CCNA Contracts in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 2 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 188 203 304
Rank change year-on-year +15 +101 -85
Contract jobs citing CCNA 231 298 233
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.12% 1.24% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 3.75% 2.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 145 206 155
10th Percentile £283 £158 £185
25th Percentile £320 £313 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £350
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +42.86% -3.45%
75th Percentile £570 £573 £475
90th Percentile £608 £653 £550
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £414
% change year-on-year -10.00% +20.85% +14.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 32 26
10th Percentile £13.40 £13.13 £13.33
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.79
Median hourly rate £15.00 £40.50 £24.73
Median % change year-on-year -62.96% +63.79% -39.69%
75th Percentile £21.87 £77.50 £47.40
90th Percentile £25.83 £80.25 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £17.50 £50.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -65.00% +88.68% -36.90%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

CCNA is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,660 7,954 8,129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 37.00% 33.23% 26.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,409 5,340 5,270
10th Percentile £269 £280 £250
25th Percentile £425 £421 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £530 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +6.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £713 £675
UK median daily rate £535 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.73% +4.76% +8.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 667 537
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £19.96 £16.49
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £32.37
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +54.46% -11.44%
75th Percentile £63.75 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £65.52
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £42.00
% change year-on-year -25.93% +28.57% +8.50%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing CCNA in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for CCNA in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing CCNA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for CCNA in the UK excluding London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing CCNA in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for CCNA in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing CCNA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 2024. 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
South East +23 68 £475 -8.21% 43
North of England +54 62 £350 -26.32% 35
North West +42 41 £440 -12.00% 18
Midlands +10 34 £325 -13.33% 15
South West -10 34 £525 -4.55% 18
West Midlands +22 28 £313 -3.85% 11
East of England +1 24 £300 -9.77% 17
Yorkshire +19 18 £340 -9.33% 15
Scotland +41 14 £550 +150.00% 12
East Midlands +5 6 £325 -3.70% 4
North East +19 3 £345 +213.64% 3
Wales +6 1 - - 6
CCNA
UK

CCNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 18 (7.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.60%) Confluence
4 4 (1.73%) IIS
5 2 (0.87%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.60%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.15%) Azure
2 17 (7.36%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (6.49%) AWS
4 13 (5.63%) OCI
5 3 (1.30%) GCP
6 1 (0.43%) Akamai
6 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (0.43%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (0.43%) Cloudflare
6 1 (0.43%) IaaS
6 1 (0.43%) PaaS
6 1 (0.43%) SaaS
6 1 (0.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 95 (41.13%) Firewall
2 57 (24.68%) WAN
3 51 (22.08%) LAN
4 50 (21.65%) DNS
5 38 (16.45%) DHCP
6 35 (15.15%) SAN
7 34 (14.72%) BGP
8 33 (14.29%) OSPF
9 29 (12.55%) Network Security
9 29 (12.55%) VPN
9 29 (12.55%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (12.12%) Cisco Nexus
10 28 (12.12%) Wireless
11 27 (11.69%) IPsec
12 24 (10.39%) Cisco ASA
13 23 (9.96%) EIGRP
14 20 (8.66%) Cisco Firepower
15 18 (7.79%) Cisco ISE
15 18 (7.79%) MPLS
16 16 (6.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.16%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.03%) JIRA
2 5 (2.16%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.43%) Hudson
General
1 75 (32.47%) Social Skills
2 45 (19.48%) Public Sector
3 34 (14.72%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (6.93%) Finance
5 14 (6.06%) Telecoms
6 6 (2.60%) Marketing
7 5 (2.16%) Banking
7 5 (2.16%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.73%) Pharmaceutical
8 4 (1.73%) Retail
9 2 (0.87%) Aerospace
9 2 (0.87%) Aviation
9 2 (0.87%) Military
10 1 (0.43%) Digital Health
