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 27 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 415 340 299
Rank change year-on-year -75 -41 +26
Contract jobs citing CCNA 211 192 319
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.45% 0.65% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.39% 2.13% 2.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 131 214
10th Percentile £163 £285 £270
25th Percentile £374 £369 £326
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £524 £586 £579
90th Percentile £588 £613 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £453 £515 £425
% change year-on-year -12.14% +21.18% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 7 30
10th Percentile £37.88 £34.40 £13.95
25th Percentile £55.00 £45.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £59.07 £57.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +228.57% -65.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £75.00 £24.50
90th Percentile £71.05 - £28.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £59.07 £75.00 £15.38
% change year-on-year -21.24% +387.80% -62.04%

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 15,209 9,010 13,366
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 32.48% 30.68% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,131 5,699 8,226
10th Percentile £350 £290 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -1.87% -2.73%
75th Percentile £620 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £709 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £507 £530
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.30% +0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,098 514 1,074
10th Percentile £16.46 £18.20 £13.87
25th Percentile £21.25 £22.27 £17.88
Median hourly rate £47.50 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.76% +6.25% -25.93%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.25 £80.07 £75.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £45.01 £40.31
% change year-on-year +5.54% +11.65% -19.18%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 -43 172 £453 -12.14% 110
England -100 172 £460 -8.00% 117
North of England -46 55 £474 +11.53% 24
North West -16 46 £474 +11.53% 12
South East -64 36 £455 -12.50% 31
London -84 32 £470 -6.00% 22
Work from Home -49 30 £445 -11.00% 53
Wales +6 20 £550 +33.33% 6
Midlands -54 19 £380 -15.56% 27
South West -33 16 £313 -43.18% 12
West Midlands -48 15 £278 +32.14% 20
Scotland +14 13 £375 +16.01% 2
East of England -23 13 £198 -64.09% 8
Yorkshire -68 6 £519 -9.78% 7
North East -17 3 - - 5
East Midlands -43 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 (3.32%) Confluence
2 3 (1.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.47%) Apache
3 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.47%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (2.84%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.95%) DELMIA
1 2 (0.95%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (17.06%) Azure
2 35 (16.59%) AWS
3 7 (3.32%) Entra ID
4 6 (2.84%) GCP
4 6 (2.84%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (1.42%) Nutanix
6 2 (0.95%) AWS IoT
6 2 (0.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (0.95%) GitHub
7 1 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (0.47%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.47%) Google Ads
7 1 (0.47%) IaaS
7 1 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.47%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.47%) PaaS
7 1 (0.47%) SaaS
7 1 (0.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 108 (51.18%) Firewall
2 59 (27.96%) VLAN
3 58 (27.49%) Network Security
4 51 (24.17%) WAN
5 50 (23.70%) LAN
5 50 (23.70%) SAN
6 48 (22.75%) VPN
7 40 (18.96%) Wireless
8 32 (15.17%) DNS
9 28 (13.27%) BGP
10 25 (11.85%) TCP/IP
11 22 (10.43%) OSPF
12 20 (9.48%) IPsec
13 19 (9.00%) Wi-Fi
14 18 (8.53%) SD-WAN
15 17 (8.06%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (6.64%) DHCP
17 13 (6.16%) Cisco IOS
17 13 (6.16%) MPLS
18 9 (4.27%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.47%) MySQL
1 1 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (6.16%) JIRA
2 3 (1.42%) Chocolatey
2 3 (1.42%) Sonatype Nexus
3 2 (0.95%) Git
4 1 (0.47%) Browser DevTools
General
1 61 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 51 (24.17%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (7.58%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (6.64%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.27%) Finance
5 9 (4.27%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.32%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.84%) Banking
8 4 (1.90%) Local Government
9 2 (0.95%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.95%) Law
9 2 (0.95%) Legal
9 2 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.47%) Mandarin Language
10 1 (0.47%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.47%) Police
Job Titles
1 98 (46.45%) Network Engineer
2 43 (20.38%) IT Engineer
3 42 (19.91%) Field Engineer
4 41 (19.43%) Field Service Engineer
5 27 (12.80%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 18 (8.53%) Support Engineer
7 17 (8.06%) IT Support
8 14 (6.64%) Field Support Engineer
8 14 (6.64%) IT Support Engineer
9 13 (6.16%) Cisco Engineer
10 12 (5.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 12 (5.69%) Senior
11 11 (5.21%) Architect
11 11 (5.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.27%) Analyst
13 6 (2.84%) Design Engineer
13 6 (2.84%) Network Architect
13 6 (2.84%) Senior Network Engineer
14 5 (2.37%) Network Design Engineer
14 5 (2.37%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (6.64%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.42%) ONVIF
3 2 (0.95%) HTML
3 2 (0.95%) RFC 2544
4 1 (0.47%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.47%) CSS
4 1 (0.47%) Flash
4 1 (0.47%) JSON
4 1 (0.47%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.47%) REST
4 1 (0.47%) XML
4 1 (0.47%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 95 (45.02%) Data Centre
2 44 (20.85%) Analytical Mindset
3 13 (6.16%) Operational Technology
4 8 (3.79%) Hybrid Cloud
5 6 (2.84%) Onboarding
6 5 (2.37%) Enterprise Cloud
6 5 (2.37%) PKI
7 4 (1.90%) IoT
7 4 (1.90%) SCADA
8 3 (1.42%) 3D Printing
8 3 (1.42%) BYOD
8 3 (1.42%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.42%) Security Posture
8 3 (1.42%) Video\Live Streaming
9 2 (0.95%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.95%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (0.95%) NHS
9 2 (0.95%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.95%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.47%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 32 (15.17%) Windows
2 24 (11.37%) Linux
3 9 (4.27%) Windows Server
4 2 (0.95%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.95%) VMS
5 1 (0.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.47%) Unix
5 1 (0.47%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (29.38%) Problem-Solving
2 47 (22.27%) Customer Service
3 41 (19.43%) Break/Fix
4 29 (13.74%) Project Delivery
5 23 (10.90%) High Availability
6 21 (9.95%) Network Monitoring
7 19 (9.00%) ITSM
8 18 (8.53%) Agile
8 18 (8.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 17 (8.06%) ITIL
10 16 (7.58%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (7.11%) Cybersecurity
11 15 (7.11%) Network Design
11 15 (7.11%) Network Segmentation
12 13 (6.16%) Change Management
12 13 (6.16%) Migration
13 12 (5.69%) Service Management
14 11 (5.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 11 (5.21%) Validation
14 11 (5.21%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.58%) Python
2 10 (4.74%) Bash
3 7 (3.32%) PowerShell
4 3 (1.42%) SQL
5 2 (0.95%) C
5 2 (0.95%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.47%) Perl
6 1 (0.47%) VB
Qualifications
1 211 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 108 (51.18%) CCNP
3 80 (37.91%) Security Cleared
4 59 (27.96%) Network+ Certification
5 57 (27.01%) SC Cleared
6 51 (24.17%) Microsoft Certification
7 45 (21.33%) MCSE
8 44 (20.85%) A+ Certification
9 32 (15.17%) Degree
10 24 (11.37%) DV Cleared
11 14 (6.64%) JNCIS
12 9 (4.27%) AWS Certification
13 8 (3.79%) Server+ Certification
14 7 (3.32%) Computer Science Degree
14 7 (3.32%) JNCIA
15 6 (2.84%) CompTIA Security+
15 6 (2.84%) PMI Certification
15 6 (2.84%) PMP
16 4 (1.90%) Azure Certification
16 4 (1.90%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.37%) NCSC
2 5 (2.37%) QA
3 4 (1.90%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (1.42%) PMO
5 2 (0.95%) GDPR
5 2 (0.95%) JSP 440
5 2 (0.95%) NIST
5 2 (0.95%) SLA
6 1 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.47%) GxP
6 1 (0.47%) HMG Security Policy Framework
6 1 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27005
6 1 (0.47%) JTAG
System Software
1 11 (5.21%) Active Directory
2 7 (3.32%) Docker
2 7 (3.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (1.90%) Firmware
3 4 (1.90%) Hyper-V
4 2 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.47%) KVM
5 1 (0.47%) RHEV
5 1 (0.47%) Snort
5 1 (0.47%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.47%) vSphere
5 1 (0.47%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (6.16%) Terraform
2 11 (5.21%) Ansible
3 10 (4.74%) FortiGate
4 7 (3.32%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.37%) Nagios
6 4 (1.90%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.95%) Podman
8 1 (0.47%) CASB
8 1 (0.47%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.47%) Nmap
8 1 (0.47%) Packer
8 1 (0.47%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.47%) Suricata
8 1 (0.47%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 114 (54.03%) Cisco
2 49 (23.22%) Palo Alto
3 41 (19.43%) Dell
4 25 (11.85%) Aruba
5 24 (11.37%) CheckPoint
5 24 (11.37%) Microsoft
6 21 (9.95%) Juniper
7 15 (7.11%) ServiceNow
8 14 (6.64%) Fortinet
9 12 (5.69%) F5
10 11 (5.21%) Infoblox
10 11 (5.21%) SolarWinds
11 10 (4.74%) VMware
12 7 (3.32%) ForeScout
13 5 (2.37%) Ekahau
14 4 (1.90%) Broadcom
14 4 (1.90%) Meraki
15 3 (1.42%) CyberArk
15 3 (1.42%) Extreme Networks
15 3 (1.42%) Zscaler