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 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 52 110 84
Rank change year-on-year +58 -26 +31
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 61 47 92
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 3.64% 1.47% 2.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.61% 2.60% 4.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 32 68
10th Percentile £505 £285 £413
25th Percentile £525 £417 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -2.73% +14.29%
75th Percentile £625 £613 £650
90th Percentile £692 £688 £700
England median daily rate £536 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +4.54% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 3 14
10th Percentile - £26.40 £62.75
25th Percentile - £48.38 £65.19
Median hourly rate £75.00 £90.00 £75.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +19.60% +18.76%
75th Percentile - £92.50 £89.06
90th Percentile - £94.00 £101.25
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 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 923 1,806 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.01% 56.46% 52.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 1,150 1,403
10th Percentile £250 £353 £388
25th Percentile £450 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 196 156
10th Percentile £18.51 £22.31 £38.53
25th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £86.45
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 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 1 May 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 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
Wiltshire +50 32 £575 +9.52% 7
Bristol +21 16 £680 +0.74% 6
Somerset +3 6 £525 +77.97% 2
Dorset +8 5 £550 +29.41% 1
Gloucestershire +16 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 20 (32.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.64%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (21.31%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.39%) PaaS
1 10 (16.39%) SaaS
2 2 (3.28%) AWS
2 2 (3.28%) Azure
2 2 (3.28%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 17 (27.87%) BGP
2 16 (26.23%) OSPF
3 15 (24.59%) VoIP
4 13 (21.31%) PBX
5 12 (19.67%) Firewall
6 11 (18.03%) Cisco IOS
7 7 (11.48%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (11.48%) DMVPN
7 7 (11.48%) VXLAN
8 6 (9.84%) MPLS
8 6 (9.84%) SD-WAN
8 6 (9.84%) Unified Communications
8 6 (9.84%) WAN
9 5 (8.20%) VPN
9 5 (8.20%) Wireless
10 3 (4.92%) ISDN
10 3 (4.92%) VLAN
11 2 (3.28%) Broadband
11 2 (3.28%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (3.28%) iSCSI
Development Applications
1 20 (32.79%) JIRA
2 11 (18.03%) Bitbucket
3 10 (16.39%) Git
4 9 (14.75%) Jenkins
General
1 16 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (21.31%) Public Sector
2 13 (21.31%) Telecoms
3 5 (8.20%) Military
4 3 (4.92%) Banking
4 3 (4.92%) Billing
4 3 (4.92%) Finance
5 2 (3.28%) Advertising
5 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (22.95%) Network Engineer
2 12 (19.67%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 6 (9.84%) Architect
4 5 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (6.56%) Consultant
5 4 (6.56%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) DevOps Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) DevSecOps Architect
6 3 (4.92%) DevSecOps Consultant
6 3 (4.92%) Network Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Network Security Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Security Architect
6 3 (4.92%) Security Consultant
6 3 (4.92%) Security Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) Telecoms Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Principal Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Principal Security Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.67%) Flash
2 10 (16.39%) REST
2 10 (16.39%) SOAP
3 5 (8.20%) Spine.js
Miscellaneous
1 13 (21.31%) Clustering
2 10 (16.39%) Blackberry
2 10 (16.39%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (4.92%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) IVR
3 3 (4.92%) PKI
3 3 (4.92%) Private Cloud
3 3 (4.92%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.28%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.64%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (19.67%) Windows
2 11 (18.03%) Windows Server
3 10 (16.39%) Linux
4 2 (3.28%) VMS
4 2 (3.28%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (1.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (59.02%) Validation
2 27 (44.26%) Service Management
2 27 (44.26%) System Testing
3 25 (40.98%) NsoIT
4 23 (37.70%) Agile
4 23 (37.70%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (26.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (24.59%) Network Architecture
6 15 (24.59%) Network Virtualisation
7 13 (21.31%) Critical Thinking
7 13 (21.31%) Waterfall
8 12 (19.67%) Computer Science
8 12 (19.67%) Customer Requirements
8 12 (19.67%) High Availability
8 12 (19.67%) Power Management
9 11 (18.03%) Migration
10 10 (16.39%) Commercial Awareness
10 10 (16.39%) Configuration Management
10 10 (16.39%) Reverse Engineering
10 10 (16.39%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.39%) Bash
1 10 (16.39%) Python
2 9 (14.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 49 (80.33%) Security Cleared
2 47 (77.05%) SC Cleared
3 42 (68.85%) CCNP
4 37 (60.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 21 (34.43%) CCNA
6 17 (27.87%) DV Cleared
7 15 (24.59%) Degree
8 12 (19.67%) Master's Degree
9 10 (16.39%) OCA
9 10 (16.39%) Oracle Certification
9 10 (16.39%) RHCA
9 10 (16.39%) RHCE
10 7 (11.48%) CCIE
10 7 (11.48%) CISSP
11 6 (9.84%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 3 (4.92%) CCSP
12 3 (4.92%) CEH
12 3 (4.92%) CISM
12 3 (4.92%) OSCP
13 2 (3.28%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.84%) NIST
2 3 (4.92%) COBIT
2 3 (4.92%) PCI DSS
3 2 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.64%) GRC
4 1 (1.64%) JSP 440
4 1 (1.64%) NCSC
System Software
1 40 (65.57%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (21.31%) VMware ESXi
3 12 (19.67%) VMware NSX
4 1 (1.64%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (44.26%) vCenter Server
2 10 (16.39%) Ansible
2 10 (16.39%) Progress Chef
2 10 (16.39%) Puppet
3 2 (3.28%) Nagios
3 2 (3.28%) SCOM
3 2 (3.28%) ZABBIX
4 1 (1.64%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.64%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 54 (88.52%) Cisco
2 40 (65.57%) VMware
3 20 (32.79%) Atlassian
4 13 (21.31%) Palo Alto
5 12 (19.67%) Juniper
5 12 (19.67%) Nokia
6 11 (18.03%) F5
7 10 (16.39%) Avaya
7 10 (16.39%) Ericsson
7 10 (16.39%) Oracle
7 10 (16.39%) Ribbon
8 4 (6.56%) SolarWinds
9 3 (4.92%) Microsoft
10 2 (3.28%) Fortinet
10 2 (3.28%) Google
10 2 (3.28%) Meraki
11 1 (1.64%) Aruba
11 1 (1.64%) Extreme Networks
11 1 (1.64%) Ruckus Wireless
11 1 (1.64%) Zscaler