CCNA Job Trends

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

6 months to
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 228 298
Rank change year-on-year -136 +70 +121
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 299 681 605
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.29% 0.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.54% 3.48% 3.36%
Number of salaries quoted 208 325 524
10th Percentile £25,750 £34,012 £30,163
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +15.79% +5.56%
75th Percentile £53,963 £63,750 £57,563
90th Percentile £68,250 £68,900 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +23.53% -

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 19,462 19,568 18,017
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.63% 36.94% 28.64%
Number of salaries quoted 7,836 7,623 12,523
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +8.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.96%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -131 270 £41,000 -25.45% 114
UK excluding London -112 238 £40,000 -23.81% 109
Work from Home +64 92 £41,000 -25.45% 35
South East -31 57 £52,500 -12.50% 28
North of England -34 55 £50,000 +5.26% 31
London -30 50 £50,000 -16.67% 21
North West -6 41 £50,000 +5.26% 14
Midlands -112 39 £32,500 -43.23% 15
South West +25 35 £32,000 -31.18% 17
East Midlands -28 33 £32,500 -12.16% 4
East of England +20 31 £40,000 -20.79% 8
Scotland -3 13 £36,000 -44.62% 7
Yorkshire -30 8 £26,000 -46.67% 14
Northern Ireland -3 7 £37,500 -28.57% 2
North East +1 6 £31,000 -52.31% 4
West Midlands -102 6 £41,000 -33.87% 11
Wales -23 1 £32,500 -26.14% 2

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 21 (7.02%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.01%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.67%) Apache
3 2 (0.67%) Confluence
3 2 (0.67%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.34%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.67%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.67%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (24.75%) Azure
2 44 (14.72%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (12.04%) AWS
4 27 (9.03%) Entra ID
5 6 (2.01%) IaaS
6 4 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (1.34%) SaaS
7 2 (0.67%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.67%) GCP
7 2 (0.67%) GitHub
7 2 (0.67%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.33%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.33%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.33%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.33%) Rubrik
8 1 (0.33%) SecurityScorecard
Communications & Networking
1 150 (50.17%) Firewall
2 104 (34.78%) WAN
3 102 (34.11%) LAN
4 65 (21.74%) VPN
5 41 (13.71%) Wi-Fi
6 34 (11.37%) Network Security
6 34 (11.37%) VLAN
7 33 (11.04%) TCP/IP
8 27 (9.03%) VSAT
9 22 (7.36%) Cisco ASA
10 21 (7.02%) MPLS
11 19 (6.35%) BGP
11 19 (6.35%) DNS
11 19 (6.35%) Wireless
12 17 (5.69%) DHCP
12 17 (5.69%) Intrusion Detection
13 16 (5.35%) SAN
13 16 (5.35%) VoIP
14 15 (5.02%) WLAN
15 14 (4.68%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.67%) MySQL
2 2 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.34%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.34%) Metasploit
2 3 (1.00%) GitLab
3 2 (0.67%) JIRA
4 1 (0.33%) Git
General
1 105 (35.12%) Social Skills
2 47 (15.72%) Finance
3 21 (7.02%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (7.02%) Presentation Skills
4 20 (6.69%) Public Sector
5 18 (6.02%) Telecoms
6 16 (5.35%) Organisational Skills
7 12 (4.01%) Law
8 11 (3.68%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (3.68%) Legal
9 9 (3.01%) Retail
10 8 (2.68%) Manufacturing
11 5 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
12 4 (1.34%) Billing
12 4 (1.34%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.00%) Aerospace
13 3 (1.00%) Automotive
13 3 (1.00%) Banking
13 3 (1.00%) Electronics
14 2 (0.67%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 65 (21.74%) Network Engineer
2 47 (15.72%) Support Engineer
3 46 (15.38%) Technical Engineer
4 34 (11.37%) Technical Support
5 32 (10.70%) Cisco Engineer
6 31 (10.37%) LAN Engineer
6 31 (10.37%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 31 (10.37%) WAN Engineer
7 30 (10.03%) IT Engineer
8 28 (9.36%) Technical Support Engineer
9 26 (8.70%) Analyst
10 24 (8.03%) Senior
11 21 (7.02%) Administrator
11 21 (7.02%) Presales Engineer
12 19 (6.35%) Firewall Engineer
12 19 (6.35%) Juniper Engineer
13 18 (6.02%) IT Support
14 17 (5.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 17 (5.69%) NOC Engineer
14 17 (5.69%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.00%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.67%) Middleware
3 1 (0.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.33%) React
3 1 (0.33%) Svelte
3 1 (0.33%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 47 (15.72%) Data Centre
2 24 (8.03%) Driving Licence
3 18 (6.02%) e-Learning
4 12 (4.01%) CCTV
4 12 (4.01%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (4.01%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.68%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (3.68%) Smartphone
6 10 (3.34%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.34%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.68%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.34%) Insider Threat
9 5 (1.67%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.67%) Social Media
10 4 (1.34%) Handset
10 4 (1.34%) LIMS
10 4 (1.34%) SCADA
11 3 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.00%) iPad
11 3 (1.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (22.74%) Windows
2 43 (14.38%) Linux
3 39 (13.04%) Windows Server
4 24 (8.03%) Unix
5 14 (4.68%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.67%) Android
7 4 (1.34%) Windows Server 2016
8 2 (0.67%) CentOS
8 2 (0.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.67%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (29.10%) Customer Service
2 66 (22.07%) ITIL
3 65 (21.74%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (14.38%) Mentoring
5 38 (12.71%) Cybersecurity
5 38 (12.71%) High Availability
6 34 (11.37%) Presales
7 30 (10.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (8.70%) Commercial Awareness
9 24 (8.03%) Kalman Filter
10 23 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 21 (7.02%) Project Delivery
11 21 (7.02%) Service Delivery
12 20 (6.69%) Computer Science
12 20 (6.69%) Innovative Thinking
13 19 (6.35%) Information Security
13 19 (6.35%) Penetration Testing
14 18 (6.02%) Security Operations
15 16 (5.35%) Change Control
15 16 (5.35%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 21 (7.02%) Python
2 20 (6.69%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.67%) Bash
4 2 (0.67%) Bicep
4 2 (0.67%) C
4 2 (0.67%) VB
5 1 (0.33%) Go
5 1 (0.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 299 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 117 (39.13%) CCNP
3 78 (26.09%) Security Cleared
4 63 (21.07%) SC Cleared
5 59 (19.73%) JNCIA
5 59 (19.73%) Microsoft Certification
6 58 (19.40%) Degree
7 42 (14.05%) MCSE
8 38 (12.71%) DV Cleared
9 36 (12.04%) Network+ Certification
10 31 (10.37%) MCSA
11 28 (9.36%) MCP
12 26 (8.70%) DBS Check
13 18 (6.02%) CCIE
14 17 (5.69%) Computer Science Degree
15 15 (5.02%) A+ Certification
15 15 (5.02%) CompTIA Security+
16 14 (4.68%) CISSP
17 13 (4.35%) CCSA
17 13 (4.35%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.69%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (7.36%) SLA
3 18 (6.02%) GDPR
4 13 (4.35%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (4.35%) NIST
5 7 (2.34%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.67%) GxP
7 4 (1.34%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (1.00%) ITGC
9 2 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 44 (14.72%) Active Directory
2 14 (4.68%) Hyper-V
3 13 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.67%) Firmware
4 5 (1.67%) vSphere
5 4 (1.34%) Docker
6 3 (1.00%) KVM
6 3 (1.00%) pfSense
6 3 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.00%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.67%) RHEV
7 2 (0.67%) Samba
7 2 (0.67%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.67%) Xen
8 1 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.33%) Squid
8 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (10.70%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (7.69%) FortiGate
3 11 (3.68%) Ansible
4 7 (2.34%) Nmap
4 7 (2.34%) SCCM
5 5 (1.67%) Autotask
5 5 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.67%) Terraform
6 4 (1.34%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.34%) PaperCut
7 3 (1.00%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (1.00%) Cisco CUCM
7 3 (1.00%) QRadar
8 2 (0.67%) Nagios
8 2 (0.67%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.33%) OpenView
9 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 180 (60.20%) Cisco
2 78 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 68 (22.74%) Fortinet
4 64 (21.40%) Juniper
5 34 (11.37%) VMware
6 30 (10.03%) Aruba
7 24 (8.03%) Meraki
8 22 (7.36%) CheckPoint
9 20 (6.69%) Palo Alto
10 19 (6.35%) Dell
11 17 (5.69%) SolarWinds
12 13 (4.35%) Citrix
13 11 (3.68%) Apple
13 11 (3.68%) Remedy
14 10 (3.34%) ServiceNow
14 10 (3.34%) Starlink
15 8 (2.68%) Arista
16 7 (2.34%) F5
16 7 (2.34%) Splunk
16 7 (2.34%) WatchGuard