Cisco Certification Contracts 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 75 73 81
Rank change year-on-year -2 +8 +52
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 31 40 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.08% 1.95% 1.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.54% 5.81% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 23 19
10th Percentile £195 £258 £250
25th Percentile £243 £306 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -
75th Percentile £538 £569 £750
90th Percentile £550 £775 £763
England median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £15.00
75th Percentile £34.25 - -
90th Percentile £39.80 - -
England median hourly rate £32.50 £24.87 £62.00
% change year-on-year +30.68% -59.89% +353.88%

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 474 689 586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.88% 33.58% 26.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 428 362
10th Percentile £150 £289 £313
25th Percentile £325 £363 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £540
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -7.41% +13.68%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £638
90th Percentile £700 £712 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 36 18
10th Percentile £18.65 £14.00 £11.70
25th Percentile £25.15 £21.81 £12.80
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £20.35
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +40.03% +40.36%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.88 £33.50
90th Percentile £51.50 £58.75 £60.05
England median hourly rate £28.60 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -32.71% -22.73% +32.53%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the West Midlands

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the West Midlands

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 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the West Midlands

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the West Midlands

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 1 July 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
Birmingham +8 13 £450 - 31
Staffordshire +7 7 - - 16
Warwickshire -3 6 £775 +3.33% 12
Herefordshire - 3 £488 - 4
Solihull 0 2 - -
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 5 (16.13%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (3.23%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 18 (58.06%) Firewall
1 18 (58.06%) WAN
2 17 (54.84%) Wireless
3 15 (48.39%) DHCP
4 13 (41.94%) DNS
4 13 (41.94%) LAN
5 12 (38.71%) Network Security
6 9 (29.03%) SD-WAN
7 7 (22.58%) BGP
7 7 (22.58%) Cisco Nexus
7 7 (22.58%) OSPF
8 6 (19.35%) Cisco IOS
8 6 (19.35%) EIGRP
8 6 (19.35%) Wireshark
8 6 (19.35%) WLAN
9 5 (16.13%) MPLS
9 5 (16.13%) PuTTY
9 5 (16.13%) VLAN
10 4 (12.90%) TCP/IP
10 4 (12.90%) VPN
General
1 7 (22.58%) Manufacturing
2 6 (19.35%) Social Skills
3 4 (12.90%) Telecoms
4 3 (9.68%) Legal
5 2 (6.45%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (6.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.23%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (38.71%) Network Engineer
2 7 (22.58%) Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Support Analyst
4 4 (12.90%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (12.90%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (9.68%) Consultant
5 3 (9.68%) Senior
5 3 (9.68%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Network Architect
6 2 (6.45%) Network Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Network Support
6 2 (6.45%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Network Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Senior Technical Consultant
6 2 (6.45%) Support Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) NOC Engineer
7 1 (3.23%) Security Technical Consultant
7 1 (3.23%) Technical Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.81%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.13%) Virtual Team
3 2 (6.45%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.45%) Driving Licence
3 2 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (6.45%) Security Posture
4 1 (3.23%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.23%) Operational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.90%) Windows
2 3 (9.68%) Windows 10
3 1 (3.23%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (22.58%) Computer Science
1 7 (22.58%) ITIL
2 6 (19.35%) Change Management
2 6 (19.35%) High Availability
2 6 (19.35%) Project Management
3 5 (16.13%) Mentoring
3 5 (16.13%) Process Improvement
4 4 (12.90%) Network Design
4 4 (12.90%) Service Management
5 3 (9.68%) Problem Management
5 3 (9.68%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (9.68%) Root Cause Analysis
6 2 (6.45%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (6.45%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (6.45%) Data Protection
6 2 (6.45%) Network Monitoring
6 2 (6.45%) Network Optimisation
6 2 (6.45%) Network Segmentation
6 2 (6.45%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (6.45%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.68%) Python
2 1 (3.23%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (61.29%) CCNP
2 17 (54.84%) CCNA
3 10 (32.26%) Degree
4 8 (25.81%) CCIE
5 6 (19.35%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (16.13%) Security Cleared
7 3 (9.68%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 3 (9.68%) DV Cleared
8 2 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (3.23%) CCIE Security
9 1 (3.23%) CCSE
9 1 (3.23%) CCSM
9 1 (3.23%) CISSP
9 1 (3.23%) JNCIA
9 1 (3.23%) JNCIS
9 1 (3.23%) MCP
9 1 (3.23%) MCSA
9 1 (3.23%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (3.23%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) SLA
2 1 (3.23%) Def Stans
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.23%) Hyper-V
2 1 (3.23%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) OpenView
2 3 (9.68%) Ansible
2 3 (9.68%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (6.45%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (6.45%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.23%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 27 (87.10%) Cisco
2 8 (25.81%) Fortinet
3 7 (22.58%) F5
4 6 (19.35%) Microsoft
4 6 (19.35%) Remedy
5 5 (16.13%) Peregrine
6 4 (12.90%) Juniper
6 4 (12.90%) SolarWinds
7 3 (9.68%) Meraki
7 3 (9.68%) Palo Alto
8 2 (6.45%) Arista
8 2 (6.45%) Zscaler
9 1 (3.23%) BMC
9 1 (3.23%) CheckPoint
9 1 (3.23%) Huawei
9 1 (3.23%) Infoblox
9 1 (3.23%) Oracle
9 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow
9 1 (3.23%) VMware