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 17 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 310 326 332
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 +13
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 530 377 693
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 0.87% 0.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.16% 2.38% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 189 291 483
10th Percentile £31,850 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £31,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £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 16,748 15,866 22,953
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.10% 36.63% 26.76%
Number of salaries quoted 9,206 7,113 14,186
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £29,448
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +0.92% -9.17%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +38 128 £50,000 -6.98% 40
South East +3 112 £45,000 +5.88% 43
London -41 93 £70,000 +27.27% 30
Midlands +7 83 £46,801 +21.56% 17
Yorkshire +16 71 £42,500 +30.77% 14
South West -56 68 £50,000 +25.00% 35
East of England +33 51 £36,500 -23.16% 27
North West +8 45 £52,500 -8.70% 17
East Midlands +1 42 £40,097 +14.56% 4
West Midlands +4 41 £53,162 -18.21% 13
North East -52 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 35 (6.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.64%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 387 (73.02%) Azure
2 56 (10.57%) AWS
2 56 (10.57%) Microsoft 365
3 24 (4.53%) Entra ID
4 12 (2.26%) Azure Monitor
4 12 (2.26%) GCP
5 9 (1.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 5 (0.94%) Mimecast
6 5 (0.94%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (0.75%) Amazon S3
7 4 (0.75%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (0.75%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (0.75%) Rubrik
7 4 (0.75%) Serverless
8 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (0.57%) OneDrive
8 3 (0.57%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 157 (29.62%) Firewall
2 124 (23.40%) WAN
3 110 (20.75%) VPN
4 100 (18.87%) LAN
5 72 (13.58%) Network Security
6 59 (11.13%) TCP/IP
7 57 (10.75%) VLAN
8 56 (10.57%) Wi-Fi
9 50 (9.43%) Wireless
10 48 (9.06%) DNS
11 47 (8.87%) DHCP
12 46 (8.68%) SD-WAN
13 34 (6.42%) BGP
14 32 (6.04%) VoIP
15 24 (4.53%) OSPF
16 23 (4.34%) MPLS
17 18 (3.40%) Cisco Firepower
18 17 (3.21%) Internet
19 16 (3.02%) Cisco ISE
19 16 (3.02%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.51%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (3.58%) JIRA
2 13 (2.45%) GitLab
3 10 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.51%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.51%) Git
5 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
General
1 395 (74.53%) Social Skills
2 35 (6.60%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (3.77%) Finance
4 18 (3.40%) Public Sector
5 11 (2.08%) Telecoms
6 10 (1.89%) Manufacturing
6 10 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (1.89%) Retail
7 9 (1.70%) Aerospace
7 9 (1.70%) Banking
7 9 (1.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.51%) Military
9 7 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
10 6 (1.13%) Law
11 5 (0.94%) Automotive
12 4 (0.75%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.75%) Electronics
12 4 (0.75%) Legal
12 4 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
13 3 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 375 (70.75%) Network Engineer
2 49 (9.25%) IT Engineer
3 32 (6.04%) Senior
4 29 (5.47%) IT Support
5 24 (4.53%) Support Engineer
6 22 (4.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 22 (4.15%) IT Support Engineer
6 22 (4.15%) Lead
7 21 (3.96%) Senior Network Engineer
8 15 (2.83%) Analyst
8 15 (2.83%) Cisco Engineer
9 14 (2.64%) Azure Engineer
9 14 (2.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 13 (2.45%) Field Engineer
10 13 (2.45%) Field Service Engineer
10 13 (2.45%) Security Engineer
11 12 (2.26%) 3rd Line Support
11 12 (2.26%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 9 (1.70%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.75%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.75%) boto
2 3 (0.57%) ARM Templates
2 3 (0.57%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.19%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.19%) YAML
3 1 (0.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 55 (10.38%) Data Centre
2 24 (4.53%) Driving Licence
3 17 (3.21%) Security Posture
4 12 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.51%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.13%) Replication
9 5 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.94%) PKI
10 4 (0.75%) Fibre Optics
10 4 (0.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (0.75%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.75%) Smartphone
11 3 (0.57%) CCTV
11 3 (0.57%) FMCG
11 3 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 96 (18.11%) Windows
2 63 (11.89%) Windows Server
3 45 (8.49%) Linux
4 16 (3.02%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (1.13%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.38%) Android
10 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (13.21%) Cybersecurity
3 61 (11.51%) ITIL
4 51 (9.62%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 49 (9.25%) Disaster Recovery
6 47 (8.87%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (7.92%) High Availability
8 34 (6.42%) Network Monitoring
9 33 (6.23%) Business Continuity
10 32 (6.04%) Computer Science
11 31 (5.85%) Incident Response
12 27 (5.09%) Network Design
12 27 (5.09%) Project Delivery
12 27 (5.09%) SIEM
13 26 (4.91%) Customer Service
14 22 (4.15%) Network Architecture
15 18 (3.40%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (2.83%) Mentoring
16 15 (2.83%) Network Segmentation
16 15 (2.83%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 42 (7.92%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.53%) Python
3 10 (1.89%) Bash
4 8 (1.51%) Java
5 3 (0.57%) SQL
6 2 (0.38%) Bicep
7 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 530 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 322 (60.75%) Azure Certification
3 310 (58.49%) Network+ Certification
4 123 (23.21%) CCNP
5 67 (12.64%) Degree
6 64 (12.08%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (6.60%) Security Cleared
8 27 (5.09%) MCSE
9 25 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (3.21%) AWS Certification
10 17 (3.21%) CCIE
10 17 (3.21%) SC Cleared
11 15 (2.83%) DV Cleared
12 12 (2.26%) MCSA
12 12 (2.26%) RHCSA
13 11 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 10 (1.89%) CISSP
15 9 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (1.70%) DBS Check
16 8 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.58%) Cyber Essentials
3 17 (3.21%) GDPR
3 17 (3.21%) SLA
4 13 (2.45%) NIST
5 6 (1.13%) QA
6 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.57%) COBIT
8 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 73 (13.77%) Active Directory
2 44 (8.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (5.85%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.02%) vSphere
5 14 (2.64%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.08%) Docker
7 8 (1.51%) Squid
8 6 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.75%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 4 (0.75%) Firmware
9 4 (0.75%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.57%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (3.77%) FortiGate
2 19 (3.58%) Terraform
3 18 (3.40%) Ansible
3 18 (3.40%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.89%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (1.70%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.51%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.51%) Packer
7 5 (0.94%) Control-M
8 4 (0.75%) Iperf
8 4 (0.75%) VxRail
9 3 (0.57%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 3 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.57%) OpenView
9 3 (0.57%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.57%) WSUS
10 1 (0.19%) SCCM
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 410 (77.36%) Cisco
2 377 (71.13%) Microsoft
3 282 (53.21%) ForeScout
4 63 (11.89%) VMware
5 57 (10.75%) Fortinet
6 33 (6.23%) Palo Alto
7 32 (6.04%) Meraki
8 21 (3.96%) SolarWinds
8 21 (3.96%) Splunk
9 20 (3.77%) CheckPoint
10 19 (3.58%) Aruba
11 17 (3.21%) Juniper
11 17 (3.21%) Sophos
12 15 (2.83%) Dell
13 13 (2.45%) Citrix
14 12 (2.26%) HP
14 12 (2.26%) Veeam
15 11 (2.08%) Red Hat
16 9 (1.70%) F5
16 9 (1.70%) Zscaler