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 29 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 29 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	289	227	239
Rank change year-on-year	-62	+12
Contract jobs citing CCNA	374	611	538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK	0.79%	1.14%	0.96%
As % of the Qualifications category	4.14%	5.20%	5.07%
Number of daily rates quoted	247	351	332
Median daily rate	£350	£338	£325
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+3.70%	+3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£175	£200	£183
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£524	£525	£475
UK excluding London median daily rate	£330	£325	£325
% change year-on-year	+1.53%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	29	48	31
Median hourly rate	£33.00	£32.10	£24.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+2.80%	+33.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.75	£17.44	£8.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£51.50	£45.00	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.00	£28.00	£17.88
% change year-on-year	+17.85%	+56.64%

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	9023	11739	10605
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK	19.15%	21.86%	18.92%
Number of daily rates quoted	11468	16146	12734
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	£248	£245	£225
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£593	£600	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	1188	1038	1097
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.00	£24.12
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+16.07%	+16.08%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£12.88	£12.43	£12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£52.50	£48.92	£51.17
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£32.50	£28.00	£22.50
% change year-on-year	+16.07%	+24.44%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCNA as a percentage of all IT jobs advertised.

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 29 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 29 June 2017.

Contractor hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 10 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 29 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	328	£375	+11.11%	127
UK excluding London	-31	262	£330	+1.53%	97
London	-64	100	£388	+3.33%	33
South East	-10	97	£384	+5.42%	22
North of England	+5	44	£388	+21.33%	22
Midlands	+6	40	£325	-	21
South West	-20	25	£406	+25.00%	10
Wales	+10	21	£180	-44.61%
Scotland	+3	18	£220	-26.54%	2
East of England	-36	17	£278	-4.31%	18

CCNA
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 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	779 (100.00%)	Cisco Certification
2	596 (76.51%)	Cisco
3	366 (46.98%)	CCNP
4	352 (45.19%)	Firewall
5	252 (32.35%)	WAN
6	241 (30.94%)	LAN
7	188 (24.13%)	ITIL
8	168 (21.57%)	Windows
9	157 (20.15%)	Wireless
10	156 (20.03%)	Security Cleared
11	143 (18.36%)	VMware
12	132 (16.94%)	Microsoft
13	123 (15.79%)	VPN
14	120 (15.40%)	Data Centre
15	114 (14.63%)	Active Directory

16	113 (14.51%)	CheckPoint
17	110 (14.12%)	Cisco ASA
18	109 (13.99%)	Juniper
19	107 (13.74%)	Microsoft Certification
20	105 (13.48%)	SC Cleared
20	105 (13.48%)	Cisco Nexus
21	102 (13.09%)	TCP/IP
21	102 (13.09%)	BGP
22	101 (12.97%)	OSPF
22	101 (12.97%)	Windows Server
23	94 (12.07%)	DNS
24	91 (11.68%)	MPLS
25	87 (11.17%)	VoIP
26	86 (11.04%)	Migration
27	82 (10.53%)	VLAN

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 (8.09%)	MS Exchange
2	18 (2.31%)	IIS
3	17 (2.18%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	13 (1.67%)	Skype for Business
5	10 (1.28%)	Exchange Server 2013
6	7 (0.90%)	Exchange Server 2007
6	7 (0.90%)	SharePoint
7	5 (0.64%)	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 (2.31%)	Microsoft Excel
1	18 (2.31%)	MS Visio
2	17 (2.18%)	Microsoft Office
3	5 (0.64%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	4 (0.51%)	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	38 (4.88%)	Office 365
2	32 (4.11%)	Microsoft Azure
3	25 (3.21%)	Amazon AWS
4	5 (0.64%)	IaaS
5	4 (0.51%)	PaaS
5	4 (0.51%)	SaaS
6	3 (0.39%)	Virtual Private Cloud
7	2 (0.26%)	Amazon S3
8	1 (0.13%)	Amazon CloudWatch
8	1 (0.13%)	Amazon EC2
8	1 (0.13%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	1 (0.13%)	AWS CloudTrail
8	1 (0.13%)	Azure Active Directory
8	1 (0.13%)	CloudFront
8	1 (0.13%)	G Suite
8	1 (0.13%)	Google Cloud Platform

Communications & Networking
1	352 (45.19%)	Firewall
2	252 (32.35%)	WAN
3	241 (30.94%)	LAN
4	157 (20.15%)	Wireless
5	123 (15.79%)	VPN
6	110 (14.12%)	Cisco ASA
7	105 (13.48%)	Cisco Nexus
8	102 (13.09%)	BGP
8	102 (13.09%)	TCP/IP
9	101 (12.97%)	OSPF
10	94 (12.07%)	DNS
11	91 (11.68%)	MPLS
12	87 (11.17%)	VoIP
13	82 (10.53%)	Network Security
13	82 (10.53%)	VLAN
14	74 (9.50%)	DHCP
15	52 (6.68%)	Internet
16	49 (6.29%)	EIGRP
17	46 (5.91%)	Ethernet
18	45 (5.78%)	SAN

Database & Business Intelligence
1	31 (3.98%)	SQL Server
2	12 (1.54%)	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 (0.77%)	Hadoop
5	6 (0.77%)	SQL Server 2016
6	5 (0.64%)	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 (0.51%)	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	66 (8.47%)	Telecoms
2	63 (8.09%)	Finance
3	35 (4.49%)	Banking
4	11 (1.41%)	Manufacturing
4	11 (1.41%)	Retail
5	10 (1.28%)	Investment Banking
6	6 (0.77%)	Electronics
7	4 (0.51%)	Back Office
7	4 (0.51%)	Local Government
7	4 (0.51%)	Marketing
8	3 (0.39%)	Automotive
8	3 (0.39%)	French Language
8	3 (0.39%)	Pharmaceutical
9	2 (0.26%)	Billing
9	2 (0.26%)	Law
10	1 (0.13%)	Advertising
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 (40.31%)	Network Engineer
2	107 (13.74%)	Cisco Engineer
3	88 (11.30%)	Cisco Network Engineer
4	74 (9.50%)	Support Engineer
5	71 (9.11%)	Analyst
6	39 (5.01%)	Network Support
7	38 (4.88%)	Architect
8	36 (4.62%)	Consultant
8	36 (4.62%)	Technical Support
9	34 (4.36%)	Infrastructure Engineer
9	34 (4.36%)	Senior Network Engineer
10	33 (4.24%)	2nd Line Support
10	33 (4.24%)	Network Analyst
11	30 (3.85%)	Security Engineer
12	29 (3.72%)	NOC Engineer
12	29 (3.72%)	Technical Engineer
13	27 (3.47%)	2nd Line Engineer
14	26 (3.34%)	Network Support Engineer
15	24 (3.08%)	Voice Engineer
16	22 (2.82%)	Cisco Support

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	25 (3.21%)	802.1X
2	7 (0.90%)	Web Services
2	7 (0.90%)	XMPP
3	6 (0.77%)	.NET
3	6 (0.77%)	Middleware
4	5 (0.64%)	WAP
4	5 (0.64%)	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 (15.40%)	Data Centre
2	50 (6.42%)	Analytical Skills
3	32 (4.11%)	Management Information System
4	31 (3.98%)	Video Conferencing
5	22 (2.82%)	Clustering
6	21 (2.70%)	Driving Licence
7	15 (1.93%)	NHS
8	10 (1.28%)	EMC VNX
9	7 (0.90%)	BBC
9	7 (0.90%)	Computer Science
9	7 (0.90%)	Greenfield Project
9	7 (0.90%)	PKI
10	6 (0.77%)	Distributed Denial-of-Service
10	6 (0.77%)	IVR
11	5 (0.64%)	CMDB
11	5 (0.64%)	Linux Command Line
11	5 (0.64%)	Replication
11	5 (0.64%)	Virtual Team
12	4 (0.51%)	Blackberry
12	4 (0.51%)	IPTV

Operating Systems
1	168 (21.57%)	Windows
2	101 (12.97%)	Windows Server
3	73 (9.37%)	Linux
4	50 (6.42%)	Windows Server 2008
5	47 (6.03%)	Windows Server 2012
6	36 (4.62%)	Windows 7
7	29 (3.72%)	Unix
8	21 (2.70%)	Windows 10
8	21 (2.70%)	Windows Server 2003
9	13 (1.67%)	CentOS
10	12 (1.54%)	Windows 8
11	11 (1.41%)	SUSE
12	8 (1.03%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12	8 (1.03%)	Solaris
13	7 (0.90%)	Windows Vista
14	6 (0.77%)	Mac OS X
15	5 (0.64%)	AIX
15	5 (0.64%)	Windows XP
16	4 (0.51%)	Android
16	4 (0.51%)	Mac OS

