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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 191 185 292
Rank change year-on-year -6 +107 -63
Contract jobs citing CCNA 218 312 227
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.07% 1.34% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.93% 4.09% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 136 217 146
10th Percentile £285 £155 £195
25th Percentile £320 £313 £293
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £366
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% +29.69% -
75th Percentile £538 £560 £475
90th Percentile £608 £625 £550
UK median daily rate £450 £485 £425
% change year-on-year -7.22% +14.12% +16.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 27 28
10th Percentile £13.40 £12.60 £12.88
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.25 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.00 £33.00 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.55% +50.00% -47.62%
75th Percentile £21.87 £77.50 £47.40
90th Percentile £25.83 £80.55 £68.30
UK median hourly rate £16.63 £50.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year -66.75% +98.02% -39.88%

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 7,450 7,631 8,046
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.65% 32.77% 26.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,303 5,103 5,224
10th Percentile £269 £286 £260
25th Percentile £425 £420 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £600
90th Percentile £725 £706 £675
UK median daily rate £530 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 929 625 539
10th Percentile £13.50 £13.95 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.50 £20.00 £17.00
Median hourly rate £40.94 £50.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.12% +42.86% -
75th Percentile £63.29 £65.75 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £67.84
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.57
% change year-on-year -25.93% +23.94% +14.66%

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 14 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 14 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 14 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 +18 67 £475 -6.86% 44
North of England +42 65 £365 -16.57% 32
North West +49 43 £440 -4.86% 15
Midlands +4 31 £325 -13.33% 23
South West -33 26 £465 -15.45% 16
West Midlands +20 25 £338 +3.85% 11
East of England -1 24 £300 -11.11% 14
Yorkshire +17 18 £340 -9.33% 14
Scotland +34 10 £400 +14.29% 16
East Midlands +5 6 £325 - 12
North East +12 4 £345 +73.58% 4
Wales +4 1 - - 7
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 (8.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.13%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.75%) Confluence
4 2 (0.92%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 11 (5.05%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (2.75%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 35 (16.06%) Azure
2 17 (7.80%) Microsoft 365
3 14 (6.42%) AWS
3 14 (6.42%) OCI
4 3 (1.38%) GCP
5 1 (0.46%) Akamai
5 1 (0.46%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (0.46%) Cloudflare
5 1 (0.46%) IaaS
5 1 (0.46%) PaaS
5 1 (0.46%) SaaS
5 1 (0.46%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 90 (41.28%) Firewall
2 49 (22.48%) WAN
3 47 (21.56%) LAN
4 45 (20.64%) DNS
5 39 (17.89%) DHCP
6 33 (15.14%) OSPF
6 33 (15.14%) SAN
7 32 (14.68%) BGP
8 29 (13.30%) VPN
8 29 (13.30%) Wi-Fi
9 28 (12.84%) Cisco Nexus
9 28 (12.84%) Wireless
10 24 (11.01%) Cisco ASA
10 24 (11.01%) EIGRP
10 24 (11.01%) IPsec
11 21 (9.63%) Network Security
12 20 (9.17%) Cisco Firepower
13 18 (8.26%) Cisco ISE
14 17 (7.80%) MPLS
15 16 (7.34%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.46%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.21%) JIRA
2 5 (2.29%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.46%) Hudson
General
1 77 (35.32%) Social Skills
2 39 (17.89%) Public Sector
3 30 (13.76%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (7.34%) Finance
5 15 (6.88%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.29%) Banking
6 5 (2.29%) Manufacturing
7 4 (1.83%) Marketing
7 4 (1.83%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (0.92%) Military
8 2 (0.92%) Retail
9 1 (0.46%) Back Office
9 1 (0.46%) Digital Health
9 1 (0.46%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.46%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (0.46%) Law
9 1 (0.46%) Legal
9 1 (0.46%) Local Government
9 1 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 121 (55.50%) Network Engineer
2 35 (16.06%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 25 (11.47%) Senior
4 21 (9.63%) Support Engineer
5 19 (8.72%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 15 (6.88%) Analyst
6 15 (6.88%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (5.50%) Architect
8 11 (5.05%) IT Engineer
8 11 (5.05%) Network Support
8 11 (5.05%) Network Support Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) Field Engineer
9 10 (4.59%) Network Architect
9 10 (4.59%) Storage Engineer
10 9 (4.13%) Service Analyst
10 9 (4.13%) Service Desk Analyst
10 9 (4.13%) Technical Analyst
10 9 (4.13%) Technical Services Analyst
11 8 (3.67%) Field Service Engineer
11 8 (3.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (5.05%) Jinja
2 5 (2.29%) Flash
3 3 (1.38%) EDI
Miscellaneous
1 55 (25.23%) Data Centre
2 8 (3.67%) Analytical Mindset
3 7 (3.21%) Driving Licence
3 7 (3.21%) Management Information System
3 7 (3.21%) Operational Technology
4 6 (2.75%) SCADA
5 5 (2.29%) Clustering
5 5 (2.29%) NHS
5 5 (2.29%) Team-Oriented Environment
6 3 (1.38%) CCTV
6 3 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.92%) Cloud Native
7 2 (0.92%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.92%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (0.92%) PKI
8 1 (0.46%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information
8 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information Act
8 1 (0.46%) IoT
8 1 (0.46%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 50 (22.94%) Windows
2 27 (12.39%) Linux
3 23 (10.55%) Windows 10
4 21 (9.63%) Windows Server
5 18 (8.26%) Windows Server 2012
6 14 (6.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 14 (6.42%) Windows Server 2019
6 14 (6.42%) Windows XP
7 8 (3.67%) Windows 7
8 6 (2.75%) Unix
9 3 (1.38%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (26.61%) ITIL
2 56 (25.69%) Problem-Solving
3 47 (21.56%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 28 (12.84%) Customer Service
5 24 (11.01%) Computer Science
5 24 (11.01%) Project Management
6 23 (10.55%) Change Management
7 21 (9.63%) Break/Fix
7 21 (9.63%) ITSM
8 16 (7.34%) Performance Tuning
8 16 (7.34%) Server Management
8 16 (7.34%) Storage Management
9 15 (6.88%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (6.88%) Performance Monitoring
9 15 (6.88%) Proactive Monitoring
10 14 (6.42%) Converged Infrastructure
10 14 (6.42%) Network Management
10 14 (6.42%) Network Monitoring
11 13 (5.96%) High Availability
12 12 (5.50%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.34%) PowerShell
1 16 (7.34%) Python
2 11 (5.05%) Perl
2 11 (5.05%) Tcl
3 2 (0.92%) SQL
Qualifications
1 218 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 118 (54.13%) CCNP
3 80 (36.70%) Security Cleared
4 63 (28.90%) Degree
4 63 (28.90%) SC Cleared
5 28 (12.84%) Microsoft Certification
6 26 (11.93%) Network+ Certification
7 21 (9.63%) DV Cleared
7 21 (9.63%) MCSE
8 18 (8.26%) A+ Certification
9 17 (7.80%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 15 (6.88%) JNCIA
11 14 (6.42%) Computer Science Degree
12 13 (5.96%) JNCIS
13 11 (5.05%) MCP
14 10 (4.59%) MCSA
15 7 (3.21%) CCIE
16 6 (2.75%) CISSP
17 5 (2.29%) Master's Degree
18 4 (1.83%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (7.34%) SLA
2 8 (3.67%) QA
3 1 (0.46%) GDPR
3 1 (0.46%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 46 (21.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 37 (16.97%) Active Directory
3 26 (11.93%) Hyper-V
4 23 (10.55%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (7.34%) Firmware
6 8 (3.67%) VMware NSX
7 6 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (2.29%) VMware Workstation
9 4 (1.83%) KVM
9 4 (1.83%) vSphere
10 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (11.01%) SCCM
2 23 (10.55%) vCenter Server
3 18 (8.26%) Ansible
4 15 (6.88%) EMC NetWorker
4 15 (6.88%) SCOM
4 15 (6.88%) WSUS
5 14 (6.42%) NetBackup
6 8 (3.67%) FortiGate
7 5 (2.29%) OpenView
8 4 (1.83%) Microsoft Intune
8 4 (1.83%) Terraform
9 1 (0.46%) Cisco Prime
9 1 (0.46%) Nagios
9 1 (0.46%) QRadar
9 1 (0.46%) SolarWinds Orion
9 1 (0.46%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 143 (65.60%) Cisco
2 51 (23.39%) Juniper
3 49 (22.48%) VMware
4 41 (18.81%) Microsoft
5 39 (17.89%) Palo Alto
6 25 (11.47%) SolarWinds
7 24 (11.01%) Dell
8 20 (9.17%) Citrix
9 16 (7.34%) Veeam
10 14 (6.42%) 3PAR
10 14 (6.42%) EMC
10 14 (6.42%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (6.42%) F5
10 14 (6.42%) HP
10 14 (6.42%) Oracle
10 14 (6.42%) Symantec
11 12 (5.50%) CheckPoint
12 8 (3.67%) Fortinet
12 8 (3.67%) Meraki
13 6 (2.75%) Atlassian