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

6 months to
2 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 81 62
Rank change year-on-year -25 -19 +38
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 44 18 51
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.62% 1.31% 2.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.49% 4.13% 8.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 11 20
10th Percentile £163 £208 £200
25th Percentile £361 £481 £243
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £435 £525 £419
Median % change year-on-year -17.14% +25.37% -17.08%
75th Percentile £459 £650 £475
90th Percentile £528 £788 £491
England median daily rate £500 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +7.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
Median hourly rate - - £23.00
England median hourly rate £42.71 £72.50 £24.50
% change year-on-year -41.10% +195.92% -6.67%

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 979 436 626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 36.02% 31.64% 32.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 284 390
10th Percentile £313 £177 £263
25th Percentile £413 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £515 £450
Median % change year-on-year -4.47% +14.44% -11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £568
90th Percentile £650 £704 £646
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 17 41
10th Percentile £14.00 £16.97 £17.13
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 £58.75
90th Percentile £34.00 £39.14 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -49.70% +21.95% -14.58%

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 2 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 2 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 -10 10 £450 -41.94% 2
Birmingham -13 10 - - 5
Coventry -13 10 £475 +126.19% 1
Worcestershire - 9 £175 - 8
Solihull -6 1 - - 1
Herefordshire -21 1 £513 -2.38% 2
Shropshire - 1 £380 - 2
Staffordshire - 1 £420 - 5
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 (15.91%) SharePoint
2 5 (11.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (15.91%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (29.55%) AWS
2 9 (20.45%) Azure
3 6 (13.64%) GCP
4 3 (6.82%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (6.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.55%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (2.27%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.27%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 19 (43.18%) Firewall
2 18 (40.91%) Wireless
3 17 (38.64%) BGP
4 16 (36.36%) LAN
5 14 (31.82%) WAN
6 13 (29.55%) VPN
7 12 (27.27%) Cisco ISE
7 12 (27.27%) DNS
8 11 (25.00%) VLAN
8 11 (25.00%) VXLAN
8 11 (25.00%) WLAN
9 10 (22.73%) DHCP
9 10 (22.73%) OSPF
10 9 (20.45%) Network Security
10 9 (20.45%) SD-WAN
11 7 (15.91%) Cisco Wireless
11 7 (15.91%) NX-OS
12 6 (13.64%) MPLS
13 4 (9.09%) IPv4
13 4 (9.09%) IPv6
Development Applications
1 11 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (6.82%) Chocolatey
General
1 11 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (15.91%) Banking
2 7 (15.91%) Investment Banking
3 5 (11.36%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.36%) Telecoms
4 4 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.82%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (2.27%) Legal
7 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 17 (38.64%) Network Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Architect
2 9 (20.45%) Wireless Engineer
2 9 (20.45%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 8 (18.18%) Network Architect
4 7 (15.91%) Administrator
4 7 (15.91%) Cisco Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
4 7 (15.91%) Lead
4 7 (15.91%) RF Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) DevSecOps Engineer
5 4 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.82%) IT Support
6 3 (6.82%) IT Support Technician
6 3 (6.82%) IT Technician
6 3 (6.82%) Network Security Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Security Architect
6 3 (6.82%) Support Technician
7 2 (4.55%) Network Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.55%) RFC 2544
2 1 (2.27%) OAuth
2 1 (2.27%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.27%) OpenID
2 1 (2.27%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (34.09%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (4.55%) Fibre Optics
3 2 (4.55%) Operational Technology
3 2 (4.55%) SCADA
4 1 (2.27%) NHS
4 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (15.91%) Linux
1 7 (15.91%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.27%) ITIL
2 9 (20.45%) Network Design
3 8 (18.18%) Agile
3 8 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
3 8 (18.18%) Network Architecture
3 8 (18.18%) Network Segmentation
3 8 (18.18%) User Experience
3 8 (18.18%) Zero Trust
4 6 (13.64%) DevSecOps
4 6 (13.64%) Load Balancing
4 6 (13.64%) Security Architecture
4 6 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
5 5 (11.36%) CI/CD
5 5 (11.36%) Network Management
5 5 (11.36%) Roadmaps
5 5 (11.36%) Service Management
6 4 (9.09%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 4 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
6 4 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.91%) Lisp
2 4 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (77.27%) CCNP
2 14 (31.82%) CCIE
2 14 (31.82%) Security Cleared
3 13 (29.55%) CCNA
4 9 (20.45%) AWS Certification
4 9 (20.45%) CISSP
5 7 (15.91%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 7 (15.91%) SC Cleared
6 6 (13.64%) Degree
7 5 (11.36%) CCSP
7 5 (11.36%) DV Cleared
8 3 (6.82%) Azure Certification
8 3 (6.82%) CCIE Security
9 2 (4.55%) ISTQB
9 2 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (4.55%) JNCIE
9 2 (4.55%) JNCIP
9 2 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (2.27%) CWSP
10 1 (2.27%) Novell Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (18.18%) GDPR
2 7 (15.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (13.64%) NIST
4 4 (9.09%) PCI DSS
5 2 (4.55%) NCSC
6 1 (2.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (2.27%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Docker
2 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.82%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.27%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.27%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 11 (25.00%) Terraform
2 10 (22.73%) FortiGate
3 6 (13.64%) Ansible
4 4 (9.09%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.27%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 30 (68.18%) Cisco
2 12 (27.27%) Palo Alto
3 11 (25.00%) ServiceNow
4 9 (20.45%) Ekahau
5 8 (18.18%) F5
6 7 (15.91%) Fortinet
6 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
6 7 (15.91%) Remedy
7 5 (11.36%) Juniper
8 4 (9.09%) Aruba
8 4 (9.09%) Meraki
8 4 (9.09%) SolarWinds
9 3 (6.82%) CheckPoint
9 3 (6.82%) VMware
10 2 (4.55%) Forcepoint
10 2 (4.55%) Verint
11 1 (2.27%) BeyondTrust
11 1 (2.27%) CyberArk
11 1 (2.27%) Oracle
11 1 (2.27%) Zscaler