CCIE Service Provider Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Service Provider
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 Service Provider qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 476 - 372
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CCIE Service Provider 1 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.004% - 0.005%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.011% - 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £313 - £629
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 - £658
75th Percentile £338 - £686
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £325 £500 £600
% change year-on-year -35.00% -16.67% +3.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CCIE Service Provider 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 9,131 5,335 6,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.48% 35.03% 36.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,844 3,173 3,993
10th Percentile £313 £214 £288
25th Percentile £415 £390 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £600 £634
90th Percentile £709 £675 £711
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,125 633 765
10th Percentile £17.72 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £20.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +98.81% -44.11% -16.15%
75th Percentile £74.00 £52.00 £67.02
90th Percentile £85.40 £75.00 £77.80
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -41.51% -23.21%

CCIE Service Provider
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

CCIE Service Provider job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CCIE Service Provider
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

CCIE Service Provider
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

CCIE Service Provider
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 Service Provider within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
South East - 1 £325 - 2
CCIE Service Provider
UK

CCIE Service Provider
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) OpenStack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) BGP
1 1 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 1 (100.00%) IPv4
1 1 (100.00%) IPv6
1 1 (100.00%) MPLS
1 1 (100.00%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (100.00%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) NETCONF
1 1 (100.00%) OpenConfig
1 1 (100.00%) REST
1 1 (100.00%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Data Centre
1 1 (100.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (100.00%) TM Forum
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Architecture Governance
1 1 (100.00%) Collaborative Working
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Leadership
1 1 (100.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CCIE
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (100.00%) JNCIE
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) VMware