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

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 324 342
Rank change year-on-year -3 +18 -17
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 528 382 592
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.58% 0.88% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.07% 2.43% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 188 285 389
10th Percentile £30,875 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,984 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -12.37% +7.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £81,625 £72,500 £67,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +17.65% -12.37% +7.78%

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 17,179 15,693 20,246
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.82% 36.07% 26.68%
Number of salaries quoted 9,465 7,128 11,648
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 31 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 31 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 +41 122 £50,000 +11.86% 7
South East -6 117 £46,250 +15.63% 21
London -53 93 £70,000 +27.27% 18
Midlands +2 85 £44,651 +17.50% 12
Yorkshire +14 69 £42,500 +61.90% 3
South West -81 66 £55,000 +46.67% 8
East of England +22 50 £38,250 -19.47% 3
East Midlands -8 43 £41,000 +17.14% 5
West Midlands +7 42 £46,801 -16.80% 7
North West +23 41 £52,500 -2.33% 4
North East -46 12 - -
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 36 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.89%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 385 (72.92%) Azure
2 58 (10.98%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (10.04%) AWS
4 27 (5.11%) Entra ID
5 13 (2.46%) GCP
6 11 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (0.95%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.76%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.76%) Mimecast
9 4 (0.76%) OneDrive
9 4 (0.76%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.76%) Rubrik
9 4 (0.76%) Serverless
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 153 (28.98%) Firewall
2 117 (22.16%) WAN
3 106 (20.08%) VPN
4 94 (17.80%) LAN
5 72 (13.64%) Network Security
6 67 (12.69%) TCP/IP
7 63 (11.93%) VLAN
8 52 (9.85%) DHCP
8 52 (9.85%) DNS
9 51 (9.66%) Wireless
10 50 (9.47%) Wi-Fi
11 45 (8.52%) SD-WAN
12 32 (6.06%) BGP
13 31 (5.87%) VoIP
14 25 (4.73%) OSPF
15 19 (3.60%) Internet
15 19 (3.60%) MPLS
16 14 (2.65%) Cisco ISE
16 14 (2.65%) WLAN
17 13 (2.46%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (3.79%) JIRA
2 11 (2.08%) GitLab
3 10 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.52%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.52%) Git
5 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
General
1 400 (75.76%) Social Skills
2 37 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (3.22%) Finance
3 17 (3.22%) Public Sector
4 12 (2.27%) Telecoms
5 10 (1.89%) Aerospace
5 10 (1.89%) Manufacturing
5 10 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (1.89%) Retail
6 9 (1.70%) Banking
6 9 (1.70%) Military
7 8 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (1.14%) Digital Health
9 5 (0.95%) Automotive
10 4 (0.76%) Electronics
10 4 (0.76%) Law
10 4 (0.76%) Legal
11 3 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
11 3 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 370 (70.08%) Network Engineer
2 46 (8.71%) IT Engineer
3 32 (6.06%) IT Support
4 30 (5.68%) Senior
5 26 (4.92%) Support Engineer
6 24 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (4.17%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (3.98%) Lead
9 18 (3.41%) Senior Network Engineer
10 16 (3.03%) 3rd Line Support
11 15 (2.84%) Analyst
12 14 (2.65%) Field Engineer
12 14 (2.65%) Field Service Engineer
13 13 (2.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 13 (2.46%) Cisco Engineer
13 13 (2.46%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 13 (2.46%) Security Engineer
14 12 (2.27%) Systems Engineer
15 11 (2.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 11 (2.08%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.76%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.76%) boto
2 3 (0.57%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.19%) LDAP
3 1 (0.19%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.19%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.19%) SAML
3 1 (0.19%) YAML
3 1 (0.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 50 (9.47%) Data Centre
2 28 (5.30%) Driving Licence
3 15 (2.84%) Security Posture
4 12 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.89%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.14%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.14%) Replication
9 5 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
10 4 (0.76%) Fibre Optics
10 4 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.76%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.76%) Social Media
11 3 (0.57%) CCTV
11 3 (0.57%) FMCG
11 3 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (18.75%) Windows
2 69 (13.07%) Windows Server
3 42 (7.95%) Linux
4 15 (2.84%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (1.52%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.57%) Android
8 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
2 68 (12.88%) Cybersecurity
3 63 (11.93%) ITIL
4 53 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 49 (9.28%) Disaster Recovery
6 46 (8.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (7.95%) High Availability
8 35 (6.63%) Network Monitoring
9 32 (6.06%) Business Continuity
10 31 (5.87%) Computer Science
11 30 (5.68%) Customer Service
12 29 (5.49%) Project Delivery
13 28 (5.30%) Incident Response
13 28 (5.30%) Network Design
14 25 (4.73%) SIEM
15 19 (3.60%) Network Architecture
16 18 (3.41%) Infrastructure as Code
17 16 (3.03%) Stakeholder Management
18 15 (2.84%) Mentoring
18 15 (2.84%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.77%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.55%) Python
3 10 (1.89%) Bash
4 8 (1.52%) Java
5 2 (0.38%) SQL
6 1 (0.19%) Bicep
6 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 528 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 323 (61.17%) Azure Certification
3 315 (59.66%) Network+ Certification
4 116 (21.97%) CCNP
5 68 (12.88%) Degree
6 66 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (6.44%) Security Cleared
8 26 (4.92%) MCSE
9 24 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.79%) SC Cleared
11 19 (3.60%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.84%) DV Cleared
13 12 (2.27%) CCIE
13 12 (2.27%) RHCSA
14 11 (2.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 11 (2.08%) MCSA
15 10 (1.89%) CISSP
15 10 (1.89%) DBS Check
16 9 (1.70%) CompTIA Security+
17 8 (1.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.79%) Cyber Essentials
3 17 (3.22%) SLA
4 14 (2.65%) GDPR
5 12 (2.27%) NIST
6 6 (1.14%) QA
7 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.57%) COBIT
9 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 76 (14.39%) Active Directory
2 47 (8.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.65%) vSphere
5 12 (2.27%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.08%) Docker
7 8 (1.52%) Squid
8 5 (0.95%) Firmware
8 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.76%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.57%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 18 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
1 18 (3.41%) Terraform
2 17 (3.22%) FortiGate
3 16 (3.03%) Ansible
4 9 (1.70%) Cisco Prime
4 9 (1.70%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.52%) Packer
6 5 (0.95%) Control-M
7 4 (0.76%) Iperf
7 4 (0.76%) VxRail
8 3 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.57%) OpenView
8 3 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.57%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) SCCM
9 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 406 (76.89%) Cisco
2 378 (71.59%) Microsoft
3 282 (53.41%) ForeScout
4 64 (12.12%) VMware
5 53 (10.04%) Fortinet
6 34 (6.44%) Palo Alto
7 32 (6.06%) Meraki
8 20 (3.79%) Sophos
9 19 (3.60%) Splunk
10 18 (3.41%) SolarWinds
11 17 (3.22%) Aruba
12 16 (3.03%) CheckPoint
13 15 (2.84%) Juniper
14 13 (2.46%) Citrix
14 13 (2.46%) Dell
15 12 (2.27%) HP
16 11 (2.08%) F5
16 11 (2.08%) Red Hat
16 11 (2.08%) Veeam
17 9 (1.70%) Zscaler