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

6 months to
4 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 324 325 341
Rank change year-on-year +1 +16 -27
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 520 380 572
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.57% 0.87% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.01% 2.44% 2.95%
Number of salaries quoted 184 282 365
10th Percentile £30,375 £27,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £39,984 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.53% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £82,125 £72,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +17.65% -13.27% +8.89%

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 17,271 15,584 19,411
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.80% 35.75% 26.60%
Number of salaries quoted 9,491 7,131 10,826
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,781
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £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 4 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 4 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 +31 122 £50,000 +11.86% 38
South East 0 117 £46,250 +15.63% 46
London -57 90 £70,000 +27.27% 32
Midlands +4 85 £46,801 +23.16% 21
Yorkshire +12 69 £42,500 +61.90% 12
South West -80 63 £50,000 +53.85% 37
East of England +15 49 £38,250 -7.94% 21
East Midlands -4 43 £41,000 +17.14% 6
West Midlands -4 42 £59,522 +5.82% 15
North West +15 41 £52,500 -2.33% 17
North East -49 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 (6.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (3.08%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.19%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 383 (73.65%) Azure
2 59 (11.35%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (10.19%) AWS
4 28 (5.38%) Entra ID
5 14 (2.69%) GCP
6 11 (2.12%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (0.96%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.77%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.77%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.77%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.77%) Mimecast
9 4 (0.77%) OneDrive
9 4 (0.77%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.77%) Serverless
10 3 (0.58%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.58%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 151 (29.04%) Firewall
2 116 (22.31%) WAN
3 106 (20.38%) VPN
4 90 (17.31%) LAN
5 71 (13.65%) Network Security
6 68 (13.08%) TCP/IP
7 63 (12.12%) VLAN
8 53 (10.19%) DHCP
8 53 (10.19%) DNS
9 50 (9.62%) Wireless
10 48 (9.23%) Wi-Fi
11 46 (8.85%) SD-WAN
12 32 (6.15%) BGP
12 32 (6.15%) VoIP
13 25 (4.81%) OSPF
14 19 (3.65%) MPLS
15 18 (3.46%) Internet
16 14 (2.69%) SAN
17 12 (2.31%) Cisco ISE
17 12 (2.31%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (3.65%) JIRA
2 11 (2.12%) GitLab
3 10 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.54%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.54%) Git
5 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
General
1 399 (76.73%) Social Skills
2 37 (7.12%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (3.27%) Public Sector
4 16 (3.08%) Finance
5 12 (2.31%) Telecoms
6 10 (1.92%) Aerospace
6 10 (1.92%) Manufacturing
6 10 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (1.73%) Banking
7 9 (1.73%) Military
7 9 (1.73%) Retail
8 8 (1.54%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.35%) Digital Health
10 6 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.96%) Automotive
12 4 (0.77%) Electronics
12 4 (0.77%) Law
12 4 (0.77%) Legal
13 3 (0.58%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.58%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 368 (70.77%) Network Engineer
2 46 (8.85%) IT Engineer
3 32 (6.15%) IT Support
4 29 (5.58%) Senior
5 26 (5.00%) Support Engineer
6 24 (4.62%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (4.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (4.04%) Lead
9 17 (3.27%) Senior Network Engineer
10 16 (3.08%) 3rd Line Support
11 14 (2.69%) Analyst
11 14 (2.69%) Field Engineer
11 14 (2.69%) Field Service Engineer
12 13 (2.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 13 (2.50%) Security Engineer
13 12 (2.31%) Cisco Engineer
13 12 (2.31%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 12 (2.31%) Systems Engineer
