CCIP Contract Job Trends

Cisco Certified Internetwork Professional (CCIP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCIP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 593 519 602
Rank change year-on-year -74 +83 +152
Contract jobs citing CCIP 2 1 3
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.003% 0.007%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.011% 0.022%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £454 - -
25th Percentile £456 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £462 - -
75th Percentile £465 - -
90th Percentile £467 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £23.45
25th Percentile - £18.50 £23.75
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year - -22.45% -6.67%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £24.88
90th Percentile - - £24.95
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £19.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year - -24.00% +4.17%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCIP 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 13,088 9,382 13,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.85% 29.83% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,634 5,651 8,426
10th Percentile £317 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £623 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 452 918
10th Percentile £15.67 £19.35 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.10 £24.18 £21.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.52 £46.39
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -14.81% +3.09%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.71 £65.83
90th Percentile £76.26 £77.47 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.94 £47.50
% change year-on-year -42.76% -7.49% +5.56%

CCIP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CCIP job vacancy trend in the UK

CCIP
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

CCIP
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

CCIP
Top 1 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 January 2026. 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 -7 1 £468 - 3

CCIP
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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) Hardhat
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Blockchain Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Smart Contracts
1 2 (100.00%) web3js
2 1 (50.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (50.00%) Next.js
2 1 (50.00%) Node.js
2 1 (50.00%) React
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) ZK
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blockchain
1 2 (100.00%) Web3
2 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) DeFi
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven
2 1 (50.00%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) Solidity
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript
2 1 (50.00%) Bash
2 1 (50.00%) Rust
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Foundry