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 29 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 454 327 256
Rank change year-on-year -127 -71 +127
Contract jobs citing CCNA 141 214 397
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.37% 0.68% 0.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.08% 2.28% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 141 253
10th Percentile £194 £238 £220
25th Percentile £386 £330 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £474 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% +5.88% -5.03%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £550
90th Percentile £588 £600 £673
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £459 £400
% change year-on-year +3.49% +14.75% -5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 37
10th Percentile £23.85 £11.75 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £22.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +80.43% +58.62%
75th Percentile £52.50 £75.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.35 - £52.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.75 £60.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -65.42% +160.87% +58.62%

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 13,071 9,389 13,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.96% 29.83% 30.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,629 5,647 8,330
10th Percentile £317 £300 £296
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £625 £632 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 958 457 900
10th Percentile £15.62 £19.06 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.10 £24.18 £21.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.51% -17.89% +5.56%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.31 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £47.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% -10.53% +5.56%

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 29 January 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 29 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 17 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 29 January 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
England -131 114 £476 +5.83% 140
UK excluding London -95 101 £475 +3.49% 139
London -45 34 £475 +11.76% 23
North of England -77 32 £481 +2.39% 27
Work from Home -29 31 £445 +5.95% 34
North West -36 22 £481 +1.32% 10
South East -42 22 £453 +17.92% 40
Midlands -51 13 £269 -14.00% 19
Scotland 0 10 £450 +12.50% 9
West Midlands -26 10 £371 +76.79% 10
Wales -1 9 £550 +77.42% 4
South West -33 7 £550 - 24
North East -10 6 £550 +46.67% 3
Yorkshire -58 6 £440 -4.86% 15
East of England -9 5 £194 -61.25% 17
Northern Ireland -2 3 £475 - 2
East Midlands -31 3 £121 -70.70% 9

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 16 (11.35%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.51%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.26%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.42%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (6.38%) MS Visio
2 8 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.42%) DELMIA
1 2 (1.42%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.18%) Azure
2 16 (11.35%) AWS
3 12 (8.51%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.26%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.13%) GCP
5 3 (2.13%) Nutanix
5 3 (2.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.42%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.42%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.71%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.71%) IaaS
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.71%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.71%) PaaS
7 1 (0.71%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 88 (62.41%) Firewall
2 39 (27.66%) LAN
2 39 (27.66%) Network Security
3 36 (25.53%) WAN
4 35 (24.82%) VLAN
5 33 (23.40%) VPN
6 22 (15.60%) Wireless
7 21 (14.89%) BGP
8 18 (12.77%) TCP/IP
9 15 (10.64%) DNS
10 14 (9.93%) SD-WAN
11 13 (9.22%) MPLS
11 13 (9.22%) OSPF
11 13 (9.22%) SAN
12 12 (8.51%) IPsec
12 12 (8.51%) Wi-Fi
13 11 (7.80%) DHCP
13 11 (7.80%) Unified Communications
14 8 (5.67%) Modbus
14 8 (5.67%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.71%) MySQL
1 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.55%) JIRA
2 3 (2.13%) Chocolatey
2 3 (2.13%) Git
3 2 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
General
1 44 (31.21%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.40%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.77%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.38%) Documentation Skills
4 9 (6.38%) Legal
4 9 (6.38%) Manufacturing
5 8 (5.67%) Telecoms
6 5 (3.55%) Finance
7 4 (2.84%) Local Government
8 2 (1.42%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.42%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (55.32%) Network Engineer
2 19 (13.48%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 14 (9.93%) Senior
4 13 (9.22%) Field Engineer
5 12 (8.51%) IT Engineer
6 11 (7.80%) Cisco Engineer
6 11 (7.80%) Field Service Engineer
7 10 (7.09%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 10 (7.09%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.67%) Senior Network Engineer
9 6 (4.26%) Design Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Consultant
10 5 (3.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Network Design Engineer
10 5 (3.55%) Wintel Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) Lead
11 4 (2.84%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.84%) Security Engineer
12 3 (2.13%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.55%) XMPP
2 2 (1.42%) JSON
2 2 (1.42%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.42%) XML
2 2 (1.42%) YANG
3 1 (0.71%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.71%) HTML
3 1 (0.71%) OpenConfig
3 1 (0.71%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 48 (34.04%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (7.09%) Operational Technology
4 9 (6.38%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.26%) PKI
6 5 (3.55%) Life Science
7 4 (2.84%) Hybrid Cloud
7 4 (2.84%) IoT
7 4 (2.84%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.84%) SCADA
7 4 (2.84%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.13%) 3D Printing
8 3 (2.13%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (2.13%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.13%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.42%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.42%) Insider Threat
9 2 (1.42%) NHS
9 2 (1.42%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.99%) Windows
2 20 (14.18%) Linux
3 17 (12.06%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.13%) Unix
6 2 (1.42%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (26.24%) Problem-Solving
2 21 (14.89%) Project Delivery
3 17 (12.06%) Computer Science
3 17 (12.06%) Customer Service
3 17 (12.06%) Cybersecurity
3 17 (12.06%) Network Design
4 16 (11.35%) Network Monitoring
5 15 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (10.64%) High Availability
6 13 (9.22%) ITIL
7 12 (8.51%) Change Control
7 12 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 12 (8.51%) ITSM
8 11 (7.80%) Break/Fix
8 11 (7.80%) Migration
8 11 (7.80%) Service Management
9 10 (7.09%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (6.38%) Knowledge Management
10 9 (6.38%) Network Architecture
10 9 (6.38%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 24 (17.02%) PowerShell
2 21 (14.89%) Python
3 16 (11.35%) Bash
4 11 (7.80%) SQL
5 9 (6.38%) Perl
6 3 (2.13%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.71%) C
7 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 141 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 90 (63.83%) CCNP
3 61 (43.26%) Security Cleared
4 46 (32.62%) SC Cleared
5 28 (19.86%) Degree
6 22 (15.60%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (14.18%) Network+ Certification
8 19 (13.48%) MCSE
9 13 (9.22%) DV Cleared
9 13 (9.22%) JNCIS
10 11 (7.80%) A+ Certification
10 11 (7.80%) CCDP
11 6 (4.26%) JNCIA
12 5 (3.55%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (3.55%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (3.55%) Master's Degree
13 4 (2.84%) CCIE
13 4 (2.84%) CISSP
13 4 (2.84%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (2.84%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.13%) NIST
2 3 (2.13%) PMO
3 2 (1.42%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.42%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.42%) QA
4 1 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.71%) JTAG
System Software
1 22 (15.60%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (3.55%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.13%) Docker
4 3 (2.13%) Firmware
5 2 (1.42%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.71%) KVM
6 1 (0.71%) RHEV
6 1 (0.71%) vSphere
6 1 (0.71%) Xen
6 1 (0.71%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (9.22%) FortiGate
2 6 (4.26%) Ansible
2 6 (4.26%) Nagios
2 6 (4.26%) SCCM
2 6 (4.26%) Terraform
3 5 (3.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (3.55%) WSUS
4 4 (2.84%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (2.13%) CSIRT
5 3 (2.13%) Kubernetes
6 1 (0.71%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
6 1 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.71%) Nmap
6 1 (0.71%) Packer
6 1 (0.71%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (68.09%) Cisco
2 35 (24.82%) Palo Alto
3 30 (21.28%) Microsoft
4 20 (14.18%) CheckPoint
4 20 (14.18%) VMware
5 19 (13.48%) SolarWinds
6 16 (11.35%) Fortinet
7 14 (9.93%) Aruba
7 14 (9.93%) Juniper
8 12 (8.51%) Citrix
9 11 (7.80%) Dell
10 9 (6.38%) Red Hat
11 8 (5.67%) F5
12 6 (4.26%) Splunk
12 6 (4.26%) Veeam
13 5 (3.55%) Meraki
14 3 (2.13%) CrowdStrike
14 3 (2.13%) Google
14 3 (2.13%) Infoblox
14 3 (2.13%) ServiceNow