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 18 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 304 314 333
Rank change year-on-year +10 +19 +35
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 513 362 752
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.62% 0.91% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.19% 2.29% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 168 292 547
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,500 £30,650
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £83,250 £73,625 £67,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%

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 16,086 15,822 24,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.30% 39.90% 26.05%
Number of salaries quoted 8,830 6,726 15,763
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -9.51%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

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 18 June 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 18 June 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 +43 141 £50,000 -9.09% 44
South East +4 98 £45,000 +5.88% 44
London -47 90 £74,000 +34.55% 28
Midlands -1 79 £51,058 +32.62% 19
Yorkshire +13 68 £45,500 +17.88% 13
South West -48 66 £50,000 +11.11% 37
North West +36 61 £50,000 -9.09% 21
East of England +20 43 £34,000 -18.56% 30
East Midlands -13 42 £51,058 +45.88% 3
West Midlands -3 37 £53,401 -17.85% 16
North East -39 12 - - 10
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 25 (4.87%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.75%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.56%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.95%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 371 (72.32%) Azure
2 52 (10.14%) AWS
3 42 (8.19%) Microsoft 365
4 14 (2.73%) Entra ID
5 11 (2.14%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (2.14%) GCP
6 9 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (0.97%) Mimecast
7 5 (0.97%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.78%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.78%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.78%) Serverless
9 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.58%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.39%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 141 (27.49%) Firewall
2 113 (22.03%) WAN
3 91 (17.74%) LAN
4 88 (17.15%) VPN
5 62 (12.09%) Network Security
6 53 (10.33%) Wi-Fi
7 40 (7.80%) TCP/IP
8 37 (7.21%) VLAN
9 34 (6.63%) SD-WAN
10 31 (6.04%) Wireless
11 29 (5.65%) DNS
12 28 (5.46%) DHCP
13 25 (4.87%) VoIP
14 24 (4.68%) BGP
15 20 (3.90%) Cisco Firepower
16 19 (3.70%) MPLS
16 19 (3.70%) OSPF
17 16 (3.12%) WLAN
18 15 (2.92%) Cisco ASA
18 15 (2.92%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (2.73%) JIRA
2 13 (2.53%) GitLab
3 9 (1.75%) Git
3 9 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.56%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.58%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.58%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
General
1 381 (74.27%) Social Skills
2 33 (6.43%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (3.70%) Finance
4 16 (3.12%) Public Sector
5 13 (2.53%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (1.95%) Retail
7 9 (1.75%) Aerospace
7 9 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.56%) Banking
8 8 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 8 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.56%) Telecoms
9 7 (1.36%) Law
10 6 (1.17%) Military
11 4 (0.78%) Automotive
11 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.78%) Electronics
11 4 (0.78%) Legal
12 3 (0.58%) Digital Health
13 2 (0.39%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 368 (71.73%) Network Engineer
2 40 (7.80%) IT Engineer
3 30 (5.85%) Senior
4 26 (5.07%) Cisco Engineer
5 23 (4.48%) IT Support
6 21 (4.09%) Lead
7 19 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 19 (3.70%) Senior Network Engineer
7 19 (3.70%) Support Engineer
8 17 (3.31%) Azure Engineer
8 17 (3.31%) IT Support Engineer
8 17 (3.31%) LAN Engineer
8 17 (3.31%) LAN/WAN Engineer
8 17 (3.31%) WAN Engineer
9 16 (3.12%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 13 (2.53%) Presales Engineer
10 13 (2.53%) Security Engineer
11 11 (2.14%) Analyst
11 11 (2.14%) Field Engineer
11 11 (2.14%) Field Service Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.78%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.78%) boto
1 4 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.39%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.94%) Data Centre
2 19 (3.70%) Driving Licence
2 19 (3.70%) Security Posture
3 11 (2.14%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.56%) Analytical Mindset
6 7 (1.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (1.36%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (0.97%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (0.97%) PKI
8 5 (0.97%) Replication
9 4 (0.78%) Fibre Optics
9 4 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.78%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.58%) Insider Threat
10 3 (0.58%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.58%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 81 (15.79%) Windows
2 48 (9.36%) Windows Server
3 44 (8.58%) Linux
4 12 (2.34%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.58%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (11.70%) Cybersecurity
3 51 (9.94%) ITIL
4 39 (7.60%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 38 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
6 37 (7.21%) High Availability
7 36 (7.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 31 (6.04%) Computer Science
9 29 (5.65%) Incident Response
9 29 (5.65%) Network Monitoring
10 28 (5.46%) Business Continuity
11 26 (5.07%) SIEM
12 23 (4.48%) Customer Service
12 23 (4.48%) Network Architecture
13 22 (4.29%) Network Design
14 21 (4.09%) Presales
15 19 (3.70%) Process Improvement
16 16 (3.12%) Penetration Testing
17 15 (2.92%) Infrastructure as Code
17 15 (2.92%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 32 (6.24%) PowerShell
2 19 (3.70%) Python
3 9 (1.75%) Bash
4 8 (1.56%) Java
5 3 (0.58%) SQL
6 2 (0.39%) Bicep
7 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 513 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 317 (61.79%) Azure Certification
3 306 (59.65%) Network+ Certification
4 107 (20.86%) CCNP
5 63 (12.28%) Degree
6 58 (11.31%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (7.02%) Security Cleared
8 30 (5.85%) MCSE
9 27 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.90%) CCIE
11 19 (3.70%) SC Cleared
12 14 (2.73%) CISSP
13 13 (2.53%) AWS Certification
14 12 (2.34%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (2.34%) DV Cleared
14 12 (2.34%) JNCIA
14 12 (2.34%) RHCSA
15 11 (2.14%) OSCP
16 10 (1.95%) MCSA
17 9 (1.75%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.07%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 17 (3.31%) GDPR
2 17 (3.31%) SLA
3 13 (2.53%) Cyber Essentials
4 12 (2.34%) NIST
5 5 (0.97%) QA
6 4 (0.78%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.58%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.58%) COBIT
8 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 58 (11.31%) Active Directory
2 36 (7.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.29%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.12%) vSphere
5 13 (2.53%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.14%) Docker
7 8 (1.56%) Squid
8 7 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.97%) Firmware
10 3 (0.58%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.58%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (3.70%) Ansible
1 19 (3.70%) FortiGate
2 16 (3.12%) Terraform
3 14 (2.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.95%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (1.75%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.56%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.56%) Packer
7 5 (0.97%) Control-M
8 4 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.78%) WSUS
9 3 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.58%) Nmap
9 3 (0.58%) OpenView
9 3 (0.58%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.58%) VxRail
10 1 (0.19%) Iperf
10 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 396 (77.19%) Cisco
2 362 (70.57%) Microsoft
3 282 (54.97%) ForeScout
4 52 (10.14%) Fortinet
4 52 (10.14%) VMware
5 27 (5.26%) Aruba
6 26 (5.07%) Palo Alto
7 25 (4.87%) Meraki
8 21 (4.09%) SolarWinds
9 19 (3.70%) CheckPoint
9 19 (3.70%) Juniper
9 19 (3.70%) Splunk
10 16 (3.12%) Dell
11 12 (2.34%) HP
11 12 (2.34%) Sophos
12 11 (2.14%) Red Hat
12 11 (2.14%) Veeam
13 10 (1.95%) Citrix
14 8 (1.56%) Oracle
15 7 (1.36%) Zscaler