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

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 441 302 319
Rank change year-on-year -139 +17 -38
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 363 375 520
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 0.88% 0.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.03% 2.46% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 205 258 228
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £34,208
25th Percentile £37,000 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -22.86% +16.22%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £80,250 £70,450 £68,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% +12.90%

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 17,882 15,246 18,593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.17% 35.66% 29.06%
Number of salaries quoted 10,629 6,650 7,766
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £76,250
90th Percentile £98,750 £90,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -

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 13 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 13 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 -55 86 £47,500 -2.56% 41
London -47 81 £66,250 +10.42% 82
Midlands -23 68 £41,000 +17.14% 38
North of England -47 66 £42,500 +4.94% 32
East Midlands -22 40 £38,500 +10.00% 19
Yorkshire -9 39 £42,500 +63.46% 15
South West -124 34 £44,189 +38.09% 22
East of England -35 29 £58,750 +46.88% 14
West Midlands -21 28 £53,162 +29.66% 19
North West -36 22 £52,500 -2.33% 13
North East -74 5 £38,378 +23.80% 4
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 29 (7.99%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.10%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.28%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.28%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 206 (56.75%) Azure
2 76 (20.94%) Microsoft 365
3 58 (15.98%) Entra ID
4 52 (14.33%) AWS
5 10 (2.75%) GCP
6 5 (1.38%) OneDrive
6 5 (1.38%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.10%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.10%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.10%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.10%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (1.10%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (1.10%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.10%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.10%) Serverless
8 2 (0.55%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.55%) Azure Stack
8 2 (0.55%) Rubrik
8 2 (0.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 166 (45.73%) Firewall
2 124 (34.16%) WAN
3 110 (30.30%) LAN
4 106 (29.20%) VPN
5 84 (23.14%) Network Security
6 79 (21.76%) VLAN
7 77 (21.21%) TCP/IP
8 76 (20.94%) Wireless
9 74 (20.39%) DHCP
9 74 (20.39%) DNS
10 52 (14.33%) Wi-Fi
11 47 (12.95%) SD-WAN
12 38 (10.47%) BGP
13 33 (9.09%) OSPF
14 21 (5.79%) VoIP
15 19 (5.23%) Internet
16 17 (4.68%) MPLS
16 17 (4.68%) SAN
17 16 (4.41%) WLAN
18 15 (4.13%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.38%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.28%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.28%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (7.16%) JIRA
2 12 (3.31%) GitLab
3 7 (1.93%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.65%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.65%) Git
5 1 (0.28%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.28%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 214 (58.95%) Social Skills
2 42 (11.57%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (6.89%) Telecoms
4 18 (4.96%) Finance
5 16 (4.41%) Public Sector
6 12 (3.31%) Law
7 11 (3.03%) Aerospace
7 11 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
7 11 (3.03%) Retail
8 8 (2.20%) Banking
8 8 (2.20%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.93%) Digital Health
9 7 (1.93%) Military
9 7 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (1.65%) Legal
11 4 (1.10%) French Language
12 3 (0.83%) Automotive
12 3 (0.83%) Mandarin Language
12 3 (0.83%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 196 (53.99%) Network Engineer
2 51 (14.05%) IT Engineer
3 42 (11.57%) IT Support
4 37 (10.19%) Senior
5 34 (9.37%) Support Engineer
6 27 (7.44%) IT Support Engineer
7 25 (6.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (5.79%) Senior Network Engineer
9 16 (4.41%) 3rd Line Support
9 16 (4.41%) Field Engineer
9 16 (4.41%) Field Service Engineer
10 15 (4.13%) Security Engineer
11 13 (3.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (3.58%) Analyst
12 12 (3.31%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (3.03%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (3.03%) Senior Security Engineer
14 9 (2.48%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 9 (2.48%) IT Technician
