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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 408 483 542
Rank change year-on-year +75 +59 -189
Permanent jobs citing CCNP 599 618 957
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.61% 0.59% 0.62%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.20% 1.80% 2.30%
Number of salaries quoted 495 480 721
10th Percentile £36,250 £40,500 £35,250
25th Percentile £46,500 £45,938 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £57,500 £59,483
Median % change year-on-year -7.83% -3.33% +8.15%
75th Percentile £63,750 £71,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £86,375 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -

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 27,286 34,290 41,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.76% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,237 15,306 18,961
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +92 529 £52,500 -4.55% 129
UK excluding London +55 428 £50,000 -0.50% 93
Work from Home +68 231 £55,000 -12.00% 68
London +68 138 £59,750 -8.08% 50
South East +7 130 £51,000 -7.27% 26
North of England +108 114 £50,000 -4.47% 22
Midlands +51 101 £48,500 +7.78% 14
West Midlands +62 84 £48,500 +5.43% 11
North West +49 63 £51,364 +2.73% 11
Yorkshire +115 48 £50,000 -5.21% 9
South West +1 35 £48,500 +14.12% 13
Scotland -40 26 £63,500 +27.00% 13
East Midlands -9 17 £50,000 +17.65% 3
East of England -15 11 £45,000 -10.00% 5
Wales - 8 £52,500 -
North East -4 3 £42,500 -11.92% 3
Northern Ireland +29 2 £32,500 -35.00% 2
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 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 3 (0.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.17%) IIS
2 1 (0.17%) SAS
Applications
1 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.17%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 145 (24.21%) Azure
2 60 (10.02%) AWS
3 43 (7.18%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (2.50%) Cloud Computing
5 13 (2.17%) GCP
6 12 (2.00%) OCI
7 11 (1.84%) Entra ID
8 7 (1.17%) AWS Direct Connect
8 7 (1.17%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 5 (0.83%) Azure DevOps
10 4 (0.67%) SaaS
11 3 (0.50%) PaaS
12 2 (0.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 2 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
12 2 (0.33%) IaaS
13 1 (0.17%) Cohesity
Communications & Networking
1 228 (38.06%) Firewall
2 219 (36.56%) WAN
3 173 (28.88%) LAN
4 154 (25.71%) BGP
5 153 (25.54%) SD-WAN
6 131 (21.87%) Network Security
7 121 (20.20%) VPN
8 112 (18.70%) Wireless
9 111 (18.53%) OSPF
10 97 (16.19%) Cisco Firepower
11 89 (14.86%) MPLS
12 64 (10.68%) Wi-Fi
13 63 (10.52%) Cisco Nexus
13 63 (10.52%) VLAN
14 60 (10.02%) DNS
15 59 (9.85%) WLAN
16 56 (9.35%) Cisco ISE
17 53 (8.85%) Cisco ASA
18 52 (8.68%) TCP/IP
19 50 (8.35%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.17%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (0.67%) Git
2 3 (0.50%) JIRA
2 3 (0.50%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.33%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (0.17%) Selenium
General
1 136 (22.70%) Social Skills
2 58 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
3 46 (7.68%) Finance
4 43 (7.18%) Retail
5 35 (5.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 29 (4.84%) Public Sector
7 20 (3.34%) Organisational Skills
8 18 (3.01%) Telecoms
9 14 (2.34%) Law
10 12 (2.00%) Games
11 11 (1.84%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.50%) Legal
12 9 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.00%) Banking
13 6 (1.00%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (0.83%) Aerospace
14 5 (0.83%) Financial Institution
15 4 (0.67%) Local Government
15 4 (0.67%) Police
15 4 (0.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 303 (50.58%) Network Engineer
2 143 (23.87%) Senior
3 68 (11.35%) Senior Network Engineer
4 63 (10.52%) Analyst
5 62 (10.35%) Network Analyst
6 58 (9.68%) Architect
7 37 (6.18%) Network Operations Analyst
7 37 (6.18%) Operations Analyst
8 36 (6.01%) Lead
9 35 (5.84%) Senior Architect
10 32 (5.34%) Cisco Architect
11 30 (5.01%) Senior Cisco Architect
12 28 (4.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 28 (4.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 27 (4.51%) 3rd Line Support
14 22 (3.67%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
14 22 (3.67%) IT Engineer
14 22 (3.67%) Security Engineer
15 21 (3.51%) Project Engineer
15 21 (3.51%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 33 (5.51%) 802.1X
2 5 (0.83%) ADO
2 5 (0.83%) XMPP
3 2 (0.33%) Web Services
