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 28 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 112 68 74
Rank change year-on-year -44 +6 +53
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 18 66 84
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.79% 2.87% 2.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.41% 5.60% 4.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 28 47
10th Percentile £504 £415 £378
25th Percentile £525 £489 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £643 £650 £663
90th Percentile £649 £733 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 15
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £75.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% -28.83%
75th Percentile - - £76.25
90th Percentile - - £86.00
England median hourly rate £40.50 £28.70 £37.50
% change year-on-year +41.11% -23.47% +158.62%

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 1,275 1,178 1,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.99% 51.15% 55.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 800 723 1,078
10th Percentile £263 £350 £376
25th Percentile £450 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -0.87% +2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £746 £750 £727
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 84 181
10th Percentile £17.80 £30.00 £36.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £57.25 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £66.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.89% +5.60% -3.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £71.56 £78.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -6.54% +18.89%

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 28 November 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 28 November 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 -15 7 £550 -15.38% 1
Somerset -7 6 £633 -
Wiltshire -30 4 £625 +13.64% 4
Gloucestershire -2 1 £725 -
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 (27.78%) Confluence
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (27.78%) SharePoint
1 5 (27.78%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Azure
1 2 (11.11%) GCP
1 2 (11.11%) PaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
2 1 (5.56%) IaaS
2 1 (5.56%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (55.56%) Unified Communications
2 9 (50.00%) DNS
3 8 (44.44%) BGP
4 6 (33.33%) MPLS
4 6 (33.33%) Skype
5 5 (27.78%) DHCP
5 5 (27.78%) VPN
6 4 (22.22%) IPsec
7 3 (16.67%) OSPF
8 2 (11.11%) Firewall
8 2 (11.11%) iSCSI
8 2 (11.11%) VLAN
8 2 (11.11%) VoIP
8 2 (11.11%) WAN
8 2 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
9 1 (5.56%) Network Security
9 1 (5.56%) PBX
9 1 (5.56%) SAN
9 1 (5.56%) TCP/IP
9 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 5 (27.78%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) Bitbucket
General
1 12 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (55.56%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (44.44%) Public Sector
4 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 5 (27.78%) Wintel Engineer
3 3 (16.67%) Architect
4 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Security Architect
4 2 (11.11%) Switch Engineer
4 2 (11.11%) Telephony Engineer
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (22.22%) NETCONF
1 4 (22.22%) RESTCONF
2 1 (5.56%) ARM Templates
2 1 (5.56%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) PKI
2 3 (16.67%) Data Centre
3 2 (11.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (11.11%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.56%) Blackberry
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 1 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 6 (33.33%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Critical Thinking
1 10 (55.56%) Service Management
1 10 (55.56%) System Testing
2 6 (33.33%) ITIL
2 6 (33.33%) NsoIT
2 6 (33.33%) Validation
3 5 (27.78%) Computer Science
3 5 (27.78%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (11.11%) ArchiMate
4 2 (11.11%) Cloud Security
4 2 (11.11%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
4 2 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
4 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
4 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
4 2 (11.11%) TOGAF
5 1 (5.56%) Performance Monitoring
5 1 (5.56%) SABSA
5 1 (5.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
2 4 (22.22%) Python
3 1 (5.56%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 16 (88.89%) CCNP
1 16 (88.89%) Security Cleared
2 15 (83.33%) SC Cleared
3 10 (55.56%) Degree
4 6 (33.33%) CCNA
4 6 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
5 5 (27.78%) Master's Degree
5 5 (27.78%) MCSE
5 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (16.67%) DV Cleared
6 3 (16.67%) JNCIP
7 2 (11.11%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 2 (11.11%) CISM
7 2 (11.11%) CISSP
7 2 (11.11%) CompTIA Security+
8 1 (5.56%) AWS Certification
8 1 (5.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (5.56%) Azure Certification
8 1 (5.56%) CEH
8 1 (5.56%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) COBIT
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) QA
System Software
1 10 (55.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Virtual Server
2 5 (27.78%) Virtual Servers
2 5 (27.78%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) SCCM
1 5 (27.78%) WSUS
2 4 (22.22%) Ansible
3 2 (11.11%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Cisco
2 11 (61.11%) VMware
3 8 (44.44%) Microsoft
4 5 (27.78%) Atlassian
4 5 (27.78%) SolarWinds
4 5 (27.78%) Splunk
4 5 (27.78%) Veeam
5 3 (16.67%) Juniper
6 2 (11.11%) Palo Alto
7 1 (5.56%) Avaya
7 1 (5.56%) Ericsson
7 1 (5.56%) F5
7 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
7 1 (5.56%) Google
7 1 (5.56%) Nokia
7 1 (5.56%) Oracle
7 1 (5.56%) Ribbon