10 1 (0.43%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (0.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.43%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (0.43%) Law
10 1 (0.43%) Legal
10 1 (0.43%) Police
Job Titles
1 125 (54.11%) Network Engineer
2 41 (17.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 24 (10.39%) Senior
4 21 (9.09%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 20 (8.66%) Support Engineer
6 17 (7.36%) Architect
7 15 (6.49%) Senior Network Engineer
8 14 (6.06%) Analyst
9 12 (5.19%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (4.76%) IT Engineer
11 10 (4.33%) Field Engineer
11 10 (4.33%) Network Architect
11 10 (4.33%) Network Support
11 10 (4.33%) Network Support Engineer
12 9 (3.90%) 2nd Line Engineer
12 9 (3.90%) Service Analyst
12 9 (3.90%) Service Desk Analyst
12 9 (3.90%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (3.90%) Technical Analyst
12 9 (3.90%) Technical Services Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.76%) Jinja
2 5 (2.16%) Flash
3 3 (1.30%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 55 (23.81%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.46%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.03%) Driving Licence
3 7 (3.03%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.60%) Operational Technology
5 5 (2.16%) Clustering
5 5 (2.16%) NHS
5 5 (2.16%) SCADA
5 5 (2.16%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 4 (1.73%) PKI
7 3 (1.30%) CCTV
7 3 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (0.87%) Cloud Native
8 2 (0.87%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.87%) Fibre Optics
9 1 (0.43%) CMDB
9 1 (0.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information
9 1 (0.43%) Freedom of Information Act
9 1 (0.43%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 54 (23.38%) Windows
2 26 (11.26%) Linux
3 24 (10.39%) Windows Server
4 22 (9.52%) Windows 10
5 17 (7.36%) Windows Server 2012
6 13 (5.63%) Windows Server 2016
6 13 (5.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 13 (5.63%) Windows XP
7 8 (3.46%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.60%) Unix
9 3 (1.30%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (29.00%) ITIL
2 59 (25.54%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (22.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 28 (12.12%) Customer Service
5 25 (10.82%) Change Management
6 24 (10.39%) Computer Science
7 23 (9.96%) Project Management
8 21 (9.09%) ITSM
9 20 (8.66%) Break/Fix
10 16 (6.93%) Load Balancing
11 15 (6.49%) Performance Tuning
11 15 (6.49%) Server Management
11 15 (6.49%) Storage Management
12 14 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
12 14 (6.06%) Performance Monitoring
12 14 (6.06%) Proactive Monitoring
13 13 (5.63%) Converged Infrastructure
13 13 (5.63%) High Availability
13 13 (5.63%) Network Design
13 13 (5.63%) Network Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (8.23%) Python
2 18 (7.79%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.76%) Perl
3 11 (4.76%) Tcl
4 3 (1.30%) Bash
5 2 (0.87%) SQL
Qualifications
1 231 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 128 (55.41%) CCNP
3 87 (37.66%) Security Cleared
4 68 (29.44%) SC Cleared
5 62 (26.84%) Degree
6 29 (12.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (11.69%) Network+ Certification
8 22 (9.52%) DV Cleared
9 21 (9.09%) MCSE
10 18 (7.79%) A+ Certification
11 17 (7.36%) JNCIA
11 17 (7.36%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 14 (6.06%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (5.19%) JNCIS
14 11 (4.76%) MCP
15 10 (4.33%) MCSA
16 7 (3.03%) CCIE
17 5 (2.16%) CISSP
17 5 (2.16%) Master's Degree
18 4 (1.73%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (6.49%) SLA
2 8 (3.46%) QA
3 1 (0.43%) GDPR
3 1 (0.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (19.91%) VMware Infrastructure
2 40 (17.32%) Active Directory
3 26 (11.26%) VMware ESXi
4 25 (10.82%) Hyper-V
5 16 (6.93%) Firmware
6 8 (3.46%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.16%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (1.73%) KVM
9 4 (1.73%) vSphere
10 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 27 (11.69%) SCCM
2 22 (9.52%) vCenter Server
3 18 (7.79%) Ansible
4 14 (6.06%) EMC NetWorker
4 14 (6.06%) SCOM
4 14 (6.06%) WSUS
5 13 (5.63%) NetBackup
6 8 (3.46%) FortiGate
7 5 (2.16%) OpenView
8 4 (1.73%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.73%) Terraform
9 1 (0.43%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.43%) Nagios
9 1 (0.43%) QRadar
9 1 (0.43%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.43%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 150 (64.94%) Cisco
2 54 (23.38%) VMware
3 52 (22.51%) Juniper
4 45 (19.48%) Microsoft
5 40 (17.32%) Palo Alto
6 24 (10.39%) SolarWinds
7 23 (9.96%) Dell
8 20 (8.66%) Citrix
9 18 (7.79%) F5
10 15 (6.49%) Veeam
11 14 (6.06%) EMC
11 14 (6.06%) Fortinet
11 14 (6.06%) Oracle
12 13 (5.63%) 3PAR
12 13 (5.63%) Extreme Networks
12 13 (5.63%) HP
12 13 (5.63%) Symantec
13 12 (5.19%) CheckPoint
14 10 (4.33%) Meraki
15 6 (2.60%) Atlassian