Cisco Certified Design Professional (CCDP)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCDP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 563 674 809
Rank change year-on-year +111 +135 -138
Contract jobs citing CCDP 10 26 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.024% 0.046% 0.055%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.078% 0.17% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 20 28
10th Percentile - £379 £378
25th Percentile £300 £411 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £496 £500
Median % change year-on-year -29.47% -0.75% +31.58%
75th Percentile £572 £584 £550
90th Percentile £638 £641 £574
UK excluding London median daily rate £625 £530 £519
% change year-on-year +17.92% +2.17% +38.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £18.98 - -
25th Percentile £19.69 £18.50 £21.00
Median hourly rate £21.25 £19.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.84% -13.64% +3.53%
75th Percentile £22.69 £19.50 £26.63
90th Percentile £23.33 - £28.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year - -13.64% +3.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCDP 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 12,821 15,525 18,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.13% 27.19% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,940 10,364 12,432
10th Percentile £307 £330 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,052 789 770
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.47 £19.77
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +23.15% +13.90%
75th Percentile £61.35 £67.50 £58.66
90th Percentile £76.15 £79.30 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.63 £49.94 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.63% +42.68% -1.41%

CCDP
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for CCDP in the UK

CCDP
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for CCDP in the UK

CCDP
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCDP over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCDP in the UK

CCDP
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCDP.

Hourly rate trend for CCDP in the UK

CCDP
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCDP within the UK over the 6 months to 15 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 +84 10 £350 -30.00% 6
Work from Home +126 8 £325 -31.58% 5
London +102 6 £300 -40.30%
UK excluding London +40 4 £625 +17.92% 6
South East +15 3 £625 +15.74% 2
East Midlands - 1 £550 -
Midlands - 1 £550 - 1

CCDP
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:

Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) BGP
1 8 (80.00%) OSPF
2 7 (70.00%) DNS
2 7 (70.00%) Network Security
2 7 (70.00%) SNMP
2 7 (70.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 5 (50.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 5 (50.00%) DHCP
3 5 (50.00%) HTTP
3 5 (50.00%) MPLS
3 5 (50.00%) WAN
4 4 (40.00%) SD-WAN
5 3 (30.00%) Firewall
5 3 (30.00%) VPN
5 3 (30.00%) Wireshark
6 2 (20.00%) Ethernet
6 2 (20.00%) IPsec
6 2 (20.00%) PPP
6 2 (20.00%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (20.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (10.00%) Legal
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Lead
2 1 (10.00%) Lead Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) SOC Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Clustering
2 2 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Cyber Threat
3 1 (10.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) High Availability
1 5 (50.00%) Load Balancing
2 3 (30.00%) Investment Management
2 3 (30.00%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Asset Management
3 2 (20.00%) Data Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Migration
3 2 (20.00%) Network Design
3 2 (20.00%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (20.00%) Process Management
3 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Change Management
4 1 (10.00%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (10.00%) Communications Security
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (10.00%) Order Management
4 1 (10.00%) Security Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) Security Management
4 1 (10.00%) Validation
4 1 (10.00%) Virtual Environments
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 9 (90.00%) CCNP
3 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
4 3 (30.00%) CCNA
5 2 (20.00%) BC Cleared
5 2 (20.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (20.00%) CCIP
6 1 (10.00%) CCIE
6 1 (10.00%) CISSP
6 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (10.00%) Degree
6 1 (10.00%) DV Cleared
6 1 (10.00%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Kibana
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Cisco
2 5 (50.00%) Arista
2 5 (50.00%) Aruba
2 5 (50.00%) Palo Alto
2 5 (50.00%) Zscaler
3 3 (30.00%) Infoblox
3 3 (30.00%) Juniper
3 3 (30.00%) Meraki
3 3 (30.00%) Splunk
4 2 (20.00%) Alcatel-Lucent
5 1 (10.00%) ADVA
5 1 (10.00%) Fortinet
5 1 (10.00%) Nokia