Cisco Certification Contracts 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 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 84 82 109
Rank change year-on-year -2 +27 +11
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 36 55 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.83% 2.00% 1.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.10% 6.63% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 33 33
10th Percentile £325 £307 £343
25th Percentile £363 £350 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -5.00% -
75th Percentile £584 £525 £550
90th Percentile £588 £757 £575
England median daily rate £536 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +4.54% +2.50% -

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 706 829 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.87% 30.09% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 474 683
10th Percentile £230 £268 £325
25th Percentile £398 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £602
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 124 67
10th Percentile £17.70 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £11.77 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.54 £49.52
90th Percentile £83.13 £62.50 £66.13
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the North West

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the North West

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 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the North West

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the North West

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 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
Cheshire +5 14 £425 -10.53% 1
Manchester -1 10 £486 +38.93% 6
Cumbria -5 6 £575 +11.65% 1
Merseyside +3 4 £450 +52.54% 2
Lancashire - 2 - - 8
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.78%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.33%) AWS
1 3 (8.33%) Azure
2 2 (5.56%) GCP
3 1 (2.78%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 20 (55.56%) WAN
2 17 (47.22%) BGP
2 17 (47.22%) OSPF
3 15 (41.67%) Firewall
3 15 (41.67%) Network Security
4 14 (38.89%) VPN
5 12 (33.33%) LAN
6 10 (27.78%) MPLS
7 9 (25.00%) Wireless
8 8 (22.22%) Broadband
9 7 (19.44%) Cisco Firepower
9 7 (19.44%) Wi-Fi
10 6 (16.67%) Converged Networks
10 6 (16.67%) IPsec
10 6 (16.67%) SD-WAN
11 5 (13.89%) Cisco ASA
11 5 (13.89%) EIGRP
11 5 (13.89%) WLAN
12 4 (11.11%) HSRP
12 4 (11.11%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 2 (5.56%) GitLab
1 2 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 8 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Banking
3 3 (8.33%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.56%) Legal
4 2 (5.56%) Manufacturing
5 1 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (2.78%) Finance
5 1 (2.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (61.11%) Network Engineer
2 3 (8.33%) IP Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Architect
3 2 (5.56%) Consultant
3 2 (5.56%) Designer
3 2 (5.56%) Developer
3 2 (5.56%) DevSecOps Architect
3 2 (5.56%) DevSecOps Consultant
3 2 (5.56%) IT Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Network Designer
3 2 (5.56%) Network Security Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) NOC Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Principal Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Principal Security Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Security Architect
3 2 (5.56%) Security Consultant
3 2 (5.56%) Security Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Solutions Designer
3 2 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
3 2 (5.56%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (16.67%) CMDB
1 6 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 5 (13.89%) Video Conferencing
3 4 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (5.56%) Onboarding
4 2 (5.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (2.78%) Client/Server
5 1 (2.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
1 2 (5.56%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 9 (25.00%) ITIL
3 7 (19.44%) Load Balancing
4 6 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 6 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
4 6 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
4 6 (16.67%) Problem Management
5 5 (13.89%) Asset Management
5 5 (13.89%) Change Management
5 5 (13.89%) Performance Metrics
6 4 (11.11%) Customer Service
6 4 (11.11%) DevOps
6 4 (11.11%) High Availability
6 4 (11.11%) Network Architecture
6 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 3 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
7 3 (8.33%) Network Design
7 3 (8.33%) Network Planning
7 3 (8.33%) Roadmaps
7 3 (8.33%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) Python
2 2 (5.56%) Bash
2 2 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.78%) Perl
3 1 (2.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (66.67%) CCNA
2 16 (44.44%) CCNP
3 10 (27.78%) Degree
4 7 (19.44%) CCIE
4 7 (19.44%) SC Cleared
4 7 (19.44%) Security Cleared
5 3 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (5.56%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (5.56%) CCSP
6 2 (5.56%) CEH
6 2 (5.56%) CISM
6 2 (5.56%) CISSP
6 2 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (5.56%) JNCIE
6 2 (5.56%) Master's Degree
6 2 (5.56%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.56%) COBIT
2 2 (5.56%) NIST
3 1 (2.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 3 (8.33%) Ansible
1 3 (8.33%) Nagios
1 3 (8.33%) ZABBIX
2 2 (5.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.78%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 26 (72.22%) Cisco
2 6 (16.67%) Fortinet
3 5 (13.89%) Palo Alto
3 5 (13.89%) SolarWinds
4 4 (11.11%) Meraki
5 3 (8.33%) BMC
5 3 (8.33%) F5
5 3 (8.33%) Huawei
5 3 (8.33%) Microsoft
5 3 (8.33%) Remedy
6 2 (5.56%) Arista
6 2 (5.56%) Infoblox
6 2 (5.56%) Nokia
6 2 (5.56%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.78%) Blue Coat
7 1 (2.78%) Juniper
7 1 (2.78%) McAfee
7 1 (2.78%) Splunk
7 1 (2.78%) Symantec
7 1 (2.78%) Zscaler