14 11 (2.12%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 10 (1.92%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.77%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.77%) boto
2 3 (0.58%) ARM Templates
3 1 (0.19%) LDAP
3 1 (0.19%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.19%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.19%) SAML
3 1 (0.19%) YAML
3 1 (0.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 46 (8.85%) Data Centre
2 28 (5.38%) Driving Licence
3 14 (2.69%) Security Posture
4 12 (2.31%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.92%) Management Information System
7 8 (1.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.35%) Replication
9 6 (1.15%) Onboarding
10 5 (0.96%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.77%) CCTV
11 4 (0.77%) Cyber Defence
11 4 (0.77%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (0.77%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.77%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.77%) Social Media
12 3 (0.58%) FMCG
12 3 (0.58%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (19.04%) Windows
2 69 (13.27%) Windows Server
3 42 (8.08%) Linux
4 15 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.31%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (1.73%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.58%) Android
8 3 (0.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (11.92%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (11.92%) ITIL
3 52 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 49 (9.42%) Disaster Recovery
5 46 (8.85%) Continuous Improvement
6 41 (7.88%) High Availability
7 34 (6.54%) Network Monitoring
8 33 (6.35%) Business Continuity
9 31 (5.96%) Computer Science
10 30 (5.77%) Customer Service
11 28 (5.38%) Network Design
11 28 (5.38%) Project Delivery
12 26 (5.00%) Incident Response
13 24 (4.62%) SIEM
14 18 (3.46%) Infrastructure as Code
14 18 (3.46%) Network Architecture
15 16 (3.08%) Stakeholder Management
16 15 (2.88%) Mentoring
16 15 (2.88%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 41 (7.88%) PowerShell
2 25 (4.81%) Python
3 11 (2.12%) Bash
4 8 (1.54%) Java
5 2 (0.38%) SQL
6 1 (0.19%) Bicep
6 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 520 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 323 (62.12%) Azure Certification
3 314 (60.38%) Network+ Certification
4 114 (21.92%) CCNP
5 68 (13.08%) Degree
6 66 (12.69%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (6.15%) Security Cleared
8 26 (5.00%) MCSE
9 24 (4.62%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.85%) AWS Certification
11 19 (3.65%) SC Cleared
12 15 (2.88%) DV Cleared
13 12 (2.31%) RHCSA
14 11 (2.12%) CCIE
14 11 (2.12%) MCSA
15 10 (1.92%) CISSP
15 10 (1.92%) DBS Check
15 10 (1.92%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 9 (1.73%) CompTIA Security+
17 8 (1.54%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (3.08%) SLA
4 15 (2.88%) GDPR
5 12 (2.31%) NIST
6 6 (1.15%) QA
7 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.58%) COBIT
9 1 (0.19%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 76 (14.62%) Active Directory
2 47 (9.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (6.35%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.69%) vSphere
5 12 (2.31%) VMware NSX
6 11 (2.12%) Docker
7 8 (1.54%) Squid
8 5 (0.96%) Firmware
8 5 (0.96%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.58%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.58%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.58%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (3.46%) Terraform
3 16 (3.08%) Ansible
3 16 (3.08%) FortiGate
4 9 (1.73%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.54%) Cisco Prime
5 8 (1.54%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.54%) Packer
6 5 (0.96%) Control-M
7 4 (0.77%) Iperf
8 3 (0.58%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.58%) OpenView
8 3 (0.58%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.58%) Tivoli
8 3 (0.58%) VxRail
9 1 (0.19%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.19%) SCCM
9 1 (0.19%) WSUS
Vendors
1 402 (77.31%) Cisco
2 377 (72.50%) Microsoft
3 282 (54.23%) ForeScout
4 64 (12.31%) VMware
5 52 (10.00%) Fortinet
6 34 (6.54%) Palo Alto
7 30 (5.77%) Meraki
8 19 (3.65%) Sophos
8 19 (3.65%) Splunk
9 18 (3.46%) SolarWinds
10 15 (2.88%) Aruba
10 15 (2.88%) Juniper
11 14 (2.69%) CheckPoint
12 13 (2.50%) Citrix
12 13 (2.50%) Dell
13 12 (2.31%) F5
13 12 (2.31%) HP
13 12 (2.31%) Veeam
14 11 (2.12%) Red Hat
15 8 (1.54%) Oracle