Cisco Certification Contracts in Reading

Cisco Certification
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 62 63
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 -5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Cisco Certification 19 27 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 3.20% 2.44% 1.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.98% 5.70% 5.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 19 11
10th Percentile £258 £595 £300
25th Percentile £419 £603 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £605 £490
Median % change year-on-year -25.62% +23.47% -1.01%
75th Percentile £475 £629 £533
90th Percentile £750 £714 £575
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £605 £400
% change year-on-year -25.62% +51.25% -15.79%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

DemandTrendContract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 173 474 379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 29.17% 42.86% 35.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 252 244
10th Percentile £354 £413 £313
25th Percentile £452 £573 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £700 £688 £625
90th Percentile - £765 £697
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 36 13
10th Percentile £39.73 £50.26 £57.75
25th Percentile £59.19 £60.07 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.33 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% +6.76% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £100.00 £76.64
Berkshire median hourly rate £57.50 £61.65 £63.84
% change year-on-year -6.74% -3.42% +203.99%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in Reading

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in Reading over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in Reading

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (31.58%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 10 (52.63%) AWS
2 7 (36.84%) Azure
3 4 (21.05%) GCP
4 3 (15.79%) OpenShift
5 2 (10.53%) Entra ID
6 1 (5.26%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (5.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) BGP
2 11 (57.89%) Firewall
3 10 (52.63%) Network Security
4 9 (47.37%) OSPF
5 8 (42.11%) LAN
5 8 (42.11%) WAN
6 6 (31.58%) MPLS
6 6 (31.58%) TCP/IP
6 6 (31.58%) VLAN
6 6 (31.58%) VPN
7 3 (15.79%) SNMP
7 3 (15.79%) TACACS
7 3 (15.79%) Wireless
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Finance
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Architect
2 3 (15.79%) Designer
2 3 (15.79%) IP Architect
2 3 (15.79%) IP Designer
2 3 (15.79%) IP Specialist
2 3 (15.79%) Network Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Security Architect
3 2 (10.53%) Security Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Network Security Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Support
4 1 (5.26%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Quality Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) NETCONF
1 3 (15.79%) REST
1 3 (15.79%) YANG
2 2 (10.53%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 9 (47.37%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (31.58%) Cloud Native
3 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
4 3 (15.79%) Security Posture
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (10.53%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (10.53%) Fibre Optics
5 2 (10.53%) Public Cloud
6 1 (5.26%) Clustering
6 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) SIEM
2 6 (31.58%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (31.58%) Proactive Monitoring
2 6 (31.58%) Security Monitoring
2 6 (31.58%) Security Operations
2 6 (31.58%) Strategic Thinking
2 6 (31.58%) TOGAF
3 5 (26.32%) Network Design
3 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
4 4 (21.05%) Cloud Security
4 4 (21.05%) DevSecOps
4 4 (21.05%) Microservices
4 4 (21.05%) Security Architecture
4 4 (21.05%) Test Automation
4 4 (21.05%) Threat Modelling
5 3 (15.79%) DevOps
5 3 (15.79%) Identity Access Management
5 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (15.79%) Network Segmentation
5 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Python
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) CCNP
2 6 (31.58%) AWS Certification
2 6 (31.58%) CCIE
2 6 (31.58%) CCSA
2 6 (31.58%) CCSE
2 6 (31.58%) Check Point Certification
2 6 (31.58%) JNCIE
3 5 (26.32%) CISSP
4 4 (21.05%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 4 (21.05%) CCSP
5 3 (15.79%) CCNA
5 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
6 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
7 1 (5.26%) CEH
7 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (5.26%) OSCP
7 1 (5.26%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) GDPR
1 3 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (15.79%) NIST
1 3 (15.79%) PCI DSS
1 3 (15.79%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) Docker
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (15.79%) VMware NSX
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (63.16%) Ansible
2 3 (15.79%) Kubernetes
2 3 (15.79%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) Failover Clustering
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Cisco
2 6 (31.58%) CheckPoint
2 6 (31.58%) Palo Alto
3 3 (15.79%) F5
3 3 (15.79%) Fortinet
3 3 (15.79%) Juniper
3 3 (15.79%) VMware
4 1 (5.26%) FireEye
4 1 (5.26%) Rapid7
4 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.26%) Tanium