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 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 327 266 232
Rank change year-on-year -61 -34 +152
Contract jobs citing CCNP 220 252 379
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.70% 0.89% 1.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.05% 2.93% 3.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 134 248
10th Percentile £351 £313 £335
25th Percentile £433 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £503 £510
Median % change year-on-year +1.99% -1.47% +2.00%
75th Percentile £575 £614 £608
90th Percentile £650 £709 £716
UK median daily rate £478 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.50% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 16
10th Percentile - £44.88 £24.63
25th Percentile £65.75 £72.19 £34.13
Median hourly rate £66.50 £75.00 £71.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.33% +5.26% +115.91%
75th Percentile £67.25 - £76.56
90th Percentile - - £83.75
UK median hourly rate £66.50 £75.00 £71.25
% change year-on-year -11.33% +5.26% +115.91%

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 10,741 8,610 11,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.05% 30.49% 30.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,044 5,297 7,089
10th Percentile £313 £302 £300
25th Percentile £419 £420 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £626 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £734 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 898 415 687
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.56 £16.27
25th Percentile £19.00 £24.88 £25.44
Median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
Median % change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%
75th Percentile £56.69 £68.00 £67.53
90th Percentile £76.58 £80.39 £80.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.21
% change year-on-year -37.13% -23.38% +16.01%

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 29 December 2025.

