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

6 months to
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 424 210 304
Rank change year-on-year -214 +94 +102
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 230 569 667
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.35% 1.47% 0.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.24% 3.63% 3.17%
Number of salaries quoted 152 316 599
10th Percentile £26,275 £33,200 £29,200
25th Percentile £32,250 £41,063 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £73,400 £72,500 £66,500
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +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 18,558 15,670 21,071
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 28.06% 40.61% 28.22%
Number of salaries quoted 7,600 6,980 14,811
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £59,430 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.77% +8.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £88,750
UK median annual salary £55,117 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.03% +5.51% -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 17 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 17 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 -34 71 £60,000 -2.04% 25
North of England -83 50 £50,000 +5.26% 28
North West -40 40 £50,000 +5.26% 15
Midlands -136 35 £32,500 -49.69% 20
East Midlands -51 30 £32,500 -22.16% 8
South East -75 29 £45,000 -18.18% 26
South West -27 21 £40,000 -15.79% 13
East of England -8 20 £34,000 -34.62% 16
Yorkshire -55 8 £50,000 +29.03% 7
West Midlands -115 5 £47,500 -26.47% 12
North East -32 2 £55,500 -11.20% 6
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 23 (10.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.87%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.61%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 77 (33.48%) Azure
2 47 (20.43%) AWS
3 38 (16.52%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (7.39%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.04%) Azure ExpressRoute
5 7 (3.04%) Microsoft Purview
6 6 (2.61%) Azure Monitor
6 6 (2.61%) GCP
7 4 (1.74%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.87%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.87%) IaaS
8 2 (0.87%) Rubrik
8 2 (0.87%) SaaS
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 139 (60.43%) Firewall
2 111 (48.26%) WAN
3 96 (41.74%) LAN
4 62 (26.96%) VPN
5 38 (16.52%) Wi-Fi
6 32 (13.91%) Network Security
7 30 (13.04%) TCP/IP
8 29 (12.61%) VLAN
9 25 (10.87%) Cisco ASA
10 23 (10.00%) Wireless
11 21 (9.13%) SD-WAN
12 19 (8.26%) DNS
12 19 (8.26%) MPLS
12 19 (8.26%) VoIP
13 18 (7.83%) Cisco Firepower
13 18 (7.83%) DHCP
14 15 (6.52%) Intrusion Detection
15 14 (6.09%) WLAN
16 12 (5.22%) BGP
17 11 (4.78%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.30%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.04%) Burp Suite
1 7 (3.04%) Metasploit
2 6 (2.61%) JIRA
3 4 (1.74%) GitLab
4 1 (0.43%) Git
General
1 83 (36.09%) Social Skills
2 38 (16.52%) Finance
3 23 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
4 19 (8.26%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (8.26%) Public Sector
5 14 (6.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 12 (5.22%) Telecoms
7 11 (4.78%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.91%) Retail
9 8 (3.48%) Legal
10 6 (2.61%) Law
11 5 (2.17%) Banking
12 2 (0.87%) Military
13 1 (0.43%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.43%) Marketing
13 1 (0.43%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (25.65%) Network Engineer
2 41 (17.83%) Cisco Engineer
3 35 (15.22%) IT Engineer
4 34 (14.78%) LAN Engineer
4 34 (14.78%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 34 (14.78%) WAN Engineer
5 31 (13.48%) Support Engineer
6 25 (10.87%) IT Support
7 22 (9.57%) Azure Engineer
7 22 (9.57%) Cisco Network Engineer
7 22 (9.57%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (9.57%) Presales Engineer
8 19 (8.26%) Firewall Engineer
8 19 (8.26%) Juniper Engineer
9 18 (7.83%) Analyst
10 16 (6.96%) Senior
11 15 (6.52%) AWS Engineer
12 12 (5.22%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 12 (5.22%) Security Specialist
12 12 (5.22%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.74%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.87%) Middleware
3 1 (0.43%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 47 (20.43%) Data Centre
2 17 (7.39%) Driving Licence
3 15 (6.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 14 (6.09%) Security Posture
5 9 (3.91%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.48%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.48%) Smartphone
7 7 (3.04%) CCTV
7 7 (3.04%) Insider Threat
8 5 (2.17%) PKI
8 5 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.74%) Cyber Defence
9 4 (1.74%) e-Learning
9 4 (1.74%) Management Information System
9 4 (1.74%) Public Cloud
9 4 (1.74%) Social Media
10 3 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.30%) Private Cloud
11 2 (0.87%) Hybrid Cloud
11 2 (0.87%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 59 (25.65%) Windows
2 36 (15.65%) Linux
3 30 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 11 (4.78%) Unix
5 7 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.74%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.87%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.43%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (27.83%) Problem-Solving
2 45 (19.57%) Cybersecurity
3 40 (17.39%) Customer Service
4 38 (16.52%) ITIL
5 29 (12.61%) Presales
6 28 (12.17%) High Availability
7 26 (11.30%) Computer Science
7 26 (11.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 26 (11.30%) Process Improvement
8 23 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 22 (9.57%) Incident Response
10 19 (8.26%) Mentoring
10 19 (8.26%) Network Monitoring
10 19 (8.26%) Penetration Testing
11 18 (7.83%) Project Delivery
12 17 (7.39%) SIEM
13 14 (6.09%) Information Security
13 14 (6.09%) Kalman Filter
13 14 (6.09%) Network Architecture
14 13 (5.65%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 17 (7.39%) PowerShell
2 14 (6.09%) Python
3 3 (1.30%) SQL
4 1 (0.43%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 230 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 97 (42.17%) CCNP
3 60 (26.09%) Degree
4 50 (21.74%) Microsoft Certification
5 39 (16.96%) MCSE
6 37 (16.09%) Security Cleared
7 29 (12.61%) JNCIA
7 29 (12.61%) Network+ Certification
8 28 (12.17%) SC Cleared
9 26 (11.30%) CCIE
10 25 (10.87%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 24 (10.43%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (10.00%) MCSA
13 18 (7.83%) DBS Check
14 17 (7.39%) CCSA
14 17 (7.39%) CCSE
15 14 (6.09%) DV Cleared
16 13 (5.65%) Azure Certification
17 12 (5.22%) BPSS Clearance
18 10 (4.35%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (7.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 14 (6.09%) GDPR
2 14 (6.09%) SLA
3 11 (4.78%) NIST
4 10 (4.35%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (3.04%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.30%) ITGC
7 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (15.65%) Active Directory
2 24 (10.43%) Hyper-V
3 21 (9.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 8 (3.48%) vSphere
5 7 (3.04%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.61%) Firmware
7 4 (1.74%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.87%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.43%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 24 (10.43%) FortiGate
2 19 (8.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (4.35%) Ansible
4 7 (3.04%) Cisco Prime
4 7 (3.04%) Nmap
5 6 (2.61%) Terraform
6 4 (1.74%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.74%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.74%) WSUS
7 3 (1.30%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (1.30%) OpenView
7 3 (1.30%) QRadar
7 3 (1.30%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.87%) Autotask
8 2 (0.87%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.87%) Control-M
8 2 (0.87%) VxRail
9 1 (0.43%) Grafana
9 1 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 147 (63.91%) Cisco
2 70 (30.43%) Fortinet
2 70 (30.43%) Microsoft
3 41 (17.83%) Juniper
3 41 (17.83%) VMware
4 30 (13.04%) CheckPoint
4 30 (13.04%) Meraki
5 28 (12.17%) Aruba
6 19 (8.26%) SolarWinds
7 18 (7.83%) Palo Alto
8 15 (6.52%) Dell
9 14 (6.09%) Citrix
10 12 (5.22%) Splunk
11 9 (3.91%) CrowdStrike
11 9 (3.91%) Draytek
11 9 (3.91%) WatchGuard
12 8 (3.48%) Arista
12 8 (3.48%) Sophos
13 7 (3.04%) Mitel
14 6 (2.61%) ArcSight