CCNP Contracts in the South East

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 122 147 207
Rank change year-on-year +25 +60 -63
Contract jobs citing CCNP 80 64 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.42% 1.13% 0.64%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.17% 3.08% 2.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 27 30
10th Percentile £329 £398 £346
25th Percentile £425 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +33.33% -7.69% +21.88%
75th Percentile £613 £560 £519
90th Percentile £825 £615 £644
England median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - +18.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 6 1
10th Percentile - £18.50 -
25th Percentile £18.50 £28.88 -
Median hourly rate £19.00 £61.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.85% +205.00% -5.88%
75th Percentile £19.50 £63.00 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £21.00 £62.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -66.13% +44.19% +7.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,524 2,081 2,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 44.70% 36.71% 31.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,343 1,574
10th Percentile £350 £300 £307
25th Percentile £450 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £650 £619 £625
90th Percentile £731 £700 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 219 134 83
10th Percentile £17.80 £18.80 £17.30
25th Percentile £30.21 £42.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £57.35 £60.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +33.33% +5.88%
75th Percentile £70.39 £73.32 £57.21
90th Percentile £87.46 £76.62 £67.11
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCNP in the South East.

Daily rate trend for CCNP in the South East

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in the South East over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCNP in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in the South East

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Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the South East 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
Thames Valley +41 46 £605 +27.37% 16
Berkshire -6 28 £605 +24.10% 11
Hampshire -6 19 £535 +18.89% 4
Buckinghamshire - 17 £800 - 1
Kent +12 8 £333 -20.36% 1
Surrey +9 4 £475 -
West Sussex - 2 £450 -
Oxfordshire +5 1 £425 - 4
East Sussex - 1 £500 - 1
CCNP
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (2.50%) IBM Domino
2 1 (1.25%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 19 (23.75%) Azure
2 14 (17.50%) OCI
3 8 (10.00%) AWS
4 3 (3.75%) GCP
5 2 (2.50%) Nutanix
6 1 (1.25%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 50 (62.50%) Firewall
2 28 (35.00%) Cisco ASA
3 24 (30.00%) Cisco ISE
4 23 (28.75%) Network Security
5 21 (26.25%) VPN
6 19 (23.75%) DNS
7 18 (22.50%) DHCP
7 18 (22.50%) WAN
8 14 (17.50%) Cisco Nexus
8 14 (17.50%) LAN
8 14 (17.50%) SAN
9 10 (12.50%) BGP
10 9 (11.25%) OSPF
10 9 (11.25%) Wireless
11 8 (10.00%) EIGRP
12 7 (8.75%) MPLS
13 6 (7.50%) Cisco Firepower
13 6 (7.50%) IPsec
14 5 (6.25%) Reverse Proxy
15 4 (5.00%) Cisco IOS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) JIRA
2 1 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 30 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 9 (11.25%) Finance
3 8 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.50%) Electronics
7 2 (2.50%) Law
7 2 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 37 (46.25%) Network Engineer
2 16 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 10 (12.50%) Storage Engineer
4 7 (8.75%) Architect
5 6 (7.50%) Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Network Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Network Security Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 6 (7.50%) Security Analyst
5 6 (7.50%) Senior
6 5 (6.25%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Operations Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Consultant
7 4 (5.00%) Juniper Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Network Architect
7 4 (5.00%) Network Operations Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Server Engineer
8 3 (3.75%) Security Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.75%) EDI
2 2 (2.50%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 26 (32.50%) Data Centre
2 7 (8.75%) Driving Licence
3 5 (6.25%) Security Posture
4 3 (3.75%) CCTV
4 3 (3.75%) Operational Technology
4 3 (3.75%) Public Cloud
4 3 (3.75%) SCADA
5 1 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.25%) IoT
5 1 (1.25%) Life Science
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (20.00%) Linux
2 14 (17.50%) Windows
2 14 (17.50%) Windows 10
2 14 (17.50%) Windows Server
2 14 (17.50%) Windows Server 2012
2 14 (17.50%) Windows Server 2016
2 14 (17.50%) Windows Server 2019
2 14 (17.50%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (25.00%) Project Management
3 17 (21.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 17 (21.25%) ITIL
4 14 (17.50%) Break/Fix
4 14 (17.50%) Converged Infrastructure
4 14 (17.50%) Disaster Recovery
4 14 (17.50%) Performance Monitoring
4 14 (17.50%) Performance Tuning
4 14 (17.50%) Proactive Monitoring
4 14 (17.50%) Server Management
4 14 (17.50%) Storage Management
5 8 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 6 (7.50%) Decision-Making
6 6 (7.50%) Project Delivery
6 6 (7.50%) Time Management
7 5 (6.25%) Capacity Planning
7 5 (6.25%) Incident Management
7 5 (6.25%) Network Design
7 5 (6.25%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.50%) PowerShell
2 5 (6.25%) Python
3 2 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 80 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (58.75%) CCNA
3 44 (55.00%) Security Cleared
4 29 (36.25%) SC Cleared
5 28 (35.00%) DV Cleared
6 23 (28.75%) Degree
7 11 (13.75%) JNCIA
8 7 (8.75%) CISM
9 5 (6.25%) CCIE
9 5 (6.25%) CCSA
9 5 (6.25%) JNCIS
10 4 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 4 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
11 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 3 (3.75%) CCDP
11 3 (3.75%) MCSE
11 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (2.50%) CCSP
12 2 (2.50%) CEH
12 2 (2.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) SLA
2 3 (3.75%) NCSC
2 3 (3.75%) NIST
3 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
4 1 (1.25%) QA
System Software
1 20 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 16 (20.00%) Hyper-V
3 14 (17.50%) Active Directory
3 14 (17.50%) VMware ESXi
4 5 (6.25%) VMware NSX
5 2 (2.50%) KVM
5 2 (2.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 14 (17.50%) EMC NetWorker
1 14 (17.50%) NetBackup
1 14 (17.50%) SCCM
1 14 (17.50%) SCOM
1 14 (17.50%) vCenter Server
1 14 (17.50%) WSUS
2 10 (12.50%) Nessus
3 3 (3.75%) Ansible
3 3 (3.75%) Netcool
3 3 (3.75%) Terraform
4 2 (2.50%) FortiGate
4 2 (2.50%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 72 (90.00%) Cisco
2 46 (57.50%) Juniper
3 41 (51.25%) Palo Alto
4 23 (28.75%) VMware
5 17 (21.25%) CheckPoint
5 17 (21.25%) Dell
6 14 (17.50%) 3PAR
6 14 (17.50%) EMC
6 14 (17.50%) Extreme Networks
6 14 (17.50%) HP
6 14 (17.50%) Microsoft
6 14 (17.50%) Oracle
6 14 (17.50%) Symantec
6 14 (17.50%) Veeam
7 12 (15.00%) F5
8 11 (13.75%) ScienceLogic
9 8 (10.00%) Blue Coat
10 5 (6.25%) Fortinet
11 4 (5.00%) Aruba
11 4 (5.00%) SolarWinds