CCNP Contracts in Birmingham

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 54 75
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +11
Contract jobs citing CCNP 6 6 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.08% 0.88% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.57% 3.85% 0.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 1
10th Percentile £256 £380 -
25th Percentile £425 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £400
Median % change year-on-year - +12.50% -23.81%
75th Percentile £538 £488 -
90th Percentile £598 £525 -
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £450 £325
% change year-on-year - +38.46% -38.10%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Birmingham

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

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 168 156 206
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 30.38% 22.94% 23.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 90 112
10th Percentile £150 £263 £266
25th Percentile £250 £325 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £523
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -11.48% +16.11%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £650
90th Percentile £602 £725 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £475 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -7.41% -6.73% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 7 5
10th Percentile £18.62 £13.70 £12.98
25th Percentile - £14.00 £13.70
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +21.62% -7.50%
75th Percentile £27.44 £53.13 £35.08
90th Percentile £49.95 £56.25 £72.53
West Midlands median hourly rate £30.00 £34.47 £27.50
% change year-on-year -12.96% +25.33% +37.50%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in Birmingham

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for CCNP in Birmingham

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Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in Birmingham over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in Birmingham

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in Birmingham

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Communications & Networking
1 5 (83.33%) Network Security
2 4 (66.67%) BGP
2 4 (66.67%) OSPF
3 3 (50.00%) EIGRP
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) WAN
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco Nexus
4 2 (33.33%) Firewall
4 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (33.33%) VLAN
4 2 (33.33%) Wireless
4 2 (33.33%) Wireless Security
4 2 (33.33%) Wireshark
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
5 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 1 (16.67%) IP Telephony
5 1 (16.67%) NX-OS
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) Educational Technology
1 1 (16.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 2 (33.33%) Network Design
2 2 (33.33%) Network Management
2 2 (33.33%) Network Optimisation
2 2 (33.33%) Performance Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Load Balancing
3 1 (16.67%) Network Virtualisation
3 1 (16.67%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Patch Management
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Architecture
3 1 (16.67%) Time Management
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) CCNA
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (16.67%) Hyper-V
1 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (50.00%) Ansible
2 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) Cisco
2 3 (50.00%) Juniper
3 2 (33.33%) F5
3 2 (33.33%) SolarWinds
4 1 (16.67%) Arista
4 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
4 1 (16.67%) Infoblox
4 1 (16.67%) Meraki
4 1 (16.67%) NetScout
4 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 1 (16.67%) VMware
4 1 (16.67%) Zscaler