CCNP Contracts in the South West

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 125 121
Rank change year-on-year +56 -4 +25
Contract jobs citing CCNP 42 32 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.50% 1.00% 1.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.55% 1.77% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 21 37
10th Percentile £454 £285 £413
25th Percentile £535 £413 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile £625 - £638
90th Percentile £688 £688 £693
England median daily rate £549 £505 £519
% change year-on-year +8.76% -2.60% +6.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 3
10th Percentile - £85.50 -
25th Percentile - £86.25 £83.75
Median hourly rate £75.00 £90.00 £92.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% -2.70% +61.69%
75th Percentile - £93.75 £101.88
90th Percentile - £94.50 £102.25
England median hourly rate £73.75 £24.50 £62.00
% change year-on-year +201.02% -60.48% +41.75%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 923 1,806 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.01% 56.46% 52.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 588 1,150 1,403
10th Percentile £250 £353 £388
25th Percentile £450 £465 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £578
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +11.06%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £675
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 196 156
10th Percentile £18.51 £22.31 £38.53
25th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £57.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £61.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% -6.15% +5.69%
75th Percentile £68.00 £72.50 £80.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £86.45
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCNP in the South West.

Daily rate trend for CCNP in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in the South West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCNP in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wiltshire +52 24 £575 +31.43% 4
Bristol +19 12 £550 -18.52% 7
Somerset +3 4 £488 +65.25% 5
Gloucestershire +16 1 £500 +70.21% 17
Dorset +4 1 £538 +26.47% 3
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (23.81%) Confluence
2 1 (2.38%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.81%) PaaS
1 10 (23.81%) SaaS
2 2 (4.76%) AWS
2 2 (4.76%) Azure
2 2 (4.76%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 15 (35.71%) BGP
1 15 (35.71%) VoIP
2 14 (33.33%) OSPF
3 13 (30.95%) PBX
4 12 (28.57%) Firewall
5 11 (26.19%) Cisco IOS
6 7 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 7 (16.67%) DMVPN
6 7 (16.67%) VXLAN
7 6 (14.29%) Unified Communications
8 5 (11.90%) SD-WAN
8 5 (11.90%) WAN
9 4 (9.52%) MPLS
9 4 (9.52%) Wireless
10 3 (7.14%) ISDN
10 3 (7.14%) VLAN
11 2 (4.76%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (4.76%) iSCSI
11 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
11 2 (4.76%) VPN
Development Applications
1 11 (26.19%) Bitbucket
2 10 (23.81%) Git
2 10 (23.81%) JIRA
3 9 (21.43%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (30.95%) Telecoms
2 5 (11.90%) Military
2 5 (11.90%) Social Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (7.14%) Billing
3 3 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (4.76%) Advertising
4 2 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (28.57%) Network Engineer
2 5 (11.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 4 (9.52%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Automation Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) DevOps Engineer
4 3 (7.14%) Telecoms Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Linux Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.76%) SC Cleared Software Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Software Engineer
5 2 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (4.76%) Virtualisation Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Consultant
6 1 (2.38%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Python Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Security Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Telephony Engineer
6 1 (2.38%) Unified Communications Consultant
6 1 (2.38%) Voice Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (23.81%) REST
1 10 (23.81%) SOAP
2 5 (11.90%) Spine.js
3 2 (4.76%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 10 (23.81%) Blackberry
1 10 (23.81%) Video Conferencing
2 3 (7.14%) Clustering
2 3 (7.14%) IVR
2 3 (7.14%) PKI
2 3 (7.14%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (4.76%) Cloud Native
3 2 (4.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (28.57%) Windows
2 11 (26.19%) Windows Server
3 10 (23.81%) Linux
4 2 (4.76%) VMS
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (61.90%) Validation
2 23 (54.76%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (40.48%) Service Management
3 17 (40.48%) System Testing
4 15 (35.71%) NsoIT
5 13 (30.95%) Agile
6 12 (28.57%) Customer Requirements
7 11 (26.19%) Network Architecture
8 10 (23.81%) Commercial Awareness
8 10 (23.81%) Configuration Management
8 10 (23.81%) Deployment Automation
8 10 (23.81%) Infrastructure Automation
8 10 (23.81%) Reverse Engineering
8 10 (23.81%) Roadmaps
8 10 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
9 9 (21.43%) Impact Assessments
9 9 (21.43%) Migration
10 8 (19.05%) Cost Reduction
10 8 (19.05%) Product Roadmap
10 8 (19.05%) Thought Leadership
Programming Languages
1 10 (23.81%) Bash
1 10 (23.81%) Python
2 9 (21.43%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 42 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (90.48%) Security Cleared
3 36 (85.71%) SC Cleared
4 27 (64.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 16 (38.10%) DV Cleared
6 11 (26.19%) CCNA
7 10 (23.81%) OCA
7 10 (23.81%) Oracle Certification
7 10 (23.81%) RHCA
7 10 (23.81%) RHCE
8 5 (11.90%) Degree
9 4 (9.52%) CCIE
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Certification
10 2 (4.76%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
10 2 (4.76%) JNCIE
10 2 (4.76%) JNCIP
10 2 (4.76%) Master's Degree
10 2 (4.76%) MCSA
10 2 (4.76%) MCSE
10 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 30 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (7.14%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (4.76%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.38%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 17 (40.48%) vCenter Server
2 10 (23.81%) Ansible
2 10 (23.81%) Progress Chef
2 10 (23.81%) Puppet
3 2 (4.76%) SCOM
3 2 (4.76%) ZABBIX
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 41 (97.62%) Cisco
2 30 (71.43%) VMware
3 13 (30.95%) Palo Alto
4 12 (28.57%) Juniper
4 12 (28.57%) Nokia
5 11 (26.19%) F5
6 10 (23.81%) Atlassian
6 10 (23.81%) Avaya
6 10 (23.81%) Ericsson
6 10 (23.81%) Oracle
6 10 (23.81%) Ribbon
7 3 (7.14%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.76%) Fortinet
8 2 (4.76%) Google
8 2 (4.76%) Meraki
8 2 (4.76%) SolarWinds
9 1 (2.38%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (2.38%) Infoblox
9 1 (2.38%) Ruckus Wireless
9 1 (2.38%) Zscaler