CCDP Contract Job Trends in the North East

Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for CCDP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 41 - 32
Rank change year-on-year - - +30
Contract jobs citing CCDP 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.93% - 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.63% - 1.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £425
Median % change year-on-year - - -22.73%
75th Percentile - - £438
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £525 £488
% change year-on-year +4.76% +7.69% -7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

CCDP 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 the North East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 114 106 60
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 35.51% 38.13% 25.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 48 39
10th Percentile £170 £313 £274
25th Percentile £406 £353 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £425 £500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £594 £603 £600
90th Percentile £725 £706 £720
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 15 7
10th Percentile - £29.27 £18.00
25th Percentile - - £18.38
Median hourly rate £74.26 £46.18 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +60.81% +42.09% -50.76%
75th Percentile - £70.00 £46.18
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.19 £52.50
% change year-on-year -51.81% -0.59% +16.67%

CCDP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCDP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

CCDP job vacancy trend in the North East

CCDP
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CCDP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CCDP

CCDP
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCDP within the North East region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Northumberland - 3 £550 -
CCDP
England

CCDP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (66.67%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) WebEx
2 1 (33.33%) BGP
2 1 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (33.33%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (33.33%) VLAN
General
1 3 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Legal
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Change Control
1 3 (100.00%) ITSM
1 3 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 3 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 3 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (66.67%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (66.67%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Product Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Service Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (33.33%) High Availability
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) Bash
1 3 (100.00%) Perl
1 3 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNA
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
System Software
1 3 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Citrix
1 3 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 3 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Microsoft