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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 211 303
Rank change year-on-year -229 +92 +110
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 225 550 681
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.33% 1.49% 0.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.20% 3.67% 3.18%
Number of salaries quoted 149 312 605
10th Percentile £26,150 £33,200 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £41,250 £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 £78,200 £73,750 £66,250
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 18,760 15,000 21,436
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 27.60% 40.52% 28.01%
Number of salaries quoted 7,676 6,947 15,026
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £43,750 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,264 £59,430 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +8.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £88,750
UK median annual salary £56,500 £58,033 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.64% +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 24 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 24 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 -37 74 £60,000 -4.00% 25
North of England -85 49 £50,000 +5.26% 37
North West -43 39 £50,000 +5.26% 17
Midlands -149 33 £32,500 -49.69% 32
East Midlands -58 29 £32,500 -22.16% 15
South East -87 26 £45,000 -18.18% 32
East of England -7 21 £34,000 -34.62% 18
South West -31 18 £40,000 -15.79% 17
Yorkshire -59 8 £50,000 +29.03% 13
West Midlands -128 4 £47,500 -26.47% 17
North East -29 2 £55,500 -11.20% 7
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 (10.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.89%) Confluence
Applications
1 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 77 (34.22%) Azure
2 48 (21.33%) AWS
3 38 (16.89%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (7.11%) Entra ID
5 8 (3.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 7 (3.11%) Azure Monitor
6 7 (3.11%) Microsoft Purview
7 6 (2.67%) GCP
8 5 (2.22%) Mimecast
9 2 (0.89%) AWS Direct Connect
9 2 (0.89%) Rubrik
9 2 (0.89%) SaaS
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.44%) Azure Sentinel
10 1 (0.44%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.44%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 138 (61.33%) Firewall
2 110 (48.89%) WAN
3 93 (41.33%) LAN
4 61 (27.11%) VPN
5 40 (17.78%) Wi-Fi
6 35 (15.56%) Network Security
7 29 (12.89%) TCP/IP
8 28 (12.44%) VLAN
9 24 (10.67%) Cisco ASA
9 24 (10.67%) Wireless
10 22 (9.78%) SD-WAN
11 19 (8.44%) DNS
11 19 (8.44%) VoIP
12 18 (8.00%) Cisco Firepower
12 18 (8.00%) DHCP
12 18 (8.00%) MPLS
13 16 (7.11%) Intrusion Detection
14 13 (5.78%) WLAN
15 12 (5.33%) Cisco ISE
16 11 (4.89%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (3.11%) Burp Suite
1 7 (3.11%) Metasploit
2 6 (2.67%) JIRA
3 4 (1.78%) GitLab
4 1 (0.44%) Git
General
1 82 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.56%) Finance
3 23 (10.22%) Presentation Skills
4 20 (8.89%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.33%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (5.33%) Telecoms
8 9 (4.00%) Retail
9 8 (3.56%) Legal
10 7 (3.11%) Law
11 5 (2.22%) Banking
12 2 (0.89%) Military
13 1 (0.44%) Documentation Skills
13 1 (0.44%) Manufacturing
13 1 (0.44%) Marketing
13 1 (0.44%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 59 (26.22%) Network Engineer
2 42 (18.67%) Cisco Engineer
3 36 (16.00%) IT Engineer
4 34 (15.11%) LAN Engineer
4 34 (15.11%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 34 (15.11%) WAN Engineer
5 29 (12.89%) Support Engineer
6 25 (11.11%) IT Support
7 23 (10.22%) Azure Engineer
7 23 (10.22%) Cisco Network Engineer
8 22 (9.78%) IT Support Engineer
8 22 (9.78%) Presales Engineer
9 19 (8.44%) Firewall Engineer
9 19 (8.44%) Juniper Engineer
10 18 (8.00%) Analyst
11 15 (6.67%) AWS Engineer
12 13 (5.78%) Security Specialist
12 13 (5.78%) Senior
13 12 (5.33%) Lead
14 11 (4.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.78%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.89%) Middleware
3 1 (0.44%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 45 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 17 (7.56%) Driving Licence
3 15 (6.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 15 (6.67%) Security Posture
4 8 (3.56%) Analytical Mindset
4 8 (3.56%) Enterprise Software
4 8 (3.56%) Smartphone
5 7 (3.11%) CCTV
5 7 (3.11%) Insider Threat
6 6 (2.67%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (2.22%) PKI
7 5 (2.22%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.78%) Social Media
9 3 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (1.33%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.33%) Operational Technology
9 3 (1.33%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.89%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.89%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 60 (26.67%) Windows
2 34 (15.11%) Linux
3 30 (13.33%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.56%) Unix
5 7 (3.11%) Windows Server 2016
6 4 (1.78%) Windows 10
7 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2012
7 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.44%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (28.89%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (20.44%) Cybersecurity
3 38 (16.89%) Customer Service
4 36 (16.00%) ITIL
5 30 (13.33%) Presales
6 26 (11.56%) Computer Science
6 26 (11.56%) Process Improvement
7 25 (11.11%) High Availability
8 24 (10.67%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (10.67%) Incident Response
9 21 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 20 (8.89%) Network Monitoring
11 19 (8.44%) Penetration Testing
12 17 (7.56%) Project Delivery
12 17 (7.56%) SIEM
13 15 (6.67%) Mentoring
13 15 (6.67%) Network Architecture
14 13 (5.78%) Disaster Recovery
14 13 (5.78%) Information Security
14 13 (5.78%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 14 (6.22%) Python
3 3 (1.33%) SQL
4 1 (0.44%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 225 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 95 (42.22%) CCNP
3 61 (27.11%) Degree
4 51 (22.67%) Microsoft Certification
5 40 (17.78%) MCSE
6 31 (13.78%) Security Cleared
7 30 (13.33%) Network+ Certification
8 27 (12.00%) JNCIA
9 26 (11.56%) CCIE
10 24 (10.67%) Computer Science Degree
10 24 (10.67%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 22 (9.78%) MCSA
11 22 (9.78%) SC Cleared
12 18 (8.00%) DBS Check
13 17 (7.56%) CCSA
13 17 (7.56%) CCSE
14 15 (6.67%) Azure Certification
15 12 (5.33%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (4.44%) DV Cleared
16 10 (4.44%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (8.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 15 (6.67%) GDPR
3 13 (5.78%) NIST
3 13 (5.78%) SLA
4 9 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (3.11%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.33%) ITGC
7 1 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.44%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (16.00%) Active Directory
2 24 (10.67%) Hyper-V
3 22 (9.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 9 (4.00%) vSphere
5 7 (3.11%) VMware ESXi
6 6 (2.67%) Firmware
7 4 (1.78%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.89%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.44%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 23 (10.22%) FortiGate
2 18 (8.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (4.44%) Ansible
4 8 (3.56%) Cisco Prime
5 7 (3.11%) Nmap
5 7 (3.11%) Terraform
6 4 (1.78%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.78%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.78%) WSUS
7 3 (1.33%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (1.33%) OpenView
7 3 (1.33%) QRadar
7 3 (1.33%) Tivoli
8 2 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.89%) Control-M
8 2 (0.89%) VxRail
9 1 (0.44%) Autotask
9 1 (0.44%) Grafana
9 1 (0.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 144 (64.00%) Cisco
2 69 (30.67%) Fortinet
3 68 (30.22%) Microsoft
4 41 (18.22%) VMware
5 40 (17.78%) Juniper
6 31 (13.78%) CheckPoint
6 31 (13.78%) Meraki
7 27 (12.00%) Aruba
8 19 (8.44%) SolarWinds
9 17 (7.56%) Palo Alto
10 15 (6.67%) Dell
11 13 (5.78%) Citrix
11 13 (5.78%) Splunk
12 9 (4.00%) Draytek
12 9 (4.00%) Sophos
12 9 (4.00%) WatchGuard
13 8 (3.56%) Arista
13 8 (3.56%) CrowdStrike
14 7 (3.11%) Mitel
15 6 (2.67%) ArcSight