CCNA Contract Job Trends

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 31 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 447 385 312
Rank change year-on-year -62 -73 -13
Contract jobs citing CCNA 236 182 282
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.55% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.40% 1.77% 2.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 151 118 182
10th Percentile £128 £250 £300
25th Percentile £214 £363 £382
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £401 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.99% -1.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £600
90th Percentile £588 £613 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £475 £495
% change year-on-year -15.79% -4.04% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 15 25
10th Percentile £28.05 - £11.75
25th Percentile £49.00 £29.00 £12.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £24.87
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% +20.63% -26.85%
75th Percentile £66.56 £58.13 £53.75
90th Percentile £67.84 £61.85 £74.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £24.87
% change year-on-year +83.33% +20.63% -25.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,874 10,306 11,483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.40% 31.27% 29.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,276 6,389 7,208
10th Percentile £350 £299 £313
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £626 £621 £638
90th Percentile £716 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £523 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,264 826 732
10th Percentile £17.41 £17.99 £15.11
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £48.72 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +93.72% -47.05% -13.64%
75th Percentile £72.54 £50.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £87.16 £71.98 £76.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +89.03% -49.70% -

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CCNA job vacancy trend in the UK

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend

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

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

CCNA
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNA over the 6 months to 31 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 15 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 31 August 2026. 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
UK excluding London -16 189 £400 -15.79% 58
England -99 175 £431 -13.75% 62
North of England -33 61 £492 +15.65% 11
North West -3 55 £492 +51.24% 4
Scotland +10 37 £338 -25.00% 7
London -82 35 £450 -11.76% 19
Work from Home -54 27 £390 -28.28% 22
South East -78 22 £129 -74.04% 16
South West -28 20 £455 -17.27% 6
East of England -10 19 £158 -71.36% 3
Wales - 17 £363 - 4
Midlands -66 13 £250 -44.44% 10
West Midlands -58 10 £186 -58.61% 5
Yorkshire -52 6 £450 -18.18% 6
East Midlands -17 2 - - 5

