CCNP Contracts

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

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 318 442
Rank change year-on-year +46 +124 -53
Contract jobs citing CCNP 359 441 479
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.79% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.79% 2.89% 2.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 239 281 316
10th Percentile £329 £325 £359
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +21.21%
75th Percentile £597 £575 £575
90th Percentile £658 £663 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 15 10
10th Percentile £14.76 £20.00 £20.90
25th Percentile £17.59 £47.50 £22.44
Median hourly rate £23.00 £60.00 £45.20
Median % change year-on-year -61.67% +32.74% +13.71%
75th Percentile £31.56 £66.50 £47.40
90th Percentile £58.00 £101.25 £60.92
UK excluding London median hourly rate £17.38 £62.00 £47.40
% change year-on-year -71.98% +30.80% +20.00%

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 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CCNP in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in the UK

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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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNP in the UK

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Top 16 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 1 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
England +64 321 £505 +1.00% 117
UK excluding London -2 193 £500 +5.26% 87
Work from Home +59 131 £503 +0.75% 76
London +104 128 £513 -4.65% 45
South East +27 80 £600 +33.33% 27
North of England +38 56 £502 +11.56% 16
North West +38 45 £515 +14.44% 6
Midlands +17 25 £450 -7.69% 11
West Midlands +17 22 £450 +28.57% 6
South West -25 21 £438 -20.45% 13
East of England -8 9 £350 -6.67% 6
North East +17 6 £425 +47.83% 2
Scotland +8 6 £475 -4.52% 13
Yorkshire +11 5 £500 +14.29% 9
East Midlands +7 3 £325 -27.78% 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £363 - 2

