CCNP Contract Job Trends in Coventry

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
West Midlands > Coventry

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Coventry with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 19 30
Rank change year-on-year -10 +11 +5
Contract jobs citing CCNP 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Coventry 2.84% 1.05% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 10.42% 5.56% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £473 - -
25th Percentile £488 - £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 - £500
75th Percentile £557 - £525
90th Percentile £569 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £463 £525 £400
% change year-on-year -11.90% +31.25% -36.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Coventry

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 Coventry.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 48 18 29
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Coventry 27.27% 18.95% 13.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 12 18
10th Percentile £189 - £268
25th Percentile £287 £375 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £406 £498 £475
Median % change year-on-year -18.34% +4.74% +25.83%
75th Percentile £530 £572 £538
90th Percentile £620 £598 £630
West Midlands median daily rate £515 £530 £525
% change year-on-year -2.74% +0.86% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £31.06
25th Percentile - - £38.65
Median hourly rate - - £52.59
75th Percentile - - £66.83
90th Percentile - - £74.60
West Midlands median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% - +44.33%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Coventry

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in Coventry

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Daily Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing CCNP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Coventry

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Coventry citing CCNP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Coventry 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:

Cloud Services
1 4 (80.00%) AWS
1 4 (80.00%) Azure
2 3 (60.00%) GCP
3 2 (40.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (40.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (20.00%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 5 (100.00%) Firewall
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) DNS
2 3 (60.00%) IPv4
2 3 (60.00%) IPv6
2 3 (60.00%) LAN
2 3 (60.00%) MPLS
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) VXLAN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) WLAN
3 2 (40.00%) Cisco ASA
3 2 (40.00%) DHCP
3 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (40.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 2 (40.00%) Network Security
3 2 (40.00%) VLAN
3 2 (40.00%) Wireless
General
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Architect
1 5 (100.00%) Network Architect
2 3 (60.00%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Network Security Architect
3 1 (20.00%) Security Architect
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Network Design
2 4 (80.00%) Cybersecurity
2 4 (80.00%) Network Architecture
2 4 (80.00%) Zero Trust
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL
3 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
3 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (60.00%) Security Architecture
3 3 (60.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 3 (60.00%) TOGAF
4 2 (40.00%) Computer Science
4 2 (40.00%) Data Protection
4 2 (40.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 2 (40.00%) IT Strategy
4 2 (40.00%) Load Balancing
4 2 (40.00%) Network Management
4 2 (40.00%) Network Virtualisation
4 2 (40.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) CCIE
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) CISSP
3 3 (60.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 3 (60.00%) AWS Certification
3 3 (60.00%) CCSP
4 2 (40.00%) Azure Certification
4 2 (40.00%) CCIE Security
4 2 (40.00%) Degree
5 1 (20.00%) JNCIE
5 1 (20.00%) JNCIP
5 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) GDPR
1 3 (60.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (60.00%) NIST
1 3 (60.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (40.00%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) Ansible
1 3 (60.00%) Terraform
2 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Palo Alto
2 4 (80.00%) Cisco
3 3 (60.00%) F5
3 3 (60.00%) Fortinet
3 3 (60.00%) Meraki
4 2 (40.00%) SolarWinds
4 2 (40.00%) VMware
5 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
5 1 (20.00%) Forcepoint
5 1 (20.00%) Juniper