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 9 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 105 76 63
Rank change year-on-year -29 -13 +38
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 43 19 50
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.55% 1.42% 2.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.38% 4.50% 7.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 12 19
10th Percentile £163 £194 £200
25th Percentile £359 £389 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +23.53% -15.00%
75th Percentile £450 £613 £475
90th Percentile £518 £781 £508
England median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
England median hourly rate £42.71 £72.50 £24.87
% change year-on-year -41.10% +191.52% -19.12%

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 981 422 635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.42% 31.59% 32.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 718 281 394
10th Percentile £315 £163 £263
25th Percentile £413 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £510 £450
Median % change year-on-year -3.92% +13.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £563 £620 £575
90th Percentile £650 £706 £650
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 17 45
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.97 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.30 £18.50 £22.33
Median hourly rate £20.00 £23.60 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year -15.25% -17.19% +42.50%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £56.25
90th Percentile £65.25 £39.14 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.77 £52.50 £40.00
% change year-on-year -50.91% +31.25% -19.80%

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 9 March 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 9 March 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 -11 11 £450 -41.94% 1
Worcestershire - 10 £175 - 6
Birmingham -17 9 - - 4
Coventry -17 9 £475 +126.19%
Solihull -7 1 - - 2
Shropshire - 1 £380 - 1
Staffordshire - 1 £420 - 4
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 7 (16.28%) SharePoint
2 6 (13.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (16.28%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (32.56%) AWS
2 9 (20.93%) Azure
3 6 (13.95%) GCP
4 3 (6.98%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (6.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.65%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (44.19%) Wireless
2 17 (39.53%) LAN
3 16 (37.21%) BGP
3 16 (37.21%) Firewall
4 14 (32.56%) WAN
5 12 (27.91%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (27.91%) WLAN
6 11 (25.58%) VLAN
6 11 (25.58%) VPN
6 11 (25.58%) VXLAN
7 10 (23.26%) DHCP
7 10 (23.26%) DNS
7 10 (23.26%) SD-WAN
8 9 (20.93%) OSPF
9 8 (18.60%) Cisco Wireless
10 7 (16.28%) Network Security
10 7 (16.28%) NX-OS
11 6 (13.95%) MPLS
12 4 (9.30%) Internet
12 4 (9.30%) IPv4
Development Applications
1 12 (27.91%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) Chocolatey
General
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 7 (16.28%) Banking
2 7 (16.28%) Investment Banking
3 5 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
4 4 (9.30%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (9.30%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.98%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.65%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.33%) Legal
7 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (41.86%) Network Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) Wireless Engineer
2 10 (23.26%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Administrator
3 7 (16.28%) Architect
3 7 (16.28%) Cisco Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Lead
3 7 (16.28%) RF Engineer
4 6 (13.95%) Network Architect
5 5 (11.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.98%) IT Support
7 3 (6.98%) IT Support Technician
7 3 (6.98%) IT Technician
7 3 (6.98%) Support Technician
8 2 (4.65%) Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Test Analyst
8 2 (4.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.65%) RFC 2544
2 1 (2.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth
2 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.33%) OpenID
2 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.88%) Data Centre
2 5 (11.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.65%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.33%) NHS
4 1 (2.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 8 (18.60%) Linux
1 8 (18.60%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) ITIL
2 9 (20.93%) Agile
2 9 (20.93%) User Experience
3 8 (18.60%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (16.28%) DevSecOps
4 7 (16.28%) Network Design
5 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
5 6 (13.95%) Load Balancing
5 6 (13.95%) Network Architecture
5 6 (13.95%) Network Segmentation
5 6 (13.95%) Security Architecture
5 6 (13.95%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (13.95%) Zero Trust
6 5 (11.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure as Code
6 5 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (11.63%) Network Management
6 5 (11.63%) Scrum
6 5 (11.63%) Service Management
6 5 (11.63%) Software Delivery
Programming Languages
1 7 (16.28%) Lisp
2 4 (9.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (74.42%) CCNP
2 14 (32.56%) CCNA
2 14 (32.56%) Security Cleared
3 13 (30.23%) CCIE
4 10 (23.26%) AWS Certification
5 7 (16.28%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 7 (16.28%) CISSP
5 7 (16.28%) SC Cleared
6 6 (13.95%) Degree
7 5 (11.63%) CCSP
7 5 (11.63%) DV Cleared
8 3 (6.98%) Azure Certification
8 3 (6.98%) CCIE Security
9 2 (4.65%) CCIE Wireless
9 2 (4.65%) CWSP
9 2 (4.65%) ISTQB
9 2 (4.65%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (4.65%) JNCIE
9 2 (4.65%) JNCIP
9 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.60%) GDPR
2 7 (16.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (13.95%) NIST
4 4 (9.30%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.65%) NCSC
6 1 (2.33%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 5 (11.63%) Docker
2 3 (6.98%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.98%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.33%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.33%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (27.91%) Terraform
2 8 (18.60%) FortiGate
3 6 (13.95%) Ansible
4 5 (11.63%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (69.77%) Cisco
2 11 (25.58%) ServiceNow
3 10 (23.26%) Ekahau
3 10 (23.26%) Palo Alto
4 8 (18.60%) F5
4 8 (18.60%) Microsoft
5 7 (16.28%) Fortinet
5 7 (16.28%) Remedy
6 5 (11.63%) Aruba
7 4 (9.30%) Juniper
7 4 (9.30%) Meraki
8 3 (6.98%) SolarWinds
8 3 (6.98%) VMware
9 2 (4.65%) Forcepoint
9 2 (4.65%) Verint
10 1 (2.33%) BeyondTrust
10 1 (2.33%) CheckPoint
10 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
10 1 (2.33%) Okta
10 1 (2.33%) Zscaler