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 16 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 412 441 508
Rank change year-on-year +29 +67 +94
Contract jobs citing CCIE 74 101 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.30% 0.27% 0.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.96% 0.88% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 61 84
10th Percentile £459 £375 £366
25th Percentile £490 £425 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% -5.66%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £605
90th Percentile £683 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £53.75 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +43.75% - -
75th Percentile £61.25 £41.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £40.00 -
% change year-on-year +43.75% - -

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 7,715 11,440 12,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.23% 30.55% 27.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,842 7,050 8,561
10th Percentile £278 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £652
90th Percentile £713 £738 £745
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 489 1,010 646
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £20.00 £21.41
Median hourly rate £30.29 £41.27 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.60% -24.97% +32.99%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £77.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.32
% change year-on-year -25.00% -27.69% +24.31%

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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 16 June 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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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 16 June 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 +46 39 £530 +0.95% 110
South East +40 11 £550 +10.00% 77
Midlands +7 11 £550 - 48
North of England +9 9 £475 -9.52% 56
North West +5 9 £475 -25.49% 28
West Midlands +9 8 £550 -13.73% 28
South West +36 5 £600 +37.14% 37
East Midlands +12 3 £438 -20.45% 20
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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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.35%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (5.41%) MS Visio
2 3 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 18 (24.32%) AWS
2 16 (21.62%) Azure
3 6 (8.11%) GCP
4 5 (6.76%) Cloudflare
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 2 (2.70%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.70%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.70%) Serverless
6 1 (1.35%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.35%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 42 (56.76%) BGP
2 40 (54.05%) Firewall
3 38 (51.35%) OSPF
4 33 (44.59%) MPLS
5 29 (39.19%) VPN
6 28 (37.84%) Network Security
7 23 (31.08%) WAN
8 19 (25.68%) Wireless
9 17 (22.97%) Multicast
10 16 (21.62%) SD-WAN
11 12 (16.22%) Broadband
11 12 (16.22%) IPv6
12 10 (13.51%) DNS
13 9 (12.16%) Cisco Firepower
14 8 (10.81%) VLAN
15 7 (9.46%) Cisco ASA
15 7 (9.46%) Cisco Nexus
15 7 (9.46%) LAN
15 7 (9.46%) TCP/IP
15 7 (9.46%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.35%) Git
2 1 (1.35%) GitLab
General
1 23 (31.08%) Social Skills
2 9 (12.16%) Finance
3 8 (10.81%) Banking
4 7 (9.46%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.11%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (8.11%) Telecoms
6 3 (4.05%) Legal
6 3 (4.05%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.70%) Investment Banking
8 1 (1.35%) Aviation
8 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 39 (52.70%) Network Engineer
2 13 (17.57%) Architect
2 13 (17.57%) Network Architect
3 11 (14.86%) Principal Engineer
3 11 (14.86%) Principal Network Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (13.51%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Implementation Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 8 (10.81%) Senior
6 7 (9.46%) Consultant
7 6 (8.11%) Senior Network Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Cloud Network Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Designer
8 4 (5.41%) Network Consultant
8 4 (5.41%) Network Designer
8 4 (5.41%) Solutions Designer
8 4 (5.41%) Systems Engineer
8 4 (5.41%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.41%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.35%) gRPC
2 1 (1.35%) NETCONF
2 1 (1.35%) REST
2 1 (1.35%) RESTCONF
2 1 (1.35%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.27%) Data Centre
2 11 (14.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (6.76%) PKI
4 4 (5.41%) Public Cloud
5 3 (4.05%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (2.70%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.70%) Hedge funds
6 2 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.70%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.70%) Video\Live Streaming
7 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.35%) Security Posture
7 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.41%) Linux
2 2 (2.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (24.32%) Network Monitoring
2 16 (21.62%) Network Design
3 15 (20.27%) Project Delivery
4 14 (18.92%) Migration
5 13 (17.57%) Network Architecture
5 13 (17.57%) Roadmaps
6 12 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (12.16%) Mentoring
8 8 (10.81%) High Availability
8 8 (10.81%) ITIL
8 8 (10.81%) Service Design
9 7 (9.46%) Architecture Roadmap
9 7 (9.46%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (8.11%) Computer Science
10 6 (8.11%) Data Protection
10 6 (8.11%) Strategic Roadmap
10 6 (8.11%) TOGAF
10 6 (8.11%) Zero Trust
11 5 (6.76%) Decision-Making
11 5 (6.76%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.62%) Python
2 4 (5.41%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.05%) Perl
Qualifications
1 74 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (51.35%) CCNP
3 10 (13.51%) Degree
4 8 (10.81%) JNCIE
4 8 (10.81%) Security Cleared
5 7 (9.46%) SC Cleared
6 6 (8.11%) CCIE Service Provider
7 5 (6.76%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (5.41%) CCNA
8 4 (5.41%) Master's Degree
9 3 (4.05%) AWS Certification
9 3 (4.05%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 3 (4.05%) CCIE Security
9 3 (4.05%) JNCIP
10 2 (2.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
10 2 (2.70%) CCIE Data Center
10 2 (2.70%) CCIE Wireless
10 2 (2.70%) DV Cleared
10 2 (2.70%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.11%) SLA
2 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.35%) Docker
2 1 (1.35%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 21 (28.38%) Ansible
2 5 (6.76%) ZABBIX
3 4 (5.41%) OpenView
4 3 (4.05%) Nagios
5 2 (2.70%) Cisco CUCM
5 2 (2.70%) FortiGate
5 2 (2.70%) Puppet
5 2 (2.70%) Terraform
6 1 (1.35%) HAProxy
6 1 (1.35%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.35%) Network Intrusion Detection System
6 1 (1.35%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 61 (82.43%) Cisco
2 30 (40.54%) Fortinet
3 17 (22.97%) F5
4 11 (14.86%) SolarWinds
5 10 (13.51%) Arista
6 7 (9.46%) CheckPoint
6 7 (9.46%) Palo Alto
7 5 (6.76%) Citrix
7 5 (6.76%) Ericsson
7 5 (6.76%) Juniper
7 5 (6.76%) Meraki
7 5 (6.76%) Nokia
7 5 (6.76%) VMware
7 5 (6.76%) Zscaler
8 3 (4.05%) McAfee
8 3 (4.05%) Splunk
9 2 (2.70%) Google
9 2 (2.70%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.35%) Genesys
10 1 (1.35%) Red Hat