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 23 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 313 290 494
Rank change year-on-year -23 +204 -61
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 634 684 927
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.84% 1.15% 0.66%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.64% 3.51% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 265 499 685
10th Percentile £34,404 £31,670 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,052 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £62,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £42,500 £44,250
% change year-on-year +17.65% -3.95% -1.67%

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 24,053 19,473 40,448
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.79% 32.75% 28.78%
Number of salaries quoted 8,835 11,703 17,713
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,738 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,793 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.37% +5.00% +4.17%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCNA.

Salary trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNA over the 6 months to 23 October 2024.

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 23 October 2024. 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 -30 581 £52,500 +15.14% 141
UK excluding London -27 505 £50,000 +17.65% 116
Midlands +52 194 £48,750 +12.72% 23
West Midlands +22 148 £52,500 +21.39% 17
London -22 125 £58,000 -7.20% 39
Work from Home -106 114 £54,000 +20.00% 237
North of England -7 106 £47,500 +18.75% 25
South East -49 101 £55,000 +30.95% 33
North West +11 61 £47,500 +18.75% 19
East Midlands +7 46 £40,000 -23.08% 6
Yorkshire +23 35 £58,750 +45.06% 3
East of England -31 33 £51,000 +3.24% 12
Wales +38 31 £44,000 +12.82% 3
South West -73 23 £52,500 +23.53% 10
Scotland -27 17 £53,250 +33.13% 10
North East -31 12 £65,000 +66.65% 3
Northern Ireland +17 2 £52,500 -14.81% 4

CCNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 22 (3.47%) Microsoft Exchange
2 20 (3.15%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.10%) Confluence
4 2 (0.32%) SAS
5 1 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
5 1 (0.16%) OpenStack
Applications
1 10 (1.58%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 15 (2.37%) Ripple
2 2 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.32%) SAP Business One
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 135 (21.29%) Azure
2 69 (10.88%) AWS
3 66 (10.41%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (5.05%) GCP
5 23 (3.63%) Cloud Computing
5 23 (3.63%) Entra ID
6 11 (1.74%) SaaS
7 10 (1.58%) IaaS
7 10 (1.58%) PaaS
7 10 (1.58%) Power Platform
8 8 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
9 4 (0.63%) Google Workspace
10 3 (0.47%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.16%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (0.16%) Azure Stack
11 1 (0.16%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.16%) OCI
11 1 (0.16%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.16%) Serverless
11 1 (0.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 227 (35.80%) Network Security
2 224 (35.33%) Firewall
3 162 (25.55%) WLAN
4 155 (24.45%) Internet
5 152 (23.97%) WAN
6 116 (18.30%) VPN
7 100 (15.77%) LAN
8 87 (13.72%) BGP
9 86 (13.56%) TCP/IP
10 85 (13.41%) OSPF
11 74 (11.67%) VLAN
12 70 (11.04%) SD-WAN
13 65 (10.25%) Wi-Fi
13 65 (10.25%) Wireless
14 63 (9.94%) Cisco Firepower
15 54 (8.52%) Cisco ASA
16 51 (8.04%) DNS
17 47 (7.41%) DHCP
17 47 (7.41%) IPsec
18 45 (7.10%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.10%) Power BI
2 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (0.32%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 18 (2.84%) Git
2 15 (2.37%) Artifactory
3 10 (1.58%) JIRA
4 3 (0.47%) Jenkins
4 3 (0.47%) MSI
General
1 169 (26.66%) Social Skills
2 39 (6.15%) Finance
3 34 (5.36%) Telecoms
4 25 (3.94%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 19 (3.00%) Retail
6 18 (2.84%) Law
7 15 (2.37%) Financial Institution
7 15 (2.37%) Manufacturing
8 14 (2.21%) Public Sector
9 12 (1.89%) Military
10 11 (1.74%) Welsh Language
11 9 (1.42%) Banking
11 9 (1.42%) Documentation Skills
12 7 (1.10%) Aerospace
12 7 (1.10%) Organisational Skills
13 6 (0.95%) Legal
13 6 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.63%) Mandarin Language
14 4 (0.63%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 233 (36.75%) Network Engineer
2 168 (26.50%) IT Engineer
3 151 (23.82%) Support Engineer
4 149 (23.50%) IT Support
5 140 (22.08%) IT Support Engineer
6 101 (15.93%) Senior
7 94 (14.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 37 (5.84%) Senior Network Engineer
9 32 (5.05%) Architect
10 29 (4.57%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
11 25 (3.94%) Security Engineer
12 24 (3.79%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
13 23 (3.63%) Cisco Architect
14 21 (3.31%) Cisco Security Architect
14 21 (3.31%) Security Architect
14 21 (3.31%) Senior Architect
14 21 (3.31%) Senior Cisco Architect
14 21 (3.31%) Senior Security Architect
15 20 (3.15%) 2nd Line Engineer
15 20 (3.15%) Field Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.52%) 802.1X
2 6 (0.95%) EDI
3 3 (0.47%) JSON
3 3 (0.47%) OpenMP
3 3 (0.47%) YAML
4 2 (0.32%) XMPP
5 1 (0.16%) CSS
5 1 (0.16%) HTML
5 1 (0.16%) HTML5
5 1 (0.16%) LDAP
5 1 (0.16%) REST
5 1 (0.16%) RFC 2544
5 1 (0.16%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 162 (25.55%) Driving Licence
2 97 (15.30%) Data Centre
3 67 (10.57%) Onboarding
4 20 (3.15%) Management Information System
4 20 (3.15%) Public Cloud
4 20 (3.15%) Self-Motivation
5 15 (2.37%) Blockchain
5 15 (2.37%) IoT
5 15 (2.37%) Product Ownership
6 14 (2.21%) Security Operations Centre
7 8 (1.26%) CCTV
7 8 (1.26%) Smartphone
8 7 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
9 6 (0.95%) Algorithms
9 6 (0.95%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.79%) BYOD
10 5 (0.79%) CMDB
10 5 (0.79%) Fat Client
10 5 (0.79%) Replication
10 5 (0.79%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 259 (40.85%) Windows
2 177 (27.92%) Linux
3 58 (9.15%) Windows Server
4 30 (4.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 21 (3.31%) Windows 10
6 15 (2.37%) Windows Server 2016
7 14 (2.21%) Android
7 14 (2.21%) Windows Server 2012
8 8 (1.26%) Apple iOS
9 7 (1.10%) CentOS
9 7 (1.10%) Mac OS
10 5 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.79%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.63%) Unix
11 4 (0.63%) VMS
11 4 (0.63%) Windows Vista
12 3 (0.47%) Mac OS X
12 3 (0.47%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
13 1 (0.16%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 261 (41.17%) ITIL
2 229 (36.12%) Problem-Solving
3 163 (25.71%) Computer Science
3 163 (25.71%) Mentoring
4 149 (23.50%) Asset Management
5 148 (23.34%) Network Management
6 134 (21.14%) IT Asset Management
7 116 (18.30%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 59 (9.31%) Cybersecurity
9 55 (8.68%) Customer Service
10 49 (7.73%) Time Management
11 44 (6.94%) Agile
12 41 (6.47%) Network Monitoring
13 37 (5.84%) Continuous Improvement
14 35 (5.52%) Presales
15 33 (5.21%) Network Design
16 31 (4.89%) High Availability
17 30 (4.73%) Change Management
17 30 (4.73%) Collaborative Working
17 30 (4.73%) Software Licensing
Programming Languages
1 33 (5.21%) Python
2 30 (4.73%) PowerShell
3 7 (1.10%) Bash
4 5 (0.79%) C
4 5 (0.79%) SQL
5 3 (0.47%) C++
5 3 (0.47%) C-shell
5 3 (0.47%) Fortran
6 2 (0.32%) Rust
Qualifications
1 634 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 362 (57.10%) CCNP
3 229 (36.12%) Degree
4 210 (33.12%) Microsoft Certification
5 173 (27.29%) MCSE
6 152 (23.97%) MCP
7 150 (23.66%) Computer Science Degree
8 139 (21.92%) Security Cleared
9 134 (21.14%) LPIC
10 56 (8.83%) SC Cleared
11 54 (8.52%) DV Cleared
12 30 (4.73%) Azure Certification
12 30 (4.73%) JNCIA
13 27 (4.26%) Network+ Certification
14 25 (3.94%) CISSP
15 21 (3.31%) CEH
16 19 (3.00%) MCSA
17 16 (2.52%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 15 (2.37%) CISA
18 15 (2.37%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (5.99%) SLA
2 17 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 7 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
4 6 (0.95%) QA
5 3 (0.47%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 2 (0.32%) GDPR
System Software
1 77 (12.15%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.41%) Hyper-V
3 45 (7.10%) VMware Infrastructure
4 19 (3.00%) Firmware
5 16 (2.52%) VMware NSX
6 14 (2.21%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (1.89%) vSphere
8 7 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.79%) XenDesktop
10 4 (0.63%) Virtual Servers
11 3 (0.47%) Docker
11 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 21 (3.31%) Stealthwatch
2 20 (3.15%) vCenter Server
3 19 (3.00%) FortiGate
4 17 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
5 9 (1.42%) SCCM
6 8 (1.26%) WSUS
6 8 (1.26%) ZABBIX
7 7 (1.10%) Nagios
8 6 (0.95%) Ansible
8 6 (0.95%) Terraform
9 5 (0.79%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 5 (0.79%) EMC NetWorker
10 4 (0.63%) Cacti
10 4 (0.63%) Jamf Pro
11 2 (0.32%) Cisco CUCM
11 2 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
11 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
11 2 (0.32%) SCDPM
11 2 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
12 1 (0.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 439 (69.24%) Cisco
2 289 (45.58%) Microsoft
3 97 (15.30%) Juniper
4 92 (14.51%) Fortinet
5 75 (11.83%) VMware
6 64 (10.09%) Meraki
7 63 (9.94%) Palo Alto
8 33 (5.21%) Aruba
9 31 (4.89%) Apple
10 29 (4.57%) SolarWinds
11 25 (3.94%) CheckPoint
11 25 (3.94%) Veeam
12 23 (3.63%) Adobe
12 23 (3.63%) Citrix
13 19 (3.00%) HP
14 17 (2.68%) Dell
15 12 (1.89%) F5
16 8 (1.26%) Arista
17 7 (1.10%) EMC
17 7 (1.10%) Zscaler