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

6 months to
21 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 405 341 307
Rank change year-on-year -64 -34 +5
Contract jobs citing CCNA 253 196 313
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.50% 0.66% 0.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.60% 2.11% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 128 202
10th Percentile £128 £250 £282
25th Percentile £256 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -
75th Percentile £534 £584 £575
90th Percentile £605 £613 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £445 £500 £439
% change year-on-year -11.00% +13.96% -7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 11 27
10th Percentile £29.00 - £12.75
25th Percentile £53.13 £29.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £35.00 £20.74
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% +68.76% -58.52%
75th Percentile £67.67 £51.88 £25.83
90th Percentile £67.84 £61.25 £44.15
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +83.33% +71.43% -21.38%

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 15,850 9,277 13,081
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.27% 31.01% 29.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,577 5,766 8,070
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 £625 £618 £638
90th Percentile £714 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £507 £500 £533
% change year-on-year +1.40% -6.19% +0.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,164 606 1,136
10th Percentile £17.24 £17.87 £14.00
25th Percentile £23.00 £20.43 £19.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £30.00 £40.29
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -25.54% -27.13%
75th Percentile £72.54 £62.88 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.25 £76.25 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £28.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year +78.57% -34.12% -20.80%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -24 210 £445 -11.00% 225
England -76 206 £450 -10.00% 188
North of England -28 78 £492 +31.07% 42
North West +8 69 £492 +31.07% 19
London -82 34 £450 -10.00% 29
South East -69 29 £445 -13.59% 44
Work from Home -71 28 £445 -15.24% 38
Scotland +12 24 £310 -28.12% 17
East of England -15 22 £175 -68.18% 32
Midlands -61 21 £213 -52.78% 20
South West -25 19 £400 -26.44% 39
West Midlands -54 18 £175 -31.37% 17
Wales -1 17 £600 - 12
Yorkshire -61 6 £519 -5.68% 13
North East -35 3 - - 10
East Midlands -24 2 - - 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 (2.77%) Confluence
2 2 (0.79%) OpenStack
Applications
1 13 (5.14%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) DELMIA
2 1 (0.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 39 (15.42%) Azure
2 33 (13.04%) AWS
3 8 (3.16%) Entra ID
3 8 (3.16%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (1.98%) GCP
5 4 (1.58%) Nutanix
6 3 (1.19%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.19%) GitHub
7 1 (0.40%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (0.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.40%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.40%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.40%) IaaS
7 1 (0.40%) PaaS
7 1 (0.40%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 121 (47.83%) Firewall
2 71 (28.06%) WAN
3 65 (25.69%) Network Security
3 65 (25.69%) SAN
3 65 (25.69%) VLAN
4 63 (24.90%) LAN
5 58 (22.92%) Wireless
6 55 (21.74%) VPN
7 51 (20.16%) DNS
8 31 (12.25%) DHCP
9 27 (10.67%) Structured Cabling
9 27 (10.67%) TCP/IP
10 23 (9.09%) BGP
11 21 (8.30%) Wi-Fi
12 20 (7.91%) Cisco IOS
12 20 (7.91%) OSPF
12 20 (7.91%) SD-WAN
13 18 (7.11%) NAS
14 17 (6.72%) Broadband
14 17 (6.72%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 14 (5.53%) JIRA
2 3 (1.19%) Chocolatey
2 3 (1.19%) Git
2 3 (1.19%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.40%) Browser DevTools
General
1 79 (31.23%) Social Skills
2 64 (25.30%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (11.46%) Telecoms
4 23 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
5 15 (5.93%) Public Sector
6 10 (3.95%) Finance
7 6 (2.37%) Banking
8 4 (1.58%) Local Government
8 4 (1.58%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.58%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (0.79%) Law
9 2 (0.79%) Legal
9 2 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.40%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.40%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.40%) Military
10 1 (0.40%) Police
Job Titles
1 102 (40.32%) Network Engineer
2 51 (20.16%) Field Engineer
3 47 (18.58%) Field Service Engineer
3 47 (18.58%) IT Engineer
4 29 (11.46%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 21 (8.30%) Support Engineer
6 19 (7.51%) IT Support
7 18 (7.11%) Architect
8 17 (6.72%) Field Support Engineer
9 16 (6.32%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (5.14%) Analyst
10 13 (5.14%) Cisco Engineer
11 12 (4.74%) Technical Support
12 11 (4.35%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 11 (4.35%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 11 (4.35%) Support Specialist
12 11 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
12 11 (4.35%) Technical Support Specialist
13 9 (3.56%) Network Architect
13 9 (3.56%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (5.93%) 802.1X
2 12 (4.74%) ONVIF
3 3 (1.19%) REST
4 2 (0.79%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.40%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.40%) CSS
5 1 (0.40%) Flash
5 1 (0.40%) HTML
5 1 (0.40%) ModSecurity
Miscellaneous
1 106 (41.90%) Data Centre
2 55 (21.74%) Analytical Mindset
3 12 (4.74%) Video\Live Streaming
4 9 (3.56%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.16%) Driving Licence
5 8 (3.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 8 (3.16%) Operational Technology
6 5 (1.98%) Enterprise Cloud
7 4 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
7 4 (1.58%) PKI
7 4 (1.58%) Public Cloud
7 4 (1.58%) SCADA
8 3 (1.19%) BYOD
8 3 (1.19%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.79%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.79%) Security Operations Centre
10 1 (0.40%) Clustering
10 1 (0.40%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 43 (17.00%) Windows
2 24 (9.49%) Linux
3 8 (3.16%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.79%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) VMS
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (30.43%) Problem-Solving
2 56 (22.13%) Customer Service
3 47 (18.58%) Break/Fix
4 38 (15.02%) Project Delivery
5 32 (12.65%) ITSM
6 29 (11.46%) Agile
7 27 (10.67%) High Availability
8 25 (9.88%) Network Segmentation
9 23 (9.09%) ITIL
9 23 (9.09%) Network Monitoring
10 21 (8.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 21 (8.30%) Migration
11 19 (7.51%) Continuous Improvement
11 19 (7.51%) Load Balancing
12 16 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (6.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 16 (6.32%) Validation
13 15 (5.93%) Change Management
13 15 (5.93%) Service Management
14 13 (5.14%) CRM
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.72%) Python
2 11 (4.35%) Bash
3 8 (3.16%) PowerShell
4 2 (0.79%) SQL
5 1 (0.40%) C
5 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.40%) Perl
5 1 (0.40%) VB
Qualifications
1 253 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 108 (42.69%) CCNP
3 95 (37.55%) Security Cleared
4 74 (29.25%) SC Cleared
5 72 (28.46%) Network+ Certification
6 65 (25.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (23.32%) A+ Certification
8 51 (20.16%) MCSE
9 39 (15.42%) Degree
10 21 (8.30%) DV Cleared
11 17 (6.72%) Server+ Certification
12 12 (4.74%) MCSA
13 9 (3.56%) AWS Certification
14 7 (2.77%) PMI Certification
14 7 (2.77%) PMP
15 6 (2.37%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (1.98%) Computer Science Degree
16 5 (1.98%) JNCIS
17 4 (1.58%) Azure Certification
17 4 (1.58%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (1.98%) NCSC
3 4 (1.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (1.58%) Disclosure Scotland
3 4 (1.58%) QA
3 4 (1.58%) SLA
4 3 (1.19%) JSP 440
4 3 (1.19%) NIST
5 2 (0.79%) GDPR
5 2 (0.79%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.40%) GxP
6 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.40%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
2 14 (5.53%) Active Directory
3 10 (3.95%) Hyper-V
4 8 (3.16%) Docker
5 4 (1.58%) Firmware
5 4 (1.58%) VMware NSX
6 2 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.40%) Snort
7 1 (0.40%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (6.32%) Terraform
2 14 (5.53%) Ansible
3 12 (4.74%) Kubernetes
4 7 (2.77%) FortiGate
5 4 (1.58%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (1.19%) Nagios
6 3 (1.19%) Packer
6 3 (1.19%) Podman
7 2 (0.79%) OPNET
7 2 (0.79%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.40%) CASB
8 1 (0.40%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.40%) SolarWinds Orion
8 1 (0.40%) Suricata
8 1 (0.40%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 134 (52.96%) Cisco
2 47 (18.58%) Dell
3 44 (17.39%) Palo Alto
4 34 (13.44%) Microsoft
5 22 (8.70%) ServiceNow
6 19 (7.51%) Aruba
6 19 (7.51%) VMware
7 18 (7.11%) Juniper
8 15 (5.93%) Infoblox
9 13 (5.14%) CheckPoint
10 10 (3.95%) SolarWinds
11 9 (3.56%) F5
12 8 (3.16%) Fortinet
13 7 (2.77%) ForeScout
13 7 (2.77%) Meraki
14 6 (2.37%) Nokia
15 5 (1.98%) Ekahau
16 3 (1.19%) Arista
16 3 (1.19%) CyberArk
16 3 (1.19%) Oracle