CCNA Contracts in the North West

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 95 139
Rank change year-on-year -1 +44 +14
Contract jobs citing CCNA 24 42 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.22% 1.52% 0.56%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.40% 5.07% 1.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 15
10th Percentile £325 £297 £293
25th Percentile £363 £319 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% -20.00% +66.67%
75th Percentile £563 £515 £556
90th Percentile £588 £527 £643
England median daily rate £515 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +14.44% -10.00% +17.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 706 829 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.87% 30.09% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 474 683
10th Percentile £230 £268 £325
25th Percentile £398 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £602
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 124 67
10th Percentile £17.70 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £11.77 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.54 £49.52
90th Percentile £83.13 £62.50 £66.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCNA in the North West.

Daily rate trend for CCNA in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCNA in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for CCNA in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the North West region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Cheshire +4 7 £325 -31.58%
Manchester +2 7 £425 +21.43% 3
Cumbria -5 6 £575 +11.65% 1
Merseyside +1 2 £375 +27.12% 1
Lancashire - 2 - - 6
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (4.17%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 15 (62.50%) WAN
2 12 (50.00%) Firewall
2 12 (50.00%) LAN
3 11 (45.83%) Network Security
4 9 (37.50%) BGP
4 9 (37.50%) OSPF
4 9 (37.50%) VPN
5 7 (29.17%) Wireless
6 6 (25.00%) Broadband
6 6 (25.00%) Converged Networks
6 6 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (20.83%) IPsec
7 5 (20.83%) WLAN
8 4 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
8 4 (16.67%) HSRP
8 4 (16.67%) NetScaler
9 3 (12.50%) TCP/IP
10 2 (8.33%) EIGRP
10 2 (8.33%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) GitLab
1 2 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 6 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.33%) Legal
3 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (70.83%) Network Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Automation Developer
2 2 (8.33%) Developer
2 2 (8.33%) IT Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) NOC Engineer
2 2 (8.33%) Systems Engineer
3 1 (4.17%) Analyst
3 1 (4.17%) IT Analyst
3 1 (4.17%) IT Operations Analyst
3 1 (4.17%) Operations Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (25.00%) CMDB
1 6 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 5 (20.83%) Video Conferencing
3 2 (8.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 1 (4.17%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
1 2 (8.33%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (29.17%) Load Balancing
3 6 (25.00%) ITIL
3 6 (25.00%) Problem Management
4 5 (20.83%) Asset Management
4 5 (20.83%) Performance Metrics
5 4 (16.67%) Customer Service
5 4 (16.67%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 3 (12.50%) Project Delivery
6 3 (12.50%) Task Automation
7 2 (8.33%) Agile
7 2 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
7 2 (8.33%) Data Ingestion
7 2 (8.33%) Data Integration
7 2 (8.33%) Data Modelling
7 2 (8.33%) Regulatory Compliance
7 2 (8.33%) Scrum
7 2 (8.33%) Sprint Planning
7 2 (8.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Python
2 2 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (4.17%) PowerShell
3 1 (4.17%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (33.33%) CCNP
3 7 (29.17%) Degree
3 7 (29.17%) SC Cleared
3 7 (29.17%) Security Cleared
4 3 (12.50%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (4.17%) CCIE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.17%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 3 (12.50%) ZABBIX
2 2 (8.33%) Ansible
2 2 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 1 (4.17%) Nagios
Vendors
1 16 (66.67%) Cisco
2 5 (20.83%) Palo Alto
3 3 (12.50%) Meraki
3 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
3 3 (12.50%) SolarWinds
4 2 (8.33%) Fortinet
4 2 (8.33%) Infoblox
4 2 (8.33%) Nokia
4 2 (8.33%) ServiceNow