CCIE Data Center Contracts

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Data Center
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCIE Data Center 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 514 573 714
Rank change year-on-year +59 +141 -
Contract jobs citing CCIE Data Center 6 9 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.020% 0.021% 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.067% 0.068% 0.025%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £725 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £750 £450
Median % change year-on-year -33.33% +66.67% -
75th Percentile £520 £775 £591
90th Percentile £532 - £660
UK excluding London median daily rate £540 £750 £450
% change year-on-year -28.00% +66.67% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCIE Data Center 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%

CCIE Data Center
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCIE Data Center as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE Data Center in the UK

CCIE Data Center
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCIE Data Center.

Daily rate trend for CCIE Data Center in the UK

CCIE Data Center
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE Data Center 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
England +51 3 £540 -28.00% 1
Work from Home +41 3 £500 -
London - 2 - - 1
UK excluding London +55 1 £540 -28.00%
East of England - 1 £540 -

CCIE Data Center
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (66.67%) OpenStack
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) BGP
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco Nexus
1 5 (83.33%) Ethernet VPN
1 5 (83.33%) OSPF
1 5 (83.33%) VXLAN
2 4 (66.67%) Multicast
2 4 (66.67%) NX-OS
2 4 (66.67%) TCP/IP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (66.67%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
3 1 (16.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Consultant
1 4 (66.67%) Network Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Consultant
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco Network Consultant
3 1 (16.67%) Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 4 (66.67%) Linux Command Line
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
1 2 (33.33%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (16.67%) IT Strategy
2 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
2 1 (16.67%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
2 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) CCIE
1 6 (100.00%) CCNP
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
System Software
1 4 (66.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 4 (66.67%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (66.67%) Ansible
1 4 (66.67%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 4 (66.67%) Red Hat
2 4 (66.67%) VMware