Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cisco Certification
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 96 93 60
Rank change year-on-year -3 -33 +28
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 88 34 64
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.23% 1.54% 2.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.46% 4.52% 9.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 27 40
10th Percentile £365 £325 £348
25th Percentile £419 £363 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £472 £502
Median % change year-on-year +9.11% -5.98% +8.25%
75th Percentile £600 £544 £543
90th Percentile £626 £743 £694
England median daily rate £500 £525 £505
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.96% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £65.75 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £66.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.89% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £67.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £48.00 £22.40
% change year-on-year +31.53% +114.29% -52.84%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,179 752 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.83% 34.00% 28.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 762 441 393
10th Percentile £313 £313 £313
25th Percentile £418 £409 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £504
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -0.79% -3.08%
75th Percentile £618 £619 £603
90th Percentile £688 £716 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 74 73
10th Percentile £17.25 £16.85 £10.95
25th Percentile £28.59 £20.26 £12.00
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.64 £31.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.50% -2.75% -25.88%
75th Percentile £66.46 £58.50 £54.00
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.06 £77.29
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -9.09%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in the North West

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in the North West over the 6 months to 30 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the North West

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 30 August 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
Cumbria - 29 £539 - 2
Cheshire +2 28 £479 +0.79% 2
Manchester -13 28 £375 -17.95% 13
Merseyside -14 3 £600 -11.11% 4
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.41%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (29.55%) AWS
1 26 (29.55%) Azure
2 9 (10.23%) GCP
3 3 (3.41%) Azure AI
4 2 (2.27%) AWS KMS
4 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (2.27%) Azure Key Vault
4 2 (2.27%) GitHub
5 1 (1.14%) Apigee
5 1 (1.14%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.14%) Azure API Management
5 1 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.14%) Datadog
5 1 (1.14%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.14%) Kong
5 1 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.14%) OCI
5 1 (1.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 57 (64.77%) Firewall
2 47 (53.41%) Network Security
3 39 (44.32%) Wireless
4 32 (36.36%) VPN
5 27 (30.68%) WAN
6 25 (28.41%) DNS
7 24 (27.27%) LAN
8 21 (23.86%) VLAN
9 14 (15.91%) SAN
9 14 (15.91%) Structured Cabling
10 13 (14.77%) BGP
10 13 (14.77%) Broadband
10 13 (14.77%) Cisco IOS
10 13 (14.77%) Converged Networks
10 13 (14.77%) DHCP
10 13 (14.77%) OSPF
11 11 (12.50%) NAS
11 11 (12.50%) NX-OS
12 7 (7.95%) Software-Defined Networking
13 6 (6.82%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Git
1 3 (3.41%) JIRA
2 1 (1.14%) GitLab
2 1 (1.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 12 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.23%) Finance
4 8 (9.09%) Banking
4 8 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (3.41%) Legal
6 2 (2.27%) Games
7 1 (1.14%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.14%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.14%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 50 (56.82%) Network Engineer
2 14 (15.91%) Architect
3 13 (14.77%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 9 (10.23%) Analyst
5 8 (9.09%) Senior
6 7 (7.95%) Security Engineer
7 6 (6.82%) Technical Architect
8 5 (5.68%) Network Analyst
8 5 (5.68%) Network Security Engineer
8 5 (5.68%) Senior Network Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Cisco Engineer
9 4 (4.55%) Security Architect
9 4 (4.55%) Systems Analyst
10 3 (3.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Cloud Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Consultant
10 3 (3.41%) Field Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Field Service Engineer
10 3 (3.41%) Information Architect
10 3 (3.41%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.23%) Terraform
2 7 (7.95%) 802.1X
3 3 (3.41%) REST
4 2 (2.27%) OAuth
4 2 (2.27%) OpenID
4 2 (2.27%) RESTful
5 1 (1.14%) JSON
5 1 (1.14%) JWT
5 1 (1.14%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.14%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.14%) SAML
5 1 (1.14%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 7 (7.95%) PKI
3 4 (4.55%) Driving Licence
3 4 (4.55%) Enterprise Cloud
3 4 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.41%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.41%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.41%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) Animation
5 2 (2.27%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 1 (1.14%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.14%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.14%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.55%) Windows
2 3 (3.41%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.27%) Linux
4 1 (1.14%) CentOS
4 1 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.14%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.86%) Network Segmentation
1 21 (23.86%) Project Delivery
2 16 (18.18%) Change Management
2 16 (18.18%) Load Balancing
3 15 (17.05%) ITIL
3 15 (17.05%) Zero Trust
4 14 (15.91%) ITSM
5 12 (13.64%) Impact Assessments
5 12 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (12.50%) High Availability
6 11 (12.50%) Validation
7 10 (11.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (10.23%) Agile
8 9 (10.23%) AI
8 9 (10.23%) Cloud Security
8 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure as Code
8 9 (10.23%) Migration
8 9 (10.23%) Risk Assessment
8 9 (10.23%) Stakeholder Management
9 8 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.64%) Python
2 7 (7.95%) PowerShell
3 4 (4.55%) Bash
4 2 (2.27%) Perl
5 1 (1.14%) Bicep
5 1 (1.14%) Lisp
5 1 (1.14%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (63.64%) CCNA
2 50 (56.82%) CCNP
3 31 (35.23%) Security Cleared
4 27 (30.68%) SC Cleared
5 17 (19.32%) Network+ Certification
6 16 (18.18%) CISSP
7 11 (12.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 11 (12.50%) Server+ Certification
8 10 (11.36%) CCIE
8 10 (11.36%) Degree
9 9 (10.23%) CCSP
10 5 (5.68%) AWS Certification
11 4 (4.55%) CCIE Security
11 4 (4.55%) CEH
11 4 (4.55%) CISM
11 4 (4.55%) GIAC
11 4 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (3.41%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (3.41%) GCIA
12 3 (3.41%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.95%) NIST
1 7 (7.95%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.41%) COBIT
4 2 (2.27%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (7.95%) Firmware
2 3 (3.41%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.27%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.14%) Docker
4 1 (1.14%) Snort
Systems Management
1 14 (15.91%) Ansible
2 3 (3.41%) Cisco Prime
2 3 (3.41%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.14%) Nagios
3 1 (1.14%) Puppet
3 1 (1.14%) QRadar
3 1 (1.14%) Suricata
Vendors
1 55 (62.50%) Cisco
2 14 (15.91%) ServiceNow
3 12 (13.64%) Palo Alto
4 11 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 8 (9.09%) Microsoft
6 7 (7.95%) AlgoSec
6 7 (7.95%) Meraki
6 7 (7.95%) Splunk
7 6 (6.82%) Aruba
7 6 (6.82%) ForeScout
7 6 (6.82%) Infoblox
7 6 (6.82%) Juniper
8 5 (5.68%) CheckPoint
8 5 (5.68%) F5
9 4 (4.55%) Arista
9 4 (4.55%) Google
10 3 (3.41%) Broadcom
10 3 (3.41%) CyberArk
10 3 (3.41%) Dell
11 2 (2.27%) HP