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 18 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 445 320 263
Rank change year-on-year -125 -57 +143
Contract jobs citing CCNA 143 216 401
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.68% 0.93%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.13% 2.28% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 142 251
10th Percentile £222 £250 £231
25th Percentile £386 £326 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £430
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% +4.65% -0.29%
75th Percentile £552 £563 £556
90th Percentile £588 £611 £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £450 £405
% change year-on-year +5.56% +11.11% -4.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 10 40
10th Percentile £23.85 £11.75 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £22.63 £14.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £41.50 £23.75
Median % change year-on-year -4.82% +74.74% +63.79%
75th Percentile £52.50 £75.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £58.35 - £55.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.75 £60.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -65.42% +160.87% +58.62%

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 12,617 9,480 13,128
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.98% 29.86% 30.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,314 5,736 8,232
10th Percentile £313 £300 £300
25th Percentile £416 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £540
% change year-on-year - -7.41% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 948 468 796
10th Percentile £16.00 £19.54 £14.50
25th Percentile £19.10 £24.18 £22.64
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.52 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -20.96% +11.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £66.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £76.58 £77.54 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -40.82% -15.00% +11.11%

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 18 January 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 18 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 17 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 18 January 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
England -115 114 £481 +6.94% 113
UK excluding London -95 102 £475 +5.56% 107
North of England -68 34 £506 +8.87% 28
Work from Home -31 33 £448 +7.51% 34
London -35 33 £475 +11.76% 19
South East -35 23 £455 +21.33% 34
North West -38 22 £481 +1.32% 14
Midlands -41 11 £363 +45.00% 14
Scotland +3 10 £450 +12.50% 4
Yorkshire -55 10 £525 +28.83% 12
Wales +5 9 £550 +77.42% 2
West Midlands -30 8 £380 +80.95% 11
South West -20 7 £550 - 16
East of England -9 5 £194 -61.25% 9
North East -11 4 £550 +46.67% 3
Northern Ireland -3 3 £475 - 1
East Midlands -24 3 £121 -67.77% 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 17 (11.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.39%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.20%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.70%) Apache
4 1 (0.70%) Confluence
4 1 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.70%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 8 (5.59%) MS Visio
2 7 (4.90%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.40%) DELMIA
1 2 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (13.99%) Azure
2 15 (10.49%) AWS
3 12 (8.39%) Entra ID
4 5 (3.50%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.10%) GCP
5 3 (2.10%) Nutanix
5 3 (2.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.40%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.40%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.70%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.70%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.70%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.70%) IaaS
7 1 (0.70%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.70%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.70%) PaaS
7 1 (0.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 86 (60.14%) Firewall
2 39 (27.27%) Network Security
3 38 (26.57%) LAN
4 35 (24.48%) VLAN
5 33 (23.08%) VPN
5 33 (23.08%) WAN
6 23 (16.08%) Wireless
7 20 (13.99%) BGP
8 19 (13.29%) TCP/IP
9 16 (11.19%) DNS
10 13 (9.09%) DHCP
10 13 (9.09%) MPLS
10 13 (9.09%) SD-WAN
11 12 (8.39%) OSPF
12 11 (7.69%) IPsec
12 11 (7.69%) SAN
12 11 (7.69%) Unified Communications
12 11 (7.69%) Wi-Fi
13 8 (5.59%) Modbus
13 8 (5.59%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.70%) MySQL
1 1 (0.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (2.10%) Git
1 3 (2.10%) JIRA
2 2 (1.40%) Chocolatey
3 1 (0.70%) GitLab
3 1 (0.70%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 43 (30.07%) Social Skills
2 29 (20.28%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.59%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.29%) Legal
5 8 (5.59%) Documentation Skills
5 8 (5.59%) Manufacturing
5 8 (5.59%) Telecoms
6 6 (4.20%) Finance
7 4 (2.80%) Local Government
8 2 (1.40%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.40%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.40%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (54.55%) Network Engineer
2 20 (13.99%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 15 (10.49%) Senior
4 12 (8.39%) Cisco Engineer
5 11 (7.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 10 (6.99%) Field Engineer
6 10 (6.99%) Platform Engineer
7 9 (6.29%) IT Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Field Service Engineer
8 8 (5.59%) Lead
8 8 (5.59%) Senior Network Engineer
9 6 (4.20%) Design Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Consultant
10 5 (3.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Network Design Engineer
10 5 (3.50%) Technical Leader
10 5 (3.50%) Wintel Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.80%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.50%) XMPP
2 2 (1.40%) JSON
2 2 (1.40%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.40%) XML
2 2 (1.40%) YANG
3 1 (0.70%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.70%) HTML
3 1 (0.70%) ODBC
3 1 (0.70%) OpenConfig
3 1 (0.70%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 44 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 10 (6.99%) Operational Technology
3 9 (6.29%) Product Ownership
4 8 (5.59%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (5.59%) Driving Licence
5 7 (4.90%) CCTV
6 6 (4.20%) PKI
7 5 (3.50%) Life Science
8 4 (2.80%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (2.80%) IoT
8 4 (2.80%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.80%) SCADA
8 4 (2.80%) Security Posture
9 3 (2.10%) 3D Printing
9 3 (2.10%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (2.10%) Management Information System
9 3 (2.10%) Virtual Team
10 2 (1.40%) NHS
10 2 (1.40%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.40%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 31 (21.68%) Windows
2 18 (12.59%) Linux
2 18 (12.59%) Windows Server
3 9 (6.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 3 (2.10%) Unix
5 2 (1.40%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.70%) VMS
6 1 (0.70%) Windows Server 2003
6 1 (0.70%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (15.38%) Project Delivery
3 18 (12.59%) Cybersecurity
4 17 (11.89%) Network Design
5 16 (11.19%) Computer Science
5 16 (11.19%) Continuous Improvement
5 16 (11.19%) High Availability
5 16 (11.19%) Network Monitoring
6 13 (9.09%) Change Control
6 13 (9.09%) Customer Service
6 13 (9.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 13 (9.09%) ITIL
7 12 (8.39%) Service Management
8 11 (7.69%) ITSM
9 10 (6.99%) Platform Engineering
10 9 (6.29%) Knowledge Management
10 9 (6.29%) Migration
10 9 (6.29%) Service Delivery
11 8 (5.59%) Break/Fix
11 8 (5.59%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 25 (17.48%) PowerShell
2 20 (13.99%) Python
3 16 (11.19%) Bash
4 11 (7.69%) SQL
5 9 (6.29%) Perl
6 3 (2.10%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.70%) C
7 1 (0.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 143 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 91 (63.64%) CCNP
3 61 (42.66%) Security Cleared
4 47 (32.87%) SC Cleared
5 26 (18.18%) Degree
6 20 (13.99%) Microsoft Certification
7 18 (12.59%) Network+ Certification
8 17 (11.89%) MCSE
9 12 (8.39%) CCDP
9 12 (8.39%) DV Cleared
9 12 (8.39%) JNCIS
10 8 (5.59%) A+ Certification
11 6 (4.20%) JNCIA
12 5 (3.50%) Computer Science Degree
12 5 (3.50%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (3.50%) Master's Degree
13 4 (2.80%) CCIE
13 4 (2.80%) CISSP
13 4 (2.80%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (2.80%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.10%) NIST
2 3 (2.10%) PMO
3 2 (1.40%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.40%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.40%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.40%) QA
4 1 (0.70%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.70%) JTAG
System Software
1 23 (16.08%) Active Directory
2 13 (9.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.50%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (3.50%) Virtual Servers
4 3 (2.10%) Firmware
5 2 (1.40%) Docker
5 2 (1.40%) Hyper-V
5 2 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
5 2 (1.40%) vSphere
6 1 (0.70%) KVM
6 1 (0.70%) RHEV
6 1 (0.70%) Terminal Services
6 1 (0.70%) Xen
6 1 (0.70%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (9.79%) FortiGate
2 6 (4.20%) Nagios
2 6 (4.20%) SCCM
3 5 (3.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
3 5 (3.50%) Ansible
3 5 (3.50%) WSUS
4 4 (2.80%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (2.80%) Terraform
5 3 (2.10%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.40%) Kubernetes
7 1 (0.70%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.70%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.70%) Grafana
7 1 (0.70%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.70%) Nmap
7 1 (0.70%) Packer
7 1 (0.70%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 96 (67.13%) Cisco
2 33 (23.08%) Palo Alto
3 28 (19.58%) Microsoft
4 21 (14.69%) VMware
5 19 (13.29%) CheckPoint
5 19 (13.29%) SolarWinds
6 16 (11.19%) Fortinet
7 15 (10.49%) Juniper
8 13 (9.09%) Aruba
9 12 (8.39%) Citrix
10 9 (6.29%) Red Hat
11 8 (5.59%) Dell
11 8 (5.59%) F5
12 7 (4.90%) Veeam
13 6 (4.20%) Splunk
14 5 (3.50%) Meraki
15 4 (2.80%) ServiceNow
16 3 (2.10%) CrowdStrike
16 3 (2.10%) Google
16 3 (2.10%) Nokia