CCIE Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 98 116
Rank change year-on-year -28 +18 +54
Contract jobs citing CCIE 11 7 1
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.49% 0.42% 0.054%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.31% 1.44% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 -
75th Percentile £547 - -
90th Percentile £565 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £506
% change year-on-year -12.50% +18.52% -7.95%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 839 487 563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.26% 29.28% 30.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 575 326 349
10th Percentile £295 £219 £300
25th Percentile £423 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £576 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £706 £675
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 15 30
10th Percentile £14.00 £20.20 £17.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.58 £23.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £35.00 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.64% +0.72% +73.75%
75th Percentile £28.08 £46.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £46.18 £52.50 £70.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £48.56 £52.50
% change year-on-year -48.21% -7.50% +16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

CCIE job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CCIE

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Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CCIE

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Coventry -12 5 £525 -
Warwickshire -11 4 £475 -5.00%
Birmingham -5 1 - -
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) AWS
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 6 (54.55%) GCP
3 3 (27.27%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (27.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (18.18%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 11 (100.00%) Firewall
2 8 (72.73%) SD-WAN
2 8 (72.73%) WAN
3 7 (63.64%) LAN
3 7 (63.64%) VPN
3 7 (63.64%) WLAN
4 6 (54.55%) DNS
5 5 (45.45%) BGP
5 5 (45.45%) Network Security
5 5 (45.45%) OSPF
5 5 (45.45%) Wireless
6 4 (36.36%) DHCP
6 4 (36.36%) IPv4
6 4 (36.36%) IPv6
6 4 (36.36%) MPLS
6 4 (36.36%) VLAN
6 4 (36.36%) VXLAN
7 3 (27.27%) Cisco ISE
7 3 (27.27%) EIGRP
7 3 (27.27%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (27.27%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Architect
1 7 (63.64%) Network Architect
2 4 (36.36%) Solutions Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Administrator
3 3 (27.27%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Network Security Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Security Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Cisco Administrator
5 1 (9.09%) Consultant
5 1 (9.09%) Network Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Data Centre
2 2 (18.18%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (18.18%) Operational Technology
2 2 (18.18%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Network Design
2 8 (72.73%) Network Architecture
3 7 (63.64%) ITIL
4 6 (54.55%) Zero Trust
5 5 (45.45%) Cybersecurity
5 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
6 4 (36.36%) Roadmaps
6 4 (36.36%) Security Architecture
6 4 (36.36%) Strategic Thinking
6 4 (36.36%) TOGAF
7 3 (27.27%) Analytical Thinking
7 3 (27.27%) Business Strategy
7 3 (27.27%) Cost Optimisation
7 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
7 3 (27.27%) Network Management
7 3 (27.27%) Network Segmentation
7 3 (27.27%) Network Virtualisation
7 3 (27.27%) Performance Monitoring
7 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) CCNP
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (54.55%) CISSP
3 4 (36.36%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 4 (36.36%) AWS Certification
3 4 (36.36%) CCSP
3 4 (36.36%) Degree
4 3 (27.27%) Azure Certification
4 3 (27.27%) CCIE Security
5 2 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (18.18%) JNCIE
5 2 (18.18%) JNCIP
6 1 (9.09%) CCIE Routing and Switching
6 1 (9.09%) CCIE Wireless
6 1 (9.09%) CWSP
6 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) GDPR
2 4 (36.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (36.36%) NIST
2 4 (36.36%) PCI DSS
3 1 (9.09%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (27.27%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (27.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (54.55%) Ansible
1 6 (54.55%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (81.82%) Cisco
1 9 (81.82%) Palo Alto
2 7 (63.64%) Fortinet
3 6 (54.55%) F5
4 4 (36.36%) Juniper
4 4 (36.36%) Meraki
4 4 (36.36%) SolarWinds
5 3 (27.27%) VMware
6 2 (18.18%) CheckPoint
6 2 (18.18%) Forcepoint
7 1 (9.09%) Aruba
7 1 (9.09%) Zscaler