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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 331 310 331
Rank change year-on-year -21 +21 -40
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 528 382 556
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.52% 0.88% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.90% 2.50% 2.89%
Number of salaries quoted 196 273 271
10th Percentile £27,750 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,967 £31,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £40,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.63% -19.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,875 £70,000 £68,750
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -18.37% +8.42%

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 18,220 15,282 19,207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 17.92% 35.37% 27.79%
Number of salaries quoted 10,331 6,763 8,861
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £37,000 £41,732
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -6.67%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,881
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.58% -4.48%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +5 120 £42,500 +4.94% 53
South East -21 119 £47,500 +11.76% 53
Midlands +20 103 £41,000 +17.14% 29
London -57 84 £70,000 +16.67% 76
Yorkshire +8 69 £42,500 +63.46% 20
South West -106 63 £50,000 +56.25% 37
East Midlands -16 56 £39,194 +11.98% 7
West Midlands -5 47 £53,162 +29.66% 22
East of England -12 44 £55,000 +37.50% 37
North West +3 39 £52,500 -2.33% 22
North East -66 12 - - 11
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 27 (5.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.60%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.19%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 381 (72.16%) Azure
2 63 (11.93%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (9.85%) AWS
4 45 (8.52%) Entra ID
5 9 (1.70%) GCP
6 6 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
7 5 (0.95%) OneDrive
7 5 (0.95%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.76%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.76%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.76%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.76%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.76%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.76%) Serverless
9 3 (0.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 3 (0.57%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.38%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.38%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 152 (28.79%) Firewall
2 107 (20.27%) WAN
3 98 (18.56%) VPN
4 91 (17.23%) LAN
5 76 (14.39%) Network Security
6 70 (13.26%) VLAN
7 69 (13.07%) TCP/IP
8 68 (12.88%) DHCP
8 68 (12.88%) DNS
9 63 (11.93%) Wireless
10 46 (8.71%) Wi-Fi
11 41 (7.77%) SD-WAN
12 32 (6.06%) BGP
13 27 (5.11%) OSPF
14 24 (4.55%) VoIP
15 18 (3.41%) Internet
16 17 (3.22%) MPLS
16 17 (3.22%) SAN
17 14 (2.65%) WLAN
18 12 (2.27%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.95%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 26 (4.92%) JIRA
2 15 (2.84%) GitLab
3 10 (1.89%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.52%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.52%) Git
5 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
General
1 397 (75.19%) Social Skills
2 44 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (4.17%) Telecoms
4 16 (3.03%) Finance
5 15 (2.84%) Public Sector
6 11 (2.08%) Aerospace
6 11 (2.08%) Law
7 10 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (1.89%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.89%) Retail
8 9 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.52%) Banking
10 7 (1.33%) Digital Health
10 7 (1.33%) Military
11 6 (1.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (0.95%) Automotive
12 5 (0.95%) Legal
13 4 (0.76%) Electronics
14 3 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 370 (70.08%) Network Engineer
2 49 (9.28%) IT Engineer
3 34 (6.44%) Senior
4 32 (6.06%) IT Support
5 27 (5.11%) Support Engineer
6 26 (4.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 24 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
8 18 (3.41%) Senior Network Engineer
9 16 (3.03%) 3rd Line Support
9 16 (3.03%) Field Engineer
9 16 (3.03%) Field Service Engineer
10 14 (2.65%) Analyst
10 14 (2.65%) Security Engineer
11 13 (2.46%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (2.46%) Lead
12 12 (2.27%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (2.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 10 (1.89%) Senior Security Engineer
15 9 (1.70%) Cisco Engineer
16 8 (1.52%) Network Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.79%) Terraform
2 4 (0.76%) boto
3 3 (0.57%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.57%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.38%) LDAP
4 2 (0.38%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.38%) SAML
5 1 (0.19%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.19%) YAML
5 1 (0.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 58 (10.98%) Data Centre
2 40 (7.58%) Driving Licence
3 16 (3.03%) Management Information System
3 16 (3.03%) Security Posture
4 15 (2.84%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.27%) CCTV
5 12 (2.27%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
7 8 (1.52%) PKI
7 8 (1.52%) Replication
8 7 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
9 6 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (0.95%) Smartphone
11 4 (0.76%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.57%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.57%) FMCG
13 2 (0.38%) Cyber Security Posture
13 2 (0.38%) Operational Technology
14 1 (0.19%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 103 (19.51%) Windows
2 77 (14.58%) Windows Server
3 45 (8.52%) Linux
4 11 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 11 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
5 6 (1.14%) Windows 10
5 6 (1.14%) Windows Server 2012
6 3 (0.57%) Android
6 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (13.64%) ITIL
3 63 (11.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 60 (11.36%) Cybersecurity
5 47 (8.90%) Disaster Recovery
6 43 (8.14%) Project Delivery
7 41 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 40 (7.58%) Network Design
9 37 (7.01%) Business Continuity
10 35 (6.63%) High Availability
11 30 (5.68%) Customer Service
12 29 (5.49%) Computer Science
13 28 (5.30%) Network Monitoring
14 24 (4.55%) Stakeholder Management
15 21 (3.98%) Infrastructure as Code
16 20 (3.79%) Incident Response
16 20 (3.79%) SIEM
17 19 (3.60%) Incident Management
17 19 (3.60%) Migration
17 19 (3.60%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 39 (7.39%) PowerShell
2 33 (6.25%) Python
3 11 (2.08%) Bash
4 8 (1.52%) Java
5 2 (0.38%) SQL
6 1 (0.19%) Bicep
6 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 528 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 316 (59.85%) Azure Certification
2 316 (59.85%) Network+ Certification
3 114 (21.59%) CCNP
4 69 (13.07%) Microsoft Certification
5 68 (12.88%) Degree
6 35 (6.63%) MCSE
7 32 (6.06%) Security Cleared
8 21 (3.98%) AWS Certification
8 21 (3.98%) SC Cleared
9 20 (3.79%) Computer Science Degree
10 17 (3.22%) DV Cleared
11 15 (2.84%) MCSA
12 14 (2.65%) CISSP
13 13 (2.46%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 11 (2.08%) CCIE
15 10 (1.89%) A+ Certification
15 10 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
16 9 (1.70%) RHCSA
17 8 (1.52%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 32 (6.06%) Cyber Essentials
2 18 (3.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 18 (3.41%) SLA
3 11 (2.08%) GDPR
4 6 (1.14%) QA
5 5 (0.95%) NIST
6 4 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.76%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.57%) COBIT
8 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.19%) GRC
System Software
1 73 (13.83%) Active Directory
2 43 (8.14%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (6.06%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.03%) vSphere
5 11 (2.08%) Docker
5 11 (2.08%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.89%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.52%) Squid
8 6 (1.14%) Firmware
9 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.57%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 27 (5.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (3.98%) FortiGate
3 16 (3.03%) Ansible
4 9 (1.70%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.52%) Packer
5 8 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.76%) Iperf
7 3 (0.57%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.57%) Control-M
8 2 (0.38%) SCCM
8 2 (0.38%) VxRail
9 1 (0.19%) OpenView
9 1 (0.19%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 401 (75.95%) Cisco
2 371 (70.27%) Microsoft
3 282 (53.41%) ForeScout
4 69 (13.07%) VMware
5 48 (9.09%) Fortinet
6 37 (7.01%) Palo Alto
7 25 (4.73%) Meraki
8 16 (3.03%) WatchGuard
9 15 (2.84%) Aruba
9 15 (2.84%) F5
10 14 (2.65%) Dell
10 14 (2.65%) Juniper
10 14 (2.65%) Splunk
11 13 (2.46%) Sophos
11 13 (2.46%) Veeam
12 12 (2.27%) Ruckus Wireless
12 12 (2.27%) SolarWinds
13 11 (2.08%) HP
13 11 (2.08%) Red Hat
14 10 (1.89%) CheckPoint