CCIE Contract Job Trends in Reading

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 86 79
Rank change year-on-year +35 -7 +5
Contract jobs citing CCIE 13 10 6
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 2.17% 0.91% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.47% 2.39% 1.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £602 £333
25th Percentile £576 £629 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £679 £425
Median % change year-on-year -12.71% +59.71% -24.44%
75th Percentile £609 £752 £438
90th Percentile - £769 -
Berkshire median daily rate £593 £658 £425
% change year-on-year -9.89% +54.71% -24.44%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

CCIE 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 174 418 439
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 29.05% 38.17% 40.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 223 293
10th Percentile £255 £342 £213
25th Percentile £391 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £542
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +11.62% +6.27%
75th Percentile £588 £669 £623
90th Percentile £663 £738 £685
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £525
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 25 10
10th Percentile £42.05 £51.21 £58.63
25th Percentile - £60.60 £63.42
Median hourly rate £65.00 £63.15 £70.63
Median % change year-on-year +2.93% -10.58% +28.41%
75th Percentile £72.00 £100.00 £74.95
90th Percentile £85.05 - £75.42
Berkshire median hourly rate £40.44 £61.60 £65.13
% change year-on-year -34.36% -5.41% +177.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCIE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

CCIE job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CCIE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CCIE

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CCIE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CCIE

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 12 (92.31%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) BGP
1 12 (92.31%) LAN
1 12 (92.31%) MPLS
1 12 (92.31%) WAN
2 6 (46.15%) OSPF
2 6 (46.15%) SNMP
2 6 (46.15%) TACACS
2 6 (46.15%) Wireless
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ICM
3 1 (7.69%) CTI
3 1 (7.69%) VoIP
3 1 (7.69%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Designer
1 6 (46.15%) IP Architect
1 6 (46.15%) IP Designer
1 6 (46.15%) IP Specialist
2 1 (7.69%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) NETCONF
1 6 (46.15%) REST
1 6 (46.15%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
2 6 (46.15%) Microservices
2 6 (46.15%) Network Architecture
2 6 (46.15%) Network Design
2 6 (46.15%) Network Segmentation
2 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
2 6 (46.15%) Strategic Thinking
2 6 (46.15%) TOGAF
2 6 (46.15%) Validation
3 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ICM Scripting
3 1 (7.69%) CRM
3 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (92.31%) JNCIE
3 6 (46.15%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.69%) CCIE Collaboration
4 1 (7.69%) CCNP
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (46.15%) VMware NSX
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Ansible
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) F5
2 6 (46.15%) Fortinet
2 6 (46.15%) Juniper
2 6 (46.15%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Avaya
3 1 (7.69%) Genesys