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 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 92 76
Rank change year-on-year +7 -16 +32
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 30 49 80
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.52% 1.84% 2.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.86% 3.62% 4.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 16 49
10th Percentile £490 £445 £425
25th Percentile £525 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +19.05% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £649 £649 £618
90th Percentile £695 £669 £675
England median daily rate £511 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +1.34% +0.90% +2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - -14.00% -24.01%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £76.25
90th Percentile - - £85.00
England median hourly rate £48.00 £19.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +152.63% -60.00% +247.73%

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 1,049 1,355 1,766
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 53.11% 50.96% 54.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 649 822 1,128
10th Percentile £219 £371 £400
25th Percentile £413 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £556 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% -3.39% +4.55%
75th Percentile £648 £650 £675
90th Percentile £738 £733 £729
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 110 163
10th Percentile £18.51 £39.63 £33.00
25th Percentile £21.30 £60.75 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £70.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -64.07% +12.00% +3.73%
75th Percentile £34.69 £74.33 £78.00
90th Percentile £73.63 £80.50 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.53
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.97% +21.18%

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
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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +8 11 £550 +20.75% 3
Wiltshire +2 9 £625 +19.05% 2
Somerset 0 8 £633 - 1
Gloucestershire +18 2 £613 - 5
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 9 (30.00%) Confluence
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (13.33%) Skype for Business
3 1 (3.33%) CMS
Applications
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) PaaS
2 5 (16.67%) SaaS
3 3 (10.00%) Azure
4 2 (6.67%) AWS
4 2 (6.67%) GCP
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Stack
5 1 (3.33%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (46.67%) Unified Communications
2 13 (43.33%) BGP
3 12 (40.00%) DNS
4 9 (30.00%) MPLS
4 9 (30.00%) VPN
5 8 (26.67%) VoIP
6 7 (23.33%) IPsec
7 6 (20.00%) Skype
8 5 (16.67%) DHCP
8 5 (16.67%) PBX
9 4 (13.33%) OSPF
9 4 (13.33%) WAN
10 3 (10.00%) VLAN
10 3 (10.00%) Wireless
11 2 (6.67%) Firewall
11 2 (6.67%) iSCSI
11 2 (6.67%) LAN
11 2 (6.67%) SD-WAN
11 2 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (3.33%) Ethernet VPN
Development Applications
1 9 (30.00%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (43.33%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Telephony Engineer
2 4 (13.33%) Wintel Engineer
3 3 (10.00%) Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Network Architect
4 2 (6.67%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Switch Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Azure Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Python Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Security Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Unified Communications Consultant
5 1 (3.33%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (23.33%) NETCONF
1 7 (23.33%) RESTCONF
2 1 (3.33%) ARM Templates
2 1 (3.33%) JFC
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (40.00%) PKI
2 5 (16.67%) Blackberry
2 5 (16.67%) Video Conferencing
3 3 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 2 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (6.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 2 (6.67%) Linux
3 2 (6.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Validation
2 13 (43.33%) Critical Thinking
2 13 (43.33%) Service Management
2 13 (43.33%) System Testing
3 10 (33.33%) NsoIT
4 8 (26.67%) Customer Requirements
4 8 (26.67%) Network Virtualisation
4 8 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (20.00%) Roadmaps
6 5 (16.67%) Commercial Awareness
6 5 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
6 5 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
6 5 (16.67%) Migration
6 5 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
6 5 (16.67%) Service Design
6 5 (16.67%) Thought Leadership
7 4 (13.33%) Computer Science
7 4 (13.33%) ITIL
8 3 (10.00%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 8 (26.67%) Python
2 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 4 (13.33%) SQL
3 1 (3.33%) Bash
3 1 (3.33%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 26 (86.67%) CCNP
2 24 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 22 (73.33%) SC Cleared
4 12 (40.00%) Degree
5 9 (30.00%) DV Cleared
6 7 (23.33%) CCNA
7 6 (20.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 4 (13.33%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (13.33%) Master's Degree
8 4 (13.33%) MCSE
8 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 3 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 3 (10.00%) CISSP
9 3 (10.00%) JNCIP
10 2 (6.67%) CCIE
10 2 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
10 2 (6.67%) CRISC
11 1 (3.33%) AWS Certification
11 1 (3.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 1 (3.33%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.00%) NIST
2 2 (6.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 17 (56.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (26.67%) VMware ESXi
3 4 (13.33%) Active Directory
3 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 4 (13.33%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Ansible
2 4 (13.33%) SCCM
2 4 (13.33%) WSUS
3 2 (6.67%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (3.33%) Cisco UCCX
4 1 (3.33%) Progress Chef
4 1 (3.33%) Puppet
4 1 (3.33%) Terraform
4 1 (3.33%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 25 (83.33%) Cisco
2 18 (60.00%) VMware
3 9 (30.00%) Atlassian
4 8 (26.67%) Microsoft
5 7 (23.33%) Juniper
5 7 (23.33%) Palo Alto
6 5 (16.67%) Avaya
6 5 (16.67%) Ericsson
6 5 (16.67%) F5
6 5 (16.67%) Nokia
6 5 (16.67%) Ribbon
7 4 (13.33%) SolarWinds
7 4 (13.33%) Splunk
7 4 (13.33%) Veeam
8 2 (6.67%) Oracle
9 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
9 1 (3.33%) Google