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 9 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 357 231 330
Rank change year-on-year -126 +99 +84
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 400 556 784
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.48% 1.36% 0.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.85% 3.49% 3.15%
Number of salaries quoted 163 324 690
10th Percentile £25,750 £32,000 £29,000
25th Percentile £32,250 £38,750 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £53,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.54% +12.63% +5.56%
75th Percentile £59,375 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £80,300 £73,750 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,750 £49,479 £42,500
% change year-on-year -7.54% +16.42% -

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 21,657 15,924 24,895
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.12% 38.95% 26.98%
Number of salaries quoted 8,756 7,585 16,978
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £39,000 £42,500 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,343 £92,500 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.94% +6.00% -

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -130 358 £50,000 -9.09% 159
UK excluding London -111 316 £45,750 -7.54% 145
North of England -55 91 £50,000 +5.26% 38
London -59 76 £65,000 +8.33% 32
Midlands -132 61 £32,500 -48.00% 32
Work from Home +3 60 £46,500 -15.45% 30
South East -62 54 £45,000 -18.18% 31
North West -33 48 £50,000 - 18
East Midlands -61 42 £32,500 - 14
South West -19 39 £40,000 -13.98% 18
East of England +1 36 £34,000 -36.45% 16
Yorkshire -43 35 £50,000 +33.33% 14
Scotland +7 26 £27,075 -36.67% 7
West Midlands -126 19 £47,500 -26.47% 18
Wales -30 9 - - 4
North East -29 8 £55,500 +13.85% 6
Northern Ireland -36 3 - - 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 28 (7.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.25%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 244 (61.00%) Azure
2 46 (11.50%) Microsoft 365
3 45 (11.25%) AWS
4 19 (4.75%) Entra ID
5 10 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 9 (2.25%) Azure Monitor
7 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
8 6 (1.50%) GCP
9 5 (1.25%) Mimecast
10 2 (0.50%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.50%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.50%) SaaS
11 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.25%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.25%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (0.25%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.25%) GitHub
11 1 (0.25%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 137 (34.25%) Firewall
2 114 (28.50%) WAN
3 92 (23.00%) LAN
4 60 (15.00%) VPN
5 43 (10.75%) Wi-Fi
6 41 (10.25%) Network Security
7 31 (7.75%) VLAN
8 30 (7.50%) TCP/IP
9 26 (6.50%) DNS
9 26 (6.50%) SD-WAN
10 25 (6.25%) DHCP
10 25 (6.25%) Wireless
11 20 (5.00%) VoIP
12 19 (4.75%) Cisco ASA
13 17 (4.25%) Intrusion Detection
13 17 (4.25%) SAN
14 16 (4.00%) Cisco Firepower
15 15 (3.75%) MPLS
16 12 (3.00%) Cisco ISE
16 12 (3.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (2.50%) JIRA
2 7 (1.75%) Burp Suite
2 7 (1.75%) Metasploit
3 6 (1.50%) GitLab
4 2 (0.50%) Git
4 2 (0.50%) Jenkins
5 1 (0.25%) Bitbucket
General
1 255 (63.75%) Social Skills
2 31 (7.75%) Analytical Skills
3 28 (7.00%) Finance
4 24 (6.00%) Public Sector
5 23 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (3.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 15 (3.75%) Legal
7 14 (3.50%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (2.50%) Retail
9 8 (2.00%) Law
10 7 (1.75%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.50%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.00%) Banking
13 2 (0.50%) Military
14 1 (0.25%) Aerospace
14 1 (0.25%) Automotive
14 1 (0.25%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.25%) Electronics
14 1 (0.25%) Marketing
14 1 (0.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 226 (56.50%) Network Engineer
2 45 (11.25%) IT Engineer
3 42 (10.50%) Cisco Engineer
4 32 (8.00%) LAN Engineer
4 32 (8.00%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 32 (8.00%) WAN Engineer
5 26 (6.50%) IT Support
5 26 (6.50%) Support Engineer
6 23 (5.75%) Azure Engineer
6 23 (5.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 23 (5.75%) IT Support Engineer
6 23 (5.75%) Presales Engineer
7 19 (4.75%) Firewall Engineer
7 19 (4.75%) Juniper Engineer
8 18 (4.50%) Lead
9 17 (4.25%) Field Engineer
10 16 (4.00%) Field Service Engineer
11 15 (3.75%) Analyst
12 14 (3.50%) Senior
13 13 (3.25%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.00%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.50%) Middleware
3 1 (0.25%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 52 (13.00%) Data Centre
2 16 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 16 (4.00%) Driving Licence
2 16 (4.00%) Security Posture
3 15 (3.75%) Smartphone
4 13 (3.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 8 (2.00%) Social Media
6 7 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
6 7 (1.75%) Insider Threat
6 7 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.25%) CCTV
7 5 (1.25%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (1.25%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.25%) PKI
7 5 (1.25%) Public Cloud
8 4 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.00%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.00%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.75%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (0.75%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 67 (16.75%) Windows
2 33 (8.25%) Linux
3 30 (7.50%) Windows Server
4 11 (2.75%) Windows 10
5 8 (2.00%) Windows Server 2016
6 5 (1.25%) Unix
7 2 (0.50%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.50%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.25%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.25%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 81 (20.25%) Problem-Solving
2 49 (12.25%) Customer Service
3 47 (11.75%) Cybersecurity
4 42 (10.50%) ITIL
5 30 (7.50%) Presales
6 27 (6.75%) Incident Response
7 26 (6.50%) Computer Science
8 24 (6.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 24 (6.00%) Process Improvement
9 23 (5.75%) High Availability
9 23 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 22 (5.50%) Network Monitoring
11 20 (5.00%) Penetration Testing
12 19 (4.75%) SIEM
13 18 (4.50%) Network Architecture
14 16 (4.00%) Coaching
14 16 (4.00%) Kalman Filter
15 15 (3.75%) Network Segmentation
15 15 (3.75%) Project Delivery
16 14 (3.50%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 23 (5.75%) PowerShell
2 14 (3.50%) Python
3 3 (0.75%) Bash
3 3 (0.75%) SQL
4 2 (0.50%) Bicep
5 1 (0.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 400 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 208 (52.00%) Network+ Certification
3 183 (45.75%) Azure Certification
4 91 (22.75%) CCNP
5 66 (16.50%) Degree
5 66 (16.50%) Microsoft Certification
6 46 (11.50%) MCSE
7 30 (7.50%) Security Cleared
8 25 (6.25%) JNCIA
9 24 (6.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (5.75%) MCSA
11 22 (5.50%) DBS Check
12 21 (5.25%) BPSS Clearance
12 21 (5.25%) SC Cleared
13 20 (5.00%) CCIE
13 20 (5.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 16 (4.00%) A+ Certification
15 15 (3.75%) CCSA
15 15 (3.75%) CCSE
16 13 (3.25%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (4.75%) GDPR
3 15 (3.75%) NIST
3 15 (3.75%) SLA
4 8 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 7 (1.75%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (0.75%) ITGC
7 1 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.25%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (9.25%) Active Directory
2 23 (5.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (5.50%) Hyper-V
4 10 (2.50%) vSphere
5 7 (1.75%) Firmware
5 7 (1.75%) VMware ESXi
6 5 (1.25%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.25%) Docker
8 1 (0.25%) Squid
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.25%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (5.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (5.25%) FortiGate
3 14 (3.50%) Ansible
4 10 (2.50%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (2.25%) Terraform
6 8 (2.00%) Jamf Pro
7 7 (1.75%) Nmap
8 4 (1.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (1.00%) PaperCut
8 4 (1.00%) WSUS
9 3 (0.75%) ArcSight ESM
9 3 (0.75%) QRadar
10 2 (0.50%) Control-M
10 2 (0.50%) OpenView
10 2 (0.50%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.50%) VxRail
11 1 (0.25%) Grafana
11 1 (0.25%) Kubernetes
11 1 (0.25%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 1 (0.25%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 306 (76.50%) Cisco
2 239 (59.75%) Microsoft
3 165 (41.25%) ForeScout
4 65 (16.25%) Fortinet
5 38 (9.50%) VMware
6 37 (9.25%) Juniper
7 32 (8.00%) Meraki
8 27 (6.75%) Aruba
8 27 (6.75%) CheckPoint
9 24 (6.00%) Dell
10 21 (5.25%) SolarWinds
11 14 (3.50%) Palo Alto
11 14 (3.50%) Splunk
12 11 (2.75%) Citrix
13 9 (2.25%) Sophos
14 8 (2.00%) Apple
14 8 (2.00%) WatchGuard
15 7 (1.75%) CrowdStrike
15 7 (1.75%) Draytek
16 6 (1.50%) Zscaler