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 15 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 508 420 298
Rank change year-on-year -88 -122 -42
Contract jobs citing CCNA 191 142 287
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.43% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.08% 1.34% 2.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 92 175
10th Percentile £146 £243 £267
25th Percentile £213 £337 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £495
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £588
90th Percentile £597 £588 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £378 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -16.11% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 22
10th Percentile £26.47 - £11.75
25th Percentile £49.75 £29.00 £12.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -20.00% +29.31%
75th Percentile £68.29 £53.94 £54.69
90th Percentile £68.75 £61.20 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.63 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +88.75% -20.00% +50.00%

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 17,680 10,576 11,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.97% 31.85% 29.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,674 6,634 6,698
10th Percentile £353 £285 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £532 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.24% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £630
90th Percentile £713 £706 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.85% -3.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,508 889 573
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.59 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.84 £18.87 £25.36
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -47.05% -11.49%
75th Percentile £71.69 £40.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £88.85 £70.16 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -49.70% -3.65%

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 15 October 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 15 October 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 15 October 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 -46 150 £378 -16.11% 171
England -111 139 £435 -13.00% 242
North of England -45 44 £530 +3.41% 30
North West -14 38 £535 +59.70% 11
Scotland +2 34 £344 -23.61% 20
London -90 30 £450 -14.29% 85
Work from Home -72 28 £390 -22.00% 139
East of England -14 24 £155 -70.19% 16
South East -73 15 £229 -49.15% 40
South West -33 11 £540 -1.82% 22
Midlands -62 11 £400 -11.11% 35
Wales - 11 £363 - 7
West Midlands -56 10 £325 -27.78% 17
Yorkshire -49 6 £500 -8.05% 15
East Midlands -13 1 £475 +293.05% 18

