CCIE Routing and Switching Contract Job Trends

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Routing and Switching
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCIE Routing and Switching qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 578 535 601
Rank change year-on-year -43 +66 +170
Contract jobs citing CCIE Routing and Switching 4 8 7
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.011% 0.022% 0.015%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.033% 0.076% 0.052%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 8 5
10th Percentile £458 £556 £410
25th Percentile £469 £574 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £650 £450
Median % change year-on-year -19.23% +44.44% -21.74%
75th Percentile £569 £675 £475
90th Percentile £573 - £535
UK excluding London median daily rate - £580 £450
% change year-on-year - +28.89% -18.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCIE Routing and Switching 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 12,126 10,544 13,419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.42% 29.53% 29.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,881 6,411 8,455
10th Percentile £306 £307 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,015 505 755
10th Percentile £17.06 £18.94 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.23 £24.18 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £45.46 £66.00 £67.66
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.90
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.01% +15.32%

CCIE Routing and Switching
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCIE Routing and Switching relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

CCIE Routing and Switching job vacancy trend in the UK

CCIE Routing and Switching
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCIE Routing and Switching.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCIE Routing and Switching

CCIE Routing and Switching
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCIE Routing and Switching.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCIE Routing and Switching

CCIE Routing and Switching
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE Routing and Switching within the UK over the 6 months to 13 December 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 -40 3 £500 -23.08%
London -8 1 £500 -23.08%
UK excluding London -39 1 - -
Midlands - 1 - -
West Midlands - 1 - -

CCIE Routing and Switching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Sentinel
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) BGP
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) Network Security
2 2 (50.00%) OSPF
2 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) 5G
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ASA
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (25.00%) DHCP
3 1 (25.00%) NaaS
3 1 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
3 1 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless Security
3 1 (25.00%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Administrator
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) CSOC
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
2 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (25.00%) Identity Access Management
2 1 (25.00%) Incident Response
2 1 (25.00%) Information Security
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (25.00%) MITRE ATT&CK
2 1 (25.00%) Network Management
2 1 (25.00%) Network Optimisation
2 1 (25.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Security Operations
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) SOAR
2 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (25.00%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCIE
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) CCNP
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE Security
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE Wireless
3 1 (25.00%) CCSA
3 1 (25.00%) CCSE
3 1 (25.00%) CEH
3 1 (25.00%) CISM
3 1 (25.00%) CWSP
3 1 (25.00%) Degree
3 1 (25.00%) DV Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIA
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) QRadar
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) Aruba
2 1 (25.00%) BeyondTrust
2 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (25.00%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (25.00%) Extreme Networks
2 1 (25.00%) F5
2 1 (25.00%) Forcepoint
2 1 (25.00%) IBM
2 1 (25.00%) Juniper
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Okta
2 1 (25.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (25.00%) Qualys
2 1 (25.00%) Rapid7
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Tenable
2 1 (25.00%) Zscaler