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

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 349 240 293
Rank change year-on-year -109 +53 +128
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 324 672 552
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 1.25% 1.01%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.69% 3.47% 3.45%
Number of salaries quoted 226 312 473
10th Percentile £25,750 £33,750 £28,600
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,500 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,250 £52,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.33% +10.53% +1.06%
75th Percentile £55,625 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £71,250 £67,950 £73,200
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £50,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -20.00% +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 19,212 19,360 16,012
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.16% 36.04% 29.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,766 7,611 10,754
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £55,000 £51,528
% change year-on-year -10.91% +6.74% +3.06%

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 9 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 9 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 -111 296 £40,750 -25.91% 146
UK excluding London -95 262 £40,000 -20.00% 145
Work from Home +85 101 £41,000 -25.45% 78
South East -18 68 £51,250 -8.08% 42
North of England -31 53 £47,500 - 31
London -28 51 £65,000 +8.33% 18
South West +34 50 £32,000 -29.67% 20
Midlands -104 40 £32,500 -36.59% 16
North West -3 36 £50,000 +5.26% 15
East Midlands -27 33 £32,500 -18.75% 2
East of England +24 31 £40,000 -20.79% 24
Scotland +5 12 £36,000 -35.43% 4
Yorkshire -25 9 £26,000 -54.78% 11
North East +3 8 £31,000 -52.31% 6
Northern Ireland -3 7 £37,500 -28.57% 4
West Midlands -104 7 £51,000 -2.86% 14
Wales -25 1 £32,500 -26.14% 9

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 23 (7.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.85%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.62%) Apache
3 2 (0.62%) Confluence
3 2 (0.62%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (2.16%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.23%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.31%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.54%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 77 (23.77%) Azure
2 46 (14.20%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (10.80%) AWS
4 28 (8.64%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.85%) IaaS
6 4 (1.23%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (1.23%) SaaS
7 3 (0.93%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (0.93%) GitHub
7 3 (0.93%) GitHub Actions
8 2 (0.62%) Azure AKS
8 2 (0.62%) GCP
8 2 (0.62%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.62%) Rubrik
8 2 (0.62%) SecurityScorecard
9 1 (0.31%) AWS Lambda
9 1 (0.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.31%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.31%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.31%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 161 (49.69%) Firewall
2 96 (29.63%) WAN
3 94 (29.01%) LAN
4 67 (20.68%) VPN
5 45 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
6 43 (13.27%) Network Security
7 42 (12.96%) VSAT
8 36 (11.11%) TCP/IP
9 35 (10.80%) VLAN
10 24 (7.41%) MPLS
11 21 (6.48%) BGP
11 21 (6.48%) Cisco ASA
12 20 (6.17%) Wireless
13 19 (5.86%) DNS
14 18 (5.56%) Intrusion Detection
15 17 (5.25%) DHCP
15 17 (5.25%) SAN
15 17 (5.25%) VoIP
16 15 (4.63%) OSPF
16 15 (4.63%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.85%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.62%) InfluxDB
2 2 (0.62%) MySQL
2 2 (0.62%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.16%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.16%) Metasploit
2 3 (0.93%) GitLab
3 2 (0.62%) JIRA
4 1 (0.31%) Git
General
1 111 (34.26%) Social Skills
2 51 (15.74%) Finance
3 24 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (6.79%) Telecoms
5 19 (5.86%) Public Sector
6 18 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 16 (4.94%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 10 (3.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (3.09%) Legal
10 9 (2.78%) Law
10 9 (2.78%) Retail
11 7 (2.16%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (1.85%) Billing
13 5 (1.54%) Aerospace
13 5 (1.54%) Automotive
13 5 (1.54%) Electronics
14 4 (1.23%) Documentation Skills
15 2 (0.62%) Banking
15 2 (0.62%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 64 (19.75%) Network Engineer
2 61 (18.83%) Support Engineer
3 60 (18.52%) Technical Engineer
4 51 (15.74%) Technical Support
5 43 (13.27%) Technical Support Engineer
6 30 (9.26%) Analyst
7 29 (8.95%) IT Engineer
8 27 (8.33%) Administrator
8 27 (8.33%) Cisco Engineer
9 26 (8.02%) LAN Engineer
9 26 (8.02%) LAN/WAN Engineer
9 26 (8.02%) Senior
9 26 (8.02%) WAN Engineer
10 23 (7.10%) Systems Administrator
11 20 (6.17%) NOC Engineer
12 19 (5.86%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 19 (5.86%) IT Support
12 19 (5.86%) Support Analyst
13 18 (5.56%) Presales Engineer
14 16 (4.94%) Firewall Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.85%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.23%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.62%) Middleware
4 1 (0.31%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.31%) LAMP
4 1 (0.31%) React
4 1 (0.31%) Svelte
4 1 (0.31%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 46 (14.20%) Data Centre
2 25 (7.72%) Driving Licence
3 23 (7.10%) e-Learning
4 12 (3.70%) CCTV
5 11 (3.40%) Management Information System
5 11 (3.40%) Security Posture
6 10 (3.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 10 (3.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 10 (3.09%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.09%) Smartphone
7 8 (2.47%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (2.16%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.16%) Insider Threat
9 6 (1.85%) Handset
10 5 (1.54%) LIMS
10 5 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.54%) SCADA
10 5 (1.54%) Social Media
11 3 (0.93%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.93%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 68 (20.99%) Windows
2 51 (15.74%) Linux
3 42 (12.96%) Windows Server
4 29 (8.95%) Unix
5 16 (4.94%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.54%) Android
6 5 (1.54%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.62%) CentOS
8 2 (0.62%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.62%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.31%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (32.41%) Customer Service
2 73 (22.53%) Problem-Solving
3 72 (22.22%) ITIL
4 56 (17.28%) Mentoring
5 43 (13.27%) High Availability
6 39 (12.04%) Cybersecurity
7 35 (10.80%) Commercial Awareness
8 33 (10.19%) Kalman Filter
9 32 (9.88%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 32 (9.88%) Presales
10 25 (7.72%) Innovative Thinking
10 25 (7.72%) Service Delivery
10 25 (7.72%) Web Filtering
11 23 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
12 22 (6.79%) Project Delivery
13 21 (6.48%) Penetration Testing
13 21 (6.48%) Security Operations
14 20 (6.17%) Information Security
15 18 (5.56%) Computer Science
15 18 (5.56%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 26 (8.02%) Python
2 24 (7.41%) PowerShell
3 6 (1.85%) Bash
4 3 (0.93%) Bicep
5 2 (0.62%) C
5 2 (0.62%) VB
6 1 (0.31%) Go
6 1 (0.31%) SQL
Qualifications
1 324 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 123 (37.96%) CCNP
3 92 (28.40%) Security Cleared
4 75 (23.15%) SC Cleared
5 72 (22.22%) JNCIA
6 62 (19.14%) Microsoft Certification
7 58 (17.90%) Degree
8 44 (13.58%) MCSE
9 42 (12.96%) DV Cleared
10 37 (11.42%) Network+ Certification
11 32 (9.88%) MCSA
12 28 (8.64%) MCP
13 26 (8.02%) DBS Check
14 18 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
15 17 (5.25%) CISSP
16 16 (4.94%) Computer Science Degree
17 15 (4.63%) A+ Certification
18 14 (4.32%) CCIE
19 11 (3.40%) CCSA
19 11 (3.40%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.72%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (6.79%) SLA
3 16 (4.94%) GDPR
4 14 (4.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (4.01%) NIST
6 7 (2.16%) Actionable Recommendations
6 7 (2.16%) GxP
7 5 (1.54%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.93%) ITGC
8 3 (0.93%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.31%) HIPAA
System Software
1 43 (13.27%) Active Directory
2 16 (4.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 14 (4.32%) Hyper-V
4 6 (1.85%) Docker
4 6 (1.85%) Firmware
5 5 (1.54%) vSphere
6 4 (1.23%) pfSense
7 3 (0.93%) KVM
7 3 (0.93%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (0.93%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.62%) Citrix Hypervisor
8 2 (0.62%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.62%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 2 (0.62%) RHEV
8 2 (0.62%) Samba
8 2 (0.62%) Squid
8 2 (0.62%) Xen
Systems Management
1 33 (10.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (5.86%) FortiGate
3 14 (4.32%) Ansible
4 7 (2.16%) Nmap
4 7 (2.16%) SCCM
5 6 (1.85%) Terraform
6 5 (1.54%) Autotask
6 5 (1.54%) Jamf Pro
6 5 (1.54%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.23%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (1.23%) PaperCut
8 3 (0.93%) ArcSight ESM
8 3 (0.93%) Grafana
8 3 (0.93%) QRadar
9 2 (0.62%) Nagios
9 2 (0.62%) Prometheus
9 2 (0.62%) Proxmox
9 2 (0.62%) VxRail
10 1 (0.31%) OpenView
10 1 (0.31%) Red Hat Satellite
Vendors
1 190 (58.64%) Cisco
2 81 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 69 (21.30%) Fortinet
4 60 (18.52%) Juniper
5 38 (11.73%) VMware
6 30 (9.26%) Meraki
7 29 (8.95%) Aruba
8 22 (6.79%) CheckPoint
9 20 (6.17%) SolarWinds
10 19 (5.86%) Palo Alto
11 17 (5.25%) Dell
12 14 (4.32%) Citrix
13 13 (4.01%) Starlink
14 11 (3.40%) Apple
14 11 (3.40%) Remedy
15 10 (3.09%) ServiceNow
16 9 (2.78%) Freshdesk
17 8 (2.47%) Arista
17 8 (2.47%) Mitel
17 8 (2.47%) Splunk