CCNA Contracts

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 307 470
Rank change year-on-year +10 +163 -33
Contract jobs citing CCNA 308 461 432
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.72% 0.82% 0.49%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.39% 3.02% 2.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 316 293
10th Percentile £282 £195 £213
25th Percentile £329 £325 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -8.75% +17.65% +17.24%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £538
90th Percentile £650 £650 £588
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £475 £366
% change year-on-year -10.53% +29.69% -0.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 34 26
10th Percentile £12.88 £13.00 £12.71
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.44 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.63 £50.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -66.75% +138.10% -50.00%
75th Percentile £23.19 £79.88 £46.88
90th Percentile £25.83 £83.84 £47.93
UK excluding London median hourly rate £15.00 £20.63 £18.82
% change year-on-year -27.29% +9.62% -55.19%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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 with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

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 1 June 2024.

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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 16 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 1 June 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
England +11 287 £463 -3.65% 126
UK excluding London -25 209 £425 -10.53% 101
London +68 84 £525 +10.53% 39
Work from Home +44 80 £515 +3.02% 52
South East +4 66 £475 -6.86% 27
North of England +32 64 £425 -2.86% 23
North West +41 47 £450 - 13
Midlands +2 30 £325 -13.33% 17
West Midlands +12 24 £338 +3.85% 10
East of England -6 22 £300 -12.73% 10
South West -37 21 £438 -20.45% 13
Yorkshire +7 12 £340 -9.33% 9
Scotland +37 11 £400 +10.34% 13
East Midlands 0 6 £325 -3.70% 7
North East +12 5 £385 +33.91% 2
Wales +2 1 - - 4

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 17 (5.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (3.90%) SharePoint
3 5 (1.62%) Confluence
4 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 17 (5.52%) MS Visio
2 14 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
4 6 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
Cloud Services
1 54 (17.53%) Azure
2 31 (10.06%) AWS
3 22 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (6.17%) OCI
5 11 (3.57%) GCP
6 3 (0.97%) Azure Sentinel
6 3 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (0.65%) Cloudflare
7 2 (0.65%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
8 1 (0.32%) Akamai
8 1 (0.32%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (0.32%) IaaS
8 1 (0.32%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.32%) PaaS
8 1 (0.32%) SaaS
8 1 (0.32%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 129 (41.88%) Firewall
2 75 (24.35%) WAN
3 70 (22.73%) LAN
4 64 (20.78%) DNS
5 60 (19.48%) DHCP
6 51 (16.56%) BGP
6 51 (16.56%) OSPF
7 49 (15.91%) VPN
8 43 (13.96%) Wireless
9 41 (13.31%) Cisco Nexus
10 36 (11.69%) EIGRP
10 36 (11.69%) IPsec
10 36 (11.69%) MPLS
10 36 (11.69%) Network Security
11 34 (11.04%) Cisco ASA
12 33 (10.71%) SAN
13 32 (10.39%) TCP/IP
14 31 (10.06%) Wi-Fi
15 24 (7.79%) Cisco ISE
16 23 (7.47%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (2.60%) JIRA
2 6 (1.95%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.32%) Hudson
3 1 (0.32%) Jenkins
General
1 113 (36.69%) Social Skills
2 42 (13.64%) Public Sector
3 41 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 39 (12.66%) Finance
5 24 (7.79%) Telecoms
6 9 (2.92%) Banking
7 5 (1.62%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.30%) Marketing
8 4 (1.30%) Pharmaceutical
9 3 (0.97%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.65%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.65%) Retail
11 1 (0.32%) Advertising
11 1 (0.32%) Back Office
11 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Front Office
11 1 (0.32%) Influencing Skills
11 1 (0.32%) Legal
11 1 (0.32%) Local Government
11 1 (0.32%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 175 (56.82%) Network Engineer
2 38 (12.34%) Senior
3 37 (12.01%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 25 (8.12%) Senior Network Engineer
5 23 (7.47%) Analyst
5 23 (7.47%) Support Engineer
6 22 (7.14%) Cisco Engineer
7 21 (6.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 16 (5.19%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
9 13 (4.22%) Network Support
9 13 (4.22%) Network Support Engineer
10 11 (3.57%) Architect
10 11 (3.57%) Field Engineer
10 11 (3.57%) IT Engineer
11 10 (3.25%) Storage Engineer
12 9 (2.92%) Field Service Engineer
12 9 (2.92%) Network Architect
13 8 (2.60%) 2nd Line Engineer
13 8 (2.60%) Network Operations Engineer
13 8 (2.60%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.57%) FIX Protocol
1 11 (3.57%) Jinja
2 7 (2.27%) 802.1X
3 5 (1.62%) Flash
4 3 (0.97%) EDI
4 3 (0.97%) Ultra Messaging
4 3 (0.97%) XML
5 2 (0.65%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 64 (20.78%) Data Centre
2 9 (2.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 8 (2.60%) Management Information System
3 8 (2.60%) Operational Technology
4 7 (2.27%) Driving Licence
4 7 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (1.95%) SCADA
5 6 (1.95%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (1.62%) Clustering
6 5 (1.62%) NHS
7 4 (1.30%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (0.97%) CCTV
8 3 (0.97%) CMDB
8 3 (0.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 3 (0.97%) PKI
9 2 (0.65%) Cloud Native
9 2 (0.65%) IoT
9 2 (0.65%) Linux Command Line
9 2 (0.65%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 57 (18.51%) Windows
2 31 (10.06%) Linux
3 22 (7.14%) Windows 10
4 21 (6.82%) Windows Server
5 17 (5.52%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (4.55%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (4.55%) Windows XP
7 8 (2.60%) Unix
8 7 (2.27%) Mac OS
8 7 (2.27%) Windows 7
9 5 (1.62%) Windows 8
10 4 (1.30%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (23.05%) ITIL
3 46 (14.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 41 (13.31%) Customer Service
5 40 (12.99%) Computer Science
6 34 (11.04%) Change Management
6 34 (11.04%) Project Management
7 25 (8.12%) ITSM
8 22 (7.14%) Break/Fix
9 21 (6.82%) Low Latency
10 18 (5.84%) Migration
10 18 (5.84%) Network Design
11 17 (5.52%) Cybersecurity
11 17 (5.52%) Disaster Recovery
12 16 (5.19%) High Availability
12 16 (5.19%) Network Monitoring
12 16 (5.19%) Performance Monitoring
12 16 (5.19%) Performance Tuning
12 16 (5.19%) Server Management
12 16 (5.19%) Storage Management
Programming Languages
1 35 (11.36%) Python
2 19 (6.17%) PowerShell
3 15 (4.87%) Perl
4 11 (3.57%) Tcl
5 2 (0.65%) SQL
Qualifications
1 308 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 170 (55.19%) CCNP
3 89 (28.90%) Security Cleared
4 83 (26.95%) Degree
5 63 (20.45%) SC Cleared
6 34 (11.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 27 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
7 27 (8.77%) JNCIA
8 25 (8.12%) Network+ Certification
9 23 (7.47%) MCSE
10 22 (7.14%) DV Cleared
11 17 (5.52%) A+ Certification
12 16 (5.19%) CISSP
12 16 (5.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 15 (4.87%) JNCIS
14 13 (4.22%) CCIE
14 13 (4.22%) MCSA
15 9 (2.92%) AWS Certification
15 9 (2.92%) MCP
16 7 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (7.14%) SLA
2 6 (1.95%) QA
3 2 (0.65%) GDPR
3 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.32%) ISA99
4 1 (0.32%) NCSC
4 1 (0.32%) NIST
4 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 43 (13.96%) VMware Infrastructure
2 33 (10.71%) Active Directory
3 25 (8.12%) Hyper-V
4 21 (6.82%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (5.84%) Firmware
6 9 (2.92%) VMware NSX
7 6 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
8 4 (1.30%) vSphere
9 3 (0.97%) VMware Workstation
10 2 (0.65%) KVM
Systems Management
1 23 (7.47%) Ansible
1 23 (7.47%) SCCM
2 21 (6.82%) vCenter Server
3 15 (4.87%) EMC NetWorker
3 15 (4.87%) SCOM
4 14 (4.55%) NetBackup
4 14 (4.55%) WSUS
5 11 (3.57%) Terraform
6 9 (2.92%) FortiGate
7 8 (2.60%) SolarWinds Orion
8 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Intune
8 5 (1.62%) OpenView
9 3 (0.97%) ITRS Geneos
9 3 (0.97%) WhatsUp Gold
10 2 (0.65%) Nagios
10 2 (0.65%) Nmap
10 2 (0.65%) OpenNMS
10 2 (0.65%) QRadar
10 2 (0.65%) ZABBIX
11 1 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 210 (68.18%) Cisco
2 66 (21.43%) Microsoft
3 64 (20.78%) Palo Alto
4 57 (18.51%) Juniper
5 49 (15.91%) VMware
6 36 (11.69%) CheckPoint
7 34 (11.04%) SolarWinds
8 30 (9.74%) F5
9 28 (9.09%) Dell
10 21 (6.82%) Fortinet
11 19 (6.17%) Citrix
12 16 (5.19%) HP
12 16 (5.19%) Veeam
13 14 (4.55%) 3PAR
13 14 (4.55%) EMC
13 14 (4.55%) Extreme Networks
13 14 (4.55%) Oracle
13 14 (4.55%) Symantec
14 10 (3.25%) Meraki
15 9 (2.92%) ServiceNow