CCDE Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CCDE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 437 336 -
Rank change year-on-year -101 - -
Contract jobs citing CCDE 1 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% 0.008% -
As % of the Qualifications category 0.012% 0.022% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% - -
UK median daily rate £475 £575 -
% change year-on-year -17.39% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CCDE 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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,072 4,586 7,692
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 34.54% 35.90% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,185 2,836 4,446
10th Percentile £306 £213 £263
25th Percentile £410 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £530
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -3.77% +0.95%
75th Percentile £600 £601 £638
90th Percentile £706 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £518 £525 £536
% change year-on-year -1.43% -2.05% -2.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 959 400 901
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.50
25th Percentile £20.50 £22.72 £16.30
Median hourly rate £45.46 £46.30 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +15.75% -20.00%
75th Percentile £68.88 £67.63 £61.30
90th Percentile £84.00 £81.01 £75.24
UK median hourly rate £45.46 £42.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year +6.96% +6.25% -25.93%

CCDE
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCDE relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

CCDE job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CCDE
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCDE.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCDE

CCDE
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCDE within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 21 April 2026. 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
South East -55 1 £400 -30.43% 1
CCDE
UK

CCDE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Direct Connect
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) LAN
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) Network Security
1 1 (100.00%) NGFW
1 1 (100.00%) OSPF
1 1 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
1 1 (100.00%) WAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) SABSA
1 1 (100.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Service Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
1 1 (100.00%) Translating Business Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) CCNP
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Fortinet
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto