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 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 475 409 308
Rank change year-on-year -66 -101 -45
Contract jobs citing CCNA 213 150 269
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.46% 0.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.24% 1.45% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 132 96 164
10th Percentile £128 £231 £300
25th Percentile £212 £325 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £536 £575 £602
90th Percentile £594 £594 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £369 £450 £495
% change year-on-year -18.06% -9.09% +13.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 22
10th Percentile £29.00 - £11.75
25th Percentile £51.25 £29.00 £12.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -20.00% +10.29%
75th Percentile £67.84 £58.13 £54.69
90th Percentile £68.75 £61.85 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.63 £30.00 £29.95
% change year-on-year +88.75% +0.17% -10.44%

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 17,194 10,338 11,265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.60% 31.37% 29.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,450 6,458 6,928
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £440 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £630 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £711 £729
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,354 838 653
10th Percentile £17.17 £17.87 £17.00
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £24.18
Median hourly rate £48.72 £25.15 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.72% -48.67% -9.26%
75th Percentile £72.54 £45.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.00 £71.00 £76.08
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £52.50
% change year-on-year +89.03% -52.10% +1.17%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 -48 170 £369 -18.06% 252
England -78 156 £420 -6.67% 274
North of England -35 50 £525 +23.53% 52
North West -11 45 £525 +59.09% 21
Scotland +4 36 £338 -25.00% 20
London -79 32 £450 -18.18% 75
Work from Home -64 27 £380 -24.00% 52
East of England -19 21 £155 -70.19% 36
South East -66 19 £129 -71.44% 51
South West -24 18 £470 -14.55% 39
Wales - 14 £363 - 13
Midlands -62 12 £186 -58.61% 30
West Midlands -57 10 £186 -58.61% 23
Yorkshire -45 5 £500 -9.09% 20
East Midlands -18 2 - - 7

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 (1.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (0.94%) Confluence
2 2 (0.94%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (8.92%) MS Visio
2 11 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 31 (14.55%) Azure
2 16 (7.51%) AWS
3 10 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
4 7 (3.29%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.35%) GitHub
5 5 (2.35%) Nutanix
6 4 (1.88%) GCP
7 3 (1.41%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.94%) OpenShift
8 2 (0.94%) PaaS
8 2 (0.94%) SaaS
9 1 (0.47%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (0.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.47%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.47%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.47%) IaaS
9 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 90 (42.25%) Firewall
2 73 (34.27%) WAN
3 65 (30.52%) LAN
4 55 (25.82%) Wireless
5 49 (23.00%) Network Security
6 45 (21.13%) DNS
7 42 (19.72%) VPN
8 41 (19.25%) VLAN
9 40 (18.78%) SAN
10 31 (14.55%) DHCP
11 28 (13.15%) TCP/IP
12 23 (10.80%) BGP
13 22 (10.33%) SD-WAN
14 20 (9.39%) OSPF
15 19 (8.92%) Cisco IOS
16 18 (8.45%) MPLS
17 17 (7.98%) Broadband
18 16 (7.51%) Structured Cabling
19 15 (7.04%) Wi-Fi
20 13 (6.10%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.47%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 6 (2.82%) JIRA
2 4 (1.88%) Git
3 1 (0.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 66 (30.99%) Social Skills
2 50 (23.47%) Analytical Skills
3 47 (22.07%) Telecoms
4 16 (7.51%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (6.10%) Finance
6 11 (5.16%) Public Sector
7 5 (2.35%) Banking
7 5 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.41%) Aviation
8 3 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.41%) Local Government
8 3 (1.41%) Military
9 2 (0.94%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.94%) French Language
9 2 (0.94%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Electronics
10 1 (0.47%) Games
10 1 (0.47%) Law
10 1 (0.47%) Legal
Job Titles
1 87 (40.85%) Network Engineer
2 37 (17.37%) Field Engineer
3 30 (14.08%) IT Engineer
4 29 (13.62%) Field Service Engineer
5 16 (7.51%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 14 (6.57%) Architect
6 14 (6.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 13 (6.10%) Project Engineer
