CCNP Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 228 225 291
Rank change year-on-year -3 +66 +114
Contract jobs citing CCNP 76 120 190
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.77% 0.78% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.75% 2.83% 2.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 78 115
10th Percentile £380 £309 £370
25th Percentile £400 £350 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.56%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £575
90th Percentile £625 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £500
% change year-on-year -0.99% +1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 8
10th Percentile - £15.96 £27.60
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.59 £32.44
Median hourly rate £19.00 £21.25 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.59% -57.50% +16.28%
75th Percentile £19.50 £24.00 £52.50
90th Percentile - £24.45 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £73.75 £24.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year +201.02% -55.45% +16.03%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

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Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CCNP trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CCNP.

CCNP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CCNP over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

CCNP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CCNP.

CCNP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (2.63%) OpenStack
Applications
1 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 18 (23.68%) Azure
2 10 (13.16%) AWS
3 3 (3.95%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (2.63%) GCP
4 2 (2.63%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.32%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (1.32%) Cloudflare
5 1 (1.32%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.32%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 51 (67.11%) Firewall
2 34 (44.74%) Network Security
3 32 (42.11%) BGP
4 29 (38.16%) WAN
5 28 (36.84%) VPN
6 26 (34.21%) OSPF
7 24 (31.58%) LAN
8 19 (25.00%) Wireless
9 18 (23.68%) TCP/IP
10 16 (21.05%) Cisco Nexus
10 16 (21.05%) MPLS
11 15 (19.74%) DNS
12 11 (14.47%) Ethernet VPN
13 10 (13.16%) SD-WAN
14 9 (11.84%) Cisco ASA
14 9 (11.84%) Wi-Fi
15 8 (10.53%) DHCP
16 6 (7.89%) Multicast
16 6 (7.89%) NX-OS
16 6 (7.89%) SNMP
Development Applications
1 6 (7.89%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.32%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.32%) Git
2 1 (1.32%) GitLab
2 1 (1.32%) Jenkins
General
1 25 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 20 (26.32%) Finance
3 15 (19.74%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 3 (3.95%) Banking
5 3 (3.95%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (2.63%) German Language
6 2 (2.63%) Local Government
7 1 (1.32%) Advertising
7 1 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.32%) Investment Banking
7 1 (1.32%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.32%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.32%) Retail
Job Titles
1 44 (57.89%) Network Engineer
2 13 (17.11%) Architect
2 13 (17.11%) Senior
3 9 (11.84%) Cisco Engineer
4 7 (9.21%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Network Architect
5 6 (7.89%) Network Security Engineer
5 6 (7.89%) Security Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 5 (6.58%) Security Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
7 4 (5.26%) Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) Network Consultant
7 4 (5.26%) Project Engineer
7 4 (5.26%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Cloud Security Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Firewall Architect
8 3 (3.95%) Firewall Engineer
8 3 (3.95%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) 802.1X
1 2 (2.63%) LDAP
1 2 (2.63%) SAML
2 1 (1.32%) REST
2 1 (1.32%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.63%) Data Centre
2 3 (3.95%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (3.95%) Security Operations Centre
2 3 (3.95%) Security Posture
2 3 (3.95%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.63%) Client/Server
3 2 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (2.63%) Linux Command Line
3 2 (2.63%) SCADA
3 2 (2.63%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.32%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.32%) IoT
4 1 (1.32%) Life Science
4 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.32%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.32%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Windows
2 3 (3.95%) Linux
3 1 (1.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (17.11%) Migration
3 9 (11.84%) Network Monitoring
4 8 (10.53%) Incident Management
4 8 (10.53%) Mentoring
4 8 (10.53%) Network Architecture
5 7 (9.21%) ITIL
5 7 (9.21%) Load Balancing
5 7 (9.21%) Zero Trust
6 6 (7.89%) Computer Science
6 6 (7.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 6 (7.89%) Network Design
6 6 (7.89%) Network Management
6 6 (7.89%) Root Cause Analysis
7 5 (6.58%) High Availability
7 5 (6.58%) Validation
8 4 (5.26%) Agile
8 4 (5.26%) Change Management
8 4 (5.26%) Security Management
8 4 (5.26%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.16%) Python
2 2 (2.63%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.32%) Bash
3 1 (1.32%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 76 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (42.11%) CCNA
3 16 (21.05%) Security Cleared
4 15 (19.74%) CCIE
4 15 (19.74%) SC Cleared
5 13 (17.11%) Degree
6 6 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (6.58%) CISSP
8 3 (3.95%) CCIE Data Center
8 3 (3.95%) JNCIS
9 2 (2.63%) CCDP
9 2 (2.63%) CCIE Security
9 2 (2.63%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.63%) JNCIA
9 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (2.63%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.32%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.32%) BC Cleared
10 1 (1.32%) CCDA
10 1 (1.32%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.95%) NIST
2 2 (2.63%) HIPAA
2 2 (2.63%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.32%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.32%) NCSC
3 1 (1.32%) QA
System Software
1 5 (6.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.95%) VMware NSX
3 2 (2.63%) Active Directory
3 2 (2.63%) vSphere
4 1 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (14.47%) FortiGate
2 10 (13.16%) Ansible
3 3 (3.95%) Progress Chef
3 3 (3.95%) Terraform
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco LMS
4 1 (1.32%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.32%) Puppet
4 1 (1.32%) vCenter Server
4 1 (1.32%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 58 (76.32%) Cisco
2 20 (26.32%) Palo Alto
3 15 (19.74%) Fortinet
4 12 (15.79%) F5
5 10 (13.16%) CheckPoint
6 9 (11.84%) Juniper
6 9 (11.84%) Meraki
7 8 (10.53%) VMware
8 7 (9.21%) Arista
9 6 (7.89%) Zscaler
10 5 (6.58%) Infoblox
10 5 (6.58%) SolarWinds
11 4 (5.26%) Aruba
11 4 (5.26%) Microsoft
12 3 (3.95%) Extreme Networks
12 3 (3.95%) Ruckus Wireless
12 3 (3.95%) ServiceNow
13 2 (2.63%) Huawei
13 2 (2.63%) Oracle
13 2 (2.63%) Splunk