Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Cisco Certification
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 70 88
Rank change year-on-year -15 +18 +16
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 6 18 16
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.55% 1.52% 0.99%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.99% 6.64% 3.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 17 12
10th Percentile £443 £381 £244
25th Percentile £460 £456 £389
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £500 £421
Median % change year-on-year -5.90% +18.84% -15.93%
75th Percentile £509 £550 £438
90th Percentile £576 £605 £471
North West median daily rate £550 £495 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% +1.02% +2.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 302 271 409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 27.58% 22.95% 25.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 197 140 280
10th Percentile £205 £294 £225
25th Percentile £410 £383 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £473 £510
Median % change year-on-year +0.53% -7.35% -2.86%
75th Percentile £612 £595 £600
90th Percentile £700 £683 £700
North West median daily rate £499 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -0.25% -4.76% +0.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 17 19
10th Percentile £20.00 £26.95 £15.75
25th Percentile £22.16 £31.25 £17.40
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +16.67% +57.89%
75th Percentile £36.25 £62.50 £46.38
90th Percentile £70.50 £95.80 £63.75
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £37.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year +22.86% -19.88% +98.97%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in Manchester

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in Manchester over the 6 months to 18 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in Manchester

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

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

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (33.33%) WAN
3 1 (16.67%) 802.11
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) LAN
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) NX-OS
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (16.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Senior
3 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) ITIL
2 2 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) Perl
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CCNP
2 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) CCDP
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) Meraki
2 2 (33.33%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) F5
3 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds