CCIE Contracts in the North of England

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 172 204
Rank change year-on-year +13 +32 +22
Contract jobs citing CCIE 7 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.27% 0.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.65% 1.05% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 8 14
10th Percentile £433 £430 -
25th Percentile £463 £494 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £675 £525
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% -1.87%
75th Percentile £538 £775 £550
90th Percentile £563 - -
England median daily rate £528 £525 £530
% change year-on-year +0.48% -0.94% +0.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

CCIE 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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,070 1,240 1,501
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 32.47% 26.01% 25.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 650 684 1,063
10th Percentile £230 £300 £325
25th Percentile £375 £415 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.20% -2.38% +9.38%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £652 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 165 70
10th Percentile £17.44 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £22.61 £12.75 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% +15.62%
75th Percentile £59.24 £38.43 £49.52
90th Percentile £80.59 £61.50 £65.84
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing CCIE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE in the North of England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCIE in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for CCIE in the North of England

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in the North of England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCIE in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for CCIE in the North of England

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Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
North West +13 7 £500 -33.33%
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) AWS
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) BGP
1 6 (85.71%) OSPF
2 5 (71.43%) MPLS
2 5 (71.43%) VPN
3 4 (57.14%) Firewall
3 4 (57.14%) Network Security
4 3 (42.86%) Multicast
4 3 (42.86%) WAN
5 2 (28.57%) Broadband
5 2 (28.57%) Cisco Firepower
5 2 (28.57%) IPv6
5 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
5 2 (28.57%) VLAN
6 1 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
6 1 (14.29%) DMZ
6 1 (14.29%) DNS
6 1 (14.29%) DWDM
6 1 (14.29%) Internet
6 1 (14.29%) L2TP
6 1 (14.29%) SSL
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Principal Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Security Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Solutions Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Implementation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Implementation Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Network Monitoring
2 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Computer Science
3 2 (28.57%) High Availability
3 2 (28.57%) IT Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) ITSM
3 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 2 (28.57%) Network Architecture
3 2 (28.57%) Network Design
3 2 (28.57%) Performance Optimisation
3 2 (28.57%) Service Design
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Technology Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) TOGAF
3 2 (28.57%) Use Case
4 1 (14.29%) B2B
4 1 (14.29%) Change Management
4 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
4 1 (14.29%) Network Management
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Perl
1 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
1 1 (14.29%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (71.43%) CCNP
3 3 (42.86%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (28.57%) JNCIE
4 2 (28.57%) Master's Degree
5 1 (14.29%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Nagios
2 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Fortinet
3 2 (28.57%) F5
3 2 (28.57%) SolarWinds
4 1 (14.29%) Arista
4 1 (14.29%) McAfee
4 1 (14.29%) Meraki
4 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
4 1 (14.29%) Splunk