Cisco Certification Contracts 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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 70 96
Rank change year-on-year -13 +26 +35
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 12 46 36
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.88% 2.41% 1.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.83% 7.44% 5.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 23 17
10th Percentile £171 £265 £250
25th Percentile £190 £331 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -26.11% +20.00% +3.88%
75th Percentile £472 £619 £619
90th Percentile £541 £775 £745
England median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £15.00
England median hourly rate £72.50 £20.74 £62.00
% change year-on-year +249.57% -66.55% +125.45%

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 424 618 627
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.13% 32.32% 27.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 389 381
10th Percentile £150 £275 £300
25th Percentile £285 £359 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.91% -11.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £599 £575 £613
90th Percentile £700 £682 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 34 28
10th Percentile £15.22 £14.00 £11.70
25th Percentile £18.22 £22.08 £13.31
Median hourly rate £22.50 £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +50.00% +9.95%
75th Percentile £40.79 £43.44 £27.54
90th Percentile £59.30 £58.75 £60.05
England median hourly rate £40.84 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year +2.10% -23.81% +32.91%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the West Midlands

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 12 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the West Midlands

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the West Midlands

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 12 May 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 +3 5 £450 - 11
Solihull +3 2 - -
Coventry +3 2 £210 -41.05% 6
Warwickshire -7 2 - - 15
Herefordshire - 1 £450 -
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (33.33%) WAN
2 4 (33.33%) Wireless
3 3 (25.00%) BGP
3 3 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 3 (25.00%) Internet
3 3 (25.00%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) MPLS
3 3 (25.00%) Network Security
3 3 (25.00%) OSPF
3 3 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 3 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (16.67%) DHCP
4 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 2 (16.67%) NGFW
5 1 (8.33%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (8.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
General
1 3 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Back Office
2 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Network Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Architect
4 1 (8.33%) IP Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (8.33%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (8.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (16.67%) SCADA
3 1 (8.33%) Client/Server
3 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Change Management
1 3 (25.00%) Configuration Management
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 2 (16.67%) Network Design
2 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
2 2 (16.67%) Strategic Planning
2 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (8.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (8.33%) Data Protection
3 1 (8.33%) High Availability
3 1 (8.33%) ITIL
3 1 (8.33%) Migration
3 1 (8.33%) Network Management
3 1 (8.33%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (8.33%) Network Planning
3 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) CCNP
2 5 (41.67%) CCNA
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (25.00%) Degree
3 3 (25.00%) Security Cleared
4 2 (16.67%) CCIE
4 2 (16.67%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (8.33%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) DV Cleared
5 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Ansible
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (16.67%) Meraki
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (8.33%) Arista
3 1 (8.33%) BMC
3 1 (8.33%) F5
3 1 (8.33%) Huawei
3 1 (8.33%) Infoblox
3 1 (8.33%) Juniper
3 1 (8.33%) Remedy
3 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (8.33%) Zscaler