CCNA Contracts in England

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 316 280 291
Rank change year-on-year -36 +11 +165
Contract jobs citing CCNA 175 295 403
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.69% 0.79% 0.86%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.23% 2.59% 3.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 116 194 270
10th Percentile £284 £295 £213
25th Percentile £363 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £606 £550
90th Percentile £613 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 18 26
10th Percentile - £14.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £29.00 £15.78 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £23.25 £23.63
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% -1.61% +72.99%
75th Percentile £47.13 £25.83 £79.63
90th Percentile £61.00 £74.13 £81.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £23.00 £50.00
% change year-on-year +30.43% -54.00% +266.03%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 England.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,840 11,370 12,828
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 31.09% 30.44% 27.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,933 7,007 8,575
10th Percentile £280 £313 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
90th Percentile £715 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 508 1,006 634
10th Percentile £17.87 £14.16 £14.64
25th Percentile £19.87 £20.74 £22.18
Median hourly rate £29.07 £42.50 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.60% -22.73% +32.53%
75th Percentile £63.94 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £77.50 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £28.34 £40.94 £55.25
% change year-on-year -30.78% -25.90% +24.16%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCNA in England.

Daily rate trend for CCNA in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in England over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in England

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCNA in England.

Hourly rate trend for CCNA in England

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Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNA in England over the 6 months to 26 June 2025.

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 6 months to 26 June 2025. 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
London +15 49 £500 -4.76% 118
South East +9 34 £508 -10.77% 104
North of England -20 33 £375 -13.29% 66
Midlands +5 26 £450 +28.57% 58
North West -19 19 £375 -17.81% 33
West Midlands +1 17 £353 +4.44% 34
South West +33 15 £544 +16.94% 40
East of England +23 12 £550 +83.33% 53
Yorkshire 0 12 £550 +43.79% 26
East Midlands +1 9 £550 +46.67% 23
North East -2 2 £288 -32.35% 7
CCNA
UK

CCNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
1 9 (5.14%) Confluence
2 4 (2.29%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.57%) CMS
Applications
1 28 (16.00%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (4.00%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (14.29%) Azure
2 17 (9.71%) AWS
3 8 (4.57%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (4.00%) GCP
5 4 (2.29%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.71%) IaaS
6 3 (1.71%) PaaS
7 1 (0.57%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.57%) GitHub
7 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.57%) OCI
7 1 (0.57%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 101 (57.71%) Firewall
2 51 (29.14%) WAN
3 49 (28.00%) DNS
4 48 (27.43%) LAN
5 43 (24.57%) DHCP
6 42 (24.00%) TCP/IP
7 41 (23.43%) Network Security
7 41 (23.43%) VPN
8 35 (20.00%) Wireless
9 27 (15.43%) BGP
10 25 (14.29%) Cisco IOS
11 24 (13.71%) OSPF
12 20 (11.43%) WLAN
13 16 (9.14%) Wi-Fi
14 13 (7.43%) IPsec
14 13 (7.43%) MPLS
14 13 (7.43%) VLAN
15 12 (6.86%) EIGRP
15 12 (6.86%) PuTTY
16 10 (5.71%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.57%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (5.14%) JIRA
2 4 (2.29%) GitLab
2 4 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.71%) Git
3 3 (1.71%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.71%) Subversion
4 2 (1.14%) Mercurial
General
1 70 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 40 (22.86%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (10.29%) Manufacturing
4 17 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.57%) Finance
5 8 (4.57%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.86%) Legal
7 3 (1.71%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (1.71%) Local Government
7 3 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.14%) Banking
8 2 (1.14%) Electronics
8 2 (1.14%) Marketing
8 2 (1.14%) Multimedia
9 1 (0.57%) Aviation
9 1 (0.57%) Law
9 1 (0.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (50.86%) Network Engineer
2 19 (10.86%) Analyst
2 19 (10.86%) Architect
3 14 (8.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (6.86%) Cisco Engineer
4 12 (6.86%) Network Architect
5 11 (6.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 9 (5.14%) Support Engineer
6 9 (5.14%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 8 (4.57%) Network Analyst
8 7 (4.00%) IT Engineer
8 7 (4.00%) Network Support
8 7 (4.00%) Network Support Engineer
9 6 (3.43%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 6 (3.43%) Senior
10 5 (2.86%) Cisco Architect
10 5 (2.86%) Cisco Network Architect
10 5 (2.86%) Juniper Architect
10 5 (2.86%) Network Support Analyst
10 5 (2.86%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.14%) Flash
2 3 (1.71%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.71%) CSS
2 3 (1.71%) HTML
2 3 (1.71%) REST
3 2 (1.14%) Node.js
3 2 (1.14%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 12 (6.86%) Data Centre
2 10 (5.71%) Clustering
2 10 (5.71%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (4.57%) Virtual Team
4 7 (4.00%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.43%) CMDB
5 6 (3.43%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (3.43%) Video Conferencing
6 4 (2.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (2.29%) Security Operations Centre
7 3 (1.71%) Blog
7 3 (1.71%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 3 (1.71%) Driving Licence
7 3 (1.71%) Fibre Optics
7 3 (1.71%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.71%) Operational Technology
7 3 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
7 3 (1.71%) Security Posture
8 2 (1.14%) e-Learning
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.86%) Windows
2 9 (5.14%) Linux
3 5 (2.86%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.29%) Windows 10
5 2 (1.14%) Mac OS
5 2 (1.14%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.57%) CatOS
6 1 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.57%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (25.71%) Computer Science
2 36 (20.57%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (13.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 23 (13.14%) Validation
4 22 (12.57%) Network Architecture
5 20 (11.43%) ITIL
5 20 (11.43%) Migration
6 18 (10.29%) High Availability
6 18 (10.29%) Network Design
7 17 (9.71%) Service Management
8 16 (9.14%) Agile
9 13 (7.43%) Change Management
9 13 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (7.43%) Incident Management
9 13 (7.43%) Network Monitoring
9 13 (7.43%) Network Virtualisation
10 12 (6.86%) Customer Service
10 12 (6.86%) Mentoring
11 11 (6.29%) Project Management
12 10 (5.71%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 21 (12.00%) Python
2 6 (3.43%) Java
2 6 (3.43%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.86%) Bash
4 3 (1.71%) C++
4 3 (1.71%) Go
4 3 (1.71%) JavaScript
4 3 (1.71%) Kotlin
4 3 (1.71%) PHP
5 2 (1.14%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 175 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 99 (56.57%) CCNP
3 59 (33.71%) Degree
4 49 (28.00%) Security Cleared
5 43 (24.57%) SC Cleared
6 34 (19.43%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (9.14%) JNCIS
8 13 (7.43%) DV Cleared
9 11 (6.29%) JNCIA
9 11 (6.29%) Network+ Certification
10 9 (5.14%) Master's Degree
10 9 (5.14%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 7 (4.00%) CISSP
12 5 (2.86%) Azure Certification
13 4 (2.29%) CCIE
13 4 (2.29%) CCSP
13 4 (2.29%) CEH
13 4 (2.29%) CompTIA CySA+
14 3 (1.71%) CCDP
14 3 (1.71%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.14%) NIST
1 2 (1.14%) SLA
2 1 (0.57%) GDPR
2 1 (0.57%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.57%) NIST 800
2 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 18 (10.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (8.00%) VMware ESXi
3 13 (7.43%) Active Directory
4 9 (5.14%) VMware NSX
5 4 (2.29%) Firmware
6 3 (1.71%) vSphere
7 2 (1.14%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.57%) Docker
8 1 (0.57%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 15 (8.57%) Ansible
2 12 (6.86%) vCenter Server
3 8 (4.57%) Terraform
4 5 (2.86%) FortiGate
5 3 (1.71%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (1.71%) CSIRT
5 3 (1.71%) Grafana
5 3 (1.71%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.71%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.71%) Puppet
5 3 (1.71%) SCCM
5 3 (1.71%) ZABBIX
6 2 (1.14%) Cisco Prime
6 2 (1.14%) Cisco UCCE
6 2 (1.14%) Nagios
6 2 (1.14%) OpenView
7 1 (0.57%) Cisco UCCX
Vendors
1 124 (70.86%) Cisco
2 44 (25.14%) Microsoft
3 26 (14.86%) Juniper
4 24 (13.71%) VMware
5 21 (12.00%) CheckPoint
6 17 (9.71%) Fortinet
7 15 (8.57%) Meraki
7 15 (8.57%) Palo Alto
8 10 (5.71%) ServiceNow
9 9 (5.14%) Atlassian
10 7 (4.00%) Peregrine
10 7 (4.00%) Remedy
10 7 (4.00%) SolarWinds
11 6 (3.43%) Aruba
11 6 (3.43%) F5
11 6 (3.43%) Fujitsu
12 4 (2.29%) Arista
12 4 (2.29%) Infoblox
12 4 (2.29%) Nokia
12 4 (2.29%) Oracle