Cisco Certification Contracts in the South West

Cisco Certification
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South 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 5 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 119 87
Rank change year-on-year +57 -32 +19
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 60 38 76
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.28% 1.16% 2.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.21% 2.17% 4.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 21 57
10th Percentile £488 £285 £413
25th Percentile £525 £400 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -4.55% +22.22%
75th Percentile £638 £553 £575
90th Percentile £669 £688 £653
England median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 9
10th Percentile - £29.60 -
25th Percentile - £56.38 £72.50
Median hourly rate - £73.75 £82.50
Median % change year-on-year - -10.61% +25.38%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £101.25
90th Percentile - - £101.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.87 £62.00
% change year-on-year +30.68% -59.89% +353.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 966 1,751 1,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 52.79% 53.56% 53.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 1,127 1,315
10th Percentile £214 £367 £400
25th Percentile £413 £466 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £579
Median % change year-on-year - -5.01% +10.29%
75th Percentile £638 £656 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £735
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 196 145
10th Percentile £18.51 £25.00 £34.80
25th Percentile £20.48 £40.00 £55.00
Median hourly rate £29.40 £65.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.77% - +6.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £74.25 £77.75 £85.75
England median hourly rate £28.18 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -33.69% -22.73% +34.38%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the South West

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the South West

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in the South West over the 6 months to 5 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the South West

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the South West

Cisco Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 5 July 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
Wiltshire +49 33 £575 +9.52% 14
Somerset +7 11 £613 +107.63% 9
Bristol +13 9 £450 -25.62% 16
Dorset +10 5 £550 +29.41% 4
Gloucestershire +26 1 £500 +70.21% 13
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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:

Application Platforms
1 24 (40.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.67%) CMS
Applications
1 17 (28.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.67%) PaaS
1 10 (16.67%) SaaS
2 3 (5.00%) Azure
3 2 (3.33%) AWS
3 2 (3.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 24 (40.00%) BGP
2 15 (25.00%) OSPF
3 14 (23.33%) MPLS
4 12 (20.00%) VoIP
4 12 (20.00%) VPN
5 11 (18.33%) Firewall
6 10 (16.67%) PBX
6 10 (16.67%) Unified Communications
7 9 (15.00%) Cisco IOS
7 9 (15.00%) DNS
8 8 (13.33%) VXLAN
9 7 (11.67%) Cisco Nexus
9 7 (11.67%) DMVPN
9 7 (11.67%) IPsec
10 5 (8.33%) WAN
11 4 (6.67%) Wireless
12 3 (5.00%) SD-WAN
12 3 (5.00%) VLAN
13 2 (3.33%) IOS XR
13 2 (3.33%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 24 (40.00%) JIRA
2 11 (18.33%) Bitbucket
3 10 (16.67%) Git
4 9 (15.00%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 10 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (5.00%) Finance
5 2 (3.33%) Advertising
5 2 (3.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Military
Job Titles
1 22 (36.67%) Network Engineer
2 9 (15.00%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) Architect
4 3 (5.00%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) Network Architect
4 3 (5.00%) Network Security Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) Security Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) Telephony Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Principal Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Principal Network Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Principal Security Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Software Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.33%) Switch Engineer
6 1 (1.67%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (16.67%) REST
1 10 (16.67%) SOAP
2 9 (15.00%) Flash
3 7 (11.67%) NETCONF
3 7 (11.67%) RESTCONF
4 5 (8.33%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 10 (16.67%) Blackberry
1 10 (16.67%) Clustering
1 10 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
2 8 (13.33%) PKI
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (3.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Linux
1 11 (18.33%) Windows
2 10 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (68.33%) Validation
2 32 (53.33%) Service Management
2 32 (53.33%) System Testing
3 30 (50.00%) NsoIT
4 23 (38.33%) Problem-Solving
5 22 (36.67%) Network Virtualisation
6 20 (33.33%) Agile
7 17 (28.33%) Critical Thinking
8 14 (23.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 13 (21.67%) Customer Requirements
10 11 (18.33%) Migration
11 10 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
11 10 (16.67%) Configuration Management
11 10 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
11 10 (16.67%) Infrastructure Automation
11 10 (16.67%) Network Architecture
11 10 (16.67%) Reverse Engineering
11 10 (16.67%) Roadmaps
11 10 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
11 10 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (28.33%) Python
2 10 (16.67%) Bash
3 9 (15.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 50 (83.33%) Security Cleared
2 47 (78.33%) SC Cleared
3 45 (75.00%) CCNP
4 34 (56.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (26.67%) Degree
5 16 (26.67%) DV Cleared
6 15 (25.00%) CCNA
7 10 (16.67%) OCA
7 10 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (16.67%) RHCA
7 10 (16.67%) RHCE
8 9 (15.00%) Master's Degree
9 5 (8.33%) CCIE
10 4 (6.67%) CISSP
11 3 (5.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (3.33%) AWS Certification
12 2 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
12 2 (3.33%) CRISC
12 2 (3.33%) JNCIE
12 2 (3.33%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.00%) NIST
2 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.67%) GRC
3 1 (1.67%) JSP 440
3 1 (1.67%) NCSC
System Software
1 44 (73.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 18 (30.00%) VMware ESXi
3 9 (15.00%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (40.00%) vCenter Server
2 17 (28.33%) Ansible
3 10 (16.67%) Progress Chef
3 10 (16.67%) Puppet
4 2 (3.33%) Nagios
4 2 (3.33%) ZABBIX
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.67%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 54 (90.00%) Cisco
2 45 (75.00%) VMware
3 24 (40.00%) Atlassian
4 13 (21.67%) Juniper
4 13 (21.67%) Palo Alto
5 12 (20.00%) Nokia
6 11 (18.33%) F5
7 10 (16.67%) Avaya
7 10 (16.67%) Ericsson
7 10 (16.67%) Oracle
7 10 (16.67%) Ribbon
8 4 (6.67%) SolarWinds
9 2 (3.33%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.33%) Google
10 1 (1.67%) Aruba
10 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.67%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (1.67%) Infoblox
10 1 (1.67%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.67%) Ruckus Wireless