Cisco Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 134 173
Rank change year-on-year +8 +39 -48
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 386 469 464
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.86% 1.93% 1.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.00% 5.80% 5.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 310 290
10th Percentile £295 £242 £200
25th Percentile £350 £363 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £439
Median % change year-on-year - +13.96% +9.69%
75th Percentile £600 £569 £540
90th Percentile £750 £638 £600
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 40 32
10th Percentile £13.85 - £13.41
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £16.41
Median hourly rate £16.63 £62.00 £45.38
Median % change year-on-year -73.19% +36.64% +14.87%
75th Percentile £25.83 £77.99 £49.50
90th Percentile £68.25 £86.63 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £62.00 £43.37
% change year-on-year -62.90% +42.96% +8.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

Cisco Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,713 8,084 8,225
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 37.14% 33.35% 26.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,457 5,424 5,306
10th Percentile £263 £273 £250
25th Percentile £425 £418 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £594
90th Percentile £719 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.00% +4.76% +8.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 914 690 551
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.48 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.35 £20.00 £16.37
Median hourly rate £40.13 £50.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.75% +61.29% -10.25%
75th Percentile £61.60 £66.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £78.00 £67.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £40.93
% change year-on-year -26.31% +32.62% +6.31%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
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 Cisco Certification within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 April 2024. 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 +42 148 £513 +2.50% 45
North of England +38 85 £450 -10.00% 39
North West +26 57 £493 -1.40% 23
Midlands +15 56 £450 - 22
West Midlands +44 49 £450 -10.00% 14
South West -12 48 £600 +9.09% 32
East of England -5 33 £345 +6.15% 17
Yorkshire +21 25 £425 -12.82% 15
Scotland +11 21 £553 +16.32% 16
East Midlands -3 7 £325 -13.33% 8
North East +18 3 £345 -19.77% 1
Wales -3 1 - - 5
Cisco Certification
UK

Cisco Certification
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 19 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.33%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.30%) Confluence
4 4 (1.04%) IIS
5 2 (0.52%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.52%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (3.63%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 52 (13.47%) Azure
2 34 (8.81%) AWS
3 20 (5.18%) Microsoft 365
4 12 (3.11%) OCI
5 8 (2.07%) GCP
6 3 (0.78%) Akamai
6 3 (0.78%) Cloudflare
6 3 (0.78%) PaaS
6 3 (0.78%) SaaS
7 2 (0.52%) Catchpoint
7 2 (0.52%) Entra ID
7 2 (0.52%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.26%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 154 (39.90%) Firewall
2 93 (24.09%) WAN
3 80 (20.73%) LAN
4 69 (17.88%) VPN
5 65 (16.84%) Network Security
6 64 (16.58%) DNS
7 56 (14.51%) Cisco ASA
8 53 (13.73%) BGP
9 50 (12.95%) Cisco ISE
10 47 (12.18%) DHCP
10 47 (12.18%) OSPF
11 43 (11.14%) Cisco Nexus
12 39 (10.10%) Wireless
13 36 (9.33%) MPLS
14 35 (9.07%) IPsec
15 34 (8.81%) SAN
16 33 (8.55%) Cisco Firepower
17 31 (8.03%) Wi-Fi
18 29 (7.51%) VoIP
19 25 (6.48%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (1.81%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (1.55%) JIRA
2 6 (1.55%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.26%) Git
3 1 (0.26%) Hudson
General
1 105 (27.20%) Social Skills
2 60 (15.54%) Public Sector
3 49 (12.69%) Finance
4 45 (11.66%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (10.10%) Telecoms
6 30 (7.77%) Banking
7 9 (2.33%) Marketing
7 9 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.07%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.81%) Retail
10 6 (1.55%) Aerospace
11 5 (1.30%) Legal
12 4 (1.04%) Aeronautics
12 4 (1.04%) French Language
12 4 (1.04%) German Language
12 4 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.78%) Digital Economy
13 3 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 196 (50.78%) Network Engineer
2 62 (16.06%) Senior
3 50 (12.95%) Architect
3 50 (12.95%) Senior Network Engineer
4 40 (10.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 27 (6.99%) Analyst
6 26 (6.74%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 24 (6.22%) Support Engineer
8 22 (5.70%) Network Architect
9 15 (3.89%) Cisco Engineer
