CCNP Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

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

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 26 28
Rank change year-on-year -30 +2 -
Contract jobs citing CCNP 9 6 16
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 1.25% 3.57% 4.05%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.39% 8.22% 10.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 16
10th Percentile - £536 £550
25th Percentile £456 £643 £620
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £743 £800
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -7.12% -
75th Percentile £640 - £844
90th Percentile £642 - £938
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £615 £743 £800
% change year-on-year -17.24% -7.12% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 377 73 158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 52.43% 43.45% 40.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 58 128
10th Percentile £415 £370 £355
25th Percentile £477 £430 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £516 £511
Median % change year-on-year +3.92% +1.03% +8.77%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £601
90th Percentile £638 £715 £780
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £536 £523 £511
% change year-on-year +2.66% +2.25% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 3 9
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.70 -
25th Percentile - £16.38 £15.85
Median hourly rate £16.35 £19.00 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.95% +5.56% +30.91%
75th Percentile - £37.13 £22.50
90th Percentile £18.32 £47.10 £22.53
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £35.75 £22.50
% change year-on-year -54.27% +58.89% +63.64%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

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Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing CCNP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing CCNP

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Daily Rate Histogram in Milton Keynes

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in Milton Keynes over the 6 months to 6 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in Milton Keynes

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Hourly Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing CCNP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing CCNP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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 9 (100.00%) AWS
1 9 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (44.44%) Azure Sentinel
3 1 (11.11%) Entra ID
3 1 (11.11%) GCP
3 1 (11.11%) IaaS
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) PaaS
3 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (44.44%) Cisco Nexus
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 3 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 3 (33.33%) VSAN
3 1 (11.11%) BGP
3 1 (11.11%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (11.11%) Firewall
3 1 (11.11%) IPsec
3 1 (11.11%) IPv6
3 1 (11.11%) MPLS
3 1 (11.11%) Multicast
3 1 (11.11%) OSPF
3 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
3 1 (11.11%) SNMP
3 1 (11.11%) VoIP
3 1 (11.11%) VPN
3 1 (11.11%) VXLAN
3 1 (11.11%) WAN
3 1 (11.11%) Wireless
3 1 (11.11%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
1 3 (33.33%) Manufacturing
1 3 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (66.67%) Architect
2 5 (55.56%) Technical Architect
3 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) NOC Engineer
4 2 (22.22%) Cloud Architect
4 2 (22.22%) VMware Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Network Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Senior
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Architect
5 1 (11.11%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Data Centre
1 4 (44.44%) Public Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 1 (11.11%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
1 4 (44.44%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) ITIL
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) DevOps
2 5 (55.56%) Enterprise Architecture
2 5 (55.56%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (55.56%) Microservices
2 5 (55.56%) TOGAF
3 4 (44.44%) Containerisation
3 4 (44.44%) IT Strategy
3 4 (44.44%) Load Balancing
3 4 (44.44%) SIEM
3 4 (44.44%) Technology Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Change Management
4 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 3 (33.33%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (33.33%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (33.33%) Presales
4 3 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (33.33%) Zachman Framework
5 1 (11.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (55.56%) MCSE
3 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) DV Cleared
4 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
5 3 (33.33%) CCSE
5 3 (33.33%) CCSM
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Certification
6 1 (11.11%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (11.11%) CCDA
6 1 (11.11%) CCDP
6 1 (11.11%) CCIE
6 1 (11.11%) CCIP
6 1 (11.11%) CCNA
6 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (66.67%) NCSC
2 5 (55.56%) NIST
3 3 (33.33%) SLA
4 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (55.56%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (44.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (22.22%) VMware NSX
4 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
4 1 (11.11%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) CASB
1 1 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) VMware
2 4 (44.44%) CheckPoint
2 4 (44.44%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) Fortinet
2 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) Arista
3 1 (11.11%) Aruba
3 1 (11.11%) HP
3 1 (11.11%) Juniper
3 1 (11.11%) Meraki
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 1 (11.11%) SolarWinds
3 1 (11.11%) Zscaler