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

6 months to
15 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 86 66
Rank change year-on-year -5 -20 +69
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 50 28 50
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 2.36% 1.48% 2.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.17% 4.55% 8.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 17 24
10th Percentile £345 £165 £200
25th Percentile £414 £413 £258
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £456
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% +15.07% -13.10%
75th Percentile £542 £575 £663
90th Percentile £638 £750 £750
England median daily rate £525 £509 £500
% change year-on-year +3.19% +1.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £23.00
75th Percentile £34.25 - -
90th Percentile £39.80 - -
England median hourly rate £40.50 £28.70 £35.00
% change year-on-year +41.11% -18.00% +141.38%

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 811 616 560
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 38.31% 32.52% 28.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 545 395 346
10th Percentile £288 £313 £306
25th Percentile £413 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £530 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% +0.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £581 £629 £606
90th Percentile £671 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £528 £550
% change year-on-year -0.47% -4.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 16 30
10th Percentile £16.07 £20.88 £17.73
25th Percentile £18.87 £25.07 £23.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.47 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -27.03% -0.82% +43.30%
75th Percentile £40.07 £45.31 £67.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £54.88 £70.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.63 £52.50
% change year-on-year -50.32% -3.57% +16.67%

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 15 November 2025.

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 15 November 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 +6 16 £450 +164.71% 8
Warwickshire +2 10 £463 -33.93% 4
Staffordshire +9 8 £450 +5.88% 3
Coventry -8 5 £525 - 3
Herefordshire -11 5 £525 - 1
Worcestershire - 3 £375 - 2
Shropshire - 1 £380 -
Walsall - 1 - -
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 (14.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (14.00%) MS Visio
2 5 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (12.00%) AWS
1 6 (12.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.00%) GCP
3 3 (6.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 3 (6.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (4.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Stack
5 1 (2.00%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 30 (60.00%) Wireless
2 29 (58.00%) Firewall
3 27 (54.00%) DNS
4 25 (50.00%) DHCP
5 19 (38.00%) WAN
6 18 (36.00%) BGP
7 16 (32.00%) LAN
8 13 (26.00%) Network Security
9 12 (24.00%) SD-WAN
10 11 (22.00%) OSPF
10 11 (22.00%) VPN
10 11 (22.00%) VXLAN
10 11 (22.00%) WLAN
11 10 (20.00%) Cisco ISE
11 10 (20.00%) VLAN
12 8 (16.00%) NX-OS
13 7 (14.00%) Cisco Wireless
13 7 (14.00%) EIGRP
13 7 (14.00%) MPLS
13 7 (14.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (14.00%) Banking
2 7 (14.00%) Investment Banking
2 7 (14.00%) Manufacturing
3 6 (12.00%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 3 (6.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Legal
6 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) Network Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Architect
2 8 (16.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 8 (16.00%) Network Architect
3 7 (14.00%) Analyst
3 7 (14.00%) Cisco Wireless Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) RF Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Wireless Engineer
3 7 (14.00%) Wireless Network Engineer
4 5 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 4 (8.00%) Consultant
5 4 (8.00%) Lead
5 4 (8.00%) Solutions Architect
6 3 (6.00%) Network Consultant
6 3 (6.00%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Administrator
7 2 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (4.00%) Senior Consultant
7 2 (4.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 19 (38.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (12.00%) Virtual Team
3 5 (10.00%) SCADA
4 3 (6.00%) Driving Licence
4 3 (6.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (6.00%) Operational Technology
5 2 (4.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.00%) Educational Technology
6 1 (2.00%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (2.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.00%) NHS
6 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.00%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.00%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.00%) Windows
2 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (26.00%) ITIL
2 9 (18.00%) Computer Science
3 8 (16.00%) Network Design
3 8 (16.00%) Project Management
3 8 (16.00%) User Experience
4 7 (14.00%) Cybersecurity
4 7 (14.00%) Mentoring
4 7 (14.00%) Network Architecture
5 6 (12.00%) High Availability
5 6 (12.00%) Network Management
5 6 (12.00%) Problem Management
5 6 (12.00%) Zero Trust
6 5 (10.00%) Change Management
6 5 (10.00%) Load Balancing
6 5 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
6 5 (10.00%) Process Improvement
6 5 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (8.00%) Incident Management
7 4 (8.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.00%) Lisp
2 6 (12.00%) Python
3 1 (2.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 41 (82.00%) CCNP
2 23 (46.00%) CCNA
3 15 (30.00%) Degree
4 14 (28.00%) CCIE
5 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
6 7 (14.00%) CISSP
7 6 (12.00%) DV Cleared
8 5 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (8.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (8.00%) AWS Certification
9 4 (8.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 4 (8.00%) CCIE Security
9 4 (8.00%) CCSP
9 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
10 3 (6.00%) Azure Certification
11 2 (4.00%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (4.00%) JNCIE
11 2 (4.00%) JNCIP
12 1 (2.00%) CWSP
12 1 (2.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.00%) GDPR
1 5 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (8.00%) NIST
2 4 (8.00%) PCI DSS
3 3 (6.00%) SLA
4 1 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (2.00%) Def Stans
System Software
1 4 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (6.00%) VMware NSX
3 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.00%) Firmware
4 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 10 (20.00%) FortiGate
2 7 (14.00%) Ansible
3 6 (12.00%) OpenView
4 4 (8.00%) Terraform
5 3 (6.00%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (4.00%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (2.00%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 40 (80.00%) Cisco
2 13 (26.00%) F5
3 12 (24.00%) Fortinet
3 12 (24.00%) Remedy
4 9 (18.00%) Palo Alto
4 9 (18.00%) SolarWinds
5 8 (16.00%) ServiceNow
6 7 (14.00%) Ekahau
6 7 (14.00%) Juniper
7 6 (12.00%) Microsoft
8 5 (10.00%) CheckPoint
8 5 (10.00%) Meraki
8 5 (10.00%) Peregrine
9 4 (8.00%) VMware
10 2 (4.00%) Aruba
10 2 (4.00%) Forcepoint
10 2 (4.00%) Oracle
10 2 (4.00%) Zscaler
11 1 (2.00%) Arista
11 1 (2.00%) NetScout