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 24 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 427 309 271
Rank change year-on-year -118 -38 +107
Contract jobs citing CCNA 182 228 375
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.42% 0.78% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.23% 2.56% 2.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 163 257
10th Percentile £209 £286 £261
25th Percentile £405 £400 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £490 £440
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +11.36% -7.37%
75th Percentile £538 £584 £550
90th Percentile £588 £613 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £474 £500 £425
% change year-on-year -5.20% +17.65% -8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 30
10th Percentile £23.85 £30.05 -
25th Percentile £28.50 £42.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £39.50 £56.00 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -29.46% +192.89% -42.50%
75th Percentile £58.51 £75.00 £24.94
90th Percentile £67.96 - £28.74
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.51 £75.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year -36.66% +328.57% -22.67%

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 14,749 8,900 13,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.66% 30.55% 30.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,717 5,665 8,401
10th Percentile £335 £288 £300
25th Percentile £420 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £537
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.32% -2.28%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £650
90th Percentile £721 £714 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,078 478 1,011
10th Percentile £16.17 £18.51 £13.87
25th Percentile £20.31 £24.18 £17.74
Median hourly rate £34.93 £42.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.82% +13.33% -27.88%
75th Percentile £67.84 £67.50 £62.50
90th Percentile £84.00 £81.01 £76.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £48.31 £37.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% +28.83% -23.47%

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 24 March 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 24 March 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 24 March 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 -145 153 £472 -5.60% 156
UK excluding London -89 141 £474 -5.20% 146
North of England -58 53 £481 +1.32% 37
North West -22 43 £481 +1.85% 17
Work from Home -59 33 £445 -11.00% 24
London -86 33 £470 +4.44% 26
South East -62 31 £483 -3.50% 32
Midlands -62 16 £371 -17.50% 33
Wales +1 15 £550 +33.33% 3
West Midlands -50 14 £363 +76.83% 17
East of England -20 10 £460 -16.36% 18
South West -48 9 £411 -25.23% 17
Scotland +1 7 £450 +12.50% 7
North East -12 6 £550 +69.23% 7
Yorkshire -65 6 £420 -26.96% 13
East Midlands -39 1 - - 16

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 10 (5.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.30%) Confluence
4 1 (0.55%) Apache
4 1 (0.55%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 6 (3.30%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.10%) DELMIA
1 2 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 34 (18.68%) Azure
2 31 (17.03%) AWS
3 14 (7.69%) Entra ID
4 6 (3.30%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.75%) GCP
6 3 (1.65%) Nutanix
7 2 (1.10%) AWS IoT
7 2 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.10%) IaaS
7 2 (1.10%) PaaS
7 2 (1.10%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.55%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.55%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.55%) Google Ads
8 1 (0.55%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
8 1 (0.55%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.55%) SaaS
8 1 (0.55%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 104 (57.14%) Firewall
2 58 (31.87%) VLAN
3 49 (26.92%) WAN
4 48 (26.37%) LAN
4 48 (26.37%) Network Security
5 42 (23.08%) VPN
6 34 (18.68%) SAN
7 32 (17.58%) Wireless
8 29 (15.93%) BGP
9 24 (13.19%) DNS
10 23 (12.64%) TCP/IP
11 21 (11.54%) OSPF
12 17 (9.34%) IPsec
13 16 (8.79%) Structured Cabling
13 16 (8.79%) Wi-Fi
14 14 (7.69%) MPLS
15 13 (7.14%) SD-WAN
16 12 (6.59%) DHCP
17 11 (6.04%) Cisco IOS
18 8 (4.40%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.55%) MySQL
1 1 (0.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (4.95%) JIRA
2 3 (1.65%) Chocolatey
2 3 (1.65%) Git
2 3 (1.65%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.55%) Browser DevTools
General
1 55 (30.22%) Social Skills
2 42 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (8.79%) Documentation Skills
4 15 (8.24%) Public Sector
5 9 (4.95%) Legal
6 8 (4.40%) Finance
7 7 (3.85%) Manufacturing
8 6 (3.30%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.75%) Banking
9 5 (2.75%) Local Government
10 2 (1.10%) Aerospace
10 2 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
11 1 (0.55%) Law
11 1 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 89 (48.90%) Network Engineer
2 29 (15.93%) IT Engineer
3 27 (14.84%) Field Engineer
4 26 (14.29%) Field Service Engineer
5 25 (13.74%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 13 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
6 13 (7.14%) IT Support
6 13 (7.14%) Support Engineer
7 12 (6.59%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 12 (6.59%) Senior
8 10 (5.49%) Analyst
8 10 (5.49%) Field Support Engineer
8 10 (5.49%) IT Support Engineer
9 9 (4.95%) Architect
9 9 (4.95%) Platform Engineer
10 7 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Design Engineer
11 6 (3.30%) Network Architect
11 6 (3.30%) Senior Network Engineer
12 5 (2.75%) Network Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.49%) 802.1X
2 5 (2.75%) XMPP
3 2 (1.10%) HTML
3 2 (1.10%) JSON
3 2 (1.10%) NETCONF
3 2 (1.10%) RFC 2544
3 2 (1.10%) XML
3 2 (1.10%) YANG
4 1 (0.55%) ARM Templates
4 1 (0.55%) CSS
4 1 (0.55%) Flash
4 1 (0.55%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 73 (40.11%) Data Centre
2 27 (14.84%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (7.69%) Operational Technology
4 9 (4.95%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 6 (3.30%) SCADA
7 5 (2.75%) Enterprise Cloud
7 5 (2.75%) Onboarding
8 4 (2.20%) IoT
9 3 (1.65%) 3D Printing
9 3 (1.65%) BYOD
9 3 (1.65%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 2 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 2 (1.10%) Life Science
10 2 (1.10%) NHS
10 2 (1.10%) Public Cloud
11 1 (0.55%) CCTV
11 1 (0.55%) Clustering
11 1 (0.55%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 31 (17.03%) Windows
2 24 (13.19%) Linux
3 13 (7.14%) Windows Server
4 9 (4.95%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (2.20%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.55%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (15.93%) Customer Service
3 26 (14.29%) Break/Fix
4 24 (13.19%) Project Delivery
5 19 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (10.44%) ITSM
6 18 (9.89%) High Availability
7 17 (9.34%) Cybersecurity
7 17 (9.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 16 (8.79%) Network Monitoring
9 15 (8.24%) Agile
10 14 (7.69%) Network Design
11 13 (7.14%) Computer Science
11 13 (7.14%) Migration
11 13 (7.14%) Network Segmentation
12 12 (6.59%) ITIL
13 11 (6.04%) Service Management
14 10 (5.49%) Platform Engineering
14 10 (5.49%) Waterfall
15 9 (4.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 23 (12.64%) Python
2 15 (8.24%) Bash
2 15 (8.24%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.95%) Perl
4 4 (2.20%) SQL
5 2 (1.10%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.55%) C
6 1 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 182 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 106 (58.24%) CCNP
3 77 (42.31%) Security Cleared
4 55 (30.22%) SC Cleared
5 39 (21.43%) Network+ Certification
6 31 (17.03%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (14.84%) Degree
7 27 (14.84%) MCSE
8 26 (14.29%) A+ Certification
9 19 (10.44%) DV Cleared
10 14 (7.69%) JNCIS
11 11 (6.04%) CCDP
12 9 (4.95%) AWS Certification
13 7 (3.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (3.85%) JNCIA
14 6 (3.30%) Server+ Certification
15 5 (2.75%) CISSP
16 4 (2.20%) PMI Certification
16 4 (2.20%) PMP
17 3 (1.65%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (2.75%) NCSC
3 3 (1.65%) Cyber Essentials
3 3 (1.65%) PMO
4 2 (1.10%) GDPR
4 2 (1.10%) NIST
4 2 (1.10%) QA
5 1 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.55%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.55%) GxP
5 1 (0.55%) HMG Security Policy Framework
5 1 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 27005
5 1 (0.55%) JTAG
System Software
1 20 (10.99%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (2.75%) Docker
4 4 (2.20%) Firmware
5 1 (0.55%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.55%) KVM
5 1 (0.55%) RHEV
5 1 (0.55%) Snort
5 1 (0.55%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.55%) VMware NSX
5 1 (0.55%) vSphere
5 1 (0.55%) Xen
Systems Management
1 12 (6.59%) Terraform
2 11 (6.04%) FortiGate
3 6 (3.30%) Ansible
3 6 (3.30%) Nagios
4 5 (2.75%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (2.75%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.65%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.55%) CASB
6 1 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (0.55%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.55%) CSIRT
6 1 (0.55%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.55%) Nmap
6 1 (0.55%) Packer
6 1 (0.55%) Proxmox
6 1 (0.55%) SCCM
6 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.55%) Suricata
6 1 (0.55%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 103 (56.59%) Cisco
2 46 (25.27%) Palo Alto
3 31 (17.03%) Microsoft
4 26 (14.29%) Dell
5 24 (13.19%) Aruba
6 23 (12.64%) CheckPoint
7 20 (10.99%) Juniper
8 16 (8.79%) VMware
9 14 (7.69%) Fortinet
10 12 (6.59%) Infoblox
11 11 (6.04%) SolarWinds
12 10 (5.49%) Citrix
13 9 (4.95%) Red Hat
13 9 (4.95%) ServiceNow
14 8 (4.40%) F5
15 5 (2.75%) Ekahau
15 5 (2.75%) Meraki
16 3 (1.65%) Arista
16 3 (1.65%) Extreme Networks
16 3 (1.65%) Zscaler