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

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 406 315 317
Rank change year-on-year -91 +2 -36
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 402 378 525
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.87% 0.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.25% 2.41% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 202 261 237
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £33,200
25th Percentile £37,010 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -23.81% +16.16%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,000 £70,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -21.57% +9.68%

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 17,889 15,653 18,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.25% 36.08% 28.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,507 6,684 8,008
10th Percentile £31,913 £29,000 £31,250
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 £75,625
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 9 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 9 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 -57 92 £47,500 +5.56% 43
London -55 83 £68,750 +14.58% 99
North of England -42 80 £42,500 +4.94% 33
Midlands -8 77 £41,000 +17.14% 42
Yorkshire -3 46 £42,500 +63.46% 16
East Midlands -22 44 £38,847 +10.99% 19
South West -119 41 £44,189 +38.09% 19
West Midlands -16 33 £53,162 +29.66% 23
East of England -37 31 £62,500 +56.25% 16
North West -21 27 £52,500 -2.33% 13
North East -68 7 £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 27 (6.72%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.73%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.25%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 248 (61.69%) Azure
2 71 (17.66%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (13.68%) Entra ID
4 53 (13.18%) AWS
5 10 (2.49%) GCP
6 5 (1.24%) OneDrive
6 5 (1.24%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.00%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (1.00%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (1.00%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.00%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (1.00%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (1.00%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.00%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.00%) Power Automate
7 4 (1.00%) Serverless
8 3 (0.75%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.50%) Azure Stack
9 2 (0.50%) ChatGPT
9 2 (0.50%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 158 (39.30%) Firewall
2 117 (29.10%) WAN
3 104 (25.87%) LAN
4 102 (25.37%) VPN
5 81 (20.15%) Network Security
6 76 (18.91%) VLAN
7 74 (18.41%) TCP/IP
8 72 (17.91%) DHCP
8 72 (17.91%) DNS
9 71 (17.66%) Wireless
10 47 (11.69%) Wi-Fi
11 42 (10.45%) SD-WAN
12 37 (9.20%) BGP
13 32 (7.96%) OSPF
14 21 (5.22%) VoIP
15 18 (4.48%) Internet
16 17 (4.23%) MPLS
16 17 (4.23%) SAN
17 16 (3.98%) WLAN
18 15 (3.73%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.24%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.25%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.25%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (6.47%) JIRA
2 13 (3.23%) GitLab
3 8 (1.99%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.74%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.74%) Git
5 1 (0.25%) Chocolatey
General
1 258 (64.18%) Social Skills
2 42 (10.45%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (6.22%) Telecoms
4 18 (4.48%) Finance
5 16 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.99%) Aerospace
6 12 (2.99%) Law
7 11 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 10 (2.49%) Retail
9 8 (1.99%) Banking
9 8 (1.99%) Manufacturing
10 7 (1.74%) Digital Health
10 7 (1.74%) Military
10 7 (1.74%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (1.49%) Legal
12 4 (1.00%) Automotive
13 3 (0.75%) Electronics
13 3 (0.75%) French Language
13 3 (0.75%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 239 (59.45%) Network Engineer
2 50 (12.44%) IT Engineer
3 38 (9.45%) IT Support
4 37 (9.20%) Senior
5 32 (7.96%) Support Engineer
6 26 (6.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 26 (6.47%) IT Support Engineer
7 21 (5.22%) Senior Network Engineer
8 16 (3.98%) 3rd Line Support
8 16 (3.98%) Field Engineer
8 16 (3.98%) Field Service Engineer
9 15 (3.73%) Security Engineer
10 13 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 13 (3.23%) Analyst
11 12 (2.99%) Systems Engineer
12 11 (2.74%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 11 (2.74%) Senior Security Engineer
