Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 417 467 526
Rank change year-on-year +50 +59 -151
Permanent jobs citing CCNP 598 612 1,032
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.62% 0.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.17% 1.88% 2.32%
Number of salaries quoted 489 484 737
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £45,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - -4.76% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCNP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,546 32,627 44,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.29% 33.12% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17,214 14,683 19,092
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,573 £42,210 £40,967
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.04%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in the UK

CCNP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCNP.

Salary trend for CCNP in the UK

CCNP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNP over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CCNP in the UK

CCNP
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +75 536 £52,500 -4.55% 150
UK excluding London +47 429 £50,000 - 112
Work from Home +44 230 £55,000 -7.56% 83
London +67 136 £57,500 -11.54% 66
South East -16 135 £51,000 -7.27% 37
North of England +102 120 £50,000 -4.76% 23
Midlands +19 99 £48,500 +5.43% 15
West Midlands +33 82 £48,500 +2.68% 11
North West +42 67 £49,682 -3.06% 12
Yorkshire +104 50 £52,500 -0.94% 9
South West -6 35 £48,500 +18.29% 14
Scotland -40 21 £63,500 +27.00% 15
East Midlands -4 17 £50,000 +17.65% 2
East of England -14 11 £57,500 +15.00% 5
Wales - 6 £52,500 - 2
North East -7 3 £38,000 -22.65% 3
Northern Ireland +24 2 £32,500 -40.91% 3
Isle of Man - 2 £50,000 -

