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

6 months to
1 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 300 329 331
Rank change year-on-year +29 +2 +33
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 520 361 732
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 0.88% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.15% 2.27% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 181 287 527
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,058 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.49% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £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 16,516 15,922 24,416
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.25% 38.64% 26.39%
Number of salaries quoted 9,072 6,890 15,419
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £43,000 £39,500 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,818
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.20% -10.30%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £52,777
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.21% -12.04%

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 1 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 1 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 +34 135 £50,000 -6.98% 49
South East -5 103 £45,000 +5.88% 58
London -55 91 £74,500 +39.25% 50
Midlands -9 80 £51,058 +32.62% 28
Yorkshire +17 69 £44,000 +13.99% 20
South West -49 68 £50,000 +17.65% 43
North West +13 54 £50,000 -9.09% 18
East of England +27 48 £34,000 -18.56% 34
East Midlands -13 41 £51,058 +45.88% 10
West Midlands -12 39 £53,162 -18.21% 18
North East -44 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 31 (5.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.31%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 377 (72.50%) Azure
2 54 (10.38%) AWS
3 48 (9.23%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (3.65%) Entra ID
5 12 (2.31%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (2.12%) GCP
7 9 (1.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (0.96%) Mimecast
8 5 (0.96%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.77%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.77%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.77%) Rubrik
9 4 (0.77%) Serverless
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.58%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.38%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 150 (28.85%) Firewall
2 120 (23.08%) WAN
3 99 (19.04%) VPN
4 98 (18.85%) LAN
5 70 (13.46%) Network Security
6 56 (10.77%) Wi-Fi
7 49 (9.42%) TCP/IP
8 45 (8.65%) VLAN
9 41 (7.88%) Wireless
10 40 (7.69%) DNS
11 39 (7.50%) DHCP
11 39 (7.50%) SD-WAN
12 29 (5.58%) BGP
13 28 (5.38%) VoIP
14 21 (4.04%) OSPF
15 20 (3.85%) MPLS
16 19 (3.65%) Cisco Firepower
17 17 (3.27%) Cisco ISE
18 16 (3.08%) WLAN
19 13 (2.50%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (3.08%) JIRA
2 14 (2.69%) GitLab
3 9 (1.73%) Git
3 9 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.54%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.19%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.19%) Metasploit
General
1 388 (74.62%) Social Skills
2 35 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
3 20 (3.85%) Finance
4 16 (3.08%) Public Sector
5 10 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (1.73%) Aerospace
6 9 (1.73%) Presentation Skills
6 9 (1.73%) Retail
7 8 (1.54%) Banking
7 8 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.54%) Law
7 8 (1.54%) Manufacturing
8 7 (1.35%) Telecoms
9 6 (1.15%) Military
10 4 (0.77%) Automotive
10 4 (0.77%) Digital Health
10 4 (0.77%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.77%) Electronics
10 4 (0.77%) Legal
11 2 (0.38%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 371 (71.35%) Network Engineer
2 45 (8.65%) IT Engineer
3 34 (6.54%) Senior
4 26 (5.00%) IT Support
5 22 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (4.23%) Lead
5 22 (4.23%) Senior Network Engineer
5 22 (4.23%) Support Engineer
6 20 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
6 20 (3.85%) IT Support Engineer
7 15 (2.88%) Azure Engineer
8 14 (2.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 13 (2.50%) Analyst
9 13 (2.50%) Security Engineer
10 11 (2.12%) Field Engineer
10 11 (2.12%) Field Service Engineer
10 11 (2.12%) LAN Engineer
10 11 (2.12%) LAN/WAN Engineer
10 11 (2.12%) WAN Engineer
11 10 (1.92%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.77%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.77%) boto
1 4 (0.77%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (0.58%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 52 (10.00%) Data Centre
2 19 (3.65%) Driving Licence
2 19 (3.65%) Security Posture
3 12 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.54%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.15%) PKI
8 5 (0.96%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (0.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 5 (0.96%) Replication
9 4 (0.77%) Cyber Threat
9 4 (0.77%) Fibre Optics
9 4 (0.77%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.77%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.58%) FMCG
10 3 (0.58%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.58%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 89 (17.12%) Windows
2 55 (10.58%) Windows Server
3 45 (8.65%) Linux
4 14 (2.69%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (1.92%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.58%) Windows 10
6 3 (0.58%) Windows Server 2012
7 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (14.62%) Problem-Solving
2 66 (12.69%) Cybersecurity
3 55 (10.58%) ITIL
4 46 (8.85%) Disaster Recovery
5 45 (8.65%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 43 (8.27%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (8.08%) High Availability
8 33 (6.35%) Computer Science
9 32 (6.15%) Business Continuity
10 31 (5.96%) Incident Response
11 30 (5.77%) Network Monitoring
12 27 (5.19%) SIEM
13 25 (4.81%) Network Design
14 24 (4.62%) Network Architecture
15 22 (4.23%) Customer Service
16 20 (3.85%) Project Delivery
17 18 (3.46%) Infrastructure as Code
18 17 (3.27%) Presales
18 17 (3.27%) Process Improvement
19 15 (2.88%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.50%) PowerShell
2 21 (4.04%) Python
3 9 (1.73%) Bash
4 8 (1.54%) Java
5 3 (0.58%) SQL
6 2 (0.38%) Bicep
7 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 520 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 319 (61.35%) Azure Certification
3 306 (58.85%) Network+ Certification
4 118 (22.69%) CCNP
5 65 (12.50%) Degree
6 60 (11.54%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (6.35%) Security Cleared
8 29 (5.58%) MCSE
9 26 (5.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.85%) CCIE
11 16 (3.08%) AWS Certification
11 16 (3.08%) SC Cleared
12 12 (2.31%) CISSP
12 12 (2.31%) DV Cleared
12 12 (2.31%) MCSA
12 12 (2.31%) RHCSA
13 10 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 9 (1.73%) DBS Check
14 9 (1.73%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.46%) GDPR
3 17 (3.27%) SLA
4 16 (3.08%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.31%) NIST
6 6 (1.15%) QA
7 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.58%) COBIT
9 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.19%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 66 (12.69%) Active Directory
2 40 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (4.81%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.27%) vSphere
5 13 (2.50%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.12%) Docker
7 8 (1.54%) Squid
8 7 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.77%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.58%) Firmware
10 3 (0.58%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (3.85%) FortiGate
2 18 (3.46%) Terraform
3 17 (3.27%) Ansible
4 15 (2.88%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.92%) Cisco Prime
6 9 (1.73%) ZABBIX
7 8 (1.54%) Kubernetes
7 8 (1.54%) Packer
8 5 (0.96%) Control-M
9 4 (0.77%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.77%) VxRail
9 4 (0.77%) WSUS
10 3 (0.58%) Iperf
10 3 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.58%) OpenView
10 3 (0.58%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.19%) Nmap
11 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 401 (77.12%) Cisco
2 368 (70.77%) Microsoft
3 282 (54.23%) ForeScout
4 57 (10.96%) VMware
5 50 (9.62%) Fortinet
6 31 (5.96%) Palo Alto
7 27 (5.19%) Meraki
8 24 (4.62%) Aruba
9 22 (4.23%) SolarWinds
10 20 (3.85%) Splunk
11 19 (3.65%) CheckPoint
11 19 (3.65%) Juniper
12 16 (3.08%) Dell
13 13 (2.50%) Sophos
14 12 (2.31%) HP
15 11 (2.12%) Red Hat
15 11 (2.12%) Veeam
16 10 (1.92%) Citrix
17 8 (1.54%) Oracle
17 8 (1.54%) Zscaler