CCNP Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 111 134
Rank change year-on-year -5 +23 +51
Contract jobs citing CCNP 10 15 13
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.58% 0.70% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.30% 2.86% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 7
10th Percentile £436 £448 £413
25th Percentile £466 £475 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +6.33%
75th Percentile £681 £548 £634
90th Percentile £700 £642 £684
Central London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +21.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £72.50
Median hourly rate - - £75.00
75th Percentile - - £77.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate - - £75.00

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 434 525 588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.17% 24.67% 20.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 299 309 352
10th Percentile £348 £363 £351
25th Percentile £460 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £561
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +0.22% -4.47%
75th Percentile £675 £663 £689
90th Percentile £738 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 6 2
10th Percentile £20.55 £23.75 £23.45
25th Percentile £25.75 £27.00 £31.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.75 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -36.02% -0.79%
75th Percentile £28.91 £92.44 £62.63
90th Percentile £50.91 £112.00 £71.55
Central London median hourly rate £28.15 £29.75 £18.00
% change year-on-year -5.38% +65.28% -61.60%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in the City of London

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCNP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCNP

CCNP
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in the City of London over the 6 months to 15 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in the City of London

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCNP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCNP

CCNP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (10.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (70.00%) BGP
1 7 (70.00%) OSPF
2 5 (50.00%) MPLS
3 4 (40.00%) Firewall
4 3 (30.00%) Ethernet VPN
4 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
4 3 (30.00%) VXLAN
4 3 (30.00%) WAN
5 2 (20.00%) Cisco IOS
5 2 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
5 2 (20.00%) Modbus
5 2 (20.00%) NX-OS
6 1 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (10.00%) DHCP
6 1 (10.00%) DNS
6 1 (10.00%) IGMP
6 1 (10.00%) Multicast
6 1 (10.00%) Network Security
6 1 (10.00%) VPN
6 1 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Git
2 1 (10.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Banking
3 2 (20.00%) Manufacturing
3 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 4 (40.00%) Senior
3 3 (30.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Security Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Senior Security Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) WAN Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Automation Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Network Consultant
5 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Network Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Automation Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (20.00%) Insider Threat
2 2 (20.00%) Life Science
2 2 (20.00%) Management Information System
2 2 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 2 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
2 2 (20.00%) SCADA
2 2 (20.00%) Security Posture
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2012
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2016
1 1 (10.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (30.00%) DevOps
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL
2 2 (20.00%) Agile
2 2 (20.00%) Change Control
2 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (20.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (20.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (20.00%) Information Security
2 2 (20.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (20.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (20.00%) Network Design
2 2 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 2 (20.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (20.00%) Project Management
2 2 (20.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (20.00%) Security Management
2 2 (20.00%) Time Management
2 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 2 (20.00%) WAN Optimisation
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (40.00%) CCNA
3 3 (30.00%) CCIE
3 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 2 (20.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (30.00%) Arista
3 3 (30.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (20.00%) F5
4 2 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) Palo Alto
4 2 (20.00%) Rockwell
5 1 (10.00%) Citrix
5 1 (10.00%) ForeScout
5 1 (10.00%) Juniper
5 1 (10.00%) Meraki
5 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow
5 1 (10.00%) VMware