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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 305 334 331
Rank change year-on-year +29 -3 +15
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 525 367 727
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 0.85% 0.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.13% 2.27% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 184 287 520
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,484 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year +5.26% - +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 16,800 16,144 23,943
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.37% 37.48% 26.64%
Number of salaries quoted 9,173 7,140 15,125
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £39,500 £38,680
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

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 July 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 July 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 +38 132 £50,000 -9.09% 46
South East -12 106 £45,000 +5.88% 65
London -39 93 £74,000 +38.32% 49
Midlands +1 80 £46,801 +21.56% 21
Yorkshire +20 71 £42,500 +10.10% 18
South West -55 69 £50,000 +17.65% 39
East of England +28 50 £35,250 -25.79% 30
North West +11 49 £52,500 -6.67% 15
East Midlands -16 41 £39,194 +11.98% 4
West Midlands -5 39 £53,162 -18.21% 17
North East -37 12 - - 13
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 33 (6.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 13 (2.48%) 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
Cloud Services
1 382 (72.76%) Azure
2 56 (10.67%) AWS
3 53 (10.10%) Microsoft 365
4 22 (4.19%) Entra ID
5 12 (2.29%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (2.10%) GCP
7 9 (1.71%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (0.95%) Mimecast
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%) Rubrik
9 4 (0.76%) Serverless
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.57%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.38%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 154 (29.33%) Firewall
2 124 (23.62%) WAN
3 105 (20.00%) VPN
4 101 (19.24%) LAN
5 72 (13.71%) Network Security
6 56 (10.67%) Wi-Fi
7 55 (10.48%) TCP/IP
8 49 (9.33%) VLAN
9 45 (8.57%) DNS
10 44 (8.38%) DHCP
10 44 (8.38%) Wireless
11 43 (8.19%) SD-WAN
12 32 (6.10%) BGP
13 30 (5.71%) VoIP
14 23 (4.38%) MPLS
15 22 (4.19%) OSPF
16 19 (3.62%) Cisco Firepower
17 17 (3.24%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (3.24%) WLAN
18 15 (2.86%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (3.24%) JIRA
2 14 (2.67%) GitLab
3 9 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.52%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.52%) Git
5 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
General
1 391 (74.48%) Social Skills
2 35 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (4.00%) Finance
4 18 (3.43%) Public Sector
5 10 (1.90%) Banking
5 10 (1.90%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (1.90%) Retail
5 10 (1.90%) Telecoms
6 9 (1.71%) Aerospace
6 9 (1.71%) Manufacturing
7 8 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (1.52%) Law
8 6 (1.14%) Military
8 6 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
10 4 (0.76%) Automotive
10 4 (0.76%) Digital Health
10 4 (0.76%) Electronics
10 4 (0.76%) Legal
11 3 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 376 (71.62%) Network Engineer
2 48 (9.14%) IT Engineer
3 35 (6.67%) Senior
4 29 (5.52%) IT Support
5 24 (4.57%) Support Engineer
6 23 (4.38%) Senior Network Engineer
7 22 (4.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (4.19%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (4.19%) Lead
8 18 (3.43%) Cisco Engineer
9 15 (2.86%) Azure Engineer
9 15 (2.86%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 14 (2.67%) Analyst
11 13 (2.48%) Security Engineer
12 11 (2.10%) Field Engineer
12 11 (2.10%) Field Service Engineer
12 11 (2.10%) Systems Engineer
13 10 (1.90%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 10 (1.90%) 3rd Line Support
14 9 (1.71%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.76%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.76%) boto
1 4 (0.76%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (0.57%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 54 (10.29%) Data Centre
2 21 (4.00%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.43%) Security Posture
4 12 (2.29%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
6 8 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.52%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.33%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (1.14%) PKI
9 5 (0.95%) Cyber Defence
9 5 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
9 5 (0.95%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 5 (0.95%) Replication
10 4 (0.76%) Fibre Optics
10 4 (0.76%) Public Cloud
10 4 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (0.76%) Smartphone
11 3 (0.57%) FMCG
11 3 (0.57%) Private Cloud
11 3 (0.57%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 94 (17.90%) Windows
2 59 (11.24%) Windows Server
3 45 (8.57%) Linux
4 15 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (2.10%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.76%) Windows 10
6 4 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.19%) Android
8 1 (0.19%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (10.86%) ITIL
4 48 (9.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 47 (8.95%) Disaster Recovery
6 43 (8.19%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (8.00%) High Availability
8 34 (6.48%) Computer Science
9 33 (6.29%) Business Continuity
10 31 (5.90%) Incident Response
10 31 (5.90%) Network Monitoring
11 27 (5.14%) Network Design
11 27 (5.14%) SIEM
12 25 (4.76%) Project Delivery
13 24 (4.57%) Network Architecture
14 23 (4.38%) Customer Service
15 18 (3.43%) Infrastructure as Code
16 17 (3.24%) Process Improvement
17 15 (2.86%) Network Segmentation
17 15 (2.86%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 40 (7.62%) PowerShell
2 22 (4.19%) Python
3 9 (1.71%) Bash
4 8 (1.52%) Java
5 3 (0.57%) SQL
6 2 (0.38%) Bicep
7 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 525 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 321 (61.14%) Azure Certification
3 308 (58.67%) Network+ Certification
4 123 (23.43%) CCNP
5 66 (12.57%) Degree
6 63 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 33 (6.29%) Security Cleared
8 28 (5.33%) MCSE
9 26 (4.95%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.81%) CCIE
11 17 (3.24%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.86%) SC Cleared
13 13 (2.48%) DV Cleared
13 13 (2.48%) MCSA
14 12 (2.29%) RHCSA
15 11 (2.10%) CISSP
16 10 (1.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 9 (1.71%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (1.71%) DBS Check
18 8 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (5.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 18 (3.43%) GDPR
3 16 (3.05%) SLA
4 12 (2.29%) NIST
5 6 (1.14%) QA
6 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.57%) COBIT
8 2 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.19%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (13.52%) Active Directory
2 43 (8.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (5.33%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.24%) vSphere
5 15 (2.86%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.10%) Docker
7 8 (1.52%) Squid
8 7 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.76%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.57%) Firmware
10 3 (0.57%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.57%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (3.81%) FortiGate
2 18 (3.43%) Ansible
2 18 (3.43%) Terraform
3 16 (3.05%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.90%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (1.71%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.52%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.52%) Packer
7 5 (0.95%) Control-M
8 4 (0.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.76%) Iperf
8 4 (0.76%) VxRail
8 4 (0.76%) WSUS
9 3 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.57%) OpenView
9 3 (0.57%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.19%) SCCM
10 1 (0.19%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 405 (77.14%) Cisco
2 372 (70.86%) Microsoft
3 282 (53.71%) ForeScout
4 62 (11.81%) VMware
5 54 (10.29%) Fortinet
6 33 (6.29%) Palo Alto
7 30 (5.71%) Meraki
8 21 (4.00%) Aruba
8 21 (4.00%) CheckPoint
8 21 (4.00%) SolarWinds
9 20 (3.81%) Splunk
10 18 (3.43%) Juniper
11 16 (3.05%) Dell
12 15 (2.86%) Sophos
13 13 (2.48%) Citrix
14 12 (2.29%) HP
15 11 (2.10%) Red Hat
15 11 (2.10%) Veeam
16 8 (1.52%) F5
16 8 (1.52%) Zscaler