Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 327 334 354
Rank change year-on-year +7 +20 -29
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 600 404 648
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 0.82% 0.75%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.06% 2.36% 2.94%
Number of salaries quoted 208 301 437
10th Percentile £26,850 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,125 £31,250 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -12.37% +7.78%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £39,250 £47,500
% change year-on-year +14.65% -17.37% +11.76%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,589 17,154 22,029
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.98% 34.64% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,372 7,864 12,587
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,385
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £40,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend

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

CCNA job vacancy trend in the UK

CCNA
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCNA.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCNA

CCNA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNA over the 6 months to 1 August 2026.

Salary histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCNA within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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
England +9 527 £52,500 +23.53% 73
UK excluding London +35 503 £45,000 +14.65% 74
North of England +27 122 £50,000 +11.86% 12
South East -6 117 £46,250 +15.63% 26
London -50 93 £70,000 +29.03% 19
Midlands +12 85 £44,651 +17.50% 11
Yorkshire +16 69 £42,500 +61.90% 5
South West -90 65 £50,000 +33.33% 10
Work from Home -47 60 £49,250 +6.49% 19
East of England +24 50 £38,250 -19.47% 3
East Midlands -13 43 £41,000 +17.14% 5
Scotland +45 42 £28,000 -22.22% 9
West Midlands -1 42 £46,801 -16.80% 6
North West +18 41 £52,500 -2.33% 7
Wales -42 22 £40,750 -18.09% 3
North East -49 12 - -
Northern Ireland -69 6 - - 1

CCNA
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 39 (6.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.17%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 436 (72.67%) Azure
2 66 (11.00%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (8.83%) AWS
4 30 (5.00%) Entra ID
5 13 (2.17%) GCP
6 11 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (1.17%) OneDrive
9 5 (0.83%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.67%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (0.67%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.67%) Mimecast
10 4 (0.67%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.67%) Rubrik
10 4 (0.67%) Serverless
11 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 167 (27.83%) Firewall
2 125 (20.83%) WAN
3 109 (18.17%) VPN
4 102 (17.00%) LAN
5 74 (12.33%) Network Security
6 67 (11.17%) TCP/IP
6 67 (11.17%) VLAN
7 60 (10.00%) DHCP
7 60 (10.00%) DNS
8 58 (9.67%) Wi-Fi
9 53 (8.83%) Wireless
10 45 (7.50%) SD-WAN
11 39 (6.50%) VoIP
12 32 (5.33%) BGP
13 25 (4.17%) OSPF
14 20 (3.33%) MPLS
15 19 (3.17%) Internet
15 19 (3.17%) SAN
16 17 (2.83%) WLAN
17 14 (2.33%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (4.17%) JIRA
2 11 (1.83%) GitLab
3 10 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.33%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.33%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 450 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 43 (7.17%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 18 (3.00%) Telecoms
5 17 (2.83%) Finance
6 15 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.00%) Retail
8 10 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.67%) Legal
8 10 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.50%) Banking
9 9 (1.50%) Military
10 8 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 6 (1.00%) Digital Health
12 5 (0.83%) Automotive
13 4 (0.67%) Electronics
13 4 (0.67%) Law
14 3 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 424 (70.67%) Network Engineer
2 57 (9.50%) IT Engineer
3 40 (6.67%) IT Support
4 31 (5.17%) Senior
4 31 (5.17%) Support Engineer
5 29 (4.83%) IT Support Engineer
6 23 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (3.50%) Lead
8 20 (3.33%) Field Engineer
8 20 (3.33%) Field Service Engineer
9 19 (3.17%) 3rd Line Support
9 19 (3.17%) Senior Network Engineer
10 15 (2.50%) Analyst
11 13 (2.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (2.17%) Cisco Engineer
11 13 (2.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 13 (2.17%) Security Engineer
12 12 (2.00%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (1.83%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (1.83%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.67%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.67%) boto
2 3 (0.50%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.33%) EDI
4 1 (0.17%) LDAP
4 1 (0.17%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.17%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.17%) SAML
4 1 (0.17%) YAML
4 1 (0.17%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 59 (9.83%) Data Centre
2 32 (5.33%) Driving Licence
3 15 (2.50%) Security Posture
4 14 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 13 (2.17%) Self-Motivation
6 12 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.67%) Management Information System
7 10 (1.67%) Smartphone
8 8 (1.33%) FMCG
9 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.00%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.00%) Replication
10 5 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (0.67%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.67%) Social Media
12 3 (0.50%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 107 (17.83%) Windows
2 72 (12.00%) Windows Server
3 42 (7.00%) Linux
4 15 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 13 (2.17%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (15.17%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (11.17%) Cybersecurity
3 66 (11.00%) ITIL
4 56 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 52 (8.67%) Disaster Recovery
6 48 (8.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (7.33%) High Availability
8 37 (6.17%) Customer Service
9 35 (5.83%) Network Monitoring
10 34 (5.67%) Project Delivery
11 32 (5.33%) Business Continuity
12 31 (5.17%) Computer Science
13 30 (5.00%) Network Design
14 28 (4.67%) Incident Response
15 25 (4.17%) SIEM
16 22 (3.67%) Network Architecture
17 18 (3.00%) Infrastructure as Code
17 18 (3.00%) Mentoring
18 17 (2.83%) Stakeholder Management
19 15 (2.50%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 44 (7.33%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.00%) Python
3 10 (1.67%) Bash
4 8 (1.33%) Java
5 2 (0.33%) SQL
6 1 (0.17%) Bicep
6 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 600 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 374 (62.33%) Azure Certification
2 374 (62.33%) Network+ Certification
3 120 (20.00%) CCNP
4 75 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 72 (12.00%) Degree
6 35 (5.83%) Security Cleared
7 32 (5.33%) MCSE
8 24 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (3.50%) SC Cleared
10 19 (3.17%) AWS Certification
11 15 (2.50%) DV Cleared
12 14 (2.33%) A+ Certification
12 14 (2.33%) MCSA
13 13 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (2.00%) CCIE
14 12 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 12 (2.00%) RHCSA
15 10 (1.67%) CISSP
15 10 (1.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 22 (3.67%) SLA
4 14 (2.33%) GDPR
5 12 (2.00%) NIST
6 6 (1.00%) QA
7 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.50%) COBIT
9 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 79 (13.17%) Active Directory
2 50 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (5.83%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.33%) vSphere
5 12 (2.00%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.83%) Docker
7 8 (1.33%) Squid
8 5 (0.83%) Firmware
8 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
9 4 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
10 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (3.17%) FortiGate
3 18 (3.00%) Terraform
4 16 (2.67%) Ansible
5 9 (1.50%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (1.50%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.33%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.33%) Packer
7 5 (0.83%) Control-M
8 4 (0.67%) Iperf
8 4 (0.67%) VxRail
9 3 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.50%) OpenView
9 3 (0.50%) Single Sign-On
9 3 (0.50%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.17%) SCCM
10 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 468 (78.00%) Cisco
2 429 (71.50%) Microsoft
3 330 (55.00%) ForeScout
4 67 (11.17%) VMware
5 54 (9.00%) Fortinet
6 36 (6.00%) Palo Alto
7 34 (5.67%) Meraki
8 20 (3.33%) Sophos
9 19 (3.17%) Dell
9 19 (3.17%) Splunk
10 18 (3.00%) SolarWinds
11 17 (2.83%) Aruba
11 17 (2.83%) CheckPoint
12 15 (2.50%) Juniper
13 13 (2.17%) Citrix
14 12 (2.00%) F5
14 12 (2.00%) HP
15 11 (1.83%) Red Hat
15 11 (1.83%) Veeam
16 9 (1.50%) Zscaler