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 28 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 402 215 310
Rank change year-on-year -187 +95 +103
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 249 621 602
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.40% 1.46% 0.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.37% 3.68% 3.12%
Number of salaries quoted 164 312 535
10th Percentile £26,763 £33,200 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +22.22% -5.26%
75th Percentile £60,000 £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £73,200 £72,500 £67,000
UK median annual salary £45,750 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -16.82% +15.79% +3.54%

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 18,167 16,885 19,291
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 29.39% 39.72% 28.73%
Number of salaries quoted 7,429 6,806 13,722
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -40 64 £50,000 -20.00% 27
North of England -67 52 £50,000 +5.26% 19
South East -69 42 £48,750 -18.75% 35
North West -36 41 £50,000 +5.26% 13
Midlands -124 37 £32,500 -49.69% 12
East Midlands -49 32 £32,500 -12.16% 1
East of England +14 25 £40,000 -21.57% 12
South West -9 25 £38,212 -19.55% 22
Yorkshire -49 9 £50,000 +25.00% 4
West Midlands -114 5 £47,500 -26.47% 11
North East -18 2 £55,500 -14.62% 2
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 20 (8.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.80%) Confluence
2 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (30.52%) Azure
2 44 (17.67%) AWS
3 39 (15.66%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (8.03%) Entra ID
5 5 (2.01%) GCP
5 5 (2.01%) IaaS
6 4 (1.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.20%) Mimecast
7 3 (1.20%) SaaS
8 2 (0.80%) AWS Direct Connect
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.40%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.40%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.40%) GitHub
9 1 (0.40%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.40%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.40%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.40%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 147 (59.04%) Firewall
2 104 (41.77%) WAN
3 99 (39.76%) LAN
4 67 (26.91%) VPN
5 37 (14.86%) Wi-Fi
6 33 (13.25%) Network Security
7 32 (12.85%) TCP/IP
8 30 (12.05%) VLAN
9 26 (10.44%) Cisco ASA
10 22 (8.84%) MPLS
10 22 (8.84%) Wireless
11 20 (8.03%) DNS
12 18 (7.23%) DHCP
12 18 (7.23%) SD-WAN
13 17 (6.83%) BGP
13 17 (6.83%) Cisco Firepower
13 17 (6.83%) WLAN
14 16 (6.43%) Intrusion Detection
15 15 (6.02%) VoIP
16 13 (5.22%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.80%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.81%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.81%) Metasploit
2 5 (2.01%) GitLab
2 5 (2.01%) JIRA
3 1 (0.40%) Git
General
1 85 (34.14%) Social Skills
2 39 (15.66%) Finance
3 21 (8.43%) Presentation Skills
4 19 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (7.23%) Public Sector
6 15 (6.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 13 (5.22%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (4.02%) Retail
9 8 (3.21%) Legal
10 7 (2.81%) Law
11 4 (1.61%) Banking
12 3 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.80%) Military
14 1 (0.40%) Marketing
14 1 (0.40%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 68 (27.31%) Network Engineer
2 38 (15.26%) Support Engineer
3 37 (14.86%) Cisco Engineer
4 36 (14.46%) IT Engineer
5 33 (13.25%) LAN Engineer
5 33 (13.25%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 33 (13.25%) WAN Engineer
6 23 (9.24%) Senior
6 23 (9.24%) Technical Engineer
7 22 (8.84%) IT Support
8 21 (8.43%) IT Support Engineer
8 21 (8.43%) Presales Engineer
9 19 (7.63%) Firewall Engineer
9 19 (7.63%) Juniper Engineer
10 18 (7.23%) Analyst
10 18 (7.23%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (7.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 15 (6.02%) Senior Network Engineer
12 14 (5.62%) AWS Engineer
13 12 (4.82%) 3rd Line Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.61%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.80%) Middleware
3 1 (0.40%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.40%) React
3 1 (0.40%) Svelte
