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 28 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 117 80 64
Rank change year-on-year -37 -16 +23
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 43 20 44
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 1.34% 1.45% 2.28%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.06% 4.44% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 10 23
10th Percentile £163 £179 £265
25th Percentile £210 £196 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% - -18.18%
75th Percentile £450 £547 £619
90th Percentile - £574 £775
England median daily rate £496 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -5.48% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.43 - -
Median hourly rate £63.14 - -
75th Percentile £67.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £57.50 £21.87
% change year-on-year +9.80% +162.92% -65.69%

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 1,060 450 630
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.02% 32.68% 32.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 742 305 406
10th Percentile £325 £150 £289
25th Percentile £408 £313 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £495 £492
Median % change year-on-year -5.25% +0.71% -8.98%
75th Percentile £541 £588 £593
90th Percentile £650 £692 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 20 36
10th Percentile £17.93 £17.84 £14.00
25th Percentile £25.00 £18.51 £21.81
Median hourly rate £52.50 £28.18 £28.50
Median % change year-on-year +86.30% -1.12% +46.15%
75th Percentile £67.84 £50.00 £46.88
90th Percentile £75.00 £59.10 £58.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +35.71% -12.50% -25.93%

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 28 May 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 28 May 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 15 £425 -45.16% 2
Worcestershire - 8 £175 - 5
Coventry -12 7 £450 +114.29%
Birmingham -24 7 £425 -12.82% 11
Herefordshire -5 3 - - 1
Solihull -13 1 - - 1
Shropshire - 1 - -
Staffordshire - 1 £420 - 2
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 6 (13.95%) Confluence
2 2 (4.65%) Apache
2 2 (4.65%) CloudStack
3 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) AWS
2 7 (16.28%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (6.98%) GitHub
5 2 (4.65%) IaaS
6 1 (2.33%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.33%) Entra ID
6 1 (2.33%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 18 (41.86%) LAN
2 13 (30.23%) WAN
2 13 (30.23%) WLAN
3 11 (25.58%) Wireless
4 10 (23.26%) Firewall
4 10 (23.26%) SD-WAN
5 9 (20.93%) VLAN
5 9 (20.93%) Wi-Fi
6 8 (18.60%) 5G
6 8 (18.60%) BGP
6 8 (18.60%) OSPF
7 7 (16.28%) Internet
7 7 (16.28%) VPN
8 5 (11.63%) Cisco ISE
9 4 (9.30%) 802.11
9 4 (9.30%) BIG-IP
9 4 (9.30%) Cisco Wireless
9 4 (9.30%) Network Security
10 3 (6.98%) SAN
11 2 (4.65%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) JIRA
2 3 (6.98%) Chocolatey
General
1 16 (37.21%) Social Skills
2 6 (13.95%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.63%) Telecoms
4 3 (6.98%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.98%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 16 (37.21%) Network Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Wireless Engineer
2 6 (13.95%) Wireless Network Engineer
3 5 (11.63%) Administrator
3 5 (11.63%) DevSecOps Engineer
4 4 (9.30%) Lead
5 3 (6.98%) Architect
5 3 (6.98%) IT Support
5 3 (6.98%) IT Support Technician
5 3 (6.98%) IT Technician
5 3 (6.98%) Support Technician
5 3 (6.98%) WAN Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Cisco Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Network Administrator
6 2 (4.65%) Network Architect
6 2 (4.65%) Senior Network Engineer
6 2 (4.65%) Test Analyst
6 2 (4.65%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.30%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (4.65%) RFC 2544
3 1 (2.33%) OAuth
3 1 (2.33%) OAuth2
3 1 (2.33%) OpenID
3 1 (2.33%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.33%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (16.28%) Hybrid Cloud
2 5 (11.63%) Analytical Mindset
2 5 (11.63%) Data Centre
3 3 (6.98%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.65%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 14 (32.56%) Windows
2 13 (30.23%) Linux
3 6 (13.95%) Windows Server
4 2 (4.65%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (27.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 10 (23.26%) Agile
2 10 (23.26%) Disaster Recovery
3 9 (20.93%) ITIL
3 9 (20.93%) User Experience
4 8 (18.60%) Containerisation
4 8 (18.60%) Infrastructure as Code
4 8 (18.60%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (16.28%) DevSecOps
5 7 (16.28%) Migration
5 7 (16.28%) Network Segmentation
6 6 (13.95%) Capacity Planning
6 6 (13.95%) CI/CD
6 6 (13.95%) Collaborative Working
7 5 (11.63%) Collaborative Culture
7 5 (11.63%) Customer Service
7 5 (11.63%) Load Balancing
7 5 (11.63%) Scrum
7 5 (11.63%) Software Delivery
8 4 (9.30%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.98%) Bash
1 3 (6.98%) PowerShell
1 3 (6.98%) Python
2 1 (2.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 26 (60.47%) CCNP
2 17 (39.53%) CCNA
3 16 (37.21%) Security Cleared
4 13 (30.23%) CCIE
5 11 (25.58%) SC Cleared
6 8 (18.60%) AWS Certification
6 8 (18.60%) DV Cleared
7 7 (16.28%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (11.63%) MCSE
8 5 (11.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 4 (9.30%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 4 (9.30%) CCIE Wireless
9 4 (9.30%) CISSP
9 4 (9.30%) CWDP
9 4 (9.30%) CWNA
9 4 (9.30%) CWNE
9 4 (9.30%) CWSP
10 3 (6.98%) Degree
10 3 (6.98%) RHCA
11 2 (4.65%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (6.98%) Cyber Essentials
2 3 (6.98%) GDPR
2 3 (6.98%) NCSC
3 2 (4.65%) NIST
4 1 (2.33%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 8 (18.60%) Docker
2 5 (11.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (6.98%) Hyper-V
4 2 (4.65%) Active Directory
4 2 (4.65%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (23.26%) Kubernetes
1 10 (23.26%) Terraform
2 4 (9.30%) Ansible
3 3 (6.98%) Podman
4 2 (4.65%) Check_MK
4 2 (4.65%) Grafana
4 2 (4.65%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.33%) FortiGate
5 1 (2.33%) SCOM
5 1 (2.33%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 29 (67.44%) Cisco
2 11 (25.58%) Microsoft
3 9 (20.93%) Aruba
3 9 (20.93%) Ekahau
4 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
4 6 (13.95%) VMware
5 5 (11.63%) Palo Alto
6 4 (9.30%) F5
7 3 (6.98%) Atlassian
7 3 (6.98%) Fortinet
8 2 (4.65%) Commvault
8 2 (4.65%) Veeam
8 2 (4.65%) Verint
9 1 (2.33%) BeyondTrust
9 1 (2.33%) Citrix
9 1 (2.33%) CyberArk
9 1 (2.33%) Dell
9 1 (2.33%) Juniper
9 1 (2.33%) Okta