CCNP Contracts with Work from Home Options

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
UK > Work from Home

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) with a requirement for CCNP 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 219 288 390
Rank change year-on-year +69 +102 -51
Contract jobs citing CCNP 121 185 242
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.82% 0.75% 0.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.04% 2.95% 2.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 79 111 165
10th Percentile £313 £363 £350
25th Percentile £356 £422 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +17.92%
75th Percentile £600 £587 £586
90th Percentile £658 £688 £631
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
% change year-on-year - - +19.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 5
10th Percentile £15.60 £26.30 £23.30
25th Percentile £16.69 £39.50 £26.75
Median hourly rate £19.00 £50.00 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year -62.00% +16.28% +85.26%
75th Percentile £21.63 £52.50 £60.92
90th Percentile £22.90 £72.50 £60.93
UK median hourly rate £23.00 £60.00 £47.40
% change year-on-year -61.67% +26.58% +19.25%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,979 6,270 8,714
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 26.83% 25.36% 19.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,532 4,228 6,132
10th Percentile £335 £380 £369
25th Percentile £438 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £725 £745 £700
UK median daily rate £531 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.45% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 249 264 226
10th Percentile £14.71 £19.00 £19.95
25th Percentile £24.25 £42.50 £39.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £63.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.75% +28.57% +22.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 £71.56 £65.89
90th Percentile £85.00 £81.35 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -25.93% +23.15% +13.90%

CCNP
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CCNP trend for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP.

CCNP daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing CCNP over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

CCNP daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing CCNP.

CCNP hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (1.65%) OpenStack
1 2 (1.65%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 6 (4.96%) AWS
2 3 (2.48%) Azure
3 2 (1.65%) Catchpoint
3 2 (1.65%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (1.65%) OneDrive
3 2 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (0.83%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.83%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 59 (48.76%) Firewall
2 42 (34.71%) WAN
3 39 (32.23%) BGP
4 37 (30.58%) Cisco ASA
5 34 (28.10%) OSPF
6 29 (23.97%) Cisco Nexus
7 28 (23.14%) VPN
8 26 (21.49%) MPLS
9 22 (18.18%) LAN
10 20 (16.53%) Network Security
11 19 (15.70%) Cisco ISE
11 19 (15.70%) SD-WAN
12 16 (13.22%) DNS
12 16 (13.22%) Wireless
13 15 (12.40%) EIGRP
14 14 (11.57%) IPsec
15 12 (9.92%) SNMP
16 11 (9.09%) DHCP
16 11 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
17 10 (8.26%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 5 (4.13%) Sonatype Nexus
2 4 (3.31%) Rational DOORS
3 1 (0.83%) Jenkins
General
1 23 (19.01%) Finance
2 22 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 13 (10.74%) Telecoms
4 10 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (3.31%) Aeronautics
5 4 (3.31%) Aerospace
5 4 (3.31%) Banking
5 4 (3.31%) Public Sector
6 3 (2.48%) Legal
7 2 (1.65%) Financial Institution
7 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (0.83%) Digital Health
8 1 (0.83%) German Language
8 1 (0.83%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 69 (57.02%) Network Engineer
2 15 (12.40%) Senior
3 12 (9.92%) Architect
4 10 (8.26%) Cisco Engineer
4 10 (8.26%) Consultant
5 9 (7.44%) Network Consultant
6 8 (6.61%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 8 (6.61%) Operations Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Network Architect
7 7 (5.79%) Senior Network Engineer
7 7 (5.79%) Solutions Architect
8 6 (4.96%) Senior Consultant
8 6 (4.96%) Senior Network Consultant
9 5 (4.13%) Firewall Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) Network Operations Engineer
9 5 (4.13%) WAN Engineer
10 4 (3.31%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
11 3 (2.48%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
11 3 (2.48%) Implementation Engineer
11 3 (2.48%) Network Implementation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.13%) Jinja
2 3 (2.48%) EDI
2 3 (2.48%) Web Services
3 1 (0.83%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 16 (13.22%) Data Centre
2 5 (4.13%) Clustering
2 5 (4.13%) Management Information System
3 3 (2.48%) CCTV
3 3 (2.48%) Operational Technology
3 3 (2.48%) SCADA
4 2 (1.65%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (1.65%) IPTV
4 2 (1.65%) NHS
4 2 (1.65%) Security Posture
4 2 (1.65%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (0.83%) IoT
5 1 (0.83%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.65%) Linux
1 2 (1.65%) Windows
1 2 (1.65%) Windows 10
1 2 (1.65%) Windows Server
2 1 (0.83%) Debian
2 1 (0.83%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (12.40%) Network Design
3 14 (11.57%) Change Management
4 12 (9.92%) ITIL
5 11 (9.09%) High Availability
6 10 (8.26%) Incident Management
7 9 (7.44%) Network Monitoring
7 9 (7.44%) Network Virtualisation
8 8 (6.61%) DevOps
8 8 (6.61%) Low Latency
8 8 (6.61%) Migration
8 8 (6.61%) Network Management
9 7 (5.79%) Computer Science
9 7 (5.79%) Investment Management
9 7 (5.79%) ITSM
9 7 (5.79%) Network Architecture
10 5 (4.13%) Customer Engagement
10 5 (4.13%) Enterprise Architecture
10 5 (4.13%) Load Balancing
10 5 (4.13%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 17 (14.05%) Python
2 5 (4.13%) Perl
2 5 (4.13%) Tcl
3 1 (0.83%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 121 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 50 (41.32%) CCNA
3 42 (34.71%) CCIE
4 25 (20.66%) Security Cleared
5 20 (16.53%) SC Cleared
6 19 (15.70%) JNCIA
7 9 (7.44%) Degree
8 7 (5.79%) CCDP
8 7 (5.79%) DV Cleared
8 7 (5.79%) JNCIS
9 6 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
10 4 (3.31%) CISM
10 4 (3.31%) HND
10 4 (3.31%) TOGAF Certification
11 3 (2.48%) CCIE Data Center
11 3 (2.48%) CCSA
11 3 (2.48%) CISSP
11 3 (2.48%) JNCIP
11 3 (2.48%) Microsoft Certification
11 3 (2.48%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (8.26%) SLA
2 3 (2.48%) QA
3 1 (0.83%) NCSC
3 1 (0.83%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (9.92%) VMware NSX
2 11 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (5.79%) Firmware
4 2 (1.65%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.83%) KVM
Systems Management
1 17 (14.05%) Ansible
2 3 (2.48%) FortiGate
2 3 (2.48%) Kibana
3 2 (1.65%) Nessus
3 2 (1.65%) SCCM
4 1 (0.83%) Icinga
4 1 (0.83%) Nagios
4 1 (0.83%) Terraform
Vendors
1 103 (85.12%) Cisco
2 44 (36.36%) Palo Alto
3 25 (20.66%) Juniper
4 20 (16.53%) F5
5 16 (13.22%) CheckPoint
6 15 (12.40%) SolarWinds
7 13 (10.74%) Fortinet
7 13 (10.74%) VMware
8 11 (9.09%) Arista
9 8 (6.61%) Meraki
10 7 (5.79%) Nokia
11 6 (4.96%) Aruba
11 6 (4.96%) Citrix
11 6 (4.96%) Zscaler
12 5 (4.13%) Microsoft
13 4 (3.31%) Ciena
13 4 (3.31%) IBM
13 4 (3.31%) Infoblox
13 4 (3.31%) Riverbed
14 3 (2.48%) Splunk