Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends

Cisco Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 216 161 180
Rank change year-on-year -55 +19 -22
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 668 547 572
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 1.27% 1.68% 1.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.04% 5.46% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 435 343 353
10th Percentile £253 £325 £313
25th Percentile £401 £439 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £505
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% +3.96% +1.00%
75th Percentile £588 £608 £608
90th Percentile £688 £685 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £523 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.50% +2.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 19 31
10th Percentile £36.41 - £12.00
25th Percentile £55.00 £29.00 £15.56
Median hourly rate £62.50 £41.50 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +50.60% +66.87% -59.89%
75th Percentile £74.38 £63.25 £45.63
90th Percentile £89.60 £91.70 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.82 £30.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +109.39% +30.43% -62.90%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Cisco Certification 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 16,518 10,025 12,378
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.33% 30.76% 29.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,028 6,216 7,798
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -0.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £713 £703 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,196 738 985
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.16
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £52.25 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.75% -41.51% -25.00%
75th Percentile £73.00 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £85.81 £75.00 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 21 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Top 17 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 21 July 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
England -50 550 £500 -4.76% 265
UK excluding London -41 424 £475 -9.09% 241
London -61 182 £500 -4.76% 80
Work from Home -39 153 £500 -5.66% 54
North of England -31 126 £525 +3.75% 52
South East -38 114 £468 -2.95% 64
North West +8 91 £525 +10.53% 21
Scotland +12 48 £378 -16.11% 16
South West -49 44 £535 -6.96% 40
Midlands -50 44 £425 -5.56% 22
West Midlands -47 40 £420 -6.67% 17
Yorkshire -64 34 £576 +4.68% 22
East of England -14 30 £190 -69.60% 28
Wales -13 16 £600 +41.18% 14
East Midlands -22 3 £475 -15.56% 5
Northern Ireland - 2 £575 - 10
North East -45 1 - - 9

Cisco Certification
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 (2.10%) Confluence
2 11 (1.65%) OpenStack
3 3 (0.45%) Apache
3 3 (0.45%) CloudStack
4 1 (0.15%) CMS
4 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 1 (0.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 27 (4.04%) MS Visio
2 22 (3.29%) Microsoft Office
3 18 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
4 7 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 206 (30.84%) Azure
2 161 (24.10%) AWS
3 67 (10.03%) GCP
4 35 (5.24%) Entra ID
5 28 (4.19%) Azure Sentinel
6 26 (3.89%) Microsoft 365
7 14 (2.10%) SaaS
8 12 (1.80%) GitHub
8 12 (1.80%) IaaS
9 10 (1.50%) PaaS
10 9 (1.35%) Azure DevOps
10 9 (1.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 9 (1.35%) OpenShift
11 8 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (0.75%) Azure Key Vault
13 4 (0.60%) AWS Direct Connect
13 4 (0.60%) Azure AKS
13 4 (0.60%) Nutanix
14 3 (0.45%) Azure API Management
14 3 (0.45%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Communications & Networking
1 287 (42.96%) Firewall
2 211 (31.59%) WAN
3 177 (26.50%) LAN
4 160 (23.95%) Network Security
5 155 (23.20%) BGP
6 124 (18.56%) VPN
7 118 (17.66%) OSPF
8 107 (16.02%) DNS
9 104 (15.57%) Wireless
10 89 (13.32%) VLAN
11 73 (10.93%) DHCP
12 70 (10.48%) SAN
13 66 (9.88%) SD-WAN
14 64 (9.58%) Wi-Fi
15 63 (9.43%) MPLS
16 59 (8.83%) TCP/IP
17 57 (8.53%) VXLAN
18 46 (6.89%) Cisco ISE
19 44 (6.59%) Cisco Nexus
20 40 (5.99%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.45%) Data Lake
2 2 (0.30%) Big Data
3 1 (0.15%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.15%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 25 (3.74%) JIRA
2 15 (2.25%) Git
3 9 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
4 6 (0.90%) Snyk
5 5 (0.75%) GitLab
5 5 (0.75%) Jenkins
6 3 (0.45%) Bitbucket
7 2 (0.30%) Burp Suite
8 1 (0.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (0.15%) Browser DevTools
8 1 (0.15%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.15%) Claude Code
General
1 203 (30.39%) Social Skills
2 107 (16.02%) Analytical Skills
3 75 (11.23%) Finance
4 58 (8.68%) Telecoms
5 53 (7.93%) Public Sector
6 41 (6.14%) Documentation Skills
7 27 (4.04%) Banking
8 14 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (1.95%) Legal
10 10 (1.50%) Financial Institution
10 10 (1.50%) Police
11 9 (1.35%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.35%) Military
11 9 (1.35%) Organisational Skills
12 8 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (0.90%) Aerospace
13 6 (0.90%) Local Government
13 6 (0.90%) Retail
14 3 (0.45%) Aviation
14 3 (0.45%) Law
Job Titles
1 249 (37.28%) Network Engineer
2 114 (17.07%) Architect
3 58 (8.68%) Senior
4 51 (7.63%) Field Engineer
4 51 (7.63%) Security Architect
5 44 (6.59%) Field Service Engineer
5 44 (6.59%) IT Engineer
6 41 (6.14%) Network Architect
7 38 (5.69%) Consultant
8 35 (5.24%) Security Engineer
9 34 (5.09%) Senior Network Engineer
10 28 (4.19%) Cisco Engineer
11 27 (4.04%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 23 (3.44%) Lead
13 22 (3.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 21 (3.14%) Support Engineer
15 19 (2.84%) Security Consultant
16 18 (2.69%) Analyst
16 18 (2.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 18 (2.69%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (7.63%) 802.1X
2 13 (1.95%) ONVIF
3 12 (1.80%) NETCONF
3 12 (1.80%) REST
4 11 (1.65%) YANG
5 10 (1.50%) RESTful
6 6 (0.90%) OAuth
6 6 (0.90%) OpenConfig
6 6 (0.90%) RESTCONF
7 5 (0.75%) Jinja
7 5 (0.75%) OpenID
7 5 (0.75%) SailPoint
8 4 (0.60%) OAuth2
9 3 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
9 3 (0.45%) JWT
9 3 (0.45%) LDAP
9 3 (0.45%) SAML
9 3 (0.45%) SLSA
10 2 (0.30%) HTML
10 2 (0.30%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 223 (33.38%) Data Centre
2 59 (8.83%) Analytical Mindset
3 44 (6.59%) Hybrid Cloud
4 37 (5.54%) Security Posture
5 35 (5.24%) PKI
6 30 (4.49%) Public Cloud
7 23 (3.44%) Cloud Native
7 23 (3.44%) Private Cloud
8 21 (3.14%) Clustering
9 20 (2.99%) Operational Technology
10 18 (2.69%) Onboarding
11 16 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
12 14 (2.10%) Management Information System
13 13 (1.95%) Driving Licence
13 13 (1.95%) Video\Live Streaming
14 10 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (1.35%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (1.35%) SCADA
15 9 (1.35%) Virtual Team
16 8 (1.20%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 100 (14.97%) Windows
2 57 (8.53%) Linux
3 14 (2.10%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.05%) Unix
5 6 (0.90%) Ubuntu
6 2 (0.30%) Mac OS
6 2 (0.30%) VMS
6 2 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.15%) Android
7 1 (0.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.15%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.15%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 140 (20.96%) Problem-Solving
2 97 (14.52%) Cybersecurity
3 84 (12.57%) Cloud Security
4 83 (12.43%) Agile
5 74 (11.08%) Threat Modelling
6 72 (10.78%) High Availability
6 72 (10.78%) SIEM
7 68 (10.18%) Load Balancing
7 68 (10.18%) Migration
8 67 (10.03%) CI/CD
8 67 (10.03%) Project Delivery
9 66 (9.88%) Roadmaps
10 65 (9.73%) ITIL
11 64 (9.58%) Continuous Improvement
12 62 (9.28%) Security Architecture
12 62 (9.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 62 (9.28%) Zero Trust
13 59 (8.83%) Change Management
14 58 (8.68%) Infrastructure as Code
15 57 (8.53%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 87 (13.02%) Python
2 26 (3.89%) PowerShell
3 25 (3.74%) Bash
4 5 (0.75%) Bicep
4 5 (0.75%) Java
4 5 (0.75%) Search Processing Language
5 3 (0.45%) BeanShell
5 3 (0.45%) Lisp
5 3 (0.45%) Perl
6 2 (0.30%) SQL
7 1 (0.15%) C
7 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.15%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.15%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.15%) VB
Qualifications
1 330 (49.40%) CCNP
2 260 (38.92%) CCNA
3 217 (32.49%) Security Cleared
4 157 (23.50%) SC Cleared
5 147 (22.01%) CISSP
6 135 (20.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 90 (13.47%) CCIE
8 85 (12.72%) CISM
9 84 (12.57%) Degree
10 82 (12.28%) CCSP
11 78 (11.68%) Microsoft Certification
12 74 (11.08%) Network+ Certification
13 57 (8.53%) A+ Certification
14 56 (8.38%) MCSE
15 51 (7.63%) DV Cleared
16 24 (3.59%) AWS Certification
16 24 (3.59%) CEH
17 20 (2.99%) Azure Certification
18 17 (2.54%) Server+ Certification
18 17 (2.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 81 (12.13%) NIST
2 74 (11.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 33 (4.94%) NCSC
4 28 (4.19%) GDPR
5 22 (3.29%) PCI DSS
6 16 (2.40%) SLA
7 12 (1.80%) Cyber Essentials
8 11 (1.65%) GRC
8 11 (1.65%) QA
9 10 (1.50%) COBIT
10 8 (1.20%) NIST 800
11 6 (0.90%) Disclosure Scotland
11 6 (0.90%) Government Security Classifications
12 5 (0.75%) ISO 31000
12 5 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.75%) JSP 440
13 4 (0.60%) Def Stans
14 3 (0.45%) Data Quality
14 3 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 3 (0.45%) SOC 2
System Software
1 40 (5.99%) Active Directory
2 35 (5.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (2.99%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (1.80%) Docker
5 12 (1.80%) Hyper-V
5 12 (1.80%) vSphere
6 11 (1.65%) Firmware
7 6 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (0.60%) SRDF
9 2 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
10 1 (0.15%) KVM
10 1 (0.15%) Snort
Systems Management
1 81 (12.13%) Ansible
2 51 (7.63%) Terraform
3 48 (7.19%) Kubernetes
4 43 (6.44%) FortiGate
5 16 (2.40%) Grafana
5 16 (2.40%) Prometheus
6 10 (1.50%) CASB
7 8 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
8 6 (0.90%) Cisco Prime
9 5 (0.75%) OPNET
10 4 (0.60%) EMC TimeFinder
10 4 (0.60%) Nagios
10 4 (0.60%) Proxmox
10 4 (0.60%) QRadar
11 3 (0.45%) Check_MK
11 3 (0.45%) Packer
11 3 (0.45%) Podman
11 3 (0.45%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.45%) Puppet
12 2 (0.30%) Nmap
Vendors
1 343 (51.35%) Cisco
2 119 (17.81%) Microsoft
3 112 (16.77%) Palo Alto
4 92 (13.77%) Fortinet
5 76 (11.38%) Juniper
6 71 (10.63%) F5
7 59 (8.83%) VMware
8 51 (7.63%) Dell
9 44 (6.59%) Arista
10 42 (6.29%) Aruba
10 42 (6.29%) CheckPoint
10 42 (6.29%) ServiceNow
11 41 (6.14%) Splunk
12 38 (5.69%) SolarWinds
13 23 (3.44%) Extreme Networks
14 22 (3.29%) Meraki
15 18 (2.69%) Google
15 18 (2.69%) Infoblox
16 16 (2.40%) Ekahau
17 15 (2.25%) Zscaler