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 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 256 329 451
Rank change year-on-year +73 +122 -94
Contract jobs citing CCNP 321 350 369
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.87% 0.73% 0.52%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.84% 2.66% 2.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 213 216 244
10th Percentile £329 £319 £363
25th Percentile £380 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.00% - +18.20%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £563
90th Percentile £688 £675 £600
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +21.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 11 5
10th Percentile £14.69 £18.50 £22.70
25th Percentile £15.78 £41.13 £26.75
Median hourly rate £21.00 £62.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.13% +44.19% +7.50%
75th Percentile £23.56 £85.63 £60.92
90th Percentile £44.38 £101.25 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £60.00 £45.20
% change year-on-year -61.67% +32.74% +13.71%

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 11,283 13,151 15,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.55% 27.54% 21.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,990 8,833 10,320
10th Percentile £313 £349 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £745 £745 £725
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,005 654 675
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%
75th Percentile £63.75 £68.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.18 £67.80
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.84%

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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 2 June 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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +110 128 £513 -4.65% 46
South East +25 80 £600 +33.33% 27
North of England +44 56 £502 +11.56% 16
North West +33 45 £515 +14.44% 6
Midlands +19 25 £450 -7.69% 11
West Midlands +18 22 £450 +28.57% 6
South West -21 21 £438 -20.45% 13
East of England -6 9 £350 -7.28% 6
North East +17 6 £425 +47.83% 2
Yorkshire +14 5 £500 +14.29% 9
East Midlands +5 3 £325 -27.78% 5
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 (1.25%) IBM Domino
2 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.62%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.31%) Confluence
4 1 (0.31%) IIS
4 1 (0.31%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.31%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (3.12%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.31%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 51 (15.89%) Azure
2 43 (13.40%) AWS
3 19 (5.92%) GCP
3 19 (5.92%) OCI
4 7 (2.18%) SaaS
5 5 (1.56%) Nutanix
6 4 (1.25%) Entra ID
6 4 (1.25%) PaaS
7 3 (0.93%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (0.93%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (0.93%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (0.93%) Cloudflare
7 3 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
7 3 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 2 (0.62%) Akamai
8 2 (0.62%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.31%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.31%) GitHub
9 1 (0.31%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 169 (52.65%) Firewall
2 88 (27.41%) BGP
3 84 (26.17%) WAN
4 78 (24.30%) Network Security
5 71 (22.12%) OSPF
6 70 (21.81%) VPN
7 68 (21.18%) Cisco ASA
7 68 (21.18%) LAN
8 62 (19.31%) DNS
9 60 (18.69%) MPLS
10 59 (18.38%) Cisco Nexus
11 52 (16.20%) DHCP
12 49 (15.26%) Wireless
13 48 (14.95%) Cisco ISE
13 48 (14.95%) IPsec
14 42 (13.08%) SD-WAN
15 37 (11.53%) EIGRP
16 31 (9.66%) TCP/IP
17 27 (8.41%) Wi-Fi
18 26 (8.10%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.62%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.31%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.80%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (2.18%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (1.25%) JIRA
4 3 (0.93%) Git
5 1 (0.31%) Jenkins
General
1 82 (25.55%) Social Skills
2 49 (15.26%) Finance
3 32 (9.97%) Telecoms
4 31 (9.66%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (7.17%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.67%) Banking
7 11 (3.43%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.49%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Aeronautics
9 4 (1.25%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.93%) Digital Economy
10 3 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.93%) Legal
10 3 (0.93%) Marketing
11 2 (0.62%) Electronics
11 2 (0.62%) Law
11 2 (0.62%) Retail
12 1 (0.31%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 202 (62.93%) Network Engineer
2 37 (11.53%) Senior
3 36 (11.21%) Architect
4 32 (9.97%) Senior Network Engineer
5 21 (6.54%) Cisco Engineer
5 21 (6.54%) Network Architect
6 20 (6.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 17 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 17 (5.30%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 13 (4.05%) 3rd Line Engineer
