CCIE Contract Job Trends

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 488 429 438
Rank change year-on-year -59 +9 +209
Contract jobs citing CCIE 76 129 194
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.23% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 1.18% 1.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 75 137
10th Percentile £361 £375 £320
25th Percentile £450 £450 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +10.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £580
90th Percentile £675 £773 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £563 £486
% change year-on-year -6.67% +15.74% -11.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £100.50 - -
Median hourly rate £103.00 - -
75th Percentile £105.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £103.00 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCIE 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 10,803 10,915 13,504
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.25% 29.29% 28.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,797 6,630 8,694
10th Percentile £290 £311 £313
25th Percentile £413 £420 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £636 £650
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £538
% change year-on-year -2.91% -4.19% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 905 539 744
10th Percentile £17.08 £18.13 £16.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.34 £26.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £53.67
Median % change year-on-year -47.05% -11.49% +19.26%
75th Percentile £39.50 £67.63 £68.75
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £79.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £51.90
% change year-on-year -49.70% -3.65% +15.32%

CCIE
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CCIE job vacancy trend in the UK

CCIE
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

CCIE
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCIE over the 6 months to 22 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCIE in the UK

CCIE
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

CCIE
Top 13 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 within the UK over the 6 months to 22 October 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 -32 64 £550 -3.30% 46
UK excluding London -30 46 £525 -6.67% 35
London -8 25 £573 -0.43% 22
Work from Home -9 19 £593 +7.73% 33
South East +11 17 £621 -5.51% 16
West Midlands -16 12 £550 +10.00% 5
Midlands -28 12 £550 +4.76% 6
Scotland -3 7 £455 +13.75% 4
East of England -6 5 £95 -83.11% 2
North West -16 3 £475 -9.52% 3
North of England -35 3 £475 -9.52% 5
South West +13 1 £625 - 1
Northern Ireland -8 1 £600 - 1

