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

6 months to
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 455 314 262
Rank change year-on-year -141 -52 +132
Contract jobs citing CCNA 140 213 402
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.36% 0.68% 0.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.07% 2.27% 2.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 141 255
10th Percentile £194 £238 £221
25th Percentile £386 £330 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +4.19% +5.88% -5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £548
90th Percentile £588 £600 £670
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £459 £400
% change year-on-year +3.49% +14.75% -6.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 9 37
10th Percentile £22.30 £11.75 -
25th Percentile £24.63 £18.50 £14.00
Median hourly rate £30.13 £38.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.72% +65.22% +55.93%
75th Percentile £37.25 £75.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £40.55 - £52.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £20.75 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -53.89% +95.65% +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 13,088 9,382 13,516
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 33.85% 29.83% 30.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,634 5,651 8,426
10th Percentile £317 £300 £300
25th Percentile £415 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £525 £548
Median % change year-on-year -1.24% -4.11% -0.45%
75th Percentile £623 £634 £650
90th Percentile £725 £725 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £535
% change year-on-year - -6.54% +1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 452 918
10th Percentile £15.67 £19.35 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.10 £24.18 £21.46
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.52 £46.39
Median % change year-on-year -36.36% -14.81% +3.09%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.71 £65.83
90th Percentile £76.26 £77.47 £78.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.94 £47.50
% change year-on-year -42.76% -7.49% +5.56%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -124 113 £475 +5.44% 140
UK excluding London -94 102 £475 +3.49% 139
London -51 32 £450 +5.88% 25
North of England -78 32 £481 +2.39% 26
Work from Home -30 31 £445 +5.95% 35
South East -37 23 £450 +17.26% 40
North West -34 22 £481 +1.32% 10
Midlands -47 13 £269 -14.00% 19
Scotland +2 10 £450 +12.50% 10
West Midlands -29 10 £371 +76.79% 10
Wales +1 9 £550 +77.42% 4
South West -36 7 £550 - 24
North East -8 6 £550 +46.67% 3
Yorkshire -60 6 £440 -4.86% 14
East of England -15 5 £194 -61.25% 17
Northern Ireland -1 3 £475 - 2
East Midlands -31 3 £121 -70.70% 9

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 16 (11.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (8.57%) SharePoint
3 6 (4.29%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.43%) Confluence
5 1 (0.71%) Apache
Applications
1 9 (6.43%) MS Visio
2 8 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (1.43%) DELMIA
1 2 (1.43%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.29%) Azure
2 17 (12.14%) AWS
3 12 (8.57%) Entra ID
4 6 (4.29%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.14%) GCP
5 3 (2.14%) Nutanix
5 3 (2.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (1.43%) AWS IoT
6 2 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (0.71%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.71%) Azure Stack
7 1 (0.71%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.71%) IaaS
7 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.71%) OneDrive
7 1 (0.71%) PaaS
7 1 (0.71%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 89 (63.57%) Firewall
2 40 (28.57%) LAN
3 39 (27.86%) Network Security
4 37 (26.43%) WAN
5 35 (25.00%) VLAN
6 33 (23.57%) VPN
7 22 (15.71%) BGP
7 22 (15.71%) Wireless
8 17 (12.14%) TCP/IP
9 14 (10.00%) DNS
9 14 (10.00%) OSPF
9 14 (10.00%) SD-WAN
10 13 (9.29%) IPsec
10 13 (9.29%) MPLS
10 13 (9.29%) SAN
11 12 (8.57%) Wi-Fi
12 11 (7.86%) DHCP
12 11 (7.86%) Unified Communications
13 9 (6.43%) Structured Cabling
14 8 (5.71%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.71%) MySQL
1 1 (0.71%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (3.57%) JIRA
2 3 (2.14%) Chocolatey
2 3 (2.14%) Git
3 2 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
4 1 (0.71%) GitLab
4 1 (0.71%) Jenkins
General
1 43 (30.71%) Social Skills
2 33 (23.57%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (12.86%) Public Sector
4 10 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (6.43%) Manufacturing
6 8 (5.71%) Legal
7 7 (5.00%) Telecoms
8 4 (2.86%) Finance
8 4 (2.86%) Local Government
9 2 (1.43%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (56.43%) Network Engineer
2 20 (14.29%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
3 14 (10.00%) Senior
4 13 (9.29%) Field Engineer
5 12 (8.57%) Cisco Engineer
5 12 (8.57%) IT Engineer
6 11 (7.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 11 (7.86%) Field Service Engineer
7 10 (7.14%) Platform Engineer
8 8 (5.71%) Senior Network Engineer
9 6 (4.29%) Design Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Consultant
10 5 (3.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Network Design Engineer
10 5 (3.57%) Wintel Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Lead
11 4 (2.86%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
11 4 (2.86%) Security Engineer
12 3 (2.14%) Azure Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.57%) XMPP
2 2 (1.43%) JSON
2 2 (1.43%) NETCONF
2 2 (1.43%) XML
2 2 (1.43%) YANG
3 1 (0.71%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.71%) HTML
3 1 (0.71%) OpenConfig
3 1 (0.71%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 49 (35.00%) Data Centre
2 11 (7.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (7.14%) Operational Technology
4 8 (5.71%) Product Ownership
5 6 (4.29%) PKI
6 5 (3.57%) Hybrid Cloud
6 5 (3.57%) Life Science
7 4 (2.86%) IoT
7 4 (2.86%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.86%) SCADA
7 4 (2.86%) Security Posture
8 3 (2.14%) 3D Printing
8 3 (2.14%) Fibre Optics
8 3 (2.14%) Management Information System
8 3 (2.14%) Virtual Team
9 2 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.43%) Driving Licence
9 2 (1.43%) Insider Threat
9 2 (1.43%) NHS
9 2 (1.43%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 31 (22.14%) Windows
2 21 (15.00%) Linux
3 17 (12.14%) Windows Server
4 9 (6.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (2.14%) Unix
6 2 (1.43%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (25.71%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (15.71%) Project Delivery
3 17 (12.14%) Customer Service
3 17 (12.14%) Network Design
4 16 (11.43%) Network Monitoring
5 15 (10.71%) Computer Science
5 15 (10.71%) Cybersecurity
5 15 (10.71%) High Availability
6 14 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (9.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 13 (9.29%) ITIL
8 12 (8.57%) Change Control
8 12 (8.57%) ITSM
9 11 (7.86%) Break/Fix
9 11 (7.86%) Migration
9 11 (7.86%) Service Management
10 10 (7.14%) Platform Engineering
11 9 (6.43%) Knowledge Management
11 9 (6.43%) Network Architecture
11 9 (6.43%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 23 (16.43%) PowerShell
2 20 (14.29%) Python
3 15 (10.71%) Bash
4 11 (7.86%) SQL
5 9 (6.43%) Perl
6 2 (1.43%) Kusto Query Language
7 1 (0.71%) C
7 1 (0.71%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 140 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 91 (65.00%) CCNP
3 62 (44.29%) Security Cleared
4 47 (33.57%) SC Cleared
5 27 (19.29%) Degree
6 22 (15.71%) Microsoft Certification
7 20 (14.29%) Network+ Certification
8 19 (13.57%) MCSE
9 13 (9.29%) DV Cleared
9 13 (9.29%) JNCIS
10 11 (7.86%) A+ Certification
10 11 (7.86%) CCDP
11 6 (4.29%) JNCIA
12 5 (3.57%) ITIL Certification
12 5 (3.57%) Master's Degree
13 4 (2.86%) AWS Certification
13 4 (2.86%) CCIE
13 4 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
13 4 (2.86%) JNCIP
14 3 (2.14%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (2.14%) NIST
2 3 (2.14%) PMO
3 2 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 2 (1.43%) PCI DSS
3 2 (1.43%) QA
4 1 (0.71%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.71%) JTAG
System Software
1 22 (15.71%) Active Directory
2 12 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.57%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 5 (3.57%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (2.86%) Docker
5 3 (2.14%) Firmware
6 2 (1.43%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.71%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.71%) KVM
7 1 (0.71%) RHEV
7 1 (0.71%) vSphere
7 1 (0.71%) Xen
7 1 (0.71%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 13 (9.29%) FortiGate
2 7 (5.00%) Terraform
3 6 (4.29%) Ansible
3 6 (4.29%) Nagios
3 6 (4.29%) SCCM
4 5 (3.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 5 (3.57%) WSUS
5 4 (2.86%) Kubernetes
5 4 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.43%) CSIRT
7 1 (0.71%) Cisco Prime
7 1 (0.71%) Failover Clustering
7 1 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
7 1 (0.71%) Nmap
7 1 (0.71%) Packer
7 1 (0.71%) Proxmox
7 1 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 97 (69.29%) Cisco
2 36 (25.71%) Palo Alto
3 30 (21.43%) Microsoft
4 21 (15.00%) CheckPoint
5 20 (14.29%) VMware
6 19 (13.57%) SolarWinds
7 16 (11.43%) Fortinet
8 15 (10.71%) Aruba
9 14 (10.00%) Juniper
10 12 (8.57%) Citrix
11 11 (7.86%) Dell
12 9 (6.43%) Red Hat
13 8 (5.71%) F5
14 6 (4.29%) Splunk
14 6 (4.29%) Veeam
15 5 (3.57%) Meraki
16 3 (2.14%) Infoblox
16 3 (2.14%) Nokia
16 3 (2.14%) ServiceNow
17 2 (1.43%) Arista