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

6 months to
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 404 336 307
Rank change year-on-year -68 -29 +17
Contract jobs citing CCNA 229 184 305
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.63% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.51% 2.05% 2.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 125 204
10th Percentile £127 £293 £277
25th Percentile £357 £394 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £453 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.50% +11.11% -7.22%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £575
90th Percentile £609 £613 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £508 £425
% change year-on-year -11.33% +19.41% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 7 30
10th Percentile £23.80 £34.40 £13.48
25th Percentile £54.06 £45.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £16.63
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +245.86% -66.75%
75th Percentile £67.84 £75.00 £23.56
90th Percentile - - £28.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +400.00% -54.55%

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 15,166 8,985 12,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.80% 30.91% 30.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,080 5,664 7,976
10th Percentile £350 £281 £301
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £620 £621 £650
90th Percentile £725 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £527
% change year-on-year - -5.17% +0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,072 508 1,068
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.80
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.42 £17.80
Median hourly rate £49.36 £37.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -6.25% -25.93%
75th Percentile £70.81 £65.15 £61.35
90th Percentile £85.36 £80.03 £75.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £38.00 £40.94
% change year-on-year +25.00% -7.18% -18.12%

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 May 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 May 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 16 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 May 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 -27 192 £450 -11.33% 196
England -97 184 £460 -9.36% 180
North of England -33 66 £478 +12.35% 38
North West +1 57 £478 +12.35% 18
South East -60 34 £450 -12.62% 43
London -82 28 £470 -6.00% 28
Work from Home -54 26 £445 -11.00% 38
Wales +9 21 £550 +29.41% 14
Midlands -61 20 £175 -61.11% 20
South West -30 19 £218 -60.45% 38
Scotland +14 17 £305 -5.65% 14
West Midlands -50 16 £175 -16.67% 17
East of England -20 15 £198 -64.09% 21
Yorkshire -62 6 £519 -9.78% 11
North East -18 3 - - 9
East Midlands -35 3 - - 3

