CCNA Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 132 143
Rank change year-on-year -55 +11 +108
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 19 65 53
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.49% 1.34% 1.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.15% 4.05% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 19 27 47
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £36,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £42,500 £45,196
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -5.96% -13.91%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,677 £60,750
90th Percentile - £61,000 £67,250
South East median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% +19.05% -11.58%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,650 1,606 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 42.75% 33.02% 39.82%
Number of salaries quoted 496 717 877
10th Percentile £29,500 £36,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,510 £55,000 £52,550
Median % change year-on-year -13.62% +4.66% +0.10%
75th Percentile £67,500 £73,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £82,500 £83,000
South East median annual salary £51,300 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -6.73% +4.76% +0.96%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in the Thames Valley

CCNA
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCNA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing CCNA

CCNA
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNA in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 September 2025.

Salary histogram for CCNA in the Thames Valley

CCNA
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 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
Berkshire -9 18 £58,750 +34.29% 8
Oxfordshire +14 1 £55,000 +24.75% 2
CCNA
South East

CCNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (26.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
1 5 (26.32%) IaaS
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) Firewall
2 7 (36.84%) Network Security
3 6 (31.58%) TCP/IP
3 6 (31.58%) VPN
4 5 (26.32%) SAN
5 4 (21.05%) LAN
5 4 (21.05%) WAN
6 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (10.53%) Junos
8 1 (5.26%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
8 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (5.26%) DMZ
8 1 (5.26%) HSRP
8 1 (5.26%) InfiniBand
8 1 (5.26%) IPsec
8 1 (5.26%) SD-WAN
8 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
8 1 (5.26%) Spanning Tree
8 1 (5.26%) VLAN
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (36.84%) Senior
2 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Security Engineer
2 6 (31.58%) Senior Security Engineer
3 5 (26.32%) 2nd Line Support
3 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Support
3 5 (26.32%) Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 2 (10.53%) Architect
4 2 (10.53%) Network Architect
5 1 (5.26%) Field Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Lead
5 1 (5.26%) Network Field Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) SAML
2 1 (5.26%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 6 (31.58%) Security Operations Centre
2 5 (26.32%) PKI
3 4 (21.05%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 5 (26.32%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (31.58%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (31.58%) ITIL
1 6 (31.58%) Penetration Testing
1 6 (31.58%) Security Operations
1 6 (31.58%) SIEM
2 5 (26.32%) Customer Service
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (26.32%) Innovative Thinking
2 5 (26.32%) Presales
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (26.32%) Project Management
3 4 (21.05%) Project Delivery
4 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
4 2 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
5 1 (5.26%) Capacity Management
5 1 (5.26%) Collaborative Working
5 1 (5.26%) Low Latency
5 1 (5.26%) Network Monitoring
5 1 (5.26%) Risk Management
5 1 (5.26%) Root Cause Analysis
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (78.95%) CCNP
3 6 (31.58%) CISSP
3 6 (31.58%) CompTIA Security+
3 6 (31.58%) GCIA
3 6 (31.58%) SANS
4 5 (26.32%) Azure Certification
4 5 (26.32%) Security Cleared
4 5 (26.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
5 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
6 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (10.53%) JNCIA
7 1 (5.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) Cyber Essentials
1 6 (31.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 5 (26.32%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
1 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
1 5 (26.32%) VMware ESXi
2 1 (5.26%) NFS
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Cisco
2 5 (26.32%) Juniper
2 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 5 (26.32%) Veeam
2 5 (26.32%) VMware
3 1 (5.26%) F5