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

6 months to
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 339 344 346
Rank change year-on-year +5 +2 -24
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 594 401 636
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.57% 0.81% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.02% 2.34% 2.96%
Number of salaries quoted 205 297 423
10th Percentile £27,000 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £42,500 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -13.27% +8.89%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £58,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £72,500 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £38,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +16.88% -20.62% +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 19,643 17,171 21,462
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.77% 34.63% 25.64%
Number of salaries quoted 10,462 7,854 12,032
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £37,500 £41,000
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 £72,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,309
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.61% -4.17%

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 6 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 6 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 -14 521 £52,500 +23.53% 172
UK excluding London +34 501 £45,000 +16.88% 199
North of England +32 122 £50,000 +11.86% 37
South East -7 118 £46,250 +15.63% 46
London -64 90 £70,000 +27.27% 30
Midlands +7 86 £46,801 +23.16% 19
Yorkshire +22 69 £42,500 +61.90% 12
South West -83 63 £50,000 +53.85% 36
Work from Home -69 59 £48,000 +6.67% 19
East of England +14 48 £40,000 -3.73% 21
East Midlands 0 44 £41,000 +17.14% 6
Scotland +57 42 £28,000 -22.22% 20
West Midlands 0 42 £59,522 +5.82% 13
North West +18 41 £52,500 -2.33% 16
Wales -34 22 £40,750 -18.09% 13
North East -49 12 - - 9
Northern Ireland -69 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 40 (6.73%) Microsoft Exchange
2 19 (3.20%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.34%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 434 (73.06%) Azure
2 67 (11.28%) Microsoft 365
3 53 (8.92%) AWS
4 32 (5.39%) Entra ID
5 14 (2.36%) GCP
6 11 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (1.35%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 7 (1.18%) OneDrive
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 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.51%) Mimecast
11 3 (0.51%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 165 (27.78%) Firewall
2 125 (21.04%) WAN
3 110 (18.52%) VPN
4 98 (16.50%) LAN
5 75 (12.63%) Network Security
6 70 (11.78%) TCP/IP
7 69 (11.62%) VLAN
8 64 (10.77%) DHCP
8 64 (10.77%) DNS
9 56 (9.43%) Wi-Fi
10 52 (8.75%) Wireless
11 47 (7.91%) SD-WAN
12 39 (6.57%) VoIP
13 32 (5.39%) BGP
14 26 (4.38%) OSPF
15 20 (3.37%) MPLS
16 19 (3.20%) SAN
17 18 (3.03%) Internet
18 14 (2.36%) WLAN
19 13 (2.19%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.01%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (4.04%) JIRA
2 11 (1.85%) GitLab
3 10 (1.68%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.35%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.35%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 448 (75.42%) Social Skills
2 43 (7.24%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (3.87%) Public Sector
4 19 (3.20%) Telecoms
5 17 (2.86%) Finance
6 15 (2.53%) Manufacturing
7 11 (1.85%) Aerospace
7 11 (1.85%) Retail
8 10 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.52%) Banking
9 9 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.52%) Legal
9 9 (1.52%) Military
10 8 (1.35%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (1.18%) Digital Health
12 5 (0.84%) Automotive
13 4 (0.67%) Electronics
13 4 (0.67%) Law
14 3 (0.51%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.51%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 423 (71.21%) Network Engineer
2 57 (9.60%) IT Engineer
3 41 (6.90%) IT Support
4 32 (5.39%) Support Engineer
5 31 (5.22%) Senior
6 30 (5.05%) IT Support Engineer
7 23 (3.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (3.54%) Lead
9 20 (3.37%) 3rd Line Support
10 19 (3.20%) Field Engineer
10 19 (3.20%) Field Service Engineer
11 18 (3.03%) Senior Network Engineer
12 14 (2.36%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 14 (2.36%) Analyst
13 13 (2.19%) Security Engineer
13 13 (2.19%) Systems Engineer
14 12 (2.02%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 12 (2.02%) Cisco Engineer
14 12 (2.02%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 10 (1.68%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.67%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.67%) boto
2 3 (0.51%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.34%) EDI
4 1 (0.17%) LDAP
4 1 (0.17%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.17%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.17%) SAML
4 1 (0.17%) YAML
4 1 (0.17%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.26%) Data Centre
2 32 (5.39%) Driving Licence
3 14 (2.36%) Security Posture
3 14 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
4 13 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 9 (1.52%) Smartphone
8 8 (1.35%) FMCG
9 7 (1.18%) Replication
10 6 (1.01%) Onboarding
11 5 (0.84%) CCTV
11 5 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
11 5 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (0.67%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.67%) Social Media
13 3 (0.51%) Cyber Defence
13 3 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 108 (18.18%) Windows
2 74 (12.46%) Windows Server
3 42 (7.07%) Linux
4 15 (2.53%) Windows Server 2016
5 14 (2.36%) Windows 10
6 12 (2.02%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.51%) Android
8 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.34%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 90 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
2 65 (10.94%) ITIL
3 62 (10.44%) Cybersecurity
4 55 (9.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 51 (8.59%) Disaster Recovery
6 49 (8.25%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (7.24%) High Availability
8 37 (6.23%) Customer Service
9 34 (5.72%) Business Continuity
9 34 (5.72%) Network Monitoring
10 33 (5.56%) Project Delivery
11 32 (5.39%) Network Design
12 31 (5.22%) Computer Science
13 25 (4.21%) Incident Response
14 23 (3.87%) SIEM
15 21 (3.54%) Network Architecture
16 19 (3.20%) Mentoring
17 18 (3.03%) Infrastructure as Code
17 18 (3.03%) Stakeholder Management
18 15 (2.53%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.24%) PowerShell
2 25 (4.21%) Python
3 11 (1.85%) Bash
4 8 (1.35%) Java
5 2 (0.34%) SQL
6 1 (0.17%) Bicep
6 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 594 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 375 (63.13%) Azure Certification
3 372 (62.63%) Network+ Certification
4 117 (19.70%) CCNP
5 74 (12.46%) Microsoft Certification
6 73 (12.29%) Degree
7 34 (5.72%) Security Cleared
8 30 (5.05%) MCSE
9 24 (4.04%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (3.54%) SC Cleared
11 20 (3.37%) AWS Certification
12 16 (2.69%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.36%) MCSA
14 13 (2.19%) A+ Certification
15 12 (2.02%) BPSS Clearance
15 12 (2.02%) RHCSA
16 11 (1.85%) CCIE
16 11 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 10 (1.68%) CISSP
17 10 (1.68%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (3.87%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (3.54%) SLA
4 15 (2.53%) GDPR
5 12 (2.02%) NIST
6 6 (1.01%) QA
7 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.51%) COBIT
9 2 (0.34%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 80 (13.47%) Active Directory
2 51 (8.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (6.23%) Hyper-V
4 14 (2.36%) vSphere
5 12 (2.02%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.85%) Docker
7 8 (1.35%) Squid
8 6 (1.01%) Firmware
9 5 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
10 4 (0.67%) VMware ESXi
11 3 (0.51%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 3 (0.51%) VMware Server
12 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
12 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (3.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (3.03%) FortiGate
2 18 (3.03%) Terraform
3 16 (2.69%) Ansible
4 9 (1.52%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.35%) Cisco Prime
5 8 (1.35%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.35%) Packer
6 5 (0.84%) Control-M
7 4 (0.67%) Iperf
8 3 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.51%) OpenView
8 3 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.51%) Tivoli
8 3 (0.51%) VxRail
9 1 (0.17%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (0.17%) SCCM
9 1 (0.17%) WSUS
Vendors
1 466 (78.45%) Cisco
2 428 (72.05%) Microsoft
3 330 (55.56%) ForeScout
4 68 (11.45%) VMware
5 53 (8.92%) Fortinet
6 38 (6.40%) Palo Alto
7 32 (5.39%) Meraki
8 19 (3.20%) SolarWinds
8 19 (3.20%) Sophos
9 18 (3.03%) Dell
9 18 (3.03%) Splunk
10 15 (2.53%) Aruba
10 15 (2.53%) CheckPoint
10 15 (2.53%) Juniper
11 14 (2.36%) F5
12 13 (2.19%) Citrix
12 13 (2.19%) Veeam
13 12 (2.02%) HP
14 11 (1.85%) Red Hat
15 8 (1.35%) Oracle