14 9 (2.48%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (4.13%) Terraform
2 4 (1.10%) boto
3 2 (0.55%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.55%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.55%) LDAP
3 2 (0.55%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.55%) NETCONF
3 2 (0.55%) SAML
4 1 (0.28%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.28%) YAML
4 1 (0.28%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 64 (17.63%) Data Centre
2 46 (12.67%) Driving Licence
3 18 (4.96%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (4.68%) Security Posture
5 16 (4.41%) CCTV
6 15 (4.13%) Management Information System
7 10 (2.75%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
8 9 (2.48%) PKI
9 8 (2.20%) Replication
10 7 (1.93%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.65%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.65%) Smartphone
12 5 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
13 3 (0.83%) FMCG
14 2 (0.55%) Cyber Security Posture
14 2 (0.55%) Operational Technology
14 2 (0.55%) Renewable Energy
15 1 (0.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
15 1 (0.28%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 117 (32.23%) Windows
2 88 (24.24%) Windows Server
3 46 (12.67%) Linux
4 12 (3.31%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (3.31%) Windows Server 2019
5 9 (2.48%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.93%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.83%) Android
9 2 (0.55%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (24.24%) ITIL
2 80 (22.04%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (18.73%) Cybersecurity
4 65 (17.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 52 (14.33%) Project Delivery
6 47 (12.95%) Disaster Recovery
7 45 (12.40%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (11.57%) Network Design
9 38 (10.47%) Business Continuity
10 37 (10.19%) High Availability
11 35 (9.64%) Customer Service
12 30 (8.26%) Network Monitoring
13 27 (7.44%) Computer Science
14 25 (6.89%) ITSM
14 25 (6.89%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (6.34%) Mentoring
16 22 (6.06%) Incident Management
16 22 (6.06%) SIEM
17 21 (5.79%) Project Management
18 20 (5.51%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 35 (9.64%) PowerShell
2 32 (8.82%) Python
3 9 (2.48%) Bash
4 6 (1.65%) Java
5 2 (0.55%) SQL
6 1 (0.28%) C
Qualifications
1 363 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 126 (34.71%) Network+ Certification
3 125 (34.44%) CCNP
4 122 (33.61%) Azure Certification
5 69 (19.01%) Microsoft Certification
6 65 (17.91%) Degree
7 36 (9.92%) MCSE
8 32 (8.82%) Security Cleared
9 24 (6.61%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 21 (5.79%) SC Cleared
11 19 (5.23%) AWS Certification
11 19 (5.23%) MCSA
12 18 (4.96%) Computer Science Degree
13 17 (4.68%) DV Cleared
14 14 (3.86%) CISSP
15 12 (3.31%) CCIE
16 11 (3.03%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (2.75%) A+ Certification
18 9 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
19 8 (2.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (9.92%) Cyber Essentials
2 19 (5.23%) SLA
3 16 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.93%) GDPR
5 6 (1.65%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.65%) QA
6 5 (1.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.83%) COBIT
8 2 (0.55%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.55%) GRC
8 2 (0.55%) NIST
System Software
1 81 (22.31%) Active Directory
2 42 (11.57%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (10.19%) Hyper-V
4 16 (4.41%) vSphere
5 10 (2.75%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (2.48%) VMware NSX
7 8 (2.20%) Docker
8 6 (1.65%) Firmware
8 6 (1.65%) Squid
9 3 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.83%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.55%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.28%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 38 (10.47%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (6.89%) FortiGate
3 16 (4.41%) Ansible
4 10 (2.75%) Single Sign-On
5 7 (1.93%) ZABBIX
6 6 (1.65%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.65%) Packer
7 4 (1.10%) Iperf
8 3 (0.83%) Control-M
9 2 (0.55%) Nagios
9 2 (0.55%) SCCM
9 2 (0.55%) VxRail
10 1 (0.28%) OpenView
10 1 (0.28%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.28%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 226 (62.26%) Cisco
2 193 (53.17%) Microsoft
3 94 (25.90%) ForeScout
4 74 (20.39%) VMware
5 56 (15.43%) Fortinet
6 44 (12.12%) Palo Alto
7 25 (6.89%) Meraki
8 21 (5.79%) Aruba
8 21 (5.79%) F5
8 21 (5.79%) WatchGuard
9 15 (4.13%) CheckPoint
9 15 (4.13%) Juniper
10 14 (3.86%) Ruckus Wireless
11 13 (3.58%) Dell
11 13 (3.58%) Draytek
11 13 (3.58%) Sophos
11 13 (3.58%) Veeam
12 12 (3.31%) Mitel
12 12 (3.31%) Splunk
13 10 (2.75%) SolarWinds