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

6 months to
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 348 322 334
Rank change year-on-year -26 +12 -46
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 616 413 599
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.84% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.96% 2.44% 2.85%
Number of salaries quoted 227 294 292
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,750 £31,000 £37,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,938 £60,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £68,375 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +13.33% -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 20,836 16,949 21,033
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.81% 34.41% 27.49%
Number of salaries quoted 11,441 7,450 9,397
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,241 £37,253 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,509
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -2.67% -3.61%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 24 September 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 24 September 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 -36 534 £52,500 +29.63% 323
UK excluding London -5 523 £42,500 +13.33% 300
North of England +12 122 £42,500 +4.94% 61
South East -40 119 £47,500 +11.76% 65
Midlands +15 105 £41,000 +17.14% 41
London -48 86 £70,000 +16.67% 81
Work from Home -76 73 £45,000 +9.76% 63
Yorkshire +17 71 £42,500 +63.46% 24
South West -102 63 £50,000 +56.25% 43
East Midlands +1 58 £38,847 +10.99% 11
Scotland +39 48 £28,000 -22.22% 22
West Midlands -7 47 £53,162 +29.66% 30
East of England -16 44 £55,000 +37.50% 40
North West -7 39 £52,500 -2.33% 24
Wales -57 22 £40,750 -18.09% 12
North East -63 12 - - 13
Northern Ireland -87 6 - - 17

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 29 (4.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.73%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.30%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.97%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.32%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.16%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 436 (70.78%) Azure
2 78 (12.66%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (8.44%) AWS
3 52 (8.44%) Entra ID
4 9 (1.46%) GCP
5 8 (1.30%) OneDrive
6 5 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
6 5 (0.81%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.65%) Amazon EC2
7 4 (0.65%) Amazon EKS
7 4 (0.65%) Amazon S3
7 4 (0.65%) AWS CloudTrail
7 4 (0.65%) AWS Fargate
7 4 (0.65%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (0.65%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (0.65%) Power Automate
7 4 (0.65%) Serverless
8 2 (0.32%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.32%) Azure Stack
8 2 (0.32%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 174 (28.25%) Firewall
2 118 (19.16%) WAN
3 102 (16.56%) LAN
3 102 (16.56%) VPN
4 81 (13.15%) DHCP
4 81 (13.15%) DNS
5 79 (12.82%) Network Security
6 75 (12.18%) VLAN
7 70 (11.36%) TCP/IP
8 65 (10.55%) Wireless
9 57 (9.25%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (6.49%) SD-WAN
11 36 (5.84%) VoIP
12 33 (5.36%) BGP
13 28 (4.55%) OSPF
14 21 (3.41%) SAN
15 18 (2.92%) Internet
15 18 (2.92%) MPLS
16 17 (2.76%) WLAN
17 13 (2.11%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.81%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (5.68%) JIRA
2 15 (2.44%) GitLab
3 10 (1.62%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.30%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.30%) Git
5 1 (0.16%) Chocolatey
General
1 449 (72.89%) Social Skills
2 48 (7.79%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (5.03%) Telecoms
4 22 (3.57%) Public Sector
5 19 (3.08%) Manufacturing
6 17 (2.76%) Finance
7 14 (2.27%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.11%) Law
9 12 (1.95%) Retail
10 11 (1.79%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 10 (1.62%) Documentation Skills
12 9 (1.46%) Legal
13 8 (1.30%) Banking
13 8 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
14 7 (1.14%) Digital Health
14 7 (1.14%) Military
15 5 (0.81%) Automotive
16 4 (0.65%) Electronics
17 3 (0.49%) Mandarin Language
17 3 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 427 (69.32%) Network Engineer
2 65 (10.55%) IT Engineer
3 46 (7.47%) IT Support
4 40 (6.49%) Senior
5 37 (6.01%) Support Engineer
6 34 (5.52%) IT Support Engineer
7 27 (4.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 22 (3.57%) Senior Network Engineer
9 21 (3.41%) Field Engineer
9 21 (3.41%) Field Service Engineer
10 19 (3.08%) 3rd Line Support
11 17 (2.76%) Security Engineer
12 14 (2.27%) Analyst
13 13 (2.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 12 (1.95%) Senior Security Engineer
14 12 (1.95%) Systems Engineer
15 11 (1.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 11 (1.79%) Lead
16 10 (1.62%) Cybersecurity Engineer
16 10 (1.62%) IT Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.08%) Terraform
2 4 (0.65%) boto
3 3 (0.49%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.49%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.32%) EDI
4 2 (0.32%) LDAP
4 2 (0.32%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.32%) SAML
5 1 (0.16%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.16%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.16%) YAML
5 1 (0.16%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 68 (11.04%) Data Centre
2 47 (7.63%) Driving Licence
3 18 (2.92%) Security Posture
4 16 (2.60%) Management Information System
4 16 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
5 14 (2.27%) Analytical Mindset
5 14 (2.27%) CCTV
6 12 (1.95%) FMCG
6 12 (1.95%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.79%) Smartphone
8 10 (1.62%) PKI
9 9 (1.46%) Onboarding
10 8 (1.30%) Replication
11 7 (1.14%) Cyber Threat
12 6 (0.97%) Enterprise Software
13 4 (0.65%) Renewable Energy
14 3 (0.49%) Cyber Security Posture
14 3 (0.49%) Fibre Optics
15 2 (0.32%) Operational Technology
16 1 (0.16%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 119 (19.32%) Windows
2 84 (13.64%) Windows Server
3 46 (7.47%) Linux
4 16 (2.60%) Windows 10
5 12 (1.95%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (1.95%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.97%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.65%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.49%) Android
9 2 (0.32%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
2 80 (12.99%) ITIL
3 70 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 64 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
5 51 (8.28%) Disaster Recovery
6 50 (8.12%) Project Delivery
7 43 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (6.82%) Network Design
9 39 (6.33%) Business Continuity
9 39 (6.33%) High Availability
10 35 (5.68%) Customer Service
11 29 (4.71%) Computer Science
12 27 (4.38%) Network Monitoring
13 26 (4.22%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (3.73%) Incident Response
15 22 (3.57%) Network Architecture
16 21 (3.41%) Infrastructure as Code
16 21 (3.41%) ITSM
16 21 (3.41%) Mentoring
16 21 (3.41%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 43 (6.98%) PowerShell
2 34 (5.52%) Python
3 11 (1.79%) Bash
4 8 (1.30%) Java
5 2 (0.32%) SQL
6 1 (0.16%) Bicep
6 1 (0.16%) C
Qualifications
1 616 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 378 (61.36%) Network+ Certification
3 365 (59.25%) Azure Certification
4 123 (19.97%) CCNP
5 78 (12.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 73 (11.85%) Degree
7 40 (6.49%) MCSE
8 38 (6.17%) Security Cleared
9 24 (3.90%) SC Cleared
10 21 (3.41%) AWS Certification
11 20 (3.25%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (3.08%) DV Cleared
12 19 (3.08%) MCSA
13 17 (2.76%) CISSP
14 16 (2.60%) A+ Certification
15 15 (2.44%) Microsoft Certified Professional
16 14 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
17 11 (1.79%) CCIE
17 11 (1.79%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (1.46%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (6.01%) Cyber Essentials
2 27 (4.38%) SLA
3 17 (2.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (1.62%) GDPR
5 6 (0.97%) QA
6 5 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 4 (0.65%) NIST
7 4 (0.65%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.49%) COBIT
8 3 (0.49%) GRC
9 2 (0.32%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.16%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 80 (12.99%) Active Directory
2 45 (7.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (5.84%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.60%) vSphere
5 11 (1.79%) Docker
5 11 (1.79%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.62%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.30%) Squid
8 6 (0.97%) Firmware
9 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.49%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.32%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 34 (5.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (4.22%) FortiGate
3 17 (2.76%) Ansible
4 10 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (1.46%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.30%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.30%) Packer
7 4 (0.65%) Iperf
8 3 (0.49%) Control-M
8 3 (0.49%) SCCM
9 2 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
9 2 (0.32%) VxRail
10 1 (0.16%) Nagios
10 1 (0.16%) OpenView
10 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 472 (76.62%) Cisco
2 424 (68.83%) Microsoft
3 330 (53.57%) ForeScout
4 73 (11.85%) VMware
5 49 (7.95%) Fortinet
6 41 (6.66%) Palo Alto
7 26 (4.22%) Meraki
8 18 (2.92%) Dell
9 17 (2.76%) WatchGuard
10 16 (2.60%) F5
11 15 (2.44%) Aruba
12 14 (2.27%) Juniper
12 14 (2.27%) SolarWinds
12 14 (2.27%) Splunk
13 13 (2.11%) Sophos
13 13 (2.11%) Veeam
14 12 (1.95%) Ruckus Wireless
15 11 (1.79%) CheckPoint
15 11 (1.79%) HP
15 11 (1.79%) Red Hat