CCNP Contracts in the Thames Valley

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 118 135
Rank change year-on-year +20 +17 -25
Contract jobs citing CCNP 45 28 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.70% 0.99% 0.83%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.23% 2.87% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 12 15
10th Percentile £396 £414 £459
25th Percentile £589 £434 £477
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +24.10% -2.50% +18.20%
75th Percentile £750 £536 £627
90th Percentile £833 £575 £705
South East median daily rate £600 £450 £469
% change year-on-year +33.33% -4.00% +13.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 -
75th Percentile £19.50 £19.50 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £19.00 £62.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year -69.35% +210.00% -5.88%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

CCNP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,065 976 1,019
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.26% 34.38% 29.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 577 647 689
10th Percentile £213 £318 £271
25th Percentile £413 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £623 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £680 £650
South East median daily rate £550 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 45 28
10th Percentile £18.10 £18.90 £16.25
25th Percentile £41.75 £27.00 £18.32
Median hourly rate £58.30 £64.68 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -9.86% +207.98% -0.24%
75th Percentile £71.07 £74.79 £49.81
90th Percentile £87.37 £80.25 £80.81
South East median hourly rate £57.35 £58.55 £43.95
% change year-on-year -2.04% +33.21% +9.19%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCNP in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for CCNP in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCNP in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
Berkshire -13 26 £605 +21.00% 11
Buckinghamshire - 18 £800 - 1
Oxfordshire +6 1 £425 - 2
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South East

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.22%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (37.78%) Azure
2 14 (31.11%) OCI
3 4 (8.89%) AWS
4 1 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.22%) GCP
4 1 (2.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 36 (80.00%) Firewall
2 18 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 15 (33.33%) DNS
4 14 (31.11%) DHCP
4 14 (31.11%) Network Security
4 14 (31.11%) SAN
5 12 (26.67%) Cisco ISE
6 7 (15.56%) Cisco Nexus
7 6 (13.33%) VPN
7 6 (13.33%) WAN
8 5 (11.11%) BGP
8 5 (11.11%) OSPF
9 4 (8.89%) EIGRP
9 4 (8.89%) MPLS
10 3 (6.67%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (6.67%) LAN
10 3 (6.67%) NX-OS
10 3 (6.67%) Reverse Proxy
11 2 (4.44%) IPsec
12 1 (2.22%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (2.22%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 9 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (15.56%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (13.33%) Finance
5 5 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 3 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (4.44%) Electronics
7 2 (4.44%) Manufacturing
7 2 (4.44%) Marketing
7 2 (4.44%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 15 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 12 (26.67%) Network Engineer
3 10 (22.22%) Storage Engineer
4 7 (15.56%) Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Network Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Network Security Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Security Analyst
5 5 (11.11%) Architect
5 5 (11.11%) Senior
6 4 (8.89%) Cisco Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Juniper Engineer
6 4 (8.89%) Server Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Network Operations Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Senior Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.67%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (6.67%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (6.67%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 20 (44.44%) Data Centre
2 6 (13.33%) Security Posture
3 3 (6.67%) CCTV
3 3 (6.67%) Operational Technology
3 3 (6.67%) Public Cloud
3 3 (6.67%) SCADA
4 1 (2.22%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.22%) IoT
4 1 (2.22%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 14 (31.11%) Linux
1 14 (31.11%) Windows
1 14 (31.11%) Windows 10
1 14 (31.11%) Windows Server
1 14 (31.11%) Windows Server 2012
1 14 (31.11%) Windows Server 2016
1 14 (31.11%) Windows Server 2019
1 14 (31.11%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (33.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 15 (33.33%) ITIL
2 15 (33.33%) Project Management
3 14 (31.11%) Break/Fix
3 14 (31.11%) Converged Infrastructure
3 14 (31.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 14 (31.11%) Performance Monitoring
3 14 (31.11%) Performance Tuning
3 14 (31.11%) Proactive Monitoring
3 14 (31.11%) Server Management
3 14 (31.11%) Storage Management
4 9 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 7 (15.56%) Decision-Making
5 7 (15.56%) Time Management
6 4 (8.89%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (8.89%) High Availability
6 4 (8.89%) Network Design
7 3 (6.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 3 (6.67%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 45 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 31 (68.89%) Security Cleared
3 29 (64.44%) DV Cleared
4 26 (57.78%) CCNA
5 21 (46.67%) SC Cleared
6 18 (40.00%) Degree
7 6 (13.33%) CISM
8 4 (8.89%) JNCIA
8 4 (8.89%) JNCIS
8 4 (8.89%) Network+ Certification
9 3 (6.67%) CCDP
9 3 (6.67%) MCSE
9 3 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (2.22%) BC Cleared
11 1 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
11 1 (2.22%) CCIE
11 1 (2.22%) CCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.67%) NCSC
1 3 (6.67%) NIST
2 1 (2.22%) QA
System Software
1 17 (37.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (31.11%) Active Directory
2 14 (31.11%) Hyper-V
2 14 (31.11%) VMware ESXi
3 3 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 14 (31.11%) EMC NetWorker
1 14 (31.11%) NetBackup
1 14 (31.11%) SCCM
1 14 (31.11%) SCOM
1 14 (31.11%) vCenter Server
1 14 (31.11%) WSUS
2 11 (24.44%) Nessus
3 3 (6.67%) Ansible
3 3 (6.67%) Netcool
3 3 (6.67%) Terraform
4 2 (4.44%) Rundeck
5 1 (2.22%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 39 (86.67%) Cisco
2 32 (71.11%) Juniper
3 30 (66.67%) Palo Alto
4 20 (44.44%) VMware
5 14 (31.11%) 3PAR
5 14 (31.11%) Dell
5 14 (31.11%) EMC
5 14 (31.11%) Extreme Networks
5 14 (31.11%) HP
5 14 (31.11%) Microsoft
5 14 (31.11%) Oracle
5 14 (31.11%) Symantec
5 14 (31.11%) Veeam
6 12 (26.67%) ScienceLogic
7 6 (13.33%) CheckPoint
8 3 (6.67%) Dynatrace
8 3 (6.67%) IBM
8 3 (6.67%) Infoblox
8 3 (6.67%) Nokia
9 2 (4.44%) Fortinet