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

6 months to
16 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 500 424 298
Rank change year-on-year -76 -126 -45
Contract jobs citing CCNA 193 141 288
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.35% 0.42% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.09% 1.33% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 90 176
10th Percentile £152 £243 £261
25th Percentile £221 £342 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £450 £491
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -8.40% +9.17%
75th Percentile £537 £575 £588
90th Percentile £597 £589 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £400 £450 £475
% change year-on-year -11.11% -5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 14 22
10th Percentile £26.47 - £11.75
25th Percentile £49.75 £29.00 £12.38
Median hourly rate £55.00 £30.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +83.33% -20.00% +29.31%
75th Percentile £68.29 £53.94 £54.69
90th Percentile £68.75 £61.20 £74.88
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.63 £30.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year +88.75% -20.00% +50.00%

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 17,713 10,602 11,042
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.02% 31.87% 29.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,690 6,649 6,691
10th Percentile £351 £285 £310
25th Percentile £447 £413 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £631 £625 £631
90th Percentile £713 £706 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +5.00% -3.75% -3.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,522 901 570
10th Percentile £16.50 £17.55 £18.13
25th Percentile £24.73 £18.87 £25.26
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -47.05% -11.49%
75th Percentile £72.25 £40.25 £68.00
90th Percentile £89.08 £70.16 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -49.70% -3.65%

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 16 October 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 16 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 15 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 16 October 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 -40 149 £400 -11.11% 92
England -120 141 £435 -13.00% 92
North of England -38 44 £530 +0.95% 15
North West -10 38 £535 +59.70% 5
Scotland -3 34 £344 -23.61% 13
London -93 33 £450 -14.29% 23
Work from Home -75 28 £390 -17.89% 20
East of England -14 24 £155 -70.19% 9
South East -65 14 £248 -44.96% 19
Midlands -62 12 £400 -11.11% 20
West Midlands -57 11 £400 -11.11% 7
Wales - 11 £363 - 7
South West -32 10 £540 -1.82% 11
Yorkshire -41 6 £500 -9.09% 8
East Midlands -8 1 £475 +293.05% 13

