CCNP Contract Job Trends in the South East

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 180 99 125
Rank change year-on-year -81 +26 +19
Contract jobs citing CCNP 54 63 64
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.82% 1.82% 1.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.79% 4.53% 2.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 54 48
10th Percentile £400 £416 £421
25th Percentile £434 £450 £472
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -16.67% +33.33%
75th Percentile £636 £584 £608
90th Percentile £783 £621 £638
England median daily rate £475 £531 £523
% change year-on-year -10.59% +1.67% +4.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.71
25th Percentile £75.50 - £17.84
Median hourly rate £77.00 - £18.38
75th Percentile £78.50 - £19.09
90th Percentile - - £19.34
England median hourly rate £65.00 £30.00 £44.00
% change year-on-year +116.67% -31.82% -29.03%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,012 1,392 2,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 45.61% 40.22% 45.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,047 910 1,439
10th Percentile £325 £263 £351
25th Percentile £458 £415 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £640
90th Percentile £725 £664 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 317 110 204
10th Percentile £18.29 £18.87 £17.86
25th Percentile £33.70 £19.47 £26.93
Median hourly rate £65.00 £32.05 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +102.81% -44.12% -6.94%
75th Percentile £85.00 £69.91 £70.39
90th Percentile £94.50 £83.41 £87.46
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -41.51% -21.82%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in the South East

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Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CCNP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CCNP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in the South East over the 6 months to 27 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in the South East

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CCNP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CCNP

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the South East region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. 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
Thames Valley -42 37 £510 +13.33% 3
Berkshire -41 18 £415 -7.78% 1
Buckinghamshire - 17 £640 - 1
Hampshire -54 11 £525 -1.41% 4
Kent +4 4 £445 +1.71%
Oxfordshire - 2 £700 - 1
Surrey - 1 - -
CCNP
England

CCNP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South 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:

Applications
1 1 (1.85%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 29 (53.70%) AWS
2 28 (51.85%) Azure
3 6 (11.11%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (7.41%) GCP
5 3 (5.56%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.70%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.85%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.85%) IaaS
7 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.85%) PaaS
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 36 (66.67%) Firewall
2 35 (64.81%) WAN
3 34 (62.96%) LAN
4 23 (42.59%) BGP
4 23 (42.59%) OSPF
5 17 (31.48%) VPN
6 16 (29.63%) SD-WAN
7 13 (24.07%) Cisco Nexus
8 11 (20.37%) MPLS
8 11 (20.37%) Network Security
9 9 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (16.67%) IPsec
9 9 (16.67%) VLAN
9 9 (16.67%) Wireless
10 8 (14.81%) DNS
10 8 (14.81%) TCP/IP
10 8 (14.81%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (12.96%) VXLAN
12 5 (9.26%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (3.70%) Git
3 1 (1.85%) JIRA
General
1 13 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 7 (12.96%) Documentation Skills
3 7 (12.96%) Manufacturing
4 5 (9.26%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (9.26%) Finance
4 5 (9.26%) Retail
5 3 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Public Sector
7 1 (1.85%) Aviation
7 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 24 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 14 (25.93%) Architect
3 10 (18.52%) Technical Architect
4 8 (14.81%) Network Architect
5 7 (12.96%) Cisco Engineer
5 7 (12.96%) Senior
6 6 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 6 (11.11%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Lead
7 5 (9.26%) Lead Architect
7 5 (9.26%) NOC Engineer
7 5 (9.26%) Technical Leader
8 4 (7.41%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (7.41%) Network Delivery Manager
8 4 (7.41%) Network Manager
8 4 (7.41%) Network Technical Architect
9 3 (5.56%) IP Engineer
9 3 (5.56%) Tester
10 2 (3.70%) Senior Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Senior IP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.96%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.85%) JSON
2 1 (1.85%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (42.59%) Data Centre
2 10 (18.52%) Hybrid Cloud
3 7 (12.96%) Private Cloud
4 6 (11.11%) Public Cloud
5 5 (9.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (7.41%) Cloud Native
7 3 (5.56%) BYOD
7 3 (5.56%) Security Posture
8 1 (1.85%) Cyber Kill Chain
8 1 (1.85%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.85%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Linux
2 7 (12.96%) Windows
3 1 (1.85%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (33.33%) ITIL
2 13 (24.07%) TOGAF
3 12 (22.22%) Agile
3 12 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
4 11 (20.37%) Change Management
4 11 (20.37%) Network Architecture
5 10 (18.52%) Network Monitoring
6 9 (16.67%) Roadmaps
7 8 (14.81%) CI/CD
7 8 (14.81%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (14.81%) DevOps
7 8 (14.81%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (14.81%) Infrastructure as Code
7 8 (14.81%) Zero Trust
8 7 (12.96%) Network Design
8 7 (12.96%) PRINCE2
8 7 (12.96%) Project Delivery
8 7 (12.96%) SIEM
9 6 (11.11%) Mentoring
9 6 (11.11%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.26%) Python
2 1 (1.85%) Bash
Qualifications
1 54 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (57.41%) Security Cleared
3 24 (44.44%) SC Cleared
4 11 (20.37%) CCNA
4 11 (20.37%) Degree
4 11 (20.37%) DV Cleared
5 9 (16.67%) CCIE
6 7 (12.96%) CCSE
6 7 (12.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 6 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 5 (9.26%) AWS Certification
8 5 (9.26%) CCSM
8 5 (9.26%) MCSE
9 4 (7.41%) PMI Certification
9 4 (7.41%) PMP
10 2 (3.70%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
10 2 (3.70%) CCIP
10 2 (3.70%) CISSP
10 2 (3.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (20.37%) NCSC
2 6 (11.11%) NIST
2 6 (11.11%) SLA
3 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.85%) GDPR
4 1 (1.85%) GRC
4 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (16.67%) VMware NSX
2 8 (14.81%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (5.56%) Firmware
4 1 (1.85%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.85%) Docker
4 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.85%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.85%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) Ansible
2 9 (16.67%) Terraform
3 2 (3.70%) Nagios
4 1 (1.85%) CASB
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.85%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.85%) Grafana
4 1 (1.85%) Iperf
4 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.85%) Nmap
4 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 43 (79.63%) Cisco
2 23 (42.59%) Palo Alto
3 21 (38.89%) VMware
4 17 (31.48%) Fortinet
5 15 (27.78%) Aruba
5 15 (27.78%) Juniper
6 14 (25.93%) CheckPoint
7 11 (20.37%) SolarWinds
8 9 (16.67%) F5
8 9 (16.67%) Microsoft
9 5 (9.26%) Arista
10 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
11 3 (5.56%) Google
12 2 (3.70%) Mellanox
12 2 (3.70%) Meraki
12 2 (3.70%) NVIDIA
13 1 (1.85%) Ekahau
13 1 (1.85%) LogicMonitor
13 1 (1.85%) Tufin
13 1 (1.85%) Zscaler