CCNP Job Trends in the North East

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 81 42
Rank change year-on-year +11 -39 +63
Permanent jobs citing CCNP 15 9 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 1.38% 0.69% 3.32%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.09% 3.78% 13.08%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 16
10th Percentile - - £36,750
25th Percentile £31,750 - £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £65,000 £43,125
Median % change year-on-year -37.69% +50.72% -13.75%
75th Percentile £52,875 £70,313 £50,188
90th Percentile £68,400 £79,875 £85,000
England median annual salary £60,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +0.83% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North East

CCNP falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the North East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 367 238 130
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 33.76% 18.38% 25.39%
Number of salaries quoted 148 105 110
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,450 £29,500
25th Percentile £31,063 £35,500 £36,862
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,309 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.58% -8.53% +29.41%
75th Percentile £60,750 £71,991 £68,438
90th Percentile £78,790 £95,000 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +4.55%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CCNP relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the North East.

CCNP job vacancy trend in the North East

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Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CCNP.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing CCNP

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Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNP in the North East over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Salary histogram for CCNP in the North East

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Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the North East region over the 6 months to 6 November 2025. 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tyne and Wear +20 11 £33,500 -48.46% 5
Durham - 4 £50,000 -
CCNP
England

CCNP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 6 (40.00%) Azure
2 4 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (6.67%) AWS
3 1 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 8 (53.33%) Firewall
1 8 (53.33%) LAN
2 7 (46.67%) WAN
3 6 (40.00%) Asterisk PBX
3 6 (40.00%) PSTN
3 6 (40.00%) VoIP
4 5 (33.33%) Network Security
5 4 (26.67%) VLAN
6 2 (13.33%) WLAN
7 1 (6.67%) BGP
7 1 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (6.67%) IPsec
7 1 (6.67%) OSPF
7 1 (6.67%) SD-WAN
7 1 (6.67%) Spanning Tree
7 1 (6.67%) VPN
7 1 (6.67%) VXLAN
7 1 (6.67%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (6.67%) Wireless
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (40.00%) Finance
2 6 (40.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (40.00%) Support Specialist
2 5 (33.33%) Network Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Architect
3 2 (13.33%) Network Architect
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Architect
4 1 (6.67%) IT Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) IT Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Design Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Network Specialist
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (40.00%) FreeSWITCH
2 4 (26.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (40.00%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (40.00%) Customer Requirements
2 6 (40.00%) Task Automation
3 4 (26.67%) Energy Management
3 4 (26.67%) Operations Management
4 2 (13.33%) Network Design
5 1 (6.67%) Architectural Design
5 1 (6.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 1 (6.67%) High Availability
5 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (6.67%) Network Architecture
5 1 (6.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (6.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (6.67%) SIEM
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) Bash
1 6 (40.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (66.67%) Degree
3 6 (40.00%) CCNA
3 6 (40.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (40.00%) Network+ Certification
4 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
4 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
5 1 (6.67%) Azure Certification
5 1 (6.67%) CISSP
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) FortiGate
1 1 (6.67%) VxRail
Vendors
1 13 (86.67%) Cisco
2 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (26.67%) CheckPoint
3 4 (26.67%) Meraki
4 2 (13.33%) Aruba
4 2 (13.33%) Palo Alto
5 1 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 1 (6.67%) Mitel
5 1 (6.67%) VMware