CCNP Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 58 74
Rank change year-on-year -24 +16 +33
Contract jobs citing CCNP 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.21% 0.20% 0.45%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.03% 0.80% 2.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £429
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 - £515
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.36%
75th Percentile - - £561
90th Percentile - - £584
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -13.04% +27.78% -18.18%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 194 125 204
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 19.96% 24.70% 18.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 84 123
10th Percentile £313 £263 £311
25th Percentile £425 £334 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.61% +3.75% -9.09%
75th Percentile £572 £575 £569
90th Percentile £638 £738 £685
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £460 £500
% change year-on-year +8.70% -8.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 10
10th Percentile £16.64 - £12.53
25th Percentile £17.33 £26.25 £12.59
Median hourly rate £19.26 £27.50 £14.25
Median % change year-on-year -29.97% +92.98% -77.20%
75th Percentile £21.86 £28.75 £15.00
90th Percentile £22.97 - £15.78
Yorkshire median hourly rate £56.50 £21.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year +169.05% +40.00% -63.08%

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Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing CCNP

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Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing CCNP

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Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 12 March 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
Leeds -20 2 £440 - 2
CCNP
Yorkshire

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) Firewall
1 2 (100.00%) VLAN
1 2 (100.00%) VPN
2 1 (50.00%) BGP
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
2 1 (50.00%) EIGRP
2 1 (50.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 1 (50.00%) LAN
2 1 (50.00%) NAS
2 1 (50.00%) Network Security
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) SAN
2 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
2 1 (50.00%) WAN
2 1 (50.00%) Wireless
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Security Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Management
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Management
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCNA
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) CompTIA Security+
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GxP
1 1 (50.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft