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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 344 340
Rank change year-on-year +49 -4 +27
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 585 378 835
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.63% 0.85% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.22% 2.19% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 190 301 626
10th Percentile £26,950 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,039 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £73,750 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,151 £45,000 £43,500
% change year-on-year +2.56% +3.45% +2.35%

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 18,177 17,253 27,327
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.60% 38.84% 25.46%
Number of salaries quoted 9,508 7,311 17,250
10th Percentile £30,461 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £39,928 £38,607
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.72% +2.12% -4.76%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +23 516 £50,000 +5.26% 187
UK excluding London +64 489 £46,151 +2.56% 206
North of England +39 140 £50,000 -9.09% 48
South East +6 98 £45,000 +5.88% 42
London -36 91 £74,000 +34.55% 31
Midlands +9 80 £51,058 +32.62% 17
Yorkshire +10 68 £45,500 +17.88% 12
South West -41 67 £45,000 - 37
North West +33 60 £50,000 -9.09% 26
Work from Home -19 54 £49,250 +6.49% 33
East of England +22 43 £34,000 -28.42% 28
East Midlands -8 43 £51,058 +45.88% 2
Scotland +47 39 £26,150 +2.55% 14
West Midlands -8 37 £53,401 -17.85% 15
Wales -26 22 £40,750 +8.67% 9
North East -32 12 - - 10
Northern Ireland -25 6 - - 13

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 27 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
2 11 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.37%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.71%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 424 (72.48%) Azure
2 54 (9.23%) AWS
3 49 (8.38%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (2.74%) Entra ID
5 11 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (1.88%) GCP
6 9 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (0.85%) Mimecast
7 5 (0.85%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.68%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.68%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.68%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.68%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.68%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.68%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.68%) Serverless
9 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.51%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.34%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 151 (25.81%) Firewall
2 118 (20.17%) WAN
3 96 (16.41%) LAN
4 88 (15.04%) VPN
5 64 (10.94%) Network Security
6 60 (10.26%) Wi-Fi
7 40 (6.84%) TCP/IP
7 40 (6.84%) VLAN
8 35 (5.98%) DNS
9 34 (5.81%) DHCP
10 33 (5.64%) SD-WAN
11 31 (5.30%) VoIP
11 31 (5.30%) Wireless
12 23 (3.93%) BGP
13 21 (3.59%) Cisco Firepower
14 20 (3.42%) SAN
15 19 (3.25%) MPLS
16 18 (3.08%) OSPF
17 17 (2.91%) WLAN
18 16 (2.74%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (3.25%) JIRA
2 13 (2.22%) GitLab
3 9 (1.54%) Git
3 9 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.37%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.68%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.68%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 433 (74.02%) Social Skills
2 41 (7.01%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (4.27%) Public Sector
4 20 (3.42%) Finance
5 14 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (2.22%) Retail
7 12 (2.05%) Legal
7 12 (2.05%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.05%) Telecoms
8 10 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 9 (1.54%) Aerospace
9 9 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
10 8 (1.37%) Banking
11 7 (1.20%) Law
12 6 (1.03%) Military
13 4 (0.68%) Automotive
13 4 (0.68%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.68%) Electronics
14 3 (0.51%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.34%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 419 (71.62%) Network Engineer
2 53 (9.06%) IT Engineer
3 30 (5.13%) Senior
4 29 (4.96%) IT Support
5 28 (4.79%) Cisco Engineer
6 24 (4.10%) Support Engineer
7 22 (3.76%) IT Support Engineer
8 21 (3.59%) Lead
9 20 (3.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (3.25%) Field Engineer
10 19 (3.25%) Field Service Engineer
10 19 (3.25%) LAN Engineer
10 19 (3.25%) LAN/WAN Engineer
10 19 (3.25%) Senior Network Engineer
10 19 (3.25%) WAN Engineer
11 18 (3.08%) Azure Engineer
12 17 (2.91%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 14 (2.39%) Presales Engineer
14 12 (2.05%) Security Engineer
15 11 (1.88%) Security Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.68%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.68%) boto
1 4 (0.68%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.34%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.43%) Data Centre
2 20 (3.42%) Driving Licence
3 19 (3.25%) Security Posture
4 16 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.05%) Smartphone
6 11 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 8 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.03%) FMCG
11 5 (0.85%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (0.85%) PKI
11 5 (0.85%) Replication
12 4 (0.68%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (0.68%) Insider Threat
12 4 (0.68%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.68%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (0.68%) Social Media
13 3 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 88 (15.04%) Windows
2 49 (8.38%) Windows Server
3 44 (7.52%) Linux
4 12 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
5 9 (1.54%) Windows 10
6 8 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
7 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.17%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (15.04%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (10.26%) Cybersecurity
3 53 (9.06%) ITIL
4 41 (7.01%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 39 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 39 (6.67%) High Availability
6 37 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
7 34 (5.81%) Customer Service
8 33 (5.64%) Computer Science
9 29 (4.96%) Incident Response
9 29 (4.96%) Network Monitoring
10 27 (4.62%) Business Continuity
11 25 (4.27%) Network Architecture
11 25 (4.27%) SIEM
12 23 (3.93%) Network Design
13 22 (3.76%) Presales
14 20 (3.42%) Process Improvement
15 17 (2.91%) Penetration Testing
16 16 (2.74%) Project Delivery
17 15 (2.56%) Infrastructure as Code
Programming Languages
1 34 (5.81%) PowerShell
2 18 (3.08%) Python
3 9 (1.54%) Bash
4 8 (1.37%) Java
5 3 (0.51%) SQL
6 2 (0.34%) Bicep
7 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 585 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 367 (62.74%) Network+ Certification
3 366 (62.56%) Azure Certification
4 108 (18.46%) CCNP
5 69 (11.79%) Microsoft Certification
6 67 (11.45%) Degree
7 39 (6.67%) MCSE
7 39 (6.67%) Security Cleared
8 28 (4.79%) Computer Science Degree
9 22 (3.76%) SC Cleared
10 21 (3.59%) CCIE
11 16 (2.74%) A+ Certification
11 16 (2.74%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (2.39%) CISSP
13 13 (2.22%) AWS Certification
13 13 (2.22%) JNCIA
14 12 (2.05%) CompTIA Security+
14 12 (2.05%) DV Cleared
14 12 (2.05%) OSCP
14 12 (2.05%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (3.76%) SLA
3 17 (2.91%) GDPR
4 14 (2.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 12 (2.05%) NIST
6 5 (0.85%) QA
7 4 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
7 4 (0.68%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.51%) COBIT
9 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 59 (10.09%) Active Directory
2 37 (6.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (3.93%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.74%) vSphere
5 13 (2.22%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.88%) Docker
7 8 (1.37%) Squid
8 7 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
9 5 (0.85%) Firmware
10 3 (0.51%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.51%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (3.42%) FortiGate
2 18 (3.08%) Ansible
3 16 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (2.74%) Terraform
4 10 (1.71%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (1.54%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.37%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.37%) Packer
7 5 (0.85%) Control-M
8 4 (0.68%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.68%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.68%) Nmap
8 4 (0.68%) WSUS
9 3 (0.51%) OpenView
9 3 (0.51%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.51%) VxRail
10 1 (0.17%) Iperf
10 1 (0.17%) PaperCut
10 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 457 (78.12%) Cisco
2 414 (70.77%) Microsoft
3 330 (56.41%) ForeScout
4 55 (9.40%) Fortinet
5 53 (9.06%) VMware
6 28 (4.79%) Aruba
7 26 (4.44%) Meraki
8 25 (4.27%) Palo Alto
9 24 (4.10%) Dell
10 21 (3.59%) CheckPoint
10 21 (3.59%) SolarWinds
11 20 (3.42%) Juniper
12 19 (3.25%) Splunk
13 12 (2.05%) HP
13 12 (2.05%) Sophos
14 11 (1.88%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.88%) Veeam
15 10 (1.71%) Citrix
16 8 (1.37%) Oracle
17 7 (1.20%) CrowdStrike