CCNP Contracts in England

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 261 344 457
Rank change year-on-year +83 +113 -110
Contract jobs citing CCNP 333 349 374
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.90% 0.70% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.89% 2.52% 2.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 219 216 244
10th Percentile £323 £350 £337
25th Percentile £375 £418 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £509 £488
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +4.36% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £550
90th Percentile £688 £688 £600
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £495
% change year-on-year +1.00% +1.01% +17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 10
10th Percentile £14.84 £22.26 £19.49
25th Percentile £19.63 £45.75 £26.38
Median hourly rate £24.00 £62.00 £43.37
Median % change year-on-year -61.29% +42.96% +9.80%
75th Percentile £70.00 £85.63 £54.00
90th Percentile £90.50 £101.25 £60.92
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £60.00 £45.57
% change year-on-year -60.00% +31.67% +45.34%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CCNP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 11,511 13,832 15,393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.22% 27.69% 21.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,094 9,256 10,129
10th Percentile £310 £333 £319
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +6.60%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 983 739 679
10th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.07 £20.00 £18.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £52.50 £39.29
Median % change year-on-year -23.81% +33.62% +3.39%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.41 £56.00
90th Percentile £76.64 £80.25 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.88%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for CCNP in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNP in England over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNP in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the England region over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
London +111 121 £488 -9.30% 59
South East +49 84 £585 +30.00% 28
North of England +39 50 £513 +2.50% 28
North West +40 40 £515 +3.00% 14
Midlands +26 32 £438 -7.89% 14
South West +8 32 £600 +9.09% 15
West Midlands +33 29 £450 +28.57% 12
East of England +8 11 £375 +9.09% 6
Yorkshire +13 7 £508 -3.33% 12
North East +16 3 £345 -37.27% 3
East Midlands +10 3 £325 -29.35% 2
CCNP
UK

CCNP
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 4 (1.20%) IBM Domino
1 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.60%) Confluence
3 2 (0.60%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.30%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.70%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 51 (15.32%) Azure
2 40 (12.01%) AWS
3 19 (5.71%) OCI
4 18 (5.41%) GCP
5 6 (1.80%) SaaS
6 5 (1.50%) Nutanix
7 4 (1.20%) Entra ID
8 3 (0.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.90%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.90%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.90%) Cloudflare
8 3 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.90%) PaaS
8 3 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 2 (0.60%) Akamai
9 2 (0.60%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.30%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 171 (51.35%) Firewall
2 91 (27.33%) WAN
3 88 (26.43%) BGP
4 81 (24.32%) Network Security
5 72 (21.62%) LAN
6 71 (21.32%) DNS
6 71 (21.32%) VPN
7 68 (20.42%) OSPF
8 67 (20.12%) Cisco ASA
9 60 (18.02%) Cisco Nexus
10 57 (17.12%) MPLS
11 51 (15.32%) IPsec
11 51 (15.32%) Wireless
12 49 (14.71%) DHCP
13 47 (14.11%) Cisco ISE
14 37 (11.11%) SD-WAN
15 31 (9.31%) EIGRP
15 31 (9.31%) TCP/IP
16 28 (8.41%) Wi-Fi
17 27 (8.11%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.60%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.30%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (2.10%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (1.80%) Git
4 3 (0.90%) JIRA
5 1 (0.30%) Jenkins
General
1 84 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 43 (12.91%) Finance
3 38 (11.41%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (10.81%) Telecoms
5 26 (7.81%) Public Sector
6 13 (3.90%) Banking
7 11 (3.30%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.70%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.80%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.50%) Legal
11 4 (1.20%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.20%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.90%) Digital Economy
12 3 (0.90%) Electronics
12 3 (0.90%) Law
12 3 (0.90%) Marketing
13 2 (0.60%) Aviation
13 2 (0.60%) Military
13 2 (0.60%) Retail
Job Titles
1 205 (61.56%) Network Engineer
2 37 (11.11%) Architect
2 37 (11.11%) Senior
3 32 (9.61%) Senior Network Engineer
4 25 (7.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 23 (6.91%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 22 (6.61%) Network Architect
7 16 (4.80%) Cisco Engineer