7 13 (6.10%) Technical Support
8 12 (5.63%) Support Specialist
8 12 (5.63%) Technical Specialist
8 12 (5.63%) Technical Support Specialist
9 10 (4.69%) Cisco Engineer
9 10 (4.69%) Support Engineer
10 9 (4.23%) Senior
11 8 (3.76%) Telecoms Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Analyst
12 7 (3.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) Field Support Engineer
12 7 (3.29%) IT Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.10%) ONVIF
2 11 (5.16%) Terraform
3 6 (2.82%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.94%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.94%) REST
4 2 (0.94%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.47%) HTML
5 1 (0.47%) JSON
5 1 (0.47%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 67 (31.46%) Data Centre
2 36 (16.90%) Analytical Mindset
3 17 (7.98%) Driving Licence
4 13 (6.10%) Video\Live Streaming
5 10 (4.69%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.29%) Operational Technology
7 6 (2.82%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
9 4 (1.88%) PKI
9 4 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.88%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.41%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.41%) Public Cloud
11 2 (0.94%) CMDB
11 2 (0.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (0.94%) IoT
11 2 (0.94%) Video Conferencing
12 1 (0.47%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 45 (21.13%) Windows
2 21 (9.86%) Linux
3 12 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.94%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.47%) Unix
6 1 (0.47%) VMS
6 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (28.17%) Problem-Solving
2 37 (17.37%) Customer Service
3 35 (16.43%) Project Delivery
4 31 (14.55%) ITIL
5 28 (13.15%) Break/Fix
6 25 (11.74%) ITSM
7 24 (11.27%) Migration
8 22 (10.33%) High Availability
9 19 (8.92%) Agile
9 19 (8.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (8.92%) Load Balancing
10 17 (7.98%) Change Management
10 17 (7.98%) Cybersecurity
11 16 (7.51%) Incident Management
11 16 (7.51%) Network Monitoring
11 16 (7.51%) Network Segmentation
11 16 (7.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 15 (7.04%) Validation
13 14 (6.57%) Service Management
13 14 (6.57%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (7.04%) Python
2 9 (4.23%) Bash
2 9 (4.23%) PowerShell
3 1 (0.47%) Bicep
3 1 (0.47%) C
3 1 (0.47%) Java
3 1 (0.47%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.47%) SQL
3 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 213 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 85 (39.91%) CCNP
3 71 (33.33%) Security Cleared
4 57 (26.76%) SC Cleared
5 53 (24.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 48 (22.54%) Network+ Certification
7 43 (20.19%) A+ Certification
8 39 (18.31%) Degree
8 39 (18.31%) MCSE
9 13 (6.10%) MCSA
10 11 (5.16%) DV Cleared
10 11 (5.16%) Server+ Certification
11 5 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
11 5 (2.35%) PMI Certification
11 5 (2.35%) PMP
12 4 (1.88%) CCIE
12 4 (1.88%) CompTIA Security+
12 4 (1.88%) ITIL Certification
12 4 (1.88%) RHCA
12 4 (1.88%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.76%) SLA
2 6 (2.82%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 4 (1.88%) QA
5 3 (1.41%) Disclosure Scotland
5 3 (1.41%) JSP 440
5 3 (1.41%) NIST
5 3 (1.41%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.47%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.47%) NCSC
System Software
1 21 (9.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 20 (9.39%) Active Directory
3 14 (6.57%) Hyper-V
4 7 (3.29%) Docker
4 7 (3.29%) Firmware
5 5 (2.35%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.88%) vSphere
7 3 (1.41%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.47%) NDS
8 1 (0.47%) NetIQ eDirectory
8 1 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.47%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 15 (7.04%) Ansible
2 13 (6.10%) Kubernetes
3 8 (3.76%) FortiGate
3 8 (3.76%) Nagios
4 6 (2.82%) Cisco Prime
5 4 (1.88%) OPNET
5 4 (1.88%) Podman
5 4 (1.88%) Proxmox
6 3 (1.41%) Packer
6 3 (1.41%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.47%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.47%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 131 (61.50%) Cisco
2 45 (21.13%) Microsoft
3 31 (14.55%) Dell
4 30 (14.08%) VMware
5 21 (9.86%) Palo Alto
5 21 (9.86%) ServiceNow
6 16 (7.51%) Meraki
6 16 (7.51%) Nokia
7 14 (6.57%) SolarWinds
8 12 (5.63%) Juniper
9 9 (4.23%) ForeScout
10 7 (3.29%) Aruba
10 7 (3.29%) F5
10 7 (3.29%) Fortinet
10 7 (3.29%) Infoblox
11 6 (2.82%) Oracle
12 4 (1.88%) Atlassian
12 4 (1.88%) Splunk
13 3 (1.41%) Broadcom
13 3 (1.41%) NetScout