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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 94 112
Rank change year-on-year 0 +18 +46
Contract jobs citing CCNP 23 11 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.34% 0.59% 0.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.99% 1.70% 2.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 10 9
10th Percentile £369 £165 -
25th Percentile - £322 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £438 £325
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +34.62% -38.10%
75th Percentile £538 £484 £400
90th Percentile £558 £554 £535
England median daily rate £525 £514 £500
% change year-on-year +2.19% +2.75% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - -
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £65.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year -53.85% +4.84% +66.58%

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 577 646 567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.70% 34.43% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 380 424 352
10th Percentile £178 £309 £313
25th Percentile £375 £371 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £514 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.72% -6.55% +11.11%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile £638 £725 £725
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 22 14
10th Percentile - £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.69 £17.88
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.47 £25.80
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +33.59% +29.00%
75th Percentile £43.44 £54.69 £33.06
90th Percentile £50.75 £58.75 £56.72
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% -13.64% +22.22%

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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 14 August 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 14 August 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
Warwickshire - 8 £450 - 5
Birmingham +10 6 £450 +12.50% 2
Staffordshire +7 5 - - 6
Herefordshire - 2 £525 - 1
Solihull +8 1 - - 1
Walsall - 1 - - 2
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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:

Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Communications & Networking
1 14 (60.87%) Firewall
1 14 (60.87%) WAN
2 12 (52.17%) Wireless
3 10 (43.48%) DHCP
3 10 (43.48%) DNS
3 10 (43.48%) Network Security
4 9 (39.13%) LAN
5 8 (34.78%) SD-WAN
6 7 (30.43%) BGP
6 7 (30.43%) OSPF
6 7 (30.43%) Wireshark
7 6 (26.09%) EIGRP
8 5 (21.74%) Cisco IOS
8 5 (21.74%) MPLS
8 5 (21.74%) PuTTY
8 5 (21.74%) WLAN
9 4 (17.39%) VLAN
10 3 (13.04%) Ethernet
10 3 (13.04%) SDH
10 3 (13.04%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 6 (26.09%) Social Skills
2 5 (21.74%) Manufacturing
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Telecoms
4 1 (4.35%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (39.13%) Network Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Analyst
2 5 (21.74%) Support Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Network Consultant
3 3 (13.04%) Senior
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Network Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Technical Consultant
4 2 (8.70%) Telecoms Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Administrator
5 1 (4.35%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IP Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Cisco Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Transmission Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (8.70%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (26.09%) Virtual Team
2 3 (13.04%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.04%) SCADA
3 1 (4.35%) Client/Server
3 1 (4.35%) Educational Technology
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (39.13%) ITIL
2 6 (26.09%) Change Management
2 6 (26.09%) Computer Science
2 6 (26.09%) High Availability
2 6 (26.09%) Project Management
3 5 (21.74%) Mentoring
3 5 (21.74%) Process Improvement
3 5 (21.74%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (17.39%) Network Monitoring
4 4 (17.39%) Service Management
5 3 (13.04%) Capacity Planning
5 3 (13.04%) Disaster Recovery
5 3 (13.04%) Problem Management
5 3 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (8.70%) Incident Management
6 2 (8.70%) Network Design
6 2 (8.70%) Network Management
6 2 (8.70%) Network Optimisation
6 2 (8.70%) Performance Analysis
6 2 (8.70%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.04%) Python
2 1 (4.35%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 23 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 11 (47.83%) CCNA
3 10 (43.48%) Degree
4 6 (26.09%) CCIE
4 6 (26.09%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (26.09%) Security Cleared
5 3 (13.04%) CCIE Routing and Switching
5 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
6 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
6 2 (8.70%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (4.35%) JNCIA
7 1 (4.35%) JNCIS
7 1 (4.35%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) SLA
2 1 (4.35%) Def Stans
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.35%) Hyper-V
1 1 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (17.39%) Ansible
1 4 (17.39%) OpenView
2 2 (8.70%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (4.35%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 19 (82.61%) Cisco
2 7 (30.43%) F5
3 6 (26.09%) Fortinet
3 6 (26.09%) Remedy
4 5 (21.74%) Juniper
4 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
4 5 (21.74%) Peregrine
4 5 (21.74%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.35%) Arista
5 1 (4.35%) BMC
5 1 (4.35%) Huawei
5 1 (4.35%) Infoblox
5 1 (4.35%) Meraki
5 1 (4.35%) NetScout
5 1 (4.35%) Oracle
5 1 (4.35%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.35%) VMware
5 1 (4.35%) Zscaler