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 (1.57%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.05%) Confluence
2 2 (1.05%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (9.95%) MS Visio
2 11 (5.76%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.14%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (13.09%) Azure
2 10 (5.24%) AWS
3 9 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.19%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.62%) Nutanix
6 3 (1.57%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.57%) GitHub
7 2 (1.05%) GCP
7 2 (1.05%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.05%) PaaS
7 2 (1.05%) SaaS
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.52%) IaaS
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 86 (45.03%) Firewall
2 70 (36.65%) WAN
3 65 (34.03%) LAN
4 50 (26.18%) Wireless
5 49 (25.65%) Network Security
6 39 (20.42%) DNS
7 37 (19.37%) VLAN
7 37 (19.37%) VPN
8 29 (15.18%) DHCP
8 29 (15.18%) TCP/IP
9 25 (13.09%) BGP
10 24 (12.57%) SAN
11 22 (11.52%) OSPF
12 20 (10.47%) MPLS
12 20 (10.47%) SD-WAN
13 18 (9.42%) Broadband
14 17 (8.90%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (7.85%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (7.33%) Wi-Fi
17 13 (6.81%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.09%) Git
1 4 (2.09%) JIRA
2 2 (1.05%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (31.41%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.18%) Telecoms
3 33 (17.28%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.33%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (6.28%) Finance
5 12 (6.28%) Public Sector
6 5 (2.62%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (2.09%) Banking
8 3 (1.57%) Aviation
8 3 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (1.57%) Local Government
8 3 (1.57%) Manufacturing
8 3 (1.57%) Military
9 2 (1.05%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.05%) French Language
9 2 (1.05%) Legal
9 2 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.52%) Games
10 1 (0.52%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 90 (47.12%) Network Engineer
2 23 (12.04%) Field Engineer
3 16 (8.38%) IT Engineer
3 16 (8.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 15 (7.85%) Field Service Engineer
5 13 (6.81%) Project Engineer
5 13 (6.81%) Support Specialist
5 13 (6.81%) Technical Support
6 12 (6.28%) Architect
6 12 (6.28%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (6.28%) Technical Specialist
6 12 (6.28%) Technical Support Specialist
7 10 (5.24%) Cisco Engineer
8 9 (4.71%) Senior
9 8 (4.19%) Telecoms Engineer
10 7 (3.66%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 6 (3.14%) Analyst
12 5 (2.62%) Network Architect
12 5 (2.62%) NOC Engineer
12 5 (2.62%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.81%) ONVIF
2 9 (4.71%) Terraform
3 6 (3.14%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.05%) ModSecurity
4 2 (1.05%) REST
4 2 (1.05%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.52%) HTML
5 1 (0.52%) JSON
5 1 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 47 (24.61%) Data Centre
2 19 (9.95%) Analytical Mindset
3 17 (8.90%) Driving Licence
4 13 (6.81%) Video\Live Streaming
5 8 (4.19%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.19%) Operational Technology
6 7 (3.66%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.14%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.62%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.62%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.09%) PKI
9 4 (2.09%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.09%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.57%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.57%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.05%) CMDB
11 2 (1.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.05%) IoT
11 2 (1.05%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 43 (22.51%) Windows
2 20 (10.47%) Linux
3 12 (6.28%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) VMS
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (23.04%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (18.32%) Project Delivery
3 28 (14.66%) ITIL
4 23 (12.04%) Customer Service
4 23 (12.04%) Migration
5 22 (11.52%) High Availability
6 21 (10.99%) Load Balancing
7 19 (9.95%) ITSM
8 17 (8.90%) Agile
8 17 (8.90%) Cybersecurity
8 17 (8.90%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 16 (8.38%) Incident Management
10 15 (7.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 14 (7.33%) Change Management
11 14 (7.33%) Impact Assessments
11 14 (7.33%) Network Design
11 14 (7.33%) Network Monitoring
11 14 (7.33%) Network Segmentation
11 14 (7.33%) Time Management
11 14 (7.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.76%) Python
2 7 (3.66%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.62%) Bash
4 1 (0.52%) Bicep
4 1 (0.52%) Java
4 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.52%) SQL
4 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 191 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 80 (41.88%) CCNP
3 65 (34.03%) Security Cleared
4 50 (26.18%) SC Cleared
5 38 (19.90%) Microsoft Certification
6 36 (18.85%) Degree
7 33 (17.28%) Network+ Certification
8 30 (15.71%) A+ Certification
9 24 (12.57%) MCSE
10 13 (6.81%) MCSA
11 11 (5.76%) DV Cleared
12 9 (4.71%) Server+ Certification
13 6 (3.14%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (2.09%) CCIE
14 4 (2.09%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (2.09%) JNCIA
14 4 (2.09%) PMI Certification
14 4 (2.09%) PMP
15 3 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.19%) SLA
2 5 (2.62%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (2.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.57%) JSP 440
4 3 (1.57%) NIST
4 3 (1.57%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.57%) QA
5 2 (1.05%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (12.57%) Active Directory
2 23 (12.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.81%) Hyper-V
4 8 (4.19%) Firmware
5 7 (3.66%) vSphere
6 5 (2.62%) Docker
6 5 (2.62%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.57%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.05%) NDS
8 2 (1.05%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (5.76%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.24%) Ansible
2 10 (5.24%) Nagios
3 6 (3.14%) FortiGate
4 4 (2.09%) OPNET
4 4 (2.09%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.57%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (1.57%) Packer
5 3 (1.57%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (1.05%) Podman
7 1 (0.52%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 125 (65.45%) Cisco
2 44 (23.04%) Microsoft
3 32 (16.75%) VMware
4 21 (10.99%) Palo Alto
5 17 (8.90%) Dell
5 17 (8.90%) ServiceNow
6 16 (8.38%) Meraki
6 16 (8.38%) Nokia
7 15 (7.85%) SolarWinds
8 11 (5.76%) Juniper
9 8 (4.19%) Aruba
10 6 (3.14%) F5
10 6 (3.14%) ForeScout
10 6 (3.14%) Fortinet
10 6 (3.14%) Infoblox
10 6 (3.14%) Oracle
11 3 (1.57%) Arista
11 3 (1.57%) SevOne
12 2 (1.05%) EMC
12 2 (1.05%) Red Hat