Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCDP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 708 817 921
Rank change year-on-year +109 +104 +182
Permanent jobs citing CCDP 4 61 52
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.007% 0.062% 0.051%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.015% 0.22% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 4 54 40
10th Percentile £49,456 £40,275 £52,000
25th Percentile £50,609 £46,750 £63,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,750 £48,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.82% -25.38% -7.14%
75th Percentile £59,375 £52,193 £71,250
90th Percentile £62,750 £65,475 £71,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,500 £65,000
% change year-on-year +8.25% -25.38% -0.76%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,097 27,438 33,214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.19% 27.71% 32.81%
Number of salaries quoted 11,306 17,258 15,028
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £59,563
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -9.34% +8.30%
75th Percentile £68,525 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £51,603
% change year-on-year +4.00% -3.11% +3.21%

CCDP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCDP in the UK

CCDP
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCDP.

Salary trend for CCDP in the UK

CCDP
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCDP over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CCDP in the UK

CCDP
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCDP within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
UK excluding London +128 3 £52,500 +8.25% 6
England +90 3 £55,000 +13.40% 7
South West +102 2 £53,750 +10.82% 3
Scotland +115 1 £50,890 +1.80%
London +114 1 £65,000 +9.24% 2

CCDP
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) NetSuite
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) WAN
2 2 (50.00%) ADSL
2 2 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 2 (50.00%) LoRaWAN
2 2 (50.00%) Modbus
2 2 (50.00%) MPLS
2 2 (50.00%) VPN
2 2 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (25.00%) BGP
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (25.00%) DMVPN
3 1 (25.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (25.00%) OSPF
3 1 (25.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (25.00%) VLAN
3 1 (25.00%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (50.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Presales Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Presales Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Design Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (25.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Linux
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Identity Management
1 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Presales
1 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (50.00%) Technology Roadmap
2 1 (25.00%) Capacity Management
2 1 (25.00%) Converged Infrastructure
2 1 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 1 (25.00%) ITIL
2 1 (25.00%) Proactive Monitoring
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
2 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery Management
2 1 (25.00%) Service Design
2 1 (25.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) CCNP
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CCNA
3 2 (50.00%) CCDA
4 1 (25.00%) CCSP
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Ansible
1 2 (50.00%) CASB
1 2 (50.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
2 1 (25.00%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 2 (50.00%) Aerohive Networks
2 2 (50.00%) Ekahau
2 2 (50.00%) Extreme Networks
2 2 (50.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (50.00%) Juniper
2 2 (50.00%) Meraki
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 2 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (25.00%) CheckPoint