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 2 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 62 105
Rank change year-on-year -19 +43 +3
Permanent jobs citing CCNP 12 6 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.74% 1.04% 0.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.99% 2.73% 2.19%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 7
10th Percentile £47,000 £61,500 £36,650
25th Percentile £51,875 £63,750 £36,974
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £72,500 £39,005
Median % change year-on-year -10.34% +85.87% -11.55%
75th Percentile £75,625 £82,500 £46,250
90th Percentile £79,000 - £63,250
England median annual salary £65,000 £62,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% +19.05% -5.41%

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 402 220 365
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 24.91% 38.19% 20.98%
Number of salaries quoted 172 116 291
10th Percentile - £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £28,250 £40,500 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £56,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -20.35% +18.95% -
75th Percentile £62,500 £72,000 £62,200
90th Percentile £77,500 £84,250 £73,250
England median annual salary £57,500 £58,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -0.86% +5.45% -4.35%

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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 2 April 2026.

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 2 April 2026. 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
Durham - 8 - -
Tyne and Wear -27 4 £65,000 -10.34% 1
CCNP
England

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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:

Applications
1 8 (66.67%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 10 (83.33%) Azure
2 9 (75.00%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 11 (91.67%) LAN
2 10 (83.33%) Firewall
2 10 (83.33%) WAN
3 9 (75.00%) BGP
3 9 (75.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 9 (75.00%) Network Security
3 9 (75.00%) OSPF
3 9 (75.00%) VPN
3 9 (75.00%) Wireless
4 8 (66.67%) Cisco ASA
4 8 (66.67%) Cisco Wireless
4 8 (66.67%) EIGRP
4 8 (66.67%) SNMP
4 8 (66.67%) VLAN
4 8 (66.67%) WAAS
4 8 (66.67%) Wireless Security
5 1 (8.33%) IPsec
5 1 (8.33%) VXLAN
5 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (8.33%) WLAN
General
1 8 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) Network Engineer
1 8 (66.67%) Senior
1 8 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Architect
2 2 (16.67%) Network Architect
3 1 (8.33%) IT Architect
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Security Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Network Design Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Network Specialist
3 1 (8.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) Project Delivery
2 8 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
2 8 (66.67%) Collaborative Working
2 8 (66.67%) Computer Science
2 8 (66.67%) Kalman Filter
2 8 (66.67%) Load Balancing
2 8 (66.67%) Root Cause Analysis
2 8 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 8 (66.67%) WAN Optimisation
3 2 (16.67%) Network Design
4 1 (8.33%) Architectural Design
4 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (8.33%) Disaster Recovery
4 1 (8.33%) High Availability
4 1 (8.33%) Network Architecture
4 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
4 1 (8.33%) SIEM
4 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (66.67%) CCIE
2 8 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 8 (66.67%) Degree
3 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
4 1 (8.33%) CCNA
4 1 (8.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (66.67%) PMO
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) ProxySG
2 1 (8.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) FortiGate
1 1 (8.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Cisco
2 8 (66.67%) Blue Coat
2 8 (66.67%) CheckPoint
2 8 (66.67%) F5
2 8 (66.67%) Infoblox
2 8 (66.67%) Motorola
2 8 (66.67%) ServiceNow
2 8 (66.67%) SolarWinds
3 2 (16.67%) Aruba
3 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (8.33%) VMware