CCNA Contract Job Trends 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 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 90 126
Rank change year-on-year -35 +36 +31
Contract jobs citing CCNA 5 27 22
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.23% 1.14% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.67% 4.09% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 18
10th Percentile £319 £396 £231
25th Percentile £325 £441 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £330 £479 £450
Median % change year-on-year -31.07% +6.39% +65.14%
75th Percentile £345 £550 -
90th Percentile £371 - £525
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +5.88%

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 744 660 846
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 34.19% 27.80% 29.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 470 347 552
10th Percentile £311 £294 £287
25th Percentile £410 £401 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £638 £600 £638
90th Percentile £723 £686 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 58 62
10th Percentile £15.50 £17.68 £16.25
25th Percentile £19.00 £22.71 £20.81
Median hourly rate £27.38 £46.18 £46.03
Median % change year-on-year -40.72% +0.33% +21.13%
75th Percentile £58.58 £57.45 £46.18
90th Percentile £71.19 £81.48 £63.13
England median hourly rate £25.15 £53.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -52.55% +0.95% +16.67%

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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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Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CCNA

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Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing CCNA

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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 October 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 -18 3 £325 - 3
Lancashire - 2 £355 - 3
CCNA
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:

Communications & Networking
1 4 (80.00%) LAN
1 4 (80.00%) WAN
2 3 (60.00%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (40.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (40.00%) Wireless
3 2 (40.00%) WLAN
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (20.00%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (20.00%) Firewall
4 1 (20.00%) MPLS
4 1 (20.00%) Network Security
General
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Network Support
2 1 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support
2 1 (20.00%) Server Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) CMDB
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
1 2 (40.00%) Video Conferencing
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Asset Management
1 2 (40.00%) ITIL
1 2 (40.00%) Network Design
1 2 (40.00%) Performance Metrics
1 2 (40.00%) Problem Management
2 1 (20.00%) BCP
2 1 (20.00%) Break/Fix
2 1 (20.00%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
2 1 (20.00%) Security Management
2 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (60.00%) CCNP
3 2 (40.00%) Degree
4 1 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Ansible
1 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Cisco
2 1 (20.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (20.00%) LogicMonitor
2 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto
2 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds