CCNP Contracts 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 235 256 344
Rank change year-on-year +21 +88 +106
Contract jobs citing CCNP 269 336 349
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 1.10% 0.90% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.53% 2.89% 2.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 162 219 217
10th Percentile £363 £313 £363
25th Percentile £450 £375 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £549 £505 £519
Median % change year-on-year +8.76% -2.60% +6.36%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £625
90th Percentile £673 £688 £693
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 12
10th Percentile £36.13 £14.88 £23.18
25th Percentile £58.13 £20.75 £32.44
Median hourly rate £73.75 £24.50 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +201.02% -60.48% +41.75%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £77.81
90th Percentile - £90.00 £101.25
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £24.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +201.02% -55.45% +16.03%

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 7,629 11,624 13,999
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.33% 31.25% 27.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,849 7,135 9,365
10th Percentile £290 £306 £330
25th Percentile £415 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 985 748
10th Percentile £18.13 £14.00 £15.15
25th Percentile £22.39 £18.13 £20.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%
75th Percentile £67.75 £62.50 £68.25
90th Percentile £81.74 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

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Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCNP in England.

Daily rate trend for CCNP in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCNP in England.

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNP in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNP in England

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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 1 May 2025. 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 +10 95 £513 +3.27% 70
South East +33 73 £500 -11.50% 54
South West +56 42 £575 -4.17% 23
North of England -2 27 £450 -12.41% 13
Midlands +8 18 £525 +20.00% 18
North West -5 16 £425 -17.48% 2
East Midlands +19 12 £555 +70.77% 5
Yorkshire +11 10 £575 +13.30% 9
East of England +25 6 £550 +46.67% 8
West Midlands -9 6 £450 - 12
North East -2 1 £325 -5.80% 2
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UK

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 11 (4.09%) Confluence
2 2 (0.74%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.37%) CMS
Applications
1 12 (4.46%) MS Visio
2 11 (4.09%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 40 (14.87%) AWS
2 38 (14.13%) Azure
3 10 (3.72%) GCP
3 10 (3.72%) PaaS
3 10 (3.72%) SaaS
4 2 (0.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (0.74%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (0.74%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (0.74%) Cloudflare
4 2 (0.74%) OpenShift
4 2 (0.74%) Serverless
5 1 (0.37%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (0.37%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.37%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 144 (53.53%) Firewall
2 94 (34.94%) BGP
3 91 (33.83%) OSPF
4 88 (32.71%) Network Security
5 82 (30.48%) WAN
6 75 (27.88%) VPN
7 57 (21.19%) LAN
8 46 (17.10%) DNS
8 46 (17.10%) MPLS
9 43 (15.99%) TCP/IP
10 34 (12.64%) Wireless
11 32 (11.90%) SD-WAN
12 31 (11.52%) EIGRP
13 28 (10.41%) Cisco IOS
14 27 (10.04%) VLAN
14 27 (10.04%) Wireshark
15 25 (9.29%) Cisco Nexus
15 25 (9.29%) DHCP
16 22 (8.18%) VoIP
17 21 (7.81%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 13 (4.83%) Jenkins
2 12 (4.46%) JIRA
3 11 (4.09%) Bitbucket
4 10 (3.72%) Git
4 10 (3.72%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (1.49%) GitLab
General
1 103 (38.29%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.30%) Analytical Skills
3 36 (13.38%) Telecoms
4 29 (10.78%) Finance
5 16 (5.95%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.09%) Banking
7 8 (2.97%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.86%) Military
9 4 (1.49%) Billing
9 4 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.12%) Advertising
10 3 (1.12%) Financial Institution
10 3 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Aviation
11 2 (0.74%) Influencing Skills
11 2 (0.74%) Legal
11 2 (0.74%) Local Government
11 2 (0.74%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.74%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 128 (47.58%) Network Engineer
2 49 (18.22%) Architect
3 33 (12.27%) Network Architect
4 23 (8.55%) Senior
5 19 (7.06%) Cisco Engineer
5 19 (7.06%) IP Engineer
6 17 (6.32%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 14 (5.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 14 (5.20%) Test Engineer
8 13 (4.83%) Senior Network Engineer
9 12 (4.46%) Network Security Engineer
9 12 (4.46%) Security Engineer
10 11 (4.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 9 (3.35%) Cisco Architect
11 9 (3.35%) Consultant
12 8 (2.97%) Cisco Network Architect
13 7 (2.60%) Deployment Engineer
13 7 (2.60%) Network Consultant
13 7 (2.60%) Network Deployment Engineer
14 6 (2.23%) Cloud Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (5.95%) 802.1X
2 10 (3.72%) REST
2 10 (3.72%) SOAP
3 5 (1.86%) Spine.js
4 2 (0.74%) Flash
5 1 (0.37%) Jinja
5 1 (0.37%) JSON
5 1 (0.37%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.37%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 29 (10.78%) Data Centre
2 23 (8.55%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.72%) Blackberry
3 10 (3.72%) Video Conferencing
4 8 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (2.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (1.86%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.49%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.49%) SCADA
8 3 (1.12%) Client/Server
8 3 (1.12%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.12%) Clustering
8 3 (1.12%) IVR
8 3 (1.12%) NHS
8 3 (1.12%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.12%) PKI
8 3 (1.12%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.12%) Virtual Team
9 2 (0.74%) Digital Signage
9 2 (0.74%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 37 (13.75%) Linux
2 22 (8.18%) Unix
3 17 (6.32%) Windows
4 11 (4.09%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.49%) CatOS
6 2 (0.74%) VMS
6 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (39.03%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (17.10%) Network Architecture
3 44 (16.36%) Validation
4 36 (13.38%) Migration
5 29 (10.78%) Service Management
6 27 (10.04%) Network Design
7 26 (9.67%) Computer Science
7 26 (9.67%) Network Monitoring
8 25 (9.29%) Agile
8 25 (9.29%) Configuration Management
9 23 (8.55%) ITIL
10 21 (7.81%) Project Management
11 20 (7.43%) Root Cause Analysis
12 18 (6.69%) High Availability
12 18 (6.69%) Roadmaps
13 17 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 17 (6.32%) System Testing
14 16 (5.95%) Fault Management
14 16 (5.95%) Regression Testing
14 16 (5.95%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 48 (17.84%) Python
2 17 (6.32%) Bash
3 16 (5.95%) Java
4 15 (5.58%) PowerShell
5 5 (1.86%) Perl
6 1 (0.37%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 269 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 97 (36.06%) Security Cleared
3 93 (34.57%) CCNA
4 84 (31.23%) SC Cleared
5 43 (15.99%) Degree
6 42 (15.61%) CCIE
7 32 (11.90%) DV Cleared
8 29 (10.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 22 (8.18%) Computer Science Degree
10 16 (5.95%) ISEB
10 16 (5.95%) ISTQB
10 16 (5.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 16 (5.95%) JNCIS
11 14 (5.20%) CCSA
12 12 (4.46%) CCSE
13 10 (3.72%) OCA
13 10 (3.72%) Oracle Certification
13 10 (3.72%) RHCA
13 10 (3.72%) RHCE
14 9 (3.35%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.86%) NCSC
1 5 (1.86%) NIST
2 3 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.74%) QA
4 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.37%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (14.50%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.60%) Firmware
3 6 (2.23%) VMware NSX
4 3 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (0.74%) vSphere
6 1 (0.37%) Docker
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (18.59%) Ansible
2 17 (6.32%) vCenter Server
3 12 (4.46%) Progress Chef
4 11 (4.09%) FortiGate
4 11 (4.09%) Puppet
5 10 (3.72%) Terraform
6 5 (1.86%) Cisco Prime
7 4 (1.49%) Kubernetes
8 3 (1.12%) CA Spectrum
8 3 (1.12%) ZABBIX
9 2 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.74%) Cisco UCCE
9 2 (0.74%) SCOM
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco LMS
10 1 (0.37%) Cisco UCCX
10 1 (0.37%) Nagios
10 1 (0.37%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 209 (77.70%) Cisco
2 67 (24.91%) Juniper
3 47 (17.47%) Fortinet
4 45 (16.73%) CheckPoint
4 45 (16.73%) VMware
5 42 (15.61%) Palo Alto
6 41 (15.24%) F5
7 32 (11.90%) Microsoft
8 25 (9.29%) SolarWinds
9 24 (8.92%) Meraki
10 20 (7.43%) Arista
11 14 (5.20%) Nokia
12 11 (4.09%) Oracle
13 10 (3.72%) Aruba
13 10 (3.72%) Atlassian
13 10 (3.72%) Avaya
13 10 (3.72%) Ericsson
13 10 (3.72%) Ribbon
13 10 (3.72%) Zscaler
14 9 (3.35%) Infoblox