CCNA Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 101 82 92
Rank change year-on-year -19 +10 -12
Contract jobs citing CCNA 21 11 2
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.90% 0.84% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.45% 2.64% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 1 1
10th Percentile £151 - -
25th Percentile £153 £510 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £155 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year -70.19% +4.00% +22.70%
75th Percentile £190 £530 £513
90th Percentile £338 - -
England median daily rate £420 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -6.67% -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 4 0
10th Percentile £63.75 £23.23 -
25th Percentile £67.50 £26.94 -
Median hourly rate £68.75 £30.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +129.17% - -
75th Percentile - £37.63 -
90th Percentile - £49.55 -
England median hourly rate £63.14 £30.00 £20.70
% change year-on-year +110.45% +44.93% -37.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 East of England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 608 416 438
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 25.95% 31.90% 28.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 160 156
10th Percentile £190 £200 £193
25th Percentile £400 £372 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £529 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.16% +5.80% -9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £575 £575
90th Percentile £738 £676 £588
England median daily rate £528 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +0.48% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 141 131
10th Percentile £19.60 £16.30 £16.30
25th Percentile £46.00 £18.87 £32.50
Median hourly rate £66.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +162.43% -41.51% +86.96%
75th Percentile £75.00 £59.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £86.75 £85.00 £68.00
England median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £54.00
% change year-on-year +110.74% -53.43% -

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

CCNA job vacancy trend in the East of England

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCNA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCNA

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in the East of England over the 6 months to 18 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in the East of England

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCNA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing CCNA

CCNA
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 18 September 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
Hertfordshire - 16 £155 - 13
Bedfordshire +4 3 £510 - 10
Cambridgeshire -3 1 £420 - 2
Norfolk -9 1 - - 9
CCNA
England

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
2 1 (4.76%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) Firewall
2 4 (19.05%) BGP
2 4 (19.05%) Network Security
2 4 (19.05%) OSPF
2 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
3 3 (14.29%) HSRP
3 3 (14.29%) HTTP
3 3 (14.29%) LAN
3 3 (14.29%) SSL
3 3 (14.29%) VRRP
3 3 (14.29%) Wireless
3 3 (14.29%) WLAN
4 2 (9.52%) Cisco ISE
4 2 (9.52%) IP Telephony
4 2 (9.52%) Unified Communications
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Wireless
5 1 (4.76%) Spanning Tree
5 1 (4.76%) VLAN
5 1 (4.76%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (4.76%) JIRA
General
1 13 (61.90%) Telecoms
2 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Technical Support
2 12 (57.14%) Support Specialist
2 12 (57.14%) Technical Specialist
2 12 (57.14%) Technical Support Specialist
3 6 (28.57%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (4.76%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) CRM Specialist
5 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Technician
5 1 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) IT Support
5 1 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (61.90%) ONVIF
2 2 (9.52%) 802.1X
3 1 (4.76%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 13 (61.90%) Video\Live Streaming
2 3 (14.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 2 (9.52%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (4.76%) Driving Licence
4 1 (4.76%) NHS
4 1 (4.76%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Linux
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
3 3 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (71.43%) Problem-Solving
2 13 (61.90%) CRM
2 13 (61.90%) Time Management
3 11 (52.38%) Agile
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (9.52%) Analytics
5 2 (9.52%) Case Management
5 2 (9.52%) Customer Service
5 2 (9.52%) DevOps
5 2 (9.52%) Document Management
5 2 (9.52%) High Availability
5 2 (9.52%) Incident Response
5 2 (9.52%) ITIL
5 2 (9.52%) Load Balancing
5 2 (9.52%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (9.52%) Service Delivery
5 2 (9.52%) SIEM
5 2 (9.52%) Technical Leadership
5 2 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (71.43%) Degree
2 15 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (61.90%) A+ Certification
3 13 (61.90%) MCSA
4 6 (28.57%) CCNP
5 5 (23.81%) Security Cleared
6 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
6 2 (9.52%) MCSE
7 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.76%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.76%) NCSC
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) Active Directory
2 3 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (14.29%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (38.10%) Cisco
2 5 (23.81%) VMware
3 4 (19.05%) SolarWinds
4 3 (14.29%) Microsoft
5 1 (4.76%) Aruba
5 1 (4.76%) Barracuda Networks
5 1 (4.76%) Dell
5 1 (4.76%) Palo Alto
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
5 1 (4.76%) Veeam