Cisco Certification Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 121 129 184
Rank change year-on-year +8 +55 -52
Contract jobs citing Cisco Certification 378 485 445
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.83% 2.03% 1.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.93% 6.10% 5.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 318 278
10th Percentile £297 £250 £200
25th Percentile £350 £380 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +17.65% +6.25%
75th Percentile £600 £563 £540
90th Percentile £743 £638 £601
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - +17.65%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 39 32
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £16.20
Median hourly rate £15.75 £62.00 £45.38
Median % change year-on-year -74.60% +36.64% +14.15%
75th Percentile £25.83 £77.63 £49.50
90th Percentile £68.00 £87.00 £67.56
UK median hourly rate £20.74 £62.00 £43.37
% change year-on-year -66.55% +42.96% +8.43%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

Cisco Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,660 7,954 8,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 37.00% 33.23% 26.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,409 5,340 5,270
10th Percentile £269 £280 £250
25th Percentile £425 £421 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 667 537
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.96 £16.49
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £32.37
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +54.46% -11.44%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.52
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +8.50%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
South East +40 147 £513 +2.50% 57
North of England +31 81 £450 -10.00% 44
Midlands +18 57 £438 -2.78% 19
North West +20 54 £475 -5.00% 25
West Midlands +34 50 £450 +20.00% 13
South West -12 46 £535 -2.73% 27
East of England -8 32 £323 -6.52% 21
Yorkshire +16 24 £403 -19.50% 17
Scotland +14 20 £553 +16.32% 21
East Midlands -3 7 £325 -15.58% 6
North East +16 3 £345 -17.61% 3
Wales 0 1 - - 7
Cisco Certification
UK

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.59%) Confluence
4 4 (1.06%) IIS
5 2 (0.53%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.53%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 14 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.59%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.26%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 52 (13.76%) Azure
2 31 (8.20%) AWS
3 19 (5.03%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (3.44%) OCI
5 8 (2.12%) GCP
6 5 (1.32%) Cloudflare
7 4 (1.06%) PaaS
7 4 (1.06%) SaaS
8 3 (0.79%) Akamai
9 2 (0.53%) Azure Sentinel
9 2 (0.53%) Catchpoint
9 2 (0.53%) Entra ID
9 2 (0.53%) Nutanix
10 1 (0.26%) Cloud Computing
10 1 (0.26%) IaaS
10 1 (0.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 146 (38.62%) Firewall
2 89 (23.54%) WAN
3 75 (19.84%) LAN
4 69 (18.25%) VPN
5 62 (16.40%) DNS
6 60 (15.87%) Network Security
7 54 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
8 50 (13.23%) Cisco ISE
9 49 (12.96%) BGP
10 46 (12.17%) DHCP
11 44 (11.64%) OSPF
12 42 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
13 37 (9.79%) MPLS
13 37 (9.79%) Wireless
14 36 (9.52%) SAN
15 33 (8.73%) Cisco Firepower
15 33 (8.73%) IPsec
16 30 (7.94%) Wi-Fi
17 28 (7.41%) VoIP
18 25 (6.61%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (1.85%) JIRA
1 7 (1.85%) Rational DOORS
2 6 (1.59%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.26%) Git
3 1 (0.26%) Hudson
General
1 105 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 62 (16.40%) Public Sector
3 49 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (12.70%) Finance
5 37 (9.79%) Telecoms
6 30 (7.94%) Banking
7 9 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.12%) Manufacturing
8 8 (2.12%) Marketing
9 6 (1.59%) Aerospace
9 6 (1.59%) Retail
10 5 (1.32%) Legal
11 4 (1.06%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.06%) French Language
11 4 (1.06%) German Language
11 4 (1.06%) Pharmaceutical
12 3 (0.79%) Digital Economy
12 3 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.79%) Law
Job Titles
1 194 (51.32%) Network Engineer
2 59 (15.61%) Senior
3 49 (12.96%) Architect
4 47 (12.43%) Senior Network Engineer
5 41 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 28 (7.41%) Analyst
7 25 (6.61%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 22 (5.82%) Support Engineer
9 21 (5.56%) Network Architect
10 15 (3.97%) Cisco Engineer
10 15 (3.97%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 13 (3.44%) Technical Analyst
12 12 (3.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 12 (3.17%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (3.17%) Security Analyst
12 12 (3.17%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.91%) IT Engineer
