CCNP Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Buckinghamshire with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 33 33
Rank change year-on-year -23 0 -
Contract jobs citing CCNP 11 6 19
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 1.34% 2.64% 3.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.66% 6.74% 10.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 6 18
10th Percentile £456 £536 £550
25th Percentile £484 £643 £615
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £615 £743 £800
Median % change year-on-year -17.24% -7.12% -
75th Percentile £645 - £825
90th Percentile £790 - £938
South East median daily rate £463 £495 £585
% change year-on-year -6.57% -15.38% +30.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £70.00
South East median hourly rate - £19.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year - -57.30% -28.23%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 413 89 185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 50.37% 39.21% 38.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 335 66 148
10th Percentile £401 £316 £355
25th Percentile £467 £418 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £536 £523 £511
Median % change year-on-year +2.66% +2.25% +8.72%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £608
90th Percentile £638 £673 £763
South East median daily rate £525 £537 £550
% change year-on-year -2.14% -2.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 13
10th Percentile £15.25 £16.38 £15.85
25th Percentile - £17.50 £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £35.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -54.27% +58.89% +63.64%
75th Percentile £18.32 £64.06 £27.50
90th Percentile £20.50 £67.50 -
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £57.35
% change year-on-year -3.08% -1.05% +0.05%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing CCNP

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Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in Buckinghamshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing CCNP

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Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 6 May 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -30 9 £575 -22.62% 2
CCNP
South East

CCNP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 11 (100.00%) AWS
1 11 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) IaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (27.27%) Firewall
2 3 (27.27%) VSAN
2 3 (27.27%) WAN
3 2 (18.18%) LAN
4 1 (9.09%) BGP
4 1 (9.09%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (9.09%) IPsec
4 1 (9.09%) IPv6
4 1 (9.09%) MPLS
4 1 (9.09%) Multicast
4 1 (9.09%) OSPF
4 1 (9.09%) SD-WAN
4 1 (9.09%) SNMP
4 1 (9.09%) VoIP
4 1 (9.09%) VPN
4 1 (9.09%) Wireless
4 1 (9.09%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
1 3 (27.27%) Manufacturing
1 3 (27.27%) Retail
2 2 (18.18%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (72.73%) Architect
2 7 (63.64%) Technical Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Network Architect
3 3 (27.27%) Network Engineer
3 3 (27.27%) NOC Engineer
4 2 (18.18%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Lead
4 2 (18.18%) Lead Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Network Technical Architect
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Leader
4 2 (18.18%) VMware Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Data Centre Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Network Design Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Senior
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Architect
5 1 (9.09%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Data Centre
1 6 (54.55%) Public Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (27.27%) Private Cloud
3 2 (18.18%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
4 1 (9.09%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) TOGAF
2 6 (54.55%) ITIL
3 5 (45.45%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 5 (45.45%) Enterprise Architecture
3 5 (45.45%) Infrastructure as Code
3 5 (45.45%) Microservices
4 4 (36.36%) Containerisation
4 4 (36.36%) IT Strategy
4 4 (36.36%) Load Balancing
4 4 (36.36%) SIEM
4 4 (36.36%) Technology Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) Change Management
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Matrix Organization
5 3 (27.27%) Network Monitoring
5 3 (27.27%) Presales
5 3 (27.27%) Roadmaps
5 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (27.27%) Zachman Framework
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 11 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (63.64%) Security Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) DV Cleared
3 6 (54.55%) Microsoft Certification
4 5 (45.45%) MCSE
5 4 (36.36%) SC Cleared
6 3 (27.27%) CCSE
6 3 (27.27%) CCSM
7 2 (18.18%) Degree
7 2 (18.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 1 (9.09%) AWS Certification
8 1 (9.09%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (9.09%) CCDA
8 1 (9.09%) CCDP
8 1 (9.09%) CCIE
8 1 (9.09%) CCIP
8 1 (9.09%) CCNA
8 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (54.55%) NCSC
2 5 (45.45%) NIST
3 3 (27.27%) SLA
4 1 (9.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (18.18%) VMware NSX
4 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
4 1 (9.09%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) CASB
1 1 (9.09%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (36.36%) CheckPoint
2 4 (36.36%) Cisco
2 4 (36.36%) Fortinet
2 4 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
4 1 (9.09%) Arista
4 1 (9.09%) Aruba
4 1 (9.09%) HP
4 1 (9.09%) Juniper
4 1 (9.09%) Meraki
4 1 (9.09%) SolarWinds
4 1 (9.09%) Zscaler