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

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 80 76
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +68
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 40 26 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.19% 1.37% 2.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.12% 4.24% 8.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 18 25
10th Percentile £243 £165 £220
25th Percentile £450 £274 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £550 £728 £750
90th Percentile £638 £775 -
England median daily rate £510 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +0.99% +1.00% +2.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 2
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 £48.00 £19.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +152.63% -60.00% +247.73%

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 654 613 585
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 35.74% 32.26% 28.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 436 393 350
10th Percentile £222 £324 £300
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £538 £540
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -0.37% +9.09%
75th Percentile £585 £635 £606
90th Percentile £650 £725 £708
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 12 26
10th Percentile - £20.58 £14.12
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.48 £17.88
Median hourly rate £29.09 £38.75 £27.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.93% +42.20% +36.25%
75th Percentile £41.16 £53.69 £67.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.60 £69.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £54.00 £54.44
% change year-on-year -53.43% -0.81% +20.98%

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
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 17 September 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 17 September 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 +2 13 £450 +164.71% 5
Warwickshire -3 10 £463 -38.33% 11
Staffordshire +13 8 £450 +5.88% 2
Herefordshire - 6 £519 - 1
Coventry -8 1 - - 1
Walsall - 1 - -
Worcestershire - 1 £538 - 1
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:

Applications
1 5 (12.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.50%) AWS
1 1 (2.50%) Azure
1 1 (2.50%) Azure Stack
1 1 (2.50%) Entra ID
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (62.50%) Firewall
2 19 (47.50%) Wireless
3 18 (45.00%) WAN
4 17 (42.50%) DNS
5 16 (40.00%) DHCP
6 15 (37.50%) LAN
7 12 (30.00%) Network Security
8 10 (25.00%) SD-WAN
9 8 (20.00%) BGP
9 8 (20.00%) OSPF
9 8 (20.00%) VPN
10 7 (17.50%) Cisco Nexus
10 7 (17.50%) Wireshark
10 7 (17.50%) WLAN
11 6 (15.00%) Cisco IOS
11 6 (15.00%) MPLS
11 6 (15.00%) TCP/IP
11 6 (15.00%) VLAN
12 5 (12.50%) EIGRP
12 5 (12.50%) Unified Communications
Development Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 7 (17.50%) Manufacturing
3 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
4 3 (7.50%) Legal
5 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 7 (17.50%) Analyst
3 5 (12.50%) Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Network Architect
3 5 (12.50%) Support Analyst
4 4 (10.00%) Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Cisco Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 3 (7.50%) Network Consultant
5 3 (7.50%) Senior
5 3 (7.50%) Technical Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Lead
6 2 (5.00%) Network Security Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Network Support
6 2 (5.00%) Network Support Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) NOC Engineer
6 2 (5.00%) Security Architect
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Network Consultant
6 2 (5.00%) Senior Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 10 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 6 (15.00%) Virtual Team
3 5 (12.50%) SCADA
4 3 (7.50%) Driving Licence
4 3 (7.50%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (7.50%) Operational Technology
5 2 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (5.00%) Security Posture
6 1 (2.50%) Client/Server
6 1 (2.50%) Educational Technology
6 1 (2.50%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (2.50%) Private Cloud
6 1 (2.50%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.00%) Windows
2 2 (5.00%) Windows 10
2 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (22.50%) ITIL
2 7 (17.50%) Project Management
3 6 (15.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (15.00%) High Availability
3 6 (15.00%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (12.50%) Change Management
4 5 (12.50%) Network Design
4 5 (12.50%) Network Segmentation
4 5 (12.50%) Process Improvement
5 4 (10.00%) Mentoring
5 4 (10.00%) Problem Management
5 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (10.00%) Root Cause Analysis
5 4 (10.00%) Service Management
6 3 (7.50%) Capacity Planning
6 3 (7.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 3 (7.50%) Migration
6 3 (7.50%) Network Architecture
7 2 (5.00%) Data Protection
7 2 (5.00%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.00%) Python
2 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 27 (67.50%) CCNP
2 23 (57.50%) CCNA
3 12 (30.00%) CCIE
3 12 (30.00%) Degree
4 11 (27.50%) Security Cleared
5 7 (17.50%) DV Cleared
6 5 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (10.00%) CCIE Routing and Switching
7 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
8 3 (7.50%) CISSP
9 2 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (2.50%) CCSE
10 1 (2.50%) CWSP
10 1 (2.50%) JNCIA
10 1 (2.50%) JNCIS
10 1 (2.50%) MCP
10 1 (2.50%) MCSA
10 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (2.50%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.50%) SLA
2 1 (2.50%) Def Stans
2 1 (2.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.50%) Hyper-V
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (15.00%) OpenView
2 5 (12.50%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (7.50%) Ansible
3 3 (7.50%) FortiGate
4 2 (5.00%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (2.50%) Network Intrusion Detection System
Vendors
1 31 (77.50%) Cisco
2 9 (22.50%) F5
2 9 (22.50%) Fortinet
3 6 (15.00%) Microsoft
3 6 (15.00%) SolarWinds
4 5 (12.50%) Juniper
4 5 (12.50%) Palo Alto
4 5 (12.50%) Peregrine
4 5 (12.50%) Remedy
5 4 (10.00%) CheckPoint
5 4 (10.00%) Meraki
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle
6 2 (5.00%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.50%) Arista
7 1 (2.50%) Aruba
7 1 (2.50%) NetScout
7 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
7 1 (2.50%) VMware