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

6 months to
22 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 329 337 339
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 -38
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 600 407 643
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.56% 0.82% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.03% 2.36% 2.99%
Number of salaries quoted 212 300 414
10th Percentile £26,550 £26,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.46% -19.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,813 £58,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £70,150 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £37,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +20.00% -22.68% +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 19,778 17,252 21,514
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.32% 34.62% 25.90%
Number of salaries quoted 10,663 7,786 11,488
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £37,170 £41,250
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 £72,597
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +13.00% -2.91% -1.90%

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 22 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 22 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 -19 523 £52,500 +28.05% 161
UK excluding London +16 508 £45,000 +20.00% 187
North of England +16 121 £46,250 +32.14% 37
South East -4 119 £47,500 +18.75% 34
Midlands +13 93 £42,500 +13.33% 20
London -57 88 £70,000 +20.17% 30
Yorkshire +13 68 £42,500 +63.46% 13
Work from Home -57 64 £47,500 +26.67% 19
South West -90 62 £50,000 +55.04% 33
East Midlands -4 48 £41,000 +17.14% 5
East of England +6 46 £40,000 - 22
Scotland +41 45 £28,000 -22.22% 19
West Midlands +7 45 £53,162 +23.63% 15
North West +9 41 £52,500 -2.33% 15
Wales -37 22 £40,750 -18.09% 13
North East -50 12 - - 9
Northern Ireland -81 6 - - 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 38 (6.33%) Microsoft Exchange
2 22 (3.67%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.17%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 434 (72.33%) Azure
2 71 (11.83%) Microsoft 365
3 49 (8.17%) AWS
4 37 (6.17%) Entra ID
5 11 (1.83%) GCP
6 10 (1.67%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (1.33%) OneDrive
8 7 (1.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 5 (0.83%) 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 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
11 3 (0.50%) Rubrik
12 2 (0.33%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 169 (28.17%) Firewall
2 126 (21.00%) WAN
3 107 (17.83%) VPN
4 100 (16.67%) LAN
5 81 (13.50%) Network Security
6 73 (12.17%) TCP/IP
7 72 (12.00%) VLAN
8 70 (11.67%) DHCP
8 70 (11.67%) DNS
9 58 (9.67%) Wi-Fi
9 58 (9.67%) Wireless
10 45 (7.50%) SD-WAN
11 39 (6.50%) VoIP
12 31 (5.17%) BGP
13 26 (4.33%) OSPF
14 21 (3.50%) SAN
15 20 (3.33%) Internet
16 17 (2.83%) MPLS
17 15 (2.50%) WLAN
18 13 (2.17%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 29 (4.83%) JIRA
2 12 (2.00%) GitLab
3 10 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.33%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.33%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 449 (74.83%) Social Skills
2 48 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (4.17%) Public Sector
4 20 (3.33%) Telecoms
5 18 (3.00%) Finance
6 17 (2.83%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.00%) Retail
8 11 (1.83%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.50%) Banking
10 9 (1.50%) Legal
11 8 (1.33%) Documentation Skills
11 8 (1.33%) Military
12 7 (1.17%) Digital Health
13 5 (0.83%) Automotive
13 5 (0.83%) Law
14 4 (0.67%) Electronics
15 3 (0.50%) Marketing
15 3 (0.50%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 424 (70.67%) Network Engineer
2 61 (10.17%) IT Engineer
3 40 (6.67%) IT Support
4 33 (5.50%) Senior
5 30 (5.00%) Support Engineer
6 29 (4.83%) IT Support Engineer
7 27 (4.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (3.50%) Field Engineer
8 21 (3.50%) Field Service Engineer
9 20 (3.33%) 3rd Line Support
10 18 (3.00%) Lead
11 17 (2.83%) Senior Network Engineer
12 14 (2.33%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 14 (2.33%) Analyst
13 13 (2.17%) Security Engineer
13 13 (2.17%) Systems Engineer
14 12 (2.00%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 12 (2.00%) Cisco Engineer
14 12 (2.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 9 (1.50%) Azure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.17%) Terraform
2 4 (0.67%) 802.1X
2 4 (0.67%) boto
3 3 (0.50%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.33%) EDI
4 2 (0.33%) LDAP
4 2 (0.33%) SAML
5 1 (0.17%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.17%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.17%) YAML
5 1 (0.17%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.33%) Data Centre
2 36 (6.00%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.50%) Security Posture
5 14 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (2.33%) Management Information System
6 12 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
7 10 (1.67%) Smartphone
8 9 (1.50%) FMCG
9 8 (1.33%) Onboarding
9 8 (1.33%) Replication
10 7 (1.17%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
12 5 (0.83%) CCTV
12 5 (0.83%) PKI
13 4 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
13 4 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
13 4 (0.67%) Social Media
14 3 (0.50%) Public Cloud
15 2 (0.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 111 (18.50%) Windows
2 76 (12.67%) Windows Server
3 41 (6.83%) Linux
4 15 (2.50%) Windows 10
5 14 (2.33%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (1.83%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.50%) Android
8 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (15.83%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (11.67%) ITIL
3 62 (10.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 59 (9.83%) Cybersecurity
5 51 (8.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 49 (8.17%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (7.33%) High Availability
8 41 (6.83%) Customer Service
9 38 (6.33%) Project Delivery
10 37 (6.17%) Network Design
11 35 (5.83%) Business Continuity
12 33 (5.50%) Computer Science
12 33 (5.50%) Network Monitoring
13 23 (3.83%) Incident Response
13 23 (3.83%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (3.67%) Network Architecture
14 22 (3.67%) SIEM
15 19 (3.17%) Infrastructure as Code
15 19 (3.17%) Mentoring
16 17 (2.83%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 46 (7.67%) PowerShell
2 28 (4.67%) Python
3 11 (1.83%) Bash
4 8 (1.33%) Java
5 2 (0.33%) SQL
6 1 (0.17%) Bicep
6 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 600 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 376 (62.67%) Network+ Certification
3 374 (62.33%) Azure Certification
4 118 (19.67%) CCNP
5 81 (13.50%) Degree
6 77 (12.83%) Microsoft Certification
7 34 (5.67%) Security Cleared
8 33 (5.50%) MCSE
9 24 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 23 (3.83%) SC Cleared
11 21 (3.50%) AWS Certification
12 15 (2.50%) A+ Certification
12 15 (2.50%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.33%) MCSA
14 13 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
15 11 (1.83%) CCIE
15 11 (1.83%) CISSP
15 11 (1.83%) RHCSA
16 10 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
16 10 (1.67%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
2 23 (3.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (3.67%) SLA
4 15 (2.50%) GDPR
5 10 (1.67%) NIST
6 6 (1.00%) QA
7 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.50%) COBIT
9 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 81 (13.50%) Active Directory
2 49 (8.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (5.67%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.50%) vSphere
5 11 (1.83%) Docker
5 11 (1.83%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.33%) Squid
7 7 (1.17%) Firmware
7 7 (1.17%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.50%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 3 (0.50%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (3.83%) Microsoft Intune
2 21 (3.50%) FortiGate
3 15 (2.50%) Ansible
4 9 (1.50%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.33%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.33%) Packer
6 7 (1.17%) Cisco Prime
7 4 (0.67%) Control-M
7 4 (0.67%) Iperf
7 4 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
8 3 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.50%) SCCM
8 3 (0.50%) VxRail
9 2 (0.33%) OpenView
9 2 (0.33%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 470 (78.33%) Cisco
2 431 (71.83%) Microsoft
3 330 (55.00%) ForeScout
4 68 (11.33%) VMware
5 53 (8.83%) Fortinet
6 39 (6.50%) Palo Alto
7 31 (5.17%) Meraki
8 19 (3.17%) Dell
8 19 (3.17%) Sophos
9 17 (2.83%) SolarWinds
9 17 (2.83%) Splunk
10 16 (2.67%) CheckPoint
11 15 (2.50%) F5
11 15 (2.50%) Juniper
12 14 (2.33%) Aruba
12 14 (2.33%) Veeam
13 12 (2.00%) HP
14 11 (1.83%) Red Hat
15 10 (1.67%) Citrix
16 9 (1.50%) WatchGuard