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 3 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 60 60 60
Rank change year-on-year 0 0 +23
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 14 7 24
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 2.15% 1.00% 2.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.93% 4.17% 12.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 23
10th Percentile £477 £363 £318
25th Percentile £490 £456 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £375
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% +26.67% -18.92%
75th Percentile £544 £500 £522
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 202 168 188
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 31.08% 24.03% 17.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 130 142
10th Percentile £350 £288 £350
25th Percentile £401 £400 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +10.00%
75th Percentile £549 £534 £650
90th Percentile £660 £600 £720
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +11.11% -18.18% +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

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
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 (7.14%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Entra ID
1 1 (7.14%) IaaS
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.14%) PaaS
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 4 (28.57%) 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%) Network Security
General
1 1 (7.14%) Local Government
1 1 (7.14%) Public Sector
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%) IT Engineer
3 1 (7.14%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (57.14%) Data Centre
2 5 (35.71%) CCTV
2 5 (35.71%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Analytics
2 1 (7.14%) Mentoring
Qualifications
1 8 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 8 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 6 (42.86%) CCNA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
1 1 (7.14%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (64.29%) Cisco
1 9 (64.29%) Microsoft
2 3 (21.43%) SolarWinds
3 2 (14.29%) F5
3 2 (14.29%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (7.14%) Meraki
4 1 (7.14%) Palo Alto
4 1 (7.14%) Veeam
4 1 (7.14%) VMware