Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 269 344 427
Rank change year-on-year +75 +83 -88
Contract jobs citing CCNP 375 425 486
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.71% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.80% 2.59% 2.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 244 269 312
10th Percentile £313 £360 £325
25th Percentile £375 £438 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year +0.90% +3.09% +15.48%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £552
90th Percentile £688 £688 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +3.00% +11.11% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 17 15
10th Percentile £15.60 £27.80 £21.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £47.50 £26.50
Median hourly rate £24.50 £60.00 £47.40
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +26.58% +51.17%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.00 £49.58
90th Percentile £86.00 £101.25 £58.45
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £62.00 £47.40
% change year-on-year -62.90% +30.80% +104.22%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,394 16,404 19,071
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.69% 27.32% 21.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,256 10,939 12,533
10th Percentile £300 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.84% +4.76% +8.36%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £625
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £525 £500
% change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,065 866 781
10th Percentile £13.86 £15.25 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.80 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £41.36
Median % change year-on-year -26.31% +31.25% +7.42%
75th Percentile £61.50 £68.56 £56.25
90th Percentile £75.25 £79.88 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.00
% change year-on-year -19.45% +61.29% -10.25%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CCNP in the UK

CCNP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in the UK

CCNP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in the UK

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Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNP over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNP in the UK

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Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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
England +105 337 £504 +0.80% 125
UK excluding London +45 216 £515 +3.00% 87
London +110 123 £494 -8.14% 47
Work from Home +71 122 £500 - 72
South East +43 87 £565 +22.16% 23
North of England +38 48 £515 +3.00% 24
North West +24 38 £515 +3.00% 13
Midlands +18 32 £438 -12.50% 14
South West +15 32 £600 +9.09% 12
West Midlands +33 29 £450 -10.00% 11
East of England +6 12 £388 +10.71% 4
Scotland -5 10 £555 +11.56% 9
Yorkshire +22 7 £508 -3.33% 9
North East +18 3 £345 -37.27% 3
East Midlands +9 3 £325 -25.03% 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 4 (1.07%) IBM Domino
1 4 (1.07%) IIS
2 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.53%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.53%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.27%) Confluence
Applications
1 15 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.40%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 51 (13.60%) Azure
2 42 (11.20%) AWS
3 19 (5.07%) GCP
4 17 (4.53%) OCI
5 6 (1.60%) SaaS
6 5 (1.33%) Nutanix
7 4 (1.07%) Cloud Computing
7 4 (1.07%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (0.80%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.80%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.80%) Cloudflare
8 3 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.80%) PaaS
9 2 (0.53%) Akamai
9 2 (0.53%) Catchpoint
9 2 (0.53%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.27%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 184 (49.07%) Firewall
2 101 (26.93%) BGP
2 101 (26.93%) WAN
3 89 (23.73%) Network Security
4 78 (20.80%) OSPF
5 77 (20.53%) LAN
5 77 (20.53%) VPN
6 76 (20.27%) Cisco ASA
7 71 (18.93%) DNS
8 69 (18.40%) Cisco Nexus
9 66 (17.60%) MPLS
10 55 (14.67%) Wireless
11 53 (14.13%) IPsec
12 49 (13.07%) Cisco ISE
13 46 (12.27%) DHCP
14 40 (10.67%) SD-WAN
15 32 (8.53%) EIGRP
16 30 (8.00%) TCP/IP
17 29 (7.73%) Cisco Firepower
17 29 (7.73%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (2.40%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (1.87%) Rational DOORS
3 6 (1.60%) Git
4 2 (0.53%) JIRA
5 1 (0.27%) Hudson
5 1 (0.27%) Jenkins
General
1 90 (24.00%) Social Skills
2 44 (11.73%) Finance
3 40 (10.67%) Telecoms
4 38 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 32 (8.53%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.20%) Banking
7 11 (2.93%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (1.60%) Aerospace
10 5 (1.33%) Legal
11 4 (1.07%) Aeronautics
11 4 (1.07%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (1.07%) Manufacturing
12 3 (0.80%) Digital Economy
12 3 (0.80%) Electronics
12 3 (0.80%) Financial Institution
12 3 (0.80%) Law
12 3 (0.80%) Marketing
13 2 (0.53%) Military
13 2 (0.53%) Retail
Job Titles
1 220 (58.67%) Network Engineer
2 52 (13.87%) Senior
3 47 (12.53%) Architect
4 39 (10.40%) Senior Network Engineer
5 29 (7.73%) Network Architect
6 24 (6.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (6.40%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 19 (5.07%) Cisco Engineer
8 18 (4.80%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 16 (4.27%) Consultant
10 15 (4.00%) Network Consultant
11 13 (3.47%) Security Engineer
12 12 (3.20%) Design Engineer
12 12 (3.20%) Lead
12 12 (3.20%) Network Design Engineer
12 12 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
13 11 (2.93%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 11 (2.93%) Firewall Engineer
13 11 (2.93%) Operations Engineer
13 11 (2.93%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (2.93%) 802.1X
1 11 (2.93%) Jinja
2 7 (1.87%) JSON
2 7 (1.87%) NETCONF
2 7 (1.87%) XML
2 7 (1.87%) YANG
3 4 (1.07%) Web Services
4 3 (0.80%) EDI
4 3 (0.80%) SAML
5 2 (0.53%) .NET
6 1 (0.27%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 79 (21.07%) Data Centre
2 12 (3.20%) Management Information System
3 9 (2.40%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (2.13%) PKI
4 8 (2.13%) Security Posture
5 7 (1.87%) Driving Licence
6 6 (1.60%) Operational Technology
6 6 (1.60%) Public Cloud
7 5 (1.33%) Clustering
7 5 (1.33%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 5 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
8 4 (1.07%) Cloud Native
8 4 (1.07%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (1.07%) Fibre Optics
8 4 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (0.80%) Blackberry
9 3 (0.80%) CCTV
9 3 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (0.80%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 29 (7.73%) Windows
2 23 (6.13%) Linux
3 20 (5.33%) Windows Server
4 15 (4.00%) Windows 10
5 13 (3.47%) Windows Server 2012
6 12 (3.20%) Windows Server 2016
6 12 (3.20%) Windows Server 2019
6 12 (3.20%) Windows XP
7 6 (1.60%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.33%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.27%) Debian
9 1 (0.27%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.27%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (24.53%) Problem-Solving
2 51 (13.60%) ITIL
3 43 (11.47%) Network Design
4 36 (9.60%) Change Management
5 35 (9.33%) Computer Science
6 29 (7.73%) Project Management
7 27 (7.20%) Network Monitoring
8 26 (6.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 24 (6.40%) DevOps
9 24 (6.40%) Roadmaps
10 23 (6.13%) Migration
10 23 (6.13%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 22 (5.87%) Requirements Gathering
12 21 (5.60%) Load Balancing
12 21 (5.60%) Network Architecture
13 18 (4.80%) Disaster Recovery
13 18 (4.80%) High Availability
13 18 (4.80%) ITSM
13 18 (4.80%) Network Management
14 17 (4.53%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 56 (14.93%) Python
2 22 (5.87%) PowerShell
3 14 (3.73%) Perl
4 11 (2.93%) Bash
4 11 (2.93%) Tcl
5 3 (0.80%) Java
6 2 (0.53%) C#
6 2 (0.53%) Go
6 2 (0.53%) Ruby
7 1 (0.27%) C
7 1 (0.27%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.27%) SQL
Qualifications
1 375 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 173 (46.13%) CCNA
3 116 (30.93%) Security Cleared
4 86 (22.93%) CCIE
5 83 (22.13%) SC Cleared
6 60 (16.00%) Degree
7 41 (10.93%) DV Cleared
8 33 (8.80%) JNCIA
9 20 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
9 20 (5.33%) JNCIS
10 19 (5.07%) CISSP
11 14 (3.73%) CCDP
12 13 (3.47%) CISM
13 12 (3.20%) Microsoft Certification
14 9 (2.40%) CCSP
15 8 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (2.13%) JNCIP
16 7 (1.87%) CCSA
16 7 (1.87%) MCSA
16 7 (1.87%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.40%) SLA
2 7 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.60%) NIST
3 6 (1.60%) QA
4 4 (1.07%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 3 (0.80%) GDPR
5 3 (0.80%) GRC
5 3 (0.80%) NCSC
6 1 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.27%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.27%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 36 (9.60%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (5.33%) Active Directory
3 19 (5.07%) Hyper-V
4 18 (4.80%) Firmware
4 18 (4.80%) VMware NSX
5 16 (4.27%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.87%) KVM
7 6 (1.60%) vSphere
8 3 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.27%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 34 (9.07%) Ansible
2 20 (5.33%) SCCM
3 14 (3.73%) FortiGate
3 14 (3.73%) Terraform
4 13 (3.47%) SCOM
4 13 (3.47%) WSUS
5 12 (3.20%) EMC NetWorker
5 12 (3.20%) Nessus
5 12 (3.20%) NetBackup
5 12 (3.20%) vCenter Server
6 5 (1.33%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.80%) Kibana
7 3 (0.80%) Netcool
8 2 (0.53%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.53%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.27%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.27%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.27%) Icinga
9 1 (0.27%) Microsoft Intune
9 1 (0.27%) Nagios
Vendors
1 292 (77.87%) Cisco
2 113 (30.13%) Palo Alto
3 91 (24.27%) Juniper
4 51 (13.60%) F5
5 50 (13.33%) Microsoft
5 50 (13.33%) VMware
6 43 (11.47%) CheckPoint
6 43 (11.47%) Fortinet
7 40 (10.67%) SolarWinds
8 24 (6.40%) Nokia
9 22 (5.87%) Infoblox
10 20 (5.33%) Meraki
11 18 (4.80%) Dell
12 16 (4.27%) HP
13 14 (3.73%) Citrix
14 13 (3.47%) Extreme Networks
14 13 (3.47%) Oracle
14 13 (3.47%) Veeam
15 12 (3.20%) 3PAR
15 12 (3.20%) ScienceLogic