CCNA Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 146 118 88
Rank change year-on-year -28 -30 +70
Contract jobs citing CCNA 18 14 46
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.58% 0.56% 1.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.67% 1.96% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 8 20
10th Percentile £138 £261 £257
25th Percentile £328 £338 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £375 £350
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% +7.14% -22.22%
75th Percentile £491 £475 £441
90th Percentile £554 £603 £578
England median daily rate £511 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +7.63% +5.56% +9.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £23.00
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% +72.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,081 715 803
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.97% 28.50% 29.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 432 502
10th Percentile £258 £263 £271
25th Percentile £400 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £612 £600
90th Percentile £663 £720 £687
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 128 31 42
10th Percentile £17.02 £17.00 £17.71
25th Percentile £18.87 £20.15 £18.31
Median hourly rate £22.92 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.21% +5.13% +36.66%
75th Percentile £25.15 £35.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £31.00 £52.50 £68.63
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +16.67%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

CCNA job vacancy trend in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CCNA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CCNA

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in the Midlands over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in the Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CCNA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing CCNA

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 13 December 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
West Midlands -16 16 £450 +5.88% 15
East Midlands -23 2 £121 -67.77% 5
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England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) AWS
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Azure Stack
1 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (44.44%) Firewall
1 8 (44.44%) Wireless
2 7 (38.89%) LAN
3 6 (33.33%) DHCP
3 6 (33.33%) DNS
3 6 (33.33%) WAN
4 4 (22.22%) Cisco IOS
4 4 (22.22%) PuTTY
4 4 (22.22%) WLAN
5 3 (16.67%) BGP
5 3 (16.67%) OSPF
5 3 (16.67%) TCP/IP
5 3 (16.67%) VLAN
5 3 (16.67%) VPN
6 2 (11.11%) Broadband
6 2 (11.11%) Ethernet
6 2 (11.11%) MPLS
6 2 (11.11%) SAN
6 2 (11.11%) SDH
6 2 (11.11%) VoIP
General
1 4 (22.22%) Manufacturing
2 3 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Legal
4 1 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Network Engineer
2 4 (22.22%) Analyst
2 4 (22.22%) Support Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Field Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Field Service Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Field Hardware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Field Service Hardware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Hardware Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Network Support
4 1 (5.56%) Network Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) NOC Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Team Leader
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Data Centre
1 4 (22.22%) Virtual Team
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Mindset
2 2 (11.11%) Driving Licence
2 2 (11.11%) SCADA
3 1 (5.56%) Educational Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Fibre Optics
3 1 (5.56%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) NHS
3 1 (5.56%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.56%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Windows
1 2 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (22.22%) Change Management
2 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
2 4 (22.22%) Process Improvement
2 4 (22.22%) Project Management
3 3 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
3 3 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (11.11%) Break/Fix
4 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (11.11%) Customer Service
4 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 2 (11.11%) ITIL
5 1 (5.56%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Security
5 1 (5.56%) Cryptography
5 1 (5.56%) Migration
5 1 (5.56%) Platform Engineering
5 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
5 1 (5.56%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 18 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (72.22%) CCNP
3 7 (38.89%) Degree
3 7 (38.89%) Security Cleared
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (22.22%) DV Cleared
5 3 (16.67%) SC Cleared
6 2 (11.11%) A+ Certification
6 2 (11.11%) MCSE
6 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 2 (11.11%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (5.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (5.56%) CCSA
7 1 (5.56%) JNCIA
7 1 (5.56%) JNCIS
7 1 (5.56%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (5.56%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.56%) Firmware
1 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
1 1 (5.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco Prime
2 1 (5.56%) OpenView
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) Cisco
2 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
2 4 (22.22%) Peregrine
2 4 (22.22%) Remedy
3 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
3 2 (11.11%) Dell
3 2 (11.11%) Fortinet
3 2 (11.11%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Aruba
4 1 (5.56%) Juniper
4 1 (5.56%) Meraki
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) VMware