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 18 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 343 340
Rank change year-on-year +31 -3 +2
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 603 397 774
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.81% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.16% 2.28% 3.07%
Number of salaries quoted 209 305 552
10th Percentile £26,900 £29,300 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,500 £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 £81,250 £72,100 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% +5.88%

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 19,092 17,379 25,245
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.22% 35.44% 25.82%
Number of salaries quoted 10,102 7,791 15,554
10th Percentile £31,125 £29,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,500 £39,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,700
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +0.55% -8.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 18 July 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 18 July 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 +9 531 £52,500 +13.51% 168
UK excluding London +53 507 £45,000 +5.88% 186
North of England +18 128 £50,000 -6.98% 36
South East +4 113 £45,000 +9.09% 42
London -38 93 £70,000 +27.27% 32
Midlands +5 83 £46,801 +21.56% 19
Yorkshire +18 71 £42,500 +30.77% 13
South West -62 68 £50,000 +25.00% 34
Work from Home -21 63 £49,250 -0.46% 16
East of England +34 51 £36,500 -23.16% 23
North West +15 45 £52,500 -8.70% 14
Scotland +47 42 £28,000 +9.80% 15
East Midlands -1 42 £40,097 +14.56% 4
West Midlands +3 41 £53,162 -18.21% 15
Wales -34 22 £40,750 -18.09% 11
North East -48 12 - - 9
Northern Ireland -57 6 - - 8

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 38 (6.30%) Microsoft Exchange
2 17 (2.82%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 438 (72.64%) Azure
2 64 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (9.29%) AWS
4 27 (4.48%) Entra ID
5 12 (1.99%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (1.99%) GCP
6 9 (1.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (1.00%) OneDrive
8 5 (0.83%) Mimecast
8 5 (0.83%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.66%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.66%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (0.66%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.66%) Rubrik
9 4 (0.66%) Serverless
10 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.50%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 170 (28.19%) Firewall
2 132 (21.89%) WAN
3 113 (18.74%) VPN
4 107 (17.74%) LAN
5 74 (12.27%) Network Security
6 63 (10.45%) Wi-Fi
7 61 (10.12%) VLAN
8 59 (9.78%) TCP/IP
9 56 (9.29%) DNS
10 55 (9.12%) DHCP
11 51 (8.46%) Wireless
12 47 (7.79%) SD-WAN
13 40 (6.63%) VoIP
14 34 (5.64%) BGP
15 24 (3.98%) MPLS
15 24 (3.98%) OSPF
16 19 (3.15%) SAN
17 18 (2.99%) Cisco Firepower
17 18 (2.99%) WLAN
18 17 (2.82%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (3.98%) JIRA
2 13 (2.16%) GitLab
3 10 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.33%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.33%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 445 (73.80%) Social Skills
2 41 (6.80%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (4.15%) Public Sector
4 20 (3.32%) Finance
5 17 (2.82%) Telecoms
6 15 (2.49%) Manufacturing
7 12 (1.99%) Retail
8 10 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.66%) Legal
8 10 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.49%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.49%) Banking
10 8 (1.33%) Military
11 7 (1.16%) Documentation Skills
12 6 (1.00%) Law
13 5 (0.83%) Automotive
14 4 (0.66%) Digital Health
14 4 (0.66%) Electronics
14 4 (0.66%) Presentation Skills
15 3 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 430 (71.31%) Network Engineer
2 60 (9.95%) IT Engineer
3 37 (6.14%) IT Support
4 33 (5.47%) Senior
5 29 (4.81%) Support Engineer
6 27 (4.48%) IT Support Engineer
7 23 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (3.65%) Lead
8 22 (3.65%) Senior Network Engineer
9 19 (3.15%) Field Engineer
9 19 (3.15%) Field Service Engineer
10 16 (2.65%) Cisco Engineer
11 15 (2.49%) 3rd Line Support
11 15 (2.49%) Analyst
11 15 (2.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 14 (2.32%) Azure Engineer
13 13 (2.16%) Security Engineer
14 12 (1.99%) Systems Engineer
15 11 (1.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 9 (1.49%) Lead Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.66%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.66%) boto
2 3 (0.50%) ARM Templates
2 3 (0.50%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.17%) EDI
3 1 (0.17%) NETCONF
3 1 (0.17%) YAML
3 1 (0.17%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 63 (10.45%) Data Centre
2 28 (4.64%) Driving Licence
3 17 (2.82%) Security Posture
4 14 (2.32%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.66%) Smartphone
7 8 (1.33%) FMCG
7 8 (1.33%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.00%) Replication
10 5 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.83%) PKI
11 4 (0.66%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (0.66%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 4 (0.66%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.50%) CCTV
12 3 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 104 (17.25%) Windows
2 66 (10.95%) Windows Server
3 45 (7.46%) Linux
4 16 (2.65%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (1.99%) Windows Server 2019
6 11 (1.82%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.33%) Android
10 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (14.26%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (11.61%) Cybersecurity
3 64 (10.61%) ITIL
4 53 (8.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 52 (8.62%) Disaster Recovery
6 49 (8.13%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (7.30%) High Availability
8 34 (5.64%) Network Monitoring
9 33 (5.47%) Business Continuity
9 33 (5.47%) Customer Service
10 32 (5.31%) Computer Science
11 31 (5.14%) Incident Response
11 31 (5.14%) Project Delivery
12 28 (4.64%) Network Design
13 27 (4.48%) SIEM
14 24 (3.98%) Network Architecture
15 18 (2.99%) Infrastructure as Code
15 18 (2.99%) Mentoring
16 17 (2.82%) Proactive Monitoring
17 15 (2.49%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 45 (7.46%) PowerShell
2 24 (3.98%) Python
3 10 (1.66%) Bash
4 8 (1.33%) Java
5 3 (0.50%) SQL
6 2 (0.33%) Bicep
7 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 603 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 373 (61.86%) Azure Certification
3 369 (61.19%) Network+ Certification
4 127 (21.06%) CCNP
5 73 (12.11%) Microsoft Certification
6 71 (11.77%) Degree
7 36 (5.97%) Security Cleared
8 33 (5.47%) MCSE
9 25 (4.15%) Computer Science Degree
10 18 (2.99%) SC Cleared
11 17 (2.82%) AWS Certification
11 17 (2.82%) CCIE
12 15 (2.49%) DV Cleared
12 15 (2.49%) MCSA
13 14 (2.32%) A+ Certification
13 14 (2.32%) BPSS Clearance
14 12 (1.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 12 (1.99%) RHCSA
15 10 (1.66%) CISSP
16 9 (1.49%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (3.65%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (3.65%) SLA
3 17 (2.82%) GDPR
4 13 (2.16%) NIST
5 6 (1.00%) QA
6 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.50%) COBIT
8 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.17%) GRC
8 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 76 (12.60%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (5.64%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.65%) vSphere
5 14 (2.32%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.82%) Docker
7 8 (1.33%) Squid
8 6 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.66%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 4 (0.66%) Firmware
9 4 (0.66%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (3.65%) FortiGate
2 21 (3.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 19 (3.15%) Terraform
4 18 (2.99%) Ansible
5 10 (1.66%) Cisco Prime
6 9 (1.49%) ZABBIX
7 8 (1.33%) Kubernetes
7 8 (1.33%) Packer
8 5 (0.83%) Control-M
9 4 (0.66%) Iperf
9 4 (0.66%) VxRail
10 3 (0.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 3 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
10 3 (0.50%) OpenView
10 3 (0.50%) Tivoli
10 3 (0.50%) WSUS
11 1 (0.17%) SCCM
11 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 473 (78.44%) Cisco
2 428 (70.98%) Microsoft
3 330 (54.73%) ForeScout
4 66 (10.95%) VMware
5 58 (9.62%) Fortinet
6 35 (5.80%) Palo Alto
7 33 (5.47%) Meraki
8 21 (3.48%) CheckPoint
8 21 (3.48%) Dell
8 21 (3.48%) SolarWinds
8 21 (3.48%) Splunk
9 19 (3.15%) Aruba
10 17 (2.82%) Juniper
10 17 (2.82%) Sophos
11 13 (2.16%) Citrix
12 12 (1.99%) HP
12 12 (1.99%) Veeam
13 11 (1.82%) Red Hat
14 10 (1.66%) F5
15 9 (1.49%) Zscaler