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
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 29 December 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 -20 77 £485 +4.86% 49
North of England -34 49 £525 +8.25% 41
South East -17 47 £500 -13.04% 58
North West +2 43 £520 +5.05% 21
Midlands -33 31 £475 -9.52% 28
West Midlands -14 30 £475 -9.52% 22
South West -37 11 £550 - 17
East of England -19 8 £700 +34.62% 15
Yorkshire -53 5 £550 +18.92% 17
North East -5 3 £550 +29.41% 4
East Midlands -26 1 - - 6
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 22 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 14 (6.36%) Microsoft Exchange
3 6 (2.73%) Skype for Business
4 4 (1.82%) Confluence
5 1 (0.45%) JBoss
5 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
Applications
1 15 (6.82%) MS Visio
2 7 (3.18%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 38 (17.27%) AWS
1 38 (17.27%) Azure
2 14 (6.36%) GCP
3 8 (3.64%) Entra ID
4 7 (3.18%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 7 (3.18%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (1.82%) AWS Direct Connect
7 3 (1.36%) PaaS
8 2 (0.91%) Google Ads
8 2 (0.91%) IaaS
8 2 (0.91%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.45%) Amazon S3
9 1 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.45%) OCI
9 1 (0.45%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 142 (64.55%) Firewall
2 89 (40.45%) BGP
3 77 (35.00%) WAN
4 76 (34.55%) LAN
5 69 (31.36%) VPN
6 68 (30.91%) Network Security
7 64 (29.09%) OSPF
8 46 (20.91%) VLAN
9 41 (18.64%) DNS
10 34 (15.45%) SD-WAN
10 34 (15.45%) Wireless
11 31 (14.09%) DHCP
12 28 (12.73%) MPLS
13 25 (11.36%) Wi-Fi
14 24 (10.91%) IPsec
15 23 (10.45%) TCP/IP
15 23 (10.45%) VXLAN
16 19 (8.64%) Cisco ISE
17 18 (8.18%) WLAN
18 17 (7.73%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.36%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (0.45%) Redis
Development Applications
1 6 (2.73%) Git
1 6 (2.73%) Sonatype Nexus
2 3 (1.36%) GitLab
3 1 (0.45%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.45%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.45%) JIRA
General
1 63 (28.64%) Social Skills
2 40 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (10.45%) Documentation Skills
4 21 (9.55%) Public Sector
5 15 (6.82%) Telecoms
6 11 (5.00%) Manufacturing
7 8 (3.64%) Legal
8 7 (3.18%) Banking
8 7 (3.18%) Investment Banking
9 6 (2.73%) Finance
10 4 (1.82%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.82%) Retail
11 3 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Local Government
11 3 (1.36%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 1 (0.45%) Electronics
13 1 (0.45%) French Language
13 1 (0.45%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 127 (57.73%) Network Engineer
2 35 (15.91%) Architect
3 30 (13.64%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 29 (13.18%) Network Architect
5 23 (10.45%) Cisco Engineer
6 22 (10.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 18 (8.18%) Senior
8 10 (4.55%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 10 (4.55%) Juniper Engineer
8 10 (4.55%) Lead
8 10 (4.55%) Network Security Architect
8 10 (4.55%) Security Architect
8 10 (4.55%) Security Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Network Security Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Platform Engineer
9 9 (4.09%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (3.64%) Solutions Architect
11 7 (3.18%) Consultant
11 7 (3.18%) Design Engineer
11 7 (3.18%) RF Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.27%) 802.1X
1 5 (2.27%) XMPP
2 4 (1.82%) JSON
2 4 (1.82%) REST
2 4 (1.82%) VML
2 4 (1.82%) XML
3 3 (1.36%) NETCONF
3 3 (1.36%) YANG
4 2 (0.91%) Jinja
4 2 (0.91%) SOAP
5 1 (0.45%) CSS
5 1 (0.45%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.45%) HTML
5 1 (0.45%) JFC
5 1 (0.45%) Node.js
5 1 (0.45%) OpenConfig
5 1 (0.45%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.45%) RESTCONF
5 1 (0.45%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.45%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 70 (31.82%) Data Centre
2 13 (5.91%) PKI
3 11 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (4.09%) Product Ownership
5 8 (3.64%) SCADA
6 7 (3.18%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.73%) Security Posture
8 4 (1.82%) Life Science
8 4 (1.82%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.36%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
10 2 (0.91%) Driving Licence
10 2 (0.91%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.91%) Insider Threat
10 2 (0.91%) IoT
10 2 (0.91%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.91%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 27 (12.27%) Windows
2 17 (7.73%) Windows Server
3 12 (5.45%) Linux
4 9 (4.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (17.27%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (15.91%) ITIL
3 34 (15.45%) Network Design
4 26 (11.82%) Network Architecture
4 26 (11.82%) Network Monitoring
5 22 (10.00%) Migration
5 22 (10.00%) Zero Trust
6 19 (8.64%) Project Delivery
7 18 (8.18%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (8.18%) High Availability
8 16 (7.27%) Computer Science
8 16 (7.27%) Incident Response
9 15 (6.82%) Stakeholder Management
10 13 (5.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (5.91%) Security Architecture
10 13 (5.91%) Service Management
11 12 (5.45%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 12 (5.45%) Network Segmentation
12 11 (5.00%) ITSM
12 11 (5.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 46 (20.91%) Python
2 20 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 18 (8.18%) Bash
4 17 (7.73%) Perl
5 8 (3.64%) Lisp
5 8 (3.64%) SQL
6 5 (2.27%) C++
7 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 220 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 99 (45.00%) Security Cleared
3 78 (35.45%) SC Cleared
4 76 (34.55%) CCNA
5 45 (20.45%) CCIE
6 37 (16.82%) Degree
7 18 (8.18%) CCDP
7 18 (8.18%) JNCIS
8 17 (7.73%) DV Cleared
9 16 (7.27%) JNCIP
10 14 (6.36%) CISSP
10 14 (6.36%) JNCIA
11 9 (4.09%) CCSE
11 9 (4.09%) Microsoft Certification
12 8 (3.64%) CCSA
13 7 (3.18%) BPSS Clearance
13 7 (3.18%) ITIL Certification
13 7 (3.18%) JNCIE
13 7 (3.18%) Network+ Certification
14 6 (2.73%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (6.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (5.45%) NIST
3 7 (3.18%) GDPR
3 7 (3.18%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 2 (0.91%) QA
4 2 (0.91%) SLA
5 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.45%) GRC
5 1 (0.45%) NCSC
5 1 (0.45%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.45%) PMO
System Software
1 23 (10.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (9.09%) Active Directory
3 9 (4.09%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.64%) Firmware
5 5 (2.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
5 5 (2.27%) Virtual Servers
6 4 (1.82%) Docker
7 2 (0.91%) Hyper-V
7 2 (0.91%) KVM
7 2 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.45%) RHEV
8 1 (0.45%) vSphere
8 1 (0.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 32 (14.55%) Ansible
2 31 (14.09%) FortiGate
3 20 (9.09%) Terraform
4 6 (2.73%) Nagios
5 5 (2.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 5 (2.27%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.27%) SCCM
5 5 (2.27%) WSUS
6 4 (1.82%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (0.91%) Grafana
7 2 (0.91%) Iperf
7 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Intune
7 2 (0.91%) Nmap
7 2 (0.91%) Prometheus
7 2 (0.91%) WhatsUp Gold
8 1 (0.45%) CA Spectrum
8 1 (0.45%) Cisco UCCE
8 1 (0.45%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.45%) QRadar
8 1 (0.45%) VxRail
Vendors
1 169 (76.82%) Cisco
2 78 (35.45%) Palo Alto
3 51 (23.18%) Juniper
4 44 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 40 (18.18%) Fortinet
6 30 (13.64%) VMware
7 27 (12.27%) SolarWinds
8 26 (11.82%) F5
8 26 (11.82%) Meraki
8 26 (11.82%) Microsoft
9 25 (11.36%) Aruba
10 15 (6.82%) ServiceNow
11 14 (6.36%) Citrix
11 14 (6.36%) Remedy
11 14 (6.36%) Zscaler
12 9 (4.09%) Red Hat
13 8 (3.64%) Ekahau
14 6 (2.73%) LogicMonitor
14 6 (2.73%) Splunk
14 6 (2.73%) Veeam