CCNP Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cambridgeshire with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 36 39 47
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 -8
Contract jobs citing CCNP 4 3 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 1.17% 0.95% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.81% 3.53% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £325 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £350 £425
Median % change year-on-year +54.29% -17.65% -21.66%
75th Percentile - £375 £463
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median daily rate £470 £700 £531
% change year-on-year -32.86% +31.76% +18.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £30.00 -
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £15.75
% change year-on-year +116.67% +90.48% -52.27%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 105 85 89
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 30.70% 26.81% 21.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 29 11
10th Percentile £181 £195 £225
25th Percentile £293 £325 £291
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year - +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £660 £575 £569
90th Percentile £675 £615 £575
East of England median daily rate £505 £530 £500
% change year-on-year -4.72% +6.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 21 45
10th Percentile £15.00 - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £16.30
Median hourly rate £34.13 £16.30 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +109.39% -23.72% +7.87%
75th Percentile £48.00 £24.15 £21.46
90th Percentile - £31.00 £30.25
East of England median hourly rate £62.50 £32.74 £43.00
% change year-on-year +90.93% -23.87% +104.76%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing CCNP

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing CCNP

CCNP
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 19 August 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
Cambridge +2 4 £540 +54.29% 1
Huntingdon - 2 £540 - 1
CCNP
East of England

CCNP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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
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
1 2 (50.00%) Terraform
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