13 11 (2.91%) Network Support
13 11 (2.91%) Network Support Engineer
14 10 (2.65%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.91%) Jinja
2 9 (2.38%) Web Services
3 5 (1.32%) Flash
4 3 (0.79%) 802.1X
4 3 (0.79%) EDI
5 1 (0.26%) JSON
5 1 (0.26%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.26%) XML
5 1 (0.26%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 79 (20.90%) Data Centre
2 11 (2.91%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.12%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (2.12%) Operational Technology
3 8 (2.12%) Security Posture
4 7 (1.85%) Driving Licence
4 7 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
5 6 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.32%) Clustering
6 5 (1.32%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.32%) NHS
6 5 (1.32%) PKI
6 5 (1.32%) SCADA
6 5 (1.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 3 (0.79%) Blackberry
7 3 (0.79%) CCTV
7 3 (0.79%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (0.79%) IoT
7 3 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.53%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 54 (14.29%) Windows
2 29 (7.67%) Linux
3 24 (6.35%) Windows Server
4 22 (5.82%) Windows 10
5 17 (4.50%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (3.44%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (3.44%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (3.44%) Windows XP
7 8 (2.12%) Windows 7
8 7 (1.85%) Unix
9 3 (0.79%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (23.28%) ITIL
2 86 (22.75%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 41 (10.85%) Migration
5 40 (10.58%) Computer Science
6 33 (8.73%) Customer Service
7 31 (8.20%) Change Management
8 29 (7.67%) Project Management
9 25 (6.61%) B2B
9 25 (6.61%) Mentoring
10 24 (6.35%) Project Delivery
10 24 (6.35%) Storage Management
11 23 (6.08%) Network Monitoring
12 21 (5.56%) ITSM
12 21 (5.56%) Network Architecture
12 21 (5.56%) Service Management
13 20 (5.29%) Break/Fix
13 20 (5.29%) Network Design
13 20 (5.29%) TOGAF
14 19 (5.03%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 27 (7.14%) Python
2 18 (4.76%) PowerShell
3 11 (2.91%) Perl
3 11 (2.91%) Tcl
4 5 (1.32%) Bash
5 2 (0.53%) C
5 2 (0.53%) SQL
6 1 (0.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 231 (61.11%) CCNA
2 211 (55.82%) CCNP
3 138 (36.51%) Security Cleared
4 100 (26.46%) SC Cleared
5 86 (22.75%) Degree
6 46 (12.17%) DV Cleared
7 43 (11.38%) CCIE
8 33 (8.73%) Microsoft Certification
9 28 (7.41%) JNCIA
10 27 (7.14%) CISSP
10 27 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
11 24 (6.35%) MCSE
12 21 (5.56%) CISM
13 20 (5.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 18 (4.76%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 18 (4.76%) A+ Certification
15 17 (4.50%) Computer Science Degree
16 15 (3.97%) JNCIS
17 11 (2.91%) MCP
18 10 (2.65%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (5.82%) SLA
2 17 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 13 (3.44%) NIST
4 9 (2.38%) QA
5 7 (1.85%) GRC
6 6 (1.59%) COBIT
7 3 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
7 3 (0.79%) GDPR
7 3 (0.79%) NCSC
8 2 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.53%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.53%) IASME
8 2 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.53%) PCI DSS
9 1 (0.26%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.26%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 52 (13.76%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (10.85%) Active Directory
3 27 (7.14%) Hyper-V
4 26 (6.88%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (4.23%) Firmware
6 12 (3.17%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.59%) KVM
7 6 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
7 6 (1.59%) vSphere
8 5 (1.32%) VMware Workstation
9 1 (0.26%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (7.14%) SCCM
2 25 (6.61%) Ansible
3 22 (5.82%) vCenter Server
4 14 (3.70%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (3.70%) SCOM
4 14 (3.70%) WSUS
5 13 (3.44%) NetBackup
6 11 (2.91%) Nessus
7 8 (2.12%) FortiGate
8 7 (1.85%) Terraform
9 5 (1.32%) OpenView
10 4 (1.06%) Microsoft Intune
11 3 (0.79%) Netcool
12 2 (0.53%) Cisco Prime
12 2 (0.53%) Rundeck
12 2 (0.53%) SolarWinds Orion
13 1 (0.26%) Nagios
13 1 (0.26%) QRadar
13 1 (0.26%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 264 (69.84%) Cisco
2 90 (23.81%) Juniper
3 75 (19.84%) Palo Alto
4 64 (16.93%) VMware
5 57 (15.08%) CheckPoint
6 50 (13.23%) Microsoft
7 36 (9.52%) SolarWinds
8 31 (8.20%) F5
9 27 (7.14%) Arista
9 27 (7.14%) Fortinet
10 24 (6.35%) Dell
11 22 (5.82%) Citrix
12 18 (4.76%) Symantec
13 15 (3.97%) Veeam
14 14 (3.70%) EMC
14 14 (3.70%) Extreme Networks
14 14 (3.70%) HP
14 14 (3.70%) Nokia
14 14 (3.70%) Oracle
15 13 (3.44%) 3PAR