Cisco Certification Contracts in England

Cisco Certification
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 150 186 255
Rank change year-on-year +36 +69 -26
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 588 732 787
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.59% 1.45% 1.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.08% 5.22% 5.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 457 533
10th Percentile £300 £264 £225
25th Percentile £350 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £575
90th Percentile £773 £706 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 43 26
10th Percentile - £14.25 £13.33
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.63 £15.36
Median hourly rate £24.00 £65.50 £35.75
Median % change year-on-year -63.36% +83.22% +14.02%
75th Percentile £41.25 £80.00 £54.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £85.20 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £62.00 £43.74
% change year-on-year -62.90% +41.75% +9.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Cisco Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,579 14,027 15,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 27.75% 21.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,111 9,398 10,082
10th Percentile £300 £330 £315
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £637
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 756 690
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.23 £13.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £20.00 £18.75
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +40.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £62.48 £68.33 £55.72
90th Percentile £77.25 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in England

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in England

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in England

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in England

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Certification in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Certification in England

Cisco Certification
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 Cisco Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. 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 +54 213 £525 -4.55% 103
South East +36 148 £513 +2.50% 54
North of England +37 83 £445 -11.00% 38
North West +25 56 £488 -2.50% 22
Midlands +7 56 £450 - 24
West Midlands +41 49 £450 -5.26% 18
South West -16 49 £535 -2.73% 30
East of England -7 31 £345 +3.76% 21
Yorkshire +18 24 £403 -19.50% 14
East Midlands -4 7 £325 -13.33% 6
North East +17 3 £345 -17.61% 3
Cisco Certification
UK

