CCNA Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 187 153
Rank change year-on-year -103 -34 +92
Contract jobs citing CCNA 103 174 304
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.57% 1.16% 1.55%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.54% 3.36% 4.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 107 187
10th Percentile £306 £271 £231
25th Percentile £413 £369 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £405
Median % change year-on-year - +17.28% +10.96%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £541
90th Percentile £575 £638 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £465 £428
% change year-on-year +2.15% +8.77% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 18 33
10th Percentile - £11.75 £14.00
25th Percentile £20.75 £22.56 £14.25
Median hourly rate £30.00 £51.25 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +122.83% +58.62%
75th Percentile £31.00 £75.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £46.90 - £56.00
UK median hourly rate £34.75 £50.00 £24.75
% change year-on-year -30.50% +102.02% +70.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 6,703 5,175 7,220
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.91% 34.51% 36.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,161 3,107 4,389
10th Percentile £250 £231 £250
25th Percentile £405 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -4.65% +2.38%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £700 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 868 398 611
10th Percentile £16.17 £19.77 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.18 £27.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.59 £51.90
Median % change year-on-year -44.83% -12.16% +16.11%
75th Percentile £49.06 £67.25 £67.50
90th Percentile £73.90 £75.00 £79.78
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -23.81% +16.67%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

CCNA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCNA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCNA

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCNA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCNA

CCNA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 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
South East -52 27 £450 -10.00% 40
North of England -71 26 £550 +18.92% 35
Midlands -35 15 £450 +20.00% 20
North West -40 14 £550 +15.79% 21
Scotland +2 12 £450 +12.50% 5
West Midlands -23 12 £450 +40.63% 15
Yorkshire -49 11 £525 +28.83% 13
Wales +5 8 £550 +57.14% 8
South West -31 7 £550 - 7
East of England -16 6 - - 11
North East -4 3 £550 +29.41% 2
Northern Ireland -7 3 £475 -
East Midlands -22 3 £121 -67.77% 5
CCNA
UK

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 12 (11.65%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (10.68%) SharePoint
3 6 (5.83%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (8.74%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.85%) MS Visio
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.68%) AWS
2 10 (9.71%) Azure
3 8 (7.77%) Entra ID
4 3 (2.91%) GCP
5 2 (1.94%) AWS IoT
6 1 (0.97%) Azure Stack
6 1 (0.97%) IaaS
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.97%) PaaS
6 1 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 48 (46.60%) Firewall
2 28 (27.18%) LAN
3 21 (20.39%) WAN
4 19 (18.45%) Network Security
5 17 (16.50%) VPN
6 16 (15.53%) VLAN
7 15 (14.56%) BGP
8 14 (13.59%) Wireless
9 12 (11.65%) DHCP
9 12 (11.65%) DNS
9 12 (11.65%) SD-WAN
9 12 (11.65%) TCP/IP
10 11 (10.68%) MPLS
11 10 (9.71%) Unified Communications
12 9 (8.74%) Cisco IOS
12 9 (8.74%) IPsec
13 8 (7.77%) OSPF
14 7 (6.80%) SAN
14 7 (6.80%) Wi-Fi
15 6 (5.83%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 1 (0.97%) GitLab
1 1 (0.97%) Jenkins
General
1 30 (29.13%) Social Skills
2 26 (25.24%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (18.45%) Public Sector
4 7 (6.80%) Legal
4 7 (6.80%) Manufacturing
4 7 (6.80%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (1.94%) Aerospace
6 2 (1.94%) Finance
7 1 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.97%) Local Government
7 1 (0.97%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 57 (55.34%) Network Engineer
2 12 (11.65%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 9 (8.74%) Field Engineer
3 9 (8.74%) Platform Engineer
4 8 (7.77%) IT Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) Field Service Engineer
5 7 (6.80%) Senior
6 6 (5.83%) Lead
6 6 (5.83%) Senior Network Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Analyst
7 5 (4.85%) Cisco Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Design Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 5 (4.85%) Wintel Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Network Design Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Network Support
8 4 (3.88%) Network Support Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Support Engineer
8 4 (3.88%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (4.85%) XMPP
2 3 (2.91%) CSS
2 3 (2.91%) HTML
3 1 (0.97%) Node.js
3 1 (0.97%) ODBC
3 1 (0.97%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 23 (22.33%) Data Centre
2 8 (7.77%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (6.80%) Driving Licence
4 6 (5.83%) Hybrid Cloud
4 6 (5.83%) PKI
5 5 (4.85%) CCTV
5 5 (4.85%) Virtual Team
6 4 (3.88%) Operational Technology
7 3 (2.91%) 3D Printing
7 3 (2.91%) IoT
8 2 (1.94%) Fibre Optics
8 2 (1.94%) Onboarding
8 2 (1.94%) SCADA
9 1 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.97%) Educational Technology
9 1 (0.97%) Life Science
9 1 (0.97%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.97%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 20 (19.42%) Windows
2 16 (15.53%) Windows Server
3 13 (12.62%) Linux
4 8 (7.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.91%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (28.16%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (14.56%) Computer Science
2 15 (14.56%) Project Delivery
3 12 (11.65%) Cybersecurity
3 12 (11.65%) Service Management
4 11 (10.68%) Change Control
4 11 (10.68%) Continuous Improvement
5 10 (9.71%) Customer Service
5 10 (9.71%) ITSM
6 9 (8.74%) Network Design
6 9 (8.74%) Network Monitoring
6 9 (8.74%) Platform Engineering
6 9 (8.74%) Service Delivery
7 8 (7.77%) Break/Fix
7 8 (7.77%) ITIL
7 8 (7.77%) Knowledge Management
8 7 (6.80%) High Availability
8 7 (6.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 7 (6.80%) Network Management
9 6 (5.83%) Critical Thinking
Programming Languages
1 14 (13.59%) PowerShell
1 14 (13.59%) Python
2 10 (9.71%) Bash
3 8 (7.77%) Perl
4 6 (5.83%) SQL
5 3 (2.91%) Java
5 3 (2.91%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.91%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 103 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 60 (58.25%) CCNP
3 47 (45.63%) Security Cleared
4 37 (35.92%) SC Cleared
5 23 (22.33%) Degree
6 17 (16.50%) Network+ Certification
7 16 (15.53%) Microsoft Certification
8 15 (14.56%) MCSE
9 12 (11.65%) CCDP
10 8 (7.77%) DV Cleared
11 7 (6.80%) A+ Certification
11 7 (6.80%) Computer Science Degree
12 6 (5.83%) JNCIS
13 5 (4.85%) ITIL Certification
13 5 (4.85%) Master's Degree
14 4 (3.88%) JNCIA
15 3 (2.91%) CCDA
15 3 (2.91%) CCIE
15 3 (2.91%) CCIE Collaboration
16 2 (1.94%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.94%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (0.97%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.97%) NIST
3 1 (0.97%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.97%) PMO
3 1 (0.97%) QA
3 1 (0.97%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (15.53%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.85%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (4.85%) Virtual Servers
4 2 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.97%) Docker
5 1 (0.97%) Firmware
5 1 (0.97%) KVM
5 1 (0.97%) RHEV
5 1 (0.97%) vSphere
5 1 (0.97%) Xen
Systems Management
1 6 (5.83%) SCCM
2 5 (4.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 5 (4.85%) WSUS
3 4 (3.88%) Grafana
4 3 (2.91%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.94%) Ansible
5 2 (1.94%) Nagios
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.97%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.97%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.97%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.97%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.97%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.97%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 74 (71.84%) Cisco
2 21 (20.39%) Microsoft
3 17 (16.50%) VMware
4 15 (14.56%) Palo Alto
5 14 (13.59%) CheckPoint
6 12 (11.65%) SolarWinds
7 10 (9.71%) Juniper
8 9 (8.74%) Aruba
9 8 (7.77%) Citrix
9 8 (7.77%) Red Hat
10 7 (6.80%) Dell
10 7 (6.80%) Fortinet
10 7 (6.80%) Splunk
11 6 (5.83%) Veeam
12 5 (4.85%) ServiceNow
13 4 (3.88%) F5
14 3 (2.91%) Oracle
14 3 (2.91%) Remedy
15 2 (1.94%) Meraki
15 2 (1.94%) Peregrine