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 16 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 145 85 87
Rank change year-on-year -60 +2 -19
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 30 45 27
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.84% 2.37% 1.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.30% 6.52% 4.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 20 17
10th Percentile £266 £345 £165
25th Percentile £388 £444 £265
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -13.51% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £450 £550 £538
90th Percentile - £638 £565
England median daily rate £500 £525 £509
% change year-on-year -4.76% +3.19% +1.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 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 £68.75 £41.50 £22.40
% change year-on-year +65.66% +85.27% -34.12%

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 1,303 690 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 36.46% 36.35% 31.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 925 456 386
10th Percentile £350 £263 £316
25th Percentile £413 £411 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £506 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.16% -6.25% +2.86%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £631
90th Percentile £657 £673 £725
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 52 13
10th Percentile £14.26 £18.02 £20.65
25th Percentile £18.58 £18.87 £23.60
Median hourly rate £32.55 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.40% -28.14% +12.90%
75th Percentile £53.75 £40.46 £50.00
90th Percentile £73.43 £50.00 £56.30
England median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +89.03% -52.10% -2.17%

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 16 October 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 16 October 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 -8 10 £333 -28.11% 2
Birmingham -7 8 £413 -15.38% 6
Coventry -17 8 £450 - 2
Herefordshire +2 2 - - 1
Shropshire - 2 £400 -
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 2 (6.67%) Apache
1 2 (6.67%) CloudStack
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (23.33%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (20.00%) AWS
2 6 (20.00%) Azure
3 2 (6.67%) GitHub
3 2 (6.67%) IaaS
4 1 (3.33%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (3.33%) AWS KMS
4 1 (3.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Key Vault
4 1 (3.33%) Azure Logic Apps
4 1 (3.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
4 1 (3.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 15 (50.00%) Wireless
2 12 (40.00%) LAN
3 11 (36.67%) WAN
4 10 (33.33%) Firewall
4 10 (33.33%) Network Security
5 8 (26.67%) SD-WAN
5 8 (26.67%) VLAN
5 8 (26.67%) WLAN
6 6 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
6 6 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (16.67%) 802.11
7 5 (16.67%) BGP
7 5 (16.67%) Cisco Wireless
7 5 (16.67%) Internet
7 5 (16.67%) OSPF
8 4 (13.33%) 5G
8 4 (13.33%) DMZ
8 4 (13.33%) Structured Cabling
8 4 (13.33%) VPN
9 3 (10.00%) SAN
General
1 17 (56.67%) Social Skills
2 9 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (20.00%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (13.33%) Finance
4 4 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (10.00%) Legal
6 2 (6.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (43.33%) Network Engineer
2 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Architect
3 4 (13.33%) Design Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Information Security Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Security Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Data Centre Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Field Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Technical Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Wireless Architect
4 2 (6.67%) Wireless Engineer
4 2 (6.67%) Wireless Network Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Deployment Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) IT Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Network Deployment Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (3.33%) Network Specialist
5 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Architect
5 1 (3.33%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (20.00%) 802.1X
2 3 (10.00%) Terraform
3 2 (6.67%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 9 (30.00%) Operational Technology
2 4 (13.33%) Analytical Mindset
2 4 (13.33%) Data Centre
3 3 (10.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 3 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 2 (6.67%) NHS
4 2 (6.67%) Public Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.33%) CMDB
5 1 (3.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (3.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (3.33%) Driving Licence
5 1 (3.33%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.33%) SCADA
5 1 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Linux
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
1 4 (13.33%) Windows Server
2 2 (6.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (43.33%) Cybersecurity
1 13 (43.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (23.33%) Cloud Security
2 7 (23.33%) Mentoring
3 6 (20.00%) Application Security
3 6 (20.00%) Data Protection
3 6 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 6 (20.00%) Information Security
3 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (16.67%) Capacity Planning
4 5 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
4 5 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (13.33%) High Availability
5 4 (13.33%) Infrastructure as Code
5 4 (13.33%) Prototyping
5 4 (13.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (13.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 4 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (13.33%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) Python
2 2 (6.67%) Bash
2 2 (6.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) CCNP
2 11 (36.67%) CCIE
2 11 (36.67%) CCNA
3 7 (23.33%) SC Cleared
3 7 (23.33%) Security Cleared
4 6 (20.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
4 6 (20.00%) CCIE Wireless
4 6 (20.00%) CISSP
4 6 (20.00%) Degree
5 5 (16.67%) CWNE
6 4 (13.33%) CCSP
6 4 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 3 (10.00%) MCSE
7 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (6.67%) Azure Certification
8 2 (6.67%) CWNA
8 2 (6.67%) CWSP
8 2 (6.67%) DV Cleared
8 2 (6.67%) Network+ Certification
8 2 (6.67%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 4 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (3.33%) GRC
2 1 (3.33%) NCSC
2 1 (3.33%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (10.00%) Hyper-V
3 2 (6.67%) Docker
3 2 (6.67%) Firmware
3 2 (6.67%) vSphere
4 1 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (13.33%) Kubernetes
2 3 (10.00%) Ansible
3 2 (6.67%) Check_MK
3 2 (6.67%) Grafana
3 2 (6.67%) Podman
3 2 (6.67%) Prometheus
4 1 (3.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 23 (76.67%) Cisco
2 9 (30.00%) Aruba
3 8 (26.67%) Fortinet
4 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
5 6 (20.00%) Meraki
6 5 (16.67%) VMware
7 4 (13.33%) Ekahau
8 3 (10.00%) CheckPoint
9 2 (6.67%) Atlassian
9 2 (6.67%) Commvault
9 2 (6.67%) Palo Alto
9 2 (6.67%) Veeam
10 1 (3.33%) Extreme Networks
10 1 (3.33%) F5
10 1 (3.33%) ForeScout
10 1 (3.33%) Infoblox
10 1 (3.33%) Juniper
10 1 (3.33%) Motorola
10 1 (3.33%) OpenAI
10 1 (3.33%) SolarWinds