CCNP Contract Job Trends in Leeds

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 55 64
Rank change year-on-year -20 +9 +30
Contract jobs citing CCNP 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Leeds 0.26% 0.23% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.14% 0.88% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.36%
75th Percentile - - £574
90th Percentile - - £590
West Yorkshire median daily rate £440 - £515
% change year-on-year - - -6.36%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 176 114 171
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 22.45% 26.64% 19.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 82 102
10th Percentile £363 £263 £310
25th Percentile £425 £360 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.57% +5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £543 £575 £573
90th Percentile £637 £738 £688
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £519 £500
% change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £16.17 - -
Median hourly rate £16.25 - £12.53
Median % change year-on-year - - -79.95%
75th Percentile £16.33 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.26 £27.50 £14.25
% change year-on-year -29.97% +92.98% -77.20%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in Leeds

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Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CCNP

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Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing CCNP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GxP
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft