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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 304 348 430
Rank change year-on-year +44 +82 -110
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 475 803 756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.91% 0.82% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.86% 2.93% 2.22%
Number of salaries quoted 313 686 574
10th Percentile £30,650 £30,125 £30,857
25th Percentile £33,750 £36,250 £35,387
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £44,005
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +7.94% -2.21%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £44,225 £42,500
% change year-on-year +7.41% +4.06% -2.30%

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 25,484 27,371 34,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.86% 27.83% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 17,308 15,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCNA.

Salary trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNA over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Salary histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 18 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 30 April 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 +47 459 £50,626 +6.58% 160
UK excluding London +21 350 £47,500 +7.41% 131
Midlands +73 152 £51,251 +5.67% 22
London +93 123 £60,000 +9.09% 44
West Midlands +56 106 £64,800 +33.61% 12
South East +18 85 £45,000 +16.88% 38
Work from Home +2 72 £52,500 +8.25% 133
North of England -9 56 £50,000 +17.65% 25
East Midlands +61 46 £32,500 -35.00% 10
North West -23 35 £55,000 +37.50% 9
South West +86 34 £42,500 -15.00% 26
Yorkshire +36 18 £37,500 -16.67% 13
Wales +20 9 £43,000 +6.17% 7
East of England +18 8 £53,500 +25.88% 2
Scotland +105 4 £35,250 -29.50% 4
North East +48 3 £37,500 -46.43% 4
Northern Ireland +34 1 £57,500 +76.92% 7
Isle of Man +5 1 £34,500 -21.14% 2

CCNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 29 (6.11%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.47%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.42%) SAS
4 1 (0.21%) Confluence
Applications
1 31 (6.53%) MS Visio
2 17 (3.58%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (2.53%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 99 (20.84%) Azure
2 75 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
3 57 (12.00%) AWS
4 31 (6.53%) Entra ID
5 17 (3.58%) PaaS
5 17 (3.58%) SaaS
6 14 (2.95%) IaaS
7 12 (2.53%) GCP
8 4 (0.84%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.63%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.42%) Azure DevOps
10 2 (0.42%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.42%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.42%) Rubrik
11 1 (0.21%) AWS Direct Connect
11 1 (0.21%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.21%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.21%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 184 (38.74%) Network Security
2 182 (38.32%) Firewall
3 138 (29.05%) WAN
4 132 (27.79%) LAN
5 106 (22.32%) Internet
5 106 (22.32%) WLAN
6 103 (21.68%) VPN
7 78 (16.42%) BGP
8 68 (14.32%) MPLS
9 62 (13.05%) TCP/IP
10 54 (11.37%) OSPF
11 53 (11.16%) DNS
11 53 (11.16%) VLAN
11 53 (11.16%) Wi-Fi
12 45 (9.47%) DHCP
12 45 (9.47%) IPsec
13 35 (7.37%) Cisco IOS
14 34 (7.16%) Wireless
15 30 (6.32%) Cisco Firepower
16 29 (6.11%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.68%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (0.63%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.21%) MySQL
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.21%) Power BI
3 1 (0.21%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 6 (1.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 135 (28.42%) Social Skills
2 79 (16.63%) Finance
3 46 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (5.68%) Presentation Skills
5 24 (5.05%) Telecoms
6 21 (4.42%) Banking
7 13 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.53%) Public Sector
9 11 (2.32%) Documentation Skills
10 8 (1.68%) Military
11 7 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 6 (1.26%) Retail
13 5 (1.05%) Legal
13 5 (1.05%) Welsh Language
14 4 (0.84%) Advertising
14 4 (0.84%) Law
15 3 (0.63%) Automotive
15 3 (0.63%) Investment Banking
15 3 (0.63%) Police
16 2 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 137 (28.84%) Support Engineer
2 129 (27.16%) IT Support
3 114 (24.00%) IT Engineer
4 108 (22.74%) IT Support Engineer
4 108 (22.74%) Network Engineer
5 50 (10.53%) Architect
6 47 (9.89%) Senior
7 40 (8.42%) Junior
8 33 (6.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 30 (6.32%) NOC Engineer
10 25 (5.26%) Network Architect
11 24 (5.05%) Junior Architect
11 24 (5.05%) Junior Solutions Architect
11 24 (5.05%) Lead
11 24 (5.05%) Solutions Architect
12 23 (4.84%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
13 21 (4.42%) Technical Support
14 18 (3.79%) Technical Engineer
14 18 (3.79%) Technical Support Engineer
15 16 (3.37%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.26%) 802.1X
2 1 (0.21%) JSON
2 1 (0.21%) SAML
2 1 (0.21%) Windows Identity Foundation
Miscellaneous
1 107 (22.53%) Driving Licence
2 41 (8.63%) Data Centre
3 14 (2.95%) Management Information System
4 11 (2.32%) Self-Motivation
5 10 (2.11%) Public Cloud
6 9 (1.89%) Private Cloud
7 6 (1.26%) CCTV
7 6 (1.26%) Cyber Threat
7 6 (1.26%) PMI
8 5 (1.05%) Security Operations Centre
9 4 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
9 4 (0.84%) Linux Command Line
10 3 (0.63%) BYOD
10 3 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.63%) Fat Client
10 3 (0.63%) Operational Technology
10 3 (0.63%) PKI
10 3 (0.63%) Security Posture
10 3 (0.63%) Thin Client
10 3 (0.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 195 (41.05%) Windows
2 139 (29.26%) Linux
3 53 (11.16%) Windows Server
4 34 (7.16%) Windows 10
5 15 (3.16%) Android
6 11 (2.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 7 (1.47%) CentOS
7 7 (1.47%) Ubuntu
8 5 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
9 4 (0.84%) VMS
9 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2008
9 4 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.21%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.21%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 188 (39.58%) Problem-Solving
2 162 (34.11%) ITIL
3 143 (30.11%) Mentoring
4 130 (27.37%) Network Management
5 116 (24.42%) Computer Science
6 96 (20.21%) Asset Management
7 95 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
8 52 (10.95%) Customer Service
9 41 (8.63%) Presales
10 36 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 33 (6.95%) Network Design
12 31 (6.53%) High Availability
13 30 (6.32%) Cybersecurity
13 30 (6.32%) Incident Management
13 30 (6.32%) Network Monitoring
14 27 (5.68%) Technical Leadership
15 25 (5.26%) Disaster Recovery
16 23 (4.84%) Information Security
16 23 (4.84%) Proactive Monitoring
17 21 (4.42%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (6.74%) PowerShell
2 30 (6.32%) Python
3 11 (2.32%) Bash
4 8 (1.68%) R
5 7 (1.47%) C
5 7 (1.47%) SQL
6 2 (0.42%) JavaScript
6 2 (0.42%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 475 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 252 (53.05%) CCNP
3 167 (35.16%) Degree
4 162 (34.11%) Microsoft Certification
5 123 (25.89%) MCSE
6 111 (23.37%) Computer Science Degree
7 110 (23.16%) MCP
8 95 (20.00%) LPIC
8 95 (20.00%) Security Cleared
9 74 (15.58%) SC Cleared
10 57 (12.00%) JNCIA
11 48 (10.11%) Network+ Certification
12 40 (8.42%) JNCIS
13 25 (5.26%) Azure Certification
13 25 (5.26%) MCSA
14 23 (4.84%) DV Cleared
15 19 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 14 (2.95%) CompTIA Security+
17 12 (2.53%) CISSP
18 10 (2.11%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (7.79%) SLA
2 9 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (1.68%) Cyber Essentials
4 7 (1.47%) MIL-STD-1553
5 6 (1.26%) NIST
6 4 (0.84%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.63%) ISO 9001
7 3 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 2 (0.42%) GDPR
8 2 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 73 (15.37%) Active Directory
2 51 (10.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (7.58%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.37%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.89%) Firmware
6 8 (1.68%) Virtual Desktop
7 6 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.63%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.42%) VMware NSX
9 2 (0.42%) vSphere
10 1 (0.21%) Docker
10 1 (0.21%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 24 (5.05%) Ansible
2 21 (4.42%) Microsoft Intune
3 17 (3.58%) SCCM
3 17 (3.58%) WSUS
4 12 (2.53%) Terraform
5 9 (1.89%) FortiGate
6 8 (1.68%) Nagios
7 4 (0.84%) Iperf
8 3 (0.63%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.63%) VxRail
9 2 (0.42%) Autotask
9 2 (0.42%) Dell DRAC
9 2 (0.42%) Failover Clustering
9 2 (0.42%) Nessus
9 2 (0.42%) vCenter Server
9 2 (0.42%) vRealize
10 1 (0.21%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
10 1 (0.21%) OpenVAS
10 1 (0.21%) Opsview
Vendors
1 361 (76.00%) Cisco
2 208 (43.79%) Microsoft
3 104 (21.89%) Juniper
4 74 (15.58%) Fortinet
5 59 (12.42%) VMware
6 51 (10.74%) Palo Alto
7 44 (9.26%) Meraki
8 35 (7.37%) Aruba
9 33 (6.95%) SolarWinds
10 23 (4.84%) F5
11 21 (4.42%) Citrix
11 21 (4.42%) Veeam
12 18 (3.79%) Red Hat
13 16 (3.37%) CheckPoint
14 13 (2.74%) HP
15 10 (2.11%) Arista
16 9 (1.89%) Dell
17 6 (1.26%) Acronis
17 6 (1.26%) SonicWALL
18 5 (1.05%) ServiceNow