Cisco Certification Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cisco Certification
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 72 80
Rank change year-on-year -57 +8 +7
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 38 36 32
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.11% 2.19% 1.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.25% 6.78% 4.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 16 19
10th Percentile £251 £213 £263
25th Percentile £346 £379 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.11% - +20.00%
75th Percentile £450 £541 £681
90th Percentile £534 £594 £775
England median daily rate £500 £534 £515
% change year-on-year -6.37% +3.69% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 £29.00 -
Median hourly rate £63.14 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +110.45% - -
75th Percentile £67.84 £34.25 -
90th Percentile - £39.80 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £48.00 £23.94
% change year-on-year +31.53% +100.54% -60.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,170 531 652
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 34.20% 32.26% 34.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 836 348 416
10th Percentile £337 £160 £310
25th Percentile £406 £347 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £475 £517
Median % change year-on-year -2.11% -8.12% -4.26%
75th Percentile £544 £581 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 47 24
10th Percentile £16.42 £18.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £30.28 £21.94 £18.14
Median hourly rate £52.50 £30.00 £36.25
Median % change year-on-year +75.00% -17.24% +33.03%
75th Percentile £67.84 £43.63 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £51.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +118.69% -41.51% -21.82%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 29 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the West Midlands

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Cisco Certification
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 Cisco Certification within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 29 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
Warwickshire -13 13 £388 -16.22% 2
Birmingham -18 9 £425 -5.56% 2
Coventry - 6 £450 - 2
Herefordshire -3 4 - -
Worcestershire - 3 - - 2
Staffordshire -11 1 £420 - 1
Solihull -18 1 - -
Shropshire - 1 - -
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (10.53%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Apache
2 2 (5.26%) CloudStack
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) AWS
2 6 (15.79%) Azure
2 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.53%) GitHub
4 2 (5.26%) IaaS
5 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.63%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 14 (36.84%) LAN
2 13 (34.21%) Wireless
3 11 (28.95%) WLAN
4 10 (26.32%) SD-WAN
4 10 (26.32%) WAN
4 10 (26.32%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (21.05%) 5G
5 8 (21.05%) BGP
5 8 (21.05%) OSPF
6 7 (18.42%) Cisco Wireless
6 7 (18.42%) Firewall
6 7 (18.42%) Internet
6 7 (18.42%) VLAN
7 5 (13.16%) Cisco ISE
7 5 (13.16%) Network Security
8 4 (10.53%) 802.11
8 4 (10.53%) VPN
9 3 (7.89%) BIG-IP
9 3 (7.89%) MPLS
9 3 (7.89%) SAN
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) JIRA
General
1 17 (44.74%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
3 3 (7.89%) Finance
3 3 (7.89%) Public Sector
3 3 (7.89%) Telecoms
4 2 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (47.37%) Network Engineer
2 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Architect
3 4 (10.53%) Wireless Engineer
3 4 (10.53%) Wireless Network Engineer
4 3 (7.89%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Cybersecurity Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Data Centre Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Field Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Network Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Network Architect
5 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Security Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (5.26%) Test Analyst
5 2 (5.26%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (10.53%) 802.1X
2 2 (5.26%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (5.26%) RFC 2544
3 1 (2.63%) OAuth
3 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.63%) OpenID
3 1 (2.63%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (13.16%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.16%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (7.89%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.26%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (5.26%) Operational Technology
4 2 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (26.32%) Windows
2 9 (23.68%) Linux
3 7 (18.42%) Windows Server
4 2 (5.26%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (28.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (23.68%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (23.68%) User Experience
4 7 (18.42%) Agile
4 7 (18.42%) Capacity Planning
4 7 (18.42%) Containerisation
4 7 (18.42%) Infrastructure as Code
4 7 (18.42%) Network Segmentation
5 6 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
5 6 (15.79%) ITIL
5 6 (15.79%) Migration
6 5 (13.16%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (13.16%) DevSecOps
6 5 (13.16%) Information Security
6 5 (13.16%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (10.53%) Analytics
7 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
7 4 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 4 (10.53%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) Bash
1 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 4 (10.53%) Python
2 1 (2.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (60.53%) CCNP
2 16 (42.11%) CCNA
3 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
4 11 (28.95%) CCIE
5 9 (23.68%) SC Cleared
6 7 (18.42%) DV Cleared
7 6 (15.79%) AWS Certification
7 6 (15.79%) MCSE
7 6 (15.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (15.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (13.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 5 (13.16%) CCIE Wireless
8 5 (13.16%) CISSP
9 4 (10.53%) CWDP
9 4 (10.53%) CWNA
9 4 (10.53%) CWNE
9 4 (10.53%) CWSP
9 4 (10.53%) RHCA
10 3 (7.89%) Degree
11 2 (5.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (10.53%) Cyber Essentials
2 4 (10.53%) NCSC
3 2 (5.26%) GDPR
3 2 (5.26%) NIST
4 1 (2.63%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (2.63%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.63%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Docker
2 6 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (10.53%) Hyper-V
4 2 (5.26%) Active Directory
4 2 (5.26%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Kubernetes
2 8 (21.05%) Terraform
3 4 (10.53%) Ansible
3 4 (10.53%) Podman
4 2 (5.26%) Check_MK
4 2 (5.26%) FortiGate
4 2 (5.26%) Grafana
4 2 (5.26%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.63%) SCOM
5 1 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 28 (73.68%) Cisco
2 9 (23.68%) Aruba
2 9 (23.68%) Ekahau
3 8 (21.05%) Microsoft
4 7 (18.42%) VMware
5 5 (13.16%) ServiceNow
6 4 (10.53%) Atlassian
7 3 (7.89%) F5
7 3 (7.89%) Fortinet
7 3 (7.89%) Palo Alto
8 2 (5.26%) Commvault
8 2 (5.26%) Veeam
9 1 (2.63%) Citrix
9 1 (2.63%) CyberArk
9 1 (2.63%) Dell
9 1 (2.63%) Juniper
9 1 (2.63%) Meraki
9 1 (2.63%) Motorola
9 1 (2.63%) Okta
9 1 (2.63%) Salesforce