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 2 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 139 80 115
Rank change year-on-year -59 +35 +43
Contract jobs citing CCNP 68 73 85
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 1.16% 2.42% 1.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.55% 6.00% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 50 67
10th Percentile £414 £418 £329
25th Percentile £432 £450 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £495 £570
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -13.16% +26.67%
75th Percentile £561 £613 £628
90th Percentile £640 £650 £825
England median daily rate £475 £544 £505
% change year-on-year -12.72% +7.77% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 2
10th Percentile - - £23.65
25th Percentile - £18.50 £31.38
Median hourly rate - £19.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year - -57.30% -27.05%
75th Percentile - £19.50 £57.38
90th Percentile - - £64.95
England median hourly rate £74.26 £73.75 £24.50
% change year-on-year +0.69% +201.02% -60.48%

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 2,669 1,217 2,480
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 45.63% 40.39% 44.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,801 774 1,416
10th Percentile £306 £304 £319
25th Percentile £425 £438 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £537 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.23% -2.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £688 £736
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 271 83 213
10th Percentile £16.35 £20.00 £17.52
25th Percentile £22.79 £26.13 £26.73
Median hourly rate £55.00 £56.75 £57.35
Median % change year-on-year -3.08% -1.05% +0.82%
75th Percentile £84.00 £70.63 £67.00
90th Percentile £90.09 £78.13 £85.41
England median hourly rate £47.50 £45.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% +12.50% -23.81%

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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 2 May 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 2 May 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 -64 24 £463 +2.78% 7
Hampshire -27 22 £513 -0.49% 11
Kent +9 20 £443 +1.14% 1
Berkshire -55 12 £450 - 3
Buckinghamshire -29 10 £628 -15.55% 1
Oxfordshire - 2 £438 - 3
Surrey - 1 - - 5
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 5 (7.35%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 22 (32.35%) AWS
2 20 (29.41%) Azure
3 3 (4.41%) Azure Sentinel
4 2 (2.94%) GCP
4 2 (2.94%) Google Ads
5 1 (1.47%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (1.47%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.47%) IaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.47%) PaaS
5 1 (1.47%) SaaS
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 51 (75.00%) Firewall
2 49 (72.06%) LAN
3 48 (70.59%) WAN
4 39 (57.35%) BGP
5 36 (52.94%) OSPF
6 26 (38.24%) VPN
7 25 (36.76%) IPsec
8 18 (26.47%) Network Security
8 18 (26.47%) Structured Cabling
9 13 (19.12%) VLAN
10 11 (16.18%) MPLS
10 11 (16.18%) TCP/IP
11 9 (13.24%) Wireless
12 7 (10.29%) Ethernet VPN
12 7 (10.29%) SD-WAN
12 7 (10.29%) WLAN
13 6 (8.82%) Cisco Nexus
13 6 (8.82%) DHCP
13 6 (8.82%) DNS
13 6 (8.82%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (2.94%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.47%) JIRA
General
1 23 (33.82%) Documentation Skills
2 16 (23.53%) Social Skills
3 14 (20.59%) Manufacturing
4 8 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (8.82%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.35%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.94%) Aviation
7 2 (2.94%) Finance
7 2 (2.94%) Retail
8 1 (1.47%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.47%) Military
Job Titles
1 44 (64.71%) Network Engineer
2 13 (19.12%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 11 (16.18%) Architect
4 10 (14.71%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (14.71%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 9 (13.24%) Senior
6 7 (10.29%) Technical Architect
7 6 (8.82%) Network Architect
8 4 (5.88%) Design Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 4 (5.88%) Network Design Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Designer
9 3 (4.41%) IP Engineer
9 3 (4.41%) Network Designer
9 3 (4.41%) Network Manager
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Designer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Network Designer
9 3 (4.41%) Senior Network Engineer
10 2 (2.94%) Delivery Manager
10 2 (2.94%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (8.82%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 35 (51.47%) Data Centre
2 6 (8.82%) Hybrid Cloud
2 6 (8.82%) Public Cloud
3 3 (4.41%) BYOD
3 3 (4.41%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (4.41%) Private Cloud
4 2 (2.94%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 2 (2.94%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.47%) Cyber Kill Chain
5 1 (1.47%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Life Science
5 1 (1.47%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.29%) Linux
2 3 (4.41%) Windows
3 1 (1.47%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (20.59%) Network Design
2 12 (17.65%) Customer Requirements
3 9 (13.24%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (13.24%) ITIL
3 9 (13.24%) Network Monitoring
4 8 (11.76%) TOGAF
5 7 (10.29%) Agile
5 7 (10.29%) Mentoring
5 7 (10.29%) Project Delivery
5 7 (10.29%) Test Automation
6 6 (8.82%) DevOps
6 6 (8.82%) Incident Response
6 6 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
6 6 (8.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 5 (7.35%) Change Management
7 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Architecture
7 5 (7.35%) Integration Testing
7 5 (7.35%) Network Architecture
7 5 (7.35%) Performance Testing
7 5 (7.35%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.41%) Python
2 2 (2.94%) Bash
Qualifications
1 68 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 54 (79.41%) Security Cleared
3 44 (64.71%) SC Cleared
4 24 (35.29%) CCNA
5 15 (22.06%) Degree
6 13 (19.12%) DV Cleared
7 9 (13.24%) JNCIS
8 6 (8.82%) Microsoft Certification
8 6 (8.82%) Network+ Certification
9 5 (7.35%) CCIE
9 5 (7.35%) MCSE
10 4 (5.88%) CCSE
11 3 (4.41%) CCSM
12 2 (2.94%) AWS Certification
12 2 (2.94%) BC Cleared
12 2 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (2.94%) ISTQB
12 2 (2.94%) PMI Certification
12 2 (2.94%) PMP
12 2 (2.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.76%) NCSC
2 5 (7.35%) NIST
3 3 (4.41%) SLA
4 2 (2.94%) QA
5 1 (1.47%) GRC
5 1 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (8.82%) VMware NSX
3 5 (7.35%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (1.47%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.47%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.47%) KVM
4 1 (1.47%) RHEV
4 1 (1.47%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (1.47%) vSphere
4 1 (1.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 9 (13.24%) Nagios
2 8 (11.76%) Ansible
3 6 (8.82%) Terraform
4 2 (2.94%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (2.94%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.94%) Iperf
4 2 (2.94%) Nmap
5 1 (1.47%) CASB
5 1 (1.47%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.47%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 58 (85.29%) Cisco
2 33 (48.53%) Palo Alto
3 28 (41.18%) CheckPoint
4 27 (39.71%) Aruba
5 23 (33.82%) Juniper
6 16 (23.53%) VMware
7 15 (22.06%) Fortinet
7 15 (22.06%) SolarWinds
8 7 (10.29%) F5
9 4 (5.88%) Mellanox
9 4 (5.88%) NVIDIA
10 3 (4.41%) Meraki
10 3 (4.41%) Microsoft
11 2 (2.94%) Arista
11 2 (2.94%) Pegasus
11 2 (2.94%) Tufin
12 1 (1.47%) BT
12 1 (1.47%) HP
12 1 (1.47%) Huawei
12 1 (1.47%) ServiceNow