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 6 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 142 105 88
Rank change year-on-year -37 -17 +30
Contract jobs citing CCNP 38 28 34
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.96% 1.28% 1.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 3.72% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 19 14
10th Percentile £417 £357 £411
25th Percentile £463 £441 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -4.52% +10.56%
75th Percentile £612 £554 £544
90th Percentile £629 £761 £550
England median daily rate £475 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -9.52% - +7.14%
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 £68.75 £30.00 £72.50
% change year-on-year +129.17% -58.62% +16.94%

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 1,259 753 682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 31.66% 34.51% 28.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 801 478 346
10th Percentile £305 £302 £294
25th Percentile £420 £405 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £600
90th Percentile £675 £719 £675
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 130 73 60
10th Percentile £17.69 £15.50 £17.91
25th Percentile £28.50 £19.00 £23.69
Median hourly rate £43.96 £27.38 £45.59
Median % change year-on-year +60.58% -39.95% -0.63%
75th Percentile £63.21 £63.40 £56.34
90th Percentile £80.00 £71.19 £80.88
England median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +98.81% -52.10% -2.36%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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
Manchester -31 13 £475 +0.96% 7
Cheshire -3 12 £516 +8.53% 1
Cumbria - 12 £608 -
Merseyside -19 1 £445 - 6
CCNP
England

CCNP
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 3 (7.89%) MS Visio
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 8 (21.05%) AWS
2 7 (18.42%) Azure
3 4 (10.53%) GCP
4 1 (2.63%) AWS Direct Connect
4 1 (2.63%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (2.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub
4 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (2.63%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 32 (84.21%) Firewall
2 21 (55.26%) Network Security
3 20 (52.63%) Wireless
4 18 (47.37%) DNS
5 16 (42.11%) VLAN
6 13 (34.21%) VPN
7 12 (31.58%) BGP
7 12 (31.58%) Cisco IOS
7 12 (31.58%) DHCP
7 12 (31.58%) OSPF
7 12 (31.58%) WAN
8 9 (23.68%) NAS
8 9 (23.68%) NX-OS
8 9 (23.68%) SAN
8 9 (23.68%) Structured Cabling
9 8 (21.05%) LAN
10 7 (18.42%) MPLS
11 5 (13.16%) Wi-Fi
12 4 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
12 4 (10.53%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.05%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
4 5 (13.16%) Finance
5 4 (10.53%) Banking
6 2 (5.26%) Legal
7 1 (2.63%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.63%) Games
7 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 28 (73.68%) Network Engineer
2 8 (21.05%) Senior
3 7 (18.42%) Architect
3 7 (18.42%) Senior Network Engineer
4 6 (15.79%) Security Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) Network Security Engineer
5 5 (13.16%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 4 (10.53%) Technical Architect
7 3 (7.89%) Network Architect
8 2 (5.26%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Cabling Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Network Operations Engineer
8 2 (5.26%) Operations Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Fibre Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Network Deployment Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) SC Cleared Project Manager
9 1 (2.63%) Senior Core Network Engineer
9 1 (2.63%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (15.79%) 802.1X
1 6 (15.79%) Terraform
2 3 (7.89%) REST
3 1 (2.63%) JSON
3 1 (2.63%) NETCONF
3 1 (2.63%) YAML
3 1 (2.63%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (39.47%) Data Centre
2 5 (13.16%) PKI
3 2 (5.26%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 2 (5.26%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.63%) Animation
4 1 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (2.63%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.26%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Linux
2 1 (2.63%) Unix
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (42.11%) Network Segmentation
2 11 (28.95%) Zero Trust
3 9 (23.68%) ITSM
4 8 (21.05%) Change Management
4 8 (21.05%) High Availability
4 8 (21.05%) ITIL
4 8 (21.05%) Project Delivery
5 7 (18.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (15.79%) Migration
6 6 (15.79%) Validation
7 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (13.16%) Infrastructure as Code
7 5 (13.16%) Network Monitoring
7 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (13.16%) Risk Assessment
8 4 (10.53%) AI
8 4 (10.53%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (10.53%) Roadmaps
8 4 (10.53%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (10.53%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 9 (23.68%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) PowerShell
3 3 (7.89%) Bash
4 2 (5.26%) Perl
5 1 (2.63%) Lisp
Qualifications
1 38 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (44.74%) CCNA
3 14 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 14 (36.84%) Security Cleared
4 12 (31.58%) Network+ Certification
5 9 (23.68%) CCIE
5 9 (23.68%) Server+ Certification
6 7 (18.42%) CISSP
7 4 (10.53%) CCIE Security
7 4 (10.53%) Degree
8 3 (7.89%) CCSP
8 3 (7.89%) CompTIA Security+
9 2 (5.26%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 2 (5.26%) AWS Certification
9 2 (5.26%) CCSA
9 2 (5.26%) CCSE
9 2 (5.26%) GCIA
9 2 (5.26%) GCIH
9 2 (5.26%) GIAC
10 1 (2.63%) CCIE Service Provider
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (7.89%) NIST
1 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (5.26%) Firmware
1 2 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (5.26%) VMware NSX
2 1 (2.63%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (23.68%) Ansible
2 3 (7.89%) Progress Chef
3 1 (2.63%) FortiGate
3 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.63%) Nagios
3 1 (2.63%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (68.42%) Cisco
2 11 (28.95%) Fortinet
3 10 (26.32%) Palo Alto
4 9 (23.68%) ServiceNow
5 7 (18.42%) AlgoSec
6 5 (13.16%) Arista
6 5 (13.16%) F5
7 4 (10.53%) Aruba
7 4 (10.53%) CheckPoint
7 4 (10.53%) Juniper
8 3 (7.89%) ForeScout
9 2 (5.26%) Forcepoint
9 2 (5.26%) HP
9 2 (5.26%) McAfee
9 2 (5.26%) Meraki
9 2 (5.26%) Splunk
9 2 (5.26%) VMware
10 1 (2.63%) Citrix
10 1 (2.63%) Google
10 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds