Cisco Certification Contracts

Cisco Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 162 180 261
Rank change year-on-year +18 +81 -43
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 655 878 973
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.51% 1.47% 1.10%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.94% 5.37% 5.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 550 643
10th Percentile £300 £263 £263
25th Percentile £350 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% - +17.65%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £575
90th Percentile £775 £700 £663
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £435
% change year-on-year - +15.01% +8.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 52 37
10th Percentile - £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.00 £19.63 £21.00
Median hourly rate £23.00 £62.00 £43.74
Median % change year-on-year -62.90% +41.75% +9.35%
75th Percentile £41.25 £80.00 £48.45
90th Percentile £68.00 £85.05 £63.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £16.63 £62.00 £46.25
% change year-on-year -73.19% +34.05% +16.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Cisco Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,270 16,337 19,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 27.32% 21.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,165 10,899 12,575
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £530 £500
% change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,067 858 776
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.46
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.06 £19.33
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +30.12% +5.06%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £56.31
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.89
% change year-on-year -19.45% +56.79% -14.39%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Top 16 Contract 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 27 April 2024. 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 +36 588 £513 +2.50% 261
UK excluding London +10 382 £500 - 192
London +54 213 £525 -4.55% 102
Work from Home +3 171 £515 +2.32% 111
South East +36 148 £513 +2.50% 54
North of England +37 83 £445 -11.00% 39
North West +25 56 £488 -2.50% 23
Midlands +7 56 £450 - 24
West Midlands +41 49 £450 -5.26% 18
South West -16 49 £535 -2.73% 30
East of England -7 31 £345 +3.76% 21
Yorkshire +18 24 £403 -19.50% 14
Scotland +6 20 £553 +16.32% 24
East Midlands -4 7 £325 -13.33% 6
North East +17 3 £345 -17.61% 3
Wales -3 1 - - 5

Cisco Certification
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:

Application Platforms
1 22 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.22%) Confluence
4 7 (1.07%) IIS
5 4 (0.61%) IBM Domino
6 3 (0.46%) Apache
6 3 (0.46%) WebLogic
6 3 (0.46%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.31%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.31%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 22 (3.36%) Microsoft Office
2 19 (2.90%) MS Visio
3 10 (1.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 9 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 98 (14.96%) Azure
2 68 (10.38%) AWS
3 32 (4.89%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (3.97%) GCP
5 18 (2.75%) OCI
6 10 (1.53%) SaaS
7 9 (1.37%) Cloudflare
8 8 (1.22%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (0.92%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (0.92%) Entra ID
10 5 (0.76%) Nutanix
11 4 (0.61%) IaaS
11 4 (0.61%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 3 (0.46%) Akamai
12 3 (0.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 3 (0.46%) Azure Monitor
12 3 (0.46%) PaaS
13 2 (0.31%) Catchpoint
13 2 (0.31%) OneDrive
13 2 (0.31%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 238 (36.34%) Firewall
2 153 (23.36%) WAN
3 123 (18.78%) LAN
4 120 (18.32%) BGP
5 116 (17.71%) Network Security
6 110 (16.79%) VPN
7 102 (15.57%) DNS
8 95 (14.50%) OSPF
9 94 (14.35%) MPLS
10 85 (12.98%) Cisco Nexus
11 83 (12.67%) Cisco ASA
12 74 (11.30%) DHCP
12 74 (11.30%) Wireless
13 64 (9.77%) Cisco ISE
14 59 (9.01%) IPsec
15 52 (7.94%) SD-WAN
16 45 (6.87%) TCP/IP
17 40 (6.11%) Cisco IOS
17 40 (6.11%) VLAN
18 39 (5.95%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.92%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.46%) DB2
3 1 (0.15%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (1.83%) Sonatype Nexus
2 9 (1.37%) JIRA
3 7 (1.07%) Rational DOORS
4 6 (0.92%) Git
5 1 (0.15%) Hudson
5 1 (0.15%) Jenkins
General
1 196 (29.92%) Social Skills
2 107 (16.34%) Finance
3 73 (11.15%) Analytical Skills
3 73 (11.15%) Public Sector
4 59 (9.01%) Telecoms
5 43 (6.56%) Banking
6 16 (2.44%) Marketing
7 14 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (1.53%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.22%) Legal
9 8 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.22%) Retail
10 6 (0.92%) Aerospace
10 6 (0.92%) German Language
10 6 (0.92%) Local Government
11 4 (0.61%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.61%) Financial Institution
11 4 (0.61%) French Language
11 4 (0.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 4 (0.61%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 329 (50.23%) Network Engineer
2 105 (16.03%) Senior
3 83 (12.67%) Architect
4 70 (10.69%) Senior Network Engineer
5 48 (7.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 39 (5.95%) Consultant
7 36 (5.50%) Analyst
8 32 (4.89%) Cisco Engineer
8 32 (4.89%) Network Architect
9 31 (4.73%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 30 (4.58%) Security Architect
11 29 (4.43%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 26 (3.97%) Support Engineer
13 19 (2.90%) Network Consultant
14 17 (2.60%) Security Consultant
15 16 (2.44%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 16 (2.44%) Lead
15 16 (2.44%) Security Analyst
15 16 (2.44%) Security Engineer
16 15 (2.29%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.36%) XML
2 20 (3.05%) Jinja
3 18 (2.75%) NETCONF
4 17 (2.60%) JSON
5 16 (2.44%) YANG
6 12 (1.83%) FIX Protocol
6 12 (1.83%) Web Services
7 11 (1.68%) 802.1X
8 6 (0.92%) Flash
9 5 (0.76%) .NET
10 3 (0.46%) EDI
10 3 (0.46%) EJB
10 3 (0.46%) J2EE
10 3 (0.46%) JSP
10 3 (0.46%) LDAP
10 3 (0.46%) SAML
10 3 (0.46%) Servlets
10 3 (0.46%) Ultra Messaging
11 1 (0.15%) RESTful
11 1 (0.15%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 135 (20.61%) Data Centre
2 28 (4.27%) Management Information System
3 13 (1.98%) Cyber Threat
3 13 (1.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 13 (1.98%) Security Posture
4 12 (1.83%) Operational Technology
5 11 (1.68%) Clustering
5 11 (1.68%) PKI
5 11 (1.68%) Public Cloud
6 10 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
7 9 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 9 (1.37%) Distributed Architecture
7 9 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.07%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.07%) Driving Licence
8 7 (1.07%) IoT
9 6 (0.92%) Cloud Native
9 6 (0.92%) NHS
10 5 (0.76%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 72 (10.99%) Windows
2 43 (6.56%) Linux
3 28 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 24 (3.66%) Windows 10
5 17 (2.60%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (1.98%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (1.98%) Windows XP
7 11 (1.68%) Unix
8 10 (1.53%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.92%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.76%) Windows 8
11 4 (0.61%) Android
12 1 (0.15%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 138 (21.07%) Problem-Solving
2 109 (16.64%) ITIL
3 74 (11.30%) Computer Science
4 61 (9.31%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 58 (8.85%) Migration
6 54 (8.24%) Change Management
7 52 (7.94%) Customer Service
7 52 (7.94%) Cybersecurity
8 51 (7.79%) Network Design
9 45 (6.87%) Information Security
10 44 (6.72%) Project Management
11 41 (6.26%) Mentoring
11 41 (6.26%) Roadmaps
12 39 (5.95%) DevOps
13 36 (5.50%) Network Architecture
13 36 (5.50%) Network Monitoring
14 35 (5.34%) Cloud Security
15 33 (5.04%) SABSA
16 31 (4.73%) ITSM
17 30 (4.58%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 70 (10.69%) Python
2 30 (4.58%) PowerShell
3 17 (2.60%) Perl
4 11 (1.68%) Bash
4 11 (1.68%) Tcl
5 6 (0.92%) Java
5 6 (0.92%) SQL
6 2 (0.31%) C
6 2 (0.31%) C#
6 2 (0.31%) Go
6 2 (0.31%) Ruby
7 1 (0.15%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 373 (56.95%) CCNP
2 319 (48.70%) CCNA
3 165 (25.19%) Security Cleared
4 141 (21.53%) Degree
5 133 (20.31%) CCIE
6 117 (17.86%) SC Cleared
7 73 (11.15%) CISSP
8 56 (8.55%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 51 (7.79%) DV Cleared
10 44 (6.72%) CISM
11 40 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 40 (6.11%) Microsoft Certification
12 37 (5.65%) JNCIA
13 27 (4.12%) CISA
13 27 (4.12%) Network+ Certification
14 25 (3.82%) MCSE
15 23 (3.51%) CRISC
16 22 (3.36%) CCSK
16 22 (3.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 21 (3.21%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (5.34%) NIST
2 33 (5.04%) SLA
3 32 (4.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 14 (2.14%) NIST 800
5 13 (1.98%) GRC
6 11 (1.68%) QA
7 10 (1.53%) NCSC
8 8 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 8 (1.22%) PCI DSS
9 7 (1.07%) COBIT
10 6 (0.92%) GDPR
11 4 (0.61%) ISO 31000
12 3 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
12 3 (0.46%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 2 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 2 (0.31%) Disclosure Scotland
13 2 (0.31%) IASME
14 1 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 1 (0.15%) SOC 2
System Software
1 72 (10.99%) VMware Infrastructure
2 46 (7.02%) Active Directory
3 33 (5.04%) Hyper-V
4 29 (4.43%) VMware NSX
5 27 (4.12%) VMware ESXi
6 22 (3.36%) Firmware
7 12 (1.83%) vSphere
8 11 (1.68%) KVM
9 7 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
10 6 (0.92%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.15%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.15%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 45 (6.87%) Ansible
2 29 (4.43%) SCCM
3 23 (3.51%) vCenter Server
4 18 (2.75%) FortiGate
5 17 (2.60%) Terraform
6 15 (2.29%) SCOM
7 14 (2.14%) EMC NetWorker
7 14 (2.14%) WSUS
8 13 (1.98%) NetBackup
9 12 (1.83%) Nessus
10 7 (1.07%) SolarWinds Orion
11 5 (0.76%) OpenView
12 4 (0.61%) Microsoft Intune
13 3 (0.46%) ITRS Geneos
13 3 (0.46%) Kibana
13 3 (0.46%) Nagios
13 3 (0.46%) Netcool
13 3 (0.46%) WhatsUp Gold
14 2 (0.31%) OpenNMS
14 2 (0.31%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 443 (67.63%) Cisco
2 126 (19.24%) Palo Alto
3 115 (17.56%) Juniper
4 89 (13.59%) VMware
5 88 (13.44%) CheckPoint
6 87 (13.28%) Microsoft
7 67 (10.23%) F5
8 56 (8.55%) SolarWinds
9 54 (8.24%) Fortinet
10 44 (6.72%) Arista
11 36 (5.50%) Nokia
12 27 (4.12%) Infoblox
12 27 (4.12%) Meraki
13 26 (3.97%) Citrix
13 26 (3.97%) Dell
14 22 (3.36%) Zscaler
15 18 (2.75%) Symantec
16 17 (2.60%) Oracle
17 16 (2.44%) HP
17 16 (2.44%) Veeam