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 12 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 138 126
Rank change year-on-year -70 -12 -15
Contract jobs citing CCNP 25 29 56
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.38% 0.82% 1.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.88% 2.07% 3.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 27 35
10th Percentile £312 £370 £250
25th Percentile £400 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -12.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £642 £644 £638
90th Percentile £781 £685 -
England median daily rate £475 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -9.52% +2.44% +2.50%
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 £68.75 £30.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +129.17% -58.62% -

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 2,847 1,402 1,767
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 43.62% 39.46% 41.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,851 915 1,126
10th Percentile £330 £204 £311
25th Percentile £463 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £536
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -6.76% -0.23%
75th Percentile £638 £588 £638
90th Percentile £735 £650 £700
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 131 110
10th Percentile £18.25 - £22.39
25th Percentile £33.70 £18.87 £35.00
Median hourly rate £62.75 £25.15 £60.83
Median % change year-on-year +149.50% -58.66% +1.38%
75th Percentile £86.56 £49.38 £73.75
90th Percentile £100.59 £81.00 £92.04
England median hourly rate £48.92 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +94.51% -52.10% -2.17%

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 12 October 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 12 October 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 -38 22 £463 +2.78% 8
Berkshire -26 13 £410 -8.89% 4
Buckinghamshire - 7 £763 - 3
Oxfordshire - 2 £700 - 1
Hampshire -44 1 £325 -50.00% 9
Surrey - 1 - - 4
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 (4.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (56.00%) AWS
2 13 (52.00%) Azure
3 3 (12.00%) Azure Sentinel
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
3 3 (12.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (8.00%) AWS Direct Connect
5 1 (4.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 17 (68.00%) Firewall
1 17 (68.00%) LAN
2 16 (64.00%) WAN
3 12 (48.00%) SD-WAN
4 11 (44.00%) BGP
5 10 (40.00%) OSPF
6 8 (32.00%) MPLS
6 8 (32.00%) VPN
7 7 (28.00%) Cisco Firepower
7 7 (28.00%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (24.00%) Cisco ASA
8 6 (24.00%) DNS
8 6 (24.00%) TCP/IP
8 6 (24.00%) VLAN
9 5 (20.00%) Network Security
9 5 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (12.00%) IPsec
10 3 (12.00%) LTE
10 3 (12.00%) Wireless
10 3 (12.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) Git
1 2 (8.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 11 (44.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.00%) Finance
4 3 (12.00%) Manufacturing
4 3 (12.00%) Retail
5 2 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (20.00%) Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Network Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Senior
4 3 (12.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Lead
4 3 (12.00%) Lead Architect
4 3 (12.00%) NOC Engineer
4 3 (12.00%) Technical Architect
4 3 (12.00%) Technical Leader
5 2 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Network Delivery Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Network Manager
5 2 (8.00%) Network Technical Architect
5 2 (8.00%) Tester
5 2 (8.00%) WAN Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Associate Engineer
6 1 (4.00%) Automation Specialist
6 1 (4.00%) Juniper Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (24.00%) Terraform
2 1 (4.00%) 802.1X
2 1 (4.00%) JSON
2 1 (4.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 10 (40.00%) Data Centre
2 5 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 4 (16.00%) Private Cloud
4 3 (12.00%) Cloud Native
4 3 (12.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (12.00%) Security Posture
5 1 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.00%) Linux
1 4 (16.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (48.00%) ITIL
2 7 (28.00%) Change Management
2 7 (28.00%) Network Architecture
2 7 (28.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 7 (28.00%) Zero Trust
3 6 (24.00%) TOGAF
4 5 (20.00%) Agile
4 5 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 5 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 5 (20.00%) Project Delivery
4 5 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (16.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (16.00%) ITSM
5 4 (16.00%) SIEM
5 4 (16.00%) Technical Leadership
5 4 (16.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (12.00%) Enterprise Architecture
6 3 (12.00%) Risk Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (32.00%) Security Cleared
3 7 (28.00%) CCIE
4 5 (20.00%) Degree
5 4 (16.00%) AWS Certification
5 4 (16.00%) CCNA
5 4 (16.00%) CCSE
5 4 (16.00%) DV Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (16.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 3 (12.00%) CCSM
7 2 (8.00%) Azure Certification
7 2 (8.00%) CISSP
7 2 (8.00%) PMI Certification
7 2 (8.00%) PMP
8 1 (4.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 1 (4.00%) CCDE
8 1 (4.00%) CISA
8 1 (4.00%) CISM
8 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (16.00%) NCSC
1 4 (16.00%) SLA
2 1 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (4.00%) GDPR
2 1 (4.00%) GRC
2 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (4.00%) NIST
2 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (16.00%) VMware ESXi
2 4 (16.00%) VMware NSX
3 3 (12.00%) Firmware
4 1 (4.00%) Active Directory
4 1 (4.00%) Docker
4 1 (4.00%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 6 (24.00%) Ansible
2 1 (4.00%) Grafana
2 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 22 (88.00%) Cisco
2 11 (44.00%) Palo Alto
3 10 (40.00%) Fortinet
4 8 (32.00%) F5
4 8 (32.00%) VMware
5 7 (28.00%) Juniper
6 6 (24.00%) Microsoft
7 5 (20.00%) CheckPoint
7 5 (20.00%) ServiceNow
7 5 (20.00%) SolarWinds
8 4 (16.00%) Arista
8 4 (16.00%) Aruba
9 3 (12.00%) Google
10 1 (4.00%) Dell
10 1 (4.00%) HP
10 1 (4.00%) Huawei
10 1 (4.00%) LogicMonitor