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

6 months to
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 339 337
Rank change year-on-year +44 -2 +32
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 588 379 822
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.83% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.16% 2.17% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 196 298 604
10th Percentile £27,000 £30,500 £31,250
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 £44,850 £44,089
% change year-on-year +0.33% +1.73% +3.74%

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 18,589 17,460 26,906
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.52% 38.33% 25.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,802 7,441 16,995
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £38,825 £38,603
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.77% -11.67%
75th Percentile £78,800 £72,500 £70,250
90th Percentile £93,750 £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 27 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 27 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 +6 518 £51,058 +7.49% 187
UK excluding London +70 494 £45,000 +0.33% 206
North of England +46 136 £50,000 -8.05% 41
South East -2 102 £45,000 +5.88% 44
London -49 92 £74,500 +36.07% 32
Midlands -2 80 £51,058 +32.62% 20
Yorkshire +16 68 £45,500 +17.88% 14
South West -46 67 £50,000 +17.65% 41
North West +23 56 £50,000 -9.09% 17
Work from Home -12 56 £49,250 +3.68% 39
East of England +23 46 £34,000 -18.56% 28
East Midlands -12 42 £51,058 +45.88% 3
Scotland +47 41 £27,075 +6.18% 14
West Midlands +1 38 £46,801 -28.00% 17
Wales -31 22 £40,750 -18.09% 9
North East -33 12 - - 10
Northern Ireland -28 6 - - 12

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 32 (5.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.36%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.70%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 427 (72.62%) Azure
2 55 (9.35%) AWS
3 54 (9.18%) Microsoft 365
4 20 (3.40%) Entra ID
5 12 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (1.87%) GCP
7 9 (1.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 5 (0.85%) Mimecast
8 5 (0.85%) OneDrive
8 5 (0.85%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.68%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.68%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (0.68%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.68%) Rubrik
9 4 (0.68%) Serverless
10 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 157 (26.70%) Firewall
2 123 (20.92%) WAN
3 101 (17.18%) LAN
4 99 (16.84%) VPN
5 69 (11.73%) Network Security
6 61 (10.37%) Wi-Fi
7 48 (8.16%) TCP/IP
8 46 (7.82%) VLAN
9 45 (7.65%) DNS
10 44 (7.48%) DHCP
11 38 (6.46%) SD-WAN
11 38 (6.46%) Wireless
12 33 (5.61%) VoIP
13 28 (4.76%) BGP
14 21 (3.57%) OSPF
15 20 (3.40%) Cisco Firepower
15 20 (3.40%) MPLS
16 19 (3.23%) SAN
17 16 (2.72%) Cisco ISE
17 16 (2.72%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.36%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (3.57%) JIRA
2 14 (2.38%) GitLab
3 9 (1.53%) Git
3 9 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.36%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.34%) Burp Suite
5 2 (0.34%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 436 (74.15%) Social Skills
2 42 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (4.08%) Public Sector
4 19 (3.23%) Finance
5 13 (2.21%) Manufacturing
6 12 (2.04%) Retail
6 12 (2.04%) Telecoms
7 11 (1.87%) Legal
8 10 (1.70%) Organisational Skills
8 10 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
9 9 (1.53%) Aerospace
10 8 (1.36%) Banking
10 8 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.36%) Law
11 6 (1.02%) Military
12 4 (0.68%) Automotive
12 4 (0.68%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.68%) Electronics
13 2 (0.34%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 424 (72.11%) Network Engineer
2 56 (9.52%) IT Engineer
3 35 (5.95%) Senior
4 32 (5.44%) IT Support
5 26 (4.42%) Support Engineer
6 24 (4.08%) IT Support Engineer
7 23 (3.91%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 23 (3.91%) Senior Network Engineer
8 22 (3.74%) Cisco Engineer
8 22 (3.74%) Lead
9 18 (3.06%) Field Engineer
9 18 (3.06%) Field Service Engineer
10 16 (2.72%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (2.55%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 13 (2.21%) LAN Engineer
12 13 (2.21%) LAN/WAN Engineer
12 13 (2.21%) Security Engineer
12 13 (2.21%) WAN Engineer
13 12 (2.04%) Analyst
14 10 (1.70%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.68%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.68%) boto
1 4 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (0.51%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.03%) Data Centre
2 22 (3.74%) Driving Licence
3 20 (3.40%) Security Posture
4 15 (2.55%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (1.87%) Smartphone
7 10 (1.70%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.36%) FMCG
8 8 (1.36%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.02%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 6 (1.02%) PKI
11 5 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (0.85%) Replication
12 4 (0.68%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (0.68%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.51%) Cyber Threat
13 3 (0.51%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 95 (16.16%) Windows
2 56 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 45 (7.65%) Linux
4 13 (2.21%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (1.53%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (1.36%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.34%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (14.80%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (11.05%) Cybersecurity
3 55 (9.35%) ITIL
4 47 (7.99%) Disaster Recovery
5 46 (7.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 44 (7.48%) High Availability
7 43 (7.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 34 (5.78%) Computer Science
9 31 (5.27%) Business Continuity
9 31 (5.27%) Incident Response
10 30 (5.10%) Network Monitoring
11 29 (4.93%) Customer Service
12 27 (4.59%) SIEM
13 24 (4.08%) Network Architecture
14 23 (3.91%) Network Design
15 19 (3.23%) Project Delivery
16 18 (3.06%) Infrastructure as Code
16 18 (3.06%) Presales
16 18 (3.06%) Process Improvement
17 16 (2.72%) Penetration Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (6.80%) PowerShell
2 20 (3.40%) Python
3 9 (1.53%) Bash
4 8 (1.36%) Java
5 3 (0.51%) SQL
6 2 (0.34%) Bicep
7 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 588 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 368 (62.59%) Azure Certification
3 365 (62.07%) Network+ Certification
4 120 (20.41%) CCNP
5 70 (11.90%) Degree
6 69 (11.73%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (6.29%) MCSE
8 34 (5.78%) Security Cleared
9 27 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (3.57%) CCIE
11 17 (2.89%) SC Cleared
12 15 (2.55%) A+ Certification
12 15 (2.55%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.55%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (2.21%) CISSP
13 13 (2.21%) MCSA
14 12 (2.04%) DV Cleared
14 12 (2.04%) RHCSA
15 11 (1.87%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (1.70%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (3.74%) SLA
3 18 (3.06%) GDPR
4 17 (2.89%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.04%) NIST
6 6 (1.02%) QA
7 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.51%) 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 67 (11.39%) Active Directory
2 41 (6.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 26 (4.42%) Hyper-V
4 17 (2.89%) vSphere
5 13 (2.21%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.87%) Docker
7 8 (1.36%) Squid
8 7 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.68%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.51%) Firmware
10 3 (0.51%) VMware Server
11 2 (0.34%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (3.74%) FortiGate
2 18 (3.06%) Terraform
3 17 (2.89%) Ansible
3 17 (2.89%) Microsoft Intune
4 10 (1.70%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (1.53%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.36%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.36%) Packer
7 5 (0.85%) Control-M
8 4 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.68%) VxRail
8 4 (0.68%) WSUS
9 3 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.51%) OpenView
9 3 (0.51%) Tivoli
10 2 (0.34%) Iperf
10 2 (0.34%) Nmap
11 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 458 (77.89%) Cisco
2 418 (71.09%) Microsoft
3 330 (56.12%) ForeScout
4 58 (9.86%) VMware
5 51 (8.67%) Fortinet
6 32 (5.44%) Palo Alto
7 25 (4.25%) Aruba
7 25 (4.25%) Meraki
8 23 (3.91%) Dell
9 22 (3.74%) SolarWinds
10 20 (3.40%) CheckPoint
10 20 (3.40%) Splunk
11 18 (3.06%) Juniper
12 13 (2.21%) Sophos
13 12 (2.04%) HP
14 11 (1.87%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.87%) Veeam
15 10 (1.70%) Citrix
16 8 (1.36%) Oracle
16 8 (1.36%) Zscaler