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 14 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 95 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 -29 +19
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 80 30 48
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 2.04% 1.40% 2.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.66% 4.13% 7.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 25 25
10th Percentile £358 £325 £355
25th Percentile £422 £363 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £472 £495
Median % change year-on-year +11.23% -4.65% +1.85%
75th Percentile £600 £488 £550
90th Percentile £626 £745 £586
England median daily rate £500 £510 £505
% change year-on-year -1.96% +1.09% +0.90%
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 £65.32 £48.00 £19.87
% change year-on-year +36.08% +141.57% -58.17%

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 1,201 726 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.65% 33.77% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 439 364
10th Percentile £310 £313 £294
25th Percentile £418 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £492 £503
Median % change year-on-year +5.18% -2.24% -4.14%
75th Percentile £613 £619 £613
90th Percentile £688 £713 £713
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 70 57
10th Percentile £17.25 £15.34 £16.71
25th Percentile £28.69 £19.15 £22.22
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.19 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year +61.69% -41.13% +4.50%
75th Percentile £64.09 £57.57 £55.79
90th Percentile £83.75 £71.68 £81.77
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £55.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -54.27% -

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 14 September 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 14 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
Cumbria - 28 £540 - 1
Cheshire -4 25 £464 -2.32% 5
Manchester -24 24 £360 -23.24% 29
Merseyside -15 3 £600 -11.11% 8
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 (6.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.75%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 20 (25.00%) AWS
2 19 (23.75%) Azure
3 9 (11.25%) GCP
4 3 (3.75%) Azure AI
5 2 (2.50%) AWS KMS
5 2 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 2 (2.50%) Azure Key Vault
6 1 (1.25%) Apigee
6 1 (1.25%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.25%) Azure API Management
6 1 (1.25%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.25%) Datadog
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub
6 1 (1.25%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.25%) Kong
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.25%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 52 (65.00%) Firewall
2 43 (53.75%) Network Security
3 38 (47.50%) Wireless
4 28 (35.00%) VPN
5 27 (33.75%) WAN
6 23 (28.75%) LAN
7 22 (27.50%) DNS
8 20 (25.00%) VLAN
9 14 (17.50%) Cisco IOS
9 14 (17.50%) SAN
9 14 (17.50%) Structured Cabling
10 13 (16.25%) BGP
10 13 (16.25%) Broadband
10 13 (16.25%) Converged Networks
10 13 (16.25%) DHCP
10 13 (16.25%) OSPF
11 11 (13.75%) NAS
11 11 (13.75%) NX-OS
12 7 (8.75%) MPLS
12 7 (8.75%) Software-Defined Networking
Development Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Git
1 3 (3.75%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) GitLab
2 1 (1.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (23.75%) Social Skills
2 12 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (10.00%) Finance
4 7 (8.75%) Banking
5 3 (3.75%) Legal
6 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
6 2 (2.50%) Games
7 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 47 (58.75%) Network Engineer
2 13 (16.25%) Architect
2 13 (16.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 9 (11.25%) Senior
4 7 (8.75%) Security Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Technical Architect
6 5 (6.25%) Network Security Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Network Analyst
7 4 (5.00%) Security Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Cloud Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Consultant
8 3 (3.75%) Field Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Field Service Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Information Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Information Security Architect
8 3 (3.75%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.25%) Terraform
2 6 (7.50%) 802.1X
3 4 (5.00%) REST
4 2 (2.50%) OAuth
4 2 (2.50%) OpenID
4 2 (2.50%) RESTful
5 1 (1.25%) JSON
5 1 (1.25%) JWT
5 1 (1.25%) ModSecurity
5 1 (1.25%) NETCONF
5 1 (1.25%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.25%) SAML
5 1 (1.25%) YAML
5 1 (1.25%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 23 (28.75%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.75%) PKI
3 4 (5.00%) Driving Licence
3 4 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.75%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.75%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.75%) Private Cloud
5 2 (2.50%) Animation
5 2 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.50%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.25%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Windows
2 3 (3.75%) Windows Server
3 2 (2.50%) Linux
4 1 (1.25%) CentOS
4 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (1.25%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (22.50%) Network Segmentation
1 18 (22.50%) Project Delivery
2 16 (20.00%) Load Balancing
3 15 (18.75%) Zero Trust
4 14 (17.50%) ITIL
4 14 (17.50%) ITSM
5 13 (16.25%) Change Management
6 12 (15.00%) Impact Assessments
6 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (11.25%) AI
7 9 (11.25%) Cloud Security
7 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure as Code
7 9 (11.25%) Risk Assessment
7 9 (11.25%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (10.00%) High Availability
8 8 (10.00%) Migration
8 8 (10.00%) Validation
9 7 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
9 7 (8.75%) Service Management
10 6 (7.50%) SABSA
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.25%) Python
2 7 (8.75%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.00%) Bash
4 2 (2.50%) Perl
5 1 (1.25%) Bicep
5 1 (1.25%) Lisp
5 1 (1.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 49 (61.25%) CCNA
2 45 (56.25%) CCNP
3 29 (36.25%) Security Cleared
4 26 (32.50%) SC Cleared
5 17 (21.25%) Network+ Certification
6 16 (20.00%) CISSP
7 11 (13.75%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 11 (13.75%) Server+ Certification
8 10 (12.50%) CCIE
9 9 (11.25%) CCSP
9 9 (11.25%) Degree
10 5 (6.25%) AWS Certification
11 4 (5.00%) CCIE Security
11 4 (5.00%) CEH
11 4 (5.00%) CISM
11 4 (5.00%) GIAC
11 4 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
12 3 (3.75%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (3.75%) GCIA
12 3 (3.75%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) NIST
1 7 (8.75%) PCI DSS
2 5 (6.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.75%) COBIT
4 2 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 7 (8.75%) Firmware
2 3 (3.75%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.25%) Docker
4 1 (1.25%) Snort
Systems Management
1 14 (17.50%) Ansible
2 3 (3.75%) Cisco Prime
2 3 (3.75%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.25%) Nagios
3 1 (1.25%) Puppet
3 1 (1.25%) QRadar
3 1 (1.25%) Suricata
Vendors
1 56 (70.00%) Cisco
2 14 (17.50%) ServiceNow
3 11 (13.75%) Palo Alto
4 10 (12.50%) Fortinet
5 8 (10.00%) Microsoft
6 7 (8.75%) AlgoSec
6 7 (8.75%) Meraki
7 6 (7.50%) ForeScout
7 6 (7.50%) Juniper
7 6 (7.50%) Splunk
8 5 (6.25%) Arista
8 5 (6.25%) Aruba
8 5 (6.25%) F5
9 4 (5.00%) CheckPoint
10 3 (3.75%) Broadcom
10 3 (3.75%) CyberArk
10 3 (3.75%) Dell
10 3 (3.75%) Google
10 3 (3.75%) Infoblox
11 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds