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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 334 331
Rank change year-on-year +1 -3 -30
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 522 379 582
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.55% 0.87% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.00% 2.43% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 187 280 362
10th Percentile £30,750 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,438 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £41,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +28.05% -18.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,250 £59,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £68,625
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +11.11%

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 17,412 15,624 19,472
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.28% 35.76% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 9,743 7,051 10,359
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,930 £37,000 £41,250
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 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £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 21 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 21 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 +25 121 £46,250 +32.14% 36
South East -7 119 £47,500 +18.75% 33
Midlands +12 92 £42,500 +13.33% 21
London -66 88 £70,000 +23.89% 28
Yorkshire +10 68 £42,500 +63.46% 12
South West -88 62 £50,000 +55.04% 33
East Midlands -1 48 £41,000 +17.14% 5
East of England +14 46 £40,000 - 22
West Midlands -2 44 £53,162 +23.63% 16
North West -1 41 £52,500 -2.33% 15
North East -53 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 35 (6.70%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.64%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.92%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.19%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.38%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.19%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 382 (73.18%) Azure
2 61 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (9.39%) AWS
4 33 (6.32%) Entra ID
5 11 (2.11%) GCP
6 10 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (1.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (0.96%) OneDrive
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%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.77%) Serverless
10 3 (0.57%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.57%) Rubrik
11 2 (0.38%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 154 (29.50%) Firewall
2 116 (22.22%) WAN
3 104 (19.92%) VPN
4 90 (17.24%) LAN
5 78 (14.94%) Network Security
6 73 (13.98%) TCP/IP
7 68 (13.03%) VLAN
8 61 (11.69%) DHCP
8 61 (11.69%) DNS
9 56 (10.73%) Wireless
10 49 (9.39%) Wi-Fi
11 45 (8.62%) SD-WAN
12 31 (5.94%) BGP
13 30 (5.75%) VoIP
14 26 (4.98%) OSPF
15 20 (3.83%) Internet
16 16 (3.07%) MPLS
17 15 (2.87%) SAN
18 13 (2.49%) Cisco ISE
19 12 (2.30%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.15%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.19%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 22 (4.21%) JIRA
2 12 (2.30%) GitLab
3 10 (1.92%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.53%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.53%) Git
5 1 (0.19%) Chocolatey
General
1 398 (76.25%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.85%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (3.45%) Finance
4 17 (3.26%) Public Sector
5 13 (2.49%) Telecoms
6 11 (2.11%) Aerospace
6 11 (2.11%) Manufacturing
7 10 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
7 10 (1.92%) Retail
8 9 (1.72%) Banking
9 8 (1.53%) Documentation Skills
9 8 (1.53%) Military
10 7 (1.34%) Digital Health
10 7 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (0.96%) Automotive
11 5 (0.96%) Law
12 4 (0.77%) Electronics
13 3 (0.57%) Legal
13 3 (0.57%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.57%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 370 (70.88%) Network Engineer
2 47 (9.00%) IT Engineer
3 31 (5.94%) IT Support
3 31 (5.94%) Senior
4 26 (4.98%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 24 (4.60%) Support Engineer
6 23 (4.41%) IT Support Engineer
7 18 (3.45%) Lead
8 17 (3.26%) 3rd Line Support
9 16 (3.07%) Senior Network Engineer
10 14 (2.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 14 (2.68%) Analyst
10 14 (2.68%) Field Engineer
10 14 (2.68%) Field Service Engineer
11 13 (2.49%) Security Engineer
11 13 (2.49%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (2.30%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
12 12 (2.30%) Cisco Engineer
