CCNP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 292 386
Rank change year-on-year +70 +94 -71
Contract jobs citing CCNP 121 180 242
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.80% 0.72% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.95% 2.83% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 80 110 165
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £359 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +20.48%
75th Percentile £605 £575 £580
90th Percentile £688 £689 £625
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +1.00% +2.56% +18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £15.96 £26.30 £24.15
25th Percentile £17.59 £39.50 £26.50
Median hourly rate £21.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.50% +16.28% +85.26%
75th Percentile £24.00 £52.50 £57.84
90th Percentile £24.45 £72.50 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £23.25 £60.00 £47.40
% change year-on-year -61.25% +26.58% +19.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 contract job vacancies with a WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,100 6,366 8,706
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.20% 25.37% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,587 4,286 6,114
10th Percentile £331 £381 £369
25th Percentile £440 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 262 275 222
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.25 £19.37
25th Percentile £25.13 £42.50 £35.63
Median hourly rate £43.00 £64.68 £48.79
Median % change year-on-year -33.51% +32.56% +21.98%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.44
90th Percentile £83.20 £83.40 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

CCNP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CCNP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP.

CCNP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CCNP over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

CCNP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP.

CCNP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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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 3 (2.48%) IIS
2 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.65%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.96%) AWS
2 3 (2.48%) Azure
3 2 (1.65%) Catchpoint
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.65%) OneDrive
3 2 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 57 (47.11%) Firewall
2 45 (37.19%) WAN
3 40 (33.06%) BGP
4 37 (30.58%) Cisco ASA
5 35 (28.93%) OSPF
6 29 (23.97%) Cisco Nexus
7 28 (23.14%) VPN
8 26 (21.49%) MPLS
9 25 (20.66%) LAN
10 20 (16.53%) SD-WAN
11 19 (15.70%) Cisco ISE
11 19 (15.70%) Network Security
12 17 (14.05%) DNS
13 16 (13.22%) EIGRP
13 16 (13.22%) Wireless
14 15 (12.40%) IPsec
15 13 (10.74%) SNMP
16 11 (9.09%) DHCP
16 11 (9.09%) TCP/IP
16 11 (9.09%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (3.31%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (18.18%) Finance
2 21 (17.36%) Social Skills
3 14 (11.57%) Telecoms
4 10 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (5.79%) Public Sector
6 4 (3.31%) Aeronautics
6 4 (3.31%) Aerospace
7 3 (2.48%) Banking
7 3 (2.48%) Legal
8 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.83%) German Language
9 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 67 (55.37%) Network Engineer
2 15 (12.40%) Architect
2 15 (12.40%) Senior
3 10 (8.26%) Consultant
4 9 (7.44%) Network Consultant
5 8 (6.61%) Cisco Engineer
5 8 (6.61%) Operations Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Network Architect
6 7 (5.79%) Senior Network Engineer
6 7 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (4.96%) Senior Consultant
7 6 (4.96%) Senior Network Consultant
8 5 (4.13%) Firewall Engineer
8 5 (4.13%) Network Operations Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 4 (3.31%) WAN Engineer
10 3 (2.48%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (2.48%) Lead
10 3 (2.48%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.13%) Jinja
2 3 (2.48%) EDI
2 3 (2.48%) Web Services
3 1 (0.83%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.22%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.13%) Clustering
2 5 (4.13%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.48%) CCTV
3 3 (2.48%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.48%) SCADA
4 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.65%) IPTV
4 2 (1.65%) NHS
4 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.83%) IoT
5 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.13%) Windows
1 5 (4.13%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.65%) Linux
2 2 (1.65%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.83%) Debian
3 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (17.36%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (12.40%) Network Design
3 14 (11.57%) Change Management
4 12 (9.92%) ITIL
5 11 (9.09%) High Availability
6 10 (8.26%) Incident Management
7 9 (7.44%) Migration
7 9 (7.44%) Network Monitoring
7 9 (7.44%) Network Virtualisation
8 8 (6.61%) DevOps
8 8 (6.61%) Load Balancing
8 8 (6.61%) Network Management
9 7 (5.79%) ITSM
9 7 (5.79%) Low Latency
9 7 (5.79%) Network Architecture
9 7 (5.79%) Roadmaps
9 7 (5.79%) Strategic Roadmap
10 6 (4.96%) Computer Science
10 6 (4.96%) Investment Management
11 5 (4.13%) Customer Engagement
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.70%) Python
2 5 (4.13%) Perl
2 5 (4.13%) Tcl
3 4 (3.31%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.48%) Bash
Qualifications
1 121 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 51 (42.15%) CCNA
3 41 (33.88%) CCIE
4 26 (21.49%) Security Cleared
5 21 (17.36%) SC Cleared
6 19 (15.70%) JNCIA
7 8 (6.61%) CCDP
7 8 (6.61%) Degree
8 7 (5.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (5.79%) DV Cleared
8 7 (5.79%) JNCIS
9 4 (3.31%) CISM
9 4 (3.31%) HND
9 4 (3.31%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (2.48%) BC Cleared
10 3 (2.48%) CCIP
10 3 (2.48%) CCSA
10 3 (2.48%) CISSP
10 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.48%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.44%) SLA
2 4 (3.31%) QA
3 1 (0.83%) NCSC
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (9.92%) VMware NSX
2 11 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.79%) Firmware
4 3 (2.48%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.48%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.83%) KVM
Systems Management
1 16 (13.22%) Ansible
2 5 (4.13%) SCCM
3 3 (2.48%) FortiGate
3 3 (2.48%) Kibana
4 2 (1.65%) Nessus
5 1 (0.83%) Icinga
5 1 (0.83%) Nagios
5 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 100 (82.64%) Cisco
2 43 (35.54%) Palo Alto
3 26 (21.49%) Juniper
4 22 (18.18%) F5
5 16 (13.22%) VMware
6 15 (12.40%) CheckPoint
7 14 (11.57%) SolarWinds
8 12 (9.92%) Fortinet
9 10 (8.26%) Arista
10 8 (6.61%) Meraki
10 8 (6.61%) Nokia
11 7 (5.79%) Microsoft
12 6 (4.96%) Aruba
12 6 (4.96%) Citrix
12 6 (4.96%) Zscaler
13 4 (3.31%) Ciena
13 4 (3.31%) IBM
13 4 (3.31%) Infoblox
14 3 (2.48%) Alcatel-Lucent
14 3 (2.48%) Blue Coat