CCIE Security Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Security
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CCIE Security qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 470 368 365
Rank change year-on-year -102 -3 +42
Contract jobs citing CCIE Security 3 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.011% 0.013% 0.022%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.033% 0.037% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £457 - -
25th Percentile £458 £763 £725
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £466 £775 £750
Median % change year-on-year -39.94% +3.33% +114.29%
75th Percentile £480 £788 £775
90th Percentile £484 - -
UK median daily rate £475 £775 £750
% change year-on-year -38.71% +3.33% +76.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £103.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £103.00 -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CCIE Security 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 9,192 5,386 6,591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.39% 35.12% 36.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,904 3,193 3,988
10th Percentile £313 £220 £296
25th Percentile £417 £399 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £600 £638
90th Percentile £711 £675 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,134 661 748
10th Percentile £17.42 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £21.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -47.05% -8.46%
75th Percentile £74.00 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £87.00 £75.00 £77.65
UK median hourly rate £52.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +106.76% -41.51% -21.82%

CCIE Security
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

CCIE Security job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CCIE Security
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

CCIE Security
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCIE Security.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCIE Security

CCIE Security
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 CCIE Security within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 August 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
North West - 2 £456 - 2
North of England - 2 £456 - 2
Midlands -46 1 £475 -38.71%
East Midlands - 1 £475 -
CCIE Security
UK

CCIE Security
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (33.33%) DHCP
2 1 (33.33%) DNS
2 1 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security
2 1 (33.33%) NGFW
2 1 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (33.33%) SSL
2 1 (33.33%) TACACS
2 1 (33.33%) VPN
2 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
2 1 (33.33%) WAN
2 1 (33.33%) Wireless
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Banking
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Security Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 1 (33.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (66.67%) Zero Trust
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) Compliance Management
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Event Correlation
2 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Security Management
2 1 (33.33%) Security Operations
2 1 (33.33%) Service Management
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Bash
1 1 (33.33%) Lisp
1 1 (33.33%) PowerShell
1 1 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCIE
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CISSP
3 1 (33.33%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) CCSA
3 1 (33.33%) CCSE
3 1 (33.33%) CCSP
3 1 (33.33%) GCIA
3 1 (33.33%) GCIH
3 1 (33.33%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
1 1 (33.33%) PCI DSS
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
1 1 (33.33%) Progress Chef
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Cisco
1 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (33.33%) AlgoSec
2 1 (33.33%) Aruba
2 1 (33.33%) CheckPoint
2 1 (33.33%) F5
2 1 (33.33%) Palo Alto