CCNA Job Trends in England

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 287 312 339
Rank change year-on-year +25 +27 +77
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 490 390 686
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 1.00% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.49% 2.43% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 141 299 597
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £30,400
25th Percentile £37,500 £33,200 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £72,750 £66,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

CCNA falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,717 16,021 23,404
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 24.41% 41.13% 27.86%
Number of salaries quoted 8,270 7,079 15,693
10th Percentile £29,625 £31,250 £28,250
25th Percentile £42,215 £41,250 £38,130
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,790 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.55% +1.44% -6.78%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,833 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £92,500 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -7.19%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CCNA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

CCNA job vacancy trend in England

CCNA
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCNA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing CCNA

CCNA
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNA in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2026.

Salary histogram for CCNA in England

CCNA
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the England region over the 6 months to 9 May 2026. 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
North of England +14 136 £50,000 - 46
South East -13 86 £42,500 -5.56% 49
Midlands -41 81 £51,058 +20.14% 26
London -56 81 £74,000 +23.33% 34
Yorkshire -9 63 £50,000 +33.33% 11
South West -27 62 £40,000 -8.57% 45
North West +8 61 £50,000 -9.09% 26
East of England +33 46 £34,000 -34.62% 24
East Midlands -11 44 £51,058 +45.88% 2
West Midlands -50 37 £53,401 -17.85% 24
North East -36 12 - - 9
CCNA
UK

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 23 (4.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.02%) Confluence
3 4 (0.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 351 (71.63%) Azure
2 43 (8.78%) AWS
3 34 (6.94%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (2.24%) Azure Monitor
5 9 (1.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 9 (1.84%) GCP
6 6 (1.22%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.02%) Mimecast
8 4 (0.82%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.41%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.41%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.20%) Amazon EKS
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Fargate
10 1 (0.20%) AWS Lambda
10 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.20%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.20%) Datadog
10 1 (0.20%) GitHub Actions
10 1 (0.20%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.20%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 122 (24.90%) Firewall
2 100 (20.41%) WAN
3 80 (16.33%) LAN
4 63 (12.86%) VPN
5 45 (9.18%) Network Security
6 37 (7.55%) Wi-Fi
7 30 (6.12%) TCP/IP
8 27 (5.51%) Wireless
9 25 (5.10%) DNS
9 25 (5.10%) SD-WAN
10 24 (4.90%) DHCP
10 24 (4.90%) VLAN
11 20 (4.08%) VoIP
12 15 (3.06%) BGP
12 15 (3.06%) SAN
13 14 (2.86%) Cisco Firepower
13 14 (2.86%) Cisco ISE
13 14 (2.86%) MPLS
13 14 (2.86%) OSPF
14 13 (2.65%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (2.04%) GitLab
2 9 (1.84%) JIRA
3 6 (1.22%) Git
3 6 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.02%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.82%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.82%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.20%) Chocolatey
General
1 366 (74.69%) Social Skills
2 31 (6.33%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (4.29%) Finance
3 21 (4.29%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (3.47%) Public Sector
5 14 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.84%) Legal
7 7 (1.43%) Law
7 7 (1.43%) Retail
8 6 (1.22%) Manufacturing
9 5 (1.02%) Aerospace
9 5 (1.02%) Banking
10 4 (0.82%) Automotive
10 4 (0.82%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.82%) Electronics
10 4 (0.82%) Telecoms
11 3 (0.61%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.41%) Military
13 1 (0.20%) French Language
13 1 (0.20%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 348 (71.02%) Network Engineer
2 38 (7.76%) Cisco Engineer
2 38 (7.76%) IT Engineer
3 28 (5.71%) LAN Engineer
3 28 (5.71%) LAN/WAN Engineer
3 28 (5.71%) WAN Engineer
4 22 (4.49%) Presales Engineer
5 20 (4.08%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 19 (3.88%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (3.88%) Lead
7 18 (3.67%) Firewall Engineer
7 18 (3.67%) Juniper Engineer
7 18 (3.67%) Support Engineer
8 17 (3.47%) IT Support
8 17 (3.47%) Senior
9 14 (2.86%) IT Support Engineer
10 13 (2.65%) Field Engineer
10 13 (2.65%) Field Service Engineer
10 13 (2.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 10 (2.04%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.82%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.82%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.41%) ARM Templates
2 2 (0.41%) Middleware
3 1 (0.20%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 48 (9.80%) Data Centre
2 14 (2.86%) Security Posture
3 13 (2.65%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (2.45%) Driving Licence
5 10 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 9 (1.84%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.84%) Smartphone
7 8 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
7 8 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
8 7 (1.43%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.02%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (1.02%) PKI
10 4 (0.82%) Insider Threat
10 4 (0.82%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.82%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (0.61%) Fibre Optics
11 3 (0.61%) Operational Technology
11 3 (0.61%) Social Media
12 2 (0.41%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.41%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 61 (12.45%) Windows
2 33 (6.73%) Linux
3 30 (6.12%) Windows Server
4 7 (1.43%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.20%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (13.67%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (9.18%) Cybersecurity
3 35 (7.14%) Customer Service
3 35 (7.14%) ITIL
4 29 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 28 (5.71%) High Availability
5 28 (5.71%) Presales
6 27 (5.51%) Computer Science
6 27 (5.51%) Network Monitoring
7 26 (5.31%) Incident Response
8 23 (4.69%) Disaster Recovery
9 22 (4.49%) Process Improvement
10 21 (4.29%) Continuous Improvement
10 21 (4.29%) SIEM
11 20 (4.08%) Network Architecture
12 16 (3.27%) Penetration Testing
13 15 (3.06%) Business Continuity
14 14 (2.86%) Network Design
14 14 (2.86%) Network Segmentation
15 12 (2.45%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 24 (4.90%) PowerShell
2 17 (3.47%) Python
3 6 (1.22%) Bash
4 5 (1.02%) Java
5 2 (0.41%) Bicep
5 2 (0.41%) SQL
Qualifications
1 490 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 313 (63.88%) Network+ Certification
3 304 (62.04%) Azure Certification
4 87 (17.76%) CCNP
5 56 (11.43%) Degree
6 50 (10.20%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (6.53%) MCSE
8 30 (6.12%) Security Cleared
9 24 (4.90%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (4.69%) JNCIA
11 18 (3.67%) CCIE
12 16 (3.27%) DBS Check
13 14 (2.86%) SC Cleared
14 13 (2.65%) A+ Certification
14 13 (2.65%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (2.45%) CCSA
15 12 (2.45%) CCSE
16 11 (2.24%) CISSP
17 9 (1.84%) MCSA
17 9 (1.84%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (3.27%) GDPR
3 13 (2.65%) NIST
3 13 (2.65%) SLA
4 7 (1.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.82%) Actionable Recommendations
6 2 (0.41%) COBIT
6 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.20%) ITGC
7 1 (0.20%) QA
7 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 44 (8.98%) Active Directory
2 26 (5.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.27%) Hyper-V
4 13 (2.65%) vSphere
5 9 (1.84%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.63%) Docker
6 8 (1.63%) Firmware
7 7 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
8 5 (1.02%) Squid
9 2 (0.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.41%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (4.69%) FortiGate
2 16 (3.27%) Ansible
3 13 (2.65%) Terraform
4 10 (2.04%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (1.84%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (1.22%) ZABBIX
7 5 (1.02%) Kubernetes
7 5 (1.02%) Packer
8 4 (0.82%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.82%) Nmap
8 4 (0.82%) WSUS
9 3 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.41%) Control-M
10 2 (0.41%) OpenView
10 2 (0.41%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.41%) VxRail
11 1 (0.20%) ArcSight ESM
11 1 (0.20%) QRadar
11 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 394 (80.41%) Cisco
2 347 (70.82%) Microsoft
3 282 (57.55%) ForeScout
4 57 (11.63%) Fortinet
5 34 (6.94%) VMware
6 29 (5.92%) Juniper
7 27 (5.51%) Meraki
8 25 (5.10%) Aruba
9 23 (4.69%) SolarWinds
10 22 (4.49%) Dell
11 19 (3.88%) CheckPoint
12 16 (3.27%) Splunk
13 15 (3.06%) Palo Alto
14 10 (2.04%) Sophos
15 8 (1.63%) Citrix
15 8 (1.63%) HP
16 7 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
17 6 (1.22%) Google
17 6 (1.22%) Red Hat
17 6 (1.22%) Zscaler