CCNP Contract Job Trends 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 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 84 67 95
Rank change year-on-year -17 +28 +16
Contract jobs citing CCNP 7 11 7
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.57% 1.03% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.24% 4.00% 1.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 11 7
10th Percentile £447 £363 £399
25th Percentile £469 £428 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year -4.65% +16.47% -15.00%
75th Percentile £520 £521 £456
90th Percentile £581 £550 £520
North West median daily rate £525 £495 £513
% change year-on-year +6.06% -3.41% +4.59%

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 313 275 415
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.70% 25.87% 26.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 146 275
10th Percentile £304 £278 £225
25th Percentile £400 £352 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £471 £513
Median % change year-on-year +0.16% -8.05% -2.38%
75th Percentile £594 £584 £609
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
North West median daily rate £481 £475 £543
% change year-on-year +1.32% -12.44% +6.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 16 20
10th Percentile £20.00 £26.00 £15.75
25th Percentile £21.63 £31.25 £18.51
Median hourly rate £22.63 £32.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year -30.37% -16.67% +95.00%
75th Percentile £35.50 £42.25 £57.19
90th Percentile £68.75 £81.38 £67.00
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £46.18
% change year-on-year +39.88% -29.62% +78.92%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in Manchester

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Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CCNP

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Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in Manchester over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in Manchester

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Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing CCNP

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 3 (42.86%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (57.14%) Firewall
2 3 (42.86%) WAN
3 2 (28.57%) BGP
3 2 (28.57%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (28.57%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) 802.11
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (14.29%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (14.29%) Network Security
4 1 (14.29%) NX-OS
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
4 1 (14.29%) SSL
4 1 (14.29%) Structured Cabling
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) VPN
4 1 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (14.29%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Network Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Designer
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
2 2 (28.57%) Senior Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Firewall Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Design Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Designer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Designer
3 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PKI
1 1 (14.29%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) ITIL
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
3 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
3 1 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Network Architecture
3 1 (14.29%) Network Management
3 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (14.29%) Project Delivery
3 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
2 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (14.29%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (14.29%) CCDP
2 1 (14.29%) CCIE
2 1 (14.29%) CCNA
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
Vendors
1 4 (57.14%) Cisco
2 3 (42.86%) Palo Alto
3 2 (28.57%) CheckPoint
3 2 (28.57%) Meraki
4 1 (14.29%) Aruba
4 1 (14.29%) Broadcom
4 1 (14.29%) F5
4 1 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
4 1 (14.29%) Netskope
4 1 (14.29%) SolarWinds
4 1 (14.29%) Symantec