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 20 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 129 101 105
Rank change year-on-year -28 +4 +61
Contract jobs citing CCNP 60 56 107
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.25% 1.76% 1.95%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.73% 4.73% 4.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 30 77
10th Percentile £418 £327 £329
25th Percentile £431 £433 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +2.27% +3.77%
75th Percentile £572 £629 £619
90th Percentile £632 £743 £825
England median daily rate £481 £539 £500
% change year-on-year -10.67% +7.75% -3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £29.50
25th Percentile - £18.50 £36.25
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year - -60.00% +97.92%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £58.75
90th Percentile - - £65.50
England median hourly rate £74.26 £75.00 £71.25
% change year-on-year -0.99% +5.26% +115.91%

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 2,197 1,185 2,415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 45.81% 37.35% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,468 746 1,367
10th Percentile £298 £263 £215
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £605 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £680 £700
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 220 68 172
10th Percentile £15.59 £18.64 £18.32
25th Percentile £19.34 £30.21 £38.75
Median hourly rate £26.97 £56.75 £59.50
Median % change year-on-year -52.47% -4.63% +32.22%
75th Percentile £71.25 £64.73 £70.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £80.03 £83.38
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% -1.64%

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 20 February 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 20 February 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
Kent +12 20 £443 - 2
Hampshire -12 20 £500 -13.04% 4
Thames Valley -45 19 £523 -9.13% 10
Berkshire -34 13 £490 -0.76% 5
Buckinghamshire -8 4 £595 -19.93% 5
Oxfordshire - 2 £438 -
M4 Corridor - 1 £375 -
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.67%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (23.33%) AWS
2 13 (21.67%) Azure
3 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
3 2 (3.33%) GCP
3 2 (3.33%) Google Ads
4 1 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.67%) IaaS
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.67%) PaaS
4 1 (1.67%) SaaS
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 45 (75.00%) Firewall
2 38 (63.33%) BGP
2 38 (63.33%) LAN
3 37 (61.67%) WAN
4 35 (58.33%) OSPF
5 27 (45.00%) VPN
6 25 (41.67%) IPsec
7 18 (30.00%) Network Security
7 18 (30.00%) Structured Cabling
8 12 (20.00%) MPLS
8 12 (20.00%) TCP/IP
8 12 (20.00%) VLAN
9 6 (10.00%) Ethernet VPN
9 6 (10.00%) Multicast
10 5 (8.33%) IPv6
10 5 (8.33%) Wireless
10 5 (8.33%) Wireshark
11 4 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
11 4 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
11 4 (6.67%) Intrusion Detection
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (3.33%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.67%) GitLab
2 1 (1.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.67%) JIRA
General
1 23 (38.33%) Documentation Skills
2 19 (31.67%) Social Skills
3 12 (20.00%) Manufacturing
4 7 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.33%) Aviation
7 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.67%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 38 (63.33%) Network Engineer
2 11 (18.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 9 (15.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 8 (13.33%) Architect
4 8 (13.33%) Senior
5 5 (8.33%) Design Engineer
5 5 (8.33%) Network Architect
6 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (6.67%) Network Design Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Designer
7 3 (5.00%) Network Designer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Designer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Network Designer
7 3 (5.00%) Senior Tester
7 3 (5.00%) Technical Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Tester
7 3 (5.00%) Validation Tester
8 2 (3.33%) Consultant
8 2 (3.33%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.67%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 29 (48.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.33%) Private Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.67%) BYOD
4 1 (1.67%) Cyber Kill Chain
4 1 (1.67%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.67%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.67%) Life Science
4 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.67%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.67%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.33%) Linux
2 2 (3.33%) Windows
3 1 (1.67%) VMS
3 1 (1.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.00%) Network Design
2 11 (18.33%) Customer Requirements
3 8 (13.33%) Test Automation
4 7 (11.67%) Project Delivery
5 6 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
5 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (8.33%) Incident Response
6 5 (8.33%) Network Architecture
6 5 (8.33%) Performance Testing
6 5 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (8.33%) Validation
7 4 (6.67%) Agile
7 4 (6.67%) Computer Science
7 4 (6.67%) DevOps
7 4 (6.67%) Mentoring
8 3 (5.00%) Capacity Planning
8 3 (5.00%) High Availability
8 3 (5.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (5.00%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 7 (11.67%) Python
2 5 (8.33%) Bash
3 2 (3.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 60 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 52 (86.67%) Security Cleared
3 42 (70.00%) SC Cleared
4 25 (41.67%) CCNA
5 14 (23.33%) Degree
6 9 (15.00%) DV Cleared
7 8 (13.33%) CCIE
7 8 (13.33%) JNCIS
8 6 (10.00%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (5.00%) MCSE
11 2 (3.33%) BC Cleared
11 2 (3.33%) CCDP
11 2 (3.33%) CCIP
11 2 (3.33%) CCSE
11 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (3.33%) ISTQB
12 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
12 1 (1.67%) CCIE Collaboration
12 1 (1.67%) CCSM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.00%) NCSC
2 4 (6.67%) NIST
3 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.33%) QA
4 1 (1.67%) GRC
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.67%) Docker
3 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.67%) KVM
3 1 (1.67%) RHEV
3 1 (1.67%) Xen
Systems Management
1 10 (16.67%) Ansible
2 8 (13.33%) Nagios
3 6 (10.00%) Terraform
4 4 (6.67%) Iperf
4 4 (6.67%) Nmap
5 3 (5.00%) Cisco CUCM
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (1.67%) CASB
7 1 (1.67%) Cisco UCCE
7 1 (1.67%) FortiGate
7 1 (1.67%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.67%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 52 (86.67%) Cisco
2 28 (46.67%) Palo Alto
3 27 (45.00%) CheckPoint
4 23 (38.33%) Aruba
5 18 (30.00%) Juniper
6 15 (25.00%) SolarWinds
7 10 (16.67%) Fortinet
8 7 (11.67%) VMware
9 4 (6.67%) F5
9 4 (6.67%) Mellanox
9 4 (6.67%) NVIDIA
10 3 (5.00%) Microsoft
11 2 (3.33%) Meraki
11 2 (3.33%) Pegasus
11 2 (3.33%) Tufin
12 1 (1.67%) Arista
12 1 (1.67%) Avaya
12 1 (1.67%) Genesys
12 1 (1.67%) LogicMonitor
12 1 (1.67%) Zscaler