Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends 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 27 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 125 56 83
Rank change year-on-year -69 +27 +26
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 17 67 69
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.60% 3.75% 2.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.15% 6.95% 3.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 44 46
10th Percentile £500 £413 £283
25th Percentile £515 £513 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £600
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% -5.21% +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £688
90th Percentile - £714 £725
England median daily rate £500 £536 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +7.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 6
10th Percentile - - £51.25
25th Percentile - - £56.56
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year - +3.45% +3.20%
75th Percentile - - £86.56
90th Percentile - - £92.50
England median hourly rate £42.71 £72.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -41.10% +195.92% +6.52%

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 1,472 964 1,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 52.22% 54.01% 55.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 893 614 1,117
10th Percentile £363 £234 £359
25th Percentile £450 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £650 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £725 £738
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 207 73 182
10th Percentile £17.69 £31.00 £25.00
25th Percentile £20.00 £56.25 £40.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £56.49
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +15.06% -13.09%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £74.12 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £49.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -48.67% +15.29% -10.53%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Cisco Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in the South West

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cisco Certification

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 27 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the South West

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cisco Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cisco Certification

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 27 February 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
Bristol -21 9 £550 -8.33% 2
Wiltshire -46 5 £553 -3.91% 12
Gloucestershire -7 2 £525 - 9
Devon +5 1 - - 4
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (29.41%) SharePoint
1 5 (29.41%) Skype for Business
2 2 (11.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.88%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) DHCP
1 5 (29.41%) DNS
1 5 (29.41%) Skype
1 5 (29.41%) Unified Communications
2 2 (11.76%) SAN
2 2 (11.76%) VXLAN
3 1 (5.88%) BGP
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (5.88%) DMVPN
3 1 (5.88%) Firewall
3 1 (5.88%) LAN
3 1 (5.88%) Network Security
3 1 (5.88%) OSPF
3 1 (5.88%) SD-WAN
3 1 (5.88%) VSAN
3 1 (5.88%) WAN
3 1 (5.88%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Bitbucket
1 2 (11.76%) Git
1 2 (11.76%) JIRA
2 1 (5.88%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (5.88%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (58.82%) Analytical Skills
1 10 (58.82%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Legal
3 1 (5.88%) Police
Job Titles
1 5 (29.41%) Wintel Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Network Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Field Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Field Service Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) IT Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
4 1 (5.88%) Cybersecurity Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support
4 1 (5.88%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Python Software Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Auditor
4 1 (5.88%) Security Consultant
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Virtualisation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Flash
1 1 (5.88%) REST
1 1 (5.88%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (29.41%) PKI
2 3 (17.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (11.76%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Clustering
4 1 (5.88%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 6 (35.29%) Windows
2 5 (29.41%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.88%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) System Testing
2 8 (47.06%) Service Management
3 6 (35.29%) Computer Science
3 6 (35.29%) Critical Thinking
3 6 (35.29%) ITIL
4 5 (29.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (23.53%) Agile
6 3 (17.65%) Configuration Management
6 3 (17.65%) Infrastructure Automation
6 3 (17.65%) NsoIT
6 3 (17.65%) Reverse Engineering
7 2 (11.76%) Break/Fix
7 2 (11.76%) Customer Service
7 2 (11.76%) Deployment Automation
7 2 (11.76%) Information Security
7 2 (11.76%) Network Design
7 2 (11.76%) Validation
8 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery
8 1 (5.88%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) PowerShell
2 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) Bash
Qualifications
1 12 (70.59%) SC Cleared
1 12 (70.59%) Security Cleared
2 11 (64.71%) CCNP
3 10 (58.82%) CCNA
4 8 (47.06%) Degree
5 7 (41.18%) MCSE
5 7 (41.18%) Microsoft Certification
6 6 (35.29%) ITIL Certification
7 5 (29.41%) Master's Degree
7 5 (29.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 3 (17.65%) OCA
8 3 (17.65%) Oracle Certification
8 3 (17.65%) RHCA
8 3 (17.65%) RHCE
9 2 (11.76%) A+ Certification
9 2 (11.76%) CEH
9 2 (11.76%) CISSP
9 2 (11.76%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (5.88%) CISA
10 1 (5.88%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) COBIT
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.88%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
1 1 (5.88%) HMG Security Policy Framework
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27005
1 1 (5.88%) NCSC
1 1 (5.88%) NIST
1 1 (5.88%) QA
System Software
1 8 (47.06%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (29.41%) Active Directory
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 5 (29.41%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (5.88%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.88%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) SCCM
1 5 (29.41%) WSUS
2 4 (23.53%) Ansible
3 3 (17.65%) Progress Chef
3 3 (17.65%) Puppet
4 1 (5.88%) Terraform
4 1 (5.88%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (58.82%) VMware
2 9 (52.94%) Cisco
3 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
3 5 (29.41%) SolarWinds
3 5 (29.41%) Splunk
3 5 (29.41%) Veeam
4 2 (11.76%) Dell
5 1 (5.88%) Palo Alto