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 5 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 214 308
Rank change year-on-year -194 +94 +98
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 248 606 612
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 1.47% 0.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.35% 3.68% 3.11%
Number of salaries quoted 161 311 547
10th Percentile £26,500 £33,200 £27,800
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,438 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +18.28% -1.06%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £56,875
90th Percentile £73,500 £72,500 £66,750
UK median annual salary £46,750 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% +15.79% +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 18,360 16,484 19,689
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.94% 40.11% 28.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,467 6,761 13,946
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 5 March 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 5 March 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
London -26 67 £50,000 -20.00% 36
North of England -86 53 £50,000 +5.26% 26
North West -45 42 £50,000 +5.26% 18
South East -78 40 £48,750 -15.22% 30
Midlands -124 37 £32,500 -49.69% 16
East Midlands -45 32 £32,500 - 6
South West -19 24 £40,000 -15.79% 22
East of England +11 23 £40,000 -20.79% 13
Yorkshire -53 9 £50,000 +18.06% 5
West Midlands -117 5 £47,500 -26.47% 10
North East -25 2 £55,500 -14.62% 3
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 21 (8.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.81%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.21%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (31.45%) Azure
2 45 (18.15%) AWS
3 39 (15.73%) Microsoft 365
4 21 (8.47%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.02%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 5 (2.02%) GCP
5 5 (2.02%) IaaS
5 5 (2.02%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (1.61%) Azure Monitor
6 4 (1.61%) Mimecast
7 2 (0.81%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (0.81%) SaaS
8 1 (0.40%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.40%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.40%) GitHub
8 1 (0.40%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.40%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.40%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 146 (58.87%) Firewall
2 106 (42.74%) WAN
3 100 (40.32%) LAN
4 69 (27.82%) VPN
5 36 (14.52%) Wi-Fi
6 34 (13.71%) Network Security
7 32 (12.90%) TCP/IP
8 31 (12.50%) VLAN
9 26 (10.48%) Cisco ASA
10 22 (8.87%) Wireless
11 21 (8.47%) MPLS
12 19 (7.66%) SD-WAN
13 18 (7.26%) DNS
14 17 (6.85%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (6.85%) DHCP
14 17 (6.85%) Intrusion Detection
14 17 (6.85%) WLAN
15 16 (6.45%) BGP
16 15 (6.05%) VoIP
17 12 (4.84%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.82%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.82%) Metasploit
2 5 (2.02%) GitLab
2 5 (2.02%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) Git
General
1 86 (34.68%) Social Skills
2 40 (16.13%) Finance
3 21 (8.47%) Presentation Skills
4 20 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.26%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.24%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.03%) Retail
9 8 (3.23%) Legal
10 7 (2.82%) Law
11 5 (2.02%) Banking
12 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.81%) Military
14 1 (0.40%) Marketing
14 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (27.42%) Network Engineer
2 38 (15.32%) Cisco Engineer
3 37 (14.92%) Support Engineer
4 36 (14.52%) IT Engineer
5 33 (13.31%) LAN Engineer
5 33 (13.31%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 33 (13.31%) WAN Engineer
6 22 (8.87%) IT Support
6 22 (8.87%) Senior
7 21 (8.47%) IT Support Engineer
7 21 (8.47%) Presales Engineer
7 21 (8.47%) Technical Engineer
8 19 (7.66%) Azure Engineer
8 19 (7.66%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 19 (7.66%) Firewall Engineer
8 19 (7.66%) Juniper Engineer
9 18 (7.26%) Analyst
10 15 (6.05%) Senior Network Engineer
11 14 (5.65%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (4.84%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.81%) Middleware
