CCNA Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 127 106 82
Rank change year-on-year -21 -24 +63
Contract jobs citing CCNA 12 3 29
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.54% 0.18% 1.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.42% 0.61% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 11
10th Percentile £373 £228 £258
25th Percentile £414 £259 £285
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £320 £413
Median % change year-on-year +40.63% -22.42% -8.33%
75th Percentile £495 £384 £538
90th Percentile £581 £416 £600
England median daily rate £500 £475 £440
% change year-on-year +5.26% +7.95% +3.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 - -
Median hourly rate £30.00 - £23.00
75th Percentile £31.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £34.75 £35.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.71% +40.00% +72.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 845 488 562
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 37.69% 29.36% 30.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 581 322 348
10th Percentile £300 £214 £300
25th Percentile £420 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.44% -0.48% +5.00%
75th Percentile £576 £612 £600
90th Percentile £675 £724 £675
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 15 30
10th Percentile £14.65 £20.20 £17.46
25th Percentile £18.87 £24.58 £23.00
Median hourly rate £23.58 £35.00 £34.75
Median % change year-on-year -32.64% +0.72% +57.06%
75th Percentile £28.08 £46.88 £67.50
90th Percentile £46.18 £52.50 £70.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -47.05% -9.52% +16.67%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing CCNA relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

CCNA job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CCNA.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CCNA

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in the West Midlands

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CCNA.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing CCNA

CCNA
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 16 December 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
Staffordshire +5 3 £450 +5.88% 4
Warwickshire - 2 £450 - 1
Worcestershire - 2 £450 - 4
Herefordshire - 2 £625 -
Shropshire - 1 £380 -
Birmingham - 1 £450 - 9
Walsall - 1 - -
CCNA
England

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) AWS
1 1 (8.33%) Azure
1 1 (8.33%) Azure Stack
1 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (41.67%) Firewall
1 5 (41.67%) Wireless
2 4 (33.33%) LAN
3 3 (25.00%) DHCP
3 3 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (25.00%) TCP/IP
3 3 (25.00%) VPN
4 2 (16.67%) BGP
4 2 (16.67%) Broadband
4 2 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
4 2 (16.67%) Ethernet
4 2 (16.67%) MPLS
4 2 (16.67%) Network Security
4 2 (16.67%) OSPF
4 2 (16.67%) PuTTY
4 2 (16.67%) SDH
4 2 (16.67%) VLAN
4 2 (16.67%) VoIP
4 2 (16.67%) WAN
4 2 (16.67%) WLAN
General
1 2 (16.67%) Manufacturing
1 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
1 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Legal
2 1 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Analyst
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Support Analyst
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Azure Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Lead
3 1 (8.33%) NOC Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Team Leader
3 1 (8.33%) Telecoms Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) SCADA
1 2 (16.67%) Virtual Team
2 1 (8.33%) Data Centre
2 1 (8.33%) Driving Licence
2 1 (8.33%) Educational Technology
2 1 (8.33%) Fibre Optics
2 1 (8.33%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 2 (16.67%) Windows
1 2 (16.67%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (25.00%) Network Monitoring
1 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 2 (16.67%) Change Management
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 2 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL
2 2 (16.67%) Process Improvement
2 2 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (8.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
3 1 (8.33%) People Management
3 1 (8.33%) Performance Metrics
3 1 (8.33%) Platform Engineering
3 1 (8.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (8.33%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (8.33%) Security Patching
Qualifications
1 12 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 10 (83.33%) CCNP
3 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
4 5 (41.67%) Degree
5 3 (25.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (25.00%) SC Cleared
6 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (8.33%) CCSA
7 1 (8.33%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Active Directory
1 1 (8.33%) Firmware
1 1 (8.33%) Hyper-V
1 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) Cisco
2 2 (16.67%) CheckPoint
2 2 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (16.67%) Peregrine
2 2 (16.67%) Remedy
3 1 (8.33%) Aruba
3 1 (8.33%) Meraki
3 1 (8.33%) SolarWinds
3 1 (8.33%) VMware