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

6 months to
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 409 339 308
Rank change year-on-year -70 -31 +8
Contract jobs citing CCNA 241 191 309
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.48% 0.65% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.54% 2.10% 2.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 126 201
10th Percentile £128 £268 £285
25th Percentile £273 £395 £335
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £465
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +7.53% -3.13%
75th Percentile £524 £587 £575
90th Percentile £608 £613 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £515 £425
% change year-on-year -13.59% +21.18% -10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 27
10th Percentile £23.80 - £12.75
25th Percentile £54.06 £29.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £41.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +32.53% +137.14% -65.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £23.38
90th Percentile - £63.25 £25.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £32.50 £15.00
% change year-on-year +69.23% +116.67% -27.29%

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 15,671 9,112 13,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.41% 31.02% 29.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,398 5,673 8,090
10th Percentile £350 £275 £310
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £624 £618 £638
90th Percentile £713 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £500 £530
% change year-on-year +0.10% -5.66% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,159 565 1,118
10th Percentile £17.08 £17.69 £13.87
25th Percentile £22.63 £21.25 £18.32
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.93% -23.75% -27.27%
75th Percentile £71.75 £64.52 £62.64
90th Percentile £85.25 £77.38 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £30.00 £41.27
% change year-on-year +58.33% -27.30% -21.40%

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 11 June 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 11 June 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 11 June 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 -30 201 £445 -13.59% 215
England -83 195 £450 -12.62% 189
North of England -40 72 £481 +13.24% 51
North West -2 63 £481 +20.31% 28
London -87 31 £460 -8.00% 26
South East -62 29 £445 -13.59% 46
Work from Home -74 27 £445 -11.00% 34
Midlands -65 22 £213 -52.78% 16
Scotland +3 21 £290 -32.75% 15
Wales +2 19 £575 +35.29% 10
East of England -14 19 £190 -65.45% 29
South West -22 19 £218 -60.45% 37
West Midlands -54 18 £175 -31.37% 14
Yorkshire -57 6 £519 -5.68% 13
North East -27 3 - - 10
East Midlands -33 3 - - 2

