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 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 117 68 75
Rank change year-on-year -49 +7 +32
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 15 61 76
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.63% 2.99% 2.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.12% 5.59% 4.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 29 40
10th Percentile £453 £420 £320
25th Percentile £525 £525 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £691
90th Percentile £608 £730 £753
England median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -23.66%
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - £86.00
England median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +57.14% - +141.38%

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 1,336 1,091 1,612
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 56.02% 53.40% 54.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 849 680 990
10th Percentile £275 £320 £374
25th Percentile £450 £457 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +0.52%
75th Percentile £675 £656 £675
90th Percentile £738 £750 £738
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 81 171
10th Percentile £17.69 £25.26 £33.00
25th Percentile £20.82 £55.00 £49.56
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.00 £62.05
Median % change year-on-year -61.31% +4.75% -4.54%
75th Percentile £63.75 £70.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

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 29 December 2025.

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 29 December 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
Bristol -11 8 £550 -15.38% 6
Wiltshire -37 3 £550 - 2
Gloucestershire -2 2 £725 - 13
Somerset -12 2 - - 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 (33.33%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (33.33%) SharePoint
1 5 (33.33%) Skype for Business
2 1 (6.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (46.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) PaaS
2 1 (6.67%) AWS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure Stack
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) IaaS
2 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (40.00%) Skype
1 6 (40.00%) Unified Communications
2 5 (33.33%) DHCP
2 5 (33.33%) DNS
3 2 (13.33%) BGP
3 2 (13.33%) iSCSI
3 2 (13.33%) Network Security
3 2 (13.33%) OSPF
3 2 (13.33%) VoIP
3 2 (13.33%) VXLAN
3 2 (13.33%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (6.67%) DMVPN
4 1 (6.67%) LAN
4 1 (6.67%) PBX
4 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
4 1 (6.67%) VLAN
4 1 (6.67%) WAN
4 1 (6.67%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 8 (53.33%) Analytical Skills
1 8 (53.33%) Public Sector
2 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Network Engineer
1 5 (33.33%) Wintel Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Azure Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Field Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Field Service Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Telephony Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ARM Templates
1 1 (6.67%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) PKI
2 2 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (6.67%) Blackberry
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 1 (6.67%) Cloud Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (6.67%) Security Posture
3 1 (6.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (46.67%) Windows
2 5 (33.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Critical Thinking
2 6 (40.00%) ITIL
3 5 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 5 (33.33%) Service Management
3 5 (33.33%) System Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (13.33%) Cloud Security
5 2 (13.33%) DevOps
5 2 (13.33%) Infrastructure Management
5 2 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
5 2 (13.33%) Patch Management
6 1 (6.67%) Break/Fix
6 1 (6.67%) Commercial Awareness
6 1 (6.67%) Customer Requirements
6 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Transformation
6 1 (6.67%) Network Segmentation
6 1 (6.67%) Network Virtualisation
6 1 (6.67%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (6.67%) Service Design
6 1 (6.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 5 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 5 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) Bicep
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) CCNP
2 10 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 10 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 7 (46.67%) CCNA
3 7 (46.67%) Degree
4 6 (40.00%) ITIL Certification
4 6 (40.00%) MCSE
4 6 (40.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 5 (33.33%) Master's Degree
6 2 (13.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 2 (13.33%) CISM
6 2 (13.33%) CISSP
6 2 (13.33%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (13.33%) JNCIP
6 2 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 1 (6.67%) A+ Certification
7 1 (6.67%) CEH
7 1 (6.67%) JNCIA
7 1 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (6.67%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) COBIT
1 1 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (6.67%) NIST
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 7 (46.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 5 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (33.33%) SCCM
1 5 (33.33%) WSUS
2 2 (13.33%) Terraform
2 2 (13.33%) WhatsUp Gold
3 1 (6.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Cisco
2 8 (53.33%) Microsoft
3 7 (46.67%) VMware
4 5 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 5 (33.33%) Splunk
4 5 (33.33%) Veeam
5 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
6 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
6 1 (6.67%) Avaya
6 1 (6.67%) Dell
6 1 (6.67%) Ericsson
6 1 (6.67%) F5
6 1 (6.67%) Juniper
6 1 (6.67%) Nokia
6 1 (6.67%) Oracle
6 1 (6.67%) Ribbon