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 1 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 422 222 325
Rank change year-on-year -200 +103 +99
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 266 654 679
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.38% 1.40% 0.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.32% 3.62% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 181 333 597
10th Percentile £25,750 £33,200 £29,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -16.36% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £55,625 £65,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £72,250 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -19.05% +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 20,126 18,050 21,896
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 28.72% 38.62% 27.97%
Number of salaries quoted 8,064 7,280 15,375
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,281 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £88,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -

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 1 March 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 1 March 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 -184 246 £47,500 -13.64% 120
UK excluding London -175 195 £42,500 -19.05% 111
Work from Home +30 87 £45,000 -20.00% 43
London -37 63 £50,000 -20.00% 31
North of England -78 52 £50,000 +5.26% 22
North West -30 41 £50,000 +5.26% 16
South East -68 41 £52,500 -8.70% 37
Midlands -127 37 £32,500 -49.69% 13
East Midlands -51 32 £32,500 - 2
South West -15 25 £38,212 -19.55% 23
East of England +9 24 £40,000 -20.79% 12
Scotland -16 9 £26,150 -59.77% 7
Yorkshire -54 9 £50,000 +25.00% 4
Northern Ireland -23 6 £37,500 -28.57%
West Midlands -112 5 £47,500 -26.47% 11
North East -19 2 £55,500 -14.62% 2
Wales -32 1 £32,500 -24.42% 3

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 25 (9.40%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.75%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.13%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 79 (29.70%) Azure
2 45 (16.92%) Microsoft 365
3 44 (16.54%) AWS
4 26 (9.77%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.88%) GCP
5 5 (1.88%) IaaS
6 4 (1.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (1.50%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.13%) Azure Monitor
7 3 (1.13%) Mimecast
8 2 (0.75%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.75%) SaaS
9 1 (0.38%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.38%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.38%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.38%) GitHub
9 1 (0.38%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.38%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.38%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 146 (54.89%) Firewall
2 108 (40.60%) WAN
3 102 (38.35%) LAN
4 67 (25.19%) VPN
5 36 (13.53%) Wi-Fi
6 35 (13.16%) VLAN
7 34 (12.78%) Network Security
8 33 (12.41%) TCP/IP
9 26 (9.77%) Cisco ASA
10 22 (8.27%) Wireless
11 21 (7.89%) MPLS
12 20 (7.52%) DNS
13 19 (7.14%) SD-WAN
14 18 (6.77%) DHCP
15 17 (6.39%) Cisco Firepower
15 17 (6.39%) WLAN
16 16 (6.02%) BGP
16 16 (6.02%) Intrusion Detection
17 15 (5.64%) SAN
17 15 (5.64%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.63%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.63%) Metasploit
2 5 (1.88%) GitLab
2 5 (1.88%) JIRA
3 1 (0.38%) Git
General
1 98 (36.84%) Social Skills
2 39 (14.66%) Finance
3 24 (9.02%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.65%) Public Sector
5 21 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 15 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.89%) Legal
8 13 (4.89%) Telecoms
9 12 (4.51%) Law
10 10 (3.76%) Retail
11 4 (1.50%) Banking
12 3 (1.13%) Documentation Skills
13 2 (0.75%) Military
14 1 (0.38%) Marketing
14 1 (0.38%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (25.94%) Network Engineer
2 41 (15.41%) IT Engineer
3 38 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 37 (13.91%) Cisco Engineer
5 33 (12.41%) LAN Engineer
5 33 (12.41%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 33 (12.41%) WAN Engineer
6 23 (8.65%) IT Support
6 23 (8.65%) Senior
7 22 (8.27%) IT Support Engineer
7 22 (8.27%) Technical Engineer
8 21 (7.89%) Presales Engineer
9 19 (7.14%) Firewall Engineer
9 19 (7.14%) Juniper Engineer
10 18 (6.77%) Analyst
10 18 (6.77%) Azure Engineer
10 18 (6.77%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 15 (5.64%) Field Engineer
11 15 (5.64%) Senior Network Engineer
12 14 (5.26%) AWS Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.50%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.75%) Middleware
3 1 (0.38%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.38%) React
3 1 (0.38%) Svelte
3 1 (0.38%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.92%) Data Centre
2 16 (6.02%) Driving Licence
3 14 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 13 (4.89%) Analytical Mindset
4 13 (4.89%) Smartphone
5 12 (4.51%) Security Posture
6 11 (4.14%) Enterprise Software
7 8 (3.01%) e-Learning
7 8 (3.01%) Management Information System
8 7 (2.63%) CCTV
8 7 (2.63%) Insider Threat
9 5 (1.88%) Onboarding
9 5 (1.88%) PKI
9 5 (1.88%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.88%) Social Media
10 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
10 4 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.13%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.75%) Cloud Native
12 2 (0.75%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 67 (25.19%) Windows
2 37 (13.91%) Linux
3 30 (11.28%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.26%) Unix
5 7 (2.63%) Windows 10
6 6 (2.26%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.13%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.75%) Android
8 2 (0.75%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (25.56%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (22.56%) Customer Service
3 50 (18.80%) ITIL
4 46 (17.29%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (11.28%) Presales
6 29 (10.90%) Mentoring
7 27 (10.15%) Continuous Improvement
8 26 (9.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 25 (9.40%) High Availability
9 25 (9.40%) Process Improvement
10 22 (8.27%) Computer Science
11 21 (7.89%) Project Delivery
12 20 (7.52%) Penetration Testing
12 20 (7.52%) Service Delivery
13 18 (6.77%) Kalman Filter
13 18 (6.77%) SIEM
14 17 (6.39%) Information Security
14 17 (6.39%) Network Design
14 17 (6.39%) Network Monitoring
15 16 (6.02%) Change Control
Programming Languages
1 19 (7.14%) PowerShell
2 17 (6.39%) Python
3 2 (0.75%) Bicep
3 2 (0.75%) SQL
4 1 (0.38%) Bash
4 1 (0.38%) Go
Qualifications
1 266 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 109 (40.98%) CCNP
3 58 (21.80%) Degree
4 57 (21.43%) Security Cleared
5 56 (21.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 44 (16.54%) MCSE
7 41 (15.41%) SC Cleared
8 36 (13.53%) JNCIA
9 35 (13.16%) Network+ Certification
10 27 (10.15%) MCSA
10 27 (10.15%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 24 (9.02%) CCIE
12 22 (8.27%) DBS Check
12 22 (8.27%) DV Cleared
13 20 (7.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 19 (7.14%) BPSS Clearance
15 17 (6.39%) CCSA
15 17 (6.39%) CCSE
16 13 (4.89%) A+ Certification
16 13 (4.89%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (7.89%) SLA
2 17 (6.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 16 (6.02%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (6.02%) GDPR
4 11 (4.14%) NIST
5 7 (2.63%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.13%) ITGC
7 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 37 (13.91%) Active Directory
2 21 (7.89%) Hyper-V
3 20 (7.52%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.63%) VMware ESXi
5 6 (2.26%) vSphere
6 5 (1.88%) Firmware
7 4 (1.50%) VMware NSX
8 1 (0.38%) Docker
8 1 (0.38%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.38%) KVM
8 1 (0.38%) RHEV
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
8 1 (0.38%) Xen
Systems Management
1 28 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (9.40%) FortiGate
3 13 (4.89%) Ansible
4 7 (2.63%) Nmap
5 5 (1.88%) Autotask
5 5 (1.88%) Jamf Pro
5 5 (1.88%) Terraform
6 4 (1.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.50%) Cisco Prime
6 4 (1.50%) PaperCut
6 4 (1.50%) WSUS
7 3 (1.13%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (1.13%) QRadar
8 2 (0.75%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.75%) OpenView
8 2 (0.75%) SCCM
8 2 (0.75%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.38%) Control-M
9 1 (0.38%) Nagios
9 1 (0.38%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 164 (61.65%) Cisco
2 78 (29.32%) Microsoft
3 72 (27.07%) Fortinet
4 52 (19.55%) Juniper
5 42 (15.79%) VMware
6 28 (10.53%) Aruba
6 28 (10.53%) CheckPoint
7 23 (8.65%) Meraki
8 22 (8.27%) SolarWinds
9 19 (7.14%) Dell
9 19 (7.14%) Palo Alto
10 15 (5.64%) Citrix
11 11 (4.14%) CrowdStrike
12 10 (3.76%) Splunk
13 8 (3.01%) Apple
13 8 (3.01%) Arista
13 8 (3.01%) Draytek
13 8 (3.01%) WatchGuard
14 7 (2.63%) Mitel
14 7 (2.63%) Remedy