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 24 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 177 151 138
Rank change year-on-year -26 -13 +101
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 19 44 46
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.50% 1.00% 1.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.24% 3.02% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 19 13 40
10th Percentile £31,250 £35,250 £33,850
25th Percentile £51,875 £38,750 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £44,089 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +36.09% -11.82% +4.17%
75th Percentile £67,500 £57,854 £59,063
90th Percentile - £61,571 £66,250
South East median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +30.95% -14.29%

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 1,531 1,457 1,484
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 39.97% 33.27% 43.32%
Number of salaries quoted 497 583 913
10th Percentile £29,000 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,125 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +9.98% +2.89%
75th Percentile £66,250 £75,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.42% +0.10%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

CCNA job vacancy trend 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 24 October 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 24 October 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 -7 18 £60,000 +11.63% 12
Oxfordshire +10 1 £55,000 +24.75% 6
CCNA
South East

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (21.05%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Firewall
2 8 (42.11%) Network Security
3 7 (36.84%) TCP/IP
4 5 (26.32%) VPN
4 5 (26.32%) WAN
5 4 (21.05%) LAN
5 4 (21.05%) SAN
6 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
7 2 (10.53%) DHCP
7 2 (10.53%) DNS
7 2 (10.53%) Junos
7 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
8 1 (5.26%) DMZ
8 1 (5.26%) DWDM
8 1 (5.26%) InfiniBand
8 1 (5.26%) Internet
8 1 (5.26%) MPLS
8 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
General
1 2 (10.53%) Finance
2 1 (5.26%) Retail
2 1 (5.26%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (42.11%) Senior
2 7 (36.84%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Security Engineer
2 7 (36.84%) Senior Security Engineer
3 4 (21.05%) 2nd Line Support
3 4 (21.05%) Infrastructure Support
3 4 (21.05%) 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%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Field Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure 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 4 (21.05%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (36.84%) Security Operations Centre
2 4 (21.05%) PKI
3 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.26%) CMDB
4 1 (5.26%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) Cybersecurity
1 7 (36.84%) ITIL
1 7 (36.84%) Penetration Testing
1 7 (36.84%) Security Operations
1 7 (36.84%) SIEM
2 5 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (21.05%) Customer Service
3 4 (21.05%) Innovative Thinking
3 4 (21.05%) Presales
3 4 (21.05%) Project Management
4 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
5 2 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (5.26%) Capacity Planning
6 1 (5.26%) Data Protection
6 1 (5.26%) Load Balancing
6 1 (5.26%) Network Architecture
6 1 (5.26%) Project Planning
6 1 (5.26%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.26%) PowerShell
1 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (73.68%) CCNP
3 7 (36.84%) CISSP
3 7 (36.84%) CompTIA Security+
3 7 (36.84%) GCIA
3 7 (36.84%) SANS
4 5 (26.32%) Azure Certification
5 4 (21.05%) Security Cleared
5 4 (21.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 2 (10.53%) Degree
6 2 (10.53%) DV Cleared
6 2 (10.53%) JNCIA
6 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
7 1 (5.26%) HND
7 1 (5.26%) MCP
7 1 (5.26%) MCSA
7 1 (5.26%) MCSE
7 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (36.84%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (36.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (21.05%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (26.32%) Active Directory
1 5 (26.32%) Hyper-V
2 4 (21.05%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (5.26%) NFS
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (5.26%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.26%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Cisco
1 5 (26.32%) Microsoft
2 4 (21.05%) Juniper
2 4 (21.05%) Veeam
2 4 (21.05%) VMware