CCIE Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 110 126
Rank change year-on-year +2 +16 +22
Contract jobs citing CCIE 13 12 17
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.75% 0.55% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.08% 1.40% 1.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 10
10th Percentile - £543 £403
25th Percentile £576 £603 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £593 £658 £469
Median % change year-on-year -9.89% +40.27% -14.77%
75th Percentile £609 £717 £520
90th Percentile - £769 £700
South East median daily rate £621 £658 £469
% change year-on-year -5.51% +40.27% -14.77%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

CCIE 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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 624 856 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 36.03% 39.37% 39.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 507 703
10th Percentile £219 £261 £247
25th Percentile £366 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.77% -4.00% +5.00%
75th Percentile £574 £625 £625
90th Percentile £627 £700 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £530 £538
% change year-on-year -5.66% -1.40% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 64 57
10th Percentile £18.87 £27.19 £17.60
25th Percentile £25.04 £48.18 £48.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £61.55 £63.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.14% -2.31% +200.00%
75th Percentile £38.57 £70.98 £73.59
90th Percentile £87.91 £99.25 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £60.60 £60.00
% change year-on-year -58.50% +1.00% +33.33%

CCIE
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCIE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

CCIE job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCIE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCIE

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCIE.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCIE

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 16 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
Berkshire +18 13 £593 -9.89% 7
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South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 12 (92.31%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 12 (92.31%) AWS
2 6 (46.15%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 12 (92.31%) BGP
1 12 (92.31%) LAN
1 12 (92.31%) MPLS
1 12 (92.31%) WAN
2 6 (46.15%) OSPF
2 6 (46.15%) SNMP
2 6 (46.15%) TACACS
2 6 (46.15%) Wireless
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ICM
3 1 (7.69%) CTI
3 1 (7.69%) VoIP
3 1 (7.69%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) SQL Server
General
1 12 (92.31%) Social Skills
2 6 (46.15%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Architect
1 6 (46.15%) Designer
1 6 (46.15%) IP Architect
1 6 (46.15%) IP Designer
1 6 (46.15%) IP Specialist
2 1 (7.69%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (46.15%) NETCONF
1 6 (46.15%) REST
1 6 (46.15%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 12 (92.31%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (46.15%) Cloud Native
2 6 (46.15%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Network Virtualisation
2 6 (46.15%) DevOps
2 6 (46.15%) Enterprise Architecture
2 6 (46.15%) Incident Response
2 6 (46.15%) Microservices
2 6 (46.15%) Network Architecture
2 6 (46.15%) Network Design
2 6 (46.15%) Network Segmentation
2 6 (46.15%) Roadmaps
2 6 (46.15%) Strategic Thinking
2 6 (46.15%) TOGAF
2 6 (46.15%) Validation
3 1 (7.69%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco ICM Scripting
3 1 (7.69%) CRM
3 1 (7.69%) Data Governance
3 1 (7.69%) High Availability
3 1 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (7.69%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (100.00%) Python
2 1 (7.69%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 13 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 12 (92.31%) JNCIE
3 6 (46.15%) AWS Certification
4 1 (7.69%) CCIE Collaboration
4 1 (7.69%) CCNP
4 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (46.15%) VMware NSX
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 12 (92.31%) Ansible
2 6 (46.15%) Terraform
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (7.69%) Cisco UCCE
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) Cisco
2 6 (46.15%) F5
2 6 (46.15%) Fortinet
2 6 (46.15%) Juniper
2 6 (46.15%) VMware
3 1 (7.69%) Avaya
3 1 (7.69%) Genesys