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

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 308 336
Rank change year-on-year +1 +28 +26
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 511 361 749
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.61% 0.91% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.15% 2.28% 3.02%
Number of salaries quoted 166 289 544
10th Percentile £32,000 £30,500 £30,900
25th Percentile £41,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,529 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £72,750 £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 16,207 15,846 24,786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.35% 39.82% 25.93%
Number of salaries quoted 8,881 6,744 15,743
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,746
25th Percentile £42,700 £39,928 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%

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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +53 139 £50,000 -9.09% 42
South East -4 98 £45,000 +5.88% 44
London -48 89 £74,500 +35.45% 30
Midlands +1 80 £51,058 +32.62% 20
Yorkshire +9 67 £47,750 +23.70% 13
South West -50 66 £50,000 +14.29% 40
North West +29 60 £50,000 -9.09% 19
East of England +25 44 £34,000 -18.56% 32
East Midlands -20 43 £51,058 +45.88% 3
West Midlands -3 37 £53,401 -17.85% 17
North East -41 12 - - 10
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 26 (5.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 10 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 372 (72.80%) Azure
2 53 (10.37%) AWS
3 43 (8.41%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (2.94%) Entra ID
5 11 (2.15%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (2.15%) GCP
6 9 (1.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (0.98%) Mimecast
7 5 (0.98%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.78%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.78%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.78%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.78%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.78%) Serverless
9 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.59%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.39%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 139 (27.20%) Firewall
2 112 (21.92%) WAN
3 90 (17.61%) LAN
4 89 (17.42%) VPN
5 62 (12.13%) Network Security
6 52 (10.18%) Wi-Fi
7 42 (8.22%) TCP/IP
8 38 (7.44%) VLAN
9 34 (6.65%) SD-WAN
10 32 (6.26%) DNS
11 31 (6.07%) DHCP
11 31 (6.07%) Wireless
12 24 (4.70%) VoIP
13 23 (4.50%) BGP
14 20 (3.91%) Cisco Firepower
15 19 (3.72%) OSPF
16 18 (3.52%) MPLS
17 15 (2.94%) Cisco ASA
17 15 (2.94%) Cisco ISE
17 15 (2.94%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (2.94%) JIRA
2 14 (2.74%) GitLab
3 9 (1.76%) Git
3 9 (1.76%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.57%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.59%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.59%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.20%) Chocolatey
General
1 379 (74.17%) Social Skills
2 33 (6.46%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (3.72%) Finance
4 15 (2.94%) Public Sector
5 12 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
6 10 (1.96%) Retail
7 9 (1.76%) Aerospace
7 9 (1.76%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (1.57%) Banking
8 8 (1.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (1.57%) Law
8 8 (1.57%) Manufacturing
9 7 (1.37%) Telecoms
10 6 (1.17%) Military
11 4 (0.78%) Automotive
11 4 (0.78%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.78%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.78%) Electronics
11 4 (0.78%) Legal
12 2 (0.39%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 367 (71.82%) Network Engineer
2 41 (8.02%) IT Engineer
3 31 (6.07%) Senior
4 25 (4.89%) Cisco Engineer
5 23 (4.50%) IT Support
6 21 (4.11%) Lead
7 20 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 20 (3.91%) Senior Network Engineer
8 19 (3.72%) Support Engineer
9 17 (3.33%) Azure Engineer
9 17 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
10 16 (3.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 16 (3.13%) LAN Engineer
10 16 (3.13%) LAN/WAN Engineer
10 16 (3.13%) WAN Engineer
11 13 (2.54%) Security Engineer
12 12 (2.35%) Presales Engineer
13 11 (2.15%) Field Engineer
13 11 (2.15%) Field Service Engineer
14 10 (1.96%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.78%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.78%) boto
1 4 (0.78%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.39%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 51 (9.98%) Data Centre
2 19 (3.72%) Driving Licence
2 19 (3.72%) Security Posture
3 11 (2.15%) Hybrid Cloud
4 9 (1.76%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
5 8 (1.57%) Management Information System
6 7 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 6 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
7 6 (1.17%) PKI
8 5 (0.98%) Cyber Defence
8 5 (0.98%) Replication
9 4 (0.78%) Fibre Optics
9 4 (0.78%) Public Cloud
9 4 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.78%) Smartphone
10 3 (0.59%) Insider Threat
10 3 (0.59%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.59%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.59%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 83 (16.24%) Windows
2 49 (9.59%) Windows Server
3 44 (8.61%) Linux
4 12 (2.35%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (1.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.59%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (0.59%) Windows 10
7 1 (0.20%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.20%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (11.94%) Cybersecurity
3 51 (9.98%) ITIL
4 41 (8.02%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (7.63%) Disaster Recovery
6 38 (7.44%) Continuous Improvement
6 38 (7.44%) High Availability
7 33 (6.46%) Computer Science
8 29 (5.68%) Incident Response
8 29 (5.68%) Network Monitoring
9 28 (5.48%) Business Continuity
10 26 (5.09%) SIEM
11 23 (4.50%) Network Design
12 22 (4.31%) Network Architecture
13 20 (3.91%) Customer Service
13 20 (3.91%) Presales
14 19 (3.72%) Process Improvement
15 16 (3.13%) Infrastructure as Code
15 16 (3.13%) Penetration Testing
16 15 (2.94%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 34 (6.65%) PowerShell
2 18 (3.52%) Python
3 9 (1.76%) Bash
4 8 (1.57%) Java
5 3 (0.59%) SQL
6 2 (0.39%) Bicep
7 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 511 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 317 (62.04%) Azure Certification
3 304 (59.49%) Network+ Certification
4 107 (20.94%) CCNP
5 66 (12.92%) Degree
6 59 (11.55%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (6.85%) Security Cleared
8 31 (6.07%) MCSE
9 28 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.91%) CCIE
11 18 (3.52%) SC Cleared
12 14 (2.74%) AWS Certification
12 14 (2.74%) CISSP
13 12 (2.35%) CompTIA Security+
13 12 (2.35%) DV Cleared
13 12 (2.35%) RHCSA
14 11 (2.15%) OSCP
15 10 (1.96%) MCSA
16 9 (1.76%) CCSE
16 9 (1.76%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (5.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.52%) SLA
3 17 (3.33%) GDPR
4 13 (2.54%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.35%) NIST
6 5 (0.98%) QA
7 4 (0.78%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.59%) COBIT
9 2 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.20%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.20%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (11.55%) Active Directory
2 37 (7.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (4.31%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.33%) vSphere
5 13 (2.54%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.15%) Docker
7 8 (1.57%) Squid
8 7 (1.37%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.59%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.59%) Firmware
9 3 (0.59%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.20%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (3.91%) FortiGate
2 17 (3.33%) Ansible
2 17 (3.33%) Terraform
3 14 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.96%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (1.76%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.57%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.57%) Packer
7 5 (0.98%) Control-M
8 4 (0.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.78%) WSUS
9 3 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.59%) Nmap
9 3 (0.59%) OpenView
9 3 (0.59%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.59%) VxRail
10 1 (0.20%) Iperf
10 1 (0.20%) SCCM
Vendors
1 393 (76.91%) Cisco
2 364 (71.23%) Microsoft
3 282 (55.19%) ForeScout
4 53 (10.37%) VMware
5 48 (9.39%) Fortinet
6 27 (5.28%) Palo Alto
7 26 (5.09%) Aruba
8 23 (4.50%) Meraki
9 21 (4.11%) SolarWinds
10 19 (3.72%) CheckPoint
10 19 (3.72%) Splunk
11 16 (3.13%) Dell
11 16 (3.13%) Juniper
12 12 (2.35%) HP
12 12 (2.35%) Sophos
13 11 (2.15%) Red Hat
13 11 (2.15%) Veeam
14 10 (1.96%) Citrix
15 8 (1.57%) Oracle
16 7 (1.37%) Zscaler