CCDE Contract Job Trends in the South East

Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for CCDE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 154 -
Rank change year-on-year -55 - -
Contract jobs citing CCDE 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.017% 0.033% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.038% 0.081% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% - -
England median daily rate £475 £575 -
% change year-on-year -17.39% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

CCDE 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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,621 1,231 2,508
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 45.80% 41.12% 45.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,761 795 1,411
10th Percentile £306 £301 £300
25th Percentile £425 £435 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £646
90th Percentile £725 £688 £725
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 270 83 213
10th Percentile £16.32 £20.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.95 £27.55 £25.36
Median hourly rate £53.25 £56.75 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% -1.05% +3.80%
75th Percentile £84.00 £70.00 £66.74
90th Percentile £88.00 £78.13 £84.44
England median hourly rate £47.00 £50.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +25.00% -23.81%

CCDE
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCDE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

CCDE job vacancy trend in the South East

CCDE
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CCDE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CCDE

CCDE
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCDE within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 April 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
Berkshire - 1 £400 - 1
Thames Valley - 1 £400 - 1
CCDE
England

CCDE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto