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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 439 329 279
Rank change year-on-year -110 -50 +97
Contract jobs citing CCNA 202 205 353
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.44% 0.70% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.33% 2.29% 2.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 145 247
10th Percentile £190 £286 £270
25th Percentile £400 £363 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.60% +11.11% -5.26%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £570
90th Percentile £588 £613 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £473 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -5.40% +11.11% -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 7 29
10th Percentile £26.95 £34.40 -
25th Percentile £36.25 £45.38 £14.00
Median hourly rate £63.14 £57.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +9.80% +228.57% -65.00%
75th Percentile £67.84 £75.00 £24.75
90th Percentile £71.69 - £31.66
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.14 £75.00 £15.75
% change year-on-year -15.82% +376.19% -29.25%

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 15,157 8,966 13,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.11% 30.68% 30.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,065 5,718 8,372
10th Percentile £343 £300 £300
25th Percentile £425 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £650
90th Percentile £725 £713 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,105 490 1,025
10th Percentile £16.35 £18.50 £13.75
25th Percentile £20.75 £24.04 £17.72
Median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £39.92
Median % change year-on-year -12.22% +12.73% -23.96%
75th Percentile £69.25 £67.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.15 £81.05 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.72 £48.82 £40.00
% change year-on-year -18.64% +22.04% -19.22%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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
England -131 170 £472 -5.60% 159
UK excluding London -69 160 £473 -5.40% 145
North of England -56 56 £481 +3.89% 38
North West -13 48 £481 +7.06% 18
South East -58 35 £463 -10.19% 31
London -76 34 £473 -0.53% 32
Work from Home -53 33 £445 -11.00% 30
Midlands -57 19 £380 -15.56% 32
Wales 0 18 £550 +33.33% 4
South West -34 15 £356 -35.23% 18
West Midlands -48 15 £278 +35.37% 18
East of England -28 10 £460 -16.36% 16
Scotland +11 7 £450 +12.50% 7
North East -11 6 £550 +69.23% 6
Yorkshire -61 4 £400 -30.43% 14
East Midlands -39 3 - - 14

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 9 (4.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.97%) Confluence
2 6 (2.97%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.50%) Apache
3 1 (0.50%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (2.97%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.99%) DELMIA
1 2 (0.99%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 36 (17.82%) Azure
2 34 (16.83%) AWS
3 12 (5.94%) Entra ID
4 7 (3.47%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.97%) GCP
6 3 (1.49%) Nutanix
7 2 (0.99%) AWS IoT
7 2 (0.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (0.99%) GitHub
8 1 (0.50%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.50%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.50%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.50%) IaaS
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.50%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.50%) PaaS
8 1 (0.50%) SaaS
8 1 (0.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 109 (53.96%) Firewall
2 62 (30.69%) VLAN
3 50 (24.75%) Network Security
3 50 (24.75%) WAN
4 47 (23.27%) LAN
4 47 (23.27%) SAN
5 44 (21.78%) VPN
6 35 (17.33%) Wireless
7 30 (14.85%) BGP
8 29 (14.36%) DNS
9 26 (12.87%) TCP/IP
10 22 (10.89%) OSPF
11 17 (8.42%) IPsec
11 17 (8.42%) Structured Cabling
12 16 (7.92%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (7.43%) SD-WAN
14 14 (6.93%) DHCP
14 14 (6.93%) MPLS
15 13 (6.44%) Cisco IOS
16 9 (4.46%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.50%) MySQL
1 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (5.94%) JIRA
2 3 (1.49%) Chocolatey
2 3 (1.49%) Git
2 3 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.50%) Browser DevTools
General
1 62 (30.69%) Social Skills
2 55 (27.23%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (8.91%) Documentation Skills
4 14 (6.93%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.46%) Finance
6 8 (3.96%) Legal
7 7 (3.47%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.97%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.48%) Banking
10 4 (1.98%) Local Government
11 2 (0.99%) Aerospace
11 2 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (0.99%) Law
11 2 (0.99%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 88 (43.56%) Network Engineer
2 39 (19.31%) IT Engineer
3 38 (18.81%) Field Engineer
4 37 (18.32%) Field Service Engineer
5 25 (12.38%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 17 (8.42%) IT Support
6 17 (8.42%) Support Engineer
7 14 (6.93%) Field Support Engineer
7 14 (6.93%) IT Support Engineer
8 13 (6.44%) Cisco Engineer
9 12 (5.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 12 (5.94%) Senior
10 11 (5.45%) Architect
11 10 (4.95%) Analyst
11 10 (4.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (4.46%) Platform Engineer
13 6 (2.97%) Design Engineer
13 6 (2.97%) Network Architect
13 6 (2.97%) Senior Network Engineer
14 5 (2.48%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.95%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.48%) XMPP
3 2 (0.99%) HTML
3 2 (0.99%) JSON
3 2 (0.99%) NETCONF
3 2 (0.99%) RFC 2544
3 2 (0.99%) XML
3 2 (0.99%) YANG
4 1 (0.50%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.50%) CSS
4 1 (0.50%) Flash
4 1 (0.50%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.50%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 89 (44.06%) Data Centre
2 40 (19.80%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (6.93%) Operational Technology
4 9 (4.46%) Product Ownership
5 7 (3.47%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (2.97%) Onboarding
6 6 (2.97%) SCADA
7 5 (2.48%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.98%) IoT
9 3 (1.49%) 3D Printing
9 3 (1.49%) BYOD
9 3 (1.49%) Driving Licence
9 3 (1.49%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (0.99%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.99%) NHS
10 2 (0.99%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.50%) Clustering
11 1 (0.50%) Data Fabric
11 1 (0.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 33 (16.34%) Windows
2 28 (13.86%) Linux
3 16 (7.92%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (0.99%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.50%) VMS
6 1 (0.50%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.50%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (31.19%) Problem-Solving
2 40 (19.80%) Customer Service
3 37 (18.32%) Break/Fix
4 26 (12.87%) Project Delivery
5 25 (12.38%) ITSM
6 19 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
6 19 (9.41%) Cybersecurity
6 19 (9.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 18 (8.91%) High Availability
8 17 (8.42%) ITIL
8 17 (8.42%) Network Monitoring
9 16 (7.92%) Agile
10 15 (7.43%) Network Segmentation
10 15 (7.43%) Service Management
11 14 (6.93%) Network Design
12 13 (6.44%) Change Management
12 13 (6.44%) Computer Science
12 13 (6.44%) Migration
13 11 (5.45%) Waterfall
14 10 (4.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 27 (13.37%) Python
2 19 (9.41%) Bash
3 17 (8.42%) PowerShell
4 9 (4.46%) Perl
5 4 (1.98%) SQL
6 2 (0.99%) C
6 2 (0.99%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 202 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 114 (56.44%) CCNP
3 85 (42.08%) Security Cleared
4 62 (30.69%) SC Cleared
5 50 (24.75%) Network+ Certification
6 43 (21.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 40 (19.80%) MCSE
8 37 (18.32%) A+ Certification
9 30 (14.85%) Degree
10 22 (10.89%) DV Cleared
11 14 (6.93%) JNCIS
12 11 (5.45%) CCDP
13 9 (4.46%) AWS Certification
14 8 (3.96%) Server+ Certification
15 7 (3.47%) Computer Science Degree
15 7 (3.47%) JNCIA
16 5 (2.48%) CISSP
16 5 (2.48%) PMI Certification
16 5 (2.48%) PMP
17 4 (1.98%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (4.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.48%) Cyber Essentials
2 5 (2.48%) NCSC
3 3 (1.49%) PMO
4 2 (0.99%) GDPR
4 2 (0.99%) NIST
4 2 (0.99%) QA
5 1 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.50%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.50%) GxP
5 1 (0.50%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.50%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.50%) JTAG
System Software
1 19 (9.41%) Active Directory
2 10 (4.95%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.47%) Docker
4 3 (1.49%) Firmware
4 3 (1.49%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.50%) KVM
5 1 (0.50%) RHEV
5 1 (0.50%) Snort
5 1 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.50%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.50%) Xen
Systems Management
1 13 (6.44%) Terraform
2 12 (5.94%) FortiGate
3 11 (5.45%) Ansible
4 7 (3.47%) Kubernetes
4 7 (3.47%) Nagios
5 5 (2.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.98%) Cisco Prime
7 2 (0.99%) Podman
8 1 (0.50%) CASB
8 1 (0.50%) Cisco CUCM
8 1 (0.50%) CSIRT
8 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Intune
8 1 (0.50%) Nmap
8 1 (0.50%) Packer
8 1 (0.50%) Proxmox
8 1 (0.50%) Suricata
8 1 (0.50%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 111 (54.95%) Cisco
2 44 (21.78%) Palo Alto
3 37 (18.32%) Dell
4 30 (14.85%) Microsoft
5 25 (12.38%) Aruba
6 23 (11.39%) CheckPoint
7 21 (10.40%) Juniper
8 17 (8.42%) VMware
9 16 (7.92%) Fortinet
10 14 (6.93%) ServiceNow
11 13 (6.44%) Infoblox
11 13 (6.44%) SolarWinds
12 10 (4.95%) Citrix
13 9 (4.46%) Red Hat
14 8 (3.96%) F5
15 5 (2.48%) Ekahau
16 4 (1.98%) Broadcom
16 4 (1.98%) Meraki
17 3 (1.49%) Qualys
17 3 (1.49%) Splunk