CCNP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 5 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (0.84%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
3 1 (0.17%) Confluence
3 1 (0.17%) IIS
3 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.33%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 148 (24.75%) Azure
2 58 (9.70%) AWS
3 45 (7.53%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (2.51%) Cloud Computing
4 15 (2.51%) GCP
5 12 (2.01%) Entra ID
5 12 (2.01%) OCI
6 7 (1.17%) AWS Direct Connect
6 7 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 5 (0.84%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.67%) SaaS
9 3 (0.50%) PaaS
10 2 (0.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.33%) IaaS
11 1 (0.17%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.17%) AWS Lambda
11 1 (0.17%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.17%) Serverless
11 1 (0.17%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 226 (37.79%) WAN
2 224 (37.46%) Firewall
3 162 (27.09%) LAN
3 162 (27.09%) SD-WAN
4 144 (24.08%) BGP
5 141 (23.58%) Network Security
6 120 (20.07%) VPN
7 114 (19.06%) Wireless
8 102 (17.06%) OSPF
9 98 (16.39%) Cisco Firepower
10 89 (14.88%) MPLS
11 65 (10.87%) DNS
11 65 (10.87%) VLAN
12 64 (10.70%) Wi-Fi
13 59 (9.87%) Cisco Nexus
14 55 (9.20%) WLAN
15 53 (8.86%) DHCP
16 50 (8.36%) Cisco ISE
16 50 (8.36%) TCP/IP
17 41 (6.86%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.33%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 2 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 2 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (0.17%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.17%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (0.84%) JIRA
2 4 (0.67%) Git
3 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
4 2 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
5 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 146 (24.41%) Social Skills
2 66 (11.04%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (8.36%) Finance
4 46 (7.69%) Retail
5 30 (5.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 28 (4.68%) Public Sector
7 21 (3.51%) Telecoms
8 17 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 13 (2.17%) Manufacturing
10 12 (2.01%) Games
11 11 (1.84%) Law
12 9 (1.51%) Legal
12 9 (1.51%) Presentation Skills
13 8 (1.34%) Banking
14 7 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
15 5 (0.84%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.67%) Automotive
16 4 (0.67%) Financial Institution
16 4 (0.67%) Local Government
16 4 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 290 (48.49%) Network Engineer
2 145 (24.25%) Senior
3 72 (12.04%) Architect
4 65 (10.87%) Senior Network Engineer
5 55 (9.20%) Analyst
6 54 (9.03%) Network Analyst
7 44 (7.36%) Senior Architect
8 41 (6.86%) Cisco Architect
9 39 (6.52%) Senior Cisco Architect
10 38 (6.35%) Lead
11 33 (5.52%) Network Operations Analyst
11 33 (5.52%) Operations Analyst
12 30 (5.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 27 (4.52%) Security Architect
14 26 (4.35%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 25 (4.18%) 3rd Line Support
15 25 (4.18%) IT Engineer
16 24 (4.01%) Cisco Security Architect
16 24 (4.01%) Senior Security Architect
17 23 (3.85%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (5.35%) 802.1X
2 5 (0.84%) ADO
2 5 (0.84%) XMPP
3 2 (0.33%) Web Services
4 1 (0.17%) EDI
4 1 (0.17%) OAuth
4 1 (0.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 149 (24.92%) Data Centre
2 19 (3.18%) Driving Licence
3 17 (2.84%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.68%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.17%) Public Cloud
6 11 (1.84%) CCTV
7 10 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.67%) Social Media
8 7 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
8 7 (1.17%) FMCG
8 7 (1.17%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (0.84%) EPoS
10 5 (0.84%) IoT
10 5 (0.84%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.67%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.50%) Raspberry Pi
12 3 (0.50%) Replication
12 3 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 81 (13.55%) Windows
2 57 (9.53%) Linux
3 37 (6.19%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.18%) Windows 10
5 24 (4.01%) Windows Server 2019
6 23 (3.85%) Windows Server 2016
7 13 (2.17%) Windows Server 2012
8 12 (2.01%) Windows XP
9 6 (1.00%) Android
10 5 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 3 (0.50%) CatOS
12 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
12 2 (0.33%) CentOS
12 2 (0.33%) Debian
12 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
12 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.33%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 113 (18.90%) ITIL
2 108 (18.06%) Cybersecurity
3 89 (14.88%) Project Delivery
4 86 (14.38%) Problem-Solving
5 66 (11.04%) Network Monitoring
6 64 (10.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 61 (10.20%) Presales
8 57 (9.53%) Computer Science
9 54 (9.03%) Project Management
10 47 (7.86%) Time Management
11 45 (7.53%) Disaster Recovery
12 43 (7.19%) Network Architecture
13 41 (6.86%) Customer Engagement
14 39 (6.52%) Customer Service
14 39 (6.52%) Service Delivery
14 39 (6.52%) Software Licensing
15 38 (6.35%) Network Design
16 37 (6.19%) Mentoring
16 37 (6.19%) Migration
17 31 (5.18%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 42 (7.02%) Python
2 28 (4.68%) PowerShell
3 10 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 6 (1.00%) Bash
5 4 (0.67%) C#
5 4 (0.67%) Java
5 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 598 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 310 (51.84%) CCNA
3 138 (23.08%) Degree
4 135 (22.58%) Security Cleared
5 109 (18.23%) CCIE
6 69 (11.54%) SC Cleared
7 52 (8.70%) Computer Science Degree
8 49 (8.19%) CCDP
9 46 (7.69%) DV Cleared
10 37 (6.19%) CISSP
11 32 (5.35%) Microsoft Certification
12 27 (4.52%) Azure Certification
12 27 (4.52%) MCSE
13 25 (4.18%) Network+ Certification
14 23 (3.85%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 19 (3.18%) JNCIA
16 16 (2.68%) JNCIP
17 14 (2.34%) CCSP
17 14 (2.34%) JNCIS
18 12 (2.01%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 35 (5.85%) SLA
3 17 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 11 (1.84%) NIST
5 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 8 (1.34%) PCI DSS
5 8 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.17%) QA
7 2 (0.33%) GDPR
7 2 (0.33%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
7 2 (0.33%) GxP
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 59 (9.87%) VMware Infrastructure
2 50 (8.36%) Active Directory
3 19 (3.18%) Hyper-V
4 18 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
5 11 (1.84%) Firmware
6 3 (0.50%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.33%) vSphere
8 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (4.01%) FortiGate
1 24 (4.01%) Stealthwatch
2 23 (3.85%) Ansible
2 23 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (3.01%) vCenter Server
4 16 (2.68%) CASB
5 13 (2.17%) SCCM
6 12 (2.01%) EMC NetWorker
6 12 (2.01%) NetBackup
6 12 (2.01%) SCOM
6 12 (2.01%) WSUS
7 9 (1.51%) Cisco Prime
8 6 (1.00%) Terraform
9 5 (0.84%) Opsview
10 3 (0.50%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.33%) Icinga
11 2 (0.33%) Nagios
11 2 (0.33%) Puppet
12 1 (0.17%) Nmap
Vendors
1 470 (78.60%) Cisco
2 166 (27.76%) Microsoft
3 124 (20.74%) Juniper
4 109 (18.23%) Palo Alto
5 107 (17.89%) Meraki
6 85 (14.21%) VMware
7 70 (11.71%) Fortinet
8 64 (10.70%) CheckPoint
9 46 (7.69%) F5
10 41 (6.86%) Apple
11 39 (6.52%) Adobe
12 31 (5.18%) SolarWinds
13 29 (4.85%) Veeam
14 24 (4.01%) Aruba
15 19 (3.18%) Citrix
15 19 (3.18%) HP
16 18 (3.01%) Symantec
17 17 (2.84%) Dell
18 14 (2.34%) Extreme Networks
19 13 (2.17%) Zscaler