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

6 months to
3 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 341 335 344
Rank change year-on-year -6 +9 -47
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 599 403 622
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.81% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.03% 2.36% 2.92%
Number of salaries quoted 213 297 368
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -18.37% +8.89%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £80,750 £67,500 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £36,750 £48,500
% change year-on-year +22.45% -24.23% +14.12%

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 19,783 17,093 21,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.97% 34.35% 26.31%
Number of salaries quoted 10,833 7,791 10,773
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,463 £37,000 £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 £49,367 £52,500
% change year-on-year +16.48% -5.97% -

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -3 523 £52,500 +28.05% 114
UK excluding London +21 510 £45,000 +22.45% 84
North of England +27 121 £42,500 +17.24% 11
South East -13 119 £47,500 +18.75% 22
Midlands +15 97 £41,000 +9.33% 17
London -59 85 £70,000 +20.17% 55
Yorkshire -1 68 £42,500 +63.46% 4
Work from Home -53 67 £47,500 +26.67% 36
South West -98 61 £50,000 +56.25% 7
East Midlands +2 52 £39,194 +11.98% 10
East of England -7 46 £55,000 +37.50% 6
West Midlands +4 45 £53,162 +29.66% 7
Scotland +42 44 £28,000 -22.22% 12
North West +5 41 £52,500 -2.33% 5
Wales -42 22 £40,750 -18.09% 4
North East -56 12 - - 2
Northern Ireland -85 6 - - 6

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 36 (6.01%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.84%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (1.34%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.67%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.17%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 432 (72.12%) Azure
2 75 (12.52%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (8.51%) AWS
4 43 (7.18%) Entra ID
5 10 (1.67%) GCP
6 8 (1.34%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (1.34%) OneDrive
7 5 (0.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (0.83%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.67%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.67%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.67%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.67%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.67%) Serverless
9 3 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.50%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.33%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 169 (28.21%) Firewall
2 119 (19.87%) WAN
3 103 (17.20%) VPN
4 99 (16.53%) LAN
5 79 (13.19%) Network Security
6 73 (12.19%) DHCP
6 73 (12.19%) DNS
6 73 (12.19%) VLAN
7 70 (11.69%) TCP/IP
8 60 (10.02%) Wireless
9 58 (9.68%) Wi-Fi
10 43 (7.18%) SD-WAN
11 40 (6.68%) VoIP
12 31 (5.18%) BGP
13 26 (4.34%) OSPF
14 20 (3.34%) Internet
15 18 (3.01%) SAN
16 17 (2.84%) MPLS
17 15 (2.50%) WLAN
18 12 (2.00%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 31 (5.18%) JIRA
2 13 (2.17%) GitLab
3 10 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.34%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.34%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 449 (74.96%) Social Skills
2 44 (7.35%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (4.17%) Telecoms
4 20 (3.34%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.01%) Manufacturing
6 17 (2.84%) Finance
7 12 (2.00%) Retail
8 11 (1.84%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.50%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.34%) Banking
11 8 (1.34%) Law
11 8 (1.34%) Military
12 7 (1.17%) Digital Health
13 6 (1.00%) Legal
14 5 (0.83%) Automotive
15 4 (0.67%) Electronics
16 3 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
16 3 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 422 (70.45%) Network Engineer
2 59 (9.85%) IT Engineer
3 41 (6.84%) IT Support
4 34 (5.68%) Senior
5 31 (5.18%) Support Engineer
6 30 (5.01%) IT Support Engineer
7 27 (4.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (3.17%) 3rd Line Support
9 18 (3.01%) Field Engineer
9 18 (3.01%) Field Service Engineer
10 17 (2.84%) Senior Network Engineer
11 15 (2.50%) Lead
11 15 (2.50%) Security Engineer
12 14 (2.34%) Analyst
13 13 (2.17%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 13 (2.17%) Systems Engineer
14 11 (1.84%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 11 (1.84%) Cisco Engineer
14 11 (1.84%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 10 (1.67%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.17%) Terraform
2 4 (0.67%) 802.1X
2 4 (0.67%) boto
3 3 (0.50%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.33%) EDI
4 2 (0.33%) LDAP
4 2 (0.33%) 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 (10.02%) Data Centre
2 39 (6.51%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.01%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (2.84%) Security Posture
5 15 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 10 (1.67%) FMCG
9 9 (1.50%) CCTV
9 9 (1.50%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.34%) Replication
11 7 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
11 7 (1.17%) PKI
11 7 (1.17%) Smartphone
12 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
13 4 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (0.50%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.50%) Social Media
15 2 (0.33%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 113 (18.86%) Windows
2 79 (13.19%) Windows Server
3 44 (7.35%) Linux
4 15 (2.50%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (1.00%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (14.86%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (12.02%) ITIL
3 65 (10.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 63 (10.52%) Cybersecurity
5 50 (8.35%) Disaster Recovery
6 47 (7.85%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (7.01%) High Availability
7 42 (7.01%) Project Delivery
8 38 (6.34%) Network Design
9 36 (6.01%) Business Continuity
10 35 (5.84%) Customer Service
11 33 (5.51%) Computer Science
12 31 (5.18%) Network Monitoring
13 24 (4.01%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (3.67%) Incident Response
15 21 (3.51%) Mentoring
15 21 (3.51%) Network Architecture
15 21 (3.51%) SIEM
16 19 (3.17%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (2.84%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 44 (7.35%) PowerShell
2 29 (4.84%) Python
3 11 (1.84%) Bash
4 8 (1.34%) Java
5 2 (0.33%) SQL
6 1 (0.17%) Bicep
6 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 599 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 375 (62.60%) Network+ Certification
3 370 (61.77%) Azure Certification
4 120 (20.03%) CCNP
5 81 (13.52%) Degree
6 74 (12.35%) Microsoft Certification
7 35 (5.84%) Security Cleared
8 34 (5.68%) MCSE
9 24 (4.01%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (4.01%) SC Cleared
10 21 (3.51%) AWS Certification
11 17 (2.84%) MCSA
12 16 (2.67%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.34%) CISSP
14 12 (2.00%) A+ Certification
14 12 (2.00%) CCIE
15 11 (1.84%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
16 10 (1.67%) RHCSA
17 9 (1.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
2 23 (3.84%) SLA
3 21 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.17%) GDPR
5 8 (1.34%) NIST
6 6 (1.00%) QA
7 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.50%) COBIT
9 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 80 (13.36%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (5.84%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.50%) vSphere
5 11 (1.84%) Docker
5 11 (1.84%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.34%) Squid
6 8 (1.34%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.17%) Firmware
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 28 (4.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (3.67%) FortiGate
3 15 (2.50%) Ansible
4 9 (1.50%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.34%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.34%) Packer
6 6 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.83%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (0.67%) Iperf
9 3 (0.50%) Control-M
9 3 (0.50%) SCCM
9 3 (0.50%) VxRail
10 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.33%) OpenView
10 2 (0.33%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 469 (78.30%) Cisco
2 428 (71.45%) Microsoft
3 330 (55.09%) ForeScout
4 70 (11.69%) VMware
5 51 (8.51%) Fortinet
6 39 (6.51%) Palo Alto
7 28 (4.67%) Meraki
8 16 (2.67%) Dell
8 16 (2.67%) Sophos
8 16 (2.67%) Splunk
9 15 (2.50%) Juniper
10 14 (2.34%) Aruba
10 14 (2.34%) CheckPoint
10 14 (2.34%) F5
10 14 (2.34%) SolarWinds
10 14 (2.34%) Veeam
11 13 (2.17%) WatchGuard
12 12 (2.00%) HP
13 11 (1.84%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.50%) Citrix