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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 407 315 330
Rank change year-on-year -92 +15 -46
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 403 375 526
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.39% 0.87% 0.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.25% 2.42% 2.78%
Number of salaries quoted 202 258 238
10th Percentile £27,750 £26,850 £33,200
25th Percentile £37,039 £31,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -22.86% +16.16%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £81,000 £70,450 £68,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £51,750
% change year-on-year +25.00% -22.71% +11.29%

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 17,930 15,467 18,901
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.26% 35.89% 29.04%
Number of salaries quoted 10,511 6,634 8,001
10th Percentile £32,000 £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 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,750
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.04%

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 10 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 10 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 -60 93 £47,500 - 43
London -40 83 £66,250 +10.42% 91
North of England -27 80 £42,500 +4.94% 33
Midlands -3 77 £41,000 +17.14% 41
Yorkshire +3 47 £42,500 +63.46% 16
East Midlands -21 44 £38,847 +10.99% 19
South West -116 41 £44,189 +38.09% 21
West Midlands -21 33 £53,162 +29.66% 22
East of England -33 31 £62,500 +56.25% 13
North West -21 26 £52,500 -2.33% 13
North East -74 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 28 (6.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (4.71%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.99%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.74%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.50%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.25%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 249 (61.79%) Azure
2 73 (18.11%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (13.65%) Entra ID
4 52 (12.90%) AWS
5 10 (2.48%) GCP
6 5 (1.24%) OneDrive
6 5 (1.24%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.99%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.99%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (0.99%) Amazon S3
7 4 (0.99%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (0.99%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (0.99%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (0.99%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (0.99%) Power Automate
7 4 (0.99%) Serverless
8 2 (0.50%) Azure Stack
8 2 (0.50%) ChatGPT
8 2 (0.50%) Rubrik
8 2 (0.50%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 160 (39.70%) Firewall
2 119 (29.53%) WAN
3 106 (26.30%) LAN
4 102 (25.31%) VPN
5 80 (19.85%) Network Security
6 76 (18.86%) VLAN
7 73 (18.11%) TCP/IP
8 71 (17.62%) DHCP
8 71 (17.62%) DNS
8 71 (17.62%) Wireless
9 49 (12.16%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (10.67%) SD-WAN
11 36 (8.93%) BGP
12 31 (7.69%) OSPF
13 21 (5.21%) VoIP
14 19 (4.71%) Internet
15 17 (4.22%) SAN
16 16 (3.97%) MPLS
16 16 (3.97%) WLAN
17 15 (3.72%) 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 (6.45%) 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 (64.02%) Social Skills
2 42 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (5.96%) Telecoms
4 18 (4.47%) Finance
5 16 (3.97%) Public Sector
6 12 (2.98%) Aerospace
6 12 (2.98%) Law
7 11 (2.73%) Retail
8 10 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
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 (0.99%) Automotive
13 3 (0.74%) Electronics
13 3 (0.74%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.74%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 238 (59.06%) Network Engineer
2 51 (12.66%) IT Engineer
3 40 (9.93%) IT Support
4 37 (9.18%) Senior
5 34 (8.44%) Support Engineer
6 27 (6.70%) IT Support Engineer
7 25 (6.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (5.21%) Senior Network Engineer
9 16 (3.97%) 3rd Line Support
9 16 (3.97%) Field Engineer
9 16 (3.97%) Field Service Engineer
10 15 (3.72%) Security Engineer
11 13 (3.23%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (3.23%) Analyst
12 12 (2.98%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (2.73%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (2.73%) Senior Security Engineer
14 9 (2.23%) Cybersecurity Engineer
14 9 (2.23%) Network Security Engineer
14 9 (2.23%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.97%) Terraform
2 4 (0.99%) boto
3 2 (0.50%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.50%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.50%) LDAP
3 2 (0.50%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.50%) NETCONF
3 2 (0.50%) SAML
4 1 (0.25%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.25%) YAML
4 1 (0.25%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 61 (15.14%) Data Centre
2 45 (11.17%) Driving Licence
3 17 (4.22%) Security Posture
4 16 (3.97%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (3.72%) CCTV
5 15 (3.72%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.48%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (2.23%) PKI
8 8 (1.99%) Replication
9 7 (1.74%) Onboarding
10 6 (1.49%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.49%) Smartphone
11 5 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 3 (0.74%) FMCG
12 3 (0.74%) 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
1 115 (28.54%) Windows
2 86 (21.34%) Windows Server
3 46 (11.41%) Linux
4 12 (2.98%) Windows Server 2016
4 12 (2.98%) 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 (0.74%) Android
9 2 (0.50%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (20.60%) ITIL
2 79 (19.60%) Problem-Solving
3 66 (16.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 65 (16.13%) Cybersecurity
5 49 (12.16%) Project Delivery
6 47 (11.66%) Disaster Recovery
7 43 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (10.42%) Network Design
9 38 (9.43%) Business Continuity
10 35 (8.68%) High Availability
11 34 (8.44%) Customer Service
12 28 (6.95%) Network Monitoring
13 27 (6.70%) Computer Science
14 25 (6.20%) Stakeholder Management
15 23 (5.71%) ITSM
16 22 (5.46%) Mentoring
17 21 (5.21%) Incident Management
17 21 (5.21%) SIEM
18 20 (4.96%) Incident Response
18 20 (4.96%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 36 (8.93%) PowerShell
2 33 (8.19%) Python
3 10 (2.48%) Bash
4 7 (1.74%) Java
5 2 (0.50%) SQL
6 1 (0.25%) C
Qualifications
1 403 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 173 (42.93%) Network+ Certification
3 169 (41.94%) Azure Certification
4 120 (29.78%) CCNP
5 69 (17.12%) Microsoft Certification
6 64 (15.88%) Degree
7 35 (8.68%) MCSE
8 33 (8.19%) Security Cleared
9 21 (5.21%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 21 (5.21%) SC Cleared
10 20 (4.96%) AWS Certification
11 18 (4.47%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (4.47%) MCSA
12 17 (4.22%) DV Cleared
13 14 (3.47%) CISSP
14 12 (2.98%) CCIE
15 10 (2.48%) A+ Certification
15 10 (2.48%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (2.23%) BPSS Clearance
17 8 (1.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (8.68%) Cyber Essentials
2 18 (4.47%) SLA
3 16 (3.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.74%) GDPR
5 6 (1.49%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.49%) QA
6 5 (1.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.74%) COBIT
8 2 (0.50%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.50%) GRC
8 2 (0.50%) NIST
System Software
1 80 (19.85%) Active Directory
2 43 (10.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (8.93%) Hyper-V
4 17 (4.22%) vSphere
5 10 (2.48%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.48%) VMware NSX
6 9 (2.23%) Docker
7 7 (1.74%) Squid
8 6 (1.49%) Firmware
9 3 (0.74%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.74%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.25%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (8.93%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (5.71%) FortiGate
3 17 (4.22%) Ansible
4 10 (2.48%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.99%) ZABBIX
6 7 (1.74%) Kubernetes
6 7 (1.74%) Packer
7 4 (0.99%) Iperf
8 3 (0.74%) 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
1 268 (66.50%) Cisco
2 238 (59.06%) Microsoft
3 141 (34.99%) ForeScout
4 74 (18.36%) VMware
5 53 (13.15%) Fortinet
6 42 (10.42%) Palo Alto
7 24 (5.96%) Meraki
8 20 (4.96%) WatchGuard
9 19 (4.71%) F5
10 18 (4.47%) Aruba
11 15 (3.72%) Juniper
12 14 (3.47%) 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 (2.98%) Draytek
15 11 (2.73%) Mitel
15 11 (2.73%) Red Hat