CCIE Routing and Switching Contracts

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 15 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 553 - 684
Rank change year-on-year - - +166
Contract jobs citing CCIE Routing and Switching 5 0 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% - 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.050% - 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £458 - £378
25th Percentile £469 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £500
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.09%
75th Percentile £569 - £594
90th Percentile £573 - £643
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £500
% change year-on-year - - -13.04%

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 10,013 12,761 15,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.80% 29.85% 26.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,182 7,954 10,051
10th Percentile £281 £310 £349
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £706 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 1,084 737
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £15.25
25th Percentile £19.44 £20.43 £23.43
Median hourly rate £26.81 £41.50 £55.32
Median % change year-on-year -35.39% -24.98% +24.31%
75th Percentile £58.34 £65.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.17 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £53.67
% change year-on-year -41.51% -19.87% +46.03%

CCIE Routing and Switching
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCIE Routing and Switching as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE Routing and Switching in the UK

CCIE Routing and Switching
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCIE Routing and Switching.

Daily rate trend for CCIE Routing and Switching in the UK

CCIE Routing and Switching
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCIE Routing and Switching.

Hourly rate trend for CCIE Routing and Switching in the UK

CCIE Routing and Switching
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 Routing and Switching within the UK over the 6 months to 15 July 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 - 4 £500 - 3
UK excluding London - 3 - -
Midlands - 3 - -
West Midlands - 3 - -
London - 1 £500 - 2

CCIE Routing and Switching
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (80.00%) DHCP
2 4 (80.00%) DNS
2 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 4 (80.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 3 (60.00%) Wireless
4 2 (40.00%) VPN
5 1 (20.00%) BGP
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (20.00%) EIGRP
5 1 (20.00%) Ethereal
5 1 (20.00%) LAN
5 1 (20.00%) MPLS
5 1 (20.00%) OSPF
5 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
5 1 (20.00%) VLAN
5 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (20.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Network Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Network Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) High Availability
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 2 (40.00%) Capacity Planning
2 2 (40.00%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) Network Management
3 1 (20.00%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Tuning
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCIE
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
3 1 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) OpenView
2 1 (20.00%) Ansible
2 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 3 (60.00%) F5
2 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 1 (20.00%) Extreme Networks
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds