CCNA Contract Job Trends in Reading

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
Berkshire > Reading

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

6 months to
6 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 73 84
Rank change year-on-year +11 +11 +16
Contract jobs citing CCNA 4 16 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 0.68% 1.45% 0.35%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.31% 3.38% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 1
10th Percentile £215 £567 -
25th Percentile £238 £603 £268
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £605 £285
Median % change year-on-year -52.48% +112.28% -30.49%
75th Percentile £403 £608 £303
90th Percentile £544 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £605 £388
% change year-on-year -13.22% +56.13% -4.91%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 173 473 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 29.37% 42.96% 35.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 254 260
10th Percentile £354 £409 £279
25th Percentile £450 £564 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £605 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £663 £688 £625
90th Percentile £700 £765 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £510 £598 £524
% change year-on-year -14.72% +14.18% +4.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 36 13
10th Percentile £39.73 £50.95 £57.75
25th Percentile £59.19 £60.95 £63.14
Median hourly rate £70.00 £72.33 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% +6.76% -
75th Percentile - £90.00 £75.00
90th Percentile - £100.00 £76.64
Berkshire median hourly rate £54.49 £63.15 £63.84
% change year-on-year -13.72% -1.08% +203.63%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in Reading

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CCNA

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in Reading over the 6 months to 6 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in Reading

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing CCNA

CCNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 4 (100.00%) Firewall
2 2 (50.00%) LAN
2 2 (50.00%) WAN
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security
3 1 (25.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
General
1 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Network Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Network Support
3 1 (25.00%) Network Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Quality Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Security Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (50.00%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (25.00%) Clustering
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Case Management
1 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 2 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
1 2 (50.00%) Network Design
1 2 (50.00%) Service Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
2 1 (25.00%) DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) Ethical Hacking
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (25.00%) Security Architecture
2 1 (25.00%) SIEM
2 1 (25.00%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bash
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 4 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 3 (75.00%) CCNP
2 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (25.00%) CEH
3 1 (25.00%) CISSP
3 1 (25.00%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (25.00%) JNCIP
3 1 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker
1 1 (25.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Ansible
1 1 (25.00%) Failover Clustering
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Cisco
2 1 (25.00%) FireEye
2 1 (25.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (25.00%) Tanium