Cisco Certification Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cisco Certification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 175 181 187
Rank change year-on-year +6 +6 +100
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 130 171 343
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 1.31% 1.11% 1.33%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.71% 4.03% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 116 210
10th Percentile £362 £300 £363
25th Percentile £406 £337 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -4.31%
75th Percentile £575 £641 £650
90th Percentile £625 £751 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £513 £500
% change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 14
10th Percentile £21.23 £16.69 £31.88
25th Percentile £25.31 £19.06 £47.50
Median hourly rate £36.75 £22.12 £63.75
Median % change year-on-year +66.14% -65.30% +48.26%
75th Percentile £52.31 £24.50 £80.25
90th Percentile £58.88 £46.13 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £23.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +182.61% -62.90% +42.96%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

Cisco Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Certification trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cisco Certification.

Cisco Certification daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cisco Certification daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Cisco Certification.

Cisco Certification hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Cisco Certification hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (1.54%) OpenStack
Applications
1 15 (11.54%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (26.92%) Azure
2 23 (17.69%) AWS
3 8 (6.15%) GCP
4 6 (4.62%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (3.08%) Cloudflare
6 3 (2.31%) IaaS
6 3 (2.31%) PaaS
6 3 (2.31%) SaaS
7 2 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.54%) OCI
7 2 (1.54%) OpenShift
8 1 (0.77%) Akamai
8 1 (0.77%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (0.77%) AWS CloudFormation
8 1 (0.77%) AWS KMS
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Key Vault
8 1 (0.77%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.77%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.77%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 67 (51.54%) Firewall
2 44 (33.85%) BGP
3 43 (33.08%) VPN
4 42 (32.31%) Network Security
5 37 (28.46%) OSPF
6 35 (26.92%) WAN
7 28 (21.54%) MPLS
8 27 (20.77%) LAN
9 24 (18.46%) Wireless
10 21 (16.15%) TCP/IP
11 20 (15.38%) DNS
12 18 (13.85%) Cisco Nexus
13 15 (11.54%) Multicast
14 12 (9.23%) SD-WAN
15 11 (8.46%) DHCP
15 11 (8.46%) Ethernet VPN
16 10 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
16 10 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
17 8 (6.15%) Broadband
17 8 (6.15%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.54%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 11 (8.46%) JIRA
2 6 (4.62%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.77%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.77%) Git
3 1 (0.77%) GitLab
3 1 (0.77%) Jenkins
General
1 46 (35.38%) Social Skills
2 30 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (20.00%) Finance
4 17 (13.08%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.62%) Telecoms
6 3 (2.31%) Banking
6 3 (2.31%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (2.31%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.54%) Back Office
7 2 (1.54%) French Language
7 2 (1.54%) German Language
7 2 (1.54%) Local Government
7 2 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.54%) Retail
8 1 (0.77%) Advertising
8 1 (0.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.77%) Investment Banking
8 1 (0.77%) Legal
8 1 (0.77%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 61 (46.92%) Network Engineer
2 20 (15.38%) Architect
3 15 (11.54%) Senior
4 13 (10.00%) Cisco Engineer
5 11 (8.46%) Security Architect
6 10 (7.69%) Security Engineer
6 10 (7.69%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 9 (6.92%) Network Architect
8 8 (6.15%) Network Security Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) Principal Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) Principal Network Engineer
