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 2 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 387 307 322
Rank change year-on-year -80 +15 -36
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 441 379 549
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.42% 0.88% 0.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.44% 2.42% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 198 266 257
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,039 £31,000 £37,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,000 £51,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -21.57% +13.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,625 £70,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +10.74%

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 18,099 15,655 19,206
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.41% 36.20% 28.69%
Number of salaries quoted 10,548 6,673 8,327
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,983 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -1.71%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% -3.51% -1.72%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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
South East -53 98 £47,500 +11.76% 70
North of England -19 94 £42,500 +4.94% 60
Midlands -4 85 £41,000 +17.14% 48
London -49 85 £70,000 +20.17% 97
Yorkshire +8 54 £42,500 +63.46% 25
South West -106 49 £44,189 +38.09% 46
East Midlands -21 48 £38,847 +10.99% 19
West Midlands -14 37 £53,162 +29.66% 29
East of England -35 33 £62,500 +56.25% 38
North West -26 31 £52,500 -2.33% 21
North East -63 9 £38,378 +23.80% 14
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 25 (5.67%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.31%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.91%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.23%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.45%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.23%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 288 (65.31%) Azure
2 65 (14.74%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (12.02%) AWS
4 49 (11.11%) Entra ID
5 9 (2.04%) GCP
6 5 (1.13%) OneDrive
6 5 (1.13%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.91%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (0.91%) Amazon S3
7 4 (0.91%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (0.91%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (0.91%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
7 4 (0.91%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (0.91%) Power Automate
7 4 (0.91%) Serverless
8 2 (0.45%) Azure Stack
8 2 (0.45%) ChatGPT
8 2 (0.45%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 154 (34.92%) Firewall
2 111 (25.17%) WAN
3 98 (22.22%) VPN
4 95 (21.54%) LAN
5 77 (17.46%) Network Security
6 70 (15.87%) VLAN
7 69 (15.65%) TCP/IP
8 68 (15.42%) DHCP
8 68 (15.42%) DNS
9 64 (14.51%) Wireless
10 43 (9.75%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (9.07%) SD-WAN
12 34 (7.71%) BGP
13 29 (6.58%) OSPF
14 21 (4.76%) VoIP
15 18 (4.08%) Internet
15 18 (4.08%) SAN
16 17 (3.85%) MPLS
17 15 (3.40%) WLAN
18 14 (3.17%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.13%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.23%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (5.90%) JIRA
2 14 (3.17%) GitLab
3 9 (2.04%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.81%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.81%) Git
5 1 (0.23%) Chocolatey
General
1 303 (68.71%) Social Skills
2 43 (9.75%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (5.44%) Telecoms
4 18 (4.08%) Finance
5 16 (3.63%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.72%) Aerospace
6 12 (2.72%) Law
7 11 (2.49%) Retail
8 10 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
9 9 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 8 (1.81%) Banking
11 7 (1.59%) Digital Health
11 7 (1.59%) Military
11 7 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
12 6 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 6 (1.36%) Legal
13 5 (1.13%) Automotive
14 4 (0.91%) Electronics
15 3 (0.68%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.68%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 278 (63.04%) Network Engineer
2 51 (11.56%) IT Engineer
3 37 (8.39%) Senior
4 36 (8.16%) IT Support
5 30 (6.80%) Support Engineer
6 26 (5.90%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (5.90%) IT Support Engineer
7 20 (4.54%) Senior Network Engineer
8 17 (3.85%) Field Engineer
8 17 (3.85%) Field Service Engineer
8 17 (3.85%) Security Engineer
9 16 (3.63%) 3rd Line Support
10 13 (2.95%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 13 (2.95%) Analyst
11 12 (2.72%) Senior Security Engineer
11 12 (2.72%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.49%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 10 (2.27%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 9 (2.04%) Lead
14 9 (2.04%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (4.08%) Terraform
2 4 (0.91%) boto
3 3 (0.68%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.68%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.45%) LDAP
4 2 (0.45%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.45%) SAML
5 1 (0.23%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.23%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.23%) YAML
5 1 (0.23%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 61 (13.83%) Data Centre
2 42 (9.52%) Driving Licence
3 17 (3.85%) Security Posture
4 16 (3.63%) Management Information System
5 14 (3.17%) CCTV
6 13 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
7 12 (2.72%) Hybrid Cloud
8 11 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (2.04%) PKI
10 8 (1.81%) Replication
11 7 (1.59%) Onboarding
12 6 (1.36%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (1.36%) Enterprise Software
12 6 (1.36%) Smartphone
13 4 (0.91%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (0.68%) FMCG
15 2 (0.45%) Cyber Security Posture
16 1 (0.23%) Educational Technology
16 1 (0.23%) Operational Technology
16 1 (0.23%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 107 (24.26%) Windows
2 80 (18.14%) Windows Server
3 45 (10.20%) Linux
4 12 (2.72%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (2.72%) Windows Server 2019
5 7 (1.59%) Windows 10
5 7 (1.59%) Windows Server 2012
6 4 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.68%) Android
8 2 (0.45%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (17.69%) Problem-Solving
2 77 (17.46%) ITIL
3 66 (14.97%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 63 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
5 48 (10.88%) Disaster Recovery
6 44 (9.98%) Project Delivery
7 41 (9.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 41 (9.30%) Network Design
8 39 (8.84%) Business Continuity
9 34 (7.71%) High Availability
10 32 (7.26%) Customer Service
11 29 (6.58%) Computer Science
12 25 (5.67%) Network Monitoring
13 24 (5.44%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (4.99%) Incident Response
15 21 (4.76%) Incident Management
15 21 (4.76%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (4.76%) SIEM
16 19 (4.31%) Mentoring
16 19 (4.31%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 38 (8.62%) PowerShell
2 35 (7.94%) Python
3 10 (2.27%) Bash
4 8 (1.81%) Java
5 2 (0.45%) SQL
6 1 (0.23%) C
Qualifications
1 441 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 221 (50.11%) Network+ Certification
3 218 (49.43%) Azure Certification
4 115 (26.08%) CCNP
5 70 (15.87%) Microsoft Certification
6 65 (14.74%) Degree
7 35 (7.94%) MCSE
8 33 (7.48%) Security Cleared
9 21 (4.76%) AWS Certification
9 21 (4.76%) SC Cleared
10 20 (4.54%) Computer Science Degree
11 17 (3.85%) DV Cleared
11 17 (3.85%) MCSA
11 17 (3.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 16 (3.63%) CISSP
13 11 (2.49%) A+ Certification
13 11 (2.49%) CCIE
14 9 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (2.04%) CompTIA Security+
15 8 (1.81%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (7.94%) Cyber Essentials
2 18 (4.08%) SLA
3 17 (3.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (2.04%) GDPR
5 6 (1.36%) QA
6 5 (1.13%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.13%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.68%) COBIT
7 3 (0.68%) NIST
8 2 (0.45%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.45%) GRC
System Software
1 75 (17.01%) Active Directory
2 42 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (7.71%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.63%) vSphere
5 11 (2.49%) Docker
5 11 (2.49%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.27%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.81%) Squid
8 5 (1.13%) Firmware
9 3 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.68%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.45%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.23%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.23%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 31 (7.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (5.22%) FortiGate
3 17 (3.85%) Ansible
4 10 (2.27%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (2.04%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.81%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.81%) Packer
7 4 (0.91%) Iperf
8 3 (0.68%) Control-M
9 2 (0.45%) SCCM
9 2 (0.45%) VxRail
10 1 (0.23%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.23%) Nagios
10 1 (0.23%) OpenView
10 1 (0.23%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.23%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 308 (69.84%) Cisco
2 277 (62.81%) Microsoft
3 188 (42.63%) ForeScout
4 71 (16.10%) VMware
5 49 (11.11%) Fortinet
6 40 (9.07%) Palo Alto
7 22 (4.99%) Meraki
8 17 (3.85%) F5
8 17 (3.85%) WatchGuard
9 15 (3.40%) Aruba
9 15 (3.40%) Dell
10 14 (3.17%) Juniper
10 14 (3.17%) Splunk
11 13 (2.95%) Sophos
11 13 (2.95%) Veeam
12 12 (2.72%) Ruckus Wireless
13 11 (2.49%) CheckPoint
13 11 (2.49%) Draytek
13 11 (2.49%) Red Hat
13 11 (2.49%) SolarWinds