Cisco Certification Contracts in the South East

Cisco Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 74 73 106
Rank change year-on-year -1 +33 +50
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 88 150 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.92% 2.70% 2.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.20% 6.03% 5.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 113 73
10th Percentile £325 £329 £322
25th Percentile £450 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £613 £608 £575
90th Percentile £636 £725 £612
England median daily rate £536 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +4.54% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 9
10th Percentile - £26.50 £29.90
25th Percentile £18.50 £38.50 £60.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £63.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year -69.84% +1.61% +39.33%
75th Percentile £19.50 £68.75 £80.25
90th Percentile - £69.50 £80.40
England median hourly rate £72.50 £24.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year +202.08% -62.35% +123.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,222 2,486 2,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.60% 44.73% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,412 1,432
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £438 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £623
90th Percentile £688 £735 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 213 145
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.52 £21.40
25th Percentile £26.13 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%
75th Percentile £70.63 £67.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £85.41 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the South East

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the South East

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the South East

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the South East

Cisco Certification
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 Cisco Certification within the South East 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
Thames Valley +7 49 £450 -18.18% 32
Berkshire +9 41 £450 -12.20% 20
Hampshire +23 28 £550 - 20
Buckinghamshire +1 8 £682 -2.64% 6
Surrey +3 4 £363 -29.27% 10
Kent +2 3 £425 +27.82% 3
East Sussex 0 3 £525 +5.00%
Sussex - 1 - - 2
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.55%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 22 (25.00%) Azure
2 19 (21.59%) AWS
3 4 (4.55%) Cloudflare
3 4 (4.55%) GCP
3 4 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (2.27%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.27%) IaaS
4 2 (2.27%) PaaS
5 1 (1.14%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.14%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.14%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 43 (48.86%) VPN
2 37 (42.05%) WAN
3 28 (31.82%) Firewall
3 28 (31.82%) MPLS
4 27 (30.68%) LAN
5 22 (25.00%) Network Security
6 21 (23.86%) Ethernet
7 18 (20.45%) BGP
7 18 (20.45%) SDH
8 17 (19.32%) Wireshark
9 16 (18.18%) ATM
9 16 (18.18%) Frame Relay
9 16 (18.18%) GPRS
9 16 (18.18%) GSM
9 16 (18.18%) LTE
9 16 (18.18%) OSPF
9 16 (18.18%) SAN
9 16 (18.18%) UMTS
10 11 (12.50%) TCP/IP
11 7 (7.95%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 54 (61.36%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.86%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (20.45%) Telecoms
4 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.27%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.14%) Aviation
6 1 (1.14%) Billing
6 1 (1.14%) Finance
6 1 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 35 (39.77%) Network Engineer
2 25 (28.41%) Architect
3 15 (17.05%) IP Engineer
3 15 (17.05%) Network Architect
4 14 (15.91%) Test Engineer
5 6 (6.82%) Cisco Architect
5 6 (6.82%) IT Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Cisco Network Architect
6 5 (5.68%) Cloud Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) IP Network Engineer
6 5 (5.68%) Juniper Architect
7 4 (4.55%) Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (4.55%) Network Analyst
7 4 (4.55%) Principal Architect
8 3 (3.41%) NOC Engineer
8 3 (3.41%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.27%) Systems Integrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.14%) Jinja
1 1 (1.14%) JSON
1 1 (1.14%) NETCONF
1 1 (1.14%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.18%) Self-Motivation
2 9 (10.23%) Public Cloud
3 8 (9.09%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.95%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.27%) SCADA
5 2 (2.27%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.27%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.14%) IoT
6 1 (1.14%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 20 (22.73%) Linux
2 16 (18.18%) Unix
3 1 (1.14%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (40.91%) Problem-Solving
2 24 (27.27%) Network Architecture
3 16 (18.18%) Fault Management
3 16 (18.18%) Network Design
3 16 (18.18%) Project Management
3 16 (18.18%) Regression Testing
3 16 (18.18%) Test Strategy
4 12 (13.64%) Migration
5 10 (11.36%) Computer Science
6 9 (10.23%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (9.09%) ITIL
8 7 (7.95%) CI/CD
8 7 (7.95%) SIEM
8 7 (7.95%) Validation
9 6 (6.82%) TOGAF
10 5 (5.68%) Agile
10 5 (5.68%) DevOps
10 5 (5.68%) Enterprise Architecture
10 5 (5.68%) Risk Management
10 5 (5.68%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (18.18%) Java
2 11 (12.50%) Python
3 1 (1.14%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 73 (82.95%) CCNP
2 38 (43.18%) CCNA
3 35 (39.77%) Security Cleared
4 29 (32.95%) SC Cleared
5 16 (18.18%) ISEB
5 16 (18.18%) ISTQB
5 16 (18.18%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 13 (14.77%) Degree
6 13 (14.77%) DV Cleared
7 11 (12.50%) CCIE
8 9 (10.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (10.23%) JNCIS
9 6 (6.82%) MCSE
9 6 (6.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (5.68%) CCDP
11 4 (4.55%) CCSA
11 4 (4.55%) CCSE
11 4 (4.55%) Check Point Certification
11 4 (4.55%) CISSP
12 3 (3.41%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) NCSC
1 5 (5.68%) NIST
2 1 (1.14%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.14%) QA
2 1 (1.14%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (2.27%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.14%) Docker
2 1 (1.14%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (15.91%) Ansible
2 3 (3.41%) Cisco Prime
2 3 (3.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.14%) CSIRT
3 1 (1.14%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 59 (67.05%) Cisco
2 31 (35.23%) Juniper
3 24 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 14 (15.91%) Fortinet
5 13 (14.77%) CheckPoint
6 12 (13.64%) Palo Alto
7 6 (6.82%) Fujitsu
7 6 (6.82%) VMware
8 4 (4.55%) Aruba
8 4 (4.55%) Citrix
8 4 (4.55%) F5
8 4 (4.55%) SolarWinds
8 4 (4.55%) Zscaler
9 3 (3.41%) Mellanox
9 3 (3.41%) NVIDIA
10 2 (2.27%) HP
10 2 (2.27%) Infoblox
10 2 (2.27%) Splunk
11 1 (1.14%) Alcatel-Lucent
11 1 (1.14%) Google