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 23 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 306 331
Rank change year-on-year -1 +25 +59
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 498 361 675
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.60% 0.95% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.62% 2.28% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 152 266 580
10th Percentile £26,550 £30,500 £31,200
25th Percentile £38,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +6.13%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £84,750 £76,250 £67,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +6.72%

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 18,980 15,864 23,464
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 22.95% 41.64% 27.64%
Number of salaries quoted 8,514 6,538 15,661
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,995
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.01% -8.34%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%

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 23 May 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 23 May 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 +30 138 £50,000 -9.09% 37
South East -7 88 £42,500 +3.03% 48
London -50 84 £74,000 +23.33% 29
Midlands -26 81 £51,058 +32.62% 21
Yorkshire +7 65 £47,750 +23.70% 11
South West -31 65 £40,000 -8.57% 43
North West +26 61 £50,000 -9.09% 17
East of England +30 44 £34,000 -18.43% 25
East Midlands -20 44 £51,058 +45.88% 3
West Midlands -41 37 £53,401 -17.85% 18
North East -34 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 22 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.41%) Confluence
3 6 (1.20%) SharePoint
Applications
1 7 (1.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 358 (71.89%) Azure
2 47 (9.44%) AWS
3 35 (7.03%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (2.21%) Azure Monitor
4 11 (2.21%) GCP
5 9 (1.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 8 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 5 (1.00%) Mimecast
8 3 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
8 3 (0.60%) Amazon EKS
8 3 (0.60%) Amazon S3
8 3 (0.60%) AWS CloudTrail
8 3 (0.60%) AWS Fargate
8 3 (0.60%) AWS Lambda
8 3 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
8 3 (0.60%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.60%) Serverless
9 2 (0.40%) ChatGPT
9 2 (0.40%) Microsoft Copilot
9 2 (0.40%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 124 (24.90%) Firewall
2 97 (19.48%) WAN
3 76 (15.26%) LAN
4 65 (13.05%) VPN
5 50 (10.04%) Network Security
6 40 (8.03%) Wi-Fi
7 28 (5.62%) TCP/IP
8 25 (5.02%) SD-WAN
8 25 (5.02%) Wireless
9 23 (4.62%) DNS
10 22 (4.42%) DHCP
10 22 (4.42%) VLAN
10 22 (4.42%) VoIP
11 19 (3.82%) Cisco Firepower
12 18 (3.61%) SAN
13 17 (3.41%) BGP
14 16 (3.21%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (2.81%) Cisco ISE
16 13 (2.61%) MPLS
17 12 (2.41%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.41%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (2.41%) GitLab
1 12 (2.41%) JIRA
2 8 (1.61%) Git
2 8 (1.61%) Jenkins
3 7 (1.41%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.80%) Burp Suite
4 4 (0.80%) Metasploit
5 1 (0.20%) Chocolatey
General
1 369 (74.10%) Social Skills
2 34 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (4.22%) Finance
4 18 (3.61%) Presentation Skills
4 18 (3.61%) Public Sector
5 13 (2.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 10 (2.01%) Legal
7 8 (1.61%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.41%) Law
8 7 (1.41%) Retail
9 6 (1.20%) Banking
9 6 (1.20%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.00%) Telecoms
11 4 (0.80%) Automotive
11 4 (0.80%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.80%) Electronics
12 3 (0.60%) Military
12 3 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.20%) Mandarin Language
13 1 (0.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 354 (71.08%) Network Engineer
2 43 (8.63%) IT Engineer
3 34 (6.83%) Cisco Engineer
4 25 (5.02%) LAN Engineer
4 25 (5.02%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 25 (5.02%) WAN Engineer
5 20 (4.02%) Senior
6 19 (3.82%) Azure Engineer
6 19 (3.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 19 (3.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (3.82%) IT Support
6 19 (3.82%) Lead
6 19 (3.82%) Presales Engineer
7 18 (3.61%) Support Engineer
8 16 (3.21%) IT Support Engineer
9 15 (3.01%) Field Engineer
9 15 (3.01%) Field Service Engineer
9 15 (3.01%) Firewall Engineer
9 15 (3.01%) Juniper Engineer
