CCDE Contracts

Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCDE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 518 - 716
Rank change year-on-year - - +135
Contract jobs citing CCDE 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% - 0.003%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.022% - 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £633
25th Percentile £563 - £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 - £675
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.85%
75th Percentile £588 - £694
90th Percentile - - £698
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 - £675

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,993 13,316 16,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.72% 30.57% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,686 8,190 10,861
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £533 £530
% change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 1,076 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%

CCDE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCDE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCDE in the UK

CCDE
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCDE.

Daily rate trend for CCDE in the UK

CCDE
Top 4 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Work from Home - 1 - - 2
UK excluding London - 1 £575 - 1
South East - 1 £575 -
England - 1 £575 - 2

CCDE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Aviation
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) AIX
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Solaris
1 1 (50.00%) Unix
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Secure Coding
1 1 (50.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) VB
1 1 (50.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CCDP
1 1 (50.00%) CCIE
1 1 (50.00%) CCNP
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) CyberArk
1 1 (50.00%) HP
1 1 (50.00%) IBM