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

6 months to
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 348 339
Rank change year-on-year +37 -9 +32
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 582 374 827
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.83% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.14% 2.15% 3.04%
Number of salaries quoted 191 296 610
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £31,200
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £45,000 £44,700 £42,500
% change year-on-year +0.67% +5.18% -

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 18,540 17,427 27,164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.52% 38.45% 25.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,791 7,414 17,167
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,724
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,890 £38,500
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 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 25 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 25 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 +19 513 £50,000 +5.26% 195
UK excluding London +66 490 £45,000 +0.67% 209
North of England +38 136 £50,000 -8.05% 40
South East -6 101 £45,000 +5.88% 44
London -61 90 £76,250 +38.64% 40
Midlands +8 80 £51,058 +32.62% 19
Yorkshire +19 68 £45,500 +17.88% 14
South West -47 67 £50,000 +17.65% 41
North West +18 56 £50,000 -9.09% 16
Work from Home -27 53 £49,250 +3.68% 36
East of England +24 44 £34,000 -18.56% 30
East Midlands -19 42 £51,058 +45.88% 3
Scotland +41 40 £26,150 +2.55% 16
West Midlands -1 38 £46,801 -28.00% 16
Wales -26 22 £40,750 -20.49% 11
North East -38 12 - - 10
Northern Ireland -31 6 - - 11

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 30 (5.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 424 (72.85%) Azure
2 54 (9.28%) AWS
3 52 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
4 18 (3.09%) Entra ID
5 12 (2.06%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (1.89%) GCP
7 9 (1.55%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (0.86%) Mimecast
8 5 (0.86%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.69%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.69%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.69%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.69%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (0.69%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (0.69%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.69%) OneDrive
9 4 (0.69%) Rubrik
9 4 (0.69%) Serverless
10 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 154 (26.46%) Firewall
2 120 (20.62%) WAN
3 97 (16.67%) LAN
4 96 (16.49%) VPN
5 68 (11.68%) Network Security
6 61 (10.48%) Wi-Fi
7 45 (7.73%) TCP/IP
8 44 (7.56%) VLAN
9 43 (7.39%) DNS
10 42 (7.22%) DHCP
11 36 (6.19%) SD-WAN
12 33 (5.67%) VoIP
12 33 (5.67%) Wireless
13 26 (4.47%) BGP
14 20 (3.44%) Cisco Firepower
14 20 (3.44%) MPLS
14 20 (3.44%) OSPF
15 19 (3.26%) SAN
16 16 (2.75%) Cisco ISE
16 16 (2.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (3.61%) JIRA
2 14 (2.41%) GitLab
3 9 (1.55%) Git
3 9 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.34%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 433 (74.40%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (4.12%) Public Sector
4 18 (3.09%) Finance
5 13 (2.23%) Manufacturing
6 12 (2.06%) Retail
6 12 (2.06%) Telecoms
7 11 (1.89%) Legal
7 11 (1.89%) Presentation Skills
8 9 (1.55%) Aerospace
8 9 (1.55%) Organisational Skills
9 8 (1.37%) Banking
9 8 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (1.37%) Law
10 6 (1.03%) 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 (0.34%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 420 (72.16%) Network Engineer
2 54 (9.28%) IT Engineer
3 34 (5.84%) Senior
4 31 (5.33%) IT Support
5 25 (4.30%) Support Engineer
6 23 (3.95%) Cisco Engineer
6 23 (3.95%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (3.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 22 (3.78%) Lead
7 22 (3.78%) Senior Network Engineer
8 18 (3.09%) Field Engineer
8 18 (3.09%) Field Service Engineer
9 16 (2.75%) Azure Engineer
10 15 (2.58%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 14 (2.41%) LAN Engineer
11 14 (2.41%) LAN/WAN Engineer
11 14 (2.41%) WAN Engineer
12 13 (2.23%) Security Engineer
13 12 (2.06%) Analyst
14 11 (1.89%) Presales Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.69%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.69%) boto
1 4 (0.69%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (0.52%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.14%) Data Centre
2 22 (3.78%) Driving Licence
3 20 (3.44%) Security Posture
4 15 (2.58%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.06%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (1.89%) Smartphone
7 9 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (1.20%) FMCG
10 6 (1.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.03%) PKI
11 5 (0.86%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (0.86%) Replication
12 4 (0.69%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (0.69%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.52%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.52%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.52%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 93 (15.98%) Windows
2 54 (9.28%) Windows Server
3 45 (7.73%) Linux
4 13 (2.23%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (1.37%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (11.00%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (9.11%) ITIL
4 45 (7.73%) Disaster Recovery
5 43 (7.39%) High Availability
5 43 (7.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 41 (7.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 32 (5.50%) Computer Science
8 31 (5.33%) Business Continuity
8 31 (5.33%) Incident Response
9 29 (4.98%) Customer Service
9 29 (4.98%) Network Monitoring
10 27 (4.64%) SIEM
11 24 (4.12%) Network Architecture
12 23 (3.95%) Network Design
13 19 (3.26%) Presales
14 18 (3.09%) Process Improvement
14 18 (3.09%) Project Delivery
15 17 (2.92%) Infrastructure as Code
16 16 (2.75%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 38 (6.53%) PowerShell
2 19 (3.26%) Python
3 9 (1.55%) Bash
4 8 (1.37%) Java
5 3 (0.52%) SQL
6 2 (0.34%) Bicep
7 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 582 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 368 (63.23%) Azure Certification
3 365 (62.71%) Network+ Certification
4 114 (19.59%) CCNP
5 68 (11.68%) Microsoft Certification
6 66 (11.34%) Degree
7 37 (6.36%) MCSE
8 34 (5.84%) Security Cleared
9 27 (4.64%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (3.61%) CCIE
11 17 (2.92%) SC Cleared
12 15 (2.58%) A+ Certification
12 15 (2.58%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.58%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (2.23%) CISSP
13 13 (2.23%) MCSA
14 12 (2.06%) DV Cleared
14 12 (2.06%) RHCSA
15 11 (1.89%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (1.72%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (3.78%) SLA
3 18 (3.09%) GDPR
4 16 (2.75%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.06%) NIST
6 6 (1.03%) QA
7 4 (0.69%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.52%) COBIT
9 2 (0.34%) Actionable Recommendations
9 2 (0.34%) 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 65 (11.17%) Active Directory
2 41 (7.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.47%) Hyper-V
4 17 (2.92%) vSphere
5 13 (2.23%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.89%) Docker
7 8 (1.37%) Squid
8 7 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.69%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.52%) Firmware
10 3 (0.52%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (3.61%) FortiGate
2 18 (3.09%) Terraform
3 17 (2.92%) Ansible
4 16 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (1.72%) Cisco Prime
6 9 (1.55%) ZABBIX
7 8 (1.37%) Kubernetes
7 8 (1.37%) Packer
8 5 (0.86%) Control-M
9 4 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 4 (0.69%) VxRail
9 4 (0.69%) WSUS
10 3 (0.52%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.52%) OpenView
10 3 (0.52%) Tivoli
11 2 (0.34%) Iperf
11 2 (0.34%) Nmap
12 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 455 (78.18%) Cisco
2 416 (71.48%) Microsoft
3 330 (56.70%) ForeScout
4 58 (9.97%) VMware
5 51 (8.76%) Fortinet
6 30 (5.15%) Palo Alto
7 26 (4.47%) Aruba
8 25 (4.30%) Meraki
9 23 (3.95%) Dell
10 22 (3.78%) SolarWinds
11 20 (3.44%) CheckPoint
11 20 (3.44%) Splunk
12 17 (2.92%) Juniper
13 13 (2.23%) Sophos
14 12 (2.06%) HP
15 11 (1.89%) Red Hat
15 11 (1.89%) Veeam
16 10 (1.72%) Citrix
17 8 (1.37%) Oracle
17 8 (1.37%) Zscaler