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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 (1.11%) IBM Domino
2 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.28%) Confluence
4 1 (0.28%) IIS
4 1 (0.28%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 13 (3.62%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (2.79%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 54 (15.04%) Azure
2 46 (12.81%) AWS
3 21 (5.85%) GCP
4 19 (5.29%) OCI
5 7 (1.95%) SaaS
6 5 (1.39%) Nutanix
7 4 (1.11%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.11%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (1.11%) PaaS
7 4 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 3 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 3 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (0.84%) Azure Sentinel
8 3 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (0.84%) Cloudflare
9 2 (0.56%) Akamai
9 2 (0.56%) Catchpoint
9 2 (0.56%) OneDrive
10 1 (0.28%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.28%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 186 (51.81%) Firewall
2 98 (27.30%) BGP
3 97 (27.02%) WAN
4 84 (23.40%) Network Security
5 78 (21.73%) OSPF
6 76 (21.17%) Cisco ASA
7 75 (20.89%) LAN
7 75 (20.89%) VPN
8 72 (20.06%) MPLS
9 70 (19.50%) Cisco Nexus
10 64 (17.83%) DNS
11 52 (14.48%) DHCP
12 51 (14.21%) Cisco ISE
12 51 (14.21%) Wireless
13 50 (13.93%) SD-WAN
14 49 (13.65%) IPsec
15 38 (10.58%) EIGRP
16 31 (8.64%) TCP/IP
17 29 (8.08%) Wi-Fi
18 27 (7.52%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.28%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 9 (2.51%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (1.95%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (1.11%) JIRA
4 3 (0.84%) Git
5 1 (0.28%) Hudson
5 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 88 (24.51%) Social Skills
2 55 (15.32%) Finance
3 35 (9.75%) Telecoms
4 32 (8.91%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (6.69%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.18%) Banking
7 11 (3.06%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.11%) Aeronautics
9 4 (1.11%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (1.11%) Financial Institution
9 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
10 3 (0.84%) Digital Economy
10 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (0.84%) Legal
10 3 (0.84%) Marketing
11 2 (0.56%) Electronics
11 2 (0.56%) Law
11 2 (0.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 218 (60.72%) Network Engineer
2 47 (13.09%) Senior
3 39 (10.86%) Architect
4 34 (9.47%) Senior Network Engineer
5 24 (6.69%) Network Architect
6 23 (6.41%) Cisco Engineer
7 21 (5.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 20 (5.57%) Consultant
9 18 (5.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (5.01%) Network Consultant
10 17 (4.74%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 13 (3.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (3.62%) Operations Engineer
11 13 (3.62%) Security Engineer
11 13 (3.62%) Solutions Architect
12 12 (3.34%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Network Operations Engineer
13 11 (3.06%) Support Engineer
14 10 (2.79%) Network Security Engineer
14 10 (2.79%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.06%) Jinja
2 10 (2.79%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.39%) JSON
4 4 (1.11%) NETCONF
4 4 (1.11%) Web Services
4 4 (1.11%) XML
4 4 (1.11%) YANG
5 3 (0.84%) EDI
5 3 (0.84%) SAML
6 2 (0.56%) .NET
7 1 (0.28%) RESTful
7 1 (0.28%) XMPP
7 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 71 (19.78%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
3 7 (1.95%) Driving Licence
3 7 (1.95%) Operational Technology
3 7 (1.95%) Security Posture
4 6 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.39%) Clustering
5 5 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 5 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
5 5 (1.39%) PKI
5 5 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (1.11%) Blackberry
6 4 (1.11%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.11%) Public Cloud
7 3 (0.84%) CCTV
7 3 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
7 3 (0.84%) SCADA
8 2 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.56%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 28 (7.80%) Windows
2 23 (6.41%) Linux
3 17 (4.74%) Windows Server
4 16 (4.46%) Windows 10
5 14 (3.90%) Windows Server 2012
5 14 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
5 14 (3.90%) Windows XP
6 5 (1.39%) Windows 7
6 5 (1.39%) Windows 8
7 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.28%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (23.96%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (12.53%) ITIL
3 40 (11.14%) Change Management
4 38 (10.58%) Network Design
5 36 (10.03%) Computer Science
6 34 (9.47%) Network Monitoring
7 31 (8.64%) Project Management
8 26 (7.24%) Migration
9 21 (5.85%) DevOps
10 19 (5.29%) Disaster Recovery
10 19 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 19 (5.29%) Requirements Gathering
11 18 (5.01%) ITSM
11 18 (5.01%) Network Virtualisation
11 18 (5.01%) Roadmaps
11 18 (5.01%) Storage Management
11 18 (5.01%) Vulnerability Assessment
12 17 (4.74%) Proactive Monitoring
13 16 (4.46%) High Availability
13 16 (4.46%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 55 (15.32%) Python
2 21 (5.85%) PowerShell
3 12 (3.34%) Perl
4 11 (3.06%) Tcl
5 8 (2.23%) Bash
6 2 (0.56%) C#
6 2 (0.56%) Go
6 2 (0.56%) Java
6 2 (0.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 359 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 170 (47.35%) CCNA
3 95 (26.46%) Security Cleared
4 88 (24.51%) CCIE
5 69 (19.22%) SC Cleared
6 62 (17.27%) Degree
7 40 (11.14%) DV Cleared
8 36 (10.03%) JNCIA
9 23 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (5.29%) CISSP
11 17 (4.74%) JNCIS
12 13 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
13 10 (2.79%) CCSA
13 10 (2.79%) CISM
14 9 (2.51%) AWS Certification
14 9 (2.51%) CCDP
14 9 (2.51%) JNCIP
15 8 (2.23%) Azure Certification
15 8 (2.23%) HND
15 8 (2.23%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (6.41%) SLA
2 7 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (1.67%) NIST
4 5 (1.39%) QA
5 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
6 3 (0.84%) GDPR
6 3 (0.84%) GRC
6 3 (0.84%) NCSC
7 2 (0.56%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
8 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 37 (10.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (5.85%) Hyper-V
3 19 (5.29%) Active Directory
4 18 (5.01%) Firmware
5 17 (4.74%) VMware NSX
6 14 (3.90%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.67%) KVM
7 6 (1.67%) vSphere
8 4 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 39 (10.86%) Ansible
2 17 (4.74%) SCCM
3 15 (4.18%) Terraform
4 14 (3.90%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (3.90%) NetBackup
4 14 (3.90%) SCOM
4 14 (3.90%) vCenter Server
4 14 (3.90%) WSUS
5 11 (3.06%) FortiGate
5 11 (3.06%) Nessus
6 7 (1.95%) SolarWinds Orion
7 3 (0.84%) Kibana
7 3 (0.84%) Netcool
8 2 (0.56%) Rundeck
8 2 (0.56%) WhatsUp Gold
9 1 (0.28%) CASB
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 291 (81.06%) Cisco
2 120 (33.43%) Palo Alto
3 85 (23.68%) Juniper
4 62 (17.27%) F5
5 59 (16.43%) CheckPoint
6 50 (13.93%) Microsoft
7 46 (12.81%) VMware
8 45 (12.53%) SolarWinds
9 43 (11.98%) Fortinet
10 25 (6.96%) Nokia
11 22 (6.13%) Dell
12 21 (5.85%) Infoblox
13 19 (5.29%) Meraki
14 17 (4.74%) HP
15 16 (4.46%) Extreme Networks
15 16 (4.46%) Veeam
16 15 (4.18%) Arista
16 15 (4.18%) Oracle
17 14 (3.90%) EMC
17 14 (3.90%) Symantec