Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK

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

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 355 425 326
Rank change year-on-year +70 -99 +7
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 790 755 1,964
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.80% 0.73% 1.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.88% 2.24% 4.63%
Number of salaries quoted 677 574 829
10th Percentile £30,400 £30,932 £30,875
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,473 £35,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,005 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -2.21% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £70,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,612 £42,500 £44,977
% change year-on-year +4.97% -5.51% +5.83%

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 permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,469 33,746 42,397
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.81% 32.63% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 17,343 15,179 19,015
10th Percentile £28,258 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,526 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.28% +8.23% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +0.50%

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
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCNA.

Salary trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNA over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +97 705 £47,500 +5.56% 174
UK excluding London +59 642 £44,612 +4.97% 134
Work from Home +49 274 £48,500 +7.78% 64
South East +16 183 £38,500 -14.44% 44
North of England +94 151 £40,000 -5.88% 35
London +52 130 £55,000 +4.76% 57
Midlands +60 126 £48,500 +15.48% 15
West Midlands +57 93 £48,500 +18.29% 10
North West +54 92 £40,000 -4.76% 17
South West -21 64 £50,000 +21.21% 16
Yorkshire +115 52 £45,000 +21.15% 16
East of England +40 48 £42,500 +8.97% 14
East Midlands +5 33 £50,000 +18.34% 5
Wales +32 29 £40,500 -4.71% 6
Scotland -83 26 £50,000 +33.33% 12
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
North East -23 7 £70,000 +64.71% 3
Northern Ireland +22 3 £32,500 -53.57% 2

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 68 (8.61%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (4.94%) SharePoint
3 17 (2.15%) Confluence
4 9 (1.14%) IIS
5 5 (0.63%) CMS
6 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.13%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.13%) OpenStack
Applications
1 46 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.13%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 295 (37.34%) Azure
2 172 (21.77%) Microsoft 365
3 125 (15.82%) AWS
4 34 (4.30%) Entra ID
5 31 (3.92%) GCP
6 21 (2.66%) Cloud Computing
7 20 (2.53%) IaaS
8 17 (2.15%) PaaS
9 12 (1.52%) OCI
10 10 (1.27%) AWS Direct Connect
11 9 (1.14%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 9 (1.14%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.01%) SaaS
13 7 (0.89%) WhatsApp
14 5 (0.63%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.63%) Azure Stack
15 4 (0.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 2 (0.25%) Azure Storage
16 2 (0.25%) Dynamics 365
16 2 (0.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 370 (46.84%) Firewall
2 303 (38.35%) WAN
3 237 (30.00%) LAN
4 159 (20.13%) Wireless
5 153 (19.37%) SD-WAN
6 137 (17.34%) DHCP
6 137 (17.34%) TCP/IP
7 136 (17.22%) VPN
8 125 (15.82%) DNS
9 119 (15.06%) MPLS
10 106 (13.42%) BGP
11 95 (12.03%) OSPF
12 89 (11.27%) Network Security
12 89 (11.27%) Wi-Fi
13 87 (11.01%) VLAN
14 73 (9.24%) SAN
15 54 (6.84%) Internet
16 51 (6.46%) VoIP
16 51 (6.46%) WLAN
17 46 (5.82%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.92%) SQL Server
2 22 (2.78%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (2.66%) MySQL
4 7 (0.89%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.63%) Big Data
6 1 (0.13%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.13%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.13%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.13%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.13%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 22 (2.78%) JIRA
2 17 (2.15%) Bitbucket
3 16 (2.03%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.51%) Git
5 3 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.25%) GitLab
6 2 (0.25%) Hudson
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 242 (30.63%) Social Skills
2 93 (11.77%) Analytical Skills
3 50 (6.33%) Telecoms
4 46 (5.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (4.18%) Finance
6 28 (3.54%) Retail
7 26 (3.29%) Manufacturing
8 23 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 22 (2.78%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.15%) Law
11 14 (1.77%) Games
12 12 (1.52%) Electronics
12 12 (1.52%) Legal
13 11 (1.39%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.89%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.89%) Automotive
14 7 (0.89%) Marketing
15 4 (0.51%) Publishing
15 4 (0.51%) Welsh Language
16 3 (0.38%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 289 (36.58%) Network Engineer
2 111 (14.05%) Support Engineer
3 99 (12.53%) Senior
4 89 (11.27%) Analyst
4 89 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 72 (9.11%) Network Analyst
6 66 (8.35%) IT Engineer
7 65 (8.23%) IT Support
8 54 (6.84%) Architect
9 39 (4.94%) IT Support Engineer
9 39 (4.94%) Network Support
9 39 (4.94%) Senior Architect
10 33 (4.18%) Cisco Architect
10 33 (4.18%) Senior Cisco Architect
11 31 (3.92%) Network Operations Analyst
11 31 (3.92%) Operations Analyst
11 31 (3.92%) Senior Network Engineer
12 29 (3.67%) Network Support Engineer
13 26 (3.29%) Cisco Engineer
13 26 (3.29%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.66%) 802.1X
2 7 (0.89%) HTML
2 7 (0.89%) XML
3 5 (0.63%) ADO
3 5 (0.63%) XMPP
4 4 (0.51%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.25%) EDI
6 1 (0.13%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 158 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 54 (6.84%) Driving Licence
3 35 (4.43%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.42%) Public Cloud
5 24 (3.04%) Replication
6 18 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
7 17 (2.15%) PKI
8 11 (1.39%) Onboarding
9 10 (1.27%) Social Media
10 6 (0.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 6 (0.76%) CCTV
10 6 (0.76%) IoT
10 6 (0.76%) Private Cloud
10 6 (0.76%) Security Posture
11 5 (0.63%) CMDB
11 5 (0.63%) EPoS
11 5 (0.63%) Operational Technology
12 4 (0.51%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (0.51%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 265 (33.54%) Windows
2 152 (19.24%) Linux
3 141 (17.85%) Windows Server
4 37 (4.68%) Windows 10
5 27 (3.42%) Mac OS
5 27 (3.42%) Windows Server 2012
6 26 (3.29%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (2.66%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (2.41%) VyOS
9 12 (1.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (1.52%) Unix
9 12 (1.52%) Windows XP
10 5 (0.63%) Android
10 5 (0.63%) CentOS
11 4 (0.51%) Apple iOS
11 4 (0.51%) Debian
11 4 (0.51%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.38%) CatOS
12 3 (0.38%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.38%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 197 (24.94%) ITIL
2 150 (18.99%) Cybersecurity
3 147 (18.61%) Problem-Solving
4 129 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 124 (15.70%) Customer Service
6 80 (10.13%) Mentoring
7 76 (9.62%) Project Delivery
8 75 (9.49%) Project Management
9 72 (9.11%) Disaster Recovery
10 57 (7.22%) Computer Science
11 55 (6.96%) Time Management
12 50 (6.33%) Presales
13 49 (6.20%) Proactive Monitoring
14 48 (6.08%) Service Delivery
15 40 (5.06%) DevOps
16 39 (4.94%) Network Monitoring
17 38 (4.81%) Migration
18 34 (4.30%) Change Management
18 34 (4.30%) Software Licensing
19 33 (4.18%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 79 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 51 (6.46%) Python
3 30 (3.80%) Bash
4 27 (3.42%) SQL
5 10 (1.27%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.51%) C#
6 4 (0.51%) Java
6 4 (0.51%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.38%) C
8 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 790 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 306 (38.73%) CCNP
3 220 (27.85%) Degree
4 150 (18.99%) Microsoft Certification
5 144 (18.23%) Security Cleared
6 89 (11.27%) Network+ Certification
7 88 (11.14%) MCSE
8 76 (9.62%) SC Cleared
9 58 (7.34%) Computer Science Degree
10 57 (7.22%) JNCIA
11 55 (6.96%) DV Cleared
12 43 (5.44%) CCIE
13 41 (5.19%) Azure Certification
14 39 (4.94%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 34 (4.30%) CCDP
15 34 (4.30%) MCSA
16 32 (4.05%) A+ Certification
17 30 (3.80%) CISSP
18 25 (3.16%) AWS Certification
19 16 (2.03%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (6.08%) SLA
2 43 (5.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.29%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (1.01%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 8 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.76%) GDPR
6 5 (0.63%) QA
7 3 (0.38%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.25%) NIST
9 1 (0.13%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 159 (20.13%) Active Directory
1 159 (20.13%) VMware Infrastructure
2 111 (14.05%) Hyper-V
3 45 (5.70%) VMware ESXi
4 24 (3.04%) VMware NSX
5 14 (1.77%) vSphere
6 8 (1.01%) Firmware
7 7 (0.89%) Terminal Services
8 5 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
9 4 (0.51%) vCloud
10 3 (0.38%) KVM
10 3 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
12 1 (0.13%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 1 (0.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 46 (5.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 39 (4.94%) FortiGate
3 27 (3.42%) SCCM
4 25 (3.16%) Ansible
5 23 (2.91%) Terraform
6 18 (2.28%) Stealthwatch
6 18 (2.28%) vCenter Server
6 18 (2.28%) WSUS
7 16 (2.03%) CASB
8 14 (1.77%) Cisco CUCM
8 14 (1.77%) SCOM
9 13 (1.65%) ServiceCenter
10 12 (1.52%) EMC NetWorker
10 12 (1.52%) NetBackup
11 7 (0.89%) Progress Chef
11 7 (0.89%) Puppet
12 6 (0.76%) Cisco Prime
13 5 (0.63%) Kubernetes
13 5 (0.63%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
13 5 (0.63%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 509 (64.43%) Cisco
2 297 (37.59%) Microsoft
3 226 (28.61%) VMware
4 110 (13.92%) Juniper
5 106 (13.42%) Meraki
5 106 (13.42%) Palo Alto
6 96 (12.15%) Fortinet
7 54 (6.84%) HP
8 51 (6.46%) CheckPoint
9 48 (6.08%) Veeam
10 41 (5.19%) Apple
10 41 (5.19%) Ruckus Wireless
11 35 (4.43%) Adobe
11 35 (4.43%) Citrix
12 33 (4.18%) Aruba
13 28 (3.54%) Dell
14 26 (3.29%) Oracle
15 25 (3.16%) Nokia
16 23 (2.91%) F5
17 20 (2.53%) SolarWinds