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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 321 329 340
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -17
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 531 384 606
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.59% 0.88% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.12% 2.44% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 188 288 401
10th Percentile £31,775 £28,775 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,984 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £44,700 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.45% -7.84% +7.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £81,625 £72,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £44,700 £48,000
% change year-on-year +11.86% -6.88% +6.67%

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 17,021 15,739 20,471
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.95% 36.14% 26.58%
Number of salaries quoted 9,324 7,154 12,036
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,000 £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 £73,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,025 £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 27 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 27 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 +35 123 £50,000 -3.61% 34
South East +4 117 £46,250 +15.63% 41
London -29 94 £70,000 +27.27% 31
Midlands +10 83 £46,801 +23.16% 19
Yorkshire +15 70 £42,500 +44.68% 12
South West -74 68 £50,000 +29.03% 38
East of England +28 51 £38,250 -19.47% 22
East Midlands -13 42 £40,097 +14.56% 4
North West +10 41 £52,500 -8.70% 13
West Midlands +2 41 £53,162 -5.49% 15
North East -46 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 34 (6.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 15 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.51%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.88%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 386 (72.69%) Azure
2 57 (10.73%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (10.55%) AWS
4 25 (4.71%) Entra ID
5 13 (2.45%) GCP
6 11 (2.07%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (1.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (0.94%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.75%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.75%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.75%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.75%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (0.75%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.75%) Mimecast
9 4 (0.75%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.75%) Rubrik
9 4 (0.75%) Serverless
10 3 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 157 (29.57%) Firewall
2 123 (23.16%) WAN
3 109 (20.53%) VPN
4 98 (18.46%) LAN
5 73 (13.75%) Network Security
6 66 (12.43%) TCP/IP
7 62 (11.68%) VLAN
8 53 (9.98%) DNS
8 53 (9.98%) Wi-Fi
9 52 (9.79%) DHCP
10 50 (9.42%) Wireless
11 48 (9.04%) SD-WAN
12 34 (6.40%) BGP
13 32 (6.03%) VoIP
14 26 (4.90%) OSPF
15 21 (3.95%) MPLS
16 19 (3.58%) Internet
17 16 (3.01%) WLAN
18 15 (2.82%) Cisco Firepower
18 15 (2.82%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (3.77%) JIRA
2 12 (2.26%) GitLab
3 10 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.51%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.51%) Git
5 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
General
1 401 (75.52%) Social Skills
2 35 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (3.58%) Finance
4 17 (3.20%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.26%) Telecoms
6 10 (1.88%) Aerospace
6 10 (1.88%) Manufacturing
6 10 (1.88%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (1.88%) Retail
7 9 (1.69%) Banking
7 9 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 9 (1.69%) Military
8 8 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (1.13%) Digital Health
10 5 (0.94%) Automotive
11 4 (0.75%) Electronics
11 4 (0.75%) Law
11 4 (0.75%) Legal
12 3 (0.56%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.56%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 375 (70.62%) Network Engineer
2 45 (8.47%) IT Engineer
3 30 (5.65%) IT Support
3 30 (5.65%) Senior
4 24 (4.52%) Support Engineer
5 22 (4.14%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (4.14%) IT Support Engineer
6 21 (3.95%) Lead
7 19 (3.58%) Senior Network Engineer
8 15 (2.82%) 3rd Line Support
8 15 (2.82%) Analyst
9 14 (2.64%) Cisco Engineer
9 14 (2.64%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 14 (2.64%) Field Engineer
9 14 (2.64%) Field Service Engineer
10 13 (2.45%) Security Engineer
11 12 (2.26%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 12 (2.26%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (2.26%) Systems Engineer
12 10 (1.88%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.75%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.75%) boto
2 3 (0.56%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.38%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.19%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.19%) YAML
4 1 (0.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 53 (9.98%) Data Centre
2 27 (5.08%) Driving Licence
3 16 (3.01%) Security Posture
4 12 (2.26%) Hybrid Cloud
5 10 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
6 9 (1.69%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.51%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.13%) Replication
9 5 (0.94%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (0.94%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.94%) Onboarding
10 4 (0.75%) Fibre Optics
10 4 (0.75%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.75%) Smartphone
10 4 (0.75%) Social Media
11 3 (0.56%) CCTV
11 3 (0.56%) FMCG
11 3 (0.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 98 (18.46%) Windows
2 67 (12.62%) Windows Server
3 43 (8.10%) Linux
4 15 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.26%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.32%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.56%) Android
8 3 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (14.88%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (12.99%) Cybersecurity
3 64 (12.05%) ITIL
4 54 (10.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 48 (9.04%) Disaster Recovery
6 47 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (8.10%) High Availability
8 34 (6.40%) Network Monitoring
9 32 (6.03%) Business Continuity
9 32 (6.03%) Computer Science
10 29 (5.46%) Incident Response
10 29 (5.46%) Project Delivery
11 28 (5.27%) Network Design
12 27 (5.08%) Customer Service
13 26 (4.90%) SIEM
14 19 (3.58%) Network Architecture
15 18 (3.39%) Infrastructure as Code
16 15 (2.82%) Mentoring
16 15 (2.82%) Presales
16 15 (2.82%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.72%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.52%) Python
3 10 (1.88%) Bash
4 8 (1.51%) Java
5 2 (0.38%) SQL
6 1 (0.19%) Bicep
6 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 531 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 322 (60.64%) Azure Certification
3 314 (59.13%) Network+ Certification
4 121 (22.79%) CCNP
5 67 (12.62%) Degree
6 65 (12.24%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (6.78%) Security Cleared
8 26 (4.90%) MCSE
9 25 (4.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.77%) SC Cleared
11 19 (3.58%) AWS Certification
12 16 (3.01%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.64%) CCIE
14 12 (2.26%) RHCSA
15 11 (2.07%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 11 (2.07%) MCSA
16 10 (1.88%) CISSP
17 9 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (1.69%) DBS Check
18 8 (1.51%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.77%) Cyber Essentials
3 17 (3.20%) SLA
4 15 (2.82%) GDPR
5 12 (2.26%) NIST
6 6 (1.13%) QA
7 4 (0.75%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.56%) COBIT
9 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 75 (14.12%) Active Directory
2 46 (8.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (5.84%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.82%) vSphere
5 13 (2.45%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.07%) Docker
7 8 (1.51%) Squid
8 5 (0.94%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.75%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 4 (0.75%) Firmware
10 3 (0.56%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (3.58%) FortiGate
2 18 (3.39%) Terraform
3 17 (3.20%) Ansible
3 17 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 9 (1.69%) Cisco Prime
4 9 (1.69%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.51%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.51%) Packer
6 5 (0.94%) Control-M
7 4 (0.75%) Iperf
7 4 (0.75%) VxRail
8 3 (0.56%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.56%) OpenView
8 3 (0.56%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.38%) WSUS
10 1 (0.19%) SCCM
Vendors
1 408 (76.84%) Cisco
2 378 (71.19%) Microsoft
3 282 (53.11%) ForeScout
4 64 (12.05%) VMware
5 56 (10.55%) Fortinet
6 34 (6.40%) Palo Alto
7 33 (6.21%) Meraki
8 20 (3.77%) Splunk
9 19 (3.58%) SolarWinds
9 19 (3.58%) Sophos
10 18 (3.39%) Aruba
10 18 (3.39%) CheckPoint
11 15 (2.82%) Juniper
12 14 (2.64%) Dell
13 13 (2.45%) Citrix
14 12 (2.26%) HP
15 11 (2.07%) F5
15 11 (2.07%) Red Hat
15 11 (2.07%) Veeam
16 9 (1.69%) Zscaler