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

6 months to
14 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 296 312
Rank change year-on-year -40 +16 +164
Contract jobs citing CCNA 197 309 456
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.66% 0.71% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.14% 2.36% 3.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 203 306
10th Percentile £250 £282 £211
25th Percentile £391 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £562
90th Percentile £613 £650 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £438 £475
% change year-on-year +14.29% -7.89% +30.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 25 34
10th Percentile - £12.50 £13.00
25th Percentile £29.00 £14.00 £14.44
Median hourly rate £41.50 £17.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +137.14% -65.00% +165.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £23.75 £79.88
90th Percentile £63.25 £25.83 £83.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £32.50 £15.75 £20.63
% change year-on-year +106.35% -23.65% +31.82%

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 9,197 13,082 15,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.04% 29.94% 27.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,677 8,097 9,977
10th Percentile £275 £310 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £700 £738 £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £525 £527
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.38% +5.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 578 1,114 750
10th Percentile £17.74 £13.99 £15.19
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.35 £21.77
Median hourly rate £30.00 £40.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% -27.27% +23.60%
75th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.90 £41.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -30.36% -20.95% +50.00%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -32 171 £513 +7.89% 411
UK excluding London -13 130 £500 +14.29% 319
Work from Home +13 52 £500 -4.76% 149
London +5 47 £500 -4.76% 144
North of England -10 36 £400 -7.51% 58
South East +22 32 £515 +3.00% 121
Midlands +4 23 £450 +38.46% 52
North West -20 22 £375 -17.81% 37
South West +34 18 £550 +25.71% 34
West Midlands -4 14 £255 -24.44% 28
Yorkshire +13 12 £550 +43.79% 18
East of England +18 10 £550 +83.33% 41
East Midlands +8 9 £550 +69.23% 20
Scotland +1 6 £431 +7.81% 9
Wales +7 5 £425 - 6
North East -3 2 £288 -32.35% 3
Channel Islands - 2 £445 -

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 (6.09%) Confluence
2 4 (2.03%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.52%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.51%) CMS
Applications
1 26 (13.20%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (3.55%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 26 (13.20%) Azure
2 16 (8.12%) AWS
3 8 (4.06%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (2.54%) GCP
5 4 (2.03%) Entra ID
6 3 (1.52%) IaaS
6 3 (1.52%) PaaS
7 1 (0.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (0.51%) OCI
7 1 (0.51%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.51%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 109 (55.33%) Firewall
2 56 (28.43%) WAN
3 54 (27.41%) VPN
4 53 (26.90%) LAN
5 49 (24.87%) DNS
5 49 (24.87%) Network Security
6 42 (21.32%) DHCP
7 40 (20.30%) TCP/IP
8 37 (18.78%) BGP
9 36 (18.27%) Wireless
10 32 (16.24%) OSPF
11 21 (10.66%) Cisco IOS
11 21 (10.66%) MPLS
12 20 (10.15%) Wi-Fi
13 18 (9.14%) IPsec
13 18 (9.14%) WLAN
14 16 (8.12%) Cisco Nexus
15 15 (7.61%) SD-WAN
15 15 (7.61%) VLAN
16 14 (7.11%) EIGRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.51%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (6.60%) JIRA
2 4 (2.03%) Sonatype Nexus
3 3 (1.52%) GitLab
3 3 (1.52%) Jenkins
General
1 80 (40.61%) Social Skills
2 46 (23.35%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (10.66%) Public Sector
4 12 (6.09%) Manufacturing
5 6 (3.05%) Finance
6 5 (2.54%) Legal
6 5 (2.54%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (2.54%) Telecoms
7 4 (2.03%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (1.52%) Local Government
9 2 (1.02%) Banking
9 2 (1.02%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.51%) Aviation
10 1 (0.51%) Back Office
10 1 (0.51%) Billing
10 1 (0.51%) Law
10 1 (0.51%) Marketing
10 1 (0.51%) Military
10 1 (0.51%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 103 (52.28%) Network Engineer
2 21 (10.66%) Architect
3 17 (8.63%) Analyst
4 14 (7.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 13 (6.60%) Cisco Engineer
5 13 (6.60%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 13 (6.60%) Network Architect
6 12 (6.09%) Virtualisation Engineer
7 11 (5.58%) Senior
8 8 (4.06%) Network Analyst
9 7 (3.55%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 7 (3.55%) Support Engineer
9 7 (3.55%) Systems Engineer
10 6 (3.05%) IT Engineer
11 5 (2.54%) Field Engineer
11 5 (2.54%) Juniper Architect
11 5 (2.54%) Network Field Engineer
11 5 (2.54%) Network Support
11 5 (2.54%) Project Engineer
11 5 (2.54%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (6.09%) Flash
2 3 (1.52%) 802.1X
3 2 (1.02%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 16 (8.12%) Data Centre
2 13 (6.60%) Clustering
3 12 (6.09%) Self-Motivation
4 8 (4.06%) CMDB
4 8 (4.06%) Management Information System
5 6 (3.05%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.54%) Virtual Team
7 4 (2.03%) Cyberattack
7 4 (2.03%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (2.03%) Fibre Optics
7 4 (2.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 4 (2.03%) Onboarding
7 4 (2.03%) PKI
7 4 (2.03%) Renewable Energy
7 4 (2.03%) Security Operations Centre
8 3 (1.52%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.52%) Hybrid Cloud
8 3 (1.52%) Operational Technology
8 3 (1.52%) SCADA
8 3 (1.52%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 22 (11.17%) Windows
2 8 (4.06%) Linux
3 6 (3.05%) Windows Server
4 4 (2.03%) Windows 10
5 3 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.02%) Mac OS
6 2 (1.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 2 (1.02%) VMS
6 2 (1.02%) Windows XP
7 1 (0.51%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (24.87%) Computer Science
2 42 (21.32%) Problem-Solving
3 29 (14.72%) ITIL
4 28 (14.21%) Validation
5 27 (13.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 26 (13.20%) High Availability
7 24 (12.18%) Network Architecture
8 23 (11.68%) Migration
9 21 (10.66%) Network Monitoring
9 21 (10.66%) Service Management
10 18 (9.14%) Network Design
11 17 (8.63%) Agile
11 17 (8.63%) Cybersecurity
12 16 (8.12%) Incident Management
13 14 (7.11%) Network Virtualisation
14 13 (6.60%) Change Management
14 13 (6.60%) Mentoring
15 12 (6.09%) Power Management
15 12 (6.09%) System Testing
15 12 (6.09%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (10.15%) Python
2 7 (3.55%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.54%) Bash
4 3 (1.52%) SQL
5 2 (1.02%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.02%) Rust
Qualifications
1 197 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 107 (54.31%) CCNP
3 65 (32.99%) Degree
4 56 (28.43%) Security Cleared
5 53 (26.90%) SC Cleared
6 34 (17.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (8.12%) JNCIS
7 16 (8.12%) Master's Degree
8 14 (7.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 11 (5.58%) DV Cleared
9 11 (5.58%) JNCIA
10 9 (4.57%) CISSP
10 9 (4.57%) Network+ Certification
11 7 (3.55%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (2.54%) Azure Certification
12 5 (2.54%) CompTIA Security+
13 4 (2.03%) CCIE
13 4 (2.03%) CCSP
13 4 (2.03%) CompTIA CySA+
13 4 (2.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.02%) NIST
1 2 (1.02%) SLA
2 1 (0.51%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (0.51%) GDPR
2 1 (0.51%) HIPAA
2 1 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (0.51%) NIST 800
2 1 (0.51%) PCI DSS
2 1 (0.51%) QA
System Software
1 20 (10.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (7.61%) VMware ESXi
3 14 (7.11%) VMware NSX
4 13 (6.60%) Active Directory
5 5 (2.54%) Firmware
6 3 (1.52%) vSphere
7 2 (1.02%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.51%) Docker
8 1 (0.51%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (7.11%) vCenter Server
2 12 (6.09%) Ansible
3 6 (3.05%) FortiGate
4 5 (2.54%) Terraform
5 4 (2.03%) Cisco CUCM
5 4 (2.03%) Nagios
5 4 (2.03%) ZABBIX
6 3 (1.52%) Cisco Prime
6 3 (1.52%) CSIRT
6 3 (1.52%) Kubernetes
6 3 (1.52%) Microsoft Intune
6 3 (1.52%) SCCM
7 2 (1.02%) Cisco UCCE
7 2 (1.02%) OpenView
7 2 (1.02%) SCOM
8 1 (0.51%) Cisco UCCX
8 1 (0.51%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 144 (73.10%) Cisco
2 44 (22.34%) Microsoft
3 28 (14.21%) VMware
4 24 (12.18%) Juniper
5 21 (10.66%) CheckPoint
5 21 (10.66%) Palo Alto
6 19 (9.64%) Fortinet
7 17 (8.63%) Meraki
8 13 (6.60%) SolarWinds
9 12 (6.09%) Atlassian
10 11 (5.58%) ServiceNow
11 10 (5.08%) F5
12 7 (3.55%) Aruba
13 6 (3.05%) Fujitsu
14 5 (2.54%) Veeam
15 4 (2.03%) Arista
15 4 (2.03%) Infoblox
15 4 (2.03%) Nokia
15 4 (2.03%) Peregrine
15 4 (2.03%) Remedy
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