9 15 (3.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 13 (3.37%) Network Support
10 13 (3.37%) Network Support Engineer
10 13 (3.37%) Solutions Architect
10 13 (3.37%) Technical Analyst
11 12 (3.11%) Lead
11 12 (3.11%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (2.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 11 (2.85%) Security Analyst
13 10 (2.59%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.85%) Jinja
2 9 (2.33%) Web Services
3 4 (1.04%) EDI
3 4 (1.04%) Flash
4 3 (0.78%) 802.1X
5 1 (0.26%) JSON
5 1 (0.26%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.26%) XML
5 1 (0.26%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 82 (21.24%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.11%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.07%) Operational Technology
3 8 (2.07%) Security Posture
4 7 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (1.81%) Driving Licence
4 7 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (1.55%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.30%) NHS
6 5 (1.30%) PKI
6 5 (1.30%) SCADA
6 5 (1.30%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 4 (1.04%) CCTV
7 4 (1.04%) Cloud Native
7 4 (1.04%) Clustering
8 3 (0.78%) Blackberry
8 3 (0.78%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (0.78%) IoT
8 3 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 57 (14.77%) Windows
2 29 (7.51%) Linux
3 24 (6.22%) Windows Server
4 21 (5.44%) Windows 10
5 16 (4.15%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (3.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (3.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.11%) Windows XP
7 8 (2.07%) Unix
7 8 (2.07%) Windows 7
8 3 (0.78%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (23.32%) ITIL
2 88 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (13.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 41 (10.62%) Migration
5 38 (9.84%) Computer Science
6 31 (8.03%) Customer Service
7 29 (7.51%) Change Management
8 27 (6.99%) Project Management
9 25 (6.48%) B2B
10 24 (6.22%) Mentoring
10 24 (6.22%) Project Delivery
11 23 (5.96%) Network Design
11 23 (5.96%) Storage Management
12 22 (5.70%) Network Monitoring
13 21 (5.44%) ITSM
13 21 (5.44%) Load Balancing
14 20 (5.18%) Network Architecture
14 20 (5.18%) Service Management
14 20 (5.18%) TOGAF
15 19 (4.92%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 27 (6.99%) Python
2 18 (4.66%) PowerShell
3 11 (2.85%) Perl
3 11 (2.85%) Tcl
4 5 (1.30%) Bash
5 3 (0.78%) SQL
6 1 (0.26%) C
6 1 (0.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 238 (61.66%) CCNA
2 220 (56.99%) CCNP
3 139 (36.01%) Security Cleared
4 98 (25.39%) SC Cleared
5 82 (21.24%) Degree
6 45 (11.66%) DV Cleared
7 42 (10.88%) CCIE
8 35 (9.07%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (7.51%) JNCIA
9 29 (7.51%) Network+ Certification
10 25 (6.48%) MCSE
11 24 (6.22%) CISSP
12 20 (5.18%) CISM
13 19 (4.92%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (4.66%) JNCIS
15 17 (4.40%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 17 (4.40%) A+ Certification
16 15 (3.89%) Computer Science Degree
17 12 (3.11%) MCP
17 12 (3.11%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (5.96%) SLA
2 16 (4.15%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 12 (3.11%) NIST
4 9 (2.33%) QA
5 7 (1.81%) GRC
6 6 (1.55%) COBIT
7 3 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.78%) GDPR
7 3 (0.78%) NCSC
8 2 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.52%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.52%) IASME
8 2 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.26%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 53 (13.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 42 (10.88%) Active Directory
3 26 (6.74%) Hyper-V
4 24 (6.22%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (4.15%) Firmware
6 12 (3.11%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.55%) KVM
7 6 (1.55%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.55%) VMware Workstation
7 6 (1.55%) vSphere
8 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (6.99%) SCCM
2 24 (6.22%) Ansible
3 20 (5.18%) vCenter Server
4 14 (3.63%) SCOM
5 13 (3.37%) EMC NetWorker
5 13 (3.37%) WSUS
6 12 (3.11%) NetBackup
7 11 (2.85%) Nessus
8 8 (2.07%) FortiGate
9 7 (1.81%) Terraform
10 5 (1.30%) OpenView
11 4 (1.04%) Microsoft Intune
12 3 (0.78%) Netcool
13 2 (0.52%) Cisco Prime
13 2 (0.52%) Nagios
13 2 (0.52%) Rundeck
13 2 (0.52%) SolarWinds Orion
13 2 (0.52%) ZABBIX
14 1 (0.26%) WhatsUp Gold
Vendors
1 273 (70.73%) Cisco
2 94 (24.35%) Juniper
3 78 (20.21%) Palo Alto
4 67 (17.36%) VMware
5 58 (15.03%) CheckPoint
6 53 (13.73%) Microsoft
7 39 (10.10%) SolarWinds
8 32 (8.29%) F5
9 31 (8.03%) Fortinet
10 29 (7.51%) Arista
11 22 (5.70%) Dell
12 21 (5.44%) Citrix
13 17 (4.40%) Symantec
14 15 (3.89%) Nokia
14 15 (3.89%) Veeam
15 14 (3.63%) EMC
15 14 (3.63%) Meraki
16 13 (3.37%) Extreme Networks
16 13 (3.37%) HP
16 13 (3.37%) Oracle