CCIE Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
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 qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 324 325 340
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +101
Contract jobs citing CCIE 42 45 78
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.25% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.77% 0.69% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 32 52
10th Percentile £425 £407 £413
25th Percentile £440 £500 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £493
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +14.10% -9.58%
75th Percentile £588 £775 £575
90th Percentile £638 - £698
UK median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -8.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £80.25 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,448 6,528 7,196
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.25% 35.94% 32.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,201 3,964 4,585
10th Percentile £214 £298 £300
25th Percentile £393 £420 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £675 £716 £701
UK median daily rate £525 £526 £550
% change year-on-year -0.19% -4.36% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 664 729 525
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £21.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% -7.77% +14.44%
75th Percentile £50.00 £67.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £77.50 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% -21.82% +22.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CCIE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCIE in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CCIE in the UK excluding London

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Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCIE in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CCIE in the UK excluding London

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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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
South East +18 12 £575 -10.33% 19
Midlands -7 12 £538 -28.33% 4
West Midlands -7 9 £550 -26.67% 3
Scotland -4 6 £453 -13.81% 5
North West -13 6 £475 -25.49% 4
North of England -19 6 £475 -9.52% 7
East of England +7 3 - -
East Midlands +2 3 £438 -20.45% 1
South West - 2 £688 - 2
Wales - 1 - -
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UK

CCIE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (14.29%) OpenStack
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 15 (35.71%) AWS
2 13 (30.95%) Azure
3 6 (14.29%) GCP
4 3 (7.14%) OpenShift
5 2 (4.76%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 25 (59.52%) Firewall
2 22 (52.38%) WAN
3 20 (47.62%) BGP
4 17 (40.48%) MPLS
4 17 (40.48%) Network Security
5 16 (38.10%) OSPF
6 15 (35.71%) Wireless
7 14 (33.33%) VPN
8 13 (30.95%) LAN
9 12 (28.57%) SD-WAN
10 7 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (16.67%) DNS
10 7 (16.67%) VLAN
11 6 (14.29%) DHCP
11 6 (14.29%) VoIP
12 5 (11.90%) Cisco ASA
12 5 (11.90%) Unified Communications
13 4 (9.52%) EIGRP
13 4 (9.52%) Wi-Fi
13 4 (9.52%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (4.76%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.38%) Git
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
General
1 20 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Legal
5 1 (2.38%) Aviation
5 1 (2.38%) Banking
5 1 (2.38%) Finance
5 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 8 (19.05%) Architect
3 7 (16.67%) Consultant
3 7 (16.67%) Designer
4 5 (11.90%) Network Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Senior
5 4 (9.52%) Cisco Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (9.52%) Network Consultant
5 4 (9.52%) Network Designer
5 4 (9.52%) Solutions Designer
5 4 (9.52%) Technical Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) IP Architect
6 3 (7.14%) IP Designer
6 3 (7.14%) IP Specialist
6 3 (7.14%) Network Specialist
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Cloud Network Engineer
7 2 (4.76%) Senior Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) NETCONF
1 4 (9.52%) REST
1 4 (9.52%) YANG
2 2 (4.76%) 802.1X
3 1 (2.38%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 12 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
2 9 (21.43%) Data Centre
3 4 (9.52%) Cloud Native
4 2 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (4.76%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (4.76%) Management Information System
4 2 (4.76%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.76%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (7.14%) Linux
1 3 (7.14%) Unix
1 3 (7.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (35.71%) Network Design
2 13 (30.95%) Network Architecture
3 11 (26.19%) Roadmaps
4 8 (19.05%) High Availability
4 8 (19.05%) Network Monitoring
4 8 (19.05%) TOGAF
5 6 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 6 (14.29%) Network Virtualisation
5 6 (14.29%) Service Design
6 5 (11.90%) ITIL
6 5 (11.90%) Mentoring
6 5 (11.90%) Strategic Roadmap
6 5 (11.90%) Validation
7 4 (9.52%) Data Protection
7 4 (9.52%) DevOps
7 4 (9.52%) ITSM
7 4 (9.52%) Migration
7 4 (9.52%) Problem Management
7 4 (9.52%) Service Management
7 4 (9.52%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.95%) Python
2 2 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 1 (2.38%) Perl
Qualifications
1 42 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 27 (64.29%) CCNP
3 11 (26.19%) JNCIE
4 8 (19.05%) Degree
5 5 (11.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (11.90%) Security Cleared
6 4 (9.52%) AWS Certification
6 4 (9.52%) CCNA
6 4 (9.52%) Master's Degree
7 3 (7.14%) CCIE Collaboration
7 3 (7.14%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 3 (7.14%) SC Cleared
8 2 (4.76%) CCDP
8 2 (4.76%) CCIE Security
8 2 (4.76%) CCIE Wireless
8 2 (4.76%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (2.38%) CCDE
9 1 (2.38%) CISSP
9 1 (2.38%) DV Cleared
9 1 (2.38%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) SLA
2 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) NIST
System Software
1 3 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (7.14%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 13 (30.95%) Ansible
2 4 (9.52%) OpenView
2 4 (9.52%) Terraform
3 2 (4.76%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.38%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.38%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 38 (90.48%) Cisco
2 21 (50.00%) Fortinet
3 15 (35.71%) F5
4 6 (14.29%) Palo Alto
5 4 (9.52%) Juniper
5 4 (9.52%) Meraki
5 4 (9.52%) Zscaler
6 3 (7.14%) CheckPoint
6 3 (7.14%) VMware
7 2 (4.76%) Citrix
7 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
8 1 (2.38%) Arista
8 1 (2.38%) Google
8 1 (2.38%) McAfee
8 1 (2.38%) Splunk