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

6 months to
22 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 368 236 304
Rank change year-on-year -132 +68 +104
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 302 686 600
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.49% 1.29% 0.96%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.55% 3.49% 3.34%
Number of salaries quoted 210 330 519
10th Percentile £25,750 £34,339 £30,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,125 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -26.36% +15.79% +4.97%
75th Percentile £53,951 £63,750 £57,625
90th Percentile £67,750 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -23.81% +23.53% -

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 19,492 19,679 17,960
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.47% 37.04% 28.65%
Number of salaries quoted 7,860 7,667 12,458
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £59,430 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.45% +8.05% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,900 £76,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £90,921 £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 22 January 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 January 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 -136 273 £41,551 -24.45% 111
UK excluding London -119 240 £40,000 -23.81% 107
Work from Home +78 94 £41,000 -25.45% 33
South East -25 58 £52,500 -12.50% 29
North of England -28 57 £50,000 +5.26% 30
London -39 51 £50,000 -16.67% 19
North West -3 41 £50,000 +5.26% 15
Midlands -113 39 £32,500 -47.58% 14
South West +26 35 £32,000 -31.18% 17
East Midlands -24 33 £32,500 -12.16% 4
East of England +23 30 £40,000 -20.79% 8
Scotland -7 13 £36,000 -44.62% 7
Yorkshire -29 10 £26,750 -45.13% 12
Northern Ireland -6 7 £37,500 -28.57% 2
North East -1 6 £31,000 -52.31% 4
West Midlands -107 6 £41,000 -34.14% 10
Wales -26 1 £32,500 -26.14% 1

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 (7.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (1.99%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.66%) Apache
3 2 (0.66%) Confluence
3 2 (0.66%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (2.32%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.32%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.33%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.66%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 75 (24.83%) Azure
2 44 (14.57%) Microsoft 365
3 36 (11.92%) AWS
4 27 (8.94%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.66%) IaaS
6 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (1.32%) SaaS
7 2 (0.66%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.66%) GCP
7 2 (0.66%) GitHub
7 2 (0.66%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (0.66%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.33%) AWS Direct Connect
8 1 (0.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.33%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (0.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.33%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.33%) Pulumi
8 1 (0.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 153 (50.66%) Firewall
2 107 (35.43%) WAN
3 104 (34.44%) LAN
4 67 (22.19%) VPN
5 42 (13.91%) Wi-Fi
6 35 (11.59%) VLAN
7 34 (11.26%) Network Security
8 33 (10.93%) TCP/IP
9 27 (8.94%) VSAT
10 23 (7.62%) Cisco ASA
11 22 (7.28%) MPLS
11 22 (7.28%) Wireless
12 20 (6.62%) BGP
12 20 (6.62%) DNS
13 18 (5.96%) DHCP
14 17 (5.63%) Intrusion Detection
15 16 (5.30%) VoIP
15 16 (5.30%) WLAN
16 15 (4.97%) OSPF
16 15 (4.97%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.66%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.66%) MySQL
2 2 (0.66%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.32%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.32%) Metasploit
2 3 (0.99%) GitLab
3 2 (0.66%) JIRA
4 1 (0.33%) Git
General
1 105 (34.77%) Social Skills
2 48 (15.89%) Finance
3 21 (6.95%) Analytical Skills
3 21 (6.95%) Presentation Skills
3 21 (6.95%) Public Sector
4 18 (5.96%) Telecoms
5 16 (5.30%) Organisational Skills
6 13 (4.30%) Law
7 11 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 11 (3.64%) Legal
8 9 (2.98%) Retail
9 8 (2.65%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.32%) Billing
11 4 (1.32%) Documentation Skills
12 3 (0.99%) Aerospace
12 3 (0.99%) Automotive
12 3 (0.99%) Banking
12 3 (0.99%) Electronics
13 2 (0.66%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 68 (22.52%) Network Engineer
2 47 (15.56%) Support Engineer
3 46 (15.23%) Technical Engineer
4 34 (11.26%) Technical Support
5 32 (10.60%) Cisco Engineer
6 31 (10.26%) IT Engineer
6 31 (10.26%) LAN Engineer
6 31 (10.26%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 31 (10.26%) WAN Engineer
7 28 (9.27%) Technical Support Engineer
8 26 (8.61%) Senior
9 25 (8.28%) Analyst
10 21 (6.95%) Administrator
10 21 (6.95%) Presales Engineer
11 19 (6.29%) Firewall Engineer
11 19 (6.29%) Juniper Engineer
12 18 (5.96%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 18 (5.96%) IT Support
13 17 (5.63%) NOC Engineer
13 17 (5.63%) Systems Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.99%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.66%) Middleware
3 1 (0.33%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.33%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (0.33%) React
3 1 (0.33%) Svelte
3 1 (0.33%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 49 (16.23%) Data Centre
2 24 (7.95%) Driving Licence
3 18 (5.96%) e-Learning
4 12 (3.97%) CCTV
4 12 (3.97%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (3.97%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (3.64%) Smartphone
6 10 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.31%) Onboarding
7 8 (2.65%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.32%) Insider Threat
9 5 (1.66%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.66%) Social Media
10 4 (1.32%) Handset
10 4 (1.32%) LIMS
10 4 (1.32%) SCADA
11 3 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (0.99%) iPad
11 3 (0.99%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 68 (22.52%) Windows
2 43 (14.24%) Linux
3 39 (12.91%) Windows Server
4 24 (7.95%) Unix
5 14 (4.64%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.66%) Android
6 5 (1.66%) Windows Server 2016
7 2 (0.66%) CentOS
7 2 (0.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (0.66%) Ubuntu
7 2 (0.66%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (28.81%) Customer Service
2 66 (21.85%) ITIL
2 66 (21.85%) Problem-Solving
3 44 (14.57%) Mentoring
4 38 (12.58%) Cybersecurity
5 37 (12.25%) High Availability
6 34 (11.26%) Presales
7 31 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (8.61%) Commercial Awareness
9 25 (8.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (7.95%) Kalman Filter
11 21 (6.95%) Computer Science
11 21 (6.95%) Project Delivery
12 20 (6.62%) Innovative Thinking
12 20 (6.62%) Service Delivery
13 19 (6.29%) Information Security
13 19 (6.29%) Penetration Testing
14 18 (5.96%) Security Operations
15 16 (5.30%) Process Improvement
15 16 (5.30%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 21 (6.95%) Python
2 20 (6.62%) PowerShell
3 5 (1.66%) Bash
4 3 (0.99%) Bicep
5 2 (0.66%) C
5 2 (0.66%) VB
6 1 (0.33%) Go
6 1 (0.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 302 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 120 (39.74%) CCNP
3 78 (25.83%) Security Cleared
4 63 (20.86%) SC Cleared
5 59 (19.54%) Degree
5 59 (19.54%) JNCIA
5 59 (19.54%) Microsoft Certification
6 42 (13.91%) MCSE
7 38 (12.58%) DV Cleared
8 36 (11.92%) Network+ Certification
9 31 (10.26%) MCSA
10 28 (9.27%) MCP
11 26 (8.61%) DBS Check
12 20 (6.62%) CCIE
13 18 (5.96%) Computer Science Degree
14 15 (4.97%) A+ Certification
14 15 (4.97%) CompTIA Security+
15 14 (4.64%) CCSA
15 14 (4.64%) CCSE
15 14 (4.64%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (7.62%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (7.28%) SLA
3 18 (5.96%) GDPR
4 13 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 13 (4.30%) NIST
5 7 (2.32%) Actionable Recommendations
6 5 (1.66%) GxP
7 4 (1.32%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.99%) ITGC
9 2 (0.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.33%) HIPAA
System Software
1 44 (14.57%) Active Directory
2 15 (4.97%) Hyper-V
3 13 (4.30%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.66%) Firmware
4 5 (1.66%) vSphere
5 4 (1.32%) Docker
6 3 (0.99%) KVM
6 3 (0.99%) pfSense
6 3 (0.99%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
7 2 (0.66%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.66%) RHEV
7 2 (0.66%) Samba
7 2 (0.66%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.66%) Xen
8 1 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 1 (0.33%) Microsoft Virtual Server
8 1 (0.33%) Squid
8 1 (0.33%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (10.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 23 (7.62%) FortiGate
3 11 (3.64%) Ansible
4 7 (2.32%) Nmap
4 7 (2.32%) SCCM
5 6 (1.99%) Terraform
6 5 (1.66%) Autotask
6 5 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.32%) Kubernetes
7 4 (1.32%) PaperCut
8 3 (0.99%) ArcSight ESM
8 3 (0.99%) Cisco CUCM
8 3 (0.99%) QRadar
9 2 (0.66%) Nagios
9 2 (0.66%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (0.33%) OpenView
10 1 (0.33%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.33%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 1 (0.33%) VxRail
Vendors
1 183 (60.60%) Cisco
2 78 (25.83%) Microsoft
3 69 (22.85%) Fortinet
4 65 (21.52%) Juniper
5 34 (11.26%) VMware
6 30 (9.93%) Aruba
7 25 (8.28%) Meraki
8 23 (7.62%) CheckPoint
9 20 (6.62%) Palo Alto
10 19 (6.29%) Dell
10 19 (6.29%) SolarWinds
11 13 (4.30%) Citrix
12 11 (3.64%) Apple
12 11 (3.64%) Remedy
13 10 (3.31%) ServiceNow
13 10 (3.31%) Starlink
14 8 (2.65%) Arista
15 7 (2.32%) F5
15 7 (2.32%) Splunk
15 7 (2.32%) WatchGuard