10 11 (2.21%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.80%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.80%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (0.60%) boto
3 2 (0.40%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.40%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 55 (11.04%) Data Centre
2 14 (2.81%) Analytical Mindset
2 14 (2.81%) Security Posture
3 13 (2.61%) Driving Licence
4 10 (2.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 10 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
4 10 (2.01%) Smartphone
5 9 (1.81%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.61%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.00%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (1.00%) PKI
7 5 (1.00%) Replication
8 4 (0.80%) Insider Threat
8 4 (0.80%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.80%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.60%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (0.60%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.60%) Social Media
10 2 (0.40%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 68 (13.65%) Windows
2 39 (7.83%) Linux
3 35 (7.03%) Windows Server
4 9 (1.81%) Windows Server 2016
5 5 (1.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.60%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.60%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (13.86%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (9.24%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (8.03%) ITIL
4 38 (7.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 36 (7.23%) Customer Service
6 31 (6.22%) High Availability
7 30 (6.02%) Computer Science
8 27 (5.42%) Disaster Recovery
9 26 (5.22%) Network Monitoring
10 25 (5.02%) Incident Response
10 25 (5.02%) Presales
11 22 (4.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 22 (4.42%) Process Improvement
11 22 (4.42%) SIEM
12 21 (4.22%) Network Architecture
13 19 (3.82%) Network Design
14 17 (3.41%) Business Continuity
15 15 (3.01%) Penetration Testing
16 14 (2.81%) Infrastructure as Code
16 14 (2.81%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 28 (5.62%) PowerShell
2 18 (3.61%) Python
3 8 (1.61%) Bash
4 7 (1.41%) Java
5 2 (0.40%) Bicep
5 2 (0.40%) SQL
6 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 498 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 313 (62.85%) Network+ Certification
3 309 (62.05%) Azure Certification
4 90 (18.07%) CCNP
5 61 (12.25%) Degree
6 58 (11.65%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (7.23%) MCSE
8 35 (7.03%) Security Cleared
9 25 (5.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (4.02%) JNCIA
11 19 (3.82%) CCIE
11 19 (3.82%) SC Cleared
12 14 (2.81%) A+ Certification
12 14 (2.81%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (2.61%) DBS Check
14 12 (2.41%) CCSA
14 12 (2.41%) CCSE
15 11 (2.21%) CISSP
15 11 (2.21%) OSCP
15 11 (2.21%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (3.21%) GDPR
3 14 (2.81%) SLA
4 12 (2.41%) NIST
5 9 (1.81%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.80%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.60%) COBIT
8 2 (0.40%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.40%) QA
9 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 46 (9.24%) Active Directory
2 30 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (3.21%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.01%) vSphere
5 11 (2.21%) VMware NSX
6 10 (2.01%) Docker
7 8 (1.61%) Firmware
8 7 (1.41%) Squid
8 7 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.60%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (4.42%) FortiGate
2 18 (3.61%) Ansible
3 15 (3.01%) Terraform
4 11 (2.21%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (2.01%) Cisco Prime
6 8 (1.61%) ZABBIX
7 7 (1.41%) Kubernetes
7 7 (1.41%) Packer
8 4 (0.80%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.80%) Nmap
8 4 (0.80%) WSUS
9 3 (0.60%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.40%) Control-M
10 2 (0.40%) OpenView
10 2 (0.40%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.40%) VxRail
11 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 391 (78.51%) Cisco
2 348 (69.88%) Microsoft
3 282 (56.63%) ForeScout
4 53 (10.64%) Fortinet
5 40 (8.03%) VMware
6 26 (5.22%) Meraki
7 25 (5.02%) Aruba
7 25 (5.02%) Juniper
8 22 (4.42%) Dell
9 20 (4.02%) SolarWinds
10 19 (3.82%) CheckPoint
11 17 (3.41%) Splunk
12 15 (3.01%) Palo Alto
13 11 (2.21%) HP
14 10 (2.01%) Red Hat
14 10 (2.01%) Sophos
15 9 (1.81%) Veeam
16 8 (1.61%) Citrix
17 7 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
17 7 (1.41%) Oracle