CCNP Contracts

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 245 274 335
Rank change year-on-year +29 +61 +114
Contract jobs citing CCNP 321 375 438
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 1.10% 0.86% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.57% 2.81% 2.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 243 280
10th Percentile £362 £313 £363
25th Percentile £419 £375 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £505 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £607 £600 £575
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 16
10th Percentile £36.13 £15.60 £26.88
25th Percentile £58.13 £23.00 £43.81
Median hourly rate £73.75 £24.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year +201.02% -55.45% +16.03%
75th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £64.75
90th Percentile - £86.00 £101.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £23.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +226.09% -62.90% +30.80%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
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 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CCNP in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNP over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNP in the UK

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Top 17 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the UK over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +16 270 £550 +8.91% 139
UK excluding London +34 189 £500 -2.91% 98
London +12 98 £525 +5.79% 49
Work from Home +6 76 £500 - 96
South East +30 72 £500 -11.50% 30
South West +54 41 £575 -4.17% 20
North of England +6 27 £450 -12.62% 11
Midlands +10 18 £525 +20.00% 19
North West -12 16 £425 -17.48% 2
Wales - 16 £425 - 2
East Midlands +19 12 £555 +70.77% 6
Yorkshire +18 10 £575 +13.30% 7
Scotland +9 10 £399 -28.11% 6
East of England +28 6 £550 +46.67% 5
West Midlands -7 6 £450 - 13
North East -2 1 £325 -5.80% 2
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

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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:

Application Platforms
1 10 (3.12%) Confluence
2 4 (1.25%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.31%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (4.36%) MS Visio
2 13 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.25%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 50 (15.58%) AWS
2 49 (15.26%) Azure
3 11 (3.43%) GCP
4 10 (3.12%) PaaS
4 10 (3.12%) SaaS
5 6 (1.87%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.25%) OpenShift
7 3 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (0.62%) Cloudflare
8 2 (0.62%) Serverless
8 2 (0.62%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 1 (0.31%) AWS CloudFormation
9 1 (0.31%) Microsoft 365
9 1 (0.31%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 178 (55.45%) Firewall
2 124 (38.63%) BGP
3 118 (36.76%) OSPF
4 111 (34.58%) Network Security
5 97 (30.22%) VPN
6 93 (28.97%) WAN
7 66 (20.56%) LAN
8 58 (18.07%) Wireless
9 54 (16.82%) MPLS
10 53 (16.51%) DNS
10 53 (16.51%) TCP/IP
11 43 (13.40%) SD-WAN
12 40 (12.46%) Cisco Nexus
13 38 (11.84%) EIGRP
14 36 (11.21%) Cisco IOS
15 31 (9.66%) Cisco ASA
16 30 (9.35%) IPsec
17 29 (9.03%) DHCP
17 29 (9.03%) VLAN
18 27 (8.41%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 13 (4.05%) Jenkins
2 12 (3.74%) Sonatype Nexus
3 11 (3.43%) JIRA
4 10 (3.12%) Bitbucket
4 10 (3.12%) Git
5 4 (1.25%) GitLab
General
1 121 (37.69%) Social Skills
2 69 (21.50%) Analytical Skills
3 37 (11.53%) Telecoms
4 34 (10.59%) Finance
5 16 (4.98%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.74%) Banking
7 11 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
8 5 (1.56%) Military
9 4 (1.25%) Billing
9 4 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 4 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (0.93%) Advertising
10 3 (0.93%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.62%) Electronics
11 2 (0.62%) German Language
11 2 (0.62%) Legal
11 2 (0.62%) Local Government
11 2 (0.62%) Multimedia
11 2 (0.62%) Retail
Job Titles
1 164 (51.09%) Network Engineer
2 53 (16.51%) Architect
3 35 (10.90%) Network Architect
4 34 (10.59%) Senior
5 31 (9.66%) Cisco Engineer
6 26 (8.10%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 21 (6.54%) Senior Network Engineer
8 18 (5.61%) IP Engineer
9 14 (4.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (4.05%) Network Security Engineer
10 13 (4.05%) Security Engineer
10 13 (4.05%) Test Engineer
11 12 (3.74%) Consultant
11 12 (3.74%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
12 10 (3.12%) Network Consultant
13 9 (2.80%) Cisco Architect
14 8 (2.49%) Cisco Network Architect
15 7 (2.18%) Cloud Architect
15 7 (2.18%) Deployment Engineer
15 7 (2.18%) Network Deployment Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (6.85%) 802.1X
2 10 (3.12%) REST
2 10 (3.12%) SOAP
3 5 (1.56%) Spine.js
4 2 (0.62%) Flash
4 2 (0.62%) LDAP
4 2 (0.62%) SAML
5 1 (0.31%) Jinja
5 1 (0.31%) JSON
5 1 (0.31%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.31%) RESTCONF
Miscellaneous
1 47 (14.64%) Data Centre
2 23 (7.17%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.12%) Blackberry
3 10 (3.12%) Video Conferencing
4 9 (2.80%) Data Protection Act
5 6 (1.87%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (1.87%) NHS
6 5 (1.56%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.25%) SCADA
7 4 (1.25%) Security Posture
8 3 (0.93%) Client/Server
8 3 (0.93%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.93%) Clustering
8 3 (0.93%) IVR
8 3 (0.93%) Onboarding
8 3 (0.93%) Operational Technology
8 3 (0.93%) PKI
8 3 (0.93%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 36 (11.21%) Linux
2 21 (6.54%) Unix
3 17 (5.30%) Windows
4 11 (3.43%) Windows Server
5 4 (1.25%) CatOS
6 2 (0.62%) VMS
6 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 119 (37.07%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (16.51%) Migration
3 50 (15.58%) Network Architecture
4 47 (14.64%) Validation
5 38 (11.84%) Computer Science
5 38 (11.84%) Network Design
6 32 (9.97%) Network Monitoring
7 29 (9.03%) Service Management
8 26 (8.10%) Agile
9 25 (7.79%) Configuration Management
9 25 (7.79%) ITIL
10 24 (7.48%) Root Cause Analysis
11 21 (6.54%) High Availability
11 21 (6.54%) Project Management
12 18 (5.61%) Roadmaps
13 17 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 16 (4.98%) Mentoring
14 16 (4.98%) System Testing
15 15 (4.67%) Matrix Organization
15 15 (4.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 51 (15.89%) Python
2 17 (5.30%) Bash
3 15 (4.67%) Java
3 15 (4.67%) PowerShell
4 5 (1.56%) Perl
5 1 (0.31%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 321 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 110 (34.27%) CCNA
3 100 (31.15%) Security Cleared
4 87 (27.10%) SC Cleared
5 58 (18.07%) Degree
6 55 (17.13%) CCIE
7 34 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
8 31 (9.66%) DV Cleared
9 29 (9.03%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 16 (4.98%) JNCIS
11 15 (4.67%) ISEB
11 15 (4.67%) ISTQB
11 15 (4.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
12 14 (4.36%) CCSA
13 12 (3.74%) CCSE
14 10 (3.12%) OCA
14 10 (3.12%) Oracle Certification
14 10 (3.12%) RHCA
14 10 (3.12%) RHCE
15 9 (2.80%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.18%) NIST
2 5 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.56%) NCSC
3 3 (0.93%) PCI DSS
4 2 (0.62%) HIPAA
4 2 (0.62%) QA
5 1 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.31%) SLA
System Software
1 48 (14.95%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.49%) VMware NSX
3 7 (2.18%) Firmware
4 4 (1.25%) vSphere
5 3 (0.93%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.62%) Active Directory
7 1 (0.31%) Docker
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 53 (16.51%) Ansible
2 17 (5.30%) vCenter Server
3 15 (4.67%) FortiGate
4 14 (4.36%) Progress Chef
5 11 (3.43%) Puppet
6 10 (3.12%) Terraform
7 8 (2.49%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (1.56%) Cacti
9 4 (1.25%) Kubernetes
10 3 (0.93%) CA Spectrum
10 3 (0.93%) Cisco CUCM
10 3 (0.93%) ZABBIX
11 2 (0.62%) Cisco UCCE
11 2 (0.62%) SCOM
12 1 (0.31%) Cisco LMS
12 1 (0.31%) Cisco UCCX
12 1 (0.31%) Nagios
12 1 (0.31%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 256 (79.75%) Cisco
2 70 (21.81%) Juniper
3 57 (17.76%) Palo Alto
4 55 (17.13%) VMware
5 51 (15.89%) Fortinet
6 47 (14.64%) CheckPoint
7 46 (14.33%) F5
8 32 (9.97%) Microsoft
8 32 (9.97%) SolarWinds
9 27 (8.41%) Meraki
10 20 (6.23%) Arista
11 14 (4.36%) Nokia
12 11 (3.43%) Oracle
12 11 (3.43%) Zscaler
13 10 (3.12%) Aruba
13 10 (3.12%) Avaya
13 10 (3.12%) Ericsson
13 10 (3.12%) Infoblox
13 10 (3.12%) Ribbon
14 9 (2.80%) Atlassian