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 (2.90%) Confluence
2 2 (0.83%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (5.39%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.49%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (2.07%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.83%) DELMIA
2 1 (0.41%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 37 (15.35%) Azure
2 33 (13.69%) AWS
3 8 (3.32%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.49%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.49%) GCP
5 3 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (1.24%) GitHub
5 3 (1.24%) Nutanix
6 1 (0.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.41%) Google Ads
6 1 (0.41%) IaaS
6 1 (0.41%) PaaS
6 1 (0.41%) SaaS
6 1 (0.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 113 (46.89%) Firewall
2 68 (28.22%) SAN
3 67 (27.80%) VLAN
4 61 (25.31%) WAN
5 59 (24.48%) Network Security
6 54 (22.41%) LAN
7 50 (20.75%) Wireless
8 48 (19.92%) VPN
9 47 (19.50%) DNS
10 29 (12.03%) DHCP
11 27 (11.20%) TCP/IP
12 24 (9.96%) Structured Cabling
13 23 (9.54%) BGP
14 20 (8.30%) Cisco IOS
14 20 (8.30%) OSPF
15 18 (7.47%) NAS
15 18 (7.47%) Wi-Fi
16 17 (7.05%) NX-OS
17 16 (6.64%) SD-WAN
18 13 (5.39%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 14 (5.81%) JIRA
2 3 (1.24%) Chocolatey
2 3 (1.24%) Git
2 3 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.41%) Browser DevTools
General
1 73 (30.29%) Social Skills
2 64 (26.56%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (10.37%) Telecoms
4 20 (8.30%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (5.39%) Public Sector
6 10 (4.15%) Finance
7 6 (2.49%) Banking
8 4 (1.66%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.24%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (0.83%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.83%) Law
10 2 (0.83%) Legal
10 2 (0.83%) Local Government
10 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.41%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.41%) Military
11 1 (0.41%) Police
Job Titles
1 94 (39.00%) Network Engineer
2 52 (21.58%) Field Engineer
3 50 (20.75%) Field Service Engineer
3 50 (20.75%) IT Engineer
4 31 (12.86%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 20 (8.30%) Support Engineer
6 19 (7.88%) IT Support
7 18 (7.47%) Architect
8 16 (6.64%) Field Support Engineer
8 16 (6.64%) IT Support Engineer
9 14 (5.81%) Cisco Engineer
10 12 (4.98%) Analyst
10 12 (4.98%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 11 (4.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 10 (4.15%) Senior
13 9 (3.73%) Network Architect
13 9 (3.73%) Technical Support
14 8 (3.32%) Support Specialist
14 8 (3.32%) Technical Specialist
14 8 (3.32%) Technical Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.39%) 802.1X
2 9 (3.73%) ONVIF
3 3 (1.24%) REST
4 2 (0.83%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.41%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.41%) CSS
5 1 (0.41%) Flash
5 1 (0.41%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 108 (44.81%) Data Centre
2 58 (24.07%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.73%) Operational Technology
3 9 (3.73%) Video\Live Streaming
4 8 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 7 (2.90%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.49%) Driving Licence
7 5 (2.07%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.07%) PKI
8 4 (1.66%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.66%) SCADA
9 3 (1.24%) BYOD
9 3 (1.24%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.83%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.83%) Linux Command Line
10 2 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
11 1 (0.41%) Cyber Kill Chain
11 1 (0.41%) Greenfield Project
11 1 (0.41%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 40 (16.60%) Windows
2 23 (9.54%) Linux
3 9 (3.73%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.83%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.83%) VMS
5 1 (0.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.41%) Unix
5 1 (0.41%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.41%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (32.37%) Problem-Solving
2 59 (24.48%) Customer Service
3 50 (20.75%) Break/Fix
4 36 (14.94%) Project Delivery
5 33 (13.69%) ITSM
6 26 (10.79%) High Availability
6 26 (10.79%) Network Segmentation
7 25 (10.37%) Agile
7 25 (10.37%) Network Monitoring
8 21 (8.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 19 (7.88%) Continuous Improvement
9 19 (7.88%) ITIL
10 16 (6.64%) Service Management
11 14 (5.81%) Change Management
11 14 (5.81%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (5.81%) Migration
12 13 (5.39%) Infrastructure as Code
12 13 (5.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 13 (5.39%) Validation
13 12 (4.98%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.05%) Python
2 11 (4.56%) Bash
3 8 (3.32%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.83%) SQL
5 1 (0.41%) C
5 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.41%) Perl
5 1 (0.41%) VB
Qualifications
1 241 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 105 (43.57%) CCNP
3 91 (37.76%) Security Cleared
4 76 (31.54%) Network+ Certification
5 72 (29.88%) SC Cleared
6 66 (27.39%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (24.48%) A+ Certification
8 55 (22.82%) MCSE
9 39 (16.18%) Degree
10 21 (8.71%) DV Cleared
11 17 (7.05%) Server+ Certification
12 9 (3.73%) AWS Certification
12 9 (3.73%) MCSA
13 7 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
14 6 (2.49%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (2.49%) PMI Certification
14 6 (2.49%) PMP
15 5 (2.07%) JNCIS
16 4 (1.66%) Azure Certification
16 4 (1.66%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.07%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.07%) NCSC
3 4 (1.66%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.66%) QA
3 4 (1.66%) SLA
4 3 (1.24%) JSP 440
4 3 (1.24%) NIST
5 2 (0.83%) GDPR
5 2 (0.83%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.83%) PMO
6 1 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.41%) GxP
6 1 (0.41%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27005
System Software
1 14 (5.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (4.15%) Active Directory
3 9 (3.73%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.32%) Docker
5 3 (1.24%) Firmware
6 2 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.83%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.41%) Snort
7 1 (0.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (6.64%) Terraform
2 14 (5.81%) Ansible
3 10 (4.15%) Kubernetes
4 8 (3.32%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.66%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (1.24%) Nagios
6 3 (1.24%) Packer
6 3 (1.24%) Podman
7 1 (0.41%) CASB
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.41%) SolarWinds Orion
7 1 (0.41%) Suricata
7 1 (0.41%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 124 (51.45%) Cisco
2 50 (20.75%) Dell
3 48 (19.92%) Palo Alto
4 32 (13.28%) Microsoft
5 23 (9.54%) ServiceNow
6 19 (7.88%) Aruba
7 17 (7.05%) VMware
8 15 (6.22%) CheckPoint
8 15 (6.22%) Juniper
9 13 (5.39%) Infoblox
10 9 (3.73%) F5
10 9 (3.73%) Fortinet
10 9 (3.73%) SolarWinds
11 7 (2.90%) ForeScout
12 6 (2.49%) Nokia
13 5 (2.07%) Ekahau
14 4 (1.66%) Broadcom
14 4 (1.66%) Meraki
15 3 (1.24%) CyberArk
15 3 (1.24%) Splunk