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 3 (1.55%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.04%) Confluence
2 2 (1.04%) OpenStack
Applications
1 19 (9.84%) MS Visio
2 11 (5.70%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 25 (12.95%) Azure
2 10 (5.18%) AWS
3 9 (4.66%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.15%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.59%) Nutanix
6 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (1.55%) GitHub
7 2 (1.04%) GCP
7 2 (1.04%) OpenShift
7 2 (1.04%) PaaS
7 2 (1.04%) SaaS
8 1 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.52%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.52%) IaaS
8 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 87 (45.08%) Firewall
2 70 (36.27%) WAN
3 65 (33.68%) LAN
4 51 (26.42%) Wireless
5 50 (25.91%) Network Security
6 39 (20.21%) DNS
7 38 (19.69%) VLAN
8 37 (19.17%) VPN
9 29 (15.03%) DHCP
9 29 (15.03%) TCP/IP
10 25 (12.95%) BGP
10 25 (12.95%) SAN
11 22 (11.40%) OSPF
12 20 (10.36%) MPLS
12 20 (10.36%) SD-WAN
13 18 (9.33%) Broadband
14 17 (8.81%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (7.77%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (7.25%) Wi-Fi
17 13 (6.74%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.52%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 4 (2.07%) Git
1 4 (2.07%) JIRA
2 2 (1.04%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 60 (31.09%) Social Skills
2 50 (25.91%) Telecoms
3 33 (17.10%) Analytical Skills
4 14 (7.25%) Documentation Skills
5 13 (6.74%) Public Sector
6 12 (6.22%) Finance
7 5 (2.59%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.07%) Banking
9 3 (1.55%) Aviation
9 3 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (1.55%) Legal
9 3 (1.55%) Local Government
9 3 (1.55%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.55%) Military
10 2 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.04%) French Language
10 2 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.52%) Electronics
11 1 (0.52%) Games
11 1 (0.52%) Retail
Job Titles
1 91 (47.15%) Network Engineer
2 24 (12.44%) Field Engineer
3 17 (8.81%) IT Engineer
4 16 (8.29%) Field Service Engineer
4 16 (8.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 13 (6.74%) Project Engineer
5 13 (6.74%) Support Specialist
5 13 (6.74%) Technical Support
6 12 (6.22%) Architect
6 12 (6.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 12 (6.22%) Technical Specialist
6 12 (6.22%) Technical Support Specialist
7 10 (5.18%) Cisco Engineer
8 9 (4.66%) Senior
9 8 (4.15%) Telecoms Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Support Engineer
11 6 (3.11%) Analyst
12 5 (2.59%) Field Support Engineer
12 5 (2.59%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (6.74%) ONVIF
2 9 (4.66%) Terraform
3 6 (3.11%) 802.1X
4 2 (1.04%) ModSecurity
4 2 (1.04%) REST
4 2 (1.04%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.52%) HTML
5 1 (0.52%) JSON
5 1 (0.52%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 48 (24.87%) Data Centre
2 19 (9.84%) Analytical Mindset
3 18 (9.33%) Driving Licence
4 13 (6.74%) Video\Live Streaming
5 8 (4.15%) Onboarding
5 8 (4.15%) Operational Technology
6 7 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
7 6 (3.11%) Linux Command Line
8 5 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (2.59%) Video Conferencing
9 4 (2.07%) PKI
9 4 (2.07%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (2.07%) Virtual Team
10 3 (1.55%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.55%) Management Information System
10 3 (1.55%) NHS
10 3 (1.55%) Public Cloud
11 2 (1.04%) CMDB
11 2 (1.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 2 (1.04%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 43 (22.28%) Windows
2 20 (10.36%) Linux
3 12 (6.22%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.52%) Unix
5 1 (0.52%) VMS
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (22.80%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (18.13%) Project Delivery
3 28 (14.51%) ITIL
4 23 (11.92%) Customer Service
4 23 (11.92%) Migration
5 22 (11.40%) High Availability
6 21 (10.88%) Load Balancing
7 19 (9.84%) ITSM
8 18 (9.33%) Cybersecurity
9 17 (8.81%) Agile
9 17 (8.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 16 (8.29%) Incident Management
11 15 (7.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 14 (7.25%) Change Management
12 14 (7.25%) Impact Assessments
12 14 (7.25%) Network Design
12 14 (7.25%) Network Monitoring
12 14 (7.25%) Network Segmentation
12 14 (7.25%) Time Management
12 14 (7.25%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (5.70%) Python
2 7 (3.63%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.59%) Bash
4 1 (0.52%) Bicep
4 1 (0.52%) Java
4 1 (0.52%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.52%) SQL
4 1 (0.52%) VB
Qualifications
1 193 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 81 (41.97%) CCNP
3 65 (33.68%) Security Cleared
4 50 (25.91%) SC Cleared
5 39 (20.21%) Microsoft Certification
6 36 (18.65%) Degree
7 34 (17.62%) Network+ Certification
8 31 (16.06%) A+ Certification
9 25 (12.95%) MCSE
10 13 (6.74%) MCSA
11 11 (5.70%) DV Cleared
12 9 (4.66%) Server+ Certification
13 7 (3.63%) BPSS Clearance
14 4 (2.07%) CCIE
14 4 (2.07%) CompTIA Security+
14 4 (2.07%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (2.07%) JNCIA
14 4 (2.07%) PMI Certification
14 4 (2.07%) PMP
15 3 (1.55%) CCDA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.15%) SLA
2 6 (3.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (1.55%) JSP 440
4 3 (1.55%) NIST
4 3 (1.55%) PCI DSS
4 3 (1.55%) QA
5 2 (1.04%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.52%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.52%) NCSC
System Software
1 24 (12.44%) Active Directory
2 23 (11.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (6.74%) Hyper-V
4 9 (4.66%) Firmware
5 7 (3.63%) vSphere
6 5 (2.59%) Docker
6 5 (2.59%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.55%) VMware NSX
8 2 (1.04%) NDS
8 2 (1.04%) NetIQ eDirectory
9 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.52%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 11 (5.70%) Kubernetes
2 10 (5.18%) Ansible
2 10 (5.18%) Nagios
3 6 (3.11%) FortiGate
4 4 (2.07%) OPNET
4 4 (2.07%) Proxmox
5 3 (1.55%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (1.55%) Packer
5 3 (1.55%) SolarWinds Orion
6 2 (1.04%) Podman
7 1 (0.52%) Amdocs OSS
7 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 126 (65.28%) Cisco
2 44 (22.80%) Microsoft
3 32 (16.58%) VMware
4 21 (10.88%) Palo Alto
5 18 (9.33%) Dell
6 17 (8.81%) ServiceNow
7 16 (8.29%) Meraki
7 16 (8.29%) Nokia
8 15 (7.77%) SolarWinds
9 11 (5.70%) Juniper
10 9 (4.66%) Aruba
11 7 (3.63%) Fortinet
12 6 (3.11%) F5
12 6 (3.11%) ForeScout
12 6 (3.11%) Infoblox
12 6 (3.11%) Oracle
13 3 (1.55%) Arista
13 3 (1.55%) CheckPoint
13 3 (1.55%) SevOne
14 2 (1.04%) EMC