3 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.40%) React
3 1 (0.40%) Svelte
3 1 (0.40%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 48 (19.35%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.45%) Driving Licence
3 14 (5.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (4.84%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.44%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.23%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.23%) e-Learning
6 8 (3.23%) Smartphone
7 7 (2.82%) CCTV
7 7 (2.82%) Insider Threat
8 6 (2.42%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.02%) PKI
10 4 (1.61%) Cyber Defence
10 4 (1.61%) Security Operations Centre
11 3 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
11 3 (1.21%) Self-Motivation
12 2 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.81%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.81%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 57 (22.98%) Windows
2 36 (14.52%) Linux
3 31 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.65%) Unix
5 6 (2.42%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.61%) Windows 10
7 3 (1.21%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.81%) Android
8 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (18.55%) Cybersecurity
3 44 (17.74%) Customer Service
4 38 (15.32%) ITIL
5 29 (11.69%) Presales
6 28 (11.29%) Continuous Improvement
7 27 (10.89%) High Availability
7 27 (10.89%) Mentoring
8 25 (10.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 24 (9.68%) Process Improvement
10 22 (8.87%) Computer Science
11 21 (8.47%) Project Delivery
12 20 (8.06%) Penetration Testing
13 19 (7.66%) Incident Response
14 18 (7.26%) Network Monitoring
14 18 (7.26%) SIEM
15 17 (6.85%) Information Security
15 17 (6.85%) Network Design
16 16 (6.45%) Change Control
17 15 (6.05%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.85%) PowerShell
2 16 (6.45%) Python
3 2 (0.81%) Bicep
3 2 (0.81%) SQL
4 1 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 248 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 108 (43.55%) CCNP
3 57 (22.98%) Degree
4 49 (19.76%) Security Cleared
5 47 (18.95%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (16.13%) MCSE
7 39 (15.73%) SC Cleared
8 36 (14.52%) JNCIA
9 28 (11.29%) Network+ Certification
10 27 (10.89%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 24 (9.68%) CCIE
11 24 (9.68%) MCSA
12 22 (8.87%) DV Cleared
13 20 (8.06%) Computer Science Degree
14 19 (7.66%) DBS Check
15 17 (6.85%) CCSA
15 17 (6.85%) CCSE
16 12 (4.84%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (4.44%) CISSP
17 11 (4.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 17 (6.85%) SLA
2 14 (5.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 14 (5.65%) GDPR
3 11 (4.44%) NIST
4 7 (2.82%) Actionable Recommendations
5 3 (1.21%) ITGC
6 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (15.32%) Active Directory
2 21 (8.47%) Hyper-V
3 20 (8.06%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
4 7 (2.82%) vSphere
5 5 (2.02%) Firmware
6 4 (1.61%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.40%) Docker
7 1 (0.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 1 (0.40%) KVM
7 1 (0.40%) RHEV
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
7 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 25 (10.08%) FortiGate
2 22 (8.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (4.44%) Ansible
4 7 (2.82%) Nmap
5 6 (2.42%) Terraform
6 5 (2.02%) Autotask
6 5 (2.02%) Cisco Prime
7 4 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 4 (1.61%) WSUS
8 3 (1.21%) ArcSight ESM
8 3 (1.21%) QRadar
9 2 (0.81%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.81%) Control-M
9 2 (0.81%) Jamf Pro
9 2 (0.81%) OpenView
9 2 (0.81%) SCCM
9 2 (0.81%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.40%) Grafana
10 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.40%) Nagios
Vendors
1 156 (62.90%) Cisco
2 73 (29.44%) Microsoft
3 71 (28.63%) Fortinet
4 45 (18.15%) Juniper
5 42 (16.94%) VMware
6 28 (11.29%) Aruba
6 28 (11.29%) CheckPoint
7 25 (10.08%) Meraki
8 19 (7.66%) Palo Alto
9 18 (7.26%) SolarWinds
10 15 (6.05%) Citrix
11 14 (5.65%) Dell
12 11 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
12 11 (4.44%) Splunk
13 8 (3.23%) Arista
13 8 (3.23%) Draytek
13 8 (3.23%) WatchGuard
14 7 (2.82%) Mitel
15 6 (2.42%) HP
16 5 (2.02%) Apple