13 9 (2.24%) Cybersecurity Engineer
13 9 (2.24%) Lead
13 9 (2.24%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (4.23%) Terraform
2 4 (1.00%) boto
3 3 (0.75%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.75%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.50%) LDAP
4 2 (0.50%) ModSecurity
4 2 (0.50%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.50%) SAML
5 1 (0.25%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.25%) YAML
5 1 (0.25%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 61 (15.17%) Data Centre
2 43 (10.70%) Driving Licence
3 17 (4.23%) Security Posture
4 16 (3.98%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.73%) CCTV
5 15 (3.73%) Management Information System
6 11 (2.74%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
8 9 (2.24%) PKI
9 8 (1.99%) Replication
10 7 (1.74%) Onboarding
11 6 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.49%) Enterprise Software
11 6 (1.49%) Smartphone
12 3 (0.75%) FMCG
12 3 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
13 2 (0.50%) Cyber Security Posture
14 1 (0.25%) Educational Technology
14 1 (0.25%) Fibre Optics
14 1 (0.25%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 113 (28.11%) Windows
2 86 (21.39%) Windows Server
3 47 (11.69%) Linux
4 12 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (2.99%) Windows Server 2019
5 8 (1.99%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.74%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.75%) Android
9 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (20.40%) ITIL
2 78 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 64 (15.92%) Cybersecurity
5 48 (11.94%) Disaster Recovery
5 48 (11.94%) Project Delivery
6 43 (10.70%) Network Design
7 42 (10.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 39 (9.70%) Business Continuity
9 36 (8.96%) High Availability
10 34 (8.46%) Customer Service
11 28 (6.97%) Network Monitoring
12 27 (6.72%) Computer Science
13 25 (6.22%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (5.47%) Incident Management
14 22 (5.47%) ITSM
14 22 (5.47%) Mentoring
15 21 (5.22%) SIEM
16 20 (4.98%) Incident Response
16 20 (4.98%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 37 (9.20%) PowerShell
2 35 (8.71%) Python
3 10 (2.49%) Bash
4 7 (1.74%) Java
5 2 (0.50%) SQL
6 1 (0.25%) C
Qualifications
1 402 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 172 (42.79%) Network+ Certification
3 169 (42.04%) Azure Certification
4 120 (29.85%) CCNP
5 68 (16.92%) Microsoft Certification
6 63 (15.67%) Degree
7 35 (8.71%) MCSE
8 34 (8.46%) Security Cleared
9 21 (5.22%) SC Cleared
10 20 (4.98%) AWS Certification
10 20 (4.98%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 18 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (4.48%) DV Cleared
11 18 (4.48%) MCSA
12 14 (3.48%) CISSP
13 11 (2.74%) CCIE
14 10 (2.49%) A+ Certification
14 10 (2.49%) CompTIA Security+
15 9 (2.24%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (1.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.71%) Cyber Essentials
2 19 (4.73%) SLA
3 16 (3.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.99%) GDPR
5 6 (1.49%) QA
6 5 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.24%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.75%) COBIT
8 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 80 (19.90%) Active Directory
2 42 (10.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (8.71%) Hyper-V
4 17 (4.23%) vSphere
5 10 (2.49%) Docker
5 10 (2.49%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.49%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.74%) Squid
7 6 (1.49%) Firmware
8 3 (0.75%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.75%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (8.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (6.22%) FortiGate
3 17 (4.23%) Ansible
4 10 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.99%) ZABBIX
6 7 (1.74%) Kubernetes
6 7 (1.74%) Packer
7 4 (1.00%) Iperf
8 3 (0.75%) Control-M
9 2 (0.50%) Nagios
9 2 (0.50%) SCCM
9 2 (0.50%) VxRail
10 1 (0.25%) OpenView
10 1 (0.25%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.25%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 267 (66.42%) Cisco
2 235 (58.46%) Microsoft
3 141 (35.07%) ForeScout
4 73 (18.16%) VMware
5 54 (13.43%) Fortinet
6 42 (10.45%) Palo Alto
7 24 (5.97%) Meraki
8 20 (4.98%) WatchGuard
9 19 (4.73%) F5
10 18 (4.48%) Aruba
11 15 (3.73%) Juniper
12 14 (3.48%) Ruckus Wireless
13 13 (3.23%) CheckPoint
13 13 (3.23%) Dell
13 13 (3.23%) Sophos
13 13 (3.23%) Splunk
13 13 (3.23%) Veeam
14 12 (2.99%) Draytek
15 11 (2.74%) Mitel
15 11 (2.74%) SolarWinds