CCIE
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (18.42%) OpenStack
2 4 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (2.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.95%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 21 (27.63%) AWS
2 17 (22.37%) Azure
3 8 (10.53%) OpenShift
4 6 (7.89%) GCP
5 2 (2.63%) IaaS
5 2 (2.63%) PaaS
5 2 (2.63%) SaaS
6 1 (1.32%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.32%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 43 (56.58%) BGP
2 42 (55.26%) Firewall
3 38 (50.00%) WAN
4 34 (44.74%) OSPF
5 29 (38.16%) LAN
6 27 (35.53%) MPLS
7 26 (34.21%) Network Security
8 22 (28.95%) SD-WAN
9 20 (26.32%) VPN
10 17 (22.37%) Wireless
11 15 (19.74%) DNS
12 11 (14.47%) Cisco Nexus
12 11 (14.47%) DHCP
13 10 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
14 9 (11.84%) Multicast
14 9 (11.84%) VLAN
15 8 (10.53%) VoIP
16 7 (9.21%) Cisco ASA
16 7 (9.21%) Ethernet VPN
16 7 (9.21%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (6.58%) Git
3 2 (2.63%) GitLab
General
1 32 (42.11%) Social Skills
2 10 (13.16%) Documentation Skills
3 9 (11.84%) Finance
3 9 (11.84%) Telecoms
4 7 (9.21%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.58%) Banking
6 4 (5.26%) Legal
7 3 (3.95%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (30.26%) Architect
1 23 (30.26%) Network Engineer
2 15 (19.74%) Senior
3 14 (18.42%) Network Architect
4 9 (11.84%) Senior Network Engineer
5 8 (10.53%) Consultant
5 8 (10.53%) Designer
6 6 (7.89%) IP Architect
6 6 (7.89%) IP Designer
6 6 (7.89%) IP Specialist
7 4 (5.26%) Lead
7 4 (5.26%) Network Security Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Security Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Automation Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Network Consultant
8 3 (3.95%) Network Specialist
8 3 (3.95%) Technical Consultant
9 2 (2.63%) Senior Consultant
9 2 (2.63%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (10.53%) NETCONF
1 8 (10.53%) REST
1 8 (10.53%) YANG
2 4 (5.26%) 802.1X
3 2 (2.63%) eBPF
3 2 (2.63%) Jinja
3 2 (2.63%) RESTCONF
4 1 (1.32%) gRPC
Miscellaneous
1 25 (32.89%) Data Centre
2 18 (23.68%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (11.84%) Cloud Native
4 4 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 4 (5.26%) Security Posture
5 2 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.63%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.63%) Operational Technology
5 2 (2.63%) SCADA
6 1 (1.32%) CMDB
6 1 (1.32%) Distributed Systems
6 1 (1.32%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.32%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.32%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.32%) Replication
6 1 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.32%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.21%) Linux
1 7 (9.21%) Windows
2 3 (3.95%) Unix
3 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (23.68%) Network Design
2 14 (18.42%) Network Architecture
2 14 (18.42%) Network Virtualisation
3 13 (17.11%) DevOps
3 13 (17.11%) TOGAF
4 11 (14.47%) Network Segmentation
4 11 (14.47%) Roadmaps
5 10 (13.16%) High Availability
5 10 (13.16%) ITIL
5 10 (13.16%) Strategic Thinking
6 9 (11.84%) Incident Response
6 9 (11.84%) Validation
7 8 (10.53%) Change Control
8 7 (9.21%) Capacity Planning
8 7 (9.21%) Data Protection
8 7 (9.21%) Enterprise Architecture
8 7 (9.21%) Migration
8 7 (9.21%) Network Monitoring
8 7 (9.21%) Technical Leadership
9 6 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.74%) Python
2 2 (2.63%) Bash
2 2 (2.63%) C
3 1 (1.32%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 76 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (52.63%) CCNP
3 23 (30.26%) JNCIE
4 13 (17.11%) Security Cleared
5 8 (10.53%) AWS Certification
5 8 (10.53%) SC Cleared
6 7 (9.21%) Degree
7 6 (7.89%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 6 (7.89%) CISSP
8 5 (6.58%) JNCIP
9 4 (5.26%) CCIE Collaboration
9 4 (5.26%) CCSE
9 4 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 3 (3.95%) CCIE Security
10 3 (3.95%) CCNA
11 2 (2.63%) CCIE Data Center
11 2 (2.63%) CCIE Wireless
11 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
11 2 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.63%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (3.95%) SLA
3 2 (2.63%) NIST
4 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (9.21%) VMware Infrastructure
1 7 (9.21%) VMware NSX
2 4 (5.26%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.63%) Docker
3 2 (2.63%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.32%) KVM
Systems Management
1 39 (51.32%) Ansible
2 16 (21.05%) Terraform
3 5 (6.58%) Kubernetes
4 4 (5.26%) Cisco CUCM
4 4 (5.26%) OpenView
5 3 (3.95%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.63%) Iperf
6 2 (2.63%) Nmap
7 1 (1.32%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (1.32%) HAProxy
7 1 (1.32%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 57 (75.00%) Cisco
2 24 (31.58%) Fortinet
3 20 (26.32%) F5
4 14 (18.42%) Palo Alto
5 13 (17.11%) Arista
5 13 (17.11%) Juniper
6 9 (11.84%) CheckPoint
7 8 (10.53%) VMware
8 7 (9.21%) Meraki
8 7 (9.21%) Zscaler
9 5 (6.58%) Microsoft
9 5 (6.58%) SolarWinds
10 3 (3.95%) Remedy
10 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow
11 2 (2.63%) Aruba
11 2 (2.63%) Genesys
11 2 (2.63%) NVIDIA
11 2 (2.63%) Red Hat
11 2 (2.63%) Wind River
12 1 (1.32%) LogicMonitor