CCNA Contracts

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 3 months to 27 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA) UK
Location	3 months to 27 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	296	218	236
Rank change year-on-year	-78	+18
Contract jobs citing CCNA	369	611	529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.78%	1.13%	0.96%
As % of the Qualifications category	4.08%	5.17%	5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted	243	348	319
Median daily rate	£348	£338	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+2.96%	+3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£180	£200	£188
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£500	£500	£451
UK excluding London median daily rate	£325	£325	£325
Number of hourly rates quoted	27	47	30
Median hourly rate	£25.00	£34.70	£22.88
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-27.95%	+51.69%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.40	£18.17	£9.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£45.00	£55.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£20.00	£34.70	£18.75
% change year-on-year	-42.36%	+85.06%

CCNA is in the academic qualifications and professional certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in contract job vacancies.

Academic & Professional Certification UK
Contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	9042	11823	10443
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	19.19%	21.90%	18.93%
Number of daily rates quoted	5400	7392	6106
Median daily rate	£425	£400	£390
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+2.56%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£250	£250	£241
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£575	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	490	454	538
Median hourly rate	£32.00	£28.50	£24.23
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+12.28%	+17.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.50	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£47.85	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.50	£24.12
% change year-on-year	+14.03%	+18.15%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend

The job posting trend of jobs advertised citing CCNA as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Qualifications category.

CCNA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing CCNA.

Contractor daily rate trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing CCNA over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA.

Contractor hourly rate trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Contractor Hourly Rate Histogram

The hourly rate distribution of IT jobs citing CCNA over the 3 months to 27 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 30 Contract 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 3 months to 27 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
England	-73	324	£375	+11.11%	130
London	-62	102	£381	+8.92%	33
South East	-14	93	£380	+4.25%	23
Berkshire	+12	28	£500	+48.14%	3
West Midlands	+10	27	£388	+19.23%	15
Hampshire	-14	26	£353	-6.00%	8
South West	-19	25	£406	+20.37%	12
Wales	+9	21	£180	-44.61%
North West	0	21	£325	+11.11%	13
South Wales	+11	20	£180	-44.61%
City of London	-1	19	£425	+13.33%	10
Yorkshire	+8	18	£425	+18.05%	5
Scotland	+1	17	£220	-28.80%	2
Cardiff	+11	16	£180	-44.61%
East of England	-31	16	£278	-	19
Wiltshire	+6	15	£478	+46.92%	2
Bracknell	+15	12	£300	-5.88%
Kent	+8	12	£375	+72.41%	2
Manchester	+11	11	£281	+40.25%	6
Southampton	0	11	£353	-6.00%	2
East Midlands	-1	11	£180	-40.09%	6
West Yorkshire	+6	10	£425	+8.97%	4
Cambridgeshire	+2	9	£209	-49.45%	1
Edinburgh	+21	8	£220	-	1
Cheshire	+11	8	£328	+0.76%	3
Birmingham	+6	8	£388	+19.23%	3
Glasgow	+6	8	£225	-35.71%	1
Oxfordshire	-9	8	£250	-21.56%	3
Surrey	+4	7	£380	-	1
Windsor	+1	7	£575	+15.00%

CCNA
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 27 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing CCNA also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads with a requirement for CCNA.

1	774 (100.00%)	Cisco Certification
2	592 (76.49%)	Cisco
3	364 (47.03%)	CCNP
4	353 (45.61%)	Firewall
5	252 (32.56%)	WAN
6	239 (30.88%)	LAN
7	188 (24.29%)	ITIL
8	168 (21.71%)	Windows
9	157 (20.28%)	Wireless
10	153 (19.77%)	Security Cleared
11	143 (18.48%)	VMware
12	132 (17.05%)	Microsoft
13	123 (15.89%)	VPN
14	120 (15.50%)	Data Centre
15	114 (14.73%)	CheckPoint

16	113 (14.60%)	Active Directory
17	110 (14.21%)	Juniper
18	109 (14.08%)	Cisco ASA
19	106 (13.70%)	Microsoft Certification
19	106 (13.70%)	SC Cleared
19	106 (13.70%)	Cisco Nexus
20	103 (13.31%)	TCP/IP
21	101 (13.05%)	OSPF
21	101 (13.05%)	BGP
21	101 (13.05%)	Windows Server
22	95 (12.27%)	DNS
23	90 (11.63%)	MPLS
24	89 (11.50%)	VoIP
25	87 (11.24%)	Migration
26	82 (10.59%)	Network Security

CCNA
Co-occurring IT Skills by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	63 (8.14%)	MS Exchange
2	18 (2.33%)	IIS
3	17 (2.20%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	12 (1.55%)	Skype for Business
5	10 (1.29%)	Exchange Server 2013
6	7 (0.90%)	Exchange Server 2007
6	7 (0.90%)	SharePoint
7	5 (0.65%)	Tomcat
8	3 (0.39%)	Apache
9	2 (0.26%)	CMS
9	2 (0.26%)	Confluence
9	2 (0.26%)	JBoss
9	2 (0.26%)	SharePoint 2013
10	1 (0.13%)	CloudStack
10	1 (0.13%)	IBM Notes
10	1 (0.13%)	OpenStack
10	1 (0.13%)	SharePoint 2010
10	1 (0.13%)	SharePoint Server
10	1 (0.13%)	WebSphere

Applications
1	18 (2.33%)	Microsoft Excel
1	18 (2.33%)	MS Visio
2	17 (2.20%)	Microsoft Office
3	5 (0.65%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	4 (0.52%)	SAP Oil and Gas
2	2 (0.26%)	Dynamics CRM
2	2 (0.26%)	Remedy ITSM
3	1 (0.13%)	CA PPM
3	1 (0.13%)	SAP ERP

Cloud Services
1	37 (4.78%)	Office 365
2	32 (4.13%)	Microsoft Azure
3	26 (3.36%)	Amazon AWS
4	5 (0.65%)	IaaS
5	4 (0.52%)	PaaS
5	4 (0.52%)	SaaS
5	4 (0.52%)	Virtual Private Cloud
6	2 (0.26%)	Amazon S3
7	1 (0.13%)	Amazon CloudWatch
7	1 (0.13%)	Amazon EC2
7	1 (0.13%)	AWS CloudFormation
7	1 (0.13%)	AWS CloudTrail
7	1 (0.13%)	Azure Active Directory
7	1 (0.13%)	CloudFront
7	1 (0.13%)	G Suite
7	1 (0.13%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	353 (45.61%)	Firewall
2	252 (32.56%)	WAN
3	239 (30.88%)	LAN
4	157 (20.28%)	Wireless
5	123 (15.89%)	VPN
6	109 (14.08%)	Cisco ASA
7	106 (13.70%)	Cisco Nexus
8	103 (13.31%)	TCP/IP
9	101 (13.05%)	BGP
9	101 (13.05%)	OSPF
10	95 (12.27%)	DNS
11	90 (11.63%)	MPLS
12	89 (11.50%)	VoIP
13	82 (10.59%)	Network Security
14	81 (10.47%)	VLAN
15	74 (9.56%)	DHCP
16	51 (6.59%)	Internet
17	49 (6.33%)	EIGRP
18	47 (6.07%)	Ethernet
19	45 (5.81%)	SAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	31 (4.01%)	SQL Server
2	12 (1.55%)	SQL Server 2012
3	8 (1.03%)	SQL Server 2005
4	7 (0.90%)	Big Data
4	7 (0.90%)	SQL Server 2008
5	6 (0.78%)	Hadoop
5	6 (0.78%)	SQL Server 2016
6	5 (0.65%)	Relational Database
7	3 (0.39%)	Apache Cassandra
7	3 (0.39%)	MongoDB
7	3 (0.39%)	MySQL
7	3 (0.39%)	NoSQL
7	3 (0.39%)	PostgreSQL
8	2 (0.26%)	Amazon RDS
8	2 (0.26%)	Data Mining
8	2 (0.26%)	MS Access
8	2 (0.26%)	RDBMS
8	2 (0.26%)	Redis
9	1 (0.13%)	Data Warehouse
9	1 (0.13%)	QlikView

Development Applications
1	8 (1.03%)	VSS/SourceSafe
2	4 (0.52%)	Sonatype Nexus
3	2 (0.26%)	CruiseControl
3	2 (0.26%)	Git (software)
3	2 (0.26%)	JIRA
3	2 (0.26%)	Rational DOORS
3	2 (0.26%)	StarTeam
3	2 (0.26%)	Team Foundation Server
3	2 (0.26%)	TeamCity
3	2 (0.26%)	Visual Studio Team System
4	1 (0.13%)	Subversion

General
1	68 (8.79%)	Telecoms
2	62 (8.01%)	Finance
3	35 (4.52%)	Banking
4	11 (1.42%)	Manufacturing
4	11 (1.42%)	Retail
5	10 (1.29%)	Investment Banking
6	6 (0.78%)	Electronics
7	4 (0.52%)	Local Government
7	4 (0.52%)	Marketing
8	3 (0.39%)	Back Office
8	3 (0.39%)	French Language
8	3 (0.39%)	Pharmaceutical
9	2 (0.26%)	Advertising
9	2 (0.26%)	Automotive
9	2 (0.26%)	Billing
9	2 (0.26%)	Law
10	1 (0.13%)	Financial Institution
10	1 (0.13%)	Games
10	1 (0.13%)	Legal
10	1 (0.13%)	Publishing

Job Titles
1	314 (40.57%)	Network Engineer
2	108 (13.95%)	Cisco Engineer
3	89 (11.50%)	Cisco Network Engineer
4	73 (9.43%)	Support Engineer
5	71 (9.17%)	Analyst
6	39 (5.04%)	Network Support
7	38 (4.91%)	Architect
8	36 (4.65%)	Technical Support
9	34 (4.39%)	Infrastructure Engineer
9	34 (4.39%)	Senior Network Engineer
10	33 (4.26%)	Consultant
10	33 (4.26%)	Network Analyst
11	32 (4.13%)	2nd Line Support
12	30 (3.88%)	Security Engineer
13	29 (3.75%)	NOC Engineer
14	28 (3.62%)	Technical Engineer
15	26 (3.36%)	Network Support Engineer
16	25 (3.23%)	2nd Line Engineer
17	24 (3.10%)	Voice Engineer
18	22 (2.84%)	Cisco Support

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	25 (3.23%)	802.1X
2	7 (0.90%)	Web Services
2	7 (0.90%)	XMPP
3	6 (0.78%)	.NET
3	6 (0.78%)	Middleware
4	5 (0.65%)	WAP
4	5 (0.65%)	XML
5	3 (0.39%)	CSS
5	3 (0.39%)	Elastic Stack
6	2 (0.26%)	ASP.NET
6	2 (0.26%)	JAAS
6	2 (0.26%)	Java EE
6	2 (0.26%)	JMS
6	2 (0.26%)	JMX
6	2 (0.26%)	JNDI
6	2 (0.26%)	LAPP Stack
6	2 (0.26%)	RFC 2547
6	2 (0.26%)	WCF
6	2 (0.26%)	WF
6	2 (0.26%)	XSLT

Miscellaneous
1	120 (15.50%)	Data Centre
2	50 (6.46%)	Analytical Skills
3	32 (4.13%)	Management Information System
4	31 (4.01%)	Video Conferencing
5	22 (2.84%)	Clustering
6	21 (2.71%)	Driving Licence
7	15 (1.94%)	NHS
8	10 (1.29%)	EMC VNX
9	7 (0.90%)	BBC
9	7 (0.90%)	Computer Science
9	7 (0.90%)	Greenfield Project
9	7 (0.90%)	IVR
9	7 (0.90%)	PKI
10	6 (0.78%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
11	5 (0.65%)	CMDB
11	5 (0.65%)	IPTV
11	5 (0.65%)	Linux Command Line
11	5 (0.65%)	Replication
11	5 (0.65%)	Virtual Team
12	4 (0.52%)	Blackberry

Operating Systems
1	168 (21.71%)	Windows
2	101 (13.05%)	Windows Server
3	75 (9.69%)	Linux
4	50 (6.46%)	Windows Server 2008
5	47 (6.07%)	Windows Server 2012
6	36 (4.65%)	Windows 7
7	29 (3.75%)	Unix
8	21 (2.71%)	Windows 10
8	21 (2.71%)	Windows Server 2003
9	13 (1.68%)	CentOS
10	12 (1.55%)	Windows 8
11	11 (1.42%)	SUSE
12	8 (1.03%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12	8 (1.03%)	Solaris
13	7 (0.90%)	Windows Vista
14	6 (0.78%)	Mac OS X
15	5 (0.65%)	AIX
15	5 (0.65%)	Windows XP
16	4 (0.52%)	Android
16	4 (0.52%)	Mac OS

Processes & Methodologies
1	188 (24.29%)	ITIL
2	87 (11.24%)	Migration
3	68 (8.79%)	Network Design
4	48 (6.20%)	Load Balancing
5	42 (5.43%)	Network Management
6	41 (5.30%)	Change Management
7	33 (4.26%)	Service Management
8	31 (4.01%)	Disaster Recovery
9	29 (3.75%)	ITIL V3
10	28 (3.62%)	Information Security
11	27 (3.49%)	Service Delivery
12	23 (2.97%)	Network Monitoring
13	22 (2.84%)	DevOps
13	22 (2.84%)	High Availability
14	20 (2.58%)	Incident Management
14	20 (2.58%)	PRINCE2
15	18 (2.33%)	Project Management
16	17 (2.20%)	Kalman Filter
17	15 (1.94%)	Customer Requirements
17	15 (1.94%)	Network Architecture

