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 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 111 101 77
Rank change year-on-year -10 -24 +2
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 67 31 45
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.70% 1.42% 1.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.37% 4.10% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 22 20
10th Percentile £414 £338 £411
25th Percentile £463 £418 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -4.52% +2.37%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £550
90th Percentile £626 £749 £581
England median daily rate £500 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -4.76% +0.48% +4.50%
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 £68.75 £41.50 £22.40
% change year-on-year +65.66% +85.27% -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 1,247 757 686
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.67% 34.58% 28.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 794 478 350
10th Percentile £305 £303 £294
25th Percentile £420 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £604 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £719 £676
England median daily rate £533 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.52% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 74 60
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.50 £17.91
25th Percentile £28.10 £18.90 £23.69
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.19 £45.59
Median % change year-on-year +61.69% -40.37% -0.63%
75th Percentile £62.12 £62.12 £56.34
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.06 £80.88
England median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +98.81% -52.10% -0.94%

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 5 October 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 5 October 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 - 26 £537 -
Manchester -27 20 £425 -9.67% 31
Cheshire -1 17 £538 +13.16% 1
Merseyside -9 4 £600 -11.11% 7
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 3 (4.48%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 14 (20.90%) AWS
2 13 (19.40%) Azure
3 7 (10.45%) GCP
4 3 (4.48%) Azure AI
5 1 (1.49%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.49%) AWS KMS
5 1 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Key Vault
5 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.49%) Datadog
5 1 (1.49%) GitHub
5 1 (1.49%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.49%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 46 (68.66%) Firewall
2 39 (58.21%) Network Security
3 32 (47.76%) Wireless
4 27 (40.30%) VPN
5 26 (38.81%) WAN
6 22 (32.84%) LAN
7 18 (26.87%) DNS
8 16 (23.88%) VLAN
9 13 (19.40%) Broadband
9 13 (19.40%) Converged Networks
10 12 (17.91%) BGP
10 12 (17.91%) Cisco IOS
10 12 (17.91%) DHCP
10 12 (17.91%) OSPF
10 12 (17.91%) SAN
10 12 (17.91%) Structured Cabling
11 9 (13.43%) NAS
11 9 (13.43%) NX-OS
12 7 (10.45%) MPLS
12 7 (10.45%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 3 (4.48%) Git
2 1 (1.49%) GitLab
2 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (22.39%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Documentation Skills
3 6 (8.96%) Finance
4 5 (7.46%) Banking
5 3 (4.48%) Legal
6 2 (2.99%) Games
7 1 (1.49%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.49%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.49%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 43 (64.18%) Network Engineer
2 13 (19.40%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 10 (14.93%) Architect
3 10 (14.93%) Senior
4 7 (10.45%) Security Engineer
4 7 (10.45%) Senior Network Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Network Security Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Network Analyst
6 4 (5.97%) Technical Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Cisco Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Cloud Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Field Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Field Service Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Information Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Information Security Architect
7 3 (4.48%) IT Engineer
7 3 (4.48%) Network Architect
7 3 (4.48%) Security Architect
8 2 (2.99%) Operations Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (11.94%) Terraform
2 6 (8.96%) 802.1X
3 3 (4.48%) REST
4 1 (1.49%) JSON
4 1 (1.49%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.49%) NETCONF
4 1 (1.49%) RESTful
4 1 (1.49%) YAML
4 1 (1.49%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 20 (29.85%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.96%) PKI
3 4 (5.97%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.97%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.48%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.48%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.48%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.99%) Animation
5 2 (2.99%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.99%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.49%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.49%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.97%) Windows
2 3 (4.48%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.99%) Linux
4 1 (1.49%) CentOS
4 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.49%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (25.37%) Project Delivery
2 16 (23.88%) Load Balancing
2 16 (23.88%) Network Segmentation
3 14 (20.90%) Zero Trust
4 12 (17.91%) Impact Assessments
4 12 (17.91%) ITIL
5 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (13.43%) Change Management
6 9 (13.43%) Infrastructure as Code
6 9 (13.43%) ITSM
6 9 (13.43%) Risk Assessment
7 8 (11.94%) AI
7 8 (11.94%) Cloud Security
7 8 (11.94%) High Availability
7 8 (11.94%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (8.96%) Cybersecurity
8 6 (8.96%) Migration
8 6 (8.96%) Network Monitoring
8 6 (8.96%) Validation
9 5 (7.46%) Security Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (16.42%) Python
2 7 (10.45%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.97%) Bash
4 2 (2.99%) Perl
5 1 (1.49%) Bicep
5 1 (1.49%) Lisp
5 1 (1.49%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 39 (58.21%) CCNA
2 38 (56.72%) CCNP
3 26 (38.81%) Security Cleared
4 25 (37.31%) SC Cleared
5 15 (22.39%) Network+ Certification
6 13 (19.40%) CISSP
7 10 (14.93%) CCIE
8 9 (13.43%) Server+ Certification
9 8 (11.94%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 8 (11.94%) CCSP
10 5 (7.46%) AWS Certification
10 5 (7.46%) Degree
11 4 (5.97%) CCIE Security
11 4 (5.97%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (4.48%) A+ Certification
12 3 (4.48%) CISM
12 3 (4.48%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (4.48%) GIAC
12 3 (4.48%) MCSE
12 3 (4.48%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.46%) NIST
1 5 (7.46%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.99%) COBIT
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (8.96%) Firmware
2 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.99%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.49%) Docker
Systems Management
1 10 (14.93%) Ansible
2 3 (4.48%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.49%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.49%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.49%) Nagios
3 1 (1.49%) Puppet
3 1 (1.49%) QRadar
Vendors
1 48 (71.64%) Cisco
2 11 (16.42%) Fortinet
3 10 (14.93%) Palo Alto
4 9 (13.43%) ServiceNow
5 7 (10.45%) AlgoSec
6 6 (8.96%) Meraki
6 6 (8.96%) Microsoft
7 5 (7.46%) Arista
7 5 (7.46%) F5
7 5 (7.46%) Juniper
8 4 (5.97%) Aruba
8 4 (5.97%) CheckPoint
9 3 (4.48%) Dell
9 3 (4.48%) ForeScout
9 3 (4.48%) Google
9 3 (4.48%) Splunk
10 2 (2.99%) Forcepoint
10 2 (2.99%) McAfee
10 2 (2.99%) Perforce
10 2 (2.99%) SolarWinds