CCNP Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 73 86
Rank change year-on-year -52 +13 +35
Contract jobs citing CCNP 6 14 21
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.32% 1.22% 1.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.38% 4.75% 5.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 19
10th Percentile £371 - -
25th Percentile £440 £456 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £463 £400
Median % change year-on-year +18.92% +15.63% -8.57%
75th Percentile £575 £469 £450
90th Percentile £620 - £525
England median daily rate £514 £505 £500
% change year-on-year +1.73% +1.00% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 436 295 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 23.38% 25.70% 19.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 296 203 242
10th Percentile £316 £220 £310
25th Percentile £401 £381 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £600
90th Percentile £700 £675 £720
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 7 5
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.15 £19.41
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.19 £26.78
Median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £30.05
Median % change year-on-year -32.93% +24.79% +117.60%
75th Percentile - £42.50 £44.00
90th Percentile - £48.00 £47.60
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.71 £52.50
% change year-on-year -46.16% -11.02% +16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

CCNP job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

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Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CCNP

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Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNP in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in Yorkshire

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Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing CCNP

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Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
East Yorkshire - 3 £550 - 1
North Yorkshire -8 1 - - 2
West Yorkshire -15 1 £440 -4.86% 1
South Yorkshire -46 1 £650 -
CCNP
England

CCNP
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
2 1 (16.67%) GCP
2 1 (16.67%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 6 (100.00%) Firewall
2 4 (66.67%) WAN
3 3 (50.00%) BGP
3 3 (50.00%) Cisco ASA
3 3 (50.00%) LAN
3 3 (50.00%) Network Security
3 3 (50.00%) OSPF
4 2 (33.33%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (33.33%) DHCP
4 2 (33.33%) DNS
4 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
4 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
4 2 (33.33%) VPN
4 2 (33.33%) Wireless
5 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
5 1 (16.67%) Ethernet VPN
5 1 (16.67%) NGFW
5 1 (16.67%) VLAN
5 1 (16.67%) VoIP
5 1 (16.67%) VXLAN
General
1 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Legal
1 1 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
1 2 (33.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (16.67%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
1 2 (33.33%) Zero Trust
2 1 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Network Design
2 1 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (16.67%) Security Architecture
2 1 (16.67%) Threat Modelling
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (50.00%) CCNA
3 2 (33.33%) CCIE
4 1 (16.67%) CCIE Data Center
4 1 (16.67%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (100.00%) Cisco
2 2 (33.33%) CheckPoint
3 1 (16.67%) Aruba
3 1 (16.67%) ForeScout
3 1 (16.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (16.67%) VMware