Processes & Methodologies
1	188 (24.13%)	ITIL
2	86 (11.04%)	Migration
3	68 (8.73%)	Network Design
4	48 (6.16%)	Load Balancing
5	42 (5.39%)	Network Management
6	41 (5.26%)	Change Management
7	32 (4.11%)	Disaster Recovery
7	32 (4.11%)	Service Management
8	30 (3.85%)	ITIL V3
9	29 (3.72%)	Service Delivery
10	27 (3.47%)	Information Security
11	23 (2.95%)	Network Monitoring
12	22 (2.82%)	DevOps
12	22 (2.82%)	High Availability
13	20 (2.57%)	Incident Management
13	20 (2.57%)	PRINCE2
14	19 (2.44%)	Project Management
15	18 (2.31%)	Kalman Filter
16	15 (1.93%)	Network Architecture
16	15 (1.93%)	Risk Assessment

Programming Languages
1	38 (4.88%)	PowerShell
2	32 (4.11%)	SQL
3	22 (2.82%)	Python
4	16 (2.05%)	Perl
5	12 (1.54%)	C
6	10 (1.28%)	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	779 (100.00%)	Cisco Certification
2	366 (46.98%)	CCNP
3	156 (20.03%)	Security Cleared
4	107 (13.74%)	Microsoft Certification
5	105 (13.48%)	SC Cleared
6	73 (9.37%)	CCIE
7	72 (9.24%)	MCSE
8	57 (7.32%)	JNCIA
9	48 (6.16%)	CCDP
10	43 (5.52%)	DV Cleared
11	40 (5.13%)	Degree
12	35 (4.49%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13	34 (4.36%)	CISSP
13	34 (4.36%)	ITIL Foundation Certificate
14	28 (3.59%)	JNCIS
15	26 (3.34%)	CCDA
16	24 (3.08%)	MCSA
17	21 (2.70%)	CCSA
18	19 (2.44%)	MCITP
19	17 (2.18%)	CCENT

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	51 (6.55%)	SLA
2	15 (1.93%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	13 (1.67%)	QA
4	7 (0.90%)	PCI DSS
5	5 (0.64%)	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	114 (14.63%)	Active Directory
2	81 (10.40%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	42 (5.39%)	Hyper-V
4	24 (3.08%)	vSphere
5	14 (1.80%)	VMware ESXi
6	11 (1.41%)	Firmware
7	10 (1.28%)	XenApp
8	6 (0.77%)	ISA Server
8	6 (0.77%)	ProxySG
8	6 (0.77%)	UAG
8	6 (0.77%)	Virtual Servers
9	5 (0.64%)	Forefront TMG
9	5 (0.64%)	Virtual Machines
10	3 (0.39%)	BitLocker
10	3 (0.39%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
10	3 (0.39%)	Terminal Server
10	3 (0.39%)	XenDesktop
11	2 (0.26%)	KVM
11	2 (0.26%)	vCloud
11	2 (0.26%)	Xen

Systems Management
1	46 (5.91%)	Cisco CUCM
2	26 (3.34%)	HP Data Protector
3	25 (3.21%)	Cisco UCCX
4	23 (2.95%)	Tivoli
4	23 (2.95%)	Tivoli Storage Manager
5	19 (2.44%)	SCCM
6	17 (2.18%)	Cisco Prime
7	15 (1.93%)	Opscode Chef
7	15 (1.93%)	Puppet
7	15 (1.93%)	SCOM
8	14 (1.80%)	Nagios
9	11 (1.41%)	Cisco UCCE
9	11 (1.41%)	FortiGate
10	8 (1.03%)	vCenter Server
11	7 (0.90%)	Ansible
11	7 (0.90%)	Microsoft Clustering
12	5 (0.64%)	WSUS
13	4 (0.51%)	WMI
14	3 (0.39%)	NetBackup
14	3 (0.39%)	Norton AntiVirus

Vendors
1	596 (76.51%)	Cisco
2	143 (18.36%)	VMware
3	132 (16.94%)	Microsoft
4	113 (14.51%)	CheckPoint
5	109 (13.99%)	Juniper
6	74 (9.50%)	F5
7	73 (9.37%)	HP
8	55 (7.06%)	Citrix
9	42 (5.39%)	SolarWinds
10	41 (5.26%)	Palo Alto
11	36 (4.62%)	Riverbed
12	31 (3.98%)	Fortinet
12	31 (3.98%)	Red Hat
13	24 (3.08%)	Dell
14	23 (2.95%)	EMC
15	19 (2.44%)	Avaya
16	16 (2.05%)	Remedy
17	14 (1.80%)	NetApp
17	14 (1.80%)	Splunk
18	13 (1.67%)	Blue Coat