CCNA Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 3 months to 25 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) UK / England
Location	3 months to 25 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	296	233	233
Rank change year-on-year	-63	0
Contract jobs citing CCNA	317	539	499
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.75%	1.11%	0.98%
As % of the Qualifications category	3.84%	5.12%	5.19%
Number of daily rates quoted	213	325	311
Median daily rate	£375	£338	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+11.11%	+3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£190	£202	£199
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£525	£500	£450
UK excluding London median daily rate	£325	£325	£325
Number of hourly rates quoted	25	26	29
Median hourly rate	£20.00	£25.25	£29.75
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-20.79%	-15.12%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.35	£17.50	£9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.83	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£20.00	£34.85	£20.75
% change year-on-year	-42.61%	+67.95%

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 academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in contract job vacancies advertised in England.

Academic & Professional Certification England
Contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	8246	10528	9609
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	19.41%	21.61%	18.84%
Number of daily rates quoted	4958	6660	5680
Median daily rate	£435	£400	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.75%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£270	£255	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£588	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	441	363	484
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.56	£22.50
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+17.92%	+22.48%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.15	£12.50	£13.25
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£49.00	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.00	£30.00	£24.12
% change year-on-year	+10.00%	+24.37%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing CCNA as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Qualifications category.

CCNA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing CCNA in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for CCNA in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing CCNA in England over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for CCNA in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for CCNA in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram in England

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing CCNA in England over the 3 months to 25 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for CCNA in England

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Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 3 months to 25 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-64	100	£388	+10.71%	31
South East	+7	93	£380	+4.25%	28
West Midlands	+15	27	£388	+19.23%	13
South West	-22	24	£425	+25.92%	7
North West	+6	20	£325	+11.11%	16
Yorkshire	0	17	£425	+10.38%	9
East of England	-36	16	£278	+0.90%	13
East Midlands	-5	11	£180	-44.65%	6
North East	+55	5	£225	+7.14%	5
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CCNA
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 25 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing CCNA also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for CCNA.

1	686 (100.00%)	Cisco Certification
2	517 (75.36%)	Cisco
3	349 (50.87%)	CCNP
4	299 (43.59%)	Firewall
5	234 (34.11%)	WAN
6	219 (31.92%)	LAN
7	146 (21.28%)	Security Cleared
8	144 (20.99%)	Wireless
9	140 (20.41%)	ITIL
10	134 (19.53%)	Windows
11	114 (16.62%)	Data Centre
12	111 (16.18%)	VPN
13	110 (16.03%)	VMware
14	106 (15.45%)	CheckPoint
15	101 (14.72%)	SC Cleared

16	98 (14.29%)	Juniper
17	97 (14.14%)	TCP/IP
17	97 (14.14%)	Cisco Nexus
18	95 (13.85%)	Cisco ASA
19	89 (12.97%)	DNS
20	88 (12.83%)	Microsoft
20	88 (12.83%)	Microsoft Certification
21	87 (12.68%)	OSPF
22	86 (12.54%)	MPLS
22	86 (12.54%)	BGP
23	83 (12.10%)	Migration
23	83 (12.10%)	VoIP
24	81 (11.81%)	VLAN
25	79 (11.52%)	Network Security
26	75 (10.93%)	Windows Server

CCNA
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	47 (6.85%)	MS Exchange
2	18 (2.62%)	Exchange Server 2010
2	18 (2.62%)	IIS
3	12 (1.75%)	Skype for Business
4	11 (1.60%)	Exchange Server 2013
5	8 (1.17%)	Exchange Server 2007
6	6 (0.87%)	SharePoint
7	5 (0.73%)	Tomcat
8	4 (0.58%)	Apache
9	2 (0.29%)	CMS
9	2 (0.29%)	Confluence
9	2 (0.29%)	JBoss
9	2 (0.29%)	OpenStack
10	1 (0.15%)	CloudStack
10	1 (0.15%)	IBM Notes
10	1 (0.15%)	SharePoint 2013
10	1 (0.15%)	SharePoint Server
10	1 (0.15%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	15 (2.19%)	Microsoft Excel
1	15 (2.19%)	MS Visio
2	14 (2.04%)	Microsoft Office
3	5 (0.73%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	4 (0.58%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	2 (0.29%)	Dynamics CRM
3	1 (0.15%)	CA PPM
3	1 (0.15%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	34 (4.96%)	Office 365
2	31 (4.52%)	Microsoft Azure
3	26 (3.79%)	Amazon AWS
4	5 (0.73%)	SaaS
5	4 (0.58%)	IaaS
5	4 (0.58%)	Virtual Private Cloud
6	3 (0.44%)	PaaS
7	2 (0.29%)	Amazon S3
7	2 (0.29%)	Azure Active Directory
8	1 (0.15%)	Amazon CloudWatch
8	1 (0.15%)	Amazon EC2
8	1 (0.15%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	1 (0.15%)	AWS CloudTrail
8	1 (0.15%)	Cloud Computing
8	1 (0.15%)	CloudFront
8	1 (0.15%)	G Suite
8	1 (0.15%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	299 (43.59%)	Firewall
2	234 (34.11%)	WAN
3	219 (31.92%)	LAN
4	144 (20.99%)	Wireless
5	111 (16.18%)	VPN
6	97 (14.14%)	Cisco Nexus
6	97 (14.14%)	TCP/IP
7	95 (13.85%)	Cisco ASA
8	89 (12.97%)	DNS
9	87 (12.68%)	OSPF
10	86 (12.54%)	BGP
10	86 (12.54%)	MPLS
11	83 (12.10%)	VoIP
12	81 (11.81%)	VLAN
13	79 (11.52%)	Network Security
14	70 (10.20%)	DHCP
15	46 (6.71%)	EIGRP
16	45 (6.56%)	Ethernet
17	42 (6.12%)	SAN
18	40 (5.83%)	Wi-Fi

Database & Business Intelligence
1	30 (4.37%)	SQL Server
2	12 (1.75%)	SQL Server 2012
3	8 (1.17%)	SQL Server 2005
4	7 (1.02%)	Big Data
4	7 (1.02%)	SQL Server 2008
5	6 (0.87%)	Hadoop
5	6 (0.87%)	SQL Server 2016
6	5 (0.73%)	Relational Database
7	4 (0.58%)	MySQL
8	3 (0.44%)	Amazon RDS
8	3 (0.44%)	Apache Cassandra
8	3 (0.44%)	MongoDB
8	3 (0.44%)	NoSQL
8	3 (0.44%)	PostgreSQL
9	2 (0.29%)	MS Access
9	2 (0.29%)	RDBMS
9	2 (0.29%)	Redis
10	1 (0.15%)	Data Warehouse
10	1 (0.15%)	QlikView

Development Applications
1	8 (1.17%)	VSS/SourceSafe
2	4 (0.58%)	Sonatype Nexus
3	3 (0.44%)	Git (software)
4	2 (0.29%)	CruiseControl
4	2 (0.29%)	JIRA
4	2 (0.29%)	Rational DOORS
4	2 (0.29%)	StarTeam
4	2 (0.29%)	Team Foundation Server
4	2 (0.29%)	TeamCity
4	2 (0.29%)	Visual Studio Team System
5	1 (0.15%)	Jenkins
5	1 (0.15%)	Subversion

General
1	60 (8.75%)	Telecoms
2	58 (8.45%)	Finance
3	33 (4.81%)	Banking
4	10 (1.46%)	Investment Banking
4	10 (1.46%)	Manufacturing
4	10 (1.46%)	Retail
5	6 (0.87%)	Electronics
6	4 (0.58%)	Local Government
6	4 (0.58%)	Marketing
7	3 (0.44%)	French Language
7	3 (0.44%)	Pharmaceutical
8	2 (0.29%)	Advertising
8	2 (0.29%)	Automotive
8	2 (0.29%)	Back Office
8	2 (0.29%)	Law
9	1 (0.15%)	Billing
9	1 (0.15%)	Financial Institution
9	1 (0.15%)	Games
9	1 (0.15%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	277 (40.38%)	Network Engineer
2	97 (14.14%)	Cisco Engineer
3	80 (11.66%)	Cisco Network Engineer
4	68 (9.91%)	Analyst
5	45 (6.56%)	Support Engineer
6	38 (5.54%)	Architect
7	34 (4.96%)	Network Analyst
8	33 (4.81%)	Senior Network Engineer
9	32 (4.66%)	Consultant
9	32 (4.66%)	Infrastructure Engineer
10	28 (4.08%)	Network Support
10	28 (4.08%)	NOC Engineer
10	28 (4.08%)	Security Engineer
11	24 (3.50%)	Voice Engineer
12	23 (3.35%)	2nd Line Support
13	22 (3.21%)	Support Analyst
14	21 (3.06%)	Network Architect
15	20 (2.92%)	Cisco Support
16	19 (2.77%)	Network Consultant
16	19 (2.77%)	Wireless Engineer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	25 (3.64%)	802.1X
2	7 (1.02%)	Web Services
3	6 (0.87%)	XMPP
4	5 (0.73%)	.NET
4	5 (0.73%)	WAP
4	5 (0.73%)	XML
5	4 (0.58%)	Middleware
6	3 (0.44%)	Elastic Stack
7	2 (0.29%)	ActiveMQ
7	2 (0.29%)	ASP.NET
7	2 (0.29%)	JAAS
7	2 (0.29%)	Java EE
7	2 (0.29%)	JMS
7	2 (0.29%)	JMX
7	2 (0.29%)	JNDI
7	2 (0.29%)	LAPP Stack
7	2 (0.29%)	RFC 2547
7	2 (0.29%)	WCF
7	2 (0.29%)	WF
7	2 (0.29%)	XSLT

Miscellaneous
1	114 (16.62%)	Data Centre
2	43 (6.27%)	Analytical Skills
3	30 (4.37%)	Management Information System
3	30 (4.37%)	Video Conferencing
4	23 (3.35%)	Clustering
5	21 (3.06%)	Driving Licence
6	14 (2.04%)	NHS
7	10 (1.46%)	EMC VNX
8	9 (1.31%)	IVR
9	7 (1.02%)	BBC
9	7 (1.02%)	Computer Science
9	7 (1.02%)	Greenfield Project
9	7 (1.02%)	PKI
10	6 (0.87%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
10	6 (0.87%)	Replication
11	5 (0.73%)	CMDB
11	5 (0.73%)	Linux Command Line
12	4 (0.58%)	Private Cloud
12	4 (0.58%)	User Experience
12	4 (0.58%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	134 (19.53%)	Windows
2	75 (10.93%)	Windows Server
3	66 (9.62%)	Linux
4	46 (6.71%)	Windows Server 2012
5	43 (6.27%)	Windows Server 2008
6	27 (3.94%)	Windows 7
7	22 (3.21%)	Unix
8	21 (3.06%)	Windows Server 2003
9	20 (2.92%)	Windows 10
10	12 (1.75%)	Windows 8
11	11 (1.60%)	CentOS
12	10 (1.46%)	SUSE
13	8 (1.17%)	Solaris
14	7 (1.02%)	Windows Vista
15	6 (0.87%)	Mac OS X
15	6 (0.87%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16	3 (0.44%)	Android
16	3 (0.44%)	Mac OS
17	2 (0.29%)	CatOS
17	2 (0.29%)	Windows XP

Processes & Methodologies
1	140 (20.41%)	ITIL
2	83 (12.10%)	Migration
3	57 (8.31%)	Network Design
4	48 (7.00%)	Load Balancing
5	38 (5.54%)	Network Management
6	35 (5.10%)	Change Management
7	33 (4.81%)	Service Management
8	32 (4.66%)	Disaster Recovery
9	25 (3.64%)	Information Security
10	24 (3.50%)	ITIL V3
11	23 (3.35%)	DevOps
12	22 (3.21%)	High Availability
13	21 (3.06%)	PRINCE2
14	20 (2.92%)	Service Delivery
15	17 (2.48%)	Project Management
16	16 (2.33%)	Kalman Filter
17	14 (2.04%)	Network Monitoring
18	13 (1.90%)	Agile Software Development
18	13 (1.90%)	Programme Management
18	13 (1.90%)	Risk Assessment

Programming Languages
1	38 (5.54%)	PowerShell
2	28 (4.08%)	SQL
3	23 (3.35%)	Python
4	16 (2.33%)	Perl
5	11 (1.60%)	Bash Shell
5	11 (1.60%)	C
6	8 (1.17%)	Java
7	7 (1.02%)	Ruby
8	3 (0.44%)	C#
8	3 (0.44%)	C++
9	2 (0.29%)	VBScript
10	1 (0.15%)	JavaScript
10	1 (0.15%)	PHP

Qualifications
1	686 (100.00%)	Cisco Certification
2	349 (50.87%)	CCNP
3	146 (21.28%)	Security Cleared
4	101 (14.72%)	SC Cleared
5	88 (12.83%)	Microsoft Certification
6	72 (10.50%)	MCSE
7	68 (9.91%)	CCIE
8	55 (8.02%)	JNCIA
9	45 (6.56%)	CCDP
10	37 (5.39%)	DV Cleared
11	36 (5.25%)	Degree
12	33 (4.81%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13	31 (4.52%)	CISSP
14	27 (3.94%)	JNCIS
15	23 (3.35%)	CCDA
15	23 (3.35%)	CCSA
16	21 (3.06%)	MCSA
17	20 (2.92%)	MCITP
18	13 (1.90%)	JNCIP
19	12 (1.75%)	RHCE

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	30 (4.37%)	SLA
2	9 (1.31%)	QA
3	8 (1.17%)	ISO/IEC 27001
4	7 (1.02%)	PCI DSS
5	3 (0.44%)	ISO/IEC 20000
5	3 (0.44%)	PMO
6	2 (0.29%)	Cyber Essentials
7	1 (0.15%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS

System Software
1	74 (10.79%)	Active Directory
2	68 (9.91%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	41 (5.98%)	Hyper-V
4	23 (3.35%)	vSphere
5	12 (1.75%)	VMware ESXi
6	10 (1.46%)	XenApp
7	6 (0.87%)	Firmware
7	6 (0.87%)	ISA Server
7	6 (0.87%)	ProxySG
7	6 (0.87%)	UAG
7	6 (0.87%)	Virtual Servers
8	5 (0.73%)	Forefront TMG
8	5 (0.73%)	Virtual Machines
9	3 (0.44%)	BitLocker
9	3 (0.44%)	KVM
9	3 (0.44%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
9	3 (0.44%)	Terminal Server
9	3 (0.44%)	XenDesktop
10	2 (0.29%)	NFS
10	2 (0.29%)	Terminal Services

Systems Management
1	44 (6.41%)	Cisco CUCM
2	25 (3.64%)	Cisco UCCX
3	19 (2.77%)	SCCM
4	16 (2.33%)	Puppet
5	15 (2.19%)	Opscode Chef
5	15 (2.19%)	SCOM
6	14 (2.04%)	Nagios
7	13 (1.90%)	Cisco Prime
8	11 (1.60%)	Cisco UCCE
9	10 (1.46%)	FortiGate
10	8 (1.17%)	vCenter Server
11	7 (1.02%)	Ansible
11	7 (1.02%)	Microsoft Clustering
12	3 (0.44%)	Failover Clustering
12	3 (0.44%)	Microsoft Data Protection Manager
12	3 (0.44%)	NetBackup
12	3 (0.44%)	Norton AntiVirus
12	3 (0.44%)	WMI
12	3 (0.44%)	WSUS
13	2 (0.29%)	SCSM

Vendors
1	517 (75.36%)	Cisco
2	110 (16.03%)	VMware
3	106 (15.45%)	CheckPoint
4	98 (14.29%)	Juniper
5	88 (12.83%)	Microsoft
6	71 (10.35%)	F5
7	40 (5.83%)	HP
7	40 (5.83%)	Palo Alto
8	39 (5.69%)	Citrix
8	39 (5.69%)	SolarWinds
9	34 (4.96%)	Riverbed
10	30 (4.37%)	Fortinet
11	28 (4.08%)	Red Hat
12	23 (3.35%)	Dell
12	23 (3.35%)	EMC
13	20 (2.92%)	Avaya
14	15 (2.19%)	Remedy
15	13 (1.90%)	NetApp
15	13 (1.90%)	Splunk
16	11 (1.60%)	Meraki