CCNP Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 27 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 62 63
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 +3
Contract jobs citing CCNP 3 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.26% 0.93% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.39% 3.57% 1.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 6 3
10th Percentile - £428 -
25th Percentile £463 £455 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £375
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +50.00% +3.45%
75th Percentile £488 £622 £388
90th Percentile - £638 -
England median daily rate £475 £531 £523
% change year-on-year -10.59% +1.67% +4.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 216 196 203
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 18.73% 25.96% 25.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 110 120
10th Percentile £177 £200 £200
25th Percentile £303 £261 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £437 £456
Median % change year-on-year +5.77% -4.16% -8.75%
75th Percentile £563 £547 £600
90th Percentile £650 £725 £659
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 36 30
10th Percentile £17.07 £17.87 £12.75
25th Percentile £17.90 £18.13 £14.72
Median hourly rate £22.81 £23.75 £20.73
Median % change year-on-year -3.96% +14.57% -49.44%
75th Percentile £25.77 £25.15 £49.49
90th Percentile £59.60 - £51.91
England median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +114.71% -41.51% -21.82%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CCNP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CCNP

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CCNP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing CCNP

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Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 July 2026. 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
Derbyshire - 2 - -
Northamptonshire +13 1 £475 -15.56%
CCNP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) SD-WAN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) TCP/IP
2 2 (66.67%) VLAN
2 2 (66.67%) VPN
3 1 (33.33%) Firewall
3 1 (33.33%) NGFW
3 1 (33.33%) SSL
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Data Centre
1 2 (66.67%) Driving Licence
1 2 (66.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (33.33%) PKI
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Architectural Design
1 2 (66.67%) Knowledge Transfer
1 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
1 2 (66.67%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Architecture Governance
2 1 (33.33%) Event Correlation
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Optimisation
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) SIEM
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
2 1 (33.33%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (66.67%) CCNA
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE
3 1 (33.33%) CCIE Security
3 1 (33.33%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco