CCNP Contract Job Trends in Reading

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 72 70
Rank change year-on-year +19 -2 +2
Contract jobs citing CCNP 9 23 18
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.54% 2.10% 1.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.33% 5.46% 4.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 11
10th Percentile £240 £258 £350
25th Percentile - £439 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £603 £490
Median % change year-on-year -25.31% +22.96% -8.45%
75th Percentile £588 £608 -
90th Percentile £615 - £575
Berkshire median daily rate £450 £603 £400
% change year-on-year -25.31% +50.63% -20.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 169 421 437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 28.99% 38.52% 39.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 107 224 290
10th Percentile £253 £343 £213
25th Percentile £366 £500 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £605 £546
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% +10.81% +7.06%
75th Percentile £593 £663 £625
90th Percentile £663 £738 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £570 £525
% change year-on-year -12.28% +8.57% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 26 10
10th Percentile £42.05 £51.97 £58.63
25th Percentile - £60.72 £63.42
Median hourly rate £65.00 £66.26 £70.63
Median % change year-on-year -1.91% -6.18% +28.41%
75th Percentile £72.00 £99.38 £74.95
90th Percentile £85.05 £100.00 £75.42
Berkshire median hourly rate £43.96 £61.60 £65.13
% change year-on-year -28.64% -5.41% +177.13%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in Reading

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Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CCNP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CCNP

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Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in Reading over the 6 months to 12 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in Reading

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Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CCNP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CCNP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 1 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 5 (55.56%) VPN
3 4 (44.44%) BGP
3 4 (44.44%) Network Security
3 4 (44.44%) OSPF
3 4 (44.44%) TCP/IP
3 4 (44.44%) VLAN
4 2 (22.22%) LAN
4 2 (22.22%) WAN
4 2 (22.22%) WebEx
5 1 (11.11%) Cisco ICM
5 1 (11.11%) CTI
5 1 (11.11%) H.323
5 1 (11.11%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) GitLab
1 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
Job Titles
1 3 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Test Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco Specialist
3 1 (11.11%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Consultant
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Network Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (11.11%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 2 (22.22%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (11.11%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Proactive Monitoring
1 4 (44.44%) Security Monitoring
1 4 (44.44%) Security Operations
1 4 (44.44%) SIEM
2 2 (22.22%) Case Management
2 2 (22.22%) Defect Management
2 2 (22.22%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (22.22%) Network Design
2 2 (22.22%) Service Management
2 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
2 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 1 (11.11%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco ICM Scripting
3 1 (11.11%) CRM
3 1 (11.11%) Data Governance
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) High Availability
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Python
2 2 (22.22%) PowerShell
3 1 (11.11%) Bash
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (55.56%) SC Cleared
2 5 (55.56%) Security Cleared
3 4 (44.44%) CCSA
3 4 (44.44%) CCSE
3 4 (44.44%) Check Point Certification
4 3 (33.33%) CCNA
5 1 (11.11%) CCIE
5 1 (11.11%) CCIE Collaboration
5 1 (11.11%) JNCIP
5 1 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (11.11%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Active Directory
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) Ansible
2 2 (22.22%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (11.11%) Cisco UCCE
3 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
3 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Cisco
2 4 (44.44%) CheckPoint
2 4 (44.44%) Palo Alto
3 1 (11.11%) Avaya
3 1 (11.11%) Genesys
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft