CCNA Contract Job Trends in London

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 329 306
Rank change year-on-year -90 -23 +31
Contract jobs citing CCNA 30 38 76
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.15% 0.28% 0.47%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 1.07% 1.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 23 53
10th Percentile £296 £277 £280
25th Percentile £357 £394 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £585 £588 £588
90th Percentile £588 £630 £650
England median daily rate £435 £500 £495
% change year-on-year -13.00% +1.01% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 2
10th Percentile - £46.45 £38.00
25th Percentile £29.00 £47.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £56.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.43% +12.00% +47.06%
75th Percentile £31.00 £63.00 £57.50
90th Percentile - £63.15 £62.00
England median hourly rate £63.14 £30.00 £28.70
% change year-on-year +110.45% +4.53% +14.80%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
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 London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,910 3,567 4,043
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.82% 26.66% 25.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,281 2,411 2,581
10th Percentile £363 £358 £350
25th Percentile £457 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £538 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.33% - -2.27%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £650
90th Percentile £734 £738 £770
England median daily rate £535 £525 £525
% change year-on-year +1.90% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 83 66
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.99 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.38 - £25.99
Median hourly rate £53.00 £25.15 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year +110.74% -32.30% -31.20%
75th Percentile £78.75 £36.88 £57.13
90th Percentile £155.00 £65.00 £75.63
England median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +89.03% -52.10% -2.17%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

CCNA job vacancy trend in London

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCNA

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in London over the 6 months to 15 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in London

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing CCNA

CCNA
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the London region over the 6 months to 15 October 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
Central London -30 8 £375 -26.47% 13
South London -9 4 £450 +26.76% 1
CCNA
England

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.33%) OpenStack
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (33.33%) Azure
2 5 (16.67%) Entra ID
2 5 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.33%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (3.33%) AWS
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub
4 1 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
4 1 (3.33%) IaaS
4 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 16 (53.33%) Firewall
2 14 (46.67%) DNS
2 14 (46.67%) WAN
3 10 (33.33%) DHCP
3 10 (33.33%) LAN
4 9 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 8 (26.67%) Network Security
6 7 (23.33%) VPN
6 7 (23.33%) Wireless
7 6 (20.00%) SD-WAN
7 6 (20.00%) VLAN
7 6 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
8 5 (16.67%) 4G
9 4 (13.33%) Broadband
10 3 (10.00%) Cisco Nexus
10 3 (10.00%) VoIP
11 2 (6.67%) BGP
11 2 (6.67%) Cisco ASA
11 2 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
11 2 (6.67%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 3 (10.00%) Git
General
1 10 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 8 (26.67%) Finance
3 7 (23.33%) Public Sector
4 5 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 4 (13.33%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (10.00%) Local Government
6 3 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (6.67%) Banking
7 2 (6.67%) French Language
8 1 (3.33%) Mandarin Language
8 1 (3.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 12 (40.00%) Network Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 6 (20.00%) Senior
3 4 (13.33%) Azure Engineer
3 4 (13.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 3 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Field Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Field Service Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Field Service Technician
5 2 (6.67%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Infrastructure Analyst
5 2 (6.67%) IT Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) IT Technician
5 2 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Telephony Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Infrastructure Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (13.33%) Terraform
2 1 (3.33%) 802.1X
2 1 (3.33%) REST
2 1 (3.33%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Data Centre
2 5 (16.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (13.33%) Driving Licence
3 4 (13.33%) Security Operations Centre
4 3 (10.00%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (3.33%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) IoT
6 1 (3.33%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (3.33%) PKI
6 1 (3.33%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) Windows
2 2 (6.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.33%) VMS
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (3.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (23.33%) Infrastructure Management
2 7 (23.33%) Migration
3 6 (20.00%) High Availability
4 5 (16.67%) Infrastructure as Code
4 5 (16.67%) ITIL
4 5 (16.67%) Proactive Management
5 4 (13.33%) Agile
5 4 (13.33%) Business Continuity
5 4 (13.33%) Business Strategy
5 4 (13.33%) Change Management
5 4 (13.33%) CI/CD
5 4 (13.33%) Data Privacy
5 4 (13.33%) Due Diligence
5 4 (13.33%) Incident Management
5 4 (13.33%) Inventory Management
5 4 (13.33%) Project Delivery
5 4 (13.33%) Security Operations
5 4 (13.33%) Software Licensing
6 3 (10.00%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 4 (13.33%) PowerShell
2 3 (10.00%) Python
3 2 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (3.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (56.67%) CCNP
3 7 (23.33%) Degree
4 5 (16.67%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (10.00%) CCIE
5 3 (10.00%) MCSE
5 3 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (6.67%) A+ Certification
6 2 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (3.33%) CCNA CyberOps
7 1 (3.33%) CCSP
7 1 (3.33%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (3.33%) ISTQB
7 1 (3.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (3.33%) PMI Certification
7 1 (3.33%) PMP
7 1 (3.33%) SC Cleared
7 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.67%) NIST
1 2 (6.67%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (23.33%) Active Directory
2 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.33%) Firmware
4 1 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (3.33%) VMware ESXi
4 1 (3.33%) VMware NSX
4 1 (3.33%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (16.67%) Ansible
1 5 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 3 (10.00%) Packer
3 1 (3.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (3.33%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 18 (60.00%) Cisco
2 9 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 8 (26.67%) VMware
4 6 (20.00%) Palo Alto
5 5 (16.67%) Juniper
6 4 (13.33%) Infoblox
7 2 (6.67%) Arista
7 2 (6.67%) Aruba
7 2 (6.67%) Dell
7 2 (6.67%) ForeScout
7 2 (6.67%) Meraki
8 1 (3.33%) Citrix
8 1 (3.33%) EMC
8 1 (3.33%) F5
8 1 (3.33%) Forcepoint
8 1 (3.33%) Fortinet
8 1 (3.33%) LogicMonitor
8 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (3.33%) Varonis