12 12 (2.30%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 9 (1.72%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.64%) Terraform
2 4 (0.77%) 802.1X
2 4 (0.77%) boto
3 3 (0.57%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.38%) LDAP
4 2 (0.38%) SAML
5 1 (0.19%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.19%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.19%) YAML
5 1 (0.19%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 52 (9.96%) Data Centre
2 31 (5.94%) Driving Licence
3 15 (2.87%) Security Posture
3 15 (2.87%) Self-Motivation
4 14 (2.68%) Management Information System
5 12 (2.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (1.53%) Replication
7 7 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
8 6 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.77%) CCTV
9 4 (0.77%) Fibre Optics
9 4 (0.77%) PKI
9 4 (0.77%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (0.77%) Social Media
10 3 (0.57%) FMCG
10 3 (0.57%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.57%) Smartphone
11 2 (0.38%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 101 (19.35%) Windows
2 72 (13.79%) Windows Server
3 41 (7.85%) Linux
4 14 (2.68%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (2.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (1.72%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.57%) Android
8 3 (0.57%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.38%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.19%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (15.90%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (12.45%) ITIL
3 59 (11.30%) Cybersecurity
4 58 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 48 (9.20%) Disaster Recovery
6 47 (9.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (8.05%) High Availability
8 35 (6.70%) Business Continuity
9 34 (6.51%) Customer Service
9 34 (6.51%) Network Design
10 33 (6.32%) Computer Science
10 33 (6.32%) Network Monitoring
11 32 (6.13%) Project Delivery
12 23 (4.41%) Incident Response
13 22 (4.21%) SIEM
14 20 (3.83%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (3.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (3.64%) Network Architecture
16 16 (3.07%) Agile
16 16 (3.07%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 42 (8.05%) PowerShell
2 28 (5.36%) Python
3 11 (2.11%) Bash
4 8 (1.53%) Java
5 2 (0.38%) SQL
6 1 (0.19%) Bicep
6 1 (0.19%) C
Qualifications
1 522 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 323 (61.88%) Azure Certification
3 316 (60.54%) Network+ Certification
4 112 (21.46%) CCNP
5 76 (14.56%) Degree
6 67 (12.84%) Microsoft Certification
7 32 (6.13%) Security Cleared
8 26 (4.98%) MCSE
9 24 (4.60%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (4.02%) AWS Certification
10 21 (4.02%) SC Cleared
11 15 (2.87%) DV Cleared
12 11 (2.11%) CCIE
12 11 (2.11%) CISSP
12 11 (2.11%) MCSA
12 11 (2.11%) RHCSA
13 10 (1.92%) CompTIA Security+
13 10 (1.92%) DBS Check
14 8 (1.53%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 8 (1.53%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (4.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (4.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (3.07%) SLA
4 15 (2.87%) GDPR
5 10 (1.92%) NIST
6 6 (1.15%) QA
7 4 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.57%) COBIT
9 2 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 77 (14.75%) Active Directory
2 46 (8.81%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (5.94%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.87%) vSphere
5 11 (2.11%) Docker
5 11 (2.11%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.53%) Squid
7 7 (1.34%) Firmware
7 7 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.57%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.57%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.57%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.19%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 19 (3.64%) FortiGate
1 19 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 15 (2.87%) Ansible
3 9 (1.72%) ZABBIX
4 8 (1.53%) Kubernetes
4 8 (1.53%) Packer
5 7 (1.34%) Cisco Prime
6 4 (0.77%) Control-M
6 4 (0.77%) Iperf
6 4 (0.77%) Single Sign-On
7 3 (0.57%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (0.57%) VxRail
8 2 (0.38%) OpenView
8 2 (0.38%) SCCM
8 2 (0.38%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.19%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 406 (77.78%) Cisco
2 379 (72.61%) Microsoft
3 282 (54.02%) ForeScout
4 65 (12.45%) VMware
5 52 (9.96%) Fortinet
6 37 (7.09%) Palo Alto
7 29 (5.56%) Meraki
8 19 (3.64%) Sophos
9 17 (3.26%) SolarWinds
9 17 (3.26%) Splunk
10 15 (2.87%) CheckPoint
10 15 (2.87%) Juniper
11 14 (2.68%) Aruba
11 14 (2.68%) F5
11 14 (2.68%) Veeam
12 13 (2.49%) Dell
13 12 (2.30%) HP
14 11 (2.11%) Red Hat
15 10 (1.92%) Citrix
16 9 (1.72%) WatchGuard