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 20 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 345 350
Rank change year-on-year +38 +5 +19
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 579 376 836
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.84% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.16% 2.17% 3.05%
Number of salaries quoted 184 299 616
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,842 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,250 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +0.56% +5.88% -

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 18,350 17,294 27,402
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.49% 38.53% 25.09%
Number of salaries quoted 9,647 7,343 17,271
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,000 £38,501
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,393 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.14% +0.79% -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 20 June 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 20 June 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 +1 511 £50,529 +6.38% 190
UK excluding London +72 488 £45,250 +0.56% 219
North of England +53 139 £50,000 -9.09% 41
South East -4 98 £45,000 +5.88% 44
London -48 89 £74,500 +35.45% 31
Midlands +1 80 £51,058 +32.62% 20
Yorkshire +9 67 £47,750 +23.70% 12
South West -50 66 £50,000 +14.29% 40
North West +29 60 £50,000 -9.09% 19
Work from Home -15 52 £49,250 +3.68% 40
East of England +25 44 £34,000 -18.56% 33
East Midlands -20 43 £51,058 +45.88% 3
Scotland +44 39 £26,150 +2.55% 17
West Midlands -3 37 £53,401 -17.85% 17
Wales -26 22 £40,750 +8.67% 12
North East -41 12 - - 10
Northern Ireland -27 6 - - 15

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 27 (4.66%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.90%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.73%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 421 (72.71%) Azure
2 53 (9.15%) AWS
3 49 (8.46%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (2.76%) Entra ID
5 11 (1.90%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (1.90%) GCP
6 9 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (0.86%) Mimecast
7 5 (0.86%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.69%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.69%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.69%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.69%) Serverless
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.52%) OneDrive
9 3 (0.52%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 147 (25.39%) Firewall
2 116 (20.03%) WAN
3 94 (16.23%) LAN
4 90 (15.54%) VPN
5 64 (11.05%) Network Security
6 58 (10.02%) Wi-Fi
7 42 (7.25%) TCP/IP
8 40 (6.91%) VLAN
9 38 (6.56%) DNS
10 37 (6.39%) DHCP
11 34 (5.87%) SD-WAN
12 31 (5.35%) Wireless
13 30 (5.18%) VoIP
14 23 (3.97%) BGP
15 20 (3.45%) Cisco Firepower
16 19 (3.28%) MPLS
16 19 (3.28%) OSPF
16 19 (3.28%) SAN
17 16 (2.76%) WLAN
18 15 (2.59%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (3.45%) JIRA
2 14 (2.42%) GitLab
3 9 (1.55%) Git
3 9 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.38%) Bitbucket
5 3 (0.52%) Burp Suite
5 3 (0.52%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 429 (74.09%) Social Skills
2 40 (6.91%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (3.97%) Public Sector
4 19 (3.28%) Finance
5 13 (2.25%) Manufacturing
6 12 (2.07%) Presentation Skills
6 12 (2.07%) Retail
7 11 (1.90%) Legal
7 11 (1.90%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.55%) Aerospace
8 9 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.38%) Banking
9 8 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.38%) Law
10 6 (1.04%) Military
11 4 (0.69%) Automotive
11 4 (0.69%) Digital Health
11 4 (0.69%) Documentation Skills
11 4 (0.69%) Electronics
12 2 (0.35%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 419 (72.37%) Network Engineer
2 53 (9.15%) IT Engineer
3 32 (5.53%) Senior
4 29 (5.01%) IT Support
5 25 (4.32%) Cisco Engineer
6 24 (4.15%) Support Engineer
7 22 (3.80%) IT Support Engineer
8 21 (3.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (3.63%) Lead
8 21 (3.63%) Senior Network Engineer
9 18 (3.11%) Field Engineer
9 18 (3.11%) Field Service Engineer
10 17 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (2.76%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 16 (2.76%) LAN Engineer
11 16 (2.76%) LAN/WAN Engineer
11 16 (2.76%) WAN Engineer
12 13 (2.25%) Security Engineer
13 12 (2.07%) Presales Engineer
14 10 (1.73%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.69%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.69%) boto
1 4 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.35%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.19%) Data Centre
2 21 (3.63%) Driving Licence
3 19 (3.28%) Security Posture
4 15 (2.59%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
5 11 (1.90%) Smartphone
6 9 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
7 8 (1.38%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.21%) FMCG
8 7 (1.21%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 6 (1.04%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.04%) PKI
10 5 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (0.86%) Replication
11 4 (0.69%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (0.69%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.52%) Insider Threat
12 3 (0.52%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (15.37%) Windows
2 50 (8.64%) Windows Server
3 44 (7.60%) Linux
4 12 (2.07%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (1.38%) Windows 10
5 8 (1.38%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (14.51%) Problem-Solving
2 61 (10.54%) Cybersecurity
3 52 (8.98%) ITIL
4 42 (7.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 40 (6.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 40 (6.91%) Disaster Recovery
5 40 (6.91%) High Availability
6 33 (5.70%) Computer Science
7 29 (5.01%) Incident Response
7 29 (5.01%) Network Monitoring
8 28 (4.84%) Business Continuity
8 28 (4.84%) Customer Service
9 26 (4.49%) SIEM
10 23 (3.97%) Network Architecture
10 23 (3.97%) Network Design
11 20 (3.45%) Presales
12 19 (3.28%) Process Improvement
13 16 (2.76%) Infrastructure as Code
13 16 (2.76%) Penetration Testing
13 16 (2.76%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 35 (6.04%) PowerShell
2 18 (3.11%) Python
3 9 (1.55%) Bash
4 8 (1.38%) Java
5 3 (0.52%) SQL
6 2 (0.35%) Bicep
7 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 579 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 366 (63.21%) Azure Certification
3 364 (62.87%) Network+ Certification
4 109 (18.83%) CCNP
5 68 (11.74%) Degree
6 67 (11.57%) Microsoft Certification
7 38 (6.56%) MCSE
8 36 (6.22%) Security Cleared
9 28 (4.84%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.45%) CCIE
11 19 (3.28%) SC Cleared
12 15 (2.59%) A+ Certification
12 15 (2.59%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (2.42%) AWS Certification
13 14 (2.42%) CISSP
14 12 (2.07%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (2.07%) DV Cleared
14 12 (2.07%) RHCSA
15 11 (1.90%) MCSA
15 11 (1.90%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (3.97%) SLA
3 17 (2.94%) GDPR
4 14 (2.42%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.07%) NIST
6 5 (0.86%) QA
7 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.52%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.52%) COBIT
9 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 60 (10.36%) Active Directory
2 38 (6.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.97%) Hyper-V
4 17 (2.94%) vSphere
5 13 (2.25%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.90%) Docker
7 8 (1.38%) Squid
8 7 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.52%) Firmware
9 3 (0.52%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (3.45%) FortiGate
2 17 (2.94%) Ansible
2 17 (2.94%) Terraform
3 15 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.73%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (1.55%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.38%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.38%) Packer
7 5 (0.86%) Control-M
8 4 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.69%) WSUS
9 3 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.52%) Nmap
9 3 (0.52%) OpenView
9 3 (0.52%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.52%) VxRail
10 1 (0.17%) Iperf
10 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 451 (77.89%) Cisco
2 413 (71.33%) Microsoft
3 330 (56.99%) ForeScout
4 54 (9.33%) VMware
5 49 (8.46%) Fortinet
6 27 (4.66%) Palo Alto
7 26 (4.49%) Aruba
8 23 (3.97%) Dell
8 23 (3.97%) Meraki
9 21 (3.63%) SolarWinds
10 20 (3.45%) CheckPoint
11 19 (3.28%) Splunk
12 16 (2.76%) Juniper
13 12 (2.07%) HP
13 12 (2.07%) Sophos
14 11 (1.90%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.90%) Veeam
15 10 (1.73%) Citrix
16 8 (1.38%) Oracle
17 7 (1.21%) Zscaler