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 3 (1.27%) Confluence
1 3 (1.27%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (8.05%) MS Visio
2 11 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 42 (17.80%) Azure
2 28 (11.86%) AWS
3 11 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (2.97%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.54%) Nutanix
6 5 (2.12%) GCP
6 5 (2.12%) GitHub
7 3 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.85%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.85%) PaaS
8 2 (0.85%) SaaS
9 1 (0.42%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.42%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.42%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.42%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.42%) IaaS
9 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 96 (40.68%) Firewall
2 77 (32.63%) WAN
3 68 (28.81%) LAN
4 57 (24.15%) Wireless
5 53 (22.46%) Network Security
6 51 (21.61%) DNS
7 49 (20.76%) VPN
8 46 (19.49%) SAN
9 45 (19.07%) VLAN
10 31 (13.14%) DHCP
11 28 (11.86%) TCP/IP
12 24 (10.17%) SD-WAN
13 23 (9.75%) BGP
14 20 (8.47%) OSPF
15 19 (8.05%) Cisco IOS
16 18 (7.63%) MPLS
17 17 (7.20%) Broadband
18 16 (6.78%) Structured Cabling
18 16 (6.78%) Wi-Fi
19 13 (5.51%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.42%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 7 (2.97%) JIRA
2 4 (1.69%) Git
3 1 (0.42%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 68 (28.81%) Social Skills
2 56 (23.73%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (19.92%) Telecoms
4 16 (6.78%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (6.36%) Finance
6 13 (5.51%) Public Sector
7 8 (3.39%) Banking
8 5 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Aviation
9 3 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.27%) Local Government
9 3 (1.27%) Military
10 2 (0.85%) French Language
10 2 (0.85%) Law
10 2 (0.85%) Manufacturing
10 2 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.42%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.42%) Electronics
11 1 (0.42%) Games
11 1 (0.42%) Legal
Job Titles
1 93 (39.41%) Network Engineer
2 43 (18.22%) Field Engineer
3 36 (15.25%) IT Engineer
4 35 (14.83%) Field Service Engineer
5 16 (6.78%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 14 (5.93%) Architect
6 14 (5.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (5.51%) Project Engineer
7 13 (5.51%) Support Engineer
7 13 (5.51%) Technical Support
8 12 (5.08%) Support Specialist
8 12 (5.08%) Technical Specialist
8 12 (5.08%) Technical Support Specialist
9 11 (4.66%) Analyst
10 10 (4.24%) Cisco Engineer
10 10 (4.24%) Senior
11 9 (3.81%) Field Support Engineer
11 9 (3.81%) IT Support
11 9 (3.81%) IT Support Engineer
12 8 (3.39%) Telecoms Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.93%) Terraform
2 13 (5.51%) ONVIF
3 8 (3.39%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.27%) REST
5 2 (0.85%) RFC 2544
6 1 (0.42%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.42%) HTML
6 1 (0.42%) JSON
6 1 (0.42%) ModSecurity
6 1 (0.42%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 73 (30.93%) Data Centre
2 42 (17.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 17 (7.20%) Driving Licence
4 13 (5.51%) Video\Live Streaming
5 11 (4.66%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.39%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.54%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.12%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
9 4 (1.69%) Hybrid Cloud
9 4 (1.69%) PKI
9 4 (1.69%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
10 3 (1.27%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.27%) Virtual Team
11 2 (0.85%) CMDB
11 2 (0.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.85%) IoT
11 2 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
12 1 (0.42%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 47 (19.92%) Windows
2 20 (8.47%) Linux
3 11 (4.66%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.42%) Unix
5 1 (0.42%) VMS
5 1 (0.42%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (28.39%) Problem-Solving
2 43 (18.22%) Customer Service
3 40 (16.95%) Project Delivery
4 34 (14.41%) Break/Fix
5 32 (13.56%) ITIL
6 27 (11.44%) High Availability
6 27 (11.44%) Migration
7 25 (10.59%) ITSM
8 24 (10.17%) Agile
9 22 (9.32%) Change Management
10 20 (8.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (8.47%) Validation
11 19 (8.05%) Cybersecurity
12 18 (7.63%) Continuous Improvement
12 18 (7.63%) Network Segmentation
12 18 (7.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 17 (7.20%) Incident Management
13 17 (7.20%) Load Balancing
14 16 (6.78%) Network Monitoring
15 15 (6.36%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.63%) Python
2 10 (4.24%) Bash
2 10 (4.24%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.42%) Bicep
3 1 (0.42%) C
3 1 (0.42%) Java
3 1 (0.42%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.42%) SQL
3 1 (0.42%) VB
Qualifications
1 236 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 92 (38.98%) CCNP
3 72 (30.51%) Security Cleared
4 59 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 59 (25.00%) SC Cleared
5 54 (22.88%) Network+ Certification
6 49 (20.76%) A+ Certification
7 45 (19.07%) MCSE
8 41 (17.37%) Degree
9 13 (5.51%) MCSA
10 12 (5.08%) DV Cleared
11 11 (4.66%) Server+ Certification
12 7 (2.97%) BPSS Clearance
13 5 (2.12%) CCIE
13 5 (2.12%) JNCIA
13 5 (2.12%) PMI Certification
13 5 (2.12%) PMP
14 4 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (1.69%) RHCA
14 4 (1.69%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (3.39%) SLA
2 6 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.69%) QA
4 3 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.27%) JSP 440
4 3 (1.27%) NIST
4 3 (1.27%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.85%) NCSC
6 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.42%) GDPR
System Software
1 19 (8.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (7.20%) Active Directory
3 14 (5.93%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.39%) Docker
4 8 (3.39%) Firmware
5 5 (2.12%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.27%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.42%) NDS
7 1 (0.42%) NetIQ eDirectory
7 1 (0.42%) Snort
7 1 (0.42%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.42%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (6.36%) Ansible
2 14 (5.93%) Kubernetes
3 9 (3.81%) FortiGate
4 6 (2.54%) Cisco Prime
5 5 (2.12%) Nagios
6 4 (1.69%) OPNET
6 4 (1.69%) Podman
6 4 (1.69%) Proxmox
7 3 (1.27%) Packer
7 3 (1.27%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.42%) Amdocs OSS
8 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.42%) Suricata
8 1 (0.42%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 134 (56.78%) Cisco
2 49 (20.76%) Microsoft
3 36 (15.25%) Dell
4 27 (11.44%) VMware
5 25 (10.59%) Palo Alto
6 20 (8.47%) ServiceNow
7 16 (6.78%) Juniper
7 16 (6.78%) Meraki
7 16 (6.78%) Nokia
8 12 (5.08%) SolarWinds
9 11 (4.66%) Infoblox
10 10 (4.24%) Aruba
10 10 (4.24%) Fortinet
11 8 (3.39%) ForeScout
12 6 (2.54%) F5
12 6 (2.54%) Oracle
13 4 (1.69%) Atlassian
13 4 (1.69%) Splunk
14 3 (1.27%) Broadcom
14 3 (1.27%) NetScout