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 8 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 55 59
Rank change year-on-year -1 +4 +28
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 18 7 21
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.49% 1.07% 2.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.14% 4.29% 12.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 19
10th Percentile £442 £363 £312
25th Percentile £475 £456 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £350
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% +35.71% -9.68%
75th Percentile £515 £550 £406
90th Percentile £555 £610 £494
West Yorkshire median daily rate £491 £435 £380
% change year-on-year +12.82% +14.47% -1.94%

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 221 163 170
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 30.61% 24.89% 16.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 123 132
10th Percentile £363 £288 £315
25th Percentile £425 £400 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £530
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -15.09% +0.95%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £638
90th Percentile £650 £600 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £520
% change year-on-year +11.11% -13.46% +3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £34.50 -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - £40.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year - +33.33% -

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 8 November 2025.

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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (5.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (27.78%) Azure
2 4 (22.22%) AWS
3 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
3 3 (16.67%) GCP
4 1 (5.56%) IaaS
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (5.56%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 9 (50.00%) WAN
2 8 (44.44%) Cisco Nexus
2 8 (44.44%) Ethernet
3 7 (38.89%) Firewall
4 4 (22.22%) Network Security
5 3 (16.67%) Wireless
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco ISE
6 2 (11.11%) Cisco Wireless
7 1 (5.56%) BGP
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
7 1 (5.56%) EIGRP
7 1 (5.56%) LAN
7 1 (5.56%) OSPF
7 1 (5.56%) VLAN
7 1 (5.56%) VPN
General
1 3 (16.67%) Finance
2 2 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Legal
3 1 (5.56%) Local Government
3 1 (5.56%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Implementation Engineer
2 8 (44.44%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Technical Leader
4 3 (16.67%) Architect
4 3 (16.67%) Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 5 (27.78%) CCTV
2 5 (27.78%) Driving Licence
3 3 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (11.11%) Public Cloud
4 2 (11.11%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Analytics
2 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
2 3 (16.67%) Cloud Security
2 3 (16.67%) DevSecOps
2 3 (16.67%) Information Security
2 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 3 (16.67%) SIEM
2 3 (16.67%) Zero Trust
3 2 (11.11%) Application Security
3 2 (11.11%) Architectural Design
3 2 (11.11%) Architectural Patterns
3 2 (11.11%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
3 2 (11.11%) Secrets Management
3 2 (11.11%) Static Application Security Testing
3 2 (11.11%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (11.11%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (11.11%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 9 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (44.44%) SC Cleared
3 7 (38.89%) CCNA
4 3 (16.67%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 3 (16.67%) AWS Certification
4 3 (16.67%) CCSP
4 3 (16.67%) CISSP
5 2 (11.11%) Azure Certification
6 1 (5.56%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (16.67%) GDPR
2 3 (16.67%) NIST
2 3 (16.67%) PCI DSS
2 3 (16.67%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (11.11%) Docker
2 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (55.56%) Cisco
2 9 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 2 (11.11%) F5
4 2 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (5.56%) Meraki
5 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 1 (5.56%) Veeam
5 1 (5.56%) VMware