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 7 (3.06%) Confluence
2 1 (0.44%) Apache
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (4.80%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.87%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.87%) DELMIA
2 1 (0.44%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (14.85%) Azure
2 32 (13.97%) AWS
3 8 (3.49%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.62%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.62%) GCP
5 3 (1.31%) GitHub
5 3 (1.31%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.44%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.44%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.44%) Google Ads
6 1 (0.44%) IaaS
6 1 (0.44%) OneDrive
6 1 (0.44%) PaaS
6 1 (0.44%) SaaS
6 1 (0.44%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (47.60%) Firewall
2 65 (28.38%) SAN
3 59 (25.76%) Network Security
4 58 (25.33%) VLAN
5 54 (23.58%) WAN
6 52 (22.71%) LAN
7 50 (21.83%) VPN
8 43 (18.78%) Wireless
9 39 (17.03%) DNS
10 25 (10.92%) BGP
11 23 (10.04%) Structured Cabling
11 23 (10.04%) TCP/IP
12 21 (9.17%) DHCP
13 20 (8.73%) OSPF
14 19 (8.30%) IPsec
15 16 (6.99%) Cisco IOS
15 16 (6.99%) Wi-Fi
16 14 (6.11%) NAS
16 14 (6.11%) SD-WAN
17 13 (5.68%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.44%) MySQL
1 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (6.11%) JIRA
2 3 (1.31%) Chocolatey
2 3 (1.31%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.87%) Git
4 1 (0.44%) Browser DevTools
General
1 65 (28.38%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.07%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (9.17%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (6.11%) Telecoms
5 12 (5.24%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.06%) Finance
7 6 (2.62%) Banking
8 5 (2.18%) Manufacturing
9 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.87%) Law
9 2 (0.87%) Local Government
9 2 (0.87%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.44%) Legal
10 1 (0.44%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.44%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.44%) Police
Job Titles
1 95 (41.48%) Network Engineer
2 52 (22.71%) Field Engineer
3 51 (22.27%) Field Service Engineer
3 51 (22.27%) IT Engineer
4 32 (13.97%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 20 (8.73%) Support Engineer
6 19 (8.30%) IT Support
7 16 (6.99%) Architect
7 16 (6.99%) Field Support Engineer
7 16 (6.99%) IT Support Engineer
8 14 (6.11%) Cisco Engineer
9 13 (5.68%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.80%) Senior
11 9 (3.93%) Analyst
11 9 (3.93%) Network Architect
12 6 (2.62%) Technical Architect
13 5 (2.18%) Design Engineer
13 5 (2.18%) Systems Analyst
13 5 (2.18%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.68%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.18%) ONVIF
3 2 (0.87%) HTML
3 2 (0.87%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.44%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.44%) CSS
4 1 (0.44%) Flash
4 1 (0.44%) JSON
4 1 (0.44%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.44%) REST
4 1 (0.44%) XML
4 1 (0.44%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 108 (47.16%) Data Centre
2 55 (24.02%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (4.80%) Operational Technology
4 8 (3.49%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (3.06%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.18%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.18%) PKI
6 5 (2.18%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (1.75%) SCADA
8 3 (1.31%) BYOD
8 3 (1.31%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.31%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.87%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.87%) Public Cloud
10 1 (0.44%) Clustering
10 1 (0.44%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.44%) FMCG
10 1 (0.44%) IoT
10 1 (0.44%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 37 (16.16%) Windows
2 25 (10.92%) Linux
3 9 (3.93%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.87%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.87%) VMS
5 1 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.44%) Unix
5 1 (0.44%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (33.62%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (26.20%) Customer Service
3 51 (22.27%) Break/Fix
4 31 (13.54%) Project Delivery
5 27 (11.79%) ITSM
6 24 (10.48%) High Availability
7 21 (9.17%) Network Monitoring
8 20 (8.73%) Network Segmentation
9 19 (8.30%) Agile
10 17 (7.42%) Continuous Improvement
10 17 (7.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (7.42%) ITIL
11 16 (6.99%) Network Design
12 14 (6.11%) Service Management
13 13 (5.68%) Cybersecurity
14 12 (5.24%) Change Management
14 12 (5.24%) Load Balancing
14 12 (5.24%) Migration
14 12 (5.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 12 (5.24%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.42%) Python
2 11 (4.80%) Bash
3 7 (3.06%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.31%) SQL
5 2 (0.87%) C
5 2 (0.87%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.44%) Perl
6 1 (0.44%) VB
Qualifications
1 229 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 104 (45.41%) CCNP
3 94 (41.05%) Security Cleared
4 70 (30.57%) Network+ Certification
4 70 (30.57%) SC Cleared
5 63 (27.51%) Microsoft Certification
6 56 (24.45%) A+ Certification
6 56 (24.45%) MCSE
7 35 (15.28%) Degree
8 26 (11.35%) DV Cleared
9 13 (5.68%) Server+ Certification
10 11 (4.80%) JNCIS
11 9 (3.93%) AWS Certification
12 7 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
13 6 (2.62%) CompTIA Security+
13 6 (2.62%) PMI Certification
13 6 (2.62%) PMP
14 5 (2.18%) JNCIA
14 5 (2.18%) MCSA
15 4 (1.75%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.18%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.18%) NCSC
2 5 (2.18%) QA
3 4 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.75%) SLA
4 3 (1.31%) JSP 440
4 3 (1.31%) PMO
5 2 (0.87%) GDPR
5 2 (0.87%) NIST
6 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.44%) GxP
6 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.44%) JTAG
System Software
1 10 (4.37%) Active Directory
2 9 (3.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.49%) Docker
4 6 (2.62%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.31%) Firmware
6 2 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.44%) KVM
7 1 (0.44%) RHEV
7 1 (0.44%) Snort
7 1 (0.44%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.44%) vSphere
7 1 (0.44%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (6.11%) Terraform
2 12 (5.24%) Ansible
3 8 (3.49%) FortiGate
3 8 (3.49%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.18%) Nagios
5 4 (1.75%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (1.31%) Podman
7 1 (0.44%) CASB
7 1 (0.44%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.44%) Nmap
7 1 (0.44%) Packer
7 1 (0.44%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.44%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.44%) Suricata
7 1 (0.44%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 120 (52.40%) Cisco
2 51 (22.27%) Dell
3 49 (21.40%) Palo Alto
4 26 (11.35%) Microsoft
5 23 (10.04%) Aruba
6 19 (8.30%) CheckPoint
6 19 (8.30%) ServiceNow
7 18 (7.86%) Juniper
8 12 (5.24%) F5
8 12 (5.24%) VMware
9 11 (4.80%) Fortinet
9 11 (4.80%) Infoblox
10 10 (4.37%) SolarWinds
11 7 (3.06%) ForeScout
12 5 (2.18%) Ekahau
13 4 (1.75%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.75%) Nokia
14 3 (1.31%) CyberArk
14 3 (1.31%) Meraki
14 3 (1.31%) Splunk