7 16 (4.80%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 13 (3.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 12 (3.60%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
9 12 (3.60%) Design Engineer
9 12 (3.60%) Network Design Engineer
9 12 (3.60%) Security Engineer
10 11 (3.30%) WAN Engineer
11 10 (3.00%) Operations Engineer
11 10 (3.00%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.00%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (2.70%) Analyst
12 9 (2.70%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.30%) 802.1X
1 11 (3.30%) Jinja
2 8 (2.40%) JSON
3 7 (2.10%) NETCONF
3 7 (2.10%) XML
3 7 (2.10%) YANG
4 4 (1.20%) Web Services
5 3 (0.90%) EDI
5 3 (0.90%) SAML
6 2 (0.60%) .NET
7 1 (0.30%) RESTful
7 1 (0.30%) XMPP
7 1 (0.30%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 68 (20.42%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.70%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.40%) PKI
3 8 (2.40%) Security Posture
3 8 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.10%) Driving Licence
5 6 (1.80%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.50%) Clustering
6 5 (1.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (1.50%) Public Cloud
6 5 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
7 3 (0.90%) Blackberry
7 3 (0.90%) CCTV
7 3 (0.90%) Cloud Native
7 3 (0.90%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.90%) SCADA
8 2 (0.60%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.60%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 26 (7.81%) Windows
2 23 (6.91%) Linux
3 17 (5.11%) Windows 10
3 17 (5.11%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.50%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (4.20%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (4.20%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (4.20%) Windows XP
6 5 (1.50%) Windows 7
7 4 (1.20%) Windows 8
8 2 (0.60%) Unix
9 1 (0.30%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (26.13%) Problem-Solving
2 54 (16.22%) ITIL
3 41 (12.31%) Change Management
4 33 (9.91%) Computer Science
5 32 (9.61%) Network Design
6 27 (8.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 27 (8.11%) Project Management
7 24 (7.21%) Network Monitoring
8 22 (6.61%) DevOps
8 22 (6.61%) Requirements Gathering
9 21 (6.31%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 20 (6.01%) Disaster Recovery
10 20 (6.01%) Migration
10 20 (6.01%) Roadmaps
11 19 (5.71%) Storage Management
12 18 (5.41%) Incident Management
12 18 (5.41%) ITSM
12 18 (5.41%) Network Management
13 17 (5.11%) Load Balancing
13 17 (5.11%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 53 (15.92%) Python
2 21 (6.31%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.60%) Perl
4 11 (3.30%) Tcl
5 8 (2.40%) Bash
6 3 (0.90%) Java
7 2 (0.60%) C#
7 2 (0.60%) Go
7 2 (0.60%) Ruby
8 1 (0.30%) C
8 1 (0.30%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 333 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 164 (49.25%) CCNA
3 114 (34.23%) Security Cleared
4 84 (25.23%) SC Cleared
5 66 (19.82%) CCIE
6 58 (17.42%) Degree
7 43 (12.91%) DV Cleared
8 33 (9.91%) JNCIA
9 19 (5.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (5.11%) CISSP
11 16 (4.80%) JNCIS
12 13 (3.90%) CISM
13 12 (3.60%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (3.00%) CCDP
15 9 (2.70%) CCSP
16 7 (2.10%) BPSS Clearance
16 7 (2.10%) CCSA
16 7 (2.10%) HND
16 7 (2.10%) TOGAF Certification
17 6 (1.80%) CCIE Security
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.91%) SLA
2 8 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.80%) NIST
3 6 (1.80%) QA
4 4 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (0.90%) GRC
5 3 (0.90%) NCSC
6 2 (0.60%) GDPR
6 2 (0.60%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
7 1 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials
7 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 30 (9.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (6.01%) Hyper-V
3 19 (5.71%) Active Directory
4 18 (5.41%) Firmware
5 14 (4.20%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (3.30%) VMware NSX
7 7 (2.10%) KVM
8 6 (1.80%) vSphere
9 3 (0.90%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.30%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 37 (11.11%) Ansible
2 18 (5.41%) SCCM
3 15 (4.50%) SCOM
3 15 (4.50%) WSUS
4 14 (4.20%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (4.20%) NetBackup
4 14 (4.20%) Terraform
4 14 (4.20%) vCenter Server
5 12 (3.60%) Nessus
6 10 (3.00%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.50%) SolarWinds Orion
8 3 (0.90%) Kibana
8 3 (0.90%) Netcool
9 2 (0.60%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.60%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.30%) CASB
10 1 (0.30%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.30%) Cisco UCCE
10 1 (0.30%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.30%) CSIRT
Vendors
1 265 (79.58%) Cisco
2 103 (30.93%) Palo Alto
3 86 (25.83%) Juniper
4 49 (14.71%) F5
5 45 (13.51%) Microsoft
6 44 (13.21%) CheckPoint
7 43 (12.91%) SolarWinds
8 38 (11.41%) Fortinet
9 37 (11.11%) VMware
10 24 (7.21%) Nokia
11 21 (6.31%) Infoblox
12 20 (6.01%) Dell
13 17 (5.11%) HP
14 16 (4.80%) Meraki
15 15 (4.50%) Extreme Networks
15 15 (4.50%) Oracle
15 15 (4.50%) Veeam
16 14 (4.20%) Citrix
16 14 (4.20%) EMC
16 14 (4.20%) Symantec