Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries 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 344 412 497
Rank change year-on-year +68 +85 +35
Permanent jobs citing CCNP 403 601 604
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.77% 0.61% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.58% 2.20% 1.78%
Number of salaries quoted 250 497 473
10th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £40,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,500 £45,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £53,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.92% -7.83% -3.33%
75th Percentile £82,500 £63,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £62,500 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -0.99% +1.00%

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 permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,484 27,371 34,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.86% 27.83% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 17,308 15,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in the UK

CCNP
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for CCNP in the UK

CCNP
Salary Histogram

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

Salary histogram for CCNP in the UK

CCNP
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +81 393 £62,500 +19.05% 139
UK excluding London +78 274 £62,500 +25.00% 98
Midlands +88 139 £65,000 +34.02% 19
London +89 124 £80,000 +34.45% 49
West Midlands +61 102 £65,000 +34.02% 13
Work from Home +36 74 £60,000 +9.09% 96
South East +44 61 £60,000 +17.65% 30
North of England +12 42 £67,500 +35.00% 11
East Midlands +69 37 £60,000 +20.00% 6
Yorkshire +49 27 £60,000 +20.00% 7
South West +96 17 £58,750 +21.13% 20
North West -18 12 £72,500 +41.15% 2
Scotland +108 6 £50,890 -19.86% 6
East of England +53 6 £55,000 +22.22% 5
North East +52 3 £80,000 +88.24% 2
Wales +34 2 £58,500 +11.43% 2
Northern Ireland +35 1 £57,500 +76.92% 3

