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

6 months to
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 326 321
Rank change year-on-year -65 -5 -36
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 509 409 599
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.43% 0.83% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.48% 2.34% 2.88%
Number of salaries quoted 227 285 286
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £37,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +10.63%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £79,750 £67,500 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -25.00% +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 20,510 17,474 20,824
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.36% 35.25% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 11,516 7,384 9,044
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,983 £36,925 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,766 £48,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.26% -8.57% -

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 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 3 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 -63 442 £52,500 +30.43% 359
UK excluding London -74 415 £42,500 +13.33% 322
South East -50 99 £47,500 +8.57% 69
North of England -15 94 £42,500 +4.94% 63
London -53 86 £70,000 +23.89% 101
Midlands 0 85 £41,000 +17.14% 51
Work from Home -71 76 £45,000 +11.11% 78
Yorkshire 0 54 £42,500 +63.46% 28
South West -110 49 £44,189 +38.09% 45
East Midlands -19 48 £38,847 +10.99% 19
Scotland +30 40 £28,000 -22.22% 24
West Midlands -11 37 £53,162 +29.66% 32
East of England -36 32 £63,750 +59.38% 39
North West -26 31 £52,500 -2.33% 21
Wales -61 16 £40,750 -18.09% 18
North East -63 9 £38,378 +23.80% 14
Northern Ireland -86 4 - - 15

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 28 (5.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (4.52%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.18%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.79%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.59%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.20%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.39%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.20%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 328 (64.44%) Azure
2 80 (15.72%) Microsoft 365
3 54 (10.61%) Entra ID
4 53 (10.41%) AWS
5 9 (1.77%) GCP
6 8 (1.57%) OneDrive
7 5 (0.98%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.79%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.79%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.79%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
8 4 (0.79%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (0.79%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.79%) Serverless
9 3 (0.59%) OCI
10 2 (0.39%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.39%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 176 (34.58%) Firewall
2 122 (23.97%) WAN
3 107 (21.02%) LAN
4 104 (20.43%) VPN
5 81 (15.91%) DHCP
5 81 (15.91%) DNS
6 79 (15.52%) Network Security
7 77 (15.13%) VLAN
8 70 (13.75%) TCP/IP
9 68 (13.36%) Wireless
10 57 (11.20%) Wi-Fi
11 40 (7.86%) SD-WAN
12 34 (6.68%) BGP
12 34 (6.68%) VoIP
13 29 (5.70%) OSPF
14 22 (4.32%) SAN
15 18 (3.54%) Internet
15 18 (3.54%) MPLS
15 18 (3.54%) WLAN
16 14 (2.75%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.98%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.20%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.20%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (6.88%) JIRA
2 14 (2.75%) GitLab
3 9 (1.77%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.57%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.57%) Git
5 1 (0.20%) Chocolatey
General
1 337 (66.21%) Social Skills
2 47 (9.23%) Analytical Skills
3 32 (6.29%) Telecoms
4 23 (4.52%) Public Sector
5 18 (3.54%) Finance
5 18 (3.54%) Manufacturing
6 15 (2.95%) Aerospace
7 13 (2.55%) Retail
8 12 (2.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (2.36%) Law
9 10 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 10 (1.96%) Legal
10 8 (1.57%) Banking
11 7 (1.38%) Digital Health
11 7 (1.38%) Military
11 7 (1.38%) Organisational Skills
12 5 (0.98%) Automotive
13 4 (0.79%) Electronics
14 3 (0.59%) Mandarin Language
14 3 (0.59%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 320 (62.87%) Network Engineer
2 66 (12.97%) IT Engineer
3 48 (9.43%) IT Support
4 42 (8.25%) Senior
5 40 (7.86%) Support Engineer
6 35 (6.88%) IT Support Engineer
7 27 (5.30%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 24 (4.72%) Senior Network Engineer
9 22 (4.32%) Field Engineer
9 22 (4.32%) Field Service Engineer
10 19 (3.73%) 3rd Line Support
11 16 (3.14%) Security Engineer
12 13 (2.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 13 (2.55%) Analyst
13 12 (2.36%) Senior Security Engineer
13 12 (2.36%) Systems Engineer
14 11 (2.16%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 11 (2.16%) IT Technician
15 10 (1.96%) Architect
15 10 (1.96%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (3.54%) Terraform
2 4 (0.79%) boto
3 3 (0.59%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.59%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.39%) EDI
4 2 (0.39%) LDAP
4 2 (0.39%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.39%) SAML
5 1 (0.20%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.20%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.20%) YAML
5 1 (0.20%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 71 (13.95%) Data Centre
2 48 (9.43%) Driving Licence
3 17 (3.34%) Security Posture
4 15 (2.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 15 (2.95%) CCTV
4 15 (2.95%) Management Information System
4 15 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
5 12 (2.36%) FMCG
5 12 (2.36%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (2.36%) Smartphone
6 10 (1.96%) PKI
7 9 (1.77%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.57%) Replication
9 7 (1.38%) Cyber Threat
10 6 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.79%) Renewable Energy
12 2 (0.39%) Cyber Security Posture
13 1 (0.20%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 1 (0.20%) Fibre Optics
13 1 (0.20%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 121 (23.77%) Windows
2 85 (16.70%) Windows Server
3 45 (8.84%) Linux
4 16 (3.14%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.36%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.38%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.59%) Android
9 2 (0.39%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (17.09%) Problem-Solving
2 82 (16.11%) ITIL
3 71 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 62 (12.18%) Cybersecurity
5 52 (10.22%) Disaster Recovery
6 51 (10.02%) Project Delivery
7 43 (8.45%) Continuous Improvement
7 43 (8.45%) Network Design
8 40 (7.86%) Business Continuity
9 39 (7.66%) High Availability
10 38 (7.47%) Customer Service
11 28 (5.50%) Computer Science
12 26 (5.11%) Network Monitoring
12 26 (5.11%) Stakeholder Management
13 23 (4.52%) ITSM
14 22 (4.32%) Incident Response
14 22 (4.32%) Mentoring
14 22 (4.32%) Network Architecture
15 21 (4.13%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (4.13%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 42 (8.25%) PowerShell
2 35 (6.88%) Python
3 10 (1.96%) Bash
4 8 (1.57%) Java
5 2 (0.39%) SQL
6 1 (0.20%) C
Qualifications
1 509 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 267 (52.46%) Network+ Certification
3 253 (49.71%) Azure Certification
4 125 (24.56%) CCNP
5 79 (15.52%) Microsoft Certification
6 69 (13.56%) Degree
7 41 (8.06%) MCSE
8 38 (7.47%) Security Cleared
9 23 (4.52%) SC Cleared
10 21 (4.13%) AWS Certification
11 20 (3.93%) DV Cleared
11 20 (3.93%) MCSA
12 19 (3.73%) Computer Science Degree
13 17 (3.34%) A+ Certification
13 17 (3.34%) Microsoft Certified Professional
14 15 (2.95%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (2.95%) CISSP
15 11 (2.16%) CCIE
16 10 (1.96%) CompTIA Security+
17 9 (1.77%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (7.47%) Cyber Essentials
2 27 (5.30%) SLA
3 18 (3.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 9 (1.77%) GDPR
5 6 (1.18%) QA
6 5 (0.98%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (0.98%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.59%) COBIT
7 3 (0.59%) GRC
7 3 (0.59%) NIST
8 2 (0.39%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.20%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 80 (15.72%) Active Directory
2 46 (9.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (7.27%) Hyper-V
4 17 (3.34%) vSphere
5 11 (2.16%) Docker
5 11 (2.16%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.57%) Squid
8 6 (1.18%) Firmware
9 3 (0.59%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.59%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.39%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.20%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.20%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 36 (7.07%) Microsoft Intune
2 27 (5.30%) FortiGate
3 17 (3.34%) Ansible
4 10 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.77%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.57%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.57%) Packer
7 4 (0.79%) Iperf
8 3 (0.59%) Control-M
8 3 (0.59%) SCCM
9 2 (0.39%) VxRail
10 1 (0.20%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.20%) Nagios
10 1 (0.20%) OpenView
10 1 (0.20%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 362 (71.12%) Cisco
2 315 (61.89%) Microsoft
3 220 (43.22%) ForeScout
4 75 (14.73%) VMware
5 50 (9.82%) Fortinet
6 42 (8.25%) Palo Alto
7 25 (4.91%) Meraki
8 19 (3.73%) Dell
9 18 (3.54%) WatchGuard
10 17 (3.34%) F5
11 16 (3.14%) Aruba
12 14 (2.75%) Juniper
12 14 (2.75%) SolarWinds
12 14 (2.75%) Splunk
13 13 (2.55%) Ruckus Wireless
13 13 (2.55%) Sophos
13 13 (2.55%) Veeam
14 11 (2.16%) CheckPoint
14 11 (2.16%) Draytek
14 11 (2.16%) Red Hat