CCNP Contracts in the North West

Cisco Certified Network Professional (CCNP)
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for CCNP qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 90 123 164
Rank change year-on-year +33 +41 -52
Contract jobs citing CCNP 45 28 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.64% 0.92% 0.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.88% 3.08% 1.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 16 7
10th Percentile £335 £331 £386
25th Percentile £463 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.44% -5.26% +15.15%
75th Percentile £548 - £546
90th Percentile £775 £513 £563
England median daily rate £505 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +1.00% - +18.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

CCNP is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 765 909 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 27.93% 29.83% 22.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 427 596 606
10th Percentile £294 £350 £281
25th Percentile £414 £440 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% +2.25% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £625
90th Percentile £725 £688 £675
England median daily rate £538 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.27% +4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 132 69 60
10th Percentile £10.95 £19.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £11.94 £25.75 £16.81
Median hourly rate £16.06 £40.59 £40.68
Median % change year-on-year -60.43% -0.23% +12.23%
75th Percentile £43.26 £49.52 £59.74
90th Percentile £68.24 £67.60 £81.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £39.50
% change year-on-year -27.27% +39.24% +8.22%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for CCNP in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for CCNP in the North West

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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 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCNP in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for CCNP in the North West

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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 2 June 2024. 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 +25 17 £563 +7.14% 6
Cheshire +6 12 £475 +26.67%
Cumbria -11 12 £515 +14.44%
Merseyside +17 4 £295 -
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (13.33%) AWS
1 6 (13.33%) Azure
2 5 (11.11%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 30 (66.67%) Firewall
2 17 (37.78%) BGP
3 16 (35.56%) Cisco Firepower
3 16 (35.56%) OSPF
4 13 (28.89%) Cisco ASA
4 13 (28.89%) IPsec
4 13 (28.89%) Wi-Fi
5 12 (26.67%) Cisco ISE
5 12 (26.67%) EIGRP
5 12 (26.67%) HSRP
5 12 (26.67%) NetScaler
6 11 (24.44%) SNMP
6 11 (24.44%) Spanning Tree
7 9 (20.00%) Network Security
8 6 (13.33%) Cisco Nexus
9 5 (11.11%) LAN
9 5 (11.11%) TCP/IP
9 5 (11.11%) VLAN
9 5 (11.11%) VPN
9 5 (11.11%) WAN
Development Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (17.78%) Social Skills
2 5 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (6.67%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.22%) Finance
Job Titles
1 39 (86.67%) Network Engineer
2 12 (26.67%) Senior
2 12 (26.67%) Senior Network Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 6 (13.33%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) 2nd Line Network Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Cisco Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Cisco Network Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Cisco Security Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Network Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Network Security Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Network Support
4 4 (8.89%) Network Support Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 4 (8.89%) Security Architect
4 4 (8.89%) Support Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (4.44%) Switch Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (24.44%) Jinja
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.22%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (37.78%) Change Management
2 12 (26.67%) ITIL
2 12 (26.67%) ITSM
2 12 (26.67%) Network Management
3 11 (24.44%) DevOps
3 11 (24.44%) Network Monitoring
4 5 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (8.89%) Computer Science
5 4 (8.89%) Network Virtualisation
6 2 (4.44%) Incident Response
6 2 (4.44%) Migration
6 2 (4.44%) Task Automation
7 1 (2.22%) Network Design
7 1 (2.22%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) Python
2 11 (24.44%) Perl
2 11 (24.44%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 45 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 33 (73.33%) CCNA
3 13 (28.89%) CCIE
3 13 (28.89%) SC Cleared
3 13 (28.89%) Security Cleared
4 5 (11.11%) CISSP
5 4 (8.89%) CCIE Security
5 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (8.89%) Degree
5 4 (8.89%) VCAP
6 2 (4.44%) JNCIA
7 1 (2.22%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (2.22%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 12 (26.67%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 15 (33.33%) Ansible
2 1 (2.22%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (84.44%) Cisco
2 20 (44.44%) SolarWinds
3 13 (28.89%) Palo Alto
4 12 (26.67%) Citrix
5 6 (13.33%) LogicMonitor
6 4 (8.89%) Meraki
7 3 (6.67%) Microsoft
8 2 (4.44%) Fortinet
9 1 (2.22%) AlgoSec
9 1 (2.22%) Brocade
9 1 (2.22%) CheckPoint
9 1 (2.22%) F5
9 1 (2.22%) HP
9 1 (2.22%) Juniper
9 1 (2.22%) Splunk
9 1 (2.22%) Tufin
9 1 (2.22%) VMware
9 1 (2.22%) WatchGuard
9 1 (2.22%) Zscaler