CCNP Contract Job Trends in the North West

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 25 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 116 104 78
Rank change year-on-year -12 -26 +46
Contract jobs citing CCNP 55 29 48
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 1.40% 1.31% 1.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.76% 3.81% 6.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 42 21 27
10th Percentile £417 £363 £410
25th Percentile £463 £450 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £546 £475 £513
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -7.32% +20.59%
75th Percentile £612 £584 £545
90th Percentile £630 £738 £775
England median daily rate £500 £508 £513
% change year-on-year -1.48% -0.98% +4.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £65.75 -
Median hourly rate £30.00 £66.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -54.89% - -
75th Percentile £31.00 £67.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £67.50 £30.00 £68.75
% change year-on-year +125.00% -56.36% +10.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,156 761 694
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 29.53% 34.29% 28.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 747 439 394
10th Percentile £316 £312 £313
25th Percentile £418 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £506
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -1.19% -1.80%
75th Percentile £619 £619 £605
90th Percentile £688 £715 £724
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 112 74 85
10th Percentile £17.25 £17.18 £10.95
25th Percentile £28.50 £21.02 £11.07
Median hourly rate £43.96 £30.64 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +43.50% +36.16% -47.06%
75th Percentile £66.66 £58.50 £51.91
90th Percentile £83.75 £73.06 £75.40
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £48.56
% change year-on-year +108.75% -48.21% -11.71%

CCNP
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in the North West

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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CCNP.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CCNP

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in the North West over the 6 months to 25 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in the North West

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CCNP.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CCNP

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the North West region over the 6 months to 25 August 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
Cheshire +3 21 £472 -0.89% 1
Cumbria - 19 £608 - 1
Manchester -25 15 £488 +6.67% 1
CCNP
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.45%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.45%) Azure
2 13 (23.64%) AWS
3 4 (7.27%) GCP
4 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.45%) GitHub
5 2 (3.64%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.82%) AWS Direct Connect
6 1 (1.82%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.82%) OCI
6 1 (1.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 47 (85.45%) Firewall
2 31 (56.36%) Wireless
3 29 (52.73%) Network Security
4 24 (43.64%) VLAN
5 23 (41.82%) DNS
6 18 (32.73%) VPN
7 16 (29.09%) Cisco IOS
7 16 (29.09%) DHCP
8 14 (25.45%) NAS
8 14 (25.45%) NX-OS
8 14 (25.45%) SAN
8 14 (25.45%) Structured Cabling
8 14 (25.45%) WAN
9 13 (23.64%) BGP
9 13 (23.64%) OSPF
10 11 (20.00%) LAN
11 7 (12.73%) Wi-Fi
12 6 (10.91%) MPLS
13 5 (9.09%) TCP/IP
14 4 (7.27%) SSL
Development Applications
1 3 (5.45%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) Git
3 1 (1.82%) GitLab
3 1 (1.82%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.82%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 19 (34.55%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Documentation Skills
3 8 (14.55%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (7.27%) Banking
4 4 (7.27%) Finance
5 2 (3.64%) Legal
6 1 (1.82%) Games
6 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.82%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 37 (67.27%) Network Engineer
2 12 (21.82%) Architect
3 8 (14.55%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 8 (14.55%) Senior
4 7 (12.73%) Senior Network Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Security Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Technical Architect
6 5 (9.09%) Network Architect
6 5 (9.09%) Network Security Engineer
7 3 (5.45%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Cabling Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Lead
8 2 (3.64%) Network Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Operations Engineer
8 2 (3.64%) Technical Leader
9 1 (1.82%) Cloud Engineer
9 1 (1.82%) Network Deployment Engineer
9 1 (1.82%) SC Cleared Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (14.55%) 802.1X
1 8 (14.55%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) REST
3 1 (1.82%) JSON
3 1 (1.82%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 21 (38.18%) Data Centre
2 5 (9.09%) PKI
3 2 (3.64%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (3.64%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.82%) Animation
4 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.82%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.82%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.64%) Windows
2 1 (1.82%) Linux
2 1 (1.82%) Unix
2 1 (1.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Network Segmentation
2 17 (30.91%) ITSM
3 15 (27.27%) Change Management
4 12 (21.82%) ITIL
5 11 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (20.00%) High Availability
5 11 (20.00%) Validation
5 11 (20.00%) Zero Trust
6 10 (18.18%) Project Delivery
7 7 (12.73%) Service Management
7 7 (12.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (10.91%) Capacity Planning
8 6 (10.91%) Infrastructure as Code
9 5 (9.09%) Migration
9 5 (9.09%) Network Design
9 5 (9.09%) Operational Stability
9 5 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (9.09%) Risk Assessment
10 4 (7.27%) AI
10 4 (7.27%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 9 (16.36%) Python
2 5 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.45%) Bash
4 2 (3.64%) Perl
5 1 (1.82%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 55 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (58.18%) CCNA
3 21 (38.18%) Security Cleared
4 20 (36.36%) SC Cleared
5 17 (30.91%) Network+ Certification
6 14 (25.45%) Server+ Certification
7 10 (18.18%) CCIE
8 8 (14.55%) Degree
9 7 (12.73%) CISSP
10 4 (7.27%) CCIE Security
11 3 (5.45%) CCSP
11 3 (5.45%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (3.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 2 (3.64%) AWS Certification
12 2 (3.64%) CCSA
12 2 (3.64%) CCSE
12 2 (3.64%) GCIA
12 2 (3.64%) GCIH
12 2 (3.64%) GIAC
13 1 (1.82%) CCIE Service Provider
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (5.45%) NIST
1 3 (5.45%) PCI DSS
2 2 (3.64%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (5.45%) Firmware
2 2 (3.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.64%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.82%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (25.45%) Ansible
2 3 (5.45%) Cisco Prime
2 3 (5.45%) Progress Chef
3 1 (1.82%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.82%) Nagios
3 1 (1.82%) Puppet
Vendors
1 35 (63.64%) Cisco
2 17 (30.91%) ServiceNow
3 12 (21.82%) Fortinet
3 12 (21.82%) Palo Alto
4 7 (12.73%) AlgoSec
4 7 (12.73%) Aruba
4 7 (12.73%) Splunk
5 6 (10.91%) CheckPoint
5 6 (10.91%) ForeScout
6 5 (9.09%) F5
6 5 (9.09%) Juniper
7 4 (7.27%) Arista
8 3 (5.45%) Broadcom
8 3 (5.45%) CyberArk
8 3 (5.45%) Meraki
8 3 (5.45%) Zscaler
9 2 (3.64%) Ekahau
9 2 (3.64%) HP
9 2 (3.64%) McAfee
9 2 (3.64%) Microsoft