CCNA Contracts

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

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 333 306 331
Rank change year-on-year -27 +25 +139
Contract jobs citing CCNA 192 321 446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.74% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.14% 2.40% 2.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 214 303
10th Percentile £285 £270 £158
25th Percentile £369 £326 £314
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +20.48%
75th Percentile £588 £579 £575
90th Percentile £613 £675 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +21.18% -15.00% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 30 43
10th Percentile £34.40 £13.95 £14.25
25th Percentile £45.38 £14.00 £14.63
Median hourly rate £57.50 £17.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +228.57% -65.00% +88.68%
75th Percentile £75.00 £24.50 £78.25
90th Percentile - £28.74 £81.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £15.38 £40.50
% change year-on-year +387.80% -62.04% +63.79%

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 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCNA.

Daily rate trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCNA.

Hourly rate trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNA over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 17 Contract 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 April 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 -46 166 £515 +14.44% 160
UK excluding London -27 123 £515 +21.18% 131
Work from Home +26 54 £500 -2.91% 133
London +11 49 £500 - 44
South East +13 38 £520 +9.47% 38
North of England +3 37 £425 +21.43% 25
North West -7 24 £425 +6.25% 9
South West +29 21 £550 +4.76% 26
Midlands +5 14 £450 +38.46% 22
Yorkshire +8 11 £575 +69.12% 13
East Midlands +13 9 £500 +53.85% 10
Wales +10 6 £413 - 7
Scotland +1 5 £323 -41.23% 4
West Midlands -6 5 £210 -35.38% 12
East of England +12 3 £550 +83.33% 2
North East -1 2 £288 -16.67% 4
Channel Islands - 1 £450 -

CCNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (6.25%) Confluence
2 5 (2.60%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.52%) CMS
Applications
1 21 (10.94%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (4.69%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (13.54%) Azure
2 14 (7.29%) AWS
3 7 (3.65%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (3.13%) GCP
5 5 (2.60%) IaaS
5 5 (2.60%) PaaS
6 3 (1.56%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 2 (1.04%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.52%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.52%) OCI
8 1 (0.52%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 105 (54.69%) Firewall
2 61 (31.77%) Network Security
3 60 (31.25%) VPN
4 52 (27.08%) WAN
5 47 (24.48%) LAN
6 41 (21.35%) TCP/IP
7 38 (19.79%) BGP
8 36 (18.75%) Wireless
9 35 (18.23%) DNS
10 33 (17.19%) OSPF
11 26 (13.54%) DHCP
12 21 (10.94%) MPLS
13 17 (8.85%) Cisco ASA
14 14 (7.29%) VLAN
14 14 (7.29%) VoIP
15 13 (6.77%) EIGRP
15 13 (6.77%) IPsec
16 12 (6.25%) Cisco Nexus
16 12 (6.25%) Internet
16 12 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 13 (6.77%) JIRA
2 4 (2.08%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.56%) GitLab
3 3 (1.56%) Jenkins
General
1 84 (43.75%) Social Skills
2 50 (26.04%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (13.02%) Public Sector
4 9 (4.69%) Finance
4 9 (4.69%) Telecoms
5 4 (2.08%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (2.08%) Electronics
5 4 (2.08%) Legal
5 4 (2.08%) Manufacturing
5 4 (2.08%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (1.56%) Billing
6 3 (1.56%) Local Government
6 3 (1.56%) Marketing
6 3 (1.56%) Military
7 2 (1.04%) Back Office
7 2 (1.04%) Banking
7 2 (1.04%) German Language
7 2 (1.04%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.52%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.52%) Law
Job Titles
1 96 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 21 (10.94%) Architect
3 16 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 15 (7.81%) Cisco Engineer
4 15 (7.81%) Network Architect
5 13 (6.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 12 (6.25%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 10 (5.21%) Senior
8 9 (4.69%) Analyst
8 9 (4.69%) IT Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) NOC Engineer
9 8 (4.17%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
10 7 (3.65%) Systems Engineer
11 6 (3.13%) Cisco Architect
11 6 (3.13%) Security Engineer
12 5 (2.60%) Cisco Network Architect
12 5 (2.60%) Juniper Architect
13 4 (2.08%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
13 4 (2.08%) Project Engineer
13 4 (2.08%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.25%) Flash
2 4 (2.08%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.04%) LDAP
3 2 (1.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.77%) Clustering
2 12 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
3 11 (5.73%) Data Centre
4 8 (4.17%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (3.65%) Management Information System
6 6 (3.13%) CMDB
7 5 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.60%) NHS
7 5 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.60%) Security Posture
8 4 (2.08%) Cyberattack
8 4 (2.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (2.08%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 3 (1.56%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
9 3 (1.56%) IVR
9 3 (1.56%) PKI
9 3 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (1.04%) Cyber Kill Chain
Operating Systems
1 24 (12.50%) Windows
2 10 (5.21%) Linux
3 5 (2.60%) Windows Server
4 3 (1.56%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.56%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (1.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (1.04%) VMS
5 2 (1.04%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.52%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (25.52%) Problem-Solving
2 44 (22.92%) Computer Science
3 29 (15.10%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 28 (14.58%) Migration
4 28 (14.58%) Validation
5 26 (13.54%) Network Architecture
6 25 (13.02%) High Availability
7 23 (11.98%) ITIL
8 22 (11.46%) Cybersecurity
9 18 (9.38%) Service Management
10 17 (8.85%) Agile
10 17 (8.85%) Network Monitoring
11 15 (7.81%) Mentoring
12 14 (7.29%) Network Virtualisation
13 12 (6.25%) Critical Thinking
13 12 (6.25%) Network Design
13 12 (6.25%) NsoIT
13 12 (6.25%) Power Management
13 12 (6.25%) System Testing
13 12 (6.25%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 21 (10.94%) Python
2 6 (3.13%) Bash
2 6 (3.13%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.56%) SQL
4 2 (1.04%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (1.04%) Rust
Qualifications
1 192 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 110 (57.29%) CCNP
3 65 (33.85%) Degree
4 61 (31.77%) Security Cleared
5 56 (29.17%) SC Cleared
6 30 (15.63%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (8.33%) Master's Degree
8 15 (7.81%) JNCIS
9 14 (7.29%) DV Cleared
9 14 (7.29%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 12 (6.25%) Network+ Certification
11 11 (5.73%) CISSP
12 10 (5.21%) CCIE
13 9 (4.69%) JNCIA
14 7 (3.65%) CCDP
14 7 (3.65%) Microsoft Certification
15 6 (3.13%) CEH
15 6 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
16 5 (2.60%) CCSA
16 5 (2.60%) CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (2.60%) NIST
2 4 (2.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (2.08%) PCI DSS
3 3 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 2 (1.04%) DICOM
4 2 (1.04%) GDPR
4 2 (1.04%) HL7
5 1 (0.52%) NIST 800
5 1 (0.52%) QA
5 1 (0.52%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (10.42%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (7.81%) VMware ESXi
2 15 (7.81%) VMware NSX
3 13 (6.77%) Active Directory
4 5 (2.60%) Firmware
5 3 (1.56%) vSphere
6 2 (1.04%) Hyper-V
7 1 (0.52%) Docker
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.52%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 14 (7.29%) vCenter Server
2 11 (5.73%) Ansible
3 5 (2.60%) FortiGate
3 5 (2.60%) Terraform
4 4 (2.08%) ZABBIX
5 3 (1.56%) Cisco CUCM
5 3 (1.56%) Cisco Prime
5 3 (1.56%) CSIRT
5 3 (1.56%) Kubernetes
5 3 (1.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 3 (1.56%) SCCM
6 2 (1.04%) Cisco UCCE
6 2 (1.04%) Nagios
6 2 (1.04%) SCOM
7 1 (0.52%) Cisco UCCX
7 1 (0.52%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 137 (71.35%) Cisco
2 37 (19.27%) Microsoft
3 26 (13.54%) VMware
4 23 (11.98%) CheckPoint
5 22 (11.46%) Juniper
6 21 (10.94%) Palo Alto
7 20 (10.42%) Fortinet
8 14 (7.29%) Meraki
9 13 (6.77%) SolarWinds
10 12 (6.25%) Atlassian
11 7 (3.65%) Aruba
11 7 (3.65%) Infoblox
12 6 (3.13%) Fujitsu
13 5 (2.60%) Arista
13 5 (2.60%) F5
13 5 (2.60%) ServiceNow
13 5 (2.60%) Veeam
14 4 (2.08%) Google
14 4 (2.08%) Nokia
15 3 (1.56%) CrowdStrike