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 5 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 188 194 149
Rank change year-on-year +6 -45 +145
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 80 119 133
As % of all permanent jobs in the South East 0.82% 1.12% 1.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.50% 3.02% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 65 78 114
10th Percentile £30,500 £37,500 £21,250
25th Percentile £34,000 £50,000 £27,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £56,509 £42,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.09% +34.54% -18.05%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,500 £47,963
90th Percentile £67,500 £63,750 £58,750
England median annual salary £40,500 £55,000 £46,048
% change year-on-year -26.36% +19.44% -3.06%

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 3,197 3,934 3,058
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 32.72% 37.11% 41.62%
Number of salaries quoted 1,515 1,910 1,919
10th Percentile £28,250 £35,000 £28,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £45,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,750 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +2.24%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% +2.68%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CCNA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the South East.

CCNA job vacancy trend 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 5 December 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 5 December 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 +40 35 £34,000 -50.72% 7
Hampshire -2 25 £57,500 -4.17% 13
Berkshire -3 12 £62,500 +4.17% 3
Thames Valley -14 12 £62,500 +10.60% 4
Kent - 5 £36,000 - 7
West Sussex - 2 - - 1
Middlesex - 1 £22,500 -
CCNA
England

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.25%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 7 (8.75%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (3.75%) Azure
3 2 (2.50%) Smartsheet
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon EC2
4 1 (1.25%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.25%) AWS
4 1 (1.25%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.25%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 28 (35.00%) Firewall
1 28 (35.00%) VSAT
2 25 (31.25%) LAN
3 23 (28.75%) VPN
4 22 (27.50%) WAN
5 18 (22.50%) Network Security
6 15 (18.75%) Junos
7 14 (17.50%) Wi-Fi
8 11 (13.75%) TCP/IP
9 8 (10.00%) LTE
10 7 (8.75%) BGP
10 7 (8.75%) IPsec
11 6 (7.50%) Intrusion Detection
11 6 (7.50%) MPLS
11 6 (7.50%) Wireless
12 5 (6.25%) 802.11
12 5 (6.25%) Cisco IOS
13 4 (5.00%) SAN
13 4 (5.00%) SD-WAN
14 3 (3.75%) OSPF
General
1 15 (18.75%) Social Skills
2 10 (12.50%) Finance
3 7 (8.75%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (8.75%) Manufacturing
4 5 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 5 (6.25%) Automotive
4 5 (6.25%) Billing
4 5 (6.25%) Electronics
4 5 (6.25%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.75%) Legal
7 2 (2.50%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 29 (36.25%) Support Engineer
2 28 (35.00%) Technical Engineer
2 28 (35.00%) Technical Support
2 28 (35.00%) Technical Support Engineer
3 17 (21.25%) Network Engineer
4 16 (20.00%) Senior
5 10 (12.50%) Design Engineer
5 10 (12.50%) Network Design Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Senior Design Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Senior Network Design Engineer
6 9 (11.25%) Senior Network Engineer
7 8 (10.00%) Security Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) NOC Engineer
8 7 (8.75%) Senior Security Engineer
9 6 (7.50%) Consultant
10 5 (6.25%) Architect
10 5 (6.25%) IT Administrator
10 5 (6.25%) Systems Administrator
10 5 (6.25%) Systems Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.25%) 802.1X
2 2 (2.50%) ModSecurity
3 1 (1.25%) LAMP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.75%) Driving Licence
1 7 (8.75%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (7.50%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.25%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (3.75%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.50%) CCTV
6 1 (1.25%) CMDB
6 1 (1.25%) Fibre Optics
6 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.25%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (8.75%) Linux
1 7 (8.75%) Windows
2 5 (6.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (38.75%) Customer Service
1 31 (38.75%) Mentoring
2 25 (31.25%) Commercial Awareness
3 20 (25.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 13 (16.25%) Cybersecurity
4 13 (16.25%) Regulatory Change
5 12 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (15.00%) Project Delivery
6 11 (13.75%) Network Design
7 10 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
7 10 (12.50%) Web Filtering
8 9 (11.25%) Proactive Monitoring
8 9 (11.25%) Programme Management
9 8 (10.00%) ITIL
9 8 (10.00%) Penetration Testing
10 7 (8.75%) Proactive Management
10 7 (8.75%) Security Operations
10 7 (8.75%) SIEM
10 7 (8.75%) Statistics
10 7 (8.75%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.50%) PowerShell
1 2 (2.50%) R
2 1 (1.25%) Bash
2 1 (1.25%) Python
2 1 (1.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 80 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 41 (51.25%) JNCIA
3 38 (47.50%) Security Cleared
4 33 (41.25%) CCNP
5 31 (38.75%) SC Cleared
6 20 (25.00%) DV Cleared
7 10 (12.50%) JNCIS
7 10 (12.50%) MCSE
7 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 8 (10.00%) CISSP
9 7 (8.75%) CompTIA Security+
9 7 (8.75%) GCIA
9 7 (8.75%) SANS
10 6 (7.50%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 5 (6.25%) GCSC
12 3 (3.75%) A+ Certification
12 3 (3.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (3.75%) Network+ Certification
13 2 (2.50%) Degree
14 1 (1.25%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (8.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (2.50%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.25%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (6.25%) vSphere
2 3 (3.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) Firmware
3 2 (2.50%) KVM
3 2 (2.50%) RHEV
3 2 (2.50%) Xen
4 1 (1.25%) Active Directory
4 1 (1.25%) Docker
4 1 (1.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 2 (2.50%) FortiGate
1 2 (2.50%) Nagios
1 2 (2.50%) Proxmox
2 1 (1.25%) Ansible
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.25%) OpenView
2 1 (1.25%) Podman
2 1 (1.25%) Red Hat Satellite
2 1 (1.25%) Terraform
2 1 (1.25%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.25%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 36 (45.00%) Cisco
2 24 (30.00%) Juniper
3 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
4 8 (10.00%) VMware
5 7 (8.75%) Freshdesk
5 7 (8.75%) Starlink
6 6 (7.50%) F5
7 3 (3.75%) Dell
7 3 (3.75%) Fortinet
7 3 (3.75%) Meraki
8 2 (2.50%) HP
8 2 (2.50%) SolarWinds
9 1 (1.25%) ArcSight
9 1 (1.25%) CheckPoint
9 1 (1.25%) ExtraHop
9 1 (1.25%) NetApp
9 1 (1.25%) Nimble Storage
9 1 (1.25%) Palo Alto
9 1 (1.25%) Riverbed
9 1 (1.25%) Splunk