CCDP Contracts

Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCDP 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 512 570 678
Rank change year-on-year +58 +108 +127
Contract jobs citing CCDP 8 12 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.027% 0.028% 0.067%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.089% 0.090% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 33
10th Percentile £354 - £391
25th Percentile £418 £300 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £350 £530
Median % change year-on-year +46.43% -33.96% +6.00%
75th Percentile £634 £494 £550
90th Percentile £650 £638 £618
UK excluding London median daily rate £613 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -2.00% +13.64% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 1
10th Percentile - £19.45 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £19.00 £23.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +23.68% -23.23%
75th Percentile £19.50 £24.25 £19.50
90th Percentile - £24.55 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -13.64%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCDP 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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,993 13,316 16,299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.72% 30.57% 27.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,686 8,190 10,861
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £743 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £533 £530
% change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 509 1,076 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.20 £75.24 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%

CCDP
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCDP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCDP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCDP.

Daily rate trend for CCDP in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCDP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCDP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCDP.

Hourly rate trend for CCDP in the UK

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Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCDP within the UK 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
England +52 7 £575 +64.29% 5
UK excluding London +64 6 £613 -2.00% 4
South East +46 5 £613 -2.00% 2
Work from Home +36 3 £415 +38.33% 5
London +32 1 £415 +38.33% 2
East of England - 1 - -

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (25.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Akamai
2 1 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) LAN
1 4 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (25.00%) BGP
2 2 (25.00%) DNS
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Internet
2 2 (25.00%) IPsec
2 2 (25.00%) MPLS
2 2 (25.00%) OSPF
2 2 (25.00%) SNMP
2 2 (25.00%) VPN
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (12.50%) DSL
3 1 (12.50%) DWDM
3 1 (12.50%) EIGRP
3 1 (12.50%) IGRP
3 1 (12.50%) Network Security
3 1 (12.50%) TACACS
3 1 (12.50%) TCP/IP
3 1 (12.50%) Wireless
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Aviation
3 1 (12.50%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Retail
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Network Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Architect
2 2 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Cisco Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Network Field Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) 802.1X
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 1 (12.50%) FMCG
2 1 (12.50%) IoT
2 1 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Computer Science
1 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 3 (37.50%) ITIL
1 3 (37.50%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (25.00%) Customer Service
2 2 (25.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 2 (25.00%) Migration
2 2 (25.00%) Network Design
2 2 (25.00%) Presales
2 2 (25.00%) PRINCE2
2 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) TOGAF
3 1 (12.50%) Change Management
3 1 (12.50%) Communications Security
3 1 (12.50%) Network Management
3 1 (12.50%) Process Management
3 1 (12.50%) Service Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team Management
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (87.50%) CCNP
3 6 (75.00%) Degree
4 5 (62.50%) CCNA
5 4 (50.00%) SC Cleared
5 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
6 2 (25.00%) CCDA
6 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (12.50%) BC Cleared
7 1 (12.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (12.50%) CCDE
7 1 (12.50%) CCIE
7 1 (12.50%) CCIP
7 1 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Cisco
2 2 (25.00%) F5
2 2 (25.00%) Juniper
3 1 (12.50%) ADVA
3 1 (12.50%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 1 (12.50%) Arista
3 1 (12.50%) Blue Coat
3 1 (12.50%) Citrix
3 1 (12.50%) Meraki
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 1 (12.50%) Palo Alto
3 1 (12.50%) Riverbed
3 1 (12.50%) Zscaler