CCNA Contract Job Trends in the South West

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
England > South West

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

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 108 107
Rank change year-on-year -8 -1 +40
Contract jobs citing CCNA 7 26 45
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.33% 1.08% 1.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.59% 2.16% 2.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 15 28
10th Percentile £475 £395 £307
25th Percentile £525 £469 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +18.92%
75th Percentile £575 £619 £700
90th Percentile - £725 £758
England median daily rate £516 £475 £450
% change year-on-year +8.68% +5.56% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 7 10
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £46.25
Median hourly rate - £72.50 £48.75
Median % change year-on-year - +48.72% -25.34%
75th Percentile - £75.00 £50.00
90th Percentile - - £59.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -14.29% +40.00% +77.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,189 1,201 1,747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 55.85% 50.00% 56.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 745 1,101
10th Percentile £225 £353 £386
25th Percentile £425 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
75th Percentile £650 £672 £675
90th Percentile £748 £750 £725
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 164 70 181
10th Percentile £18.22 £30.00 £33.00
25th Percentile £22.63 £55.00 £50.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £65.50 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year -61.60% +4.80% -3.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £73.44 £78.00
90th Percentile £73.38 £75.00 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.19 £52.50
% change year-on-year -51.81% -0.59% +16.67%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

CCNA job vacancy trend in the South West

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Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 6 November 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
Bristol -4 6 £550 - 4
Somerset - 1 - - 2
CCNA
England

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (71.43%) SharePoint
1 5 (71.43%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 6 (85.71%) DHCP
1 6 (85.71%) DNS
2 5 (71.43%) Skype
2 5 (71.43%) Unified Communications
3 2 (28.57%) WAN
4 1 (14.29%) BGP
4 1 (14.29%) Ethernet VPN
4 1 (14.29%) Firewall
4 1 (14.29%) LAN
4 1 (14.29%) OSPF
4 1 (14.29%) SAN
4 1 (14.29%) TCP/IP
4 1 (14.29%) VXLAN
4 1 (14.29%) Wireless
General
1 5 (71.43%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (71.43%) Public Sector
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Wintel Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Network Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) PKI
2 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (85.71%) Windows
1 6 (85.71%) Windows Server
2 1 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (14.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Computer Science
1 5 (71.43%) Critical Thinking
1 5 (71.43%) ITIL
1 5 (71.43%) Service Management
1 5 (71.43%) System Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Customer Requirements
2 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 1 (14.29%) Load Balancing
2 1 (14.29%) Network Design
2 1 (14.29%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (14.29%) Performance Monitoring
2 1 (14.29%) Technology Transformation
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) PowerShell
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) CCNP
1 7 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (85.71%) Security Cleared
3 5 (71.43%) Degree
3 5 (71.43%) ITIL Certification
3 5 (71.43%) Master's Degree
3 5 (71.43%) MCSE
3 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Certification
3 5 (71.43%) SC Cleared
4 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (71.43%) Active Directory
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
1 5 (71.43%) Virtual Servers
1 5 (71.43%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (14.29%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 5 (71.43%) SCCM
1 5 (71.43%) WSUS
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Cisco
1 6 (85.71%) VMware
2 5 (71.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (71.43%) SolarWinds
2 5 (71.43%) Splunk
2 5 (71.43%) Veeam
3 1 (14.29%) Juniper