CCNP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) 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 228 292 386
Rank change year-on-year +64 +94 -60
Contract jobs citing CCNP 120 190 245
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.79% 0.74% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.89% 2.92% 2.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 78 118 167
10th Percentile £313 £363 £340
25th Percentile £353 £425 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +14.71%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £688 £688 £628
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £495
% change year-on-year +1.00% +1.01% +17.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 7
10th Percentile £15.96 £26.30 £24.15
25th Percentile £17.59 £39.50 £26.50
Median hourly rate £21.25 £50.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -57.50% +16.28% +85.26%
75th Percentile £24.00 £52.50 £57.84
90th Percentile £24.45 £72.50 £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
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,158 6,498 8,840
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.44% 25.44% 19.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,618 4,368 6,209
10th Percentile £325 £381 £369
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £730 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 265 285 224
10th Percentile £15.85 £19.35 £19.40
25th Percentile £24.25 £42.50 £38.38
Median hourly rate £43.00 £65.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -33.85% +32.65% +22.50%
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £65.54
90th Percentile £82.13 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% +27.06% +12.88%

CCNP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CCNP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP.

CCNP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CCNP over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

CCNP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP.

CCNP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 3 (2.50%) IIS
2 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (1.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (5.00%) AWS
2 3 (2.50%) Azure
3 2 (1.67%) Catchpoint
3 2 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.67%) OneDrive
3 2 (1.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 57 (47.50%) Firewall
2 44 (36.67%) WAN
3 41 (34.17%) BGP
4 37 (30.83%) Cisco ASA
5 36 (30.00%) OSPF
6 29 (24.17%) Cisco Nexus
7 28 (23.33%) VPN
8 25 (20.83%) LAN
8 25 (20.83%) MPLS
9 20 (16.67%) SD-WAN
10 19 (15.83%) Cisco ISE
10 19 (15.83%) Network Security
11 17 (14.17%) DNS
12 16 (13.33%) EIGRP
12 16 (13.33%) Wireless
13 15 (12.50%) IPsec
14 13 (10.83%) SNMP
15 11 (9.17%) DHCP
15 11 (9.17%) TCP/IP
15 11 (9.17%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (4.17%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (3.33%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 21 (17.50%) Finance
1 21 (17.50%) Social Skills
2 14 (11.67%) Telecoms
3 10 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (5.83%) Public Sector
5 4 (3.33%) Aeronautics
5 4 (3.33%) Aerospace
6 3 (2.50%) Legal
7 2 (1.67%) Banking
7 2 (1.67%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.83%) German Language
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 66 (55.00%) Network Engineer
2 15 (12.50%) Architect
2 15 (12.50%) Senior
3 10 (8.33%) Consultant
4 9 (7.50%) Network Consultant
5 8 (6.67%) Operations Engineer
6 7 (5.83%) Cisco Engineer
6 7 (5.83%) Network Architect
6 7 (5.83%) Senior Network Engineer
6 7 (5.83%) Solutions Architect
7 6 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 6 (5.00%) Senior Consultant
7 6 (5.00%) Senior Network Consultant
8 5 (4.17%) Firewall Engineer
8 5 (4.17%) Network Operations Engineer
9 4 (3.33%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 3 (2.50%) Automation Engineer
10 3 (2.50%) Lead
10 3 (2.50%) Lead Infrastructure Architect
10 3 (2.50%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.17%) Jinja
2 3 (2.50%) EDI
2 3 (2.50%) Web Services
3 1 (0.83%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.33%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.17%) Clustering
2 5 (4.17%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.50%) CCTV
3 3 (2.50%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.50%) SCADA
4 2 (1.67%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.67%) IPTV
4 2 (1.67%) NHS
4 2 (1.67%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.83%) IoT
5 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.17%) Windows
1 5 (4.17%) Windows Server
2 2 (1.67%) Linux
2 2 (1.67%) Windows 10
3 1 (0.83%) Debian
3 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
2 14 (11.67%) Change Management
2 14 (11.67%) Network Design
3 12 (10.00%) ITIL
4 11 (9.17%) High Availability
5 10 (8.33%) Incident Management
6 9 (7.50%) Migration
6 9 (7.50%) Network Monitoring
6 9 (7.50%) Network Virtualisation
7 8 (6.67%) DevOps
7 8 (6.67%) Load Balancing
7 8 (6.67%) Network Management
8 7 (5.83%) ITSM
8 7 (5.83%) Network Architecture
8 7 (5.83%) Roadmaps
8 7 (5.83%) Strategic Roadmap
9 6 (5.00%) Computer Science
9 6 (5.00%) Low Latency
10 5 (4.17%) Customer Engagement
10 5 (4.17%) Enterprise Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (15.00%) Python
2 5 (4.17%) Perl
2 5 (4.17%) Tcl
3 4 (3.33%) PowerShell
4 3 (2.50%) Bash
Qualifications
1 120 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 51 (42.50%) CCNA
3 40 (33.33%) CCIE
4 27 (22.50%) Security Cleared
5 21 (17.50%) SC Cleared
6 19 (15.83%) JNCIA
7 8 (6.67%) CCDP
7 8 (6.67%) Degree
7 8 (6.67%) DV Cleared
8 7 (5.83%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (5.83%) JNCIS
9 4 (3.33%) CISM
9 4 (3.33%) HND
9 4 (3.33%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (2.50%) CCIP
10 3 (2.50%) CCSA
10 3 (2.50%) CISSP
10 3 (2.50%) JNCIP
10 3 (2.50%) Microsoft Certification
10 3 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.50%) SLA
2 4 (3.33%) QA
3 1 (0.83%) NCSC
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (10.00%) VMware NSX
2 11 (9.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.83%) Firmware
4 3 (2.50%) Active Directory
4 3 (2.50%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (1.67%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.83%) KVM
Systems Management
1 15 (12.50%) Ansible
2 5 (4.17%) SCCM
3 3 (2.50%) FortiGate
3 3 (2.50%) Kibana
4 2 (1.67%) Nessus
5 1 (0.83%) Icinga
5 1 (0.83%) Nagios
5 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 99 (82.50%) Cisco
2 43 (35.83%) Palo Alto
3 26 (21.67%) Juniper
4 21 (17.50%) F5
5 16 (13.33%) VMware
6 14 (11.67%) CheckPoint
6 14 (11.67%) SolarWinds
7 11 (9.17%) Fortinet
8 9 (7.50%) Arista
9 8 (6.67%) Meraki
9 8 (6.67%) Nokia
10 7 (5.83%) Microsoft
11 6 (5.00%) Aruba
11 6 (5.00%) Citrix
11 6 (5.00%) Zscaler
12 4 (3.33%) Ciena
12 4 (3.33%) IBM
12 4 (3.33%) Infoblox
13 3 (2.50%) Alcatel-Lucent
13 3 (2.50%) Blue Coat