8 8 (6.15%) Senior Network Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Analyst
9 6 (4.62%) Cloud Architect
9 6 (4.62%) Consultant
9 6 (4.62%) Implementation Engineer
9 6 (4.62%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.85%) Network Consultant
10 5 (3.85%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.69%) Flash
2 3 (2.31%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.54%) LDAP
3 2 (1.54%) SAML
4 1 (0.77%) .NET
4 1 (0.77%) HTML
4 1 (0.77%) React
4 1 (0.77%) REST
4 1 (0.77%) SOAP
4 1 (0.77%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.77%) Data Centre
2 10 (7.69%) Clustering
3 9 (6.92%) Security Posture
4 6 (4.62%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (3.85%) PKI
6 4 (3.08%) Public Cloud
6 4 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (2.31%) Cloud Native
7 3 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (2.31%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.31%) Security Operations Centre
8 2 (1.54%) Client/Server
8 2 (1.54%) Cyberattack
8 2 (1.54%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (1.54%) SCADA
8 2 (1.54%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.77%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.77%) Driving Licence
9 1 (0.77%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.69%) Windows
2 7 (5.38%) Linux
3 2 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.77%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.69%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (19.23%) Migration
3 21 (16.15%) Computer Science
4 20 (15.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 19 (14.62%) Agile
6 18 (13.85%) Network Monitoring
7 17 (13.08%) ITIL
8 16 (12.31%) High Availability
9 15 (11.54%) Validation
10 12 (9.23%) Critical Thinking
10 12 (9.23%) Mentoring
10 12 (9.23%) Network Virtualisation
10 12 (9.23%) Service Management
11 11 (8.46%) Network Architecture
12 10 (7.69%) Cybersecurity
12 10 (7.69%) NsoIT
12 10 (7.69%) Power Management
12 10 (7.69%) System Testing
12 10 (7.69%) Waterfall
12 10 (7.69%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.08%) Python
2 6 (4.62%) PowerShell
3 5 (3.85%) Bash
4 2 (1.54%) Perl
4 2 (1.54%) PL/SQL
4 2 (1.54%) SQL
5 1 (0.77%) Bicep
5 1 (0.77%) Java
5 1 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.77%) PHP
5 1 (0.77%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 76 (58.46%) CCNP
2 54 (41.54%) CCNA
3 33 (25.38%) Security Cleared
4 32 (24.62%) SC Cleared
5 31 (23.85%) CCIE
6 30 (23.08%) Degree
7 13 (10.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 12 (9.23%) CISSP
8 12 (9.23%) Computer Science Degree
8 12 (9.23%) Master's Degree
8 12 (9.23%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 8 (6.15%) Azure Certification
10 6 (4.62%) AWS Certification
10 6 (4.62%) CCSP
11 5 (3.85%) CCIE Service Provider
12 4 (3.08%) CEH
13 3 (2.31%) CCDP
13 3 (2.31%) GCIH
13 3 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
13 3 (2.31%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (6.92%) NIST
2 6 (4.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 5 (3.85%) SLA
4 4 (3.08%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.31%) HIPAA
6 2 (1.54%) GDPR
7 1 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.77%) NCSC
7 1 (0.77%) QA
System Software
1 18 (13.85%) VMware Infrastructure
2 13 (10.00%) VMware NSX
3 10 (7.69%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (3.08%) Active Directory
5 2 (1.54%) vSphere
6 1 (0.77%) Docker
6 1 (0.77%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (10.77%) Ansible
2 12 (9.23%) FortiGate
3 11 (8.46%) vCenter Server
4 6 (4.62%) ZABBIX
5 4 (3.08%) Terraform
6 3 (2.31%) Nagios
6 3 (2.31%) Progress Chef
7 2 (1.54%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.77%) Cisco LMS
8 1 (0.77%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.77%) Kubernetes
8 1 (0.77%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.77%) Opsgenie
8 1 (0.77%) Puppet
Vendors
1 91 (70.00%) Cisco
2 21 (16.15%) Fortinet
2 21 (16.15%) VMware
3 20 (15.38%) Palo Alto
4 18 (13.85%) Microsoft
5 16 (12.31%) F5
6 14 (10.77%) SolarWinds
7 13 (10.00%) CheckPoint
8 11 (8.46%) Juniper
9 10 (7.69%) Atlassian
9 10 (7.69%) Zscaler
10 9 (6.92%) Arista
10 9 (6.92%) Meraki
11 7 (5.38%) Google
12 6 (4.62%) Citrix
12 6 (4.62%) Nokia
13 5 (3.85%) Aruba
13 5 (3.85%) Infoblox
14 4 (3.08%) Oracle
14 4 (3.08%) ServiceNow