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 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 60 62
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +24
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 14 7 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 2.39% 0.97% 2.08%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.25% 4.12% 12.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 23
10th Percentile £477 £363 £342
25th Percentile £490 £456 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £380
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% +25.00% -27.62%
75th Percentile £544 £500 £525
90th Percentile £560 £530 £538
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £435 £380
% change year-on-year +13.10% +14.47% -5.00%

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 193 170 187
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 32.88% 23.58% 16.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 133 143
10th Percentile £342 £351 £350
25th Percentile £400 £406 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £463 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -15.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £688
90th Percentile £650 £600 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £492 £463 £550
% change year-on-year +6.38% -15.91% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £38.75 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +29.17% +66.67%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification 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
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 and Capabilities in Leeds 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 (7.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
Communications & Networking
1 8 (57.14%) Cisco Nexus
1 8 (57.14%) Ethernet
1 8 (57.14%) SD-WAN
1 8 (57.14%) WAN
2 3 (21.43%) Firewall
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
3 2 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
3 2 (14.29%) Wireless
4 1 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
4 1 (7.14%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle Database
General
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
1 1 (7.14%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (57.14%) Implementation Engineer
1 8 (57.14%) Network Engineer
1 8 (57.14%) Network Implementation Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Lead
2 4 (28.57%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Technical Leader
3 1 (7.14%) Engineering Specialist
3 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 5 (35.71%) CCTV
2 5 (35.71%) Driving Licence
3 1 (7.14%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) Agile
2 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (7.14%) Microservices
2 1 (7.14%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (7.14%) Security Management
2 1 (7.14%) Server Management
2 1 (7.14%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) Bash
1 1 (7.14%) Perl
1 1 (7.14%) PL/SQL
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (64.29%) SC Cleared
1 9 (64.29%) Security Cleared
2 5 (35.71%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Cisco
2 8 (57.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (21.43%) SolarWinds
4 2 (14.29%) F5
4 2 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (7.14%) Oracle