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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 62 101
Rank change year-on-year -22 +39 +37
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 13 49 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.97% 2.52% 1.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.13% 7.64% 5.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 24 20
10th Percentile £175 £258 £250
25th Percentile £193 £309 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +35.71%
75th Percentile £538 £553 £620
90th Percentile £788 £775 £711
England median daily rate £536 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +4.54% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
England median hourly rate £72.50 £24.00 £63.75
% change year-on-year +202.08% -62.35% +123.68%

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 415 641 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.86% 32.92% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 406 394
10th Percentile £150 £269 £313
25th Percentile £293 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £450 £528
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 27
10th Percentile £16.97 £14.00 £11.60
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.16 £13.31
Median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%
75th Percentile £41.97 £49.38 £24.16
90th Percentile £59.40 £58.75 £60.90
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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 May 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 May 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 +7 4 £318 -29.44% 10
Warwickshire -1 4 £775 +3.33% 7
Coventry +6 2 £210 -53.33% 4
Solihull +6 2 - -
Herefordshire - 1 £450 -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (15.38%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (53.85%) Firewall
2 3 (23.08%) BGP
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (23.08%) EIGRP
2 3 (23.08%) Internet
2 3 (23.08%) Network Security
2 3 (23.08%) OSPF
2 3 (23.08%) WAN
2 3 (23.08%) Wi-Fi
2 3 (23.08%) Wireless
3 2 (15.38%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (15.38%) DHCP
3 2 (15.38%) Ethernet
3 2 (15.38%) LAN
3 2 (15.38%) MPLS
3 2 (15.38%) NGFW
3 2 (15.38%) SD-WAN
4 1 (7.69%) HTTP
4 1 (7.69%) IPv4
4 1 (7.69%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle Reports
General
1 3 (23.08%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Back Office
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 3 (23.08%) Senior
3 2 (15.38%) Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Network Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Security Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Architect
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Security Architect
4 1 (7.69%) IP Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
1 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
1 2 (15.38%) SCADA
2 1 (7.69%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (30.77%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (23.08%) Change Management
1 3 (23.08%) Configuration Management
1 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (23.08%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (15.38%) Architectural Patterns
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Security
2 2 (15.38%) Contract Management
2 2 (15.38%) Data Loss Prevention
2 2 (15.38%) Design Patterns
2 2 (15.38%) DevSecOps
2 2 (15.38%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (15.38%) Information Governance
2 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
2 2 (15.38%) SDLC
2 2 (15.38%) Security Hardening
2 2 (15.38%) Security Testing
2 2 (15.38%) SIEM
2 2 (15.38%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.69%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) CCNP
2 5 (38.46%) CCNA
2 5 (38.46%) Degree
3 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (23.08%) Security Cleared
4 2 (15.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 2 (15.38%) CCSP
4 2 (15.38%) CISSP
4 2 (15.38%) Citrix Certification
4 2 (15.38%) Master's Degree
5 1 (7.69%) CCIE
5 1 (7.69%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
5 1 (7.69%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) CASB
2 1 (7.69%) Ansible
2 1 (7.69%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 6 (46.15%) Cisco
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Oracle
2 2 (15.38%) Palo Alto
2 2 (15.38%) TOWER Software
3 1 (7.69%) Arista
3 1 (7.69%) BMC
3 1 (7.69%) F5
3 1 (7.69%) Fortinet
3 1 (7.69%) Huawei
3 1 (7.69%) Infoblox
3 1 (7.69%) Juniper
3 1 (7.69%) Meraki
3 1 (7.69%) Remedy
3 1 (7.69%) SolarWinds
3 1 (7.69%) Zscaler