CCNP Contracts in Manchester

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 83 102
Rank change year-on-year +9 +19 +30
Contract jobs citing CCNP 5 13 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.54% 0.86% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.90% 3.60% 3.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 7 13
10th Percentile - £415 -
25th Percentile £363 £503 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £750 £525
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% +42.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £463 £775 £550
90th Percentile £485 - £660
North West median daily rate £425 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -17.48% +3.00% +2.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 263 361 502
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.40% 23.80% 26.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 214 369
10th Percentile £300 £313 £338
25th Percentile £425 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £619
90th Percentile £713 £805 £700
North West median daily rate £494 £513 £520
% change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 25 17
10th Percentile - £24.14 -
25th Percentile £31.25 £25.50 £20.00
Median hourly rate £46.25 £49.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.61% +96.00% +54.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £73.75 £37.50
90th Percentile £74.13 £94.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
% change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in Manchester

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for CCNP in Manchester

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in Manchester

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in Manchester

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Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Wigan - 3 £375 -
Stockport - 1 £500 - 2
CCNP
North West

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Cloudflare
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
1 4 (80.00%) Network Security
2 3 (60.00%) BGP
2 3 (60.00%) OSPF
2 3 (60.00%) SD-WAN
2 3 (60.00%) VPN
2 3 (60.00%) WAN
3 2 (40.00%) EIGRP
3 2 (40.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (20.00%) IPsec
4 1 (20.00%) LAN
4 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Project Delivery
3 2 (40.00%) High Availability
4 1 (20.00%) B2B
4 1 (20.00%) Load Balancing
4 1 (20.00%) Network Design
4 1 (20.00%) Network Management
4 1 (20.00%) Proactive Maintenance
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 4 (80.00%) CCNA
3 2 (40.00%) CCIE
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Cisco
1 4 (80.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto