CCNP Contract Job Trends in England

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 287 287
Rank change year-on-year -102 0 -26
Contract jobs citing CCNP 250 242 271
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.87% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.70% 2.77% 2.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 183 158 156
10th Percentile £363 £357 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +3.06%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £608
90th Percentile £688 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £481 £505
% change year-on-year -1.30% -4.70% +6.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 10 7
10th Percentile £31.60 - £18.15
25th Percentile £55.00 £29.00 £41.75
Median hourly rate £70.25 £30.00 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year +134.17% -58.62% +16.94%
75th Percentile £78.75 £53.69 £75.00
90th Percentile - £71.08 -
UK median hourly rate £70.25 £30.00 £51.25
% change year-on-year +134.17% -41.46% -17.34%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 14,748 8,730 9,847
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.93% 31.46% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,908 5,534 6,107
10th Percentile £350 £304 £325
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £525
% change year-on-year - - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,162 676 593
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.08
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £27.00
Median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +108.75% -54.27% -
75th Percentile £74.00 £47.80 £69.69
90th Percentile £88.66 £73.75 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -49.70% -9.09%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in England

CCNP
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCNP

CCNP
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in England

CCNP
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCNP

CCNP
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNP in England over the 6 months to 13 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNP in England

CCNP
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the England region over the 6 months to 13 September 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
London -82 100 £475 -3.55% 62
North of England -32 67 £500 +5.26% 16
North West -32 48 £500 +5.26% 10
South East -76 34 £467 +0.86% 20
Midlands -49 23 £425 -10.53% 15
Yorkshire -26 19 £500 -9.09% 7
West Midlands -54 18 £425 -10.53% 8
South West -54 13 £625 - 9
East of England -22 9 £450 -35.71% 27
East Midlands -15 4 £475 -3.80% 7
CCNP
UK

CCNP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (1.20%) Apache
1 3 (1.20%) CloudStack
2 2 (0.80%) Confluence
2 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.80%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 85 (34.00%) Azure
2 59 (23.60%) AWS
3 13 (5.20%) GCP
4 12 (4.80%) Microsoft 365
5 9 (3.60%) Entra ID
6 7 (2.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (1.60%) AWS Direct Connect
8 4 (1.60%) IaaS
9 3 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
10 2 (0.80%) GitHub
10 2 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
10 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (0.40%) AWS CloudFormation
11 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.40%) Cloudflare
11 1 (0.40%) Datadog
11 1 (0.40%) Google Ads
11 1 (0.40%) OCI
11 1 (0.40%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 157 (62.80%) Firewall
2 113 (45.20%) WAN
3 88 (35.20%) Network Security
4 84 (33.60%) LAN
5 81 (32.40%) BGP
6 75 (30.00%) Wireless
7 71 (28.40%) VPN
8 68 (27.20%) DNS
9 61 (24.40%) VLAN
10 59 (23.60%) OSPF
11 50 (20.00%) SD-WAN
12 49 (19.60%) DHCP
13 38 (15.20%) Wi-Fi
14 37 (14.80%) TCP/IP
15 29 (11.60%) Cisco Nexus
15 29 (11.60%) MPLS
16 28 (11.20%) Cisco IOS
16 28 (11.20%) WLAN
17 25 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
18 23 (9.20%) Cisco Firepower
Development Applications
1 8 (3.20%) Git
2 6 (2.40%) JIRA
3 4 (1.60%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.40%) Bitbucket
4 1 (0.40%) GitLab
4 1 (0.40%) Jenkins
General
1 76 (30.40%) Social Skills
2 32 (12.80%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (11.20%) Finance
3 28 (11.20%) Public Sector
4 19 (7.60%) Telecoms
5 18 (7.20%) Documentation Skills
6 13 (5.20%) Banking
7 7 (2.80%) Legal
7 7 (2.80%) Police
8 5 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.60%) Automotive
9 4 (1.60%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.60%) Local Government
9 4 (1.60%) Retail
10 3 (1.20%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.20%) Military
10 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.80%) Front Office
11 2 (0.80%) Investment Banking
11 2 (0.80%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 150 (60.00%) Network Engineer
2 47 (18.80%) Senior
3 41 (16.40%) Architect
4 37 (14.80%) Senior Network Engineer
5 24 (9.60%) Cisco Engineer
6 22 (8.80%) Network Architect
7 20 (8.00%) Security Engineer
8 19 (7.60%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 17 (6.80%) Network Security Engineer
10 15 (6.00%) Technical Architect
11 11 (4.40%) Automation Engineer
11 11 (4.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 11 (4.40%) Lead
12 8 (3.20%) Senior Cisco Engineer
12 8 (3.20%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (2.80%) Lead Architect
13 7 (2.80%) Operations Engineer
13 7 (2.80%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
13 7 (2.80%) Technical Leader
14 5 (2.00%) Audio Visual Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 29 (11.60%) Terraform
2 22 (8.80%) 802.1X
3 6 (2.40%) REST
4 3 (1.20%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.80%) JSON
5 2 (0.80%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.80%) YANG
6 1 (0.40%) eBPF
6 1 (0.40%) RESTful
6 1 (0.40%) Spine.js
6 1 (0.40%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 89 (35.60%) Data Centre
2 27 (10.80%) Hybrid Cloud
3 18 (7.20%) PKI
4 14 (5.60%) Onboarding
5 13 (5.20%) Public Cloud
6 10 (4.00%) Security Posture
7 9 (3.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 9 (3.60%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (3.20%) Virtual Team
9 6 (2.40%) Private Cloud
10 5 (2.00%) Video Conferencing
11 4 (1.60%) Cloud Native
11 4 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.60%) Linux Command Line
11 4 (1.60%) Operational Technology
11 4 (1.60%) Robotics
11 4 (1.60%) Security Operations Centre
12 3 (1.20%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
13 2 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 28 (11.20%) Windows
2 16 (6.40%) Linux
3 8 (3.20%) Ubuntu
4 7 (2.80%) Windows Server
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (17.20%) ITIL
2 36 (14.40%) Change Management
2 36 (14.40%) Migration
3 34 (13.60%) Network Segmentation
4 33 (13.20%) Project Delivery
5 32 (12.80%) High Availability
5 32 (12.80%) Infrastructure as Code
5 32 (12.80%) Validation
6 30 (12.00%) Problem-Solving
6 30 (12.00%) Zero Trust
7 27 (10.80%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
8 25 (10.00%) Network Design
8 25 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
9 23 (9.20%) Agile
9 23 (9.20%) Technical Leadership
10 20 (8.00%) ITSM
10 20 (8.00%) Mentoring
10 20 (8.00%) Network Architecture
10 20 (8.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 40 (16.00%) Python
2 10 (4.00%) Bash
3 8 (3.20%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.20%) Lisp
5 2 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 250 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 76 (30.40%) Security Cleared
3 67 (26.80%) CCNA
4 60 (24.00%) CCIE
5 57 (22.80%) SC Cleared
6 33 (13.20%) Degree
7 19 (7.60%) DV Cleared
8 18 (7.20%) CISSP
9 15 (6.00%) Network+ Certification
10 12 (4.80%) CCSE
11 11 (4.40%) Server+ Certification
12 10 (4.00%) AWS Certification
12 10 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 9 (3.60%) CCIE Security
13 9 (3.60%) JNCIP
14 8 (3.20%) Azure Certification
15 7 (2.80%) JNCIS
16 6 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
17 5 (2.00%) CompTIA Security+
17 5 (2.00%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.20%) SLA
2 7 (2.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (2.80%) NCSC
2 7 (2.80%) NIST
3 5 (2.00%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.20%) GDPR
5 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.80%) QA
6 1 (0.40%) GRC
System Software
1 17 (6.80%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (6.40%) Active Directory
3 12 (4.80%) VMware NSX
4 10 (4.00%) VMware ESXi
5 7 (2.80%) vSphere
6 6 (2.40%) Firmware
7 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.80%) Docker
8 2 (0.80%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 41 (16.40%) Ansible
2 17 (6.80%) FortiGate
3 9 (3.60%) Grafana
3 9 (3.60%) Prometheus
4 6 (2.40%) Cisco CUCM
4 6 (2.40%) Kubernetes
5 4 (1.60%) systemd
6 3 (1.20%) Check_MK
6 3 (1.20%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (1.20%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.80%) QRadar
7 2 (0.80%) SCCM
8 1 (0.40%) Nagios
8 1 (0.40%) OPNET
8 1 (0.40%) Puppet
8 1 (0.40%) TrustSec
Vendors
1 189 (75.60%) Cisco
2 64 (25.60%) Palo Alto
3 62 (24.80%) Fortinet
4 46 (18.40%) Microsoft
5 34 (13.60%) Juniper
6 32 (12.80%) Aruba
7 31 (12.40%) CheckPoint
8 27 (10.80%) Arista
8 27 (10.80%) VMware
9 23 (9.20%) ServiceNow
10 21 (8.40%) F5
11 16 (6.40%) Meraki
12 9 (3.60%) Ekahau
12 9 (3.60%) Zscaler
13 8 (3.20%) ForeScout
13 8 (3.20%) Infoblox
13 8 (3.20%) SolarWinds
14 7 (2.80%) AlgoSec
15 6 (2.40%) Forcepoint
15 6 (2.40%) Splunk