Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Cisco Certification
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Merseyside with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 28 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 25 30
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +3
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 4 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.28% 1.62% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 8.70% 5.77% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 0
10th Percentile £483 - -
25th Percentile £558 £663 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% - -
75th Percentile - £688 -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median daily rate £537 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +13.05% -5.00% +2.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 46 52 63
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 14.74% 28.11% 26.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 27
10th Percentile £154 £303 £151
25th Percentile £290 £413 £189
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - +8.64%
75th Percentile £638 £775 £600
90th Percentile £750 - -
North West median daily rate £524 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +4.75% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 13
10th Percentile £26.64 - £16.81
25th Percentile - £12.21 £18.03
Median hourly rate £43.96 £14.83 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +196.53% -32.61% +25.71%
75th Percentile - £17.44 £24.18
90th Percentile - £21.52 £48.04
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £27.38 £46.18
% change year-on-year +60.58% -40.72% +0.65%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Merseyside

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in Merseyside over the 6 months to 28 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in Merseyside

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Cisco Certification
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 28 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Liverpool -15 4 £600 -11.11% 5
Cisco Certification
North West

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure AI
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Network Security
2 1 (25.00%) BGP
2 1 (25.00%) DHCP
2 1 (25.00%) DNS
2 1 (25.00%) Firewall
2 1 (25.00%) LAN
2 1 (25.00%) OSPF
2 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
2 1 (25.00%) VLAN
2 1 (25.00%) VPN
2 1 (25.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Information Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security Architect
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) AI
1 3 (75.00%) Architectural Patterns
1 3 (75.00%) Cloud Security
1 3 (75.00%) Data Pipeline
1 3 (75.00%) Data Protection
1 3 (75.00%) Information Security
1 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 3 (75.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (75.00%) Project Delivery
1 3 (75.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (75.00%) SABSA
1 3 (75.00%) Security Architecture
1 3 (75.00%) Zero Trust
2 1 (25.00%) High Availability
2 1 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 1 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 3 (75.00%) AWS Certification
1 3 (75.00%) CCSP
1 3 (75.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) CCNP
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Fortinet