CCNA Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 284 266
Rank change year-on-year +18 -18 -22
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 507 305 526
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.65% 0.87% 0.89%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.64% 2.39% 3.49%
Number of salaries quoted 151 234 340
10th Percentile £26,250 £27,000 £31,200
25th Percentile £32,256 £31,000 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £37,500 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -23.08% +14.71%
75th Percentile £60,000 £55,469 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £63,850
UK median annual salary £50,000 £40,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +23.46% -19.00% +11.11%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,943 12,759 15,080
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 17.88% 36.57% 25.41%
Number of salaries quoted 7,208 5,324 8,115
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £34,691 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £50,000 £51,500
Median % change year-on-year +12.00% -2.91% -1.90%
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,125 £67,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £80,000 £81,250
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CCNA relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

CCNA job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCNA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing CCNA

CCNA
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNA in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 August 2026.

Salary histogram for CCNA in the UK excluding London

CCNA
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 August 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
North of England +12 121 £46,250 +32.14% 40
South East -11 121 £47,500 +18.75% 37
Midlands +20 90 £46,801 +23.16% 29
Yorkshire +18 68 £42,500 +63.46% 11
South West -95 63 £50,000 +53.85% 33
East of England +12 47 £40,000 - 22
East Midlands -3 46 £41,000 +17.14% 12
West Midlands +14 44 £59,522 +32.27% 17
Scotland +32 43 £28,000 -22.22% 26
North West +3 41 £52,500 -2.33% 20
Wales -44 22 £40,750 -18.09% 13
North East -61 12 - - 9
Northern Ireland -70 6 - - 10
CCNA
UK

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 38 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.75%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.79%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.20%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 384 (75.74%) Azure
2 53 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (6.51%) Entra ID
4 26 (5.13%) AWS
5 11 (2.17%) GCP
6 7 (1.38%) OneDrive
7 5 (0.99%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.79%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.79%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.79%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.79%) Serverless
9 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.39%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.20%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.20%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 120 (23.67%) Firewall
2 84 (16.57%) WAN
3 73 (14.40%) LAN
4 67 (13.21%) VPN
5 63 (12.43%) VLAN
6 53 (10.45%) Network Security
7 51 (10.06%) DHCP
7 51 (10.06%) DNS
8 47 (9.27%) TCP/IP
9 44 (8.68%) Wireless
10 38 (7.50%) Wi-Fi
11 30 (5.92%) VoIP
12 22 (4.34%) SD-WAN
13 17 (3.35%) BGP
13 17 (3.35%) SAN
14 16 (3.16%) OSPF
15 14 (2.76%) MPLS
16 13 (2.56%) Internet
17 12 (2.37%) WLAN
18 11 (2.17%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.20%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (2.76%) JIRA
2 6 (1.18%) GitLab
3 5 (0.99%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.79%) Bitbucket
4 4 (0.79%) Git
General
1 401 (79.09%) Social Skills
2 40 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (4.14%) Public Sector
4 12 (2.37%) Manufacturing
5 11 (2.17%) Telecoms
6 10 (1.97%) Legal
6 10 (1.97%) Organisational Skills
7 8 (1.58%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (1.58%) Finance
7 8 (1.58%) Retail
8 7 (1.38%) Aerospace
8 7 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (1.38%) Military
9 4 (0.79%) Law
10 2 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (0.39%) Spanish Language
11 1 (0.20%) Automotive
11 1 (0.20%) Digital Health
11 1 (0.20%) French Language
11 1 (0.20%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 384 (75.74%) Network Engineer
2 52 (10.26%) IT Engineer
3 36 (7.10%) IT Support
4 28 (5.52%) Support Engineer
5 26 (5.13%) IT Support Engineer
6 21 (4.14%) Field Engineer
6 21 (4.14%) Field Service Engineer
7 16 (3.16%) 3rd Line Support
7 16 (3.16%) Senior
8 13 (2.56%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 12 (2.37%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 11 (2.17%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
10 11 (2.17%) Analyst
11 10 (1.97%) Systems Engineer
12 8 (1.58%) Network Analyst
12 8 (1.58%) Security Engineer
13 7 (1.38%) Junior
13 7 (1.38%) Senior Network Engineer
14 6 (1.18%) Senior Security Engineer
14 6 (1.18%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.79%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.79%) boto
Miscellaneous
1 30 (5.92%) Data Centre
1 30 (5.92%) Driving Licence
2 15 (2.96%) Analytical Mindset
3 14 (2.76%) Self-Motivation
4 11 (2.17%) Security Posture
5 10 (1.97%) Smartphone
6 8 (1.58%) FMCG
6 8 (1.58%) Management Information System
7 5 (0.99%) CCTV
7 5 (0.99%) Cyber Threat
8 4 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
8 4 (0.79%) Onboarding
9 3 (0.59%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (0.59%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.59%) Social Media
10 2 (0.39%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.39%) Cyber Security Posture
10 2 (0.39%) PKI
10 2 (0.39%) Replication
11 1 (0.20%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 71 (14.00%) Windows
2 50 (9.86%) Windows Server
3 20 (3.94%) Linux
4 14 (2.76%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.56%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (1.97%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.79%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.59%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (13.02%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (9.66%) ITIL
3 48 (9.47%) Cybersecurity
4 39 (7.69%) Customer Service
5 38 (7.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 37 (7.30%) Disaster Recovery
7 33 (6.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 31 (6.11%) Business Continuity
9 23 (4.54%) High Availability
10 20 (3.94%) Project Delivery
10 20 (3.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (3.75%) Mentoring
12 18 (3.55%) Network Design
12 18 (3.55%) Network Monitoring
13 15 (2.96%) Computer Science
14 13 (2.56%) SIEM
15 12 (2.37%) Change Management
16 11 (2.17%) Systems Engineering
17 10 (1.97%) Coaching
17 10 (1.97%) Proactive Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 30 (5.92%) PowerShell
2 14 (2.76%) Python
3 7 (1.38%) Bash
4 4 (0.79%) Java
5 1 (0.20%) Bicep
5 1 (0.20%) SQL
Qualifications
1 507 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 367 (72.39%) Network+ Certification
3 342 (67.46%) Azure Certification
4 63 (12.43%) CCNP
5 55 (10.85%) Microsoft Certification
6 42 (8.28%) Degree
7 27 (5.33%) Security Cleared
8 20 (3.94%) MCSE
8 20 (3.94%) SC Cleared
9 15 (2.96%) A+ Certification
9 15 (2.96%) DV Cleared
10 13 (2.56%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (2.56%) MCSA
11 10 (1.97%) AWS Certification
11 10 (1.97%) CISSP
11 10 (1.97%) CompTIA Security+
11 10 (1.97%) DBS Check
12 9 (1.78%) Computer Science Degree
13 7 (1.38%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 5 (0.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (4.34%) Cyber Essentials
2 12 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 11 (2.17%) SLA
4 4 (0.79%) PCI DSS
5 3 (0.59%) GDPR
6 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
6 2 (0.39%) NIST
7 1 (0.20%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.20%) GRC
7 1 (0.20%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 57 (11.24%) Active Directory
2 33 (6.51%) Hyper-V
3 30 (5.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (1.38%) Docker
4 7 (1.38%) Firmware
5 5 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (0.99%) vSphere
6 4 (0.79%) Squid
6 4 (0.79%) VMware NSX
7 3 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 20 (3.94%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (2.37%) FortiGate
3 7 (1.38%) Ansible
4 6 (1.18%) Terraform
5 4 (0.79%) Iperf
5 4 (0.79%) Kubernetes
5 4 (0.79%) Packer
5 4 (0.79%) ZABBIX
6 3 (0.59%) Jamf Pro
7 2 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
8 1 (0.20%) OpenView
8 1 (0.20%) SCCM
8 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 420 (82.84%) Cisco
2 391 (77.12%) Microsoft
3 324 (63.91%) ForeScout
4 43 (8.48%) Fortinet
5 40 (7.89%) VMware
6 21 (4.14%) Palo Alto
7 19 (3.75%) Dell
8 17 (3.35%) Meraki
9 14 (2.76%) Aruba
9 14 (2.76%) Juniper
10 10 (1.97%) Veeam
11 9 (1.78%) Citrix
11 9 (1.78%) WatchGuard
12 8 (1.58%) Google
12 8 (1.58%) SonicWALL
12 8 (1.58%) Sophos
13 7 (1.38%) HP
13 7 (1.38%) Ubiquiti
14 6 (1.18%) Ruckus Wireless
14 6 (1.18%) Splunk