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 20 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 114 117 140
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 +29
Contract jobs citing CCNA 9 9 7
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.53% 0.43% 0.24%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.10% 1.72% 1.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 4
10th Percentile £191 £333 £184
25th Percentile £200 £475 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £518 £413
Median % change year-on-year -1.45% +25.45% -21.43%
75th Percentile £538 £579 £447
90th Percentile £620 £588 £464
Central London median daily rate £510 £500 £280
% change year-on-year +2.00% +78.57% -46.67%

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 428 522 588
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 25.33% 24.79% 20.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 308 354
10th Percentile £343 £360 £348
25th Percentile £457 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £563
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £675 £659 £688
90th Percentile £738 £766 £824
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 5 2
10th Percentile £19.68 £23.10 £23.45
25th Percentile £23.58 £27.00 £31.63
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.50 £46.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% -30.11% +7.54%
75th Percentile £37.96 £112.00 £62.63
90th Percentile £54.53 - £71.55
Central London median hourly rate £30.99 £32.50 £18.00
% change year-on-year -4.65% +80.56% -58.37%

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

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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 20 October 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 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (44.44%) Azure
2 2 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (11.11%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (77.78%) Firewall
2 4 (44.44%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (22.22%) DHCP
3 2 (22.22%) DNS
3 2 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
3 2 (22.22%) Modbus
3 2 (22.22%) SAN
4 1 (11.11%) BGP
4 1 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (11.11%) Internet
4 1 (11.11%) IOS XR
4 1 (11.11%) IPsec
4 1 (11.11%) LAN
4 1 (11.11%) MPLS
4 1 (11.11%) OSPF
4 1 (11.11%) SD-WAN
4 1 (11.11%) VoIP
4 1 (11.11%) VPN
4 1 (11.11%) WAN
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (22.22%) Telecoms
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) 2nd Line Support
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Security Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Senior
1 2 (22.22%) Senior Security Engineer
1 2 (22.22%) Solutions Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Technical Solutions Architect
2 1 (11.11%) 1st/2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (11.11%) 1st/2nd Line Help Desk Support
2 1 (11.11%) 1st/2nd Line Support
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Help Desk Support
2 1 (11.11%) Network Designer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Senior Network Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Insider Threat
1 2 (22.22%) Life Science
1 2 (22.22%) Management Information System
1 2 (22.22%) Operational Technology
1 2 (22.22%) Renewable Energy
1 2 (22.22%) SCADA
1 2 (22.22%) Security Posture
2 1 (11.11%) CCTV
2 1 (11.11%) Data Centre
2 1 (11.11%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2012
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
2 1 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) Antivirus Management
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (22.22%) Data Flow Diagram
2 2 (22.22%) Incident Response
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security
2 2 (22.22%) Information Security Management
2 2 (22.22%) Integration Patterns
2 2 (22.22%) Network Architecture
2 2 (22.22%) Network Design
2 2 (22.22%) Patch Management
2 2 (22.22%) Risk Assessment
2 2 (22.22%) Security Management
2 2 (22.22%) Vulnerability Assessment
3 1 (11.11%) Customer Service
3 1 (11.11%) DevOps
3 1 (11.11%) Load Balancing
3 1 (11.11%) SDLC
3 1 (11.11%) Technical Architecture
Qualifications
1 9 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (55.56%) Degree
3 4 (44.44%) CCNP
4 2 (22.22%) Azure Certification
4 2 (22.22%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (11.11%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (11.11%) MCP
5 1 (11.11%) MCSA
5 1 (11.11%) MCSE
5 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
5 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (22.22%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 3 (33.33%) Active Directory
2 2 (22.22%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (11.11%) XenApp
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (55.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Citrix
3 2 (22.22%) Meraki
3 2 (22.22%) Rockwell
4 1 (11.11%) F5
4 1 (11.11%) ForeScout
4 1 (11.11%) Juniper
4 1 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
4 1 (11.11%) Palo Alto
4 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow
4 1 (11.11%) VMware