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

6 months to
2 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 401 342 308
Rank change year-on-year -59 -34 +19
Contract jobs citing CCNA 222 190 321
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.47% 0.65% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.45% 2.11% 2.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 131 214
10th Percentile £128 £285 £272
25th Percentile £323 £369 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £515 £588 £592
90th Percentile £588 £613 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £515 £425
% change year-on-year -12.67% +21.18% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 7 31
10th Percentile £20.18 £34.40 £13.50
25th Percentile £52.19 £45.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £57.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +228.57% -65.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £75.00 £24.25
90th Percentile £68.48 - £25.83
UK excluding London median hourly rate £55.00 £75.00 £15.00
% change year-on-year -26.67% +400.00% -68.42%

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 15,265 9,010 13,295
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.27% 30.72% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,156 5,682 8,181
10th Percentile £347 £288 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £536
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.05% -2.55%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £709 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £501 £535
% change year-on-year -0.10% -6.45% +0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,107 512 1,079
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.13 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.25 £21.92 £17.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £40.25 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.01% +0.63% -25.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £61.55
90th Percentile £85.25 £80.09 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.00 £42.50 £40.94
% change year-on-year +10.59% +3.81% -18.02%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -45 183 £450 -12.67% 243
England -86 180 £450 -12.62% 226
North of England -41 56 £474 +11.53% 41
North West -16 47 £474 +11.53% 15
South East -57 36 £450 -13.46% 56
London -83 31 £470 -6.00% 37
Work from Home -63 30 £445 -11.00% 34
Wales +8 21 £550 +33.33% 13
Midlands -62 21 £278 -38.33% 33
South West -33 19 £218 -60.45% 47
West Midlands -49 17 £175 -16.67% 26
Scotland +11 15 £375 +16.01% 19
East of England -20 15 £198 -64.09% 27
Yorkshire -53 6 £519 -9.78% 16
North East -18 3 - - 10
East Midlands -41 3 - - 7

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 (3.15%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) Apache
3 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (3.60%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.25%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) DELMIA
2 1 (0.45%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.77%) Azure
2 33 (14.86%) AWS
3 7 (3.15%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (2.70%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.70%) GCP
5 3 (1.35%) GitHub
5 3 (1.35%) Nutanix
6 2 (0.90%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.45%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.45%) IaaS
7 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.45%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.45%) PaaS
7 1 (0.45%) SaaS
7 1 (0.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 104 (46.85%) Firewall
2 59 (26.58%) SAN
3 57 (25.68%) VLAN
4 56 (25.23%) Network Security
5 49 (22.07%) WAN
6 48 (21.62%) LAN
7 47 (21.17%) VPN
8 38 (17.12%) Wireless
9 33 (14.86%) DNS
10 27 (12.16%) BGP
11 24 (10.81%) TCP/IP
12 21 (9.46%) OSPF
13 20 (9.01%) IPsec
14 19 (8.56%) Wi-Fi
15 17 (7.66%) Structured Cabling
16 16 (7.21%) SD-WAN
17 15 (6.76%) DHCP
18 13 (5.86%) Cisco IOS
18 13 (5.86%) MPLS
19 9 (4.05%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.45%) MySQL
1 1 (0.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (6.31%) JIRA
2 3 (1.35%) Chocolatey
2 3 (1.35%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.90%) Git
4 1 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
General
1 66 (29.73%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.93%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.21%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (6.31%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.15%) Finance
7 6 (2.70%) Banking
7 6 (2.70%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.80%) Local Government
9 3 (1.35%) Aerospace
10 2 (0.90%) Law
10 2 (0.90%) Legal
10 2 (0.90%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.45%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.45%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.45%) Police
Job Titles
1 95 (42.79%) Network Engineer
2 51 (22.97%) Field Engineer
3 50 (22.52%) Field Service Engineer
3 50 (22.52%) IT Engineer
4 27 (12.16%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 20 (9.01%) Support Engineer
6 19 (8.56%) IT Support
7 16 (7.21%) Field Support Engineer
7 16 (7.21%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (5.86%) Cisco Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) Senior
10 11 (4.95%) Architect
11 9 (4.05%) Analyst
12 6 (2.70%) Design Engineer
12 6 (2.70%) Network Architect
12 6 (2.70%) Network Design Engineer
12 6 (2.70%) Senior Network Engineer
13 5 (2.25%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.31%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.25%) ONVIF
3 2 (0.90%) HTML
3 2 (0.90%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.45%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.45%) CSS
4 1 (0.45%) Flash
4 1 (0.45%) JSON
4 1 (0.45%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.45%) REST
4 1 (0.45%) XML
4 1 (0.45%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 102 (45.95%) Data Centre
2 54 (24.32%) Analytical Mindset
3 11 (4.95%) Operational Technology
4 8 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.70%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.25%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.25%) PKI
6 5 (2.25%) Video\Live Streaming
7 4 (1.80%) SCADA
8 3 (1.35%) BYOD
8 3 (1.35%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.35%) Security Posture
9 2 (0.90%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.90%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.90%) IoT
9 2 (0.90%) NHS
9 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.90%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.45%) Clustering
10 1 (0.45%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 35 (15.77%) Windows
2 25 (11.26%) Linux
3 10 (4.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.90%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.90%) VMS
5 1 (0.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.45%) Unix
5 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (33.78%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (25.68%) Customer Service
3 50 (22.52%) Break/Fix
4 30 (13.51%) Project Delivery
5 24 (10.81%) High Availability
6 21 (9.46%) Network Monitoring
7 20 (9.01%) ITSM
8 19 (8.56%) Agile
8 19 (8.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (7.66%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (7.66%) ITIL
10 15 (6.76%) Network Design
10 15 (6.76%) Network Segmentation
11 14 (6.31%) Cybersecurity
11 14 (6.31%) Service Management
12 13 (5.86%) Change Management
12 13 (5.86%) Migration
13 11 (4.95%) Computer Science
13 11 (4.95%) Validation
13 11 (4.95%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.66%) Python
2 11 (4.95%) Bash
3 8 (3.60%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.35%) SQL
5 2 (0.90%) C
5 2 (0.90%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.45%) Perl
6 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 222 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 103 (46.40%) CCNP
3 84 (37.84%) Security Cleared
4 66 (29.73%) Network+ Certification
5 62 (27.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 60 (27.03%) SC Cleared
7 55 (24.77%) A+ Certification
7 55 (24.77%) MCSE
8 34 (15.32%) Degree
9 26 (11.71%) DV Cleared
10 14 (6.31%) JNCIS
11 9 (4.05%) AWS Certification
12 8 (3.60%) Server+ Certification
13 7 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (3.15%) JNCIA
14 6 (2.70%) CompTIA Security+
14 6 (2.70%) PMI Certification
14 6 (2.70%) PMP
15 5 (2.25%) MCSA
16 4 (1.80%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (2.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.25%) NCSC
3 5 (2.25%) QA
4 4 (1.80%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.80%) SLA
5 3 (1.35%) JSP 440
5 3 (1.35%) PMO
6 2 (0.90%) GDPR
6 2 (0.90%) NIST
7 1 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.45%) GxP
7 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
7 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 1 (0.45%) JTAG
System Software
1 10 (4.50%) Active Directory
2 8 (3.60%) Docker
2 8 (3.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.25%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.80%) Firmware
5 2 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
6 1 (0.45%) KVM
6 1 (0.45%) RHEV
6 1 (0.45%) Snort
6 1 (0.45%) VMware NSX
6 1 (0.45%) vSphere
6 1 (0.45%) Xen
Systems Management
1 14 (6.31%) Terraform
2 12 (5.41%) Ansible
3 8 (3.60%) FortiGate
3 8 (3.60%) Kubernetes
4 5 (2.25%) Cisco Prime
4 5 (2.25%) Nagios
5 3 (1.35%) Podman
6 1 (0.45%) CASB
6 1 (0.45%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.45%) Nmap
6 1 (0.45%) Packer
6 1 (0.45%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.45%) SolarWinds Orion
6 1 (0.45%) Suricata
6 1 (0.45%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 114 (51.35%) Cisco
2 50 (22.52%) Dell
3 49 (22.07%) Palo Alto
4 25 (11.26%) Aruba
5 24 (10.81%) Microsoft
6 22 (9.91%) CheckPoint
7 21 (9.46%) Juniper
8 14 (6.31%) Fortinet
8 14 (6.31%) ServiceNow
9 12 (5.41%) F5
10 11 (4.95%) Infoblox
10 11 (4.95%) SolarWinds
10 11 (4.95%) VMware
11 7 (3.15%) ForeScout
12 5 (2.25%) Ekahau
13 4 (1.80%) Broadcom
13 4 (1.80%) Meraki
14 3 (1.35%) Atlassian
14 3 (1.35%) Qualys
14 3 (1.35%) Splunk