Cisco Certification Contracts in the North of England

Cisco Certification
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Cisco Certification 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 88 105 143
Rank change year-on-year +17 +38 -15
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 80 82 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.43% 1.72% 1.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.48% 6.61% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 51 56
10th Percentile £325 £310 £213
25th Percentile £369 £320 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +19.32% -12.00% +12.68%
75th Percentile £582 £517 £541
90th Percentile £616 £600 £575
England median daily rate £536 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +4.54% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 6 0
Median hourly rate - £24.87 -
England median hourly rate £72.50 £24.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year +202.08% -62.35% +123.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North of England

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 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%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the North of England

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the North of England

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

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

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the North of England

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the North of England

Cisco Certification
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 Cisco Certification 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
Yorkshire +23 39 £550 +36.65% 24
North West -2 36 £475 - 16
North East +2 5 £325 -5.80% 6
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
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:

Application Platforms
1 16 (20.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (3.75%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.75%) Azure
2 5 (6.25%) IaaS
2 5 (6.25%) PaaS
3 4 (5.00%) AWS
3 4 (5.00%) GCP
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (3.75%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Sentinel
5 2 (2.50%) SaaS
6 1 (1.25%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 28 (35.00%) DNS
2 27 (33.75%) Firewall
3 23 (28.75%) Network Security
3 23 (28.75%) WAN
4 19 (23.75%) BGP
5 18 (22.50%) OSPF
6 17 (21.25%) VPN
7 15 (18.75%) LAN
8 11 (13.75%) MPLS
8 11 (13.75%) TCP/IP
9 10 (12.50%) Wireless
10 8 (10.00%) Broadband
11 7 (8.75%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (8.75%) EIGRP
11 7 (8.75%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (7.50%) Cisco ASA
12 6 (7.50%) DHCP
12 6 (7.50%) IPsec
12 6 (7.50%) SD-WAN
12 6 (7.50%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (25.00%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) GitLab
1 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
1 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 23 (28.75%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (7.50%) Banking
3 6 (7.50%) Telecoms
4 4 (5.00%) Finance
5 3 (3.75%) Local Government
6 2 (2.50%) Legal
6 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 36 (45.00%) Network Engineer
2 13 (16.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) IT Engineer
4 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 8 (10.00%) Architect
5 8 (10.00%) Engineering Specialist
6 7 (8.75%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (8.75%) Security Architect
7 6 (7.50%) Consultant
8 5 (6.25%) IP Engineer
8 5 (6.25%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) DevSecOps Architect
9 4 (5.00%) DevSecOps Consultant
9 4 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Linux Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.00%) Security Consultant
9 4 (5.00%) Senior
9 4 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Cisco Engineer
10 3 (3.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.25%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 18 (22.50%) Linux Command Line
2 6 (7.50%) CMDB
2 6 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (7.50%) Management Information System
3 5 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (5.00%) Private Cloud
5 3 (3.75%) Security Posture
6 2 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.50%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.25%) Client/Server
7 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.25%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (30.00%) Windows
2 20 (25.00%) Linux
2 20 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (27.50%) Agile
2 22 (27.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 21 (26.25%) Security Management
4 17 (21.25%) Microservices
5 16 (20.00%) SOA
6 14 (17.50%) Server Management
7 12 (15.00%) Migration
8 10 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 10 (12.50%) ITIL
8 10 (12.50%) Roadmaps
9 9 (11.25%) Network Architecture
10 8 (10.00%) Load Balancing
11 7 (8.75%) Mentoring
11 7 (8.75%) Technology Roadmap
12 6 (7.50%) Computer Science
12 6 (7.50%) DevOps
12 6 (7.50%) DevSecOps
12 6 (7.50%) Network Monitoring
12 6 (7.50%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.50%) Bash
2 20 (25.00%) SQL
3 18 (22.50%) Perl
3 18 (22.50%) PL/SQL
3 18 (22.50%) PowerShell
4 7 (8.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 37 (46.25%) CCNA
2 27 (33.75%) CCNP
2 27 (33.75%) Security Cleared
3 23 (28.75%) SC Cleared
4 14 (17.50%) Degree
5 8 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 7 (8.75%) CCIE
7 6 (7.50%) CISM
7 6 (7.50%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (6.25%) CISSP
9 4 (5.00%) CCSP
9 4 (5.00%) CEH
9 4 (5.00%) OSCP
10 3 (3.75%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (2.50%) CompTIA Security+
11 2 (2.50%) CRISC
11 2 (2.50%) JNCIA
11 2 (2.50%) JNCIE
11 2 (2.50%) JNCIS
11 2 (2.50%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) PCI DSS
2 5 (6.25%) NIST
3 4 (5.00%) COBIT
4 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.25%) GDPR
System Software
1 22 (27.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.75%) vSphere
3 1 (1.25%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (7.50%) Ansible
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.75%) Nagios
3 3 (3.75%) SCCM
3 3 (3.75%) ZABBIX
4 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.50%) Terraform
5 1 (1.25%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 62 (77.50%) Cisco
2 20 (25.00%) Oracle
3 12 (15.00%) Microsoft
4 9 (11.25%) Palo Alto
5 8 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 8 (10.00%) Meraki
6 5 (6.25%) SolarWinds
7 4 (5.00%) Arista
7 4 (5.00%) F5
7 4 (5.00%) VMware
8 3 (3.75%) BMC
8 3 (3.75%) CheckPoint
8 3 (3.75%) Huawei
8 3 (3.75%) Remedy
8 3 (3.75%) Veeam
9 2 (2.50%) Aruba
9 2 (2.50%) Dell
9 2 (2.50%) Infoblox
9 2 (2.50%) Nokia
9 2 (2.50%) ServiceNow