Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 214 152 174
Rank change year-on-year -62 +22 -11
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 551 482 512
As % of all contract jobs in England 1.23% 1.78% 1.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.90% 5.76% 4.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 373 301 333
10th Percentile £250 £325 £313
25th Percentile £405 £450 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £613 £608
90th Percentile £691 £675 £738
UK median daily rate £480 £520 £505
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.97% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 18 21
10th Percentile £29.00 - £14.88
25th Percentile £53.13 £29.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £63.14 £38.25 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +65.06% +53.80% -59.89%
75th Percentile £74.38 £62.75 £41.25
90th Percentile £83.80 £88.10 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £61.25 £38.25 £24.87
% change year-on-year +60.13% +53.80% -59.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

Cisco Certification 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 14,126 8,374 11,204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.57% 30.86% 30.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,529 5,279 6,996
10th Percentile £350 £289 £313
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year - -2.16% -2.44%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £716 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,056 595 976
10th Percentile £17.87 £18.13 £14.21
25th Percentile £25.75 £18.87 £20.98
Median hourly rate £54.25 £27.50 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +97.27% -36.05% -21.82%
75th Percentile £74.26 £61.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.56 £76.07 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £26.81 £41.50
% change year-on-year +95.80% -35.39% -24.93%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in England

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in England

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Certification in England over the 6 months to 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 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
London -58 182 £500 -4.76% 68
North of England -34 124 £525 +4.37% 58
South East -32 114 £470 -2.59% 63
North West +9 90 £525 +10.53% 27
Midlands -56 48 £425 -5.56% 32
South West -46 44 £535 -6.96% 43
West Midlands -55 44 £423 -6.11% 23
Yorkshire -65 32 £663 +20.45% 23
East of England -15 29 £190 -69.60% 37
East Midlands -23 3 £475 -13.64% 9
North East -41 2 - - 9
Cisco Certification
UK

Cisco Certification
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:

Application Platforms
1 15 (2.72%) Confluence
2 13 (2.36%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.54%) Apache
3 3 (0.54%) CloudStack
4 2 (0.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.18%) CMS
5 1 (0.18%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 21 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 16 (2.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 16 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 8 (1.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.36%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 175 (31.76%) Azure
2 147 (26.68%) AWS
3 62 (11.25%) GCP
4 30 (5.44%) Entra ID
5 23 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
6 21 (3.81%) Azure Sentinel
7 11 (2.00%) GitHub
7 11 (2.00%) SaaS
8 9 (1.63%) IaaS
9 8 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
9 8 (1.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 7 (1.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 7 (1.27%) PaaS
11 6 (1.09%) OpenShift
12 4 (0.73%) AWS Direct Connect
12 4 (0.73%) Azure AKS
13 3 (0.54%) Amazon EKS
13 3 (0.54%) Azure API Management
13 3 (0.54%) Kong
13 3 (0.54%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 236 (42.83%) Firewall
2 185 (33.58%) WAN
3 148 (26.86%) LAN
4 141 (25.59%) BGP
5 137 (24.86%) Network Security
6 99 (17.97%) OSPF
7 98 (17.79%) DNS
7 98 (17.79%) VPN
8 97 (17.60%) Wireless
9 77 (13.97%) VLAN
10 64 (11.62%) DHCP
11 53 (9.62%) SAN
11 53 (9.62%) TCP/IP
12 51 (9.26%) SD-WAN
13 49 (8.89%) MPLS
13 49 (8.89%) Wi-Fi
14 48 (8.71%) VXLAN
15 44 (7.99%) Cisco ISE
16 33 (5.99%) Cisco IOS
17 31 (5.63%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.36%) Big Data
2 1 (0.18%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (4.54%) JIRA
2 14 (2.54%) Git
3 6 (1.09%) Snyk
3 6 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (0.73%) GitLab
4 4 (0.73%) Jenkins
5 3 (0.54%) Bitbucket
6 2 (0.36%) Burp Suite
6 2 (0.36%) Chocolatey
7 1 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 1 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
7 1 (0.18%) Claude Code
General
1 181 (32.85%) Social Skills
2 87 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 65 (11.80%) Finance
4 43 (7.80%) Telecoms
5 41 (7.44%) Public Sector
6 33 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (4.90%) Banking
8 11 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (1.81%) Financial Institution
9 10 (1.81%) Legal
10 9 (1.63%) Manufacturing
10 9 (1.63%) Military
11 8 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
12 7 (1.27%) Police
13 6 (1.09%) Local Government
13 6 (1.09%) Retail
14 4 (0.73%) Aerospace
15 3 (0.54%) Aviation
15 3 (0.54%) Law
Job Titles
1 191 (34.66%) Network Engineer
2 94 (17.06%) Architect
3 43 (7.80%) Senior
4 37 (6.72%) Network Architect
5 36 (6.53%) Field Engineer
6 35 (6.35%) Security Architect
7 33 (5.99%) Consultant
7 33 (5.99%) Field Service Engineer
7 33 (5.99%) IT Engineer
7 33 (5.99%) Security Engineer
8 25 (4.54%) Lead
8 25 (4.54%) Senior Network Engineer
9 24 (4.36%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 22 (3.99%) Cisco Engineer
11 18 (3.27%) Operations Engineer
12 17 (3.09%) Analyst
12 17 (3.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 17 (3.09%) Support Engineer
12 17 (3.09%) Technical Architect
13 16 (2.90%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (9.07%) 802.1X
2 14 (2.54%) NETCONF
2 14 (2.54%) REST
3 13 (2.36%) ONVIF
3 13 (2.36%) YANG
4 9 (1.63%) RESTful
5 6 (1.09%) OAuth
5 6 (1.09%) OpenConfig
5 6 (1.09%) RESTCONF
6 5 (0.91%) Jinja
6 5 (0.91%) OpenID
6 5 (0.91%) SailPoint
7 4 (0.73%) OAuth2
8 3 (0.54%) Elastic Stack
8 3 (0.54%) JWT
8 3 (0.54%) LDAP
8 3 (0.54%) SAML
8 3 (0.54%) SLSA
9 2 (0.36%) HTML
9 2 (0.36%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 177 (32.12%) Data Centre
2 47 (8.53%) Analytical Mindset
3 44 (7.99%) Hybrid Cloud
4 34 (6.17%) Security Posture
5 32 (5.81%) PKI
6 27 (4.90%) Public Cloud
7 22 (3.99%) Private Cloud
8 21 (3.81%) Cloud Native
8 21 (3.81%) Clustering
9 18 (3.27%) Onboarding
10 16 (2.90%) Operational Technology
11 14 (2.54%) Self-Motivation
12 13 (2.36%) Video\Live Streaming
13 9 (1.63%) Management Information System
13 9 (1.63%) SCADA
14 8 (1.45%) Data Protection Act
14 8 (1.45%) Driving Licence
14 8 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
14 8 (1.45%) Virtual Team
15 7 (1.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 80 (14.52%) Windows
2 44 (7.99%) Linux
3 13 (2.36%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.27%) Unix
5 5 (0.91%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.36%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.36%) VMS
6 2 (0.36%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.18%) Android
7 1 (0.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.18%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.18%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 115 (20.87%) Problem-Solving
2 87 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
3 77 (13.97%) Agile
4 71 (12.89%) Cloud Security
5 63 (11.43%) ITIL
6 62 (11.25%) SIEM
7 58 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 58 (10.53%) Threat Modelling
8 55 (9.98%) Project Delivery
9 54 (9.80%) Continuous Improvement
9 54 (9.80%) High Availability
10 52 (9.44%) Roadmaps
10 52 (9.44%) Zero Trust
11 51 (9.26%) Change Management
11 51 (9.26%) DevOps
11 51 (9.26%) Security Architecture
12 50 (9.07%) Load Balancing
13 49 (8.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 49 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
14 47 (8.53%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 76 (13.79%) Python
2 24 (4.36%) PowerShell
3 23 (4.17%) Bash
4 5 (0.91%) Search Processing Language
5 4 (0.73%) Java
6 3 (0.54%) BeanShell
6 3 (0.54%) Lisp
6 3 (0.54%) Perl
7 1 (0.18%) C
7 1 (0.18%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.18%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.18%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.18%) SQL
7 1 (0.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 274 (49.73%) CCNP
2 206 (37.39%) CCNA
3 182 (33.03%) Security Cleared
4 131 (23.77%) SC Cleared
5 124 (22.50%) CISSP
6 114 (20.69%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 85 (15.43%) CCIE
8 79 (14.34%) Degree
9 71 (12.89%) CISM
10 65 (11.80%) CCSP
11 62 (11.25%) Microsoft Certification
12 59 (10.71%) Network+ Certification
13 46 (8.35%) A+ Certification
14 45 (8.17%) DV Cleared
15 44 (7.99%) MCSE
16 24 (4.36%) AWS Certification
17 22 (3.99%) CEH
18 17 (3.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
19 16 (2.90%) CompTIA Security+
19 16 (2.90%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (11.62%) NIST
2 56 (10.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (4.54%) NCSC
4 20 (3.63%) PCI DSS
5 19 (3.45%) GDPR
6 12 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
7 10 (1.81%) SLA
8 9 (1.63%) COBIT
9 7 (1.27%) NIST 800
10 6 (1.09%) Government Security Classifications
11 5 (0.91%) ISO 31000
12 4 (0.73%) GRC
12 4 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.54%) Def Stans
13 3 (0.54%) QA
13 3 (0.54%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 2 (0.36%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.36%) JSP 440
System Software
1 36 (6.53%) Active Directory
2 33 (5.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (2.72%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.54%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (2.18%) Docker
6 11 (2.00%) Firmware
7 9 (1.63%) vSphere
8 8 (1.45%) Hyper-V
9 6 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.18%) KVM
10 1 (0.18%) Snort
10 1 (0.18%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 73 (13.25%) Ansible
2 45 (8.17%) Kubernetes
2 45 (8.17%) Terraform
3 39 (7.08%) FortiGate
4 17 (3.09%) Grafana
4 17 (3.09%) Prometheus
5 10 (1.81%) CASB
6 8 (1.45%) Cisco CUCM
7 5 (0.91%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (0.91%) OPNET
8 4 (0.73%) Nagios
8 4 (0.73%) Proxmox
9 3 (0.54%) Check_MK
9 3 (0.54%) Packer
9 3 (0.54%) Podman
9 3 (0.54%) Progress Chef
9 3 (0.54%) Puppet
9 3 (0.54%) QRadar
10 2 (0.36%) Iperf
10 2 (0.36%) Nmap
Vendors
1 276 (50.09%) Cisco
2 94 (17.06%) Microsoft
3 78 (14.16%) Palo Alto
4 76 (13.79%) Fortinet
5 67 (12.16%) Juniper
6 49 (8.89%) VMware
7 47 (8.53%) F5
8 39 (7.08%) Aruba
8 39 (7.08%) ServiceNow
8 39 (7.08%) Splunk
9 37 (6.72%) CheckPoint
9 37 (6.72%) SolarWinds
10 34 (6.17%) Arista
10 34 (6.17%) Dell
11 23 (4.17%) Extreme Networks
12 19 (3.45%) Meraki
13 18 (3.27%) Infoblox
14 16 (2.90%) Ekahau
14 16 (2.90%) Google
15 15 (2.72%) Zscaler