8 13 (4.05%) Operations Engineer
8 13 (4.05%) Security Engineer
9 12 (3.74%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
10 11 (3.43%) Network Operations Engineer
10 11 (3.43%) Solutions Architect
11 10 (3.12%) Consultant
11 10 (3.12%) Network Security Engineer
11 10 (3.12%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (2.80%) Design Engineer
12 9 (2.80%) Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.43%) Jinja
2 10 (3.12%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.56%) JSON
4 4 (1.25%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.25%) Web Services
4 4 (1.25%) XML
4 4 (1.25%) YANG
5 3 (0.93%) EDI
5 3 (0.93%) SAML
6 2 (0.62%) .NET
7 1 (0.31%) RESTful
7 1 (0.31%) XMPP
7 1 (0.31%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 63 (19.63%) Data Centre
2 8 (2.49%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (2.18%) Driving Licence
3 7 (2.18%) Security Posture
4 6 (1.87%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (1.87%) Operational Technology
5 5 (1.56%) Clustering
5 5 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.56%) PKI
5 5 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.25%) Blackberry
6 4 (1.25%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.25%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.93%) CCTV
7 3 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.93%) Hybrid Cloud
7 3 (0.93%) SCADA
8 2 (0.62%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (0.62%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 26 (8.10%) Windows
2 23 (7.17%) Linux
3 16 (4.98%) Windows 10
3 16 (4.98%) Windows Server
4 14 (4.36%) Windows Server 2012
4 14 (4.36%) Windows Server 2016
4 14 (4.36%) Windows Server 2019
4 14 (4.36%) Windows XP
5 4 (1.25%) Windows 7
5 4 (1.25%) Windows 8
6 2 (0.62%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.31%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (25.55%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (13.71%) ITIL
3 37 (11.53%) Change Management
4 32 (9.97%) Computer Science
5 29 (9.03%) Network Monitoring
6 28 (8.72%) Project Management
7 27 (8.41%) Network Design
8 23 (7.17%) Migration
9 19 (5.92%) DevOps
9 19 (5.92%) Disaster Recovery
9 19 (5.92%) Requirements Gathering
10 18 (5.61%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 18 (5.61%) ITSM
10 18 (5.61%) Roadmaps
10 18 (5.61%) Storage Management
11 17 (5.30%) Proactive Monitoring
11 17 (5.30%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 15 (4.67%) Incident Management
12 15 (4.67%) Performance Monitoring
12 15 (4.67%) Server Management
Programming Languages
1 52 (16.20%) Python
2 20 (6.23%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.74%) Perl
4 11 (3.43%) Tcl
5 8 (2.49%) Bash
6 2 (0.62%) C#
6 2 (0.62%) Go
6 2 (0.62%) Java
6 2 (0.62%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 321 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 164 (51.09%) CCNA
3 95 (29.60%) Security Cleared
4 69 (21.50%) SC Cleared
5 67 (20.87%) CCIE
6 58 (18.07%) Degree
7 40 (12.46%) DV Cleared
8 36 (11.21%) JNCIA
9 20 (6.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (5.61%) CISSP
11 17 (5.30%) JNCIS
12 12 (3.74%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (3.12%) CCSA
13 10 (3.12%) CISM
14 9 (2.80%) AWS Certification
14 9 (2.80%) CCDP
15 8 (2.49%) JNCIP
16 7 (2.18%) CCSP
16 7 (2.18%) HND
16 7 (2.18%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.17%) SLA
2 7 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.87%) NIST
4 5 (1.56%) QA
5 4 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.93%) GRC
6 3 (0.93%) NCSC
7 2 (0.62%) GDPR
7 2 (0.62%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 29 (9.03%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (6.23%) Hyper-V
3 19 (5.92%) Active Directory
4 18 (5.61%) Firmware
5 14 (4.36%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (3.12%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.87%) KVM
7 6 (1.87%) vSphere
8 4 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 37 (11.53%) Ansible
2 17 (5.30%) SCCM
3 15 (4.67%) Terraform
4 14 (4.36%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (4.36%) NetBackup
4 14 (4.36%) SCOM
4 14 (4.36%) vCenter Server
4 14 (4.36%) WSUS
5 11 (3.43%) Nessus
6 9 (2.80%) FortiGate
7 7 (2.18%) SolarWinds Orion
8 3 (0.93%) Kibana
8 3 (0.93%) Netcool
9 2 (0.62%) Rundeck
9 2 (0.62%) WhatsUp Gold
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco CUCM
10 1 (0.31%) Cisco UCCE
10 1 (0.31%) Computer Emergency Response Teams
10 1 (0.31%) CSIRT
10 1 (0.31%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 260 (81.00%) Cisco
2 110 (34.27%) Palo Alto
3 84 (26.17%) Juniper
4 58 (18.07%) F5
5 55 (17.13%) CheckPoint
6 47 (14.64%) Microsoft
7 45 (14.02%) SolarWinds
8 41 (12.77%) Fortinet
9 37 (11.53%) VMware
10 25 (7.79%) Nokia
11 22 (6.85%) Dell
12 21 (6.54%) Infoblox
13 17 (5.30%) HP
13 17 (5.30%) Meraki
14 16 (4.98%) Extreme Networks
14 16 (4.98%) Veeam
15 14 (4.36%) 3PAR
15 14 (4.36%) EMC
15 14 (4.36%) Oracle
15 14 (4.36%) Symantec