CCIE Contracts in England

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
UK > England

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

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 423 449 518
Rank change year-on-year +26 +69 +97
Contract jobs citing CCIE 71 105 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.28% 0.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.89% 0.93% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 65 81
10th Percentile £458 £380 £375
25th Percentile £500 £425 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £631 £700 £606
90th Percentile £738 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 0
10th Percentile £58.43 - -
25th Percentile £65.44 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £80.25 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +100.63% - -
75th Percentile £94.44 £41.25 -
90th Percentile £101.08 - -
UK median hourly rate £80.25 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +100.63% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,956 11,322 12,865
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.02% 30.49% 27.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,004 6,987 8,579
10th Percentile £281 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.17%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 529 1,002 635
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.67
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.50 £22.50
Median hourly rate £28.60 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.71% -22.73% +32.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.45 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £40.94 £55.68
% change year-on-year -31.61% -26.47% +25.11%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CCIE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCIE in England.

Daily rate trend for CCIE in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCIE in England.

Hourly rate trend for CCIE in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCIE in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CCIE in England

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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 within the England region over the 6 months to 1 July 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 +31 36 £556 +5.95% 94
Midlands +11 11 £550 -15.38% 7
South East +49 10 £575 +4.55% 22
North West +5 9 £475 -25.49% 9
North of England +5 9 £475 -9.52% 17
West Midlands +2 8 £550 -26.67% 4
South West +37 5 £600 +37.14% 9
East Midlands +6 3 £438 -20.45% 3
East of England +20 1 - - 8
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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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:

Applications
1 4 (5.63%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 19 (26.76%) AWS
2 17 (23.94%) Azure
3 7 (9.86%) GCP
4 5 (7.04%) Cloudflare
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.82%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.82%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.82%) Serverless
6 1 (1.41%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 41 (57.75%) Firewall
2 37 (52.11%) BGP
3 33 (46.48%) OSPF
4 29 (40.85%) Network Security
5 28 (39.44%) MPLS
6 26 (36.62%) VPN
7 25 (35.21%) WAN
8 19 (26.76%) Wireless
9 17 (23.94%) SD-WAN
10 16 (22.54%) Multicast
11 12 (16.90%) DNS
12 9 (12.68%) LAN
13 8 (11.27%) Cisco ASA
13 8 (11.27%) IPv6
13 8 (11.27%) VLAN
13 8 (11.27%) Wi-Fi
14 7 (9.86%) Broadband
14 7 (9.86%) Cisco Nexus
15 6 (8.45%) DHCP
15 6 (8.45%) TCP/IP
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Git
1 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.41%) GitLab
General
1 24 (33.80%) Social Skills
2 11 (15.49%) Finance
3 8 (11.27%) Banking
4 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.86%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (8.45%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.23%) Legal
6 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.82%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.41%) Aviation
8 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 35 (49.30%) Network Engineer
2 15 (21.13%) Architect
3 14 (19.72%) Network Architect
4 10 (14.08%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (14.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Implementation Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 8 (11.27%) Senior
6 7 (9.86%) Principal Engineer
6 7 (9.86%) Principal Network Engineer
7 6 (8.45%) Consultant
7 6 (8.45%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Designer
8 4 (5.63%) Network Designer
8 4 (5.63%) Solutions Designer
8 4 (5.63%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (5.63%) Technical Consultant
9 3 (4.23%) Network Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.63%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.41%) gRPC
2 1 (1.41%) NETCONF
2 1 (1.41%) REST
2 1 (1.41%) RESTCONF
2 1 (1.41%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 16 (22.54%) Data Centre
2 11 (15.49%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (7.04%) PKI
4 4 (5.63%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.23%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.82%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.82%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.82%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.82%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.41%) CMDB
7 1 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.41%) Replication
7 1 (1.41%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.04%) Linux
2 2 (2.82%) Unix
3 1 (1.41%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (19.72%) Network Design
1 14 (19.72%) Network Monitoring
2 13 (18.31%) Network Architecture
2 13 (18.31%) Roadmaps
3 12 (16.90%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (15.49%) Migration
4 11 (15.49%) Project Delivery
5 10 (14.08%) High Availability
6 9 (12.68%) ITIL
7 8 (11.27%) Service Design
8 7 (9.86%) Architecture Roadmap
8 7 (9.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (9.86%) TOGAF
8 7 (9.86%) Zero Trust
9 6 (8.45%) Computer Science
9 6 (8.45%) Data Protection
9 6 (8.45%) Low Latency
9 6 (8.45%) Mentoring
9 6 (8.45%) Strategic Roadmap
10 5 (7.04%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 16 (22.54%) Python
2 4 (5.63%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.23%) Perl
Qualifications
1 71 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (56.34%) CCNP
3 10 (14.08%) Degree
4 9 (12.68%) Security Cleared
5 8 (11.27%) JNCIE
5 8 (11.27%) SC Cleared
6 6 (8.45%) CCIE Service Provider
7 5 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (5.63%) CCIE Security
8 4 (5.63%) CCNA
8 4 (5.63%) Master's Degree
9 3 (4.23%) AWS Certification
9 3 (4.23%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 3 (4.23%) JNCIP
10 2 (2.82%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.82%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.82%) CCIE Wireless
10 2 (2.82%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (1.41%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (4.23%) SLA
3 1 (1.41%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.41%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.41%) Docker
2 1 (1.41%) Hyper-V
2 1 (1.41%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (29.58%) Ansible
2 5 (7.04%) ZABBIX
3 4 (5.63%) OpenView
4 2 (2.82%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (2.82%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.82%) Nagios
4 2 (2.82%) Puppet
4 2 (2.82%) Terraform
5 1 (1.41%) HAProxy
5 1 (1.41%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.41%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 58 (81.69%) Cisco
2 32 (45.07%) Fortinet
3 18 (25.35%) F5
4 11 (15.49%) Arista
4 11 (15.49%) SolarWinds
5 9 (12.68%) Palo Alto
6 7 (9.86%) CheckPoint
7 6 (8.45%) Zscaler
8 5 (7.04%) Citrix
8 5 (7.04%) Ericsson
8 5 (7.04%) Juniper
8 5 (7.04%) Meraki
8 5 (7.04%) Nokia
8 5 (7.04%) VMware
9 4 (5.63%) Microsoft
10 3 (4.23%) McAfee
10 3 (4.23%) Splunk
11 2 (2.82%) Google
12 1 (1.41%) Aruba
12 1 (1.41%) Genesys