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 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 101 73 71
Rank change year-on-year -28 -2 +45
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 22 62 82
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 1.08% 2.52% 2.60%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.97% 5.08% 4.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 24 49
10th Percentile £518 £439 £423
25th Percentile £525 £489 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £649 £649 £625
90th Percentile £658 £714 £700
England median daily rate £525 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +3.96% +1.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year - +45.00% -23.43%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £76.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £40.50 £28.70 £33.44
% change year-on-year +41.11% -14.17% +144.80%

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 1,115 1,221 1,762
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 54.63% 49.61% 55.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 677 744 1,114
10th Percentile £213 £350 £393
25th Percentile £406 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £649 £671 £675
90th Percentile £734 £750 £725
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 83 178
10th Percentile £18.22 £31.00 £38.80
25th Percentile £20.82 £58.63 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £67.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -62.74% +8.00% -3.10%
75th Percentile £35.05 £72.50 £78.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.19 £53.50
% change year-on-year -51.81% -2.45% +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 24 October 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 24 October 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
Somerset -2 8 £633 - 3
Bristol -12 7 £550 -0.50% 4
Wiltshire -18 6 £625 +16.28%
Gloucestershire +6 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 9 (40.91%) Confluence
2 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (22.73%) SharePoint
2 5 (22.73%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (63.64%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure Stack
3 1 (4.55%) IaaS
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (63.64%) Unified Communications
2 13 (59.09%) DNS
3 12 (54.55%) BGP
4 9 (40.91%) MPLS
5 8 (36.36%) VPN
6 7 (31.82%) IPsec
6 7 (31.82%) Skype
7 6 (27.27%) DHCP
8 4 (18.18%) OSPF
9 3 (13.64%) VLAN
9 3 (13.64%) VoIP
9 3 (13.64%) WAN
10 2 (9.09%) Firewall
10 2 (9.09%) iSCSI
10 2 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
11 1 (4.55%) LAN
11 1 (4.55%) Network Security
11 1 (4.55%) PBX
11 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
11 1 (4.55%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 9 (40.91%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) Bitbucket
General
1 16 (72.73%) Social Skills
2 14 (63.64%) Analytical Skills
3 8 (36.36%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Wintel Engineer
3 4 (18.18%) Telephony Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Architect
4 2 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Switch Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Azure Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Security Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.55%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (31.82%) NETCONF
1 7 (31.82%) RESTCONF
2 1 (4.55%) ARM Templates
2 1 (4.55%) JFC
Miscellaneous
1 12 (54.55%) PKI
2 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
3 2 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.55%) Blackberry
4 1 (4.55%) Cloud Security Posture
4 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
4 1 (4.55%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (36.36%) Windows
2 6 (27.27%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.55%) Linux
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (63.64%) Critical Thinking
1 14 (63.64%) Service Management
1 14 (63.64%) System Testing
2 10 (45.45%) NsoIT
3 9 (40.91%) Validation
4 8 (36.36%) Network Virtualisation
5 5 (22.73%) Computer Science
5 5 (22.73%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) Customer Requirements
6 3 (13.64%) Network Monitoring
7 2 (9.09%) Agile
7 2 (9.09%) ArchiMate
7 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Management
7 2 (9.09%) Patch Management
7 2 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (9.09%) Project Management
7 2 (9.09%) Roadmaps
7 2 (9.09%) Waterfall
8 1 (4.55%) Network Design
8 1 (4.55%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 7 (31.82%) Python
2 5 (22.73%) PowerShell
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 1 (4.55%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 21 (95.45%) CCNP
2 19 (86.36%) Security Cleared
3 18 (81.82%) SC Cleared
4 13 (59.09%) Degree
5 7 (31.82%) CCNA
6 5 (22.73%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (22.73%) Master's Degree
6 5 (22.73%) MCSE
6 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (18.18%) DV Cleared
8 3 (13.64%) JNCIP
9 2 (9.09%) CompTIA Security+
10 1 (4.55%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
10 1 (4.55%) CCIE
10 1 (4.55%) CISM
10 1 (4.55%) CISSP
10 1 (4.55%) JNCIE
10 1 (4.55%) SSCP
10 1 (4.55%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.55%) NIST
System Software
1 13 (59.09%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (36.36%) VMware ESXi
3 5 (22.73%) Active Directory
3 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (22.73%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (31.82%) Ansible
2 5 (22.73%) SCCM
2 5 (22.73%) WSUS
3 2 (9.09%) WhatsUp Gold
4 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (86.36%) Cisco
2 14 (63.64%) VMware
3 9 (40.91%) Atlassian
3 9 (40.91%) Microsoft
4 5 (22.73%) SolarWinds
4 5 (22.73%) Splunk
4 5 (22.73%) Veeam
5 3 (13.64%) Juniper
6 2 (9.09%) Palo Alto
7 1 (4.55%) Avaya
7 1 (4.55%) Ericsson
7 1 (4.55%) F5
7 1 (4.55%) Fortinet
7 1 (4.55%) Google
7 1 (4.55%) Nokia
7 1 (4.55%) Oracle
7 1 (4.55%) Ribbon