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 18 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 320 334
Rank change year-on-year -7 +14 -26
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 525 382 573
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 0.87% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.00% 2.43% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 188 281 364
10th Percentile £29,400 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,984 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% -18.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £67,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +11.11%

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 17,495 15,697 19,426
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.40% 35.83% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 9,764 7,079 10,463
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £37,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,950 £73,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 18 August 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 18 August 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
North of England +31 121 £46,250 +32.14% 38
South East +1 119 £47,500 +18.75% 33
London -45 91 £70,000 +20.17% 28
Midlands +16 90 £46,801 +24.80% 23
Yorkshire +19 68 £42,500 +63.46% 11
South West -89 63 £50,000 +53.85% 33
East of England +2 47 £40,000 - 23
East Midlands -6 46 £41,000 +17.14% 6
West Midlands +8 44 £59,522 +38.42% 17
North West +19 41 £52,500 -2.33% 18
North East -59 12 - - 9
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 36 (6.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (3.24%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.90%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.19%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 382 (72.76%) Azure
2 60 (11.43%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (9.71%) AWS
4 32 (6.10%) Entra ID
5 12 (2.29%) GCP
6 10 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (0.95%) OneDrive
8 5 (0.95%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.76%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.76%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.76%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.76%) Serverless
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.57%) Mimecast
10 3 (0.57%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 153 (29.14%) Firewall
2 118 (22.48%) WAN
3 107 (20.38%) VPN
4 92 (17.52%) LAN
5 79 (15.05%) Network Security
6 74 (14.10%) TCP/IP
7 69 (13.14%) VLAN
8 59 (11.24%) DHCP
8 59 (11.24%) DNS
9 56 (10.67%) Wireless
10 49 (9.33%) Wi-Fi
11 45 (8.57%) SD-WAN
12 31 (5.90%) BGP
12 31 (5.90%) VoIP
13 26 (4.95%) OSPF
14 20 (3.81%) Internet
15 18 (3.43%) MPLS
16 16 (3.05%) SAN
17 14 (2.67%) Cisco ISE
18 13 (2.48%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.14%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 20 (3.81%) JIRA
2 10 (1.90%) GitLab
2 10 (1.90%) Jenkins
3 8 (1.52%) Bitbucket
3 8 (1.52%) Git
4 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
General
1 400 (76.19%) Social Skills
2 42 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (3.62%) Public Sector
4 18 (3.43%) Finance
5 13 (2.48%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.10%) Aerospace
6 11 (2.10%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (1.90%) Retail
8 9 (1.71%) Banking
8 9 (1.71%) Military
9 8 (1.52%) Documentation Skills
10 7 (1.33%) Digital Health
10 7 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.95%) Automotive
12 4 (0.76%) Electronics
12 4 (0.76%) Law
12 4 (0.76%) Legal
13 3 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 372 (70.86%) Network Engineer
2 49 (9.33%) IT Engineer
3 32 (6.10%) IT Support
4 31 (5.90%) Senior
5 25 (4.76%) Support Engineer
6 24 (4.57%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 24 (4.57%) IT Support Engineer
7 19 (3.62%) Lead
8 17 (3.24%) 3rd Line Support
9 16 (3.05%) Senior Network Engineer
10 15 (2.86%) Field Engineer
10 15 (2.86%) Field Service Engineer
11 14 (2.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 14 (2.67%) Analyst
12 13 (2.48%) Security Engineer
12 13 (2.48%) Systems Engineer
13 12 (2.29%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 12 (2.29%) Cisco Engineer
13 12 (2.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 9 (1.71%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.76%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.76%) boto
2 3 (0.57%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.38%) LDAP
3 2 (0.38%) SAML
4 1 (0.19%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.19%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.19%) YAML
4 1 (0.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.71%) Data Centre
2 29 (5.52%) Driving Licence
3 15 (2.86%) Security Posture
3 15 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
4 12 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
4 12 (2.29%) Management Information System
5 9 (1.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.52%) Replication
7 7 (1.33%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.76%) CCTV
9 4 (0.76%) Fibre Optics
9 4 (0.76%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.76%) Smartphone
9 4 (0.76%) Social Media
10 3 (0.57%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (0.57%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.57%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 100 (19.05%) Windows
2 72 (13.71%) Windows Server
3 43 (8.19%) Linux
4 14 (2.67%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (1.71%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.57%) Android
8 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (16.19%) Problem-Solving
2 63 (12.00%) ITIL
3 62 (11.81%) Cybersecurity
4 56 (10.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 50 (9.52%) Disaster Recovery
6 48 (9.14%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (8.00%) High Availability
8 36 (6.86%) Business Continuity
9 34 (6.48%) Computer Science
9 34 (6.48%) Customer Service
9 34 (6.48%) Network Design
10 33 (6.29%) Network Monitoring
11 30 (5.71%) Project Delivery
12 24 (4.57%) Incident Response
12 24 (4.57%) SIEM
13 20 (3.81%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (3.62%) Network Architecture
15 18 (3.43%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (3.24%) Mentoring
17 16 (3.05%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.81%) PowerShell
2 26 (4.95%) Python
3 11 (2.10%) Bash
4 8 (1.52%) Java
5 2 (0.38%) SQL
6 1 (0.19%) Bicep
6 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 525 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 324 (61.71%) Azure Certification
3 317 (60.38%) Network+ Certification
4 117 (22.29%) CCNP
5 73 (13.90%) Degree
6 67 (12.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (6.29%) Security Cleared
8 26 (4.95%) MCSE
9 25 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
10 22 (4.19%) SC Cleared
11 21 (4.00%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.86%) DV Cleared
13 12 (2.29%) CCIE
13 12 (2.29%) RHCSA
14 11 (2.10%) CISSP
14 11 (2.10%) MCSA
15 10 (1.90%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (1.90%) DBS Check
16 9 (1.71%) A+ Certification
17 8 (1.52%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 15 (2.86%) GDPR
4 14 (2.67%) SLA
5 11 (2.10%) NIST
6 6 (1.14%) QA
7 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.57%) COBIT
9 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 79 (15.05%) Active Directory
2 46 (8.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (6.10%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.67%) vSphere
5 11 (2.10%) Docker
5 11 (2.10%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.52%) Squid
7 7 (1.33%) Firmware
8 5 (0.95%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.57%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.57%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (3.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (3.43%) Terraform
3 17 (3.24%) FortiGate
4 15 (2.86%) Ansible
5 9 (1.71%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.52%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.52%) Packer
7 7 (1.33%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (0.76%) Control-M
8 4 (0.76%) Iperf
8 4 (0.76%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.57%) OpenView
9 3 (0.57%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.57%) VxRail
10 2 (0.38%) SCCM
11 1 (0.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 409 (77.90%) Cisco
2 378 (72.00%) Microsoft
3 282 (53.71%) ForeScout
4 65 (12.38%) VMware
5 53 (10.10%) Fortinet
6 37 (7.05%) Palo Alto
7 29 (5.52%) Meraki
8 20 (3.81%) Sophos
9 18 (3.43%) Splunk
10 17 (3.24%) SolarWinds
11 16 (3.05%) CheckPoint
12 15 (2.86%) Juniper
13 14 (2.67%) Aruba
13 14 (2.67%) Dell
13 14 (2.67%) F5
13 14 (2.67%) Veeam
14 13 (2.48%) HP
15 11 (2.10%) Citrix
15 11 (2.10%) Red Hat
16 9 (1.71%) WatchGuard