Cisco Certification
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 22 (3.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.21%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.36%) Confluence
4 4 (0.68%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.34%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.17%) Apache
6 1 (0.17%) IIS
6 1 (0.17%) OpenStack
6 1 (0.17%) WebLogic
6 1 (0.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 21 (3.57%) Microsoft Office
2 17 (2.89%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.17%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 90 (15.31%) Azure
2 62 (10.54%) AWS
3 31 (5.27%) Microsoft 365
4 23 (3.91%) GCP
5 18 (3.06%) OCI
6 10 (1.70%) SaaS
7 8 (1.36%) Cloudflare
8 6 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (1.02%) Cloud Computing
9 5 (0.85%) Entra ID
9 5 (0.85%) Nutanix
10 4 (0.68%) IaaS
11 3 (0.51%) Akamai
11 3 (0.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 3 (0.51%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.51%) PaaS
11 3 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.34%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.34%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 216 (36.73%) Firewall
2 139 (23.64%) WAN
3 116 (19.73%) LAN
4 111 (18.88%) BGP
5 102 (17.35%) Network Security
6 99 (16.84%) VPN
7 93 (15.82%) DNS
8 88 (14.97%) OSPF
9 81 (13.78%) MPLS
10 75 (12.76%) Cisco ASA
10 75 (12.76%) Cisco Nexus
11 73 (12.41%) Wireless
12 69 (11.73%) DHCP
13 59 (10.03%) Cisco ISE
14 57 (9.69%) IPsec
15 47 (7.99%) SD-WAN
16 41 (6.97%) TCP/IP
17 39 (6.63%) Cisco IOS
18 38 (6.46%) Cisco Firepower
19 37 (6.29%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.34%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.17%) DB2
2 1 (0.17%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (2.04%) Sonatype Nexus
2 9 (1.53%) JIRA
3 7 (1.19%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (1.02%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Jenkins
General
1 177 (30.10%) Social Skills
2 100 (17.01%) Finance
3 61 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 60 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 54 (9.18%) Telecoms
6 42 (7.14%) Banking
7 16 (2.72%) Marketing
8 14 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.36%) Legal
10 8 (1.36%) Manufacturing
11 7 (1.19%) Retail
12 6 (1.02%) Aerospace
12 6 (1.02%) Local Government
13 4 (0.68%) Aeronautics
13 4 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.68%) French Language
13 4 (0.68%) German Language
13 4 (0.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.68%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 310 (52.72%) Network Engineer
2 90 (15.31%) Senior
3 70 (11.90%) Architect
4 65 (11.05%) Senior Network Engineer
5 47 (7.99%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 31 (5.27%) Analyst
7 29 (4.93%) Cisco Engineer
7 29 (4.93%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 29 (4.93%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 28 (4.76%) Security Architect
9 27 (4.59%) Consultant
10 26 (4.42%) Network Architect
11 25 (4.25%) Support Engineer
12 16 (2.72%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 16 (2.72%) Security Consultant
13 14 (2.38%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 14 (2.38%) Network Support
13 14 (2.38%) Network Support Engineer
14 13 (2.21%) Security Engineer
14 13 (2.21%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.40%) Jinja
1 20 (3.40%) XML
2 18 (3.06%) NETCONF
3 17 (2.89%) JSON
4 16 (2.72%) YANG
5 12 (2.04%) FIX Protocol
6 11 (1.87%) 802.1X
7 10 (1.70%) Web Services
8 6 (1.02%) Flash
9 3 (0.51%) .NET
9 3 (0.51%) EDI
9 3 (0.51%) SAML
9 3 (0.51%) Ultra Messaging
10 1 (0.17%) EJB
10 1 (0.17%) J2EE
10 1 (0.17%) JSP
10 1 (0.17%) MFC
10 1 (0.17%) RESTful
10 1 (0.17%) XMPP
10 1 (0.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 121 (20.58%) Data Centre
2 26 (4.42%) Management Information System
3 13 (2.21%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 12 (2.04%) Operational Technology
5 11 (1.87%) Clustering
5 11 (1.87%) PKI
5 11 (1.87%) Security Posture
6 10 (1.70%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (1.53%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (1.53%) Public Cloud
8 8 (1.36%) Data Protection Act
8 8 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
9 7 (1.19%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.19%) Driving Licence
9 7 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
9 7 (1.19%) IoT
10 6 (1.02%) NHS
11 5 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
11 5 (0.85%) SCADA
11 5 (0.85%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 66 (11.22%) Windows
2 42 (7.14%) Linux
3 24 (4.08%) Windows 10
4 23 (3.91%) Windows Server
5 17 (2.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (2.21%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (2.21%) Windows XP
7 11 (1.87%) Unix
8 9 (1.53%) Windows 7
9 6 (1.02%) Mac OS
10 4 (0.68%) Android
10 4 (0.68%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 122 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
2 107 (18.20%) ITIL
3 64 (10.88%) Computer Science
4 60 (10.20%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 55 (9.35%) Migration
6 54 (9.18%) Change Management
7 44 (7.48%) Customer Service
8 39 (6.63%) Cybersecurity
9 38 (6.46%) Network Design
9 38 (6.46%) Project Management
10 34 (5.78%) DevOps
11 33 (5.61%) Information Security
12 32 (5.44%) Mentoring
13 31 (5.27%) Cloud Security
13 31 (5.27%) ITSM
13 31 (5.27%) Network Architecture
13 31 (5.27%) Network Monitoring
14 29 (4.93%) High Availability
15 28 (4.76%) Project Delivery
16 27 (4.59%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 65 (11.05%) Python
2 25 (4.25%) PowerShell
3 17 (2.89%) Perl
4 11 (1.87%) Tcl
5 8 (1.36%) Bash
6 4 (0.68%) Java
6 4 (0.68%) SQL
7 2 (0.34%) C
7 2 (0.34%) C#
7 2 (0.34%) Go
7 2 (0.34%) Ruby
8 1 (0.17%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 336 (57.14%) CCNP
2 294 (50.00%) CCNA
3 160 (27.21%) Security Cleared
4 126 (21.43%) Degree
5 116 (19.73%) SC Cleared
6 109 (18.54%) CCIE
7 58 (9.86%) CISSP
8 51 (8.67%) DV Cleared
9 48 (8.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 37 (6.29%) CISM
10 37 (6.29%) JNCIA
11 32 (5.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 32 (5.44%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (4.59%) CISA
13 23 (3.91%) CRISC
14 22 (3.74%) CCSK
15 21 (3.57%) Network+ Certification
15 21 (3.57%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 19 (3.23%) JNCIS
16 19 (3.23%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (5.61%) SLA
2 32 (5.44%) NIST
3 30 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.38%) NIST 800
5 11 (1.87%) GRC
5 11 (1.87%) QA
6 10 (1.70%) NCSC
7 8 (1.36%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 8 (1.36%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.19%) COBIT
9 5 (0.85%) GDPR
10 4 (0.68%) ISO 31000
11 3 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
11 3 (0.51%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.34%) IASME
13 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
13 1 (0.17%) ISA99
13 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 64 (10.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (7.14%) Active Directory
3 32 (5.44%) Hyper-V
4 23 (3.91%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (3.74%) Firmware
6 21 (3.57%) VMware NSX
7 12 (2.04%) vSphere
8 11 (1.87%) KVM
9 7 (1.19%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (1.02%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 44 (7.48%) Ansible
2 25 (4.25%) SCCM
3 23 (3.91%) vCenter Server
4 17 (2.89%) Terraform
5 16 (2.72%) FortiGate
6 15 (2.55%) SCOM
7 14 (2.38%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (2.38%) WSUS
8 13 (2.21%) NetBackup
9 12 (2.04%) Nessus
10 7 (1.19%) SolarWinds Orion
11 5 (0.85%) OpenView
12 3 (0.51%) ITRS Geneos
12 3 (0.51%) Kibana
12 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.51%) Netcool
12 3 (0.51%) WhatsUp Gold
13 2 (0.34%) OpenNMS
13 2 (0.34%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.34%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 410 (69.73%) Cisco
2 113 (19.22%) Palo Alto
3 111 (18.88%) Juniper
4 84 (14.29%) CheckPoint
5 80 (13.61%) Microsoft
6 73 (12.41%) VMware
7 61 (10.37%) F5
8 52 (8.84%) SolarWinds
9 47 (7.99%) Fortinet
10 41 (6.97%) Arista
11 36 (6.12%) Nokia
12 26 (4.42%) Infoblox
13 25 (4.25%) Citrix
13 25 (4.25%) Meraki
14 20 (3.40%) Dell
15 19 (3.23%) Zscaler
16 18 (3.06%) Symantec
17 16 (2.72%) HP
17 16 (2.72%) Veeam
18 15 (2.55%) Oracle