CCDP Contract Job Trends in Preston

Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
Lancashire > Preston

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Preston with a requirement for CCDP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing CCDP 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Preston 4.76% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 8.51% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - -
Lancashire median daily rate £550 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Preston

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 Preston.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 47 21 32
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Preston 55.95% 44.68% 37.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 10 11
10th Percentile £342 £200 £363
25th Percentile £442 £313 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +3.09% +79.63%
75th Percentile £640 £578 £500
90th Percentile £679 £628 £625
Lancashire median daily rate £550 £442 £600
% change year-on-year +24.43% -26.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 3 20
10th Percentile £41.94 £39.73 £37.80
25th Percentile £44.58 £43.81 £45.88
Median hourly rate £47.12 £51.25 £46.18
Median % change year-on-year -8.06% +10.98% -0.43%
75th Percentile £70.16 £60.03 £50.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £64.92 £52.10
Lancashire median hourly rate £64.63 £46.18 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.95% - -0.43%

CCDP
Job Vacancy Trend in Preston

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

CCDP job vacancy trend in Preston

CCDP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Preston 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) BGP
1 2 (50.00%) Firewall
1 2 (50.00%) Software-Defined Networking
1 2 (50.00%) VLAN
1 2 (50.00%) WebEx
General
1 4 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Legal
2 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 4 (100.00%) Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 4 (100.00%) Windows
1 4 (100.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Change Control
1 4 (100.00%) ITSM
1 4 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 4 (100.00%) Platform Engineering
1 4 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 2 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Engineering
2 2 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (50.00%) High Availability
2 2 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
2 2 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Service Management
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Bash
1 4 (100.00%) Perl
1 4 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 4 (100.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNA
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 4 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (50.00%) Degree
System Software
1 4 (100.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Citrix
1 4 (100.00%) Red Hat
1 4 (100.00%) VMware
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft