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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 413 317 315
Rank change year-on-year -96 -2 -39
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 462 408 577
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.83% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.27% 2.36% 2.80%
Number of salaries quoted 229 282 266
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,550 £33,200
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £39,063
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £51,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -22.71% +11.29%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,750 £68,625 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £38,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.39% -23.00% +17.65%

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 20,376 17,273 20,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.26% 34.94% 28.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,525 7,345 8,761
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.89% -9.52% -

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 10 October 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 10 October 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 -92 403 £50,000 +23.46% 254
UK excluding London -88 371 £42,500 +10.39% 181
South East -60 93 £47,500 - 41
London -40 83 £66,250 +10.42% 92
Work from Home -77 81 £45,000 +10.43% 75
North of England -27 80 £42,500 +4.94% 31
Midlands -3 77 £41,000 +17.14% 42
Yorkshire +3 47 £42,500 +63.46% 16
East Midlands -21 44 £38,847 +10.99% 20
South West -116 41 £44,189 +38.09% 21
Scotland +32 35 £28,000 -22.22% 19
West Midlands -21 33 £53,162 +29.66% 22
East of England -33 31 £62,500 +56.25% 14
North West -21 26 £52,500 -2.33% 12
Wales -67 14 £40,750 -18.09% 9
North East -74 7 £38,378 +23.80% 3
Northern Ireland -83 3 - - 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 31 (6.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.98%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.87%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.43%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.22%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 281 (60.82%) Azure
2 86 (18.61%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (12.77%) Entra ID
4 52 (11.26%) AWS
5 10 (2.16%) GCP
6 8 (1.73%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.08%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.87%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.87%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.87%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.87%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.87%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.87%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.87%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (0.87%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.87%) Serverless
9 3 (0.65%) OCI
10 2 (0.43%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.43%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.43%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 180 (38.96%) Firewall
2 129 (27.92%) WAN
3 116 (25.11%) LAN
4 106 (22.94%) VPN
5 82 (17.75%) DHCP
5 82 (17.75%) DNS
5 82 (17.75%) Network Security
6 81 (17.53%) VLAN
7 73 (15.80%) TCP/IP
7 73 (15.80%) Wireless
8 61 (13.20%) Wi-Fi
9 43 (9.31%) SD-WAN
10 36 (7.79%) BGP
11 33 (7.14%) VoIP
12 31 (6.71%) OSPF
13 21 (4.55%) SAN
14 19 (4.11%) Internet
14 19 (4.11%) WLAN
15 17 (3.68%) MPLS
16 15 (3.25%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.08%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 34 (7.36%) JIRA
2 13 (2.81%) GitLab
3 8 (1.73%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.52%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.52%) Git
5 1 (0.22%) Chocolatey
General
1 284 (61.47%) Social Skills
2 46 (9.96%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (6.93%) Telecoms
4 23 (4.98%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.90%) Finance
6 16 (3.46%) Manufacturing
7 15 (3.25%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.81%) Retail
9 12 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.60%) Law
10 10 (2.16%) Documentation Skills
10 10 (2.16%) Legal
11 8 (1.73%) Banking
12 7 (1.52%) Digital Health
12 7 (1.52%) Military
12 7 (1.52%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.87%) Automotive
14 3 (0.65%) Electronics
14 3 (0.65%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 271 (58.66%) Network Engineer
2 65 (14.07%) IT Engineer
3 51 (11.04%) IT Support
4 42 (9.09%) Senior
4 42 (9.09%) Support Engineer
5 35 (7.58%) IT Support Engineer
6 26 (5.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 25 (5.41%) Senior Network Engineer
8 21 (4.55%) Field Engineer
8 21 (4.55%) Field Service Engineer
9 19 (4.11%) 3rd Line Support
10 15 (3.25%) Security Engineer
11 13 (2.81%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (2.81%) Analyst
11 13 (2.81%) IT Technician
12 12 (2.60%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (2.38%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (2.38%) Senior Security Engineer
14 10 (2.16%) IT Support Technician
14 10 (2.16%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (3.46%) Terraform
2 4 (0.87%) boto
3 2 (0.43%) 802.1X
3 2 (0.43%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.43%) EDI
3 2 (0.43%) LDAP
3 2 (0.43%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.43%) NETCONF
3 2 (0.43%) SAML
4 1 (0.22%) Software Packaging
4 1 (0.22%) YAML
4 1 (0.22%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 71 (15.37%) Data Centre
2 51 (11.04%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
4 17 (3.68%) Security Posture
5 16 (3.46%) CCTV
6 15 (3.25%) Management Information System
7 14 (3.03%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (2.60%) Smartphone
9 11 (2.38%) FMCG
10 10 (2.16%) Hybrid Cloud
10 10 (2.16%) PKI
11 9 (1.95%) Onboarding
12 8 (1.73%) Replication
13 7 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
14 5 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
15 3 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
16 2 (0.43%) Cyber Security Posture
17 1 (0.22%) Educational Technology
17 1 (0.22%) Fibre Optics
17 1 (0.22%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 127 (27.49%) Windows
2 90 (19.48%) Windows Server
3 46 (9.96%) Linux
4 16 (3.46%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.60%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.52%) Windows Server 2012
7 5 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.65%) Android
9 2 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (19.05%) ITIL
1 88 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (15.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 66 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
4 55 (11.90%) Project Delivery
5 50 (10.82%) Disaster Recovery
6 45 (9.74%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (9.52%) Network Design
8 40 (8.66%) High Availability
9 39 (8.44%) Customer Service
10 38 (8.23%) Business Continuity
11 28 (6.06%) Network Monitoring
12 27 (5.84%) Computer Science
12 27 (5.84%) ITSM
12 27 (5.84%) Stakeholder Management
13 25 (5.41%) Mentoring
14 21 (4.55%) Incident Management
14 21 (4.55%) SIEM
15 20 (4.33%) Network Architecture
15 20 (4.33%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 40 (8.66%) PowerShell
2 33 (7.14%) Python
3 10 (2.16%) Bash
4 7 (1.52%) Java
5 2 (0.43%) SQL
6 1 (0.22%) C
Qualifications
1 462 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 210 (45.45%) Network+ Certification
3 197 (42.64%) Azure Certification
4 129 (27.92%) CCNP
5 78 (16.88%) Microsoft Certification
6 69 (14.94%) Degree
7 41 (8.87%) MCSE
8 38 (8.23%) Security Cleared
9 23 (4.98%) SC Cleared
10 21 (4.55%) MCSA
10 21 (4.55%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 20 (4.33%) AWS Certification
11 20 (4.33%) DV Cleared
12 18 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (3.46%) A+ Certification
14 15 (3.25%) BPSS Clearance
15 14 (3.03%) CISSP
16 12 (2.60%) CCIE
17 11 (2.38%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (1.95%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (8.23%) Cyber Essentials
2 26 (5.63%) SLA
3 16 (3.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 7 (1.52%) GDPR
5 6 (1.30%) PCI DSS
5 6 (1.30%) QA
6 5 (1.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (0.65%) COBIT
7 3 (0.65%) GRC
8 2 (0.43%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.43%) NIST
9 1 (0.22%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 84 (18.18%) Active Directory
2 46 (9.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (8.44%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.68%) vSphere
5 10 (2.16%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.16%) VMware NSX
6 9 (1.95%) Docker
7 7 (1.52%) Squid
8 6 (1.30%) Firmware
9 3 (0.65%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.65%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.43%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (8.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 28 (6.06%) FortiGate
3 17 (3.68%) Ansible
4 10 (2.16%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.73%) ZABBIX
6 7 (1.52%) Kubernetes
6 7 (1.52%) Packer
7 4 (0.87%) Iperf
8 3 (0.65%) Control-M
8 3 (0.65%) SCCM
9 2 (0.43%) Nagios
9 2 (0.43%) VxRail
10 1 (0.22%) OpenView
10 1 (0.22%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 314 (67.97%) Cisco
2 268 (58.01%) Microsoft
3 165 (35.71%) ForeScout
4 77 (16.67%) VMware
5 54 (11.69%) Fortinet
6 44 (9.52%) Palo Alto
7 26 (5.63%) Meraki
8 20 (4.33%) WatchGuard
9 19 (4.11%) F5
10 18 (3.90%) Aruba
11 17 (3.68%) Dell
12 15 (3.25%) Juniper
13 14 (3.03%) Ruckus Wireless
14 13 (2.81%) CheckPoint
14 13 (2.81%) SolarWinds
14 13 (2.81%) Sophos
14 13 (2.81%) Splunk
14 13 (2.81%) Veeam
15 12 (2.60%) Draytek
16 11 (2.38%) Mitel