CCNA Job Trends in the South East

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 197 215 181
Rank change year-on-year +18 -34 +157
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 95 118 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 1.06% 0.92% 1.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.61% 2.88% 3.86%
Number of salaries quoted 77 74 122
10th Percentile £30,500 £23,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £32,000 £36,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £50,000 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +19.05% -11.58%
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,854 £56,399
90th Percentile £65,250 £62,500 £65,000
England median annual salary £40,750 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -18.50% +11.11% -5.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 the South East.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 3,635 4,102 3,574
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 40.50% 31.92% 39.50%
Number of salaries quoted 1,594 2,150 2,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £41,263 £38,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,300 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.73% +4.76% +0.96%
75th Percentile £68,750 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £58,952
% change year-on-year -1.79% -5.01% +7.18%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in the South East

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Salary Trend in the South East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CCNA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing CCNA

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Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNA in the South East over the 6 months to 15 September 2025.

Salary histogram for CCNA in the South East

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Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the South East region over the 6 months to 15 September 2025. 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
Surrey +79 47 £34,000 -37.04% 4
Hampshire +40 22 £57,500 +4.55% 8
Thames Valley -53 19 £57,500 +35.29% 10
Berkshire -14 18 £58,750 +34.29% 9
West Sussex +4 2 - -
Kent - 2 £36,000 -
Oxfordshire +18 1 £55,000 +24.75% 2
Middlesex - 1 £22,500 - 2
CCNA
England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 14 (14.74%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (6.32%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.11%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (8.42%) Azure
3 5 (5.26%) IaaS
4 2 (2.11%) Smartsheet
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
5 1 (1.05%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.05%) AWS
5 1 (1.05%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (1.05%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.05%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.05%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 34 (35.79%) Firewall
2 30 (31.58%) VSAT
3 27 (28.42%) LAN
3 27 (28.42%) WAN
4 25 (26.32%) VPN
5 19 (20.00%) Network Security
6 16 (16.84%) Wi-Fi
7 14 (14.74%) Junos
8 10 (10.53%) BGP
8 10 (10.53%) TCP/IP
9 8 (8.42%) LTE
9 8 (8.42%) OSPF
9 8 (8.42%) Wireless
10 7 (7.37%) DHCP
10 7 (7.37%) VLAN
11 6 (6.32%) IPsec
11 6 (6.32%) SAN
11 6 (6.32%) SD-WAN
12 5 (5.26%) 802.11
13 4 (4.21%) MPLS
General
1 19 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (11.58%) Finance
3 7 (7.37%) Manufacturing
4 5 (5.26%) Aerospace
4 5 (5.26%) Automotive
4 5 (5.26%) Billing
4 5 (5.26%) Electronics
5 4 (4.21%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.21%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.11%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.05%) Advertising
7 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.05%) Retail
Job Titles
1 33 (34.74%) Support Engineer
2 31 (32.63%) Technical Engineer
2 31 (32.63%) Technical Support
2 31 (32.63%) Technical Support Engineer
3 24 (25.26%) Network Engineer
4 13 (13.68%) Senior
5 11 (11.58%) IT Support
5 11 (11.58%) NOC Engineer
6 9 (9.47%) Administrator
6 9 (9.47%) IT Administrator
7 8 (8.42%) Architect
8 7 (7.37%) Security Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Cybersecurity Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Senior Network Engineer
9 6 (6.32%) Senior Security Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Design Engineer
10 5 (5.26%) Infrastructure Support
10 5 (5.26%) IT Systems Administrator
10 5 (5.26%) Network Architect
10 5 (5.26%) Senior Design Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.32%) 802.1X
2 5 (5.26%) SAML
3 2 (2.11%) ModSecurity
4 1 (1.05%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (12.63%) Data Centre
1 12 (12.63%) Driving Licence
2 6 (6.32%) Security Operations Centre
3 5 (5.26%) PKI
3 5 (5.26%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.11%) CCTV
4 2 (2.11%) PMI
5 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.05%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.84%) Windows
2 11 (11.58%) Linux
3 9 (9.47%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 9 (9.47%) Windows 10
4 6 (6.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (41.05%) Customer Service
2 38 (40.00%) Mentoring
3 27 (28.42%) Commercial Awareness
4 18 (18.95%) Project Delivery
5 17 (17.89%) Cybersecurity
5 17 (17.89%) Problem-Solving
6 16 (16.84%) Requirements Gathering
7 14 (14.74%) Kalman Filter
7 14 (14.74%) Web Filtering
8 11 (11.58%) Proactive Management
8 11 (11.58%) Regulatory Change
9 9 (9.47%) Inventory Management
9 9 (9.47%) Programme Management
9 9 (9.47%) Project Management
10 8 (8.42%) Network Design
10 8 (8.42%) Presales
10 8 (8.42%) Proactive Monitoring
11 7 (7.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (7.37%) Penetration Testing
11 7 (7.37%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.11%) R
2 1 (1.05%) Bash
2 1 (1.05%) PowerShell
2 1 (1.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 95 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 46 (48.42%) JNCIA
3 40 (42.11%) Security Cleared
4 35 (36.84%) CCNP
5 33 (34.74%) SC Cleared
6 15 (15.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 13 (13.68%) DV Cleared
8 10 (10.53%) MCSE
8 10 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
9 7 (7.37%) CISSP
10 6 (6.32%) CompTIA Security+
10 6 (6.32%) GCIA
10 6 (6.32%) SANS
11 5 (5.26%) Azure Certification
11 5 (5.26%) GCSC
11 5 (5.26%) JNCIS
12 2 (2.11%) Degree
12 2 (2.11%) PMI Certification
13 1 (1.05%) CCIE
13 1 (1.05%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (9.47%) SLA
2 6 (6.32%) Cyber Essentials
2 6 (6.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.11%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.05%) GDPR
4 1 (1.05%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 9 (9.47%) vSphere
2 7 (7.37%) Active Directory
3 6 (6.32%) Hyper-V
3 6 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (5.26%) Firmware
4 5 (5.26%) VMware ESXi
5 2 (2.11%) KVM
5 2 (2.11%) RHEV
5 2 (2.11%) Xen
6 1 (1.05%) Docker
6 1 (1.05%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (5.26%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.11%) Nagios
2 2 (2.11%) Proxmox
3 1 (1.05%) Ansible
3 1 (1.05%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.05%) Podman
3 1 (1.05%) Red Hat Satellite
3 1 (1.05%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 47 (49.47%) Cisco
2 30 (31.58%) Juniper
3 21 (22.11%) VMware
4 19 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 11 (11.58%) Starlink
6 9 (9.47%) Fortinet
7 7 (7.37%) Freshdesk
8 5 (5.26%) Veeam
9 4 (4.21%) F5
10 2 (2.11%) Meraki
10 2 (2.11%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.11%) SolarWinds
11 1 (1.05%) Aruba
11 1 (1.05%) Citrix
11 1 (1.05%) Fujitsu
11 1 (1.05%) HP
11 1 (1.05%) NetApp
11 1 (1.05%) Nimble Storage
11 1 (1.05%) Red Hat
11 1 (1.05%) Splunk