 1 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (33.33%) DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) ETL
1 1 (33.33%) Fintech
1 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (33.33%) Low Latency
1 1 (33.33%) Machine Learning
1 1 (33.33%) Migration
1 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Monitoring
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCIE
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (33.33%) KVM
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
1 2 (66.67%) Terraform
2 1 (33.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (33.33%) Arista
2 1 (33.33%) NVIDIA
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto
2 1 (33.33%) VMware