CCNA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 194 184 306
Rank change year-on-year -10 +122 -82
Contract jobs citing CCNA 228 304 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.11% 1.30% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 3.93% 2.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 210 148
10th Percentile £288 £159 £190
25th Percentile £328 £313 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £475 £366
Median % change year-on-year -9.21% +29.69% +1.03%
75th Percentile £575 £563 £475
90th Percentile £608 £628 £550
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +17.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 29 27
10th Percentile £13.40 £12.80 £12.75
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.00 £47.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -68.42% +115.91% -47.62%
75th Percentile £21.87 £77.50 £47.40
90th Percentile £25.83 £80.40 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £50.00 £25.50
% change year-on-year -65.00% +96.08% -39.29%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CCNA 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,550 7,726 7,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.86% 32.93% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,354 5,173 5,169
10th Percentile £270 £287 £255
25th Percentile £425 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.94% +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £600
90th Percentile £725 £712 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 932 644 522
10th Percentile £13.52 £13.94 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £16.52
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £31.89
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +56.79% -7.67%
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £55.96
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.25
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +11.55%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCNA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CCNA in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCNA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CCNA in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 May 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
South East +23 68 £475 -6.86% 43
North of England +50 63 £365 -8.75% 27
North West +39 41 £440 -12.00% 13
South West -22 33 £525 -4.55% 14
Midlands +13 31 £325 -13.33% 17
West Midlands +20 25 £338 +3.85% 11
East of England -6 24 £300 -11.11% 11
Yorkshire +17 18 £340 -4.56% 12
Scotland +42 14 £550 +57.14% 14
East Midlands +11 6 £325 - 6
North East +13 4 £345 +73.58% 3
Wales +4 1 - - 6
CCNA
UK

CCNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 18 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.95%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.63%) Confluence
4 4 (1.75%) IIS
5 2 (0.88%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (4.82%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.63%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.44%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.35%) Azure
2 17 (7.46%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (6.14%) AWS
3 14 (6.14%) OCI
4 3 (1.32%) GCP
5 1 (0.44%) Akamai
5 1 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.44%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.44%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.44%) IaaS
5 1 (0.44%) PaaS
5 1 (0.44%) SaaS
5 1 (0.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 95 (41.67%) Firewall
2 55 (24.12%) WAN
3 51 (22.37%) DNS
3 51 (22.37%) LAN
4 39 (17.11%) DHCP
5 36 (15.79%) SAN
6 33 (14.47%) OSPF
7 32 (14.04%) BGP
8 29 (12.72%) VPN
8 29 (12.72%) Wi-Fi
9 28 (12.28%) Cisco Nexus
9 28 (12.28%) Network Security
9 28 (12.28%) Wireless
10 24 (10.53%) Cisco ASA
10 24 (10.53%) EIGRP
10 24 (10.53%) IPsec
11 20 (8.77%) Cisco Firepower
12 18 (7.89%) Cisco ISE
13 17 (7.46%) MPLS
14 16 (7.02%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.07%) JIRA
2 5 (2.19%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.44%) Hudson
General
1 76 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 43 (18.86%) Public Sector
3 34 (14.91%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.02%) Finance
5 15 (6.58%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.19%) Banking
6 5 (2.19%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.19%) Marketing
7 4 (1.75%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (1.32%) Retail
9 2 (0.88%) Military
10 1 (0.44%) Back Office
10 1 (0.44%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.44%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Law
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Local Government
10 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 123 (53.95%) Network Engineer
2 42 (18.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (10.96%) Senior
