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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 378 239 301
Rank change year-on-year -139 +62 +115
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 296 680 586
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.29% 0.97%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.53% 3.49% 3.37%
Number of salaries quoted 206 323 506
10th Percentile £25,750 £34,404 £29,375
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £36,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £53,988 £63,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £68,750 £68,750 £70,500
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 19,380 19,505 17,373
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.69% 36.87% 28.66%
Number of salaries quoted 7,776 7,588 11,965
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +8.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.96%

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 January 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 January 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 -125 267 £41,000 -25.45% 113
UK excluding London -107 236 £40,000 -23.81% 108
Work from Home +69 93 £41,000 -25.45% 34
South East -20 57 £52,500 -12.50% 28
North of England -44 53 £50,000 +5.26% 31
London -31 49 £50,000 -16.67% 21
North West -9 39 £50,000 +5.26% 15
Midlands -106 39 £32,500 -43.23% 15
South West +25 35 £32,000 -31.18% 17
East Midlands -29 33 £32,500 -12.16% 4
East of England +31 31 £40,000 -20.79% 7
Scotland -3 13 £36,000 -44.62% 7
Yorkshire -29 8 £26,000 -46.67% 13
Northern Ireland -2 7 £37,500 -28.57% 2
North East +2 6 £31,000 -52.31% 4
West Midlands -102 6 £41,000 -33.87% 11
Wales -25 1 £32,500 -26.14% 2

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 21 (7.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.68%) Apache
3 2 (0.68%) Confluence
3 2 (0.68%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (2.36%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.35%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.34%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 73 (24.66%) Azure
2 43 (14.53%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (11.82%) AWS
4 27 (9.12%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.03%) IaaS
6 4 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (1.35%) SaaS
7 2 (0.68%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.68%) GCP
7 2 (0.68%) GitHub
7 2 (0.68%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.34%) Azure AKS
8 1 (0.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.34%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.34%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.34%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.34%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.34%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.34%) SecurityScorecard
Communications & Networking
1 147 (49.66%) Firewall
2 101 (34.12%) WAN
3 99 (33.45%) LAN
4 64 (21.62%) VPN
5 39 (13.18%) Wi-Fi
6 33 (11.15%) Network Security
6 33 (11.15%) VLAN
7 32 (10.81%) TCP/IP
8 27 (9.12%) VSAT
9 21 (7.09%) Cisco ASA
9 21 (7.09%) MPLS
10 19 (6.42%) BGP
10 19 (6.42%) Wireless
11 18 (6.08%) DNS
12 17 (5.74%) Intrusion Detection
13 16 (5.41%) DHCP
13 16 (5.41%) SAN
13 16 (5.41%) VoIP
14 15 (5.07%) WLAN
15 14 (4.73%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.68%) MySQL
2 2 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.36%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.36%) Metasploit
2 3 (1.01%) GitLab
3 2 (0.68%) JIRA
4 1 (0.34%) Git
General
1 103 (34.80%) Social Skills
2 47 (15.88%) Finance
3 21 (7.09%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (6.76%) Presentation Skills
4 20 (6.76%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.08%) Telecoms
6 16 (5.41%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.05%) Law
8 11 (3.72%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.72%) Legal
9 9 (3.04%) Retail
10 8 (2.70%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.69%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.35%) Billing
12 4 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.01%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.01%) Automotive
13 3 (1.01%) Banking
13 3 (1.01%) Electronics
14 2 (0.68%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 63 (21.28%) Network Engineer
2 47 (15.88%) Support Engineer
3 45 (15.20%) Technical Engineer
4 34 (11.49%) Technical Support
5 30 (10.14%) Cisco Engineer
6 29 (9.80%) IT Engineer
6 29 (9.80%) LAN Engineer
6 29 (9.80%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 29 (9.80%) WAN Engineer
7 28 (9.46%) Technical Support Engineer
8 26 (8.78%) Analyst
9 24 (8.11%) Senior
10 22 (7.43%) Administrator
11 20 (6.76%) Presales Engineer
12 18 (6.08%) Firewall Engineer
12 18 (6.08%) IT Support
12 18 (6.08%) Juniper Engineer
12 18 (6.08%) Systems Administrator
13 17 (5.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 17 (5.74%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.01%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.68%) Middleware
3 1 (0.34%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.34%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.34%) React
3 1 (0.34%) Svelte
3 1 (0.34%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 46 (15.54%) Data Centre
2 24 (8.11%) Driving Licence
3 19 (6.42%) e-Learning
4 12 (4.05%) CCTV
5 11 (3.72%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (3.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 11 (3.72%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.72%) Smartphone
6 10 (3.38%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.38%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.36%) Insider Threat
9 5 (1.69%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.69%) Social Media
10 4 (1.35%) Handset
10 4 (1.35%) LIMS
10 4 (1.35%) SCADA
11 3 (1.01%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.01%) iPad
11 3 (1.01%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 67 (22.64%) Windows
2 43 (14.53%) Linux
3 39 (13.18%) Windows Server
4 25 (8.45%) Unix
5 14 (4.73%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.69%) Android
7 4 (1.35%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.68%) CentOS
8 2 (0.68%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.68%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.68%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.34%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.39%) Customer Service
2 66 (22.30%) ITIL
3 65 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (14.53%) Mentoring
5 38 (12.84%) High Availability
6 37 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
7 33 (11.15%) Presales
8 30 (10.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 26 (8.78%) Commercial Awareness
10 24 (8.11%) Kalman Filter
11 23 (7.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 21 (7.09%) Innovative Thinking
12 21 (7.09%) Project Delivery
12 21 (7.09%) Service Delivery
13 19 (6.42%) Computer Science
13 19 (6.42%) Information Security
14 18 (6.08%) Penetration Testing
14 18 (6.08%) Security Operations
15 16 (5.41%) Requirements Gathering
15 16 (5.41%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.09%) Python
2 20 (6.76%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.69%) Bash
4 2 (0.68%) Bicep
4 2 (0.68%) C
4 2 (0.68%) VB
5 1 (0.34%) Go
5 1 (0.34%) SQL
Qualifications
1 296 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 116 (39.19%) CCNP
3 79 (26.69%) Security Cleared
4 64 (21.62%) SC Cleared
5 59 (19.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 58 (19.59%) JNCIA
7 57 (19.26%) Degree
8 42 (14.19%) MCSE
9 39 (13.18%) DV Cleared
10 36 (12.16%) Network+ Certification
11 31 (10.47%) MCSA
12 28 (9.46%) MCP
13 26 (8.78%) DBS Check
14 17 (5.74%) CCIE
15 16 (5.41%) Computer Science Degree
16 15 (5.07%) A+ Certification
16 15 (5.07%) CompTIA Security+
17 14 (4.73%) CISSP
18 13 (4.39%) BPSS Clearance
19 12 (4.05%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.77%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (7.43%) SLA
3 17 (5.74%) GDPR
4 13 (4.39%) NIST
5 12 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (2.36%) Actionable Recommendations
7 5 (1.69%) GxP
8 4 (1.35%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (1.01%) ITGC
10 2 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 1 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.34%) HIPAA
System Software
1 43 (14.53%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.73%) Hyper-V
3 13 (4.39%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.69%) Firmware
4 5 (1.69%) vSphere
5 4 (1.35%) Docker
6 3 (1.01%) KVM
6 3 (1.01%) pfSense
6 3 (1.01%) Virtual Machines
7 2 (0.68%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.68%) RHEV
7 2 (0.68%) Samba
7 2 (0.68%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.68%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.68%) Xen
8 1 (0.34%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.34%) Squid
8 1 (0.34%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (10.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (7.09%) FortiGate
3 11 (3.72%) Ansible
4 7 (2.36%) Nmap
4 7 (2.36%) SCCM
5 5 (1.69%) Autotask
5 5 (1.69%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.69%) Terraform
6 4 (1.35%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.35%) PaperCut
7 3 (1.01%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (1.01%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (1.01%) QRadar
8 2 (0.68%) Nagios
8 2 (0.68%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.34%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.34%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.34%) Grafana
9 1 (0.34%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.34%) VxRail
Vendors
1 179 (60.47%) Cisco
2 77 (26.01%) Microsoft
3 66 (22.30%) Fortinet
4 63 (21.28%) Juniper
5 33 (11.15%) VMware
6 29 (9.80%) Aruba
7 24 (8.11%) Meraki
8 21 (7.09%) CheckPoint
9 20 (6.76%) Palo Alto
10 18 (6.08%) Dell
11 17 (5.74%) SolarWinds
12 13 (4.39%) Citrix
13 11 (3.72%) Apple
13 11 (3.72%) Remedy
14 10 (3.38%) ServiceNow
14 10 (3.38%) Starlink
15 8 (2.70%) Arista
16 7 (2.36%) F5
16 7 (2.36%) Mitel
16 7 (2.36%) Splunk