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 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 424 312 267
Rank change year-on-year -112 -45 +176
Contract jobs citing CCNA 162 269 435
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.46% 0.74% 0.92%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.39% 2.51% 3.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 111 168 281
10th Percentile £243 £255 £219
25th Percentile £347 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £450
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +5.56% +12.50%
75th Percentile £574 £575 £550
90th Percentile £588 £638 £638
UK excluding London median daily rate £463 £475 £425
% change year-on-year -2.63% +11.76% +29.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 19 32
10th Percentile - £11.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £29.00 £17.20 £17.44
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.05% +52.00% +72.41%
75th Percentile £50.38 £60.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.85 £75.00 £50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £30.00 £43.75 £25.00
% change year-on-year -31.43% +75.00% +72.41%

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 11,681 10,728 13,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.08% 29.33% 29.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,488 6,492 8,730
10th Percentile £300 £312 £300
25th Percentile £413 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £716 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £520 £535
% change year-on-year -3.85% -2.71% +1.81%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,018 509 773
10th Percentile £17.43 £19.23 £17.72
25th Percentile £19.26 £24.18 £27.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £53.50
Median % change year-on-year -44.11% -15.89% +18.89%
75th Percentile £44.94 £67.02 £68.75
90th Percentile £71.00 £75.00 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.05
% change year-on-year -47.05% -8.75% +15.67%

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 November 2025.

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 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 18 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 November 2025. 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 -103 134 £516 +8.68% 178
UK excluding London -84 112 £463 -2.63% 167
London -41 40 £505 +12.22% 45
Work from Home -19 32 £450 -14.29% 68
North of England -62 26 £550 +18.92% 25
Midlands -23 25 £450 +20.00% 32
West Midlands -7 23 £450 -5.26% 18
South East -30 23 £425 -15.00% 64
Yorkshire -46 14 £550 +34.97% 6
Scotland -5 12 £450 +12.50% 21
East of England -6 11 £520 +4.00% 12
North West -42 11 £550 +15.79% 16
South West -11 7 £550 - 7
Wales +3 5 £443 +55.26% 5
North East -8 3 £550 +29.41% 3
Northern Ireland -8 3 £475 - 2
East Midlands -15 2 £121 -67.77% 14
Channel Islands - 1 £440 -

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 (10.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (6.79%) SharePoint
3 6 (3.70%) Skype for Business
4 1 (0.62%) Confluence
4 1 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2010
4 1 (0.62%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 18 (11.11%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (13.58%) Azure
2 15 (9.26%) AWS
3 12 (7.41%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.32%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.47%) GCP
6 2 (1.23%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.23%) Azure Sentinel
6 2 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
6 2 (1.23%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (0.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.62%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.62%) GitHub
7 1 (0.62%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.62%) IaaS
7 1 (0.62%) PaaS
7 1 (0.62%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.62%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 88 (54.32%) Firewall
2 45 (27.78%) DNS
2 45 (27.78%) LAN
3 42 (25.93%) DHCP
4 40 (24.69%) WAN
5 37 (22.84%) Wireless
6 29 (17.90%) VPN
7 25 (15.43%) TCP/IP
8 23 (14.20%) VLAN
9 22 (13.58%) Cisco IOS
9 22 (13.58%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (12.96%) SD-WAN
11 19 (11.73%) BGP
11 19 (11.73%) Network Security
12 16 (9.88%) WLAN
13 15 (9.26%) MPLS
13 15 (9.26%) Unified Communications
14 14 (8.64%) OSPF
15 12 (7.41%) PuTTY
16 11 (6.79%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.62%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (2.47%) Git
2 3 (1.85%) Subversion
3 2 (1.23%) GitLab
3 2 (1.23%) Mercurial
4 1 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.62%) JIRA
General
1 38 (23.46%) Social Skills
2 23 (14.20%) Public Sector
3 21 (12.96%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (12.96%) Manufacturing
4 14 (8.64%) Telecoms
5 12 (7.41%) Finance
6 11 (6.79%) Legal
7 4 (2.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.85%) Local Government
8 3 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.23%) Electronics
9 2 (1.23%) Marketing
10 1 (0.62%) Aerospace
10 1 (0.62%) Banking
10 1 (0.62%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 83 (51.23%) Network Engineer
2 20 (12.35%) Analyst
3 11 (6.79%) Support Engineer
4 10 (6.17%) Network Support
4 10 (6.17%) Network Support Engineer
4 10 (6.17%) Platform Engineer
4 10 (6.17%) Senior
5 9 (5.56%) Cisco Engineer
5 9 (5.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 9 (5.56%) Network Analyst
6 8 (4.94%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 8 (4.94%) Lead
7 7 (4.32%) Field Engineer
8 6 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
8 6 (3.70%) Senior Network Engineer
9 5 (3.09%) Consultant
9 5 (3.09%) Network Support Analyst
9 5 (3.09%) Technical Leader
9 5 (3.09%) Test Engineer
9 5 (3.09%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.09%) XMPP
2 3 (1.85%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.85%) CSS
2 3 (1.85%) HTML
2 3 (1.85%) Node.js
2 3 (1.85%) REST
2 3 (1.85%) RFC 2544
3 1 (0.62%) JSON
3 1 (0.62%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.62%) ODBC
3 1 (0.62%) OpenConfig
3 1 (0.62%) XML
3 1 (0.62%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 25 (15.43%) Data Centre
2 11 (6.79%) Driving Licence
3 10 (6.17%) Virtual Team
4 9 (5.56%) Product Ownership
5 8 (4.94%) CCTV
5 8 (4.94%) Operational Technology
5 8 (4.94%) SCADA
6 7 (4.32%) Hybrid Cloud
7 6 (3.70%) Life Science
7 6 (3.70%) PKI
8 5 (3.09%) Fibre Optics
8 5 (3.09%) Security Posture
9 4 (2.47%) Management Information System
9 4 (2.47%) Self-Motivation
10 3 (1.85%) 3D Printing
10 3 (1.85%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (1.85%) Blog
10 3 (1.85%) IoT
10 3 (1.85%) Onboarding
10 3 (1.85%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 36 (22.22%) Windows
2 22 (13.58%) Windows Server
3 18 (11.11%) Linux
4 10 (6.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.85%) Unix
6 2 (1.23%) Mac OS
7 1 (0.62%) VMS
7 1 (0.62%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.62%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.62%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 22 (13.58%) Problem-Solving
3 21 (12.96%) ITIL
4 20 (12.35%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 15 (9.26%) Service Management
6 14 (8.64%) Network Design
6 14 (8.64%) Network Monitoring
7 13 (8.02%) Change Control
8 12 (7.41%) High Availability
8 12 (7.41%) Incident Management
8 12 (7.41%) ITSM
9 11 (6.79%) Change Management
9 11 (6.79%) Project Delivery
10 10 (6.17%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (5.56%) DevOps
11 9 (5.56%) Knowledge Management
12 8 (4.94%) Project Management
12 8 (4.94%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 27 (16.67%) Python
2 26 (16.05%) PowerShell
3 16 (9.88%) Bash
4 9 (5.56%) Perl
5 8 (4.94%) SQL
6 6 (3.70%) Java
7 4 (2.47%) Kusto Query Language
8 3 (1.85%) C++
8 3 (1.85%) Go
8 3 (1.85%) JavaScript
8 3 (1.85%) Kotlin
8 3 (1.85%) PHP
Qualifications
1 162 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 92 (56.79%) CCNP
3 46 (28.40%) Security Cleared
4 40 (24.69%) Degree
5 35 (21.60%) SC Cleared
6 16 (9.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (9.88%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (9.26%) Network+ Certification
8 14 (8.64%) CCDP
9 12 (7.41%) MCSE
10 10 (6.17%) DV Cleared
11 6 (3.70%) CISSP
11 6 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
11 6 (3.70%) JNCIA
11 6 (3.70%) Master's Degree
12 5 (3.09%) Azure Certification
12 5 (3.09%) CompTIA Security+
12 5 (3.09%) JNCIS
13 4 (2.47%) CEH
13 4 (2.47%) CompTIA CySA+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (4.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (1.23%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (1.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 2 (1.23%) NIST
2 2 (1.23%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.23%) QA
2 2 (1.23%) SLA
3 1 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 30 (18.52%) Active Directory
2 18 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (3.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 6 (3.70%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.85%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.23%) Docker
6 2 (1.23%) Firmware
6 2 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
6 2 (1.23%) vSphere
7 1 (0.62%) Terminal Services
7 1 (0.62%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 14 (8.64%) FortiGate
2 9 (5.56%) Ansible
3 6 (3.70%) SCCM
4 5 (3.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (3.09%) Terraform
4 5 (3.09%) WSUS
5 4 (2.47%) CSIRT
5 4 (2.47%) Grafana
5 4 (2.47%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (2.47%) Nagios
6 3 (1.85%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (1.85%) Puppet
6 3 (1.85%) vCenter Server
7 2 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
7 2 (1.23%) Kubernetes
7 2 (1.23%) OpenView
8 1 (0.62%) Failover Clustering
8 1 (0.62%) Jamf Pro
8 1 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 110 (67.90%) Cisco
2 51 (31.48%) Microsoft
3 28 (17.28%) VMware
4 18 (11.11%) SolarWinds
5 15 (9.26%) CheckPoint
5 15 (9.26%) Fortinet
6 14 (8.64%) Juniper
7 13 (8.02%) Citrix
7 13 (8.02%) Palo Alto
8 12 (7.41%) ServiceNow
9 11 (6.79%) Meraki
10 9 (5.56%) Red Hat
10 9 (5.56%) Remedy
11 8 (4.94%) F5
12 7 (4.32%) Peregrine
12 7 (4.32%) Splunk
12 7 (4.32%) Veeam
13 5 (3.09%) Aruba
14 4 (2.47%) Google
14 4 (2.47%) Nokia