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

6 months to
5 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 353 236 295
Rank change year-on-year -117 +59 +128
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 325 670 564
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.55% 1.24% 1.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.69% 3.46% 3.54%
Number of salaries quoted 224 308 483
10th Percentile £25,750 £33,750 £29,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £68,225 £73,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £51,251 £42,500
% change year-on-year -21.95% +20.59% -

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 19,236 19,381 15,923
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.50% 35.73% 30.03%
Number of salaries quoted 7,736 7,644 10,758
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,854 £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 £51,589
% change year-on-year -12.51% +6.61% +3.18%

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 5 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 5 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 -101 296 £40,500 -26.36% 107
UK excluding London -82 264 £40,000 -21.95% 107
Work from Home +83 101 £41,000 -25.45% 23
South East -24 70 £51,250 -9.31% 28
North of England -19 52 £46,750 -1.58% 37
South West +39 51 £32,000 -29.67% 7
London -31 50 £60,000 - 13
Midlands -106 39 £32,500 -36.59% 20
North West -1 35 £50,000 +5.26% 22
East Midlands -28 32 £32,500 -18.75% 4
East of England +32 31 £40,000 -21.57% 10
Scotland -1 13 £36,000 -35.43% 2
Yorkshire -26 9 £26,000 -54.78% 13
North East +3 8 £31,000 -52.31% 3
Northern Ireland 0 7 £37,500 -28.57% 1
West Midlands -101 7 £51,000 -2.86% 16
Wales -23 1 £32,500 -26.14% 5

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 23 (7.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.62%) Apache
3 2 (0.62%) Confluence
3 2 (0.62%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (2.15%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 77 (23.69%) Azure
2 46 (14.15%) Microsoft 365
3 34 (10.46%) AWS
4 28 (8.62%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.85%) IaaS
6 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (1.23%) SaaS
7 3 (0.92%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.92%) GitHub
7 3 (0.92%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.62%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.62%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.62%) Rubrik
8 2 (0.62%) SecurityScorecard
8 2 (0.62%) Smartsheet
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.31%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.31%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 160 (49.23%) Firewall
2 94 (28.92%) WAN
3 92 (28.31%) LAN
4 67 (20.62%) VPN
5 45 (13.85%) Wi-Fi
6 43 (13.23%) Network Security
7 42 (12.92%) VSAT
8 35 (10.77%) TCP/IP
9 34 (10.46%) VLAN
10 25 (7.69%) MPLS
11 21 (6.46%) Cisco ASA
11 21 (6.46%) Wireless
12 20 (6.15%) BGP
13 19 (5.85%) DNS
14 18 (5.54%) Intrusion Detection
15 17 (5.23%) DHCP
15 17 (5.23%) SAN
15 17 (5.23%) SD-WAN
15 17 (5.23%) VoIP
16 15 (4.62%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.62%) InfluxDB
2 2 (0.62%) MySQL
2 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (1.85%) Burp Suite
1 6 (1.85%) Metasploit
2 3 (0.92%) GitLab
3 2 (0.62%) JIRA
General
1 109 (33.54%) Social Skills
2 53 (16.31%) Finance
3 26 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.77%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.85%) Public Sector
6 16 (4.92%) Organisational Skills
6 16 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
7 15 (4.62%) Manufacturing
8 10 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (3.08%) Legal
9 9 (2.77%) Law
9 9 (2.77%) Pharmaceutical
10 8 (2.46%) Retail
11 6 (1.85%) Billing
12 5 (1.54%) Aerospace
12 5 (1.54%) Automotive
12 5 (1.54%) Electronics
13 4 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.62%) Banking
14 2 (0.62%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 64 (19.69%) Network Engineer
2 61 (18.77%) Support Engineer
3 60 (18.46%) Technical Engineer
4 51 (15.69%) Technical Support
5 43 (13.23%) Technical Support Engineer
6 30 (9.23%) Analyst
6 30 (9.23%) IT Engineer
7 28 (8.62%) Administrator
7 28 (8.62%) Senior
8 25 (7.69%) Cisco Engineer
9 24 (7.38%) LAN Engineer
9 24 (7.38%) LAN/WAN Engineer
9 24 (7.38%) Systems Administrator
9 24 (7.38%) WAN Engineer
10 20 (6.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 20 (6.15%) NOC Engineer
11 19 (5.85%) IT Support
11 19 (5.85%) Support Analyst
12 16 (4.92%) Presales Engineer
13 14 (4.31%) Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.85%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.23%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.62%) Middleware
4 1 (0.31%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.31%) LAMP
4 1 (0.31%) React
4 1 (0.31%) Svelte
4 1 (0.31%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.15%) Data Centre
2 25 (7.69%) Driving Licence
3 24 (7.38%) e-Learning
4 12 (3.69%) CCTV
5 11 (3.38%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.08%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (3.08%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (3.08%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.08%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.08%) Smartphone
7 8 (2.46%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.15%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.85%) Handset
9 6 (1.85%) Insider Threat
10 5 (1.54%) LIMS
10 5 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.54%) SCADA
10 5 (1.54%) Social Media
11 4 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 4 (1.23%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (20.92%) Windows
2 52 (16.00%) Linux
3 42 (12.92%) Windows Server
4 30 (9.23%) Unix
5 16 (4.92%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.54%) Android
6 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.62%) CentOS
8 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (32.62%) Customer Service
2 74 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (22.15%) ITIL
4 56 (17.23%) Mentoring
5 45 (13.85%) High Availability
6 39 (12.00%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (10.77%) Commercial Awareness
8 33 (10.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 33 (10.15%) Kalman Filter
9 31 (9.54%) Presales
10 26 (8.00%) Innovative Thinking
10 26 (8.00%) Service Delivery
11 25 (7.69%) Project Delivery
11 25 (7.69%) Web Filtering
12 24 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
13 21 (6.46%) Security Operations
14 20 (6.15%) Penetration Testing
15 19 (5.85%) Information Security
16 18 (5.54%) Computer Science
16 18 (5.54%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 25 (7.69%) Python
2 24 (7.38%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.85%) Bash
4 3 (0.92%) Bicep
5 2 (0.62%) C
5 2 (0.62%) R
5 2 (0.62%) VB
6 1 (0.31%) Go
6 1 (0.31%) SQL
Qualifications
1 325 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 125 (38.46%) CCNP
3 93 (28.62%) Security Cleared
4 75 (23.08%) SC Cleared
5 71 (21.85%) JNCIA
6 61 (18.77%) Microsoft Certification
7 57 (17.54%) Degree
8 43 (13.23%) DV Cleared
8 43 (13.23%) MCSE
9 37 (11.38%) Network+ Certification
10 32 (9.85%) MCSA
11 27 (8.31%) MCP
12 26 (8.00%) DBS Check
13 17 (5.23%) CompTIA Security+
14 16 (4.92%) CISSP
14 16 (4.92%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (4.62%) A+ Certification
16 14 (4.31%) CCIE
17 11 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (3.38%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (6.77%) SLA
3 16 (4.92%) GDPR
4 14 (4.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (4.00%) NIST
6 7 (2.15%) GxP
7 6 (1.85%) Actionable Recommendations
8 5 (1.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 3 (0.92%) ITGC
9 3 (0.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.62%) Accessibility
11 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 43 (13.23%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.92%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.31%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.85%) Docker
4 6 (1.85%) Firmware
5 5 (1.54%) vSphere
6 4 (1.23%) pfSense
7 3 (0.92%) KVM
7 3 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.92%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.62%) RHEV
8 2 (0.62%) Samba
8 2 (0.62%) Squid
8 2 (0.62%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (10.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.85%) FortiGate
3 13 (4.00%) Ansible
4 7 (2.15%) SCCM
5 6 (1.85%) Nmap
5 6 (1.85%) Terraform
6 5 (1.54%) Autotask
6 5 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (1.54%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (1.23%) PaperCut
8 3 (0.92%) ArcSight ESM
8 3 (0.92%) Grafana
8 3 (0.92%) QRadar
9 2 (0.62%) Nagios
9 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.62%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.62%) VxRail
10 1 (0.31%) Podman
10 1 (0.31%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 193 (59.38%) Cisco
2 82 (25.23%) Microsoft
3 69 (21.23%) Fortinet
4 59 (18.15%) Juniper
5 38 (11.69%) VMware
6 33 (10.15%) Meraki
7 28 (8.62%) Aruba
8 22 (6.77%) CheckPoint
9 20 (6.15%) Palo Alto
10 19 (5.85%) SolarWinds
11 17 (5.23%) Dell
12 14 (4.31%) Citrix
13 13 (4.00%) Starlink
14 11 (3.38%) Apple
14 11 (3.38%) Remedy
15 10 (3.08%) ServiceNow
16 9 (2.77%) Freshdesk
17 8 (2.46%) Arista
17 8 (2.46%) Mitel
17 8 (2.46%) Splunk