CCNA Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 20 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 46 61
Rank change year-on-year -21 +15 -
Contract jobs citing CCNA 7 7 3
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 1.00% 1.66% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.70% 5.93% 2.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 7 1
10th Percentile £397 £325 -
25th Percentile £446 £394 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -0.63% - -
75th Percentile £537 £554 £488
90th Percentile £629 £584 -
North West median daily rate £481 £474 £482
% change year-on-year +1.58% -1.71% +7.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Cheshire

CCNA 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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 259 118 128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 36.84% 27.96% 24.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 79 91
10th Percentile £313 £230 £158
25th Percentile £358 £343 £391
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year - -5.26% +6.74%
75th Percentile £588 £578 £540
90th Percentile £652 £600 £638
North West median daily rate £469 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -6.18% -2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 8 6
10th Percentile £15.50 £24.13 -
25th Percentile £18.13 £29.49 £14.00
Median hourly rate £27.85 £32.50 £20.33
Median % change year-on-year -14.31% +59.86% -43.53%
75th Percentile £90.60 £85.44 £26.66
90th Percentile £111.15 £86.00 £35.83
North West median hourly rate £45.46 £32.50 £16.06
% change year-on-year +39.88% +102.37% -55.39%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

CCNA job vacancy trend in Cheshire

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CCNA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CCNA

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in Cheshire over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in Cheshire

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CCNA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cheshire citing CCNA

CCNA
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 20 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
Knutsford - 6 £472 - 1
Chester -6 1 £575 +76.92%
CCNA
North West

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) AWS
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) Firewall
2 5 (71.43%) VPN
3 4 (57.14%) Network Security
4 2 (28.57%) tcpdump
4 2 (28.57%) VLAN
4 2 (28.57%) Wireless
4 2 (28.57%) Wireshark
5 1 (14.29%) BGP
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
5 1 (14.29%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (14.29%) DNS
5 1 (14.29%) Intrusion Detection
5 1 (14.29%) LAN
5 1 (14.29%) OSPF
5 1 (14.29%) SD-WAN
5 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
5 1 (14.29%) WAN
General
1 1 (14.29%) Banking
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Network Engineer
2 1 (14.29%) Architect
2 1 (14.29%) Cloud Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 1 (14.29%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Capacity Planning
1 4 (57.14%) Change Management
1 4 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
1 4 (57.14%) High Availability
1 4 (57.14%) Network Segmentation
1 4 (57.14%) Operational Stability
1 4 (57.14%) Resilience Testing
1 4 (57.14%) Validation
2 1 (14.29%) Architectural Patterns
2 1 (14.29%) Change Control
2 1 (14.29%) ITSM
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design
2 1 (14.29%) SIEM
2 1 (14.29%) Threat Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (85.71%) CCNP
3 1 (14.29%) GCIA
3 1 (14.29%) GCIH
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIA
3 1 (14.29%) JNCIS
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Firmware
1 1 (14.29%) Snort
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) FortiGate
1 1 (14.29%) Suricata
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) Aruba
2 1 (14.29%) Infoblox
2 1 (14.29%) Juniper
2 1 (14.29%) Meraki
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) Palo Alto
2 1 (14.29%) Remedy
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow