CCNA Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for CCNA 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 119 113 132
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +47
Contract jobs citing CCNA 5 9 5
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.27% 0.44% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.99% 1.68% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 6 3
10th Percentile £228 £190 £156
25th Percentile £292 £274 £238
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £408 £562 £400
Median % change year-on-year -27.46% +40.44% -23.81%
75th Percentile £527 £588 £450
90th Percentile £593 £606 £465
Central London median daily rate £190 £549 £425
% change year-on-year -65.36% +29.06% -2.86%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 506 535 503
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 27.76% 25.90% 19.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 391 319 315
10th Percentile £350 £331 £363
25th Percentile £425 £456 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -1.79% -4.68%
75th Percentile £660 £638 £688
90th Percentile £738 £752 £800
Central London median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £20.55 £24.78 £29.39
25th Percentile £25.75 £28.94 £45.09
Median hourly rate £27.50 £72.25 £72.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.94% -0.34% +68.60%
75th Percentile £29.50 £112.00 £75.63
90th Percentile £50.80 - £76.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.99 £72.25 £60.00
% change year-on-year -64.03% +20.42% +39.53%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

CCNA job vacancy trend in the City of London

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Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCNA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCNA

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in the City of London over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in the City of London

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Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCNA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing CCNA

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) Firewall
2 2 (40.00%) Intrusion Detection
2 2 (40.00%) Modbus
3 1 (20.00%) BGP
3 1 (20.00%) DHCP
3 1 (20.00%) DNS
3 1 (20.00%) LAN
3 1 (20.00%) MPLS
3 1 (20.00%) OSPF
3 1 (20.00%) SD-WAN
3 1 (20.00%) VPN
3 1 (20.00%) WAN
3 1 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Git
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
1 2 (40.00%) Manufacturing
1 2 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Consultant
1 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Security Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Senior
1 2 (40.00%) Senior Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
2 1 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) DevOps Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Network Consultant
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Senior Network Security Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Insider Threat
1 2 (40.00%) Life Science
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Operational Technology
1 2 (40.00%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (40.00%) SCADA
1 2 (40.00%) Security Posture
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (20.00%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (40.00%) Antivirus Management
2 2 (40.00%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (40.00%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (40.00%) Incident Response
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security
2 2 (40.00%) Information Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Network Architecture
2 2 (40.00%) Network Design
2 2 (40.00%) Patch Management
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (40.00%) Security Management
2 2 (40.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
1 5 (100.00%) Degree
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
3 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (20.00%) MCP
4 1 (20.00%) MCSA
4 1 (20.00%) MCSE
4 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
1 2 (40.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (20.00%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) Packer
1 1 (20.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Citrix
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) Rockwell
1 2 (40.00%) VMware
2 1 (20.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) ForeScout
2 1 (20.00%) Juniper
2 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (20.00%) Meraki
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow