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 5 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 186 107 138
Rank change year-on-year -79 +31 -5
Contract jobs citing CCNP 45 58 54
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.68% 1.66% 1.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.50% 4.10% 2.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 50 40
10th Percentile £394 £404 £425
25th Percentile £425 £450 £494
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £605
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -19.01% +19.21%
75th Percentile £636 £572 £612
90th Percentile £788 £628 £638
England median daily rate £475 £525 £515
% change year-on-year -9.52% +1.94% +3.00%
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 £67.50 £30.00 £65.00
% change year-on-year +125.00% -53.85% +4.84%

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 3,008 1,415 2,233
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 45.14% 40.58% 44.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,028 918 1,380
10th Percentile £325 £250 £350
25th Percentile £460 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £600 £638
90th Percentile £725 £663 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 329 116 185
10th Percentile £19.04 £18.87 £17.88
25th Percentile £37.12 £19.56 £30.41
Median hourly rate £66.00 £28.00 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year +135.71% -51.18% -4.42%
75th Percentile £85.00 £68.79 £70.39
90th Percentile £88.00 £82.00 £87.46
England median hourly rate £55.00 £25.15 £46.18
% change year-on-year +118.69% -45.54% -16.04%

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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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -53 34 £467 +3.67% 3
Berkshire -37 18 £415 -7.78% 1
Buckinghamshire - 14 £645 - 1
Hampshire -56 7 £525 +1.94% 8
Kent +1 2 £504 +15.14%
Oxfordshire - 2 £700 - 1
Surrey - 1 - - 1
CCNP
England

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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 (2.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 26 (57.78%) AWS
2 25 (55.56%) Azure
3 6 (13.33%) Azure Sentinel
4 4 (8.89%) GCP
5 3 (6.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (4.44%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (2.22%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (2.22%) Entra ID
7 1 (2.22%) IaaS
7 1 (2.22%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (2.22%) PaaS
7 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 32 (71.11%) Firewall
2 30 (66.67%) LAN
2 30 (66.67%) WAN
3 18 (40.00%) BGP
4 17 (37.78%) OSPF
5 16 (35.56%) SD-WAN
6 14 (31.11%) VPN
7 13 (28.89%) Cisco Nexus
8 10 (22.22%) MPLS
9 9 (20.00%) Cisco Firepower
9 9 (20.00%) Network Security
9 9 (20.00%) Wireless
10 8 (17.78%) Cisco ASA
10 8 (17.78%) DNS
10 8 (17.78%) VLAN
10 8 (17.78%) Wi-Fi
11 7 (15.56%) TCP/IP
11 7 (15.56%) VXLAN
12 6 (13.33%) IPsec
13 5 (11.11%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (8.89%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (4.44%) Git
3 1 (2.22%) JIRA
General
1 12 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 8 (17.78%) Telecoms
3 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (11.11%) Finance
3 5 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 5 (11.11%) Retail
4 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (4.44%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 19 (42.22%) Network Engineer
2 11 (24.44%) Architect
3 8 (17.78%) Network Architect
4 7 (15.56%) Technical Architect
5 5 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Lead
5 5 (11.11%) Lead Architect
5 5 (11.11%) NOC Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Senior
5 5 (11.11%) Technical Leader
6 4 (8.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (8.89%) Network Delivery Manager
6 4 (8.89%) Network Manager
6 4 (8.89%) Network Technical Architect
6 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) IP Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) Cloud Architect
8 2 (4.44%) Senior IP Engineer
8 2 (4.44%) VMware Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (15.56%) 802.1X
2 1 (2.22%) JSON
2 1 (2.22%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 19 (42.22%) Data Centre
2 10 (22.22%) Hybrid Cloud
3 6 (13.33%) Private Cloud
4 5 (11.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (8.89%) Public Cloud
6 3 (6.67%) BYOD
6 3 (6.67%) Cloud Native
6 3 (6.67%) Security Posture
7 1 (2.22%) Cyber Kill Chain
7 1 (2.22%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (2.22%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 8 (17.78%) Linux
2 7 (15.56%) Windows
3 1 (2.22%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) ITIL
2 11 (24.44%) Change Management
2 11 (24.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
3 10 (22.22%) TOGAF
4 9 (20.00%) Agile
4 9 (20.00%) Network Architecture
5 8 (17.78%) Roadmaps
5 8 (17.78%) Zero Trust
6 7 (15.56%) CI/CD
6 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.56%) PRINCE2
6 7 (15.56%) SIEM
7 6 (13.33%) Load Balancing
7 6 (13.33%) Mentoring
7 6 (13.33%) Network Design
7 6 (13.33%) Project Delivery
7 6 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
7 6 (13.33%) Technology Roadmap
8 5 (11.11%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.89%) Python
Qualifications
1 45 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (51.11%) Security Cleared
3 16 (35.56%) SC Cleared
4 10 (22.22%) CCNA
4 10 (22.22%) Degree
5 9 (20.00%) DV Cleared
6 8 (17.78%) CCIE
7 7 (15.56%) CCSE
8 6 (13.33%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 5 (11.11%) AWS Certification
9 5 (11.11%) CCSM
10 4 (8.89%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (8.89%) PMI Certification
10 4 (8.89%) PMP
11 2 (4.44%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 2 (4.44%) Azure Certification
11 2 (4.44%) CCIP
11 2 (4.44%) CISSP
11 2 (4.44%) MCSE
11 2 (4.44%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (15.56%) NCSC
2 6 (13.33%) SLA
3 3 (6.67%) NIST
4 2 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (2.22%) GDPR
5 1 (2.22%) GRC
5 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 9 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 9 (20.00%) VMware NSX
2 8 (17.78%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.67%) Firmware
4 1 (2.22%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.22%) Docker
4 1 (2.22%) Hyper-V
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (2.22%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) Ansible
1 8 (17.78%) Terraform
2 2 (4.44%) Nagios
3 1 (2.22%) CASB
3 1 (2.22%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.22%) Grafana
3 1 (2.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 37 (82.22%) Cisco
2 20 (44.44%) Palo Alto
3 18 (40.00%) VMware
4 16 (35.56%) Fortinet
5 15 (33.33%) Juniper
6 12 (26.67%) Aruba
7 11 (24.44%) CheckPoint
8 10 (22.22%) SolarWinds
9 9 (20.00%) F5
9 9 (20.00%) Microsoft
10 5 (11.11%) Arista
11 4 (8.89%) ServiceNow
12 3 (6.67%) Google
13 2 (4.44%) Meraki
14 1 (2.22%) Ekahau
14 1 (2.22%) Huawei
14 1 (2.22%) LogicMonitor
14 1 (2.22%) Mellanox
14 1 (2.22%) NVIDIA
14 1 (2.22%) Zscaler