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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 336 317 324
Rank change year-on-year -19 +7 -22
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 529 380 553
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.53% 0.88% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.95% 2.49% 2.90%
Number of salaries quoted 194 275 270
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,039 £31,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -19.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £82,125 £70,900 £68,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £48,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% -17.95% +8.15%

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 17,954 15,277 19,052
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.84% 35.40% 27.73%
Number of salaries quoted 10,178 6,749 8,857
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,447 £37,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,180
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.10% -4.78%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,708 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -3.45%

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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +6 120 £42,500 +4.94% 54
South East -34 120 £47,500 +11.76% 58
Midlands +33 101 £41,000 +17.14% 38
London -53 85 £70,000 +16.67% 90
Yorkshire +21 69 £42,500 +63.46% 20
South West -93 63 £50,000 +56.25% 40
East Midlands -7 54 £39,194 +11.98% 13
West Midlands 0 47 £53,162 +29.66% 25
East of England -13 45 £55,000 +37.50% 40
North West -1 39 £52,500 -2.33% 23
North East -61 12 - - 11
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 27 (5.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.19%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 379 (71.64%) Azure
2 62 (11.72%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (9.64%) AWS
4 44 (8.32%) Entra ID
5 9 (1.70%) GCP
6 6 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (0.95%) OneDrive
7 5 (0.95%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.76%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.76%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.76%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.76%) Serverless
9 3 (0.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.38%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.38%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 154 (29.11%) Firewall
2 106 (20.04%) WAN
3 99 (18.71%) VPN
4 90 (17.01%) LAN
5 78 (14.74%) Network Security
6 70 (13.23%) VLAN
7 69 (13.04%) TCP/IP
8 68 (12.85%) DHCP
8 68 (12.85%) DNS
9 63 (11.91%) Wireless
10 46 (8.70%) Wi-Fi
11 41 (7.75%) SD-WAN
12 31 (5.86%) BGP
13 26 (4.91%) OSPF
14 24 (4.54%) VoIP
15 19 (3.59%) Internet
16 17 (3.21%) MPLS
16 17 (3.21%) SAN
17 13 (2.46%) WLAN
18 12 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.95%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (4.91%) JIRA
2 15 (2.84%) GitLab
3 10 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.51%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.51%) Git
5 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
General
1 398 (75.24%) Social Skills
2 45 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (3.97%) Telecoms
4 16 (3.02%) Finance
5 15 (2.84%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.27%) Law
7 11 (2.08%) Aerospace
7 11 (2.08%) Manufacturing
8 10 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (1.89%) Retail
9 9 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.51%) Banking
11 7 (1.32%) Digital Health
11 7 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (1.32%) Military
12 5 (0.95%) Automotive
12 5 (0.95%) Legal
13 4 (0.76%) Electronics
14 3 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 370 (69.94%) Network Engineer
2 49 (9.26%) IT Engineer
3 33 (6.24%) Senior
4 31 (5.86%) IT Support
5 26 (4.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 26 (4.91%) Support Engineer
6 23 (4.35%) IT Support Engineer
7 17 (3.21%) Senior Network Engineer
8 16 (3.02%) 3rd Line Support
8 16 (3.02%) Field Engineer
8 16 (3.02%) Field Service Engineer
9 14 (2.65%) Analyst
9 14 (2.65%) Security Engineer
10 13 (2.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 13 (2.46%) Lead
11 12 (2.27%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 10 (1.89%) Senior Security Engineer
14 9 (1.70%) Cisco Engineer
15 8 (1.51%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.78%) Terraform
2 4 (0.76%) boto
3 3 (0.57%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.57%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.38%) LDAP
4 2 (0.38%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.38%) SAML
5 1 (0.19%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.19%) YAML
5 1 (0.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.96%) Data Centre
2 39 (7.37%) Driving Licence
3 17 (3.21%) Security Posture
4 16 (3.02%) Management Information System
5 15 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (2.08%) CCTV
8 10 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.51%) PKI
9 8 (1.51%) Replication
10 7 (1.32%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.13%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.95%) Smartphone
13 4 (0.76%) Fibre Optics
13 4 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (0.57%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.57%) FMCG
14 3 (0.57%) Operational Technology
15 1 (0.19%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 102 (19.28%) Windows
2 76 (14.37%) Windows Server
3 44 (8.32%) Linux
4 11 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (1.13%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.13%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.57%) Android
6 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
2 71 (13.42%) ITIL
3 62 (11.72%) Cybersecurity
3 62 (11.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 48 (9.07%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (8.13%) Project Delivery
6 42 (7.94%) Continuous Improvement
7 39 (7.37%) Network Design
8 37 (6.99%) Business Continuity
9 36 (6.81%) High Availability
10 30 (5.67%) Customer Service
11 29 (5.48%) Computer Science
11 29 (5.48%) Network Monitoring
12 24 (4.54%) Stakeholder Management
13 21 (3.97%) Incident Response
13 21 (3.97%) Infrastructure as Code
13 21 (3.97%) SIEM
14 19 (3.59%) Migration
14 19 (3.59%) Network Architecture
14 19 (3.59%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (7.56%) PowerShell
2 33 (6.24%) Python
3 11 (2.08%) Bash
4 8 (1.51%) Java
5 2 (0.38%) SQL
6 1 (0.19%) Bicep
6 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 529 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 317 (59.92%) Network+ Certification
3 316 (59.74%) Azure Certification
4 115 (21.74%) CCNP
5 69 (13.04%) Degree
6 68 (12.85%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (6.43%) MCSE
8 32 (6.05%) Security Cleared
9 21 (3.97%) AWS Certification
9 21 (3.97%) SC Cleared
10 20 (3.78%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (3.21%) DV Cleared
12 15 (2.84%) CISSP
13 14 (2.65%) MCSA
14 12 (2.27%) Microsoft Certified Professional
15 11 (2.08%) CCIE
16 10 (1.89%) A+ Certification
16 10 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (1.70%) RHCSA
18 8 (1.51%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.86%) Cyber Essentials
2 19 (3.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (3.40%) SLA
4 11 (2.08%) GDPR
5 6 (1.13%) NIST
5 6 (1.13%) QA
6 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.57%) COBIT
8 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 73 (13.80%) Active Directory
2 43 (8.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (5.86%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.02%) vSphere
5 11 (2.08%) Docker
5 11 (2.08%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.51%) Squid
8 6 (1.13%) Firmware
9 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.57%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 26 (4.91%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (3.97%) FortiGate
3 16 (3.02%) Ansible
4 9 (1.70%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.51%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.51%) Packer
5 8 (1.51%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.76%) Iperf
7 3 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.57%) Control-M
8 2 (0.38%) SCCM
8 2 (0.38%) VxRail
9 1 (0.19%) OpenView
9 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 402 (75.99%) Cisco
2 371 (70.13%) Microsoft
3 282 (53.31%) ForeScout
4 68 (12.85%) VMware
5 49 (9.26%) Fortinet
6 37 (6.99%) Palo Alto
7 25 (4.73%) Meraki
8 15 (2.84%) Aruba
8 15 (2.84%) F5
8 15 (2.84%) Splunk
8 15 (2.84%) WatchGuard
9 14 (2.65%) Dell
9 14 (2.65%) Juniper
9 14 (2.65%) Sophos
10 13 (2.46%) Veeam
11 12 (2.27%) Ruckus Wireless
11 12 (2.27%) SolarWinds
12 11 (2.08%) CheckPoint
12 11 (2.08%) HP
12 11 (2.08%) Red Hat