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 29 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 303 305 347
Rank change year-on-year +2 +42 +24
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 506 370 675
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 0.97% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.67% 2.34% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 161 270 573
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,500 £31,250
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 £62,375 £57,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,250 £67,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £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 18,954 15,836 23,684
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.79% 41.35% 27.19%
Number of salaries quoted 8,648 6,565 15,692
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,967
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.06% -8.39%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,950 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 29 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 29 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 +35 139 £50,000 -9.09% 35
South East -15 93 £45,000 +5.88% 47
London -52 85 £74,500 +24.17% 30
Midlands -22 83 £51,058 +32.62% 20
Yorkshire -6 67 £47,750 +23.70% 10
South West -36 65 £40,000 -5.88% 35
North West +26 60 £50,000 -9.09% 16
East Midlands -20 46 £51,058 +45.88% 3
East of England +19 43 £34,000 -18.43% 27
West Midlands -42 37 £53,401 -17.85% 17
North East -28 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 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.38%) Confluence
2 7 (1.38%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 363 (71.74%) Azure
2 48 (9.49%) AWS
3 38 (7.51%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (2.17%) Azure Monitor
4 11 (2.17%) GCP
5 10 (1.98%) Entra ID
6 9 (1.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (0.99%) Mimecast
8 4 (0.79%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.59%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.59%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.59%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.59%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (0.59%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (0.59%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.59%) Rubrik
9 3 (0.59%) Serverless
10 2 (0.40%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 134 (26.48%) Firewall
2 103 (20.36%) WAN
3 82 (16.21%) LAN
4 74 (14.62%) VPN
5 57 (11.26%) Network Security
6 48 (9.49%) Wi-Fi
7 32 (6.32%) TCP/IP
8 28 (5.53%) SD-WAN
8 28 (5.53%) VLAN
8 28 (5.53%) Wireless
9 24 (4.74%) VoIP
10 23 (4.55%) DNS
11 22 (4.35%) DHCP
12 19 (3.75%) BGP
12 19 (3.75%) Cisco Firepower
13 17 (3.36%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (2.96%) Cisco ISE
14 15 (2.96%) MPLS
14 15 (2.96%) OSPF
14 15 (2.96%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (2.57%) JIRA
2 12 (2.37%) GitLab
3 8 (1.58%) Git
3 8 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.38%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.79%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.79%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.20%) Chocolatey
General
1 373 (73.72%) Social Skills
2 32 (6.32%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (3.75%) Finance
4 17 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
4 17 (3.36%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (1.78%) Retail
7 8 (1.58%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.38%) Law
8 7 (1.38%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.19%) Banking
9 6 (1.19%) Legal
9 6 (1.19%) Manufacturing
9 6 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (0.79%) Automotive
10 4 (0.79%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.79%) Electronics
10 4 (0.79%) Military
11 1 (0.20%) Mandarin Language
11 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 362 (71.54%) Network Engineer
2 39 (7.71%) IT Engineer
3 32 (6.32%) Cisco Engineer
4 25 (4.94%) Senior
5 23 (4.55%) LAN Engineer
5 23 (4.55%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 23 (4.55%) WAN Engineer
6 20 (3.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 20 (3.95%) IT Support
7 19 (3.75%) Lead
7 19 (3.75%) Presales Engineer
8 18 (3.56%) Azure Engineer
8 18 (3.56%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 18 (3.56%) Support Engineer
9 16 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
10 14 (2.77%) Firewall Engineer
10 14 (2.77%) Juniper Engineer
10 14 (2.77%) Senior Network Engineer
11 11 (2.17%) Field Engineer
11 11 (2.17%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.79%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.79%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (0.59%) boto
3 2 (0.40%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.28%) Data Centre
2 17 (3.36%) Security Posture
3 14 (2.77%) Driving Licence
4 10 (1.98%) Analytical Mindset
4 10 (1.98%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 9 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.58%) Management Information System
7 6 (1.19%) Smartphone
8 5 (0.99%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (0.99%) PKI
8 5 (0.99%) Replication
9 4 (0.79%) Fibre Optics
9 4 (0.79%) Insider Threat
9 4 (0.79%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (0.59%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.59%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 73 (14.43%) Windows
2 42 (8.30%) Linux
3 39 (7.71%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.98%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (13.83%) Problem-Solving
2 53 (10.47%) Cybersecurity
3 44 (8.70%) ITIL
4 40 (7.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 33 (6.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 32 (6.32%) High Availability
7 31 (6.13%) Computer Science
8 30 (5.93%) Customer Service
9 28 (5.53%) Network Monitoring
10 27 (5.34%) Incident Response
11 26 (5.14%) Presales
12 25 (4.94%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (4.94%) SIEM
13 23 (4.55%) Network Architecture
14 21 (4.15%) Business Continuity
14 21 (4.15%) Network Design
14 21 (4.15%) Process Improvement
15 17 (3.36%) Penetration Testing
16 14 (2.77%) Infrastructure as Code
16 14 (2.77%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 30 (5.93%) PowerShell
2 17 (3.36%) Python
3 8 (1.58%) Bash
4 7 (1.38%) Java
5 2 (0.40%) Bicep
5 2 (0.40%) SQL
6 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 506 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 311 (61.46%) Azure Certification
3 310 (61.26%) Network+ Certification
4 97 (19.17%) CCNP
5 63 (12.45%) Degree
6 54 (10.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (7.31%) Security Cleared
8 32 (6.32%) MCSE
9 26 (5.14%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.95%) CCIE
10 20 (3.95%) SC Cleared
11 18 (3.56%) JNCIA
12 13 (2.57%) CISSP
13 11 (2.17%) CCSA
13 11 (2.17%) CCSE
13 11 (2.17%) CompTIA Security+
13 11 (2.17%) DBS Check
13 11 (2.17%) OSCP
13 11 (2.17%) RHCSA
14 10 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (3.16%) GDPR
3 14 (2.77%) SLA
4 13 (2.57%) NIST
5 12 (2.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.79%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.59%) COBIT
7 3 (0.59%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.59%) QA
8 2 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 48 (9.49%) Active Directory
2 33 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (3.75%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.96%) vSphere
5 11 (2.17%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.98%) Docker
7 7 (1.38%) Firmware
7 7 (1.38%) Squid
7 7 (1.38%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.59%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (4.15%) FortiGate
2 17 (3.36%) Ansible
3 15 (2.96%) Terraform
4 12 (2.37%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.98%) Cisco Prime
6 8 (1.58%) ZABBIX
7 7 (1.38%) Kubernetes
7 7 (1.38%) Packer
8 4 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.79%) Nmap
8 4 (0.79%) WSUS
9 3 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.59%) OpenView
9 3 (0.59%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.59%) VxRail
10 2 (0.40%) Control-M
11 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 399 (78.85%) Cisco
2 354 (69.96%) Microsoft
3 282 (55.73%) ForeScout
4 56 (11.07%) Fortinet
5 44 (8.70%) VMware
6 28 (5.53%) Aruba
7 26 (5.14%) Meraki
8 24 (4.74%) Juniper
9 19 (3.75%) CheckPoint
9 19 (3.75%) SolarWinds
10 18 (3.56%) Dell
10 18 (3.56%) Splunk
11 17 (3.36%) Palo Alto
12 12 (2.37%) HP
12 12 (2.37%) Sophos
13 10 (1.98%) Red Hat
13 10 (1.98%) Veeam
14 8 (1.58%) Citrix
15 7 (1.38%) Oracle
15 7 (1.38%) Zscaler