CCNP Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Berkshire with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 76 80
Rank change year-on-year -4 +4 +16
Contract jobs citing CCNP 19 34 38
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 1.56% 2.07% 2.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.34% 5.04% 5.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 20 18
10th Percentile £235 £169 £354
25th Percentile - £310 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £603 £400
Median % change year-on-year -25.31% +50.63% -20.00%
75th Percentile £550 £608 £490
90th Percentile £617 £638 £540
South East median daily rate £525 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -12.50% +14.29% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - £19.70
25th Percentile - £18.50 £21.50
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - -24.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £25.25
90th Percentile - - £25.40
South East median hourly rate - £18.38 £25.00
% change year-on-year - -26.50% +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Berkshire

CCNP 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 requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 438 675 729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 36.02% 41.18% 41.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 364 431
10th Percentile £255 £287 £210
25th Percentile £393 £422 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £570 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -
75th Percentile £588 £641 £625
90th Percentile £638 £719 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £536 £538
% change year-on-year -6.76% -0.23% +2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 59 51
10th Percentile £20.25 £41.25 £40.69
25th Percentile £27.59 £56.20 £53.38
Median hourly rate £43.96 £61.60 £65.13
Median % change year-on-year -28.64% -5.41% +177.13%
75th Percentile £83.44 £75.32 £73.80
90th Percentile £88.87 £100.00 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £60.83 £60.00
% change year-on-year -58.66% +1.38% +33.33%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCNP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

CCNP job vacancy trend in Berkshire

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CCNP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CCNP

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Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in Berkshire over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in Berkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CCNP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing CCNP

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Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 October 2025. 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
Reading +19 9 £450 -25.31% 6
Slough +3 3 £450 - 1
Bracknell - 3 £550 - 1
Wokingham -18 1 £450 +172.73% 1
CCNP
South East

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (5.26%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) AWS
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (42.11%) Firewall
1 8 (42.11%) VPN
2 5 (26.32%) LAN
2 5 (26.32%) MPLS
2 5 (26.32%) WAN
3 4 (21.05%) BGP
3 4 (21.05%) Ethernet
3 4 (21.05%) Network Security
3 4 (21.05%) OSPF
3 4 (21.05%) SDH
3 4 (21.05%) TCP/IP
3 4 (21.05%) VLAN
4 3 (15.79%) ATM
4 3 (15.79%) Frame Relay
4 3 (15.79%) GPRS
4 3 (15.79%) Internet
4 3 (15.79%) LTE
4 3 (15.79%) SAN
4 3 (15.79%) UMTS
4 3 (15.79%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.26%) Billing
3 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Network Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Test Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) IP Engineer
3 3 (15.79%) IP Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Juniper Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Cisco Specialist
5 1 (5.26%) Cloud Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Consultant
5 1 (5.26%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Network Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Quality Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
1 3 (15.79%) Fibre Optics
1 3 (15.79%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.26%) SCADA
2 1 (5.26%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (15.79%) Linux
1 3 (15.79%) Unix
2 1 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (21.05%) Disaster Recovery
1 4 (21.05%) Network Design
1 4 (21.05%) Proactive Monitoring
1 4 (21.05%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (21.05%) Security Operations
1 4 (21.05%) SIEM
2 3 (15.79%) Case Management
2 3 (15.79%) Fault Management
2 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
2 3 (15.79%) Project Management
2 3 (15.79%) Regression Testing
2 3 (15.79%) Service Management
2 3 (15.79%) Test Scripting
2 3 (15.79%) Test Strategy
3 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (10.53%) Defect Management
3 2 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
4 1 (5.26%) Data Governance
Programming Languages
1 6 (31.58%) Python
2 3 (15.79%) Java
3 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.26%) Bash
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (57.89%) SC Cleared
2 11 (57.89%) Security Cleared
3 9 (47.37%) CCNA
4 4 (21.05%) CCDP
4 4 (21.05%) CCSA
4 4 (21.05%) CCSE
4 4 (21.05%) Check Point Certification
5 3 (15.79%) CCDA
5 3 (15.79%) ISEB
5 3 (15.79%) ISTQB
5 3 (15.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 3 (15.79%) JNCIA
6 2 (10.53%) Degree
7 1 (5.26%) AWS Certification
7 1 (5.26%) Azure Certification
7 1 (5.26%) CCIE
7 1 (5.26%) CCIE Collaboration
7 1 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (5.26%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (5.26%) NIST
1 1 (5.26%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.26%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (5.26%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (5.26%) Kubernetes
3 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (78.95%) Cisco
2 6 (31.58%) Juniper
3 4 (21.05%) CheckPoint
3 4 (21.05%) Microsoft
3 4 (21.05%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.26%) Avaya
4 1 (5.26%) Genesys