CCNP Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridge with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 26 -
Rank change year-on-year +2 - -
Contract jobs citing CCNP 4 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 2.16% 0.60% -
As % of the Qualifications category 7.69% 2.44% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £350 -
Median % change year-on-year +54.29% - -
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £540 £350 £425
% change year-on-year +54.29% -17.65% -21.66%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 52 41 39
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 28.11% 24.70% 23.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 18 7
10th Percentile £183 £379 £225
25th Percentile £273 £450 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £549 £569 £575
90th Percentile £612 £620 £665
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 2 3
10th Percentile £20.77 £15.73 £28.28
25th Percentile £26.25 £16.08 £36.90
Median hourly rate £34.13 £16.90 £57.50
Median % change year-on-year +101.95% -70.61% -4.17%
75th Percentile £38.75 £17.48 £63.75
90th Percentile £45.50 £17.67 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £34.13 £16.30 £21.37
% change year-on-year +109.39% -23.72% +7.87%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in Cambridge

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Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing CCNP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing CCNP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon EKS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Direct Connect
2 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 2 (50.00%) GCP
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 1 (25.00%) Azure AKS
3 1 (25.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (25.00%) Google Kubernetes Engine
3 1 (25.00%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
1 4 (100.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) 4G
2 2 (50.00%) IPsec
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) GitLab
1 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) AWS DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) AWS Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cisco Network Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Cloud Network Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 2 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (50.00%) SCADA
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (50.00%) DevOps
1 2 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 2 (50.00%) SIEM
1 2 (50.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
2 1 (25.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure Automation
2 1 (25.00%) Observability
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 2 (50.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 2 (50.00%) CCNA
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Certification
3 1 (25.00%) CCIE
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Google
2 2 (50.00%) Qualys
2 2 (50.00%) Rockwell