3 1 (0.40%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 49 (19.68%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.43%) Driving Licence
3 14 (5.62%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (4.82%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.42%) Enterprise Software
6 8 (3.21%) Analytical Mindset
6 8 (3.21%) e-Learning
6 8 (3.21%) Smartphone
7 7 (2.81%) CCTV
7 7 (2.81%) Insider Threat
8 6 (2.41%) Management Information System
9 5 (2.01%) PKI
9 5 (2.01%) Security Operations Centre
10 4 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 2 (0.80%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.80%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) Private Cloud
12 2 (0.80%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 55 (22.09%) Windows
2 35 (14.06%) Linux
3 30 (12.05%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.62%) Unix
5 5 (2.01%) Windows Server 2016
6 3 (1.20%) Windows 10
6 3 (1.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.80%) Android
7 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (22.49%) Problem-Solving
2 46 (18.47%) Cybersecurity
3 45 (18.07%) Customer Service
4 40 (16.06%) ITIL
5 29 (11.65%) Mentoring
5 29 (11.65%) Presales
6 26 (10.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 25 (10.04%) High Availability
7 25 (10.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 25 (10.04%) Process Improvement
8 22 (8.84%) Computer Science
9 21 (8.43%) Project Delivery
10 20 (8.03%) Penetration Testing
11 18 (7.23%) SIEM
12 17 (6.83%) Information Security
12 17 (6.83%) Network Design
12 17 (6.83%) Network Monitoring
13 16 (6.43%) Change Control
13 16 (6.43%) Incident Response
14 15 (6.02%) Kalman Filter
Programming Languages
1 17 (6.83%) PowerShell
2 16 (6.43%) Python
3 2 (0.80%) Bicep
3 2 (0.80%) SQL
4 1 (0.40%) Go
Qualifications
1 249 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 108 (43.37%) CCNP
3 56 (22.49%) Degree
4 50 (20.08%) Security Cleared
5 44 (17.67%) Microsoft Certification
6 40 (16.06%) SC Cleared
7 39 (15.66%) MCSE
8 37 (14.86%) JNCIA
9 29 (11.65%) Network+ Certification
10 27 (10.84%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 24 (9.64%) CCIE
12 23 (9.24%) MCSA
13 22 (8.84%) DV Cleared
14 20 (8.03%) Computer Science Degree
15 18 (7.23%) DBS Check
16 17 (6.83%) CCSA
16 17 (6.83%) CCSE
17 12 (4.82%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (4.82%) CISSP
17 12 (4.82%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (6.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 16 (6.43%) Cyber Essentials
2 16 (6.43%) SLA
3 14 (5.62%) GDPR
4 11 (4.42%) NIST
5 7 (2.81%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.20%) ITGC
7 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 38 (15.26%) Active Directory
2 20 (8.03%) Hyper-V
3 19 (7.63%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.81%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.41%) vSphere
6 5 (2.01%) Firmware
7 4 (1.61%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.80%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.40%) Docker
9 1 (0.40%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.40%) KVM
9 1 (0.40%) RHEV
9 1 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
9 1 (0.40%) Xen
Systems Management
1 25 (10.04%) FortiGate
2 22 (8.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 11 (4.42%) Ansible
4 7 (2.81%) Nmap
5 5 (2.01%) Autotask
5 5 (2.01%) Terraform
6 4 (1.61%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.61%) Cisco Prime
6 4 (1.61%) WSUS
7 3 (1.20%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (1.20%) QRadar
7 3 (1.20%) SCCM
8 2 (0.80%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.80%) OpenView
8 2 (0.80%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.40%) Control-M
9 1 (0.40%) Grafana
9 1 (0.40%) Jamf Pro
9 1 (0.40%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.40%) Nagios
Vendors
1 155 (62.25%) Cisco
2 72 (28.92%) Microsoft
3 70 (28.11%) Fortinet
4 46 (18.47%) Juniper
5 41 (16.47%) VMware
6 28 (11.24%) Aruba
7 27 (10.84%) CheckPoint
8 24 (9.64%) Meraki
9 20 (8.03%) Palo Alto
10 16 (6.43%) Citrix
10 16 (6.43%) SolarWinds
11 15 (6.02%) Dell
12 11 (4.42%) CrowdStrike
13 10 (4.02%) Splunk
14 8 (3.21%) Arista
14 8 (3.21%) Draytek
14 8 (3.21%) WatchGuard
15 7 (2.81%) HP
15 7 (2.81%) Mitel
16 6 (2.41%) ServiceNow