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

6 months to
5 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 337 329 348
Rank change year-on-year -8 +19 -48
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 604 396 596
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.54% 0.80% 0.76%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.03% 2.34% 2.87%
Number of salaries quoted 218 289 340
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,250 £36,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -19.19% +10.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,750 £58,750
90th Percentile £81,250 £69,000 £67,625
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £36,000 £48,500
% change year-on-year +25.00% -25.77% +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 19,916 16,935 20,739
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.93% 34.33% 26.29%
Number of salaries quoted 10,917 7,618 10,300
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,463 £36,925 £41,315
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -

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 5 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 5 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 -10 528 £52,500 +28.05% 104
UK excluding London +10 513 £45,000 +25.00% 79
North of England +15 121 £42,500 +4.94% 13
South East -15 120 £46,250 +15.63% 23
Midlands +23 98 £41,000 +17.14% 12
London -53 87 £70,000 +16.67% 46
Work from Home -57 69 £46,250 +13.50% 30
Yorkshire +6 68 £42,500 +63.46% 6
South West -99 62 £50,000 +56.25% 8
East Midlands -8 53 £39,194 +11.98% 7
East of England -12 46 £55,000 +37.50% 7
West Midlands +1 45 £53,162 +29.66% 5
Scotland +34 44 £28,000 -22.22% 10
North West +12 41 £52,500 -2.33% 5
Wales -46 22 £40,750 -18.09% 4
North East -60 12 - - 2
Northern Ireland -79 6 - - 3

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 36 (5.96%) Microsoft Exchange
2 24 (3.97%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.32%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (1.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.66%) Microsoft Project
3 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.17%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 435 (72.02%) Azure
2 77 (12.75%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (8.61%) AWS
4 46 (7.62%) Entra ID
5 10 (1.66%) GCP
6 8 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
6 8 (1.32%) OneDrive
7 5 (0.83%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (0.83%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.66%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.66%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.66%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.66%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.66%) Serverless
9 3 (0.50%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.50%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.33%) Azure Stack
Communications & Networking
1 171 (28.31%) Firewall
2 119 (19.70%) WAN
3 103 (17.05%) VPN
4 99 (16.39%) LAN
5 79 (13.08%) Network Security
6 74 (12.25%) VLAN
7 73 (12.09%) DHCP
7 73 (12.09%) DNS
8 70 (11.59%) TCP/IP
9 60 (9.93%) Wireless
10 58 (9.60%) Wi-Fi
11 43 (7.12%) SD-WAN
12 40 (6.62%) VoIP
13 31 (5.13%) BGP
14 26 (4.30%) OSPF
15 20 (3.31%) Internet
16 19 (3.15%) SAN
17 18 (2.98%) MPLS
18 15 (2.48%) WLAN
19 12 (1.99%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (0.99%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.17%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 31 (5.13%) JIRA
2 13 (2.15%) GitLab
3 10 (1.66%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.32%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.32%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 451 (74.67%) Social Skills
2 45 (7.45%) Analytical Skills
3 27 (4.47%) Telecoms
4 21 (3.48%) Public Sector
5 18 (2.98%) Manufacturing
6 17 (2.81%) Finance
7 12 (1.99%) Retail
8 11 (1.82%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.66%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.49%) Law
11 8 (1.32%) Banking
11 8 (1.32%) Military
12 7 (1.16%) Digital Health
12 7 (1.16%) Legal
13 5 (0.83%) Automotive
14 4 (0.66%) Electronics
15 3 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 423 (70.03%) Network Engineer
2 61 (10.10%) IT Engineer
3 42 (6.95%) IT Support
4 34 (5.63%) Senior
5 32 (5.30%) Support Engineer
6 31 (5.13%) IT Support Engineer
7 27 (4.47%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 19 (3.15%) 3rd Line Support
8 19 (3.15%) Field Engineer
8 19 (3.15%) Field Service Engineer
9 17 (2.81%) Senior Network Engineer
10 15 (2.48%) Lead
10 15 (2.48%) Security Engineer
11 14 (2.32%) Analyst
12 13 (2.15%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 13 (2.15%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (1.82%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
13 11 (1.82%) Cisco Engineer
13 11 (1.82%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 10 (1.66%) Senior Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (3.15%) Terraform
2 4 (0.66%) 802.1X
2 4 (0.66%) boto
3 3 (0.50%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.33%) EDI
4 2 (0.33%) LDAP
4 2 (0.33%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.33%) SAML
5 1 (0.17%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.17%) YAML
5 1 (0.17%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.10%) Data Centre
2 40 (6.62%) Driving Licence
3 18 (2.98%) Security Posture
3 18 (2.98%) Self-Motivation
4 15 (2.48%) Management Information System
5 12 (1.99%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (1.99%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (1.66%) CCTV
6 10 (1.66%) FMCG
7 9 (1.49%) Onboarding
8 8 (1.32%) Replication
8 8 (1.32%) Smartphone
9 7 (1.16%) Cyber Threat
9 7 (1.16%) PKI
10 6 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
11 4 (0.66%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.50%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (0.50%) Social Media
13 2 (0.33%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 116 (19.21%) Windows
2 81 (13.41%) Windows Server
3 45 (7.45%) Linux
4 15 (2.48%) Windows 10
5 13 (2.15%) Windows Server 2016
6 11 (1.82%) Windows Server 2019
7 6 (0.99%) 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 91 (15.07%) Problem-Solving
2 73 (12.09%) ITIL
3 66 (10.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 65 (10.76%) Cybersecurity
5 51 (8.44%) Disaster Recovery
6 47 (7.78%) Continuous Improvement
7 42 (6.95%) High Availability
7 42 (6.95%) Project Delivery
8 38 (6.29%) Network Design
9 37 (6.13%) Business Continuity
10 36 (5.96%) Customer Service
11 33 (5.46%) Computer Science
12 31 (5.13%) Network Monitoring
13 24 (3.97%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (3.81%) Incident Response
15 21 (3.48%) Mentoring
15 21 (3.48%) Network Architecture
15 21 (3.48%) SIEM
16 19 (3.15%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (2.81%) Agile
Programming Languages
1 44 (7.28%) PowerShell
2 30 (4.97%) Python
3 11 (1.82%) Bash
4 8 (1.32%) Java
5 3 (0.50%) SQL
6 1 (0.17%) Bicep
6 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 604 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 376 (62.25%) Network+ Certification
3 370 (61.26%) Azure Certification
4 121 (20.03%) CCNP
5 82 (13.58%) Degree
6 76 (12.58%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (5.96%) MCSE
8 35 (5.79%) Security Cleared
9 24 (3.97%) Computer Science Degree
9 24 (3.97%) SC Cleared
10 21 (3.48%) AWS Certification
11 18 (2.98%) MCSA
12 16 (2.65%) DV Cleared
13 15 (2.48%) CISSP
14 13 (2.15%) A+ Certification
15 12 (1.99%) CCIE
16 11 (1.82%) BPSS Clearance
16 11 (1.82%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (1.66%) Microsoft Certified Professional
17 10 (1.66%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (5.13%) Cyber Essentials
2 23 (3.81%) SLA
3 21 (3.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (2.15%) GDPR
5 8 (1.32%) NIST
6 6 (0.99%) QA
7 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.50%) COBIT
8 3 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.33%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 81 (13.41%) Active Directory
2 47 (7.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (5.96%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.48%) vSphere
5 11 (1.82%) Docker
5 11 (1.82%) VMware NSX
6 8 (1.32%) Squid
6 8 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (1.16%) Firmware
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 30 (4.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 22 (3.64%) FortiGate
3 15 (2.48%) Ansible
4 9 (1.49%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.32%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.32%) Packer
6 7 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (0.83%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (0.66%) Iperf
9 3 (0.50%) Control-M
9 3 (0.50%) SCCM
9 3 (0.50%) VxRail
10 2 (0.33%) Jamf Pro
10 2 (0.33%) OpenView
10 2 (0.33%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.17%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 469 (77.65%) Cisco
2 429 (71.03%) Microsoft
3 330 (54.64%) ForeScout
4 71 (11.75%) VMware
5 51 (8.44%) Fortinet
6 39 (6.46%) Palo Alto
7 28 (4.64%) Meraki
8 17 (2.81%) Dell
9 16 (2.65%) Sophos
9 16 (2.65%) Splunk
10 15 (2.48%) Juniper
11 14 (2.32%) Aruba
11 14 (2.32%) CheckPoint
11 14 (2.32%) F5
11 14 (2.32%) SolarWinds
11 14 (2.32%) Veeam
11 14 (2.32%) WatchGuard
12 12 (1.99%) HP
13 11 (1.82%) Red Hat
14 9 (1.49%) Citrix