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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 412 224 311
Rank change year-on-year -188 +87 +105
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 275 682 680
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.42% 1.35% 0.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.39% 3.61% 3.22%
Number of salaries quoted 188 330 588
10th Percentile £25,750 £33,470 £29,175
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,250 £55,000 £46,700
Median % change year-on-year -17.73% +17.77% -1.68%
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £68,250 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,857 £52,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year -18.37% +25.00% -2.33%

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 19,797 18,881 21,093
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.27% 37.49% 28.37%
Number of salaries quoted 7,885 7,371 14,882
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £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 £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.96%

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 9 February 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 9 February 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 -176 251 £50,000 -9.09% 101
UK excluding London -148 209 £42,857 -18.37% 97
Work from Home +50 86 £45,000 -20.00% 36
London -36 56 £55,000 -12.00% 25
North of England -58 53 £50,000 +5.26% 16
South East -48 48 £52,500 -12.50% 34
North West -13 41 £50,000 +5.26% 11
Midlands -118 36 £32,500 -48.86% 15
East Midlands -36 32 £32,500 -12.16% 4
East of England +23 28 £40,000 -20.79% 14
South West -6 26 £40,000 -15.79% 15
Scotland -18 10 £26,150 -59.77% 9
Yorkshire -44 9 £50,000 +2.56% 5
Northern Ireland -12 7 £37,500 -28.57% 1
West Midlands -106 4 £35,000 -45.82% 11
North East -11 3 £46,000 -29.23%
Wales -25 1 £32,500 -25.29%

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 22 (8.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.18%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.73%) Confluence
4 1 (0.36%) Apache
4 1 (0.36%) WildFly
Applications
1 6 (2.18%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.45%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.09%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 73 (26.55%) Azure
2 43 (15.64%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (14.18%) AWS
4 27 (9.82%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.82%) IaaS
6 4 (1.45%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.09%) SaaS
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.73%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.36%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.36%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.36%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.36%) GCP
9 1 (0.36%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.36%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.36%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.36%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 147 (53.45%) Firewall
2 107 (38.91%) WAN
3 103 (37.45%) LAN
4 67 (24.36%) VPN
5 43 (15.64%) Wi-Fi
6 36 (13.09%) VLAN
7 35 (12.73%) Network Security
8 33 (12.00%) TCP/IP
9 26 (9.45%) Cisco ASA
10 23 (8.36%) DNS
11 22 (8.00%) Wireless
12 21 (7.64%) MPLS
13 20 (7.27%) DHCP
14 19 (6.91%) BGP
15 17 (6.18%) Cisco Firepower
15 17 (6.18%) Intrusion Detection
15 17 (6.18%) SD-WAN
15 17 (6.18%) WLAN
16 16 (5.82%) VoIP
17 15 (5.45%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.09%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.36%) MySQL
2 1 (0.36%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.55%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.55%) Metasploit
2 4 (1.45%) GitLab
3 3 (1.09%) JIRA
4 1 (0.36%) Git
General
1 100 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 43 (15.64%) Finance
3 22 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.64%) Presentation Skills
4 21 (7.64%) Public Sector
5 15 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
6 14 (5.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 14 (5.09%) Telecoms
7 13 (4.73%) Law
8 12 (4.36%) Legal
9 10 (3.64%) Retail
10 4 (1.45%) Documentation Skills
11 3 (1.09%) Banking
11 3 (1.09%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.36%) Billing
12 1 (0.36%) Manufacturing
12 1 (0.36%) Marketing
12 1 (0.36%) Military
Job Titles
1 69 (25.09%) Network Engineer
2 35 (12.73%) Cisco Engineer
2 35 (12.73%) IT Engineer
2 35 (12.73%) Support Engineer
3 33 (12.00%) LAN Engineer
3 33 (12.00%) LAN/WAN Engineer
3 33 (12.00%) WAN Engineer
4 30 (10.91%) Technical Engineer
5 25 (9.09%) Senior
6 21 (7.64%) Presales Engineer
7 20 (7.27%) Analyst
8 19 (6.91%) Firewall Engineer
8 19 (6.91%) Juniper Engineer
9 17 (6.18%) IT Support
10 16 (5.82%) Azure Engineer
10 16 (5.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
10 16 (5.82%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 16 (5.82%) IT Support Engineer
10 16 (5.82%) Senior Network Engineer
10 16 (5.82%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.09%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.73%) Middleware
3 1 (0.36%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.36%) React
3 1 (0.36%) Svelte
3 1 (0.36%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.64%) Data Centre
2 19 (6.91%) Driving Licence
3 14 (5.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (4.36%) Analytical Mindset
4 12 (4.36%) Security Posture
4 12 (4.36%) Smartphone
5 10 (3.64%) e-Learning
5 10 (3.64%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (3.27%) Management Information System
7 8 (2.91%) CCTV
8 7 (2.55%) Insider Threat
8 7 (2.55%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.18%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.82%) Social Media
11 4 (1.45%) PKI
12 3 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.09%) iPad
12 3 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.73%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.73%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 63 (22.91%) Windows
2 37 (13.45%) Linux
3 31 (11.27%) Windows Server
4 16 (5.82%) Unix
5 9 (3.27%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.82%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.09%) Android
8 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.36%) CentOS
9 1 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.36%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (24.36%) Customer Service
2 64 (23.27%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (21.45%) ITIL
4 45 (16.36%) Cybersecurity
5 34 (12.36%) Mentoring
6 32 (11.64%) Presales
7 30 (10.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 28 (10.18%) High Availability
9 24 (8.73%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (8.00%) Project Delivery
11 21 (7.64%) Computer Science
11 21 (7.64%) Process Improvement
11 21 (7.64%) Service Delivery
12 20 (7.27%) Kalman Filter
12 20 (7.27%) Penetration Testing
13 18 (6.55%) Security Operations
14 17 (6.18%) Information Security
14 17 (6.18%) Network Design
15 16 (5.82%) Change Control
15 16 (5.82%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.91%) PowerShell
2 17 (6.18%) Python
3 2 (0.73%) Bash
3 2 (0.73%) Bicep
3 2 (0.73%) SQL
4 1 (0.36%) C
4 1 (0.36%) Go
Qualifications
1 275 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 115 (41.82%) CCNP
3 66 (24.00%) Security Cleared
4 58 (21.09%) Degree
5 56 (20.36%) Microsoft Certification
6 49 (17.82%) SC Cleared
7 45 (16.36%) JNCIA
8 43 (15.64%) MCSE
9 35 (12.73%) Network+ Certification
10 29 (10.55%) DV Cleared
10 29 (10.55%) MCSA
11 27 (9.82%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 23 (8.36%) CCIE
12 23 (8.36%) DBS Check
13 19 (6.91%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (6.18%) CCSA
14 17 (6.18%) CCSE
15 16 (5.82%) BPSS Clearance
16 14 (5.09%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (4.73%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (8.00%) SLA
2 21 (7.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (6.55%) GDPR
4 15 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (4.36%) NIST
6 7 (2.55%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.09%) ITGC
8 2 (0.73%) GxP
8 2 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.36%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.36%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.36%) HIPAA
System Software
1 37 (13.45%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.45%) Hyper-V
3 14 (5.09%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.18%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.82%) Firmware
6 4 (1.45%) vSphere
7 3 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.09%) VMware NSX
8 2 (0.73%) Docker
8 2 (0.73%) KVM
8 2 (0.73%) RHEV
8 2 (0.73%) Virtual Servers
8 2 (0.73%) Xen
9 1 (0.36%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.36%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 1 (0.36%) pfSense
9 1 (0.36%) Samba
Systems Management
1 31 (11.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (9.45%) FortiGate
3 12 (4.36%) Ansible
4 7 (2.55%) Nmap
5 5 (1.82%) Autotask
5 5 (1.82%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.45%) PaperCut
6 4 (1.45%) SCCM
6 4 (1.45%) Terraform
7 3 (1.09%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 3 (1.09%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (1.09%) QRadar
7 3 (1.09%) WSUS
8 2 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.73%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.73%) Kubernetes
8 2 (0.73%) Nagios
8 2 (0.73%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.36%) OpenView
9 1 (0.36%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 169 (61.45%) Cisco
2 74 (26.91%) Microsoft
3 71 (25.82%) Fortinet
4 61 (22.18%) Juniper
5 36 (13.09%) VMware
6 28 (10.18%) Aruba
7 26 (9.45%) CheckPoint
8 24 (8.73%) Meraki
9 21 (7.64%) SolarWinds
10 20 (7.27%) Dell
10 20 (7.27%) Palo Alto
11 13 (4.73%) Citrix
12 10 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (3.27%) Apple
13 9 (3.27%) Remedy
13 9 (3.27%) Splunk
14 8 (2.91%) Arista
14 8 (2.91%) Draytek
14 8 (2.91%) ServiceNow
14 8 (2.91%) WatchGuard