Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Cisco Certification
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 53 48
Rank change year-on-year -14 -5 +45
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 10 10 21
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 1.37% 1.85% 2.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.41% 6.67% 11.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 6 19
10th Percentile £434 £378 £313
25th Percentile £450 £473 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £350
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +71.43% -9.68%
75th Percentile £553 £673 £380
90th Percentile £565 £715 £525
West Yorkshire median daily rate £464 £463 £358
% change year-on-year +0.38% +29.37% -7.74%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 185 150 178
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 25.31% 27.68% 20.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 115 118
10th Percentile £363 £300 £350
25th Percentile £425 £408 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +4.76%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £638
90th Percentile £650 £725 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +11.11% -14.29% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £16.25 £16.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% +31.68% -79.95%
75th Percentile £16.33 £17.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.26 £38.75 £21.50
% change year-on-year -50.30% +80.23% -65.60%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in Leeds

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Leeds

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in Leeds over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in Leeds

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

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

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Azure
2 4 (40.00%) AWS
3 3 (30.00%) Entra ID
3 3 (30.00%) GCP
4 1 (10.00%) IaaS
4 1 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (10.00%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
1 4 (40.00%) Network Security
2 1 (10.00%) BGP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (10.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
2 1 (10.00%) OSPF
2 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (10.00%) VLAN
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) WAN
2 1 (10.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
2 2 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Legal
3 1 (10.00%) Local Government
3 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Lead
1 4 (40.00%) Technical Leader
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Security Architect
3 1 (10.00%) IT Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) CCTV
1 5 (50.00%) Driving Licence
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (30.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Native
3 2 (20.00%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (20.00%) Public Cloud
3 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (30.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (30.00%) DevSecOps
1 3 (30.00%) Information Security
1 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (30.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (30.00%) SIEM
1 3 (30.00%) Zero Trust
2 2 (20.00%) Application Security
2 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
2 2 (20.00%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (20.00%) Compliance Management
2 2 (20.00%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (20.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (20.00%) Regulatory Compliance
2 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (20.00%) Secrets Management
2 2 (20.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 7 (70.00%) CCNA
2 3 (30.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
2 3 (30.00%) AWS Certification
2 3 (30.00%) CCSP
2 3 (30.00%) CISSP
3 2 (20.00%) Azure Certification
4 1 (10.00%) CCNP
4 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (30.00%) GDPR
2 3 (30.00%) NIST
2 3 (30.00%) PCI DSS
2 3 (30.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (10.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (10.00%) Meraki
2 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (10.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (10.00%) Veeam
2 1 (10.00%) VMware