CCNP Contract Job Trends in Chester

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Cheshire > Chester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Chester with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 18 11
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 -
Contract jobs citing CCNP 3 1 2
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 1.91% 1.30% 3.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.98% 5.00% 25.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £563 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +26.32% -
75th Percentile £588 - £488
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £472 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -0.63% - +26.67%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Chester

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 Chester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 43 20 8
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester 27.39% 25.97% 14.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 9 5
10th Percentile £430 - £301
25th Percentile - - £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £325 £475
Median % change year-on-year +69.23% -31.58% -5.00%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £500
90th Percentile £668 £718 £643
Cheshire median daily rate £487 £456 £507
% change year-on-year +6.80% -10.06% -6.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.99 - -
Median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 -
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% - -
75th Percentile £35.58 - -
90th Percentile £36.25 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £50.35 £32.50 £14.00
% change year-on-year +54.92% +132.14% -73.46%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCNP relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Chester.

CCNP job vacancy trend in Chester

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Daily Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing CCNP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing CCNP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Chester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing CCNP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Chester citing CCNP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 2 (66.67%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (66.67%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) DNS
1 3 (100.00%) Wireless
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco IOS
2 2 (66.67%) DMZ
2 2 (66.67%) DWDM
2 2 (66.67%) Firewall
2 2 (66.67%) Internet
2 2 (66.67%) IPsec
2 2 (66.67%) L2TP
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) Multicast
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) SSL
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
2 2 (66.67%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (33.33%) VXLAN
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Senior
2 2 (66.67%) Network Engineer
2 2 (66.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (33.33%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (100.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) AI
1 2 (66.67%) Architecture Roadmap
1 2 (66.67%) B2B
1 2 (66.67%) Change Management
1 2 (66.67%) Generative AI
1 2 (66.67%) Process Improvement
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
1 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Perl
1 2 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 2 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCIE
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE Security
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (66.67%) Arista
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) McAfee
2 2 (66.67%) Splunk
3 1 (33.33%) Aruba
3 1 (33.33%) F5