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

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 272 323 449
Rank change year-on-year +51 +126 -82
Contract jobs citing CCNP 359 434 481
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 0.76% 0.54%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.81% 2.79% 2.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 272 310
10th Percentile £327 £325 £350
25th Percentile £375 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +19.05%
75th Percentile £600 £599 £575
90th Percentile £673 £675 £631
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £498 £450
% change year-on-year +3.02% +10.56% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 13
10th Percentile £14.80 £25.96 £21.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £47.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £60.00 £47.40
Median % change year-on-year -61.67% +26.58% +20.00%
75th Percentile £55.00 £66.50 -
90th Percentile £91.00 £101.25 £59.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £21.00 £62.00 £47.40
% change year-on-year -66.13% +30.80% +51.17%

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 12,775 15,576 19,048
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.03% 27.20% 21.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,956 10,400 12,640
10th Percentile £308 £330 £340
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.14%
75th Percentile £646 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £743 £706
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,057 771 774
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.21 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.80 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £43.95
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +25.14% +21.73%
75th Percentile £61.60 £68.25 £57.95
90th Percentile £76.25 £79.19 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% +5.26%

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 20 May 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

CCNP
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNP over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNP in the UK

CCNP
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 20 May 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 +80 324 £505 +0.40% 147
UK excluding London +10 199 £513 +3.02% 103
Work from Home +52 125 £500 - 64
London +102 121 £503 -8.64% 58
South East +41 80 £600 +33.33% 27
North of England +48 56 £502 +11.56% 27
North West +34 43 £515 +14.44% 12
Midlands +14 27 £450 -10.00% 13
South West -18 26 £535 -2.73% 15
West Midlands +27 24 £450 +28.57% 11
East of England 0 10 £375 +7.14% 6
Yorkshire +14 7 £508 +6.84% 13
North East +18 6 £425 +47.83% 3
Scotland +11 5 £550 +10.55% 13
East Midlands +11 3 £325 -31.58% 2

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 (1.11%) IBM Domino
1 4 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.84%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.56%) Confluence
3 2 (0.56%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.56%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.28%) IIS
Applications
1 14 (3.90%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.51%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 51 (14.21%) Azure
2 42 (11.70%) AWS
3 19 (5.29%) OCI
4 18 (5.01%) GCP
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%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 179 (49.86%) Firewall
2 97 (27.02%) WAN
3 93 (25.91%) BGP
4 81 (22.56%) Network Security
5 76 (21.17%) OSPF
6 74 (20.61%) Cisco ASA
6 74 (20.61%) VPN
7 73 (20.33%) LAN
8 68 (18.94%) Cisco Nexus
8 68 (18.94%) DNS
9 65 (18.11%) MPLS
10 52 (14.48%) Wireless
11 50 (13.93%) Cisco ISE
12 49 (13.65%) DHCP
13 48 (13.37%) IPsec
14 44 (12.26%) SD-WAN
15 35 (9.75%) EIGRP
16 31 (8.64%) TCP/IP
16 31 (8.64%) Wi-Fi
17 29 (8.08%) 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 3 (0.84%) Git
3 3 (0.84%) JIRA
4 1 (0.28%) Hudson
4 1 (0.28%) Jenkins
General
1 87 (24.23%) Social Skills
2 49 (13.65%) Finance
3 38 (10.58%) Telecoms
4 34 (9.47%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.24%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.18%) Banking
7 12 (3.34%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (1.39%) Legal
10 4 (1.11%) Aeronautics
10 4 (1.11%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.11%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (1.11%) Manufacturing
11 3 (0.84%) Digital Economy
11 3 (0.84%) Financial Institution
11 3 (0.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (0.84%) Law
11 3 (0.84%) Marketing
12 2 (0.56%) Electronics
12 2 (0.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 210 (58.50%) Network Engineer
2 47 (13.09%) Senior
3 41 (11.42%) Architect
4 34 (9.47%) Senior Network Engineer
5 26 (7.24%) Network Architect
6 21 (5.85%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 20 (5.57%) Cisco Engineer
8 19 (5.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 18 (5.01%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 18 (5.01%) Consultant
10 16 (4.46%) Network Consultant
11 13 (3.62%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 12 (3.34%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
12 12 (3.34%) Operations Engineer
12 12 (3.34%) Security Engineer
12 12 (3.34%) Solutions Architect
13 10 (2.79%) Network Analyst
13 10 (2.79%) Storage Engineer
13 10 (2.79%) Support Engineer
13 10 (2.79%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.06%) 802.1X
1 11 (3.06%) Jinja
2 5 (1.39%) JSON
3 4 (1.11%) NETCONF
3 4 (1.11%) Web Services
3 4 (1.11%) XML
3 4 (1.11%) YANG
4 3 (0.84%) EDI
4 3 (0.84%) SAML
5 2 (0.56%) .NET
6 1 (0.28%) RESTful
6 1 (0.28%) XMPP
6 1 (0.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 70 (19.50%) Data Centre
2 10 (2.79%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.23%) Security Posture
4 7 (1.95%) Driving Licence
4 7 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.67%) Operational Technology
5 6 (1.67%) PKI
6 5 (1.39%) Clustering
6 5 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
6 5 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 5 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
7 4 (1.11%) Blackberry
7 4 (1.11%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (1.11%) Public Cloud
8 3 (0.84%) CCTV
8 3 (0.84%) Cloud Native
8 3 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
8 3 (0.84%) SCADA
9 2 (0.56%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.56%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 29 (8.08%) Windows
2 25 (6.96%) Linux
3 18 (5.01%) Windows Server
4 17 (4.74%) Windows 10
5 15 (4.18%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (3.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (3.90%) Windows XP
7 6 (1.67%) Windows 7
8 5 (1.39%) Windows 8
9 2 (0.56%) Mac OS
9 2 (0.56%) Unix
10 1 (0.28%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (12.81%) ITIL
3 39 (10.86%) Change Management
4 38 (10.58%) Network Design
5 36 (10.03%) Computer Science
6 34 (9.47%) Network Monitoring
7 30 (8.36%) Project Management
8 23 (6.41%) Migration
9 21 (5.85%) DevOps
9 21 (5.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (5.57%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 19 (5.29%) Disaster Recovery
11 19 (5.29%) Requirements Gathering
11 19 (5.29%) Storage Management
12 18 (5.01%) ITSM
12 18 (5.01%) Network Architecture
13 17 (4.74%) Incident Management
13 17 (4.74%) Information Security
13 17 (4.74%) Network Management
13 17 (4.74%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 52 (14.48%) Python
2 22 (6.13%) 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
7 1 (0.28%) SQL
Qualifications
1 359 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 169 (47.08%) CCNA
3 105 (29.25%) Security Cleared
4 86 (23.96%) CCIE
5 77 (21.45%) SC Cleared
6 64 (17.83%) Degree
7 43 (11.98%) DV Cleared
8 33 (9.19%) JNCIA
9 23 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
10 19 (5.29%) CISSP
10 19 (5.29%) JNCIS
11 14 (3.90%) Microsoft Certification
12 13 (3.62%) CISM
13 9 (2.51%) CCDP
13 9 (2.51%) CCSP
14 8 (2.23%) MCSA
15 7 (1.95%) AWS Certification
15 7 (1.95%) CCSA
15 7 (1.95%) HND
15 7 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (6.69%) 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 38 (10.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (5.85%) Hyper-V
3 20 (5.57%) Active Directory
4 18 (5.01%) Firmware
5 17 (4.74%) VMware NSX
6 14 (3.90%) VMware ESXi
7 7 (1.95%) KVM
8 6 (1.67%) vSphere
9 4 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 36 (10.03%) Ansible
2 18 (5.01%) SCCM
3 15 (4.18%) SCOM
3 15 (4.18%) WSUS
4 14 (3.90%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (3.90%) NetBackup
4 14 (3.90%) Terraform
4 14 (3.90%) vCenter Server
5 12 (3.34%) FortiGate
5 12 (3.34%) Nessus
6 6 (1.67%) 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%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.28%) Cisco UCCE
9 1 (0.28%) Icinga
9 1 (0.28%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 287 (79.94%) Cisco
2 115 (32.03%) Palo Alto
3 88 (24.51%) Juniper
4 53 (14.76%) F5
5 49 (13.65%) Microsoft
6 48 (13.37%) CheckPoint
7 47 (13.09%) VMware
8 44 (12.26%) SolarWinds
9 37 (10.31%) Fortinet
10 22 (6.13%) Dell
10 22 (6.13%) Nokia
11 21 (5.85%) Infoblox
12 19 (5.29%) Meraki
13 17 (4.74%) HP
13 17 (4.74%) Veeam
14 16 (4.46%) Extreme Networks
15 14 (3.90%) Citrix
15 14 (3.90%) EMC
15 14 (3.90%) Oracle
15 14 (3.90%) Symantec