CCNA Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 250 266 326
Rank change year-on-year +16 +60 +164
Contract jobs citing CCNA 54 79 153
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.55% 0.51% 0.59%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.96% 1.86% 2.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 58 97
10th Percentile £303 £304 £320
25th Percentile £408 £335 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.93% +3.02% +9.59%
75th Percentile £575 £706 £575
90th Percentile £594 £751 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +20.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 5 13
10th Percentile £21.23 £16.33 £31.75
25th Percentile £25.31 £18.50 £47.50
Median hourly rate £36.75 £20.74 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.19% -58.52% +81.82%
75th Percentile £52.31 £23.75 £80.25
90th Percentile £58.88 £24.35 £80.85
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £17.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year +228.57% -65.00% +88.68%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 2,762 4,242 6,586
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 27.88% 27.64% 25.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,865 2,651 4,417
10th Percentile £350 £325 £381
25th Percentile £425 £440 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.80%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £730 £745
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 269 292
10th Percentile £19.10 £15.85 £20.00
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.00 £42.50
Median hourly rate £54.51 £43.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.76% -33.85% +33.22%
75th Percentile £67.75 £65.00 £73.75
90th Percentile £85.78 £83.84 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

CCNA
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

CCNA trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

CCNA
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CCNA.

CCNA daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CCNA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

CCNA daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CCNA
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing CCNA.

CCNA hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

CCNA
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing CCNA over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

CCNA hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

CCNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (18.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 12 (22.22%) Azure
2 6 (11.11%) AWS
3 2 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (3.70%) GCP
4 1 (1.85%) OCI
4 1 (1.85%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 27 (50.00%) Firewall
2 21 (38.89%) VPN
3 16 (29.63%) Network Security
3 16 (29.63%) WAN
4 14 (25.93%) LAN
5 11 (20.37%) TCP/IP
5 11 (20.37%) Wireless
6 10 (18.52%) DNS
6 10 (18.52%) MPLS
7 9 (16.67%) BGP
8 6 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (11.11%) OSPF
9 4 (7.41%) DHCP
9 4 (7.41%) Ethernet VPN
9 4 (7.41%) Multicast
9 4 (7.41%) SNMP
9 4 (7.41%) TACACS
10 3 (5.56%) Cisco IOS
10 3 (5.56%) Cisco ISE
10 3 (5.56%) Ethernet
Development Applications
1 11 (20.37%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (31.48%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (29.63%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.56%) Finance
5 2 (3.70%) Back Office
5 2 (3.70%) German Language
5 2 (3.70%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Legal
6 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (42.59%) Network Engineer
2 10 (18.52%) Virtualisation Engineer
3 6 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 5 (9.26%) Architect
4 5 (9.26%) Senior
5 4 (7.41%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Project Engineer
5 4 (7.41%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (5.56%) Analyst
6 3 (5.56%) Network Architect
6 3 (5.56%) Security Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Network Analyst
7 2 (3.70%) Network Security Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
7 2 (3.70%) Systems Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Infrastructure Security Specialist
8 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Engineer
8 1 (1.85%) Senior VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (18.52%) Flash
2 2 (3.70%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.70%) LDAP
2 2 (3.70%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (18.52%) Clustering
2 4 (7.41%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (5.56%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (5.56%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (5.56%) Security Operations Centre
3 3 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 2 (3.70%) Cyberattack
4 2 (3.70%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.70%) SCADA
5 1 (1.85%) Fibre Optics
5 1 (1.85%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.85%) IoT
5 1 (1.85%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Windows
2 4 (7.41%) Linux
3 1 (1.85%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.19%) Computer Science
2 15 (27.78%) High Availability
3 14 (25.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (24.07%) Validation
5 12 (22.22%) Service Management
6 11 (20.37%) Network Virtualisation
7 10 (18.52%) Agile
7 10 (18.52%) Critical Thinking
7 10 (18.52%) NsoIT
7 10 (18.52%) Power Management
7 10 (18.52%) System Testing
7 10 (18.52%) Waterfall
8 9 (16.67%) Mentoring
8 9 (16.67%) Migration
9 8 (14.81%) ITIL
10 6 (11.11%) Incident Management
10 6 (11.11%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (9.26%) Cybersecurity
11 5 (9.26%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.96%) Python
2 3 (5.56%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.85%) Bash
3 1 (1.85%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 54 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (59.26%) CCNP
3 24 (44.44%) Degree
4 21 (38.89%) SC Cleared
4 21 (38.89%) Security Cleared
5 12 (22.22%) Master's Degree
6 10 (18.52%) Computer Science Degree
6 10 (18.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 5 (9.26%) CCIE
8 4 (7.41%) CISSP
9 3 (5.56%) CEH
9 3 (5.56%) JNCIS
10 2 (3.70%) CCDP
10 2 (3.70%) CCIE Security
10 2 (3.70%) CCSP
10 2 (3.70%) CISA
10 2 (3.70%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (3.70%) JNCIA
10 2 (3.70%) MCP
10 2 (3.70%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) HIPAA
1 2 (3.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.70%) NIST
1 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.85%) QA
System Software
1 14 (25.93%) VMware Infrastructure
2 12 (22.22%) VMware NSX
3 10 (18.52%) VMware ESXi
4 2 (3.70%) Active Directory
5 1 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 10 (18.52%) vCenter Server
2 4 (7.41%) Ansible
3 3 (5.56%) FortiGate
3 3 (5.56%) Terraform
4 1 (1.85%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.85%) CSIRT
4 1 (1.85%) Opsgenie
4 1 (1.85%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 38 (70.37%) Cisco
2 15 (27.78%) VMware
3 10 (18.52%) Atlassian
3 10 (18.52%) Microsoft
4 4 (7.41%) Juniper
5 3 (5.56%) Arista
5 3 (5.56%) Palo Alto
5 3 (5.56%) SolarWinds
6 2 (3.70%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.70%) Citrix
6 2 (3.70%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.70%) Google
6 2 (3.70%) Meraki
6 2 (3.70%) Splunk
7 1 (1.85%) Alcatel-Lucent
7 1 (1.85%) Forcepoint
7 1 (1.85%) NetApp
7 1 (1.85%) Nokia
7 1 (1.85%) Oracle
7 1 (1.85%) Qualys