4 1 (0.17%) EDI
4 1 (0.17%) OAuth
4 1 (0.17%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 139 (23.21%) Data Centre
2 25 (4.17%) Driving Licence
3 17 (2.84%) Public Cloud
4 16 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
5 11 (1.84%) CCTV
6 10 (1.67%) Social Media
7 9 (1.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (1.17%) FMCG
8 7 (1.17%) Security Posture
9 6 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
9 6 (1.00%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 5 (0.83%) EPoS
10 5 (0.83%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.67%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.50%) IoT
12 3 (0.50%) Raspberry Pi
12 3 (0.50%) Video Conferencing
13 2 (0.33%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 78 (13.02%) Windows
2 56 (9.35%) Linux
3 36 (6.01%) Windows Server
4 25 (4.17%) Windows 10
5 23 (3.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (3.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (2.00%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (2.00%) Windows XP
7 6 (1.00%) Android
8 5 (0.83%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.50%) CatOS
10 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 2 (0.33%) CentOS
10 2 (0.33%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.33%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.33%) Unix
11 1 (0.17%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 111 (18.53%) ITIL
2 102 (17.03%) Cybersecurity
3 89 (14.86%) Project Delivery
4 83 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (9.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 56 (9.35%) Network Monitoring
7 55 (9.18%) Computer Science
8 54 (9.02%) Presales
9 52 (8.68%) Project Management
10 45 (7.51%) Disaster Recovery
11 42 (7.01%) Network Architecture
12 41 (6.84%) Service Delivery
13 38 (6.34%) Customer Service
13 38 (6.34%) Network Design
14 36 (6.01%) Time Management
15 34 (5.68%) Mentoring
16 32 (5.34%) Customer Engagement
16 32 (5.34%) Incident Management
17 30 (5.01%) Load Balancing
17 30 (5.01%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 40 (6.68%) Python
2 25 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 10 (1.67%) JavaScript
4 7 (1.17%) Bash
5 4 (0.67%) C#
5 4 (0.67%) Java
5 4 (0.67%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 599 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 304 (50.75%) CCNA
3 140 (23.37%) Security Cleared
4 122 (20.37%) Degree
5 118 (19.70%) CCIE
6 71 (11.85%) SC Cleared
7 52 (8.68%) CCDP
8 51 (8.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 46 (7.68%) DV Cleared
10 34 (5.68%) CISSP
11 30 (5.01%) Microsoft Certification
12 28 (4.67%) Azure Certification
13 25 (4.17%) MCSE
14 23 (3.84%) Network+ Certification
14 23 (3.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 21 (3.51%) JNCIA
16 15 (2.50%) CCSP
16 15 (2.50%) DBS Check
17 13 (2.17%) JNCIP
17 13 (2.17%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (6.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 34 (5.68%) SLA
3 17 (2.84%) Cyber Essentials
4 10 (1.67%) NIST
5 8 (1.34%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 8 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 7 (1.17%) PCI DSS
7 6 (1.00%) QA
8 2 (0.33%) GDPR
8 2 (0.33%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) GxP
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 62 (10.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 44 (7.35%) Active Directory
3 18 (3.01%) Hyper-V
3 18 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
4 8 (1.34%) Firmware
5 5 (0.83%) VMware NSX
5 5 (0.83%) vSphere
6 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 24 (4.01%) Ansible
2 22 (3.67%) FortiGate
2 22 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (3.01%) vCenter Server
4 16 (2.67%) CASB
5 15 (2.50%) Stealthwatch
6 12 (2.00%) EMC NetWorker
6 12 (2.00%) NetBackup
6 12 (2.00%) SCCM
6 12 (2.00%) SCOM
6 12 (2.00%) WSUS
7 10 (1.67%) Cisco Prime
8 6 (1.00%) Terraform
9 5 (0.83%) Opsview
10 3 (0.50%) Puppet
10 3 (0.50%) SolarWinds Orion
11 2 (0.33%) Cisco CUCM
12 1 (0.17%) Icinga
12 1 (0.17%) Iperf
12 1 (0.17%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 478 (79.80%) Cisco
2 155 (25.88%) Microsoft
3 126 (21.04%) Juniper
4 115 (19.20%) Palo Alto
5 97 (16.19%) Meraki
6 91 (15.19%) VMware
7 65 (10.85%) Fortinet
8 64 (10.68%) CheckPoint
9 48 (8.01%) F5
10 32 (5.34%) Apple
11 30 (5.01%) Adobe
12 28 (4.67%) SolarWinds
13 27 (4.51%) Veeam
14 24 (4.01%) Aruba
15 22 (3.67%) Citrix
16 20 (3.34%) HP
17 18 (3.01%) Symantec
18 14 (2.34%) Dell
18 14 (2.34%) Extreme Networks
18 14 (2.34%) Oracle