CCNP Job Trends in London

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 274 273 271
Rank change year-on-year -1 -2 +122
Permanent jobs citing CCNP 100 160 178
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.71% 1.03% 0.98%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.49% 3.20% 3.63%
Number of salaries quoted 55 109 154
10th Percentile £46,000 £46,173 £50,000
25th Percentile £60,000 £58,016 £56,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £72,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +11.54% -
75th Percentile £78,750 £85,250 £84,375
90th Percentile £102,250 £99,000 £96,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +8.70% +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

CCNP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,013 5,007 4,905
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.45% 32.27% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 2,128 2,016 3,535
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £39,085
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.87%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £118,125 £110,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CCNP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

CCNP job vacancy trend in London

CCNP
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCNP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCNP

CCNP
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNP in London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for CCNP in London

CCNP
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the London region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
East London +3 13 - - 1
Central London +22 8 £71,250 -14.67% 7
CCNP
England

CCNP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.00%) CMS
2 1 (1.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 17 (17.00%) MS Visio
2 11 (11.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 37 (37.00%) Azure
2 31 (31.00%) AWS
3 5 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.00%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (4.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 4 (4.00%) GCP
5 3 (3.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.00%) Mimecast
6 2 (2.00%) Rubrik
6 2 (2.00%) SecurityScorecard
7 1 (1.00%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.00%) Datadog
7 1 (1.00%) IaaS
7 1 (1.00%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.00%) Stackdriver
7 1 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 70 (70.00%) Firewall
2 52 (52.00%) LAN
3 40 (40.00%) WAN
4 36 (36.00%) Wireless
5 34 (34.00%) Wi-Fi
6 27 (27.00%) VPN
7 26 (26.00%) BGP
7 26 (26.00%) OSPF
8 25 (25.00%) VLAN
9 24 (24.00%) Network Security
10 21 (21.00%) Cisco Wireless
11 19 (19.00%) Cisco ASA
12 15 (15.00%) Cisco Firepower
13 14 (14.00%) SD-WAN
14 12 (12.00%) EIGRP
15 10 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
16 9 (9.00%) HSRP
17 8 (8.00%) DNS
17 8 (8.00%) MPLS
18 7 (7.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (2.00%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.00%) JIRA
General
1 30 (30.00%) Finance
2 28 (28.00%) Social Skills
3 17 (17.00%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (12.00%) Documentation Skills
5 7 (7.00%) Banking
5 7 (7.00%) Marketing
6 5 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (5.00%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.00%) Law
8 1 (1.00%) Advertising
8 1 (1.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.00%) Public Sector
8 1 (1.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 72 (72.00%) Network Engineer
2 29 (29.00%) Senior
3 21 (21.00%) Senior Network Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) Cisco Engineer
4 17 (17.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 14 (14.00%) AWS Engineer
6 13 (13.00%) WAN Engineer
7 11 (11.00%) Azure Engineer
7 11 (11.00%) Consultant
7 11 (11.00%) LAN Engineer
7 11 (11.00%) LAN/WAN Engineer
8 10 (10.00%) Cisco Consultant
8 10 (10.00%) Cisco Network Consultant
8 10 (10.00%) Network Consultant
9 7 (7.00%) Cisco Wireless Consultant
9 7 (7.00%) Firewall Consultant
9 7 (7.00%) Wireless Network Consultant
10 6 (6.00%) Deployment Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
11 4 (4.00%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.00%) 802.1X
2 3 (3.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 36 (36.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (11.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 4 (4.00%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 3 (3.00%) Low-Code
4 3 (3.00%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
4 3 (3.00%) Virtual Team
4 3 (3.00%) Web3
5 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.00%) PKI
6 1 (1.00%) Digital Signage
6 1 (1.00%) e-Health
6 1 (1.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.00%) IoT
6 1 (1.00%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.00%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.00%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (9.00%) Windows
2 6 (6.00%) Windows Server
3 5 (5.00%) Linux
4 2 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (25.00%) Load Balancing
2 23 (23.00%) High Availability
3 22 (22.00%) Computer Science
4 21 (21.00%) Change Control
5 20 (20.00%) Migration
5 20 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (16.00%) Kalman Filter
7 15 (15.00%) AI
7 15 (15.00%) Low Latency
8 14 (14.00%) Process Improvement
9 13 (13.00%) Inventory Management
10 12 (12.00%) Change Management
10 12 (12.00%) Task Automation
10 12 (12.00%) Vulnerability Management
11 11 (11.00%) Validation
12 10 (10.00%) DevOps
12 10 (10.00%) Network Monitoring
13 9 (9.00%) Customer Service
13 9 (9.00%) Disaster Recovery
13 9 (9.00%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 30 (30.00%) Python
2 8 (8.00%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.00%) Go
3 1 (1.00%) PromQL
Qualifications
1 100 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 53 (53.00%) CCIE
3 40 (40.00%) Degree
4 29 (29.00%) CCNA
5 20 (20.00%) CCSA
5 20 (20.00%) CCSE
6 19 (19.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (6.00%) AWS Certification
7 6 (6.00%) JNCIP
7 6 (6.00%) Network+ Certification
8 5 (5.00%) Azure Certification
8 5 (5.00%) JNCIA
9 4 (4.00%) Security Cleared
10 3 (3.00%) MCSE
10 3 (3.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (3.00%) SC Cleared
10 3 (3.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 2 (2.00%) CCSP
11 2 (2.00%) MCSA
11 2 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (6.00%) PMO
3 4 (4.00%) GDPR
4 3 (3.00%) NIST
5 2 (2.00%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 2 (2.00%) SLA
6 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 10 (10.00%) Firmware
2 8 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (6.00%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (4.00%) pfSense
4 4 (4.00%) ProxySG
5 3 (3.00%) Active Directory
5 3 (3.00%) vSphere
6 2 (2.00%) Docker
6 2 (2.00%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (2.00%) Squid
Systems Management
1 29 (29.00%) Ansible
2 14 (14.00%) FortiGate
3 13 (13.00%) Terraform
4 6 (6.00%) Kubernetes
5 4 (4.00%) CASB
6 3 (3.00%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (3.00%) Grafana
6 3 (3.00%) Nagios
7 2 (2.00%) Prometheus
7 2 (2.00%) VxRail
8 1 (1.00%) CA Spectrum
8 1 (1.00%) Kibana
8 1 (1.00%) vRealize Orchestrator
8 1 (1.00%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 93 (93.00%) Cisco
2 33 (33.00%) Fortinet
3 32 (32.00%) CheckPoint
4 22 (22.00%) Meraki
5 17 (17.00%) F5
5 17 (17.00%) Juniper
6 14 (14.00%) SolarWinds
7 13 (13.00%) Palo Alto
8 12 (12.00%) Arista
8 12 (12.00%) VMware
9 8 (8.00%) Infoblox
9 8 (8.00%) Microsoft
10 6 (6.00%) Motorola
11 4 (4.00%) Blue Coat
11 4 (4.00%) LogicMonitor
11 4 (4.00%) Splunk
11 4 (4.00%) Zscaler
12 3 (3.00%) ServiceNow
13 2 (2.00%) AlgoSec
13 2 (2.00%) Aruba