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

6 months to
27 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 342 330 337
Rank change year-on-year -12 +7 -34
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 596 406 635
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.81% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.01% 2.36% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 208 298 398
10th Percentile £27,350 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,125 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £67,875 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £37,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -23.47% +15.29%

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 19,804 17,222 21,668
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.10% 34.40% 25.94%
Number of salaries quoted 10,771 7,837 11,401
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,241 £36,925 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £52,000
% change year-on-year +17.35% -5.77% -0.95%

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 August 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 August 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 -11 521 £52,500 +28.05% 91
UK excluding London +20 506 £45,000 +20.00% 64
North of England +21 121 £46,250 +32.14% 11
South East -3 118 £47,500 +18.75% 16
Midlands +24 94 £41,750 +11.33% 11
London -59 86 £70,000 +25.56% 44
Yorkshire +13 68 £42,500 +63.46% 5
Work from Home -69 65 £47,500 +26.67% 30
South West -95 61 £50,000 +56.25% 4
East Midlands 0 49 £41,000 +17.14% 7
East of England +2 47 £55,000 +37.50% 5
West Midlands 0 45 £53,162 +23.63% 4
Scotland +37 43 £28,000 -22.22% 11
North West +8 41 £52,500 -2.33% 5
Wales -45 22 £40,750 -18.09% 3
North East -58 12 - - 1
Northern Ireland -75 6 - - 3

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 37 (6.21%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.69%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (1.51%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.17%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 431 (72.32%) Azure
2 70 (11.74%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (8.22%) AWS
4 38 (6.38%) Entra ID
5 10 (1.68%) GCP
6 9 (1.51%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (1.34%) OneDrive
8 6 (1.01%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (0.84%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.67%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (0.67%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.67%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.67%) Serverless
11 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.50%) Rubrik
12 2 (0.34%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 166 (27.85%) Firewall
2 123 (20.64%) WAN
3 105 (17.62%) VPN
4 101 (16.95%) LAN
5 81 (13.59%) Network Security
6 73 (12.25%) VLAN
7 72 (12.08%) TCP/IP
8 70 (11.74%) DHCP
8 70 (11.74%) DNS
9 60 (10.07%) Wireless
10 57 (9.56%) Wi-Fi
11 44 (7.38%) SD-WAN
12 39 (6.54%) VoIP
13 31 (5.20%) BGP
14 26 (4.36%) OSPF
15 20 (3.36%) Internet
16 19 (3.19%) SAN
17 17 (2.85%) MPLS
18 15 (2.52%) WLAN
19 13 (2.18%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.01%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 29 (4.87%) JIRA
2 12 (2.01%) GitLab
3 10 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.34%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.34%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 449 (75.34%) Social Skills
2 46 (7.72%) Analytical Skills
3 22 (3.69%) Public Sector
4 21 (3.52%) Telecoms
5 18 (3.02%) Finance
6 17 (2.85%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.01%) Retail
8 11 (1.85%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.51%) Banking
10 9 (1.51%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.34%) Military
12 7 (1.17%) Digital Health
12 7 (1.17%) Legal
13 5 (0.84%) Automotive
13 5 (0.84%) Law
14 4 (0.67%) Electronics
15 3 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 423 (70.97%) Network Engineer
2 58 (9.73%) IT Engineer
3 38 (6.38%) IT Support
4 33 (5.54%) Senior
5 29 (4.87%) Support Engineer
6 28 (4.70%) IT Support Engineer
7 27 (4.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (3.19%) 3rd Line Support
8 19 (3.19%) Field Engineer
8 19 (3.19%) Field Service Engineer
9 17 (2.85%) Lead
9 17 (2.85%) Senior Network Engineer
10 14 (2.35%) Analyst
11 13 (2.18%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (2.18%) Security Engineer
11 13 (2.18%) Systems Engineer
12 12 (2.01%) Cisco Engineer
12 12 (2.01%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 11 (1.85%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 9 (1.51%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.19%) Terraform
2 4 (0.67%) 802.1X
2 4 (0.67%) boto
3 3 (0.50%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.34%) EDI
4 2 (0.34%) LDAP
4 2 (0.34%) SAML
5 1 (0.17%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.17%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.17%) YAML
5 1 (0.17%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.07%) Data Centre
2 36 (6.04%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.02%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.52%) Security Posture
5 14 (2.35%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.01%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.51%) FMCG
8 8 (1.34%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.34%) Replication
8 8 (1.34%) Smartphone
9 7 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.01%) CCTV
10 6 (1.01%) Enterprise Software
11 5 (0.84%) PKI
12 4 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.67%) Social Media
13 3 (0.50%) Public Cloud
14 2 (0.34%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 109 (18.29%) Windows
2 76 (12.75%) Windows Server
3 42 (7.05%) Linux
4 15 (2.52%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.18%) Windows Server 2016
6 10 (1.68%) Windows Server 2019
7 5 (0.84%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (15.44%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (11.74%) ITIL
3 62 (10.40%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 59 (9.90%) Cybersecurity
5 50 (8.39%) Disaster Recovery
6 49 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (7.38%) High Availability
8 40 (6.71%) Project Delivery
9 38 (6.38%) Customer Service
9 38 (6.38%) Network Design
10 34 (5.70%) Business Continuity
11 33 (5.54%) Computer Science
12 32 (5.37%) Network Monitoring
13 24 (4.03%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (3.69%) Incident Response
14 22 (3.69%) Network Architecture
14 22 (3.69%) SIEM
15 21 (3.52%) Mentoring
16 19 (3.19%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (2.85%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 45 (7.55%) PowerShell
2 28 (4.70%) Python
3 11 (1.85%) Bash
4 8 (1.34%) Java
5 2 (0.34%) SQL
6 1 (0.17%) Bicep
6 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 596 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 374 (62.75%) Network+ Certification
3 373 (62.58%) Azure Certification
4 119 (19.97%) CCNP
5 80 (13.42%) Degree
6 75 (12.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (5.70%) Security Cleared
8 32 (5.37%) MCSE
9 24 (4.03%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (3.86%) SC Cleared
11 21 (3.52%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.52%) DV Cleared
12 15 (2.52%) MCSA
13 13 (2.18%) A+ Certification
14 12 (2.01%) CCIE
15 11 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (1.85%) CISSP
15 11 (1.85%) RHCSA
16 10 (1.68%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (1.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.19%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (3.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (3.69%) SLA
3 14 (2.35%) GDPR
4 9 (1.51%) NIST
5 6 (1.01%) QA
6 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.50%) COBIT
8 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 80 (13.42%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (5.54%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.52%) vSphere
5 11 (1.85%) Docker
5 11 (1.85%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.34%) Squid
7 7 (1.17%) Firmware
7 7 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 24 (4.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (3.52%) FortiGate
3 15 (2.52%) Ansible
4 9 (1.51%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.34%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.34%) Packer
6 6 (1.01%) Cisco Prime
7 4 (0.67%) Control-M
7 4 (0.67%) Iperf
7 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.50%) SCCM
8 3 (0.50%) VxRail
9 2 (0.34%) OpenView
9 2 (0.34%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 470 (78.86%) Cisco
2 428 (71.81%) Microsoft
3 330 (55.37%) ForeScout
4 67 (11.24%) VMware
5 52 (8.72%) Fortinet
6 39 (6.54%) Palo Alto
7 31 (5.20%) Meraki
8 18 (3.02%) Sophos
9 17 (2.85%) Dell
9 17 (2.85%) Splunk
10 16 (2.68%) SolarWinds
11 15 (2.52%) CheckPoint
11 15 (2.52%) Juniper
12 14 (2.35%) Aruba
12 14 (2.35%) F5
12 14 (2.35%) Veeam
13 12 (2.01%) HP
14 11 (1.85%) Red Hat
15 10 (1.68%) WatchGuard
16 9 (1.51%) Citrix