CCNA Job Trends

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 26 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 352 239 278
Rank change year-on-year -113 +39 +156
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 334 677 559
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 1.21% 1.09%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.71% 3.45% 3.60%
Number of salaries quoted 232 315 475
10th Percentile £25,750 £33,750 £30,175
25th Percentile £31,188 £41,375 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +1.06%
75th Percentile £57,813 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,250 £67,800 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +23.53% -

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 19,524 19,616 15,545
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.57% 35.09% 30.28%
Number of salaries quoted 7,851 7,931 10,682
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,049
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,122 £55,000 £52,293
% change year-on-year -12.51% +5.18% +4.59%

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 26 December 2025.

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 26 December 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
England -99 304 £40,500 -26.36% 161
UK excluding London -72 269 £40,000 -23.81% 158
Work from Home +73 101 £41,000 -25.45% 104
South East -14 74 £52,500 -7.09% 42
South West +46 54 £32,000 -29.67% 20
London -30 53 £60,000 - 19
North of England -16 51 £47,500 - 40
Midlands -106 38 £32,500 -36.59% 30
North West +6 33 £50,000 +5.26% 26
East of England +27 31 £40,000 -21.57% 17
East Midlands -31 31 £32,500 -18.75% 7
Scotland +3 13 £36,000 -35.43% 5
North East +10 9 £31,000 -52.31% 3
Yorkshire -31 9 £26,000 -54.78% 12
Northern Ireland -4 7 £37,500 -28.57% 2
West Midlands -94 7 £51,000 -2.86% 22
Wales -19 1 £32,500 -26.14% 8

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 25 (7.49%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.80%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.60%) Apache
3 2 (0.60%) Confluence
3 2 (0.60%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.20%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (23.35%) Azure
2 49 (14.67%) Microsoft 365
3 33 (9.88%) AWS
4 29 (8.68%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.80%) IaaS
6 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (1.20%) SaaS
7 3 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.90%) GitHub
7 3 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (0.90%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.60%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.60%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.60%) Google Workspace
8 2 (0.60%) Rubrik
8 2 (0.60%) SecurityScorecard
8 2 (0.60%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.30%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.30%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.30%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 160 (47.90%) Firewall
2 97 (29.04%) WAN
3 95 (28.44%) LAN
4 70 (20.96%) VPN
5 48 (14.37%) Wi-Fi
6 44 (13.17%) Network Security
6 44 (13.17%) VSAT
7 36 (10.78%) TCP/IP
8 34 (10.18%) VLAN
9 26 (7.78%) MPLS
10 21 (6.29%) BGP
10 21 (6.29%) Wireless
11 20 (5.99%) Cisco ASA
11 20 (5.99%) DNS
12 18 (5.39%) Intrusion Detection
12 18 (5.39%) SD-WAN
13 17 (5.09%) DHCP
13 17 (5.09%) SAN
13 17 (5.09%) VoIP
14 16 (4.79%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.80%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.90%) InfluxDB
3 2 (0.60%) MySQL
3 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (1.50%) Burp Suite
1 5 (1.50%) Metasploit
2 3 (0.90%) GitLab
3 2 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 112 (33.53%) Social Skills
2 55 (16.47%) Finance
3 26 (7.78%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (7.19%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.69%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.79%) Organisational Skills
7 15 (4.49%) Manufacturing
7 15 (4.49%) Presentation Skills
8 10 (2.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (2.99%) Law
8 10 (2.99%) Legal
9 9 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
10 7 (2.10%) Aerospace
10 7 (2.10%) Retail
11 6 (1.80%) Billing
12 5 (1.50%) Automotive
12 5 (1.50%) Electronics
13 4 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (0.90%) Banking
14 3 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 67 (20.06%) Network Engineer
2 65 (19.46%) Support Engineer
3 60 (17.96%) Technical Engineer
4 53 (15.87%) Technical Support
5 45 (13.47%) Technical Support Engineer
6 31 (9.28%) Administrator
6 31 (9.28%) Analyst
7 30 (8.98%) IT Engineer
7 30 (8.98%) Senior
8 27 (8.08%) Systems Administrator
9 23 (6.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (6.59%) Cisco Engineer
11 21 (6.29%) IT Support
11 21 (6.29%) LAN Engineer
11 21 (6.29%) LAN/WAN Engineer
11 21 (6.29%) WAN Engineer
12 20 (5.99%) NOC Engineer
13 19 (5.69%) Support Analyst
14 15 (4.49%) Senior Network Engineer
15 14 (4.19%) Presales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.80%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.20%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.60%) Middleware
4 1 (0.30%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.30%) LAMP
4 1 (0.30%) React
4 1 (0.30%) Svelte
4 1 (0.30%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 48 (14.37%) Data Centre
2 30 (8.98%) Driving Licence
3 25 (7.49%) e-Learning
4 13 (3.89%) CCTV
5 11 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.29%) Onboarding
6 10 (2.99%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (2.99%) Smartphone
7 9 (2.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 9 (2.69%) Security Posture
8 8 (2.40%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.80%) Handset
11 5 (1.50%) Insider Threat
11 5 (1.50%) LIMS
11 5 (1.50%) Renewable Energy
11 5 (1.50%) SCADA
11 5 (1.50%) Social Media
12 4 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 73 (21.86%) Windows
2 58 (17.37%) Linux
3 44 (13.17%) Windows Server
4 31 (9.28%) Unix
5 18 (5.39%) Windows 10
6 7 (2.10%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.50%) Android
7 5 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.90%) Windows Server 2019
9 2 (0.60%) CentOS
9 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 108 (32.34%) Customer Service
2 75 (22.46%) Problem-Solving
3 73 (21.86%) ITIL
4 60 (17.96%) Mentoring
5 46 (13.77%) High Availability
6 41 (12.28%) Cybersecurity
7 36 (10.78%) Commercial Awareness
7 36 (10.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 35 (10.48%) Kalman Filter
9 29 (8.68%) Presales
10 27 (8.08%) Innovative Thinking
10 27 (8.08%) Project Delivery
11 26 (7.78%) Service Delivery
11 26 (7.78%) Web Filtering
12 24 (7.19%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (6.29%) Security Operations
14 20 (5.99%) Requirements Gathering
15 19 (5.69%) Network Monitoring
15 19 (5.69%) Penetration Testing
16 18 (5.39%) Information Security
Programming Languages
1 28 (8.38%) Python
2 26 (7.78%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.80%) Bash
4 3 (0.90%) Bicep
5 2 (0.60%) C
5 2 (0.60%) R
5 2 (0.60%) VB
6 1 (0.30%) Go
6 1 (0.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 334 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 129 (38.62%) CCNP
3 96 (28.74%) Security Cleared
4 77 (23.05%) SC Cleared
5 73 (21.86%) JNCIA
6 66 (19.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 58 (17.37%) Degree
8 45 (13.47%) MCSE
9 44 (13.17%) DV Cleared
10 38 (11.38%) Network+ Certification
11 34 (10.18%) MCSA
12 26 (7.78%) DBS Check
12 26 (7.78%) MCP
13 16 (4.79%) CompTIA Security+
14 15 (4.49%) A+ Certification
14 15 (4.49%) CISSP
14 15 (4.49%) Computer Science Degree
15 14 (4.19%) CCIE
16 11 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
17 10 (2.99%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.49%) Cyber Essentials
2 21 (6.29%) SLA
3 16 (4.79%) GDPR
4 14 (4.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (3.89%) NIST
6 7 (2.10%) GxP
7 5 (1.50%) 21 CFR Part 11
7 5 (1.50%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.90%) ITGC
8 3 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 46 (13.77%) Active Directory
2 19 (5.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.49%) Hyper-V
4 9 (2.69%) vSphere
5 6 (1.80%) Docker
5 6 (1.80%) Firmware
5 6 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.20%) pfSense
7 3 (0.90%) KVM
7 3 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.60%) RHEV
8 2 (0.60%) Samba
8 2 (0.60%) Squid
8 2 (0.60%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (0.60%) Xen
9 1 (0.30%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (10.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (5.39%) FortiGate
3 16 (4.79%) Ansible
4 7 (2.10%) SCCM
5 6 (1.80%) Jamf Pro
5 6 (1.80%) Terraform
6 5 (1.50%) Autotask
6 5 (1.50%) Kubernetes
6 5 (1.50%) Nmap
7 4 (1.20%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (1.20%) Grafana
7 4 (1.20%) PaperCut
8 3 (0.90%) ArcSight ESM
8 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
8 3 (0.90%) QRadar
8 3 (0.90%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.60%) Nagios
9 2 (0.60%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.60%) VxRail
10 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 199 (59.58%) Cisco
2 86 (25.75%) Microsoft
3 68 (20.36%) Fortinet
4 59 (17.66%) Juniper
5 43 (12.87%) VMware
6 34 (10.18%) Meraki
7 26 (7.78%) Aruba
8 22 (6.59%) CheckPoint
8 22 (6.59%) Palo Alto
9 19 (5.69%) SolarWinds
10 17 (5.09%) Dell
11 15 (4.49%) Citrix
12 13 (3.89%) Starlink
13 12 (3.59%) Apple
14 11 (3.29%) Remedy
15 10 (2.99%) ServiceNow
16 9 (2.69%) Arista
16 9 (2.69%) Freshdesk
17 8 (2.40%) F5
17 8 (2.40%) Splunk