CCNP
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 (2.48%) Microsoft Exchange
1 10 (2.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 21 (5.21%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (4.96%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 111 (27.54%) Azure
2 65 (16.13%) AWS
3 28 (6.95%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (4.47%) GCP
5 12 (2.98%) SaaS
6 10 (2.48%) PaaS
7 7 (1.74%) IaaS
8 5 (1.24%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
10 3 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
10 3 (0.74%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 2 (0.50%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 2 (0.50%) AWS CloudFormation
11 2 (0.50%) AWS Control Tower
11 2 (0.50%) Cloudflare
11 2 (0.50%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.50%) Route 53
12 1 (0.25%) Power Automate
12 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
12 1 (0.25%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 195 (48.39%) Network Security
2 165 (40.94%) Firewall
3 121 (30.02%) WAN
4 113 (28.04%) LAN
5 111 (27.54%) WLAN
6 105 (26.05%) VPN
7 104 (25.81%) Internet
8 87 (21.59%) BGP
9 66 (16.38%) SD-WAN
9 66 (16.38%) Wireless
10 63 (15.63%) MPLS
11 53 (13.15%) OSPF
12 52 (12.90%) Cisco Firepower
13 51 (12.66%) Cisco Nexus
14 46 (11.41%) Wi-Fi
15 45 (11.17%) IPsec
16 43 (10.67%) TCP/IP
17 36 (8.93%) Cisco IOS
17 36 (8.93%) VLAN
18 24 (5.96%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.74%) Big Data
2 2 (0.50%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.25%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (3.23%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 87 (21.59%) Social Skills
2 58 (14.39%) Finance
3 35 (8.68%) Telecoms
4 29 (7.20%) Banking
5 27 (6.70%) Analytical Skills
6 19 (4.71%) Documentation Skills
7 14 (3.47%) Retail
8 12 (2.98%) Law
9 11 (2.73%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (1.99%) Military
11 7 (1.74%) Public Sector
12 5 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 3 (0.74%) Advertising
13 3 (0.74%) Local Government
13 3 (0.74%) Marketing
13 3 (0.74%) Organisational Skills
14 2 (0.50%) German Language
14 2 (0.50%) Legal
15 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 115 (28.54%) Network Engineer
2 108 (26.80%) IT Support
3 105 (26.05%) Support Engineer
4 97 (24.07%) IT Engineer
5 95 (23.57%) IT Support Engineer
6 67 (16.63%) Senior
7 41 (10.17%) Architect
8 40 (9.93%) Network Architect
9 37 (9.18%) Consultant
10 32 (7.94%) Network Consultant
11 25 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 25 (6.20%) Senior Network Engineer
12 23 (5.71%) Cisco Engineer
13 21 (5.21%) Lead
14 20 (4.96%) Senior Consultant
15 18 (4.47%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 18 (4.47%) Senior Network Consultant
16 16 (3.97%) Analyst
16 16 (3.97%) Cisco Network Engineer
17 15 (3.72%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (5.21%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.74%) JSON
3 2 (0.50%) YAML
4 1 (0.25%) cloud-init
4 1 (0.25%) FreeSWITCH
4 1 (0.25%) Node.js
4 1 (0.25%) RESTful
4 1 (0.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (25.56%) Driving Licence
2 73 (18.11%) Data Centre
3 11 (2.73%) Management Information System
4 10 (2.48%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (1.24%) IoT
6 4 (0.99%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.74%) Fat Client
7 3 (0.74%) Operational Technology
7 3 (0.74%) PMI
7 3 (0.74%) Security Posture
7 3 (0.74%) Thin Client
8 2 (0.50%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.50%) Cyber Threat
8 2 (0.50%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (0.50%) Linux Command Line
8 2 (0.50%) PKI
8 2 (0.50%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.25%) Podcast
9 1 (0.25%) Tandem
9 1 (0.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 151 (37.47%) Windows
2 144 (35.73%) Linux
3 27 (6.70%) Windows Server
4 25 (6.20%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.48%) Mac OS X
6 7 (1.74%) CentOS
6 7 (1.74%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
8 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
9 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 156 (38.71%) Problem-Solving
2 135 (33.50%) ITIL
3 126 (31.27%) Network Management
4 118 (29.28%) Computer Science
4 118 (29.28%) Mentoring
5 95 (23.57%) Asset Management
5 95 (23.57%) IT Asset Management
6 50 (12.41%) Network Design
7 41 (10.17%) Migration
8 38 (9.43%) Technical Leadership
9 32 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 29 (7.20%) Service Delivery
11 25 (6.20%) Cybersecurity
11 25 (6.20%) Presales
12 24 (5.96%) Change Management
13 23 (5.71%) Information Security
14 22 (5.46%) Network Monitoring
15 20 (4.96%) High Availability
15 20 (4.96%) Network Virtualisation
16 19 (4.71%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 43 (10.67%) Python
2 14 (3.47%) SQL
3 13 (3.23%) Bash
4 12 (2.98%) PowerShell
5 9 (2.23%) R
6 7 (1.74%) C
7 2 (0.50%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.50%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 403 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 252 (62.53%) CCNA
3 167 (41.44%) Degree
4 125 (31.02%) Microsoft Certification
5 113 (28.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 111 (27.54%) MCSE
7 102 (25.31%) MCP
8 95 (23.57%) LPIC
9 82 (20.35%) Security Cleared
10 70 (17.37%) CCIE
11 56 (13.90%) SC Cleared
12 40 (9.93%) JNCIS
13 25 (6.20%) MCSA
14 21 (5.21%) DV Cleared
15 20 (4.96%) CCSA
16 19 (4.71%) CISSP
17 14 (3.47%) CCSE
18 13 (3.23%) CompTIA Security+
19 11 (2.73%) Network+ Certification
20 10 (2.48%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (6.20%) SLA
2 11 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 11 (2.73%) QA
3 7 (1.74%) Cyber Essentials
3 7 (1.74%) MIL-STD-1553
4 6 (1.49%) GDPR
4 6 (1.49%) NIST
5 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.74%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.50%) HIPAA
7 2 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.50%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.25%) Accessibility
8 1 (0.25%) COBIT
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 34 (8.44%) Active Directory
2 29 (7.20%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (2.48%) Firmware
4 8 (1.99%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.24%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.74%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 38 (9.43%) Ansible
2 24 (5.96%) Terraform
3 18 (4.47%) FortiGate
4 8 (1.99%) Nagios
5 5 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (0.99%) VxRail
7 2 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (0.50%) Dell DRAC
7 2 (0.50%) Failover Clustering
7 2 (0.50%) vCenter Server
7 2 (0.50%) vRealize
7 2 (0.50%) WSUS
8 1 (0.25%) Opsview
8 1 (0.25%) SCCM
8 1 (0.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 342 (84.86%) Cisco
2 145 (35.98%) Microsoft
3 75 (18.61%) Palo Alto
4 71 (17.62%) Fortinet
5 62 (15.38%) Meraki
6 52 (12.90%) F5
7 50 (12.41%) Juniper
8 45 (11.17%) CheckPoint
9 37 (9.18%) VMware
10 25 (6.20%) SolarWinds
11 18 (4.47%) HP
12 16 (3.97%) Arista
13 14 (3.47%) Aruba
14 12 (2.98%) Citrix
15 11 (2.73%) Red Hat
16 6 (1.49%) LogicMonitor
17 5 (1.24%) Riverbed
17 5 (1.24%) Zscaler
18 3 (0.74%) Acronis
18 3 (0.74%) Ubiquiti