Programming Languages
1	38 (4.91%)	PowerShell
2	31 (4.01%)	SQL
3	22 (2.84%)	Python
4	16 (2.07%)	Perl
5	12 (1.55%)	C
6	10 (1.29%)	Bash Shell
7	8 (1.03%)	Java
8	7 (0.90%)	Ruby
9	3 (0.39%)	C#
9	3 (0.39%)	C++
10	2 (0.26%)	Shell Script
10	2 (0.26%)	VBScript
11	1 (0.13%)	JavaScript
11	1 (0.13%)	PHP

Qualifications
1	774 (100.00%)	Cisco Certification
2	364 (47.03%)	CCNP
3	153 (19.77%)	Security Cleared
4	106 (13.70%)	Microsoft Certification
4	106 (13.70%)	SC Cleared
5	72 (9.30%)	MCSE
6	68 (8.79%)	CCIE
7	57 (7.36%)	JNCIA
8	48 (6.20%)	CCDP
9	39 (5.04%)	Degree
10	38 (4.91%)	DV Cleared
11	35 (4.52%)	CISSP
11	35 (4.52%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12	34 (4.39%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
13	28 (3.62%)	JNCIS
14	26 (3.36%)	CCDA
15	24 (3.10%)	MCSA
16	22 (2.84%)	CCSA
17	19 (2.45%)	MCITP
18	17 (2.20%)	CCENT

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	51 (6.59%)	SLA
2	15 (1.94%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	13 (1.68%)	QA
4	7 (0.90%)	PCI DSS
5	5 (0.65%)	ISO/IEC 20000
6	3 (0.39%)	Cyber Essentials
6	3 (0.39%)	PMO
7	2 (0.26%)	COBIT
7	2 (0.26%)	Cyber Essentials PLUS
7	2 (0.26%)	Data Quality
8	1 (0.13%)	Disclosure Scotland

System Software
1	113 (14.60%)	Active Directory
2	81 (10.47%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	42 (5.43%)	Hyper-V
4	24 (3.10%)	vSphere
5	14 (1.81%)	VMware ESXi
6	10 (1.29%)	XenApp
7	6 (0.78%)	Firmware
7	6 (0.78%)	ISA Server
7	6 (0.78%)	ProxySG
7	6 (0.78%)	UAG
7	6 (0.78%)	Virtual Servers
8	5 (0.65%)	Forefront TMG
8	5 (0.65%)	Virtual Machines
9	3 (0.39%)	BitLocker
9	3 (0.39%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
9	3 (0.39%)	Terminal Server
9	3 (0.39%)	XenDesktop
10	2 (0.26%)	KVM
10	2 (0.26%)	vCloud
10	2 (0.26%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	45 (5.81%)	Cisco CUCM
2	26 (3.36%)	HP Data Protector
3	25 (3.23%)	Cisco UCCX
4	23 (2.97%)	Tivoli
4	23 (2.97%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
5	19 (2.45%)	SCCM
6	16 (2.07%)	Cisco Prime
7	15 (1.94%)	Nagios
7	15 (1.94%)	Opscode Chef
7	15 (1.94%)	Puppet
7	15 (1.94%)	SCOM
8	11 (1.42%)	Cisco UCCE
8	11 (1.42%)	FortiGate
9	8 (1.03%)	vCenter Server
10	7 (0.90%)	Ansible
10	7 (0.90%)	Microsoft Clustering
11	5 (0.65%)	WSUS
12	4 (0.52%)	WMI
13	3 (0.39%)	NetBackup
13	3 (0.39%)	Norton AntiVirus

Vendors
1	592 (76.49%)	Cisco
2	143 (18.48%)	VMware
3	132 (17.05%)	Microsoft
4	114 (14.73%)	CheckPoint
5	110 (14.21%)	Juniper
6	75 (9.69%)	F5
7	73 (9.43%)	HP
8	55 (7.11%)	Citrix
9	43 (5.56%)	SolarWinds
10	41 (5.30%)	Palo Alto
11	36 (4.65%)	Riverbed
12	31 (4.01%)	Fortinet
12	31 (4.01%)	Red Hat
13	24 (3.10%)	Dell
14	23 (2.97%)	EMC
15	20 (2.58%)	Avaya
16	17 (2.20%)	Remedy
17	14 (1.81%)	NetApp
17	14 (1.81%)	Splunk
18	12 (1.55%)	Blue Coat