CCNP Contracts in the West Midlands

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 91 82 117
Rank change year-on-year -9 +35 +39
Contract jobs citing CCNP 6 29 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.45% 1.49% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.45% 4.52% 3.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 13 9
10th Percentile £204 £269 -
25th Percentile £296 £350 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.48%
75th Percentile £494 £475 £619
90th Percentile £520 - £625
England median daily rate £549 £505 £519
% change year-on-year +8.76% -2.60% +6.36%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 415 641 641
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.86% 32.92% 26.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 406 394
10th Percentile £150 £269 £313
25th Percentile £293 £358 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £498 £450 £528
Median % change year-on-year +10.56% -14.69% +12.53%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £606
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 35 27
10th Percentile £16.97 £14.00 £11.60
25th Percentile £18.50 £22.16 £13.31
Median hourly rate £28.18 £28.50 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.12% +50.00% +1.33%
75th Percentile £41.97 £49.38 £24.16
90th Percentile £59.40 £58.75 £60.90
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing CCNP as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCNP in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for CCNP in the West Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCNP in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in the West Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNP within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham +9 3 £450 - 9
Warwickshire +3 2 - - 6
Solihull +10 1 - -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) BGP
1 3 (50.00%) EIGRP
1 3 (50.00%) Network Security
1 3 (50.00%) OSPF
1 3 (50.00%) WAN
2 2 (33.33%) Cisco ASA
2 2 (33.33%) LAN
2 2 (33.33%) MPLS
2 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (16.67%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (16.67%) Firewall
3 1 (16.67%) HTTP
3 1 (16.67%) Internet
3 1 (16.67%) IPv4
3 1 (16.67%) VLAN
3 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Network Analyst
1 2 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) IP Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) SCADA
2 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (33.33%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
2 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
3 1 (16.67%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
3 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) High Availability
3 1 (16.67%) ITIL
3 1 (16.67%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (16.67%) Network Design
3 1 (16.67%) Network Management
3 1 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 1 (16.67%) Network Optimisation
3 1 (16.67%) Network Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Analysis
3 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Citrix Certification
2 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) CCIE
3 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (16.67%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 4 (66.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Arista
2 1 (16.67%) BMC
2 1 (16.67%) F5
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) Huawei
2 1 (16.67%) Infoblox
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) Remedy
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds
2 1 (16.67%) Zscaler