CCNP Contracts in London

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 258 268 371
Rank change year-on-year +10 +103 +61
Contract jobs citing CCNP 95 124 123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.76% 0.70% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.96% 2.89% 2.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 78 73
10th Percentile £375 £315 £386
25th Percentile £456 £350 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £496 £538
Median % change year-on-year +3.27% -7.67% +7.50%
75th Percentile £621 £550 £650
90th Percentile £731 £615 £720
England median daily rate £549 £505 £519
% change year-on-year +8.76% -2.60% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 1
10th Percentile - £23.55 -
25th Percentile £53.75 £24.00 -
Median hourly rate £57.50 £31.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year +85.48% -55.71% +95.80%
75th Percentile £61.25 £46.56 -
90th Percentile - £60.63 -
England median hourly rate £73.75 £24.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +201.02% -60.48% +41.75%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,210 4,292 5,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 25.58% 24.07% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,169 2,903 3,919
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £425 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -6.09% +4.55%
75th Percentile £653 £661 £688
90th Percentile £754 £775 £800
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 60 111 80
10th Percentile £19.20 £14.25 £19.94
25th Percentile £22.27 £20.74 £21.24
Median hourly rate £29.07 £26.00 £45.25
Median % change year-on-year +11.81% -42.54% +1.69%
75th Percentile £55.50 £43.75 £64.50
90th Percentile £69.72 £68.75 £82.55
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for CCNP in London

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Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in London

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Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the London 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
Central London +13 17 £568 +18.03% 12
West London +17 9 £400 -23.81%
South London - 2 £600 -
CCNP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (2.11%) OpenStack
Applications
1 7 (7.37%) MS Visio
2 5 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (23.16%) AWS
2 20 (21.05%) Azure
3 3 (3.16%) GCP
4 2 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (2.11%) OpenShift
4 2 (2.11%) Serverless
5 1 (1.05%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.05%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.05%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 69 (72.63%) Firewall
2 46 (48.42%) BGP
2 46 (48.42%) Network Security
3 43 (45.26%) OSPF
4 30 (31.58%) WAN
5 26 (27.37%) VPN
6 23 (24.21%) DNS
6 23 (24.21%) LAN
7 20 (21.05%) EIGRP
8 19 (20.00%) Wireless
9 15 (15.79%) TCP/IP
10 14 (14.74%) Cisco IOS
10 14 (14.74%) SD-WAN
11 13 (13.68%) DHCP
12 12 (12.63%) HSRP
13 11 (11.58%) Cisco Nexus
13 11 (11.58%) IPsec
13 11 (11.58%) MPLS
13 11 (11.58%) RIP
13 11 (11.58%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 7 (7.37%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.05%) GitLab
2 1 (1.05%) Jenkins
General
1 39 (41.05%) Social Skills
2 29 (30.53%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (24.21%) Finance
4 7 (7.37%) Banking
5 5 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 5 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.11%) Local Government
7 2 (2.11%) Multimedia
7 2 (2.11%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.05%) Advertising
8 1 (1.05%) Aviation
8 1 (1.05%) Law
8 1 (1.05%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 54 (56.84%) Network Engineer
2 15 (15.79%) Cisco Engineer
3 14 (14.74%) Architect
3 14 (14.74%) Senior
4 13 (13.68%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Network Security Engineer
5 10 (10.53%) Security Engineer
6 8 (8.42%) Network Architect
7 7 (7.37%) Deployment Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Network Deployment Engineer
7 7 (7.37%) Senior Network Engineer
8 6 (6.32%) Cloud Architect
8 6 (6.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 5 (5.26%) Consultant
10 4 (4.21%) Firewall Engineer
10 4 (4.21%) Network Consultant
10 4 (4.21%) Security Architect
11 3 (3.16%) Cisco Architect
11 3 (3.16%) Cisco Network Architect
11 3 (3.16%) Network Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (13.68%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 18 (18.95%) Data Centre
2 5 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.16%) NHS
3 3 (3.16%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (3.16%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.11%) Digital Signage
4 2 (2.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.11%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.11%) Linux Command Line
4 2 (2.11%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.11%) Video\Live Streaming
4 2 (2.11%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.05%) e-Health
5 1 (1.05%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.05%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 8 (8.42%) Linux
2 6 (6.32%) Unix
3 4 (4.21%) CatOS
3 4 (4.21%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (29.47%) Problem-Solving
2 18 (18.95%) Network Monitoring
3 13 (13.68%) Migration
4 11 (11.58%) Matrix Organization
4 11 (11.58%) Network Design
4 11 (11.58%) Service Management
5 10 (10.53%) High Availability
5 10 (10.53%) ITIL
6 9 (9.47%) Change Management
6 9 (9.47%) Network Architecture
7 8 (8.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 8 (8.42%) Technical Leadership
8 7 (7.37%) Incident Management
8 7 (7.37%) Low Latency
9 6 (6.32%) Business Strategy
9 6 (6.32%) Computer Science
9 6 (6.32%) Load Balancing
9 6 (6.32%) Mentoring
9 6 (6.32%) Project Delivery
10 5 (5.26%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 22 (23.16%) Python
2 4 (4.21%) Bash
2 4 (4.21%) Perl
2 4 (4.21%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.05%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 95 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (29.47%) CCNA
3 21 (22.11%) CCIE
4 16 (16.84%) Security Cleared
5 15 (15.79%) Degree
6 12 (12.63%) SC Cleared
7 10 (10.53%) CCSA
8 8 (8.42%) CCSE
9 7 (7.37%) JNCIA
10 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
11 5 (5.26%) JNCIS
12 4 (4.21%) CISSP
13 3 (3.16%) DV Cleared
14 2 (2.11%) AWS Certification
14 2 (2.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
14 2 (2.11%) Azure Certification
14 2 (2.11%) CCIE Data Center
15 1 (1.05%) CCIE Collaboration
15 1 (1.05%) CCNA CyberOps
15 1 (1.05%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.05%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (7.37%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (6.32%) Firmware
3 2 (2.11%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.11%) vSphere
4 1 (1.05%) Docker
4 1 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (22.11%) Ansible
2 7 (7.37%) FortiGate
3 5 (5.26%) Terraform
4 3 (3.16%) CA Spectrum
4 3 (3.16%) Cisco Prime
5 2 (2.11%) Cisco UCCE
5 2 (2.11%) Progress Chef
6 1 (1.05%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.05%) Cisco LMS
6 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.05%) Nagios
6 1 (1.05%) Puppet
6 1 (1.05%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 71 (74.74%) Cisco
2 26 (27.37%) CheckPoint
3 23 (24.21%) Fortinet
4 19 (20.00%) F5
5 16 (16.84%) Juniper
6 15 (15.79%) Meraki
6 15 (15.79%) Palo Alto
7 14 (14.74%) Arista
7 14 (14.74%) SolarWinds
8 9 (9.47%) VMware
9 7 (7.37%) Microsoft
10 5 (5.26%) Zscaler
11 4 (4.21%) Aruba
11 4 (4.21%) Infoblox
12 3 (3.16%) Splunk
13 2 (2.11%) Extreme Networks
13 2 (2.11%) Nokia
13 2 (2.11%) Red Hat
13 2 (2.11%) Ruckus Wireless
13 2 (2.11%) SAP