4 21 (9.21%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 20 (8.77%) Support Engineer
6 16 (7.02%) Architect
7 15 (6.58%) Analyst
7 15 (6.58%) Senior Network Engineer
8 12 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 11 (4.82%) IT Engineer
10 10 (4.39%) Field Engineer
10 10 (4.39%) Network Architect
10 10 (4.39%) Network Support
10 10 (4.39%) Network Support Engineer
10 10 (4.39%) Storage Engineer
11 9 (3.95%) Service Analyst
11 9 (3.95%) Service Desk Analyst
11 9 (3.95%) Technical Analyst
11 9 (3.95%) Technical Services Analyst
12 8 (3.51%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.82%) Jinja
2 5 (2.19%) Flash
3 3 (1.32%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 57 (25.00%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.51%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.07%) Driving Licence
3 7 (3.07%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.07%) Operational Technology
4 6 (2.63%) SCADA
5 5 (2.19%) Clustering
5 5 (2.19%) NHS
5 5 (2.19%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.32%) CCTV
6 3 (1.32%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.88%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.88%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.88%) PKI
8 1 (0.44%) CMDB
8 1 (0.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.44%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.44%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.44%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.68%) Windows
2 27 (11.84%) Linux
3 25 (10.96%) Windows Server
4 23 (10.09%) Windows 10
5 18 (7.89%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (6.14%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (6.14%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (6.14%) Windows XP
7 8 (3.51%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.63%) Unix
9 3 (1.32%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (28.51%) ITIL
2 60 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 28 (12.28%) Customer Service
5 24 (10.53%) Computer Science
5 24 (10.53%) Project Management
6 23 (10.09%) Change Management
7 21 (9.21%) Break/Fix
7 21 (9.21%) ITSM
8 16 (7.02%) Load Balancing
8 16 (7.02%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (7.02%) Server Management
8 16 (7.02%) Storage Management
9 15 (6.58%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (6.58%) Performance Monitoring
9 15 (6.58%) Proactive Monitoring
10 14 (6.14%) Converged Infrastructure
10 14 (6.14%) Network Management
11 13 (5.70%) High Availability
11 13 (5.70%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (8.33%) PowerShell
1 19 (8.33%) Python
2 11 (4.82%) Perl
2 11 (4.82%) Tcl
3 3 (1.32%) Bash
4 2 (0.88%) SQL
Qualifications
1 228 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 127 (55.70%) CCNP
3 86 (37.72%) Security Cleared
4 68 (29.82%) SC Cleared
5 63 (27.63%) Degree
6 28 (12.28%) Microsoft Certification
7 26 (11.40%) Network+ Certification
8 21 (9.21%) DV Cleared
8 21 (9.21%) MCSE
9 18 (7.89%) A+ Certification
10 17 (7.46%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 15 (6.58%) JNCIA
12 14 (6.14%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (5.70%) JNCIS
14 11 (4.82%) MCP
15 10 (4.39%) MCSA
16 7 (3.07%) CCIE
17 6 (2.63%) CISSP
18 5 (2.19%) Master's Degree
19 4 (1.75%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.58%) SLA
2 8 (3.51%) QA
3 1 (0.44%) GDPR
3 1 (0.44%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (20.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 41 (17.98%) Active Directory
3 27 (11.84%) VMware ESXi
4 26 (11.40%) Hyper-V
5 16 (7.02%) Firmware
6 8 (3.51%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.63%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.19%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (1.75%) KVM
9 4 (1.75%) vSphere
10 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 28 (12.28%) SCCM
2 23 (10.09%) vCenter Server
3 18 (7.89%) Ansible
4 15 (6.58%) EMC NetWorker
4 15 (6.58%) SCOM
4 15 (6.58%) WSUS
5 14 (6.14%) NetBackup
6 8 (3.51%) FortiGate
7 5 (2.19%) OpenView
8 4 (1.75%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.75%) Terraform
9 1 (0.44%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.44%) Nagios
9 1 (0.44%) QRadar
9 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.44%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 149 (65.35%) Cisco
2 54 (23.68%) VMware
3 51 (22.37%) Juniper
4 45 (19.74%) Microsoft
5 39 (17.11%) Palo Alto
6 24 (10.53%) Dell
6 24 (10.53%) SolarWinds
7 20 (8.77%) Citrix
8 18 (7.89%) F5
9 16 (7.02%) Veeam
10 15 (6.58%) Oracle
11 14 (6.14%) 3PAR
11 14 (6.14%) EMC
11 14 (6.14%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (6.14%) Fortinet
11 14 (6.14%) HP
11 14 (6.14%) Symantec
12 12 (5.26%) CheckPoint
13 9 (3.95%) Meraki
14 6 (2.63%) Atlassian