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

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 345 348
Rank change year-on-year +30 +3 -5
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 597 387 808
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.79% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.13% 2.19% 3.06%
Number of salaries quoted 204 301 588
10th Percentile £26,650 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,250 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,125 £72,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £44,225
% change year-on-year - +1.75% +4.06%

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 19,096 17,678 26,386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.55% 36.27% 25.71%
Number of salaries quoted 9,991 7,818 16,621
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -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 9 July 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 July 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 +29 525 £51,250 +7.89% 219
UK excluding London +54 502 £45,000 - 228
North of England +38 132 £50,000 -9.09% 44
South East -12 106 £45,000 +5.88% 58
London -39 93 £74,000 +38.32% 48
Midlands +1 80 £46,801 +21.56% 21
Yorkshire +20 71 £42,500 +10.10% 18
South West -55 69 £50,000 +17.65% 38
Work from Home -22 59 £48,500 +2.11% 43
East of England +28 50 £35,250 -25.79% 29
North West +11 49 £52,500 -6.67% 15
Scotland +43 43 £28,000 +9.80% 21
East Midlands -16 41 £39,194 +11.98% 4
West Midlands -5 39 £53,162 -18.21% 17
Wales -31 22 £40,750 -18.09% 12
North East -37 12 - - 11
Northern Ireland -57 6 - - 10

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 (6.03%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.68%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.34%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 433 (72.53%) Azure
2 61 (10.22%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (9.38%) AWS
4 25 (4.19%) Entra ID
5 12 (2.01%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (1.84%) GCP
7 9 (1.51%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (1.01%) OneDrive
9 5 (0.84%) Mimecast
9 5 (0.84%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.67%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (0.67%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.67%) Rubrik
10 4 (0.67%) Serverless
11 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
12 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 166 (27.81%) Firewall
2 130 (21.78%) WAN
3 108 (18.09%) VPN
4 107 (17.92%) LAN
5 74 (12.40%) Network Security
6 62 (10.39%) Wi-Fi
7 55 (9.21%) TCP/IP
8 53 (8.88%) DNS
8 53 (8.88%) VLAN
9 52 (8.71%) DHCP
10 44 (7.37%) Wireless
11 43 (7.20%) SD-WAN
12 38 (6.37%) VoIP
13 32 (5.36%) BGP
14 24 (4.02%) MPLS
15 22 (3.69%) OSPF
16 19 (3.18%) Cisco Firepower
16 19 (3.18%) SAN
17 18 (3.02%) WLAN
18 17 (2.85%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.34%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 22 (3.69%) JIRA
2 14 (2.35%) GitLab
3 9 (1.51%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.34%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.34%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 441 (73.87%) Social Skills
2 42 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
3 26 (4.36%) Public Sector
4 21 (3.52%) Finance
5 16 (2.68%) Telecoms
6 14 (2.35%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.01%) Retail
8 11 (1.84%) Legal
9 10 (1.68%) Banking
9 10 (1.68%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.51%) Aerospace
11 8 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.34%) Law
12 6 (1.01%) Military
12 6 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.67%) Automotive
14 4 (0.67%) Digital Health
14 4 (0.67%) Electronics
15 3 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 430 (72.03%) Network Engineer
2 60 (10.05%) IT Engineer
3 37 (6.20%) IT Support
4 36 (6.03%) Senior
5 29 (4.86%) Support Engineer
6 27 (4.52%) IT Support Engineer
7 24 (4.02%) Senior Network Engineer
8 23 (3.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (3.69%) Lead
10 18 (3.02%) Cisco Engineer
10 18 (3.02%) Field Engineer
10 18 (3.02%) Field Service Engineer
11 15 (2.51%) Azure Engineer
11 15 (2.51%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 14 (2.35%) Analyst
13 13 (2.18%) 3rd Line Support
13 13 (2.18%) Security Engineer
14 11 (1.84%) Systems Engineer
15 10 (1.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 9 (1.51%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.67%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.67%) boto
1 4 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (0.50%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 62 (10.39%) Data Centre
2 25 (4.19%) Driving Licence
3 18 (3.02%) Security Posture
4 15 (2.51%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
6 11 (1.84%) Smartphone
7 8 (1.34%) FMCG
7 8 (1.34%) Management Information System
8 7 (1.17%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.01%) PKI
10 5 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (0.84%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 5 (0.84%) Replication
11 4 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (0.67%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
12 3 (0.50%) Private Cloud
12 3 (0.50%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 102 (17.09%) Windows
2 62 (10.39%) Windows Server
3 45 (7.54%) Linux
4 15 (2.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (1.84%) Windows Server 2019
6 9 (1.51%) Windows 10
7 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.17%) Android
9 1 (0.17%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
2 70 (11.73%) Cybersecurity
3 60 (10.05%) ITIL
4 50 (8.38%) Disaster Recovery
5 49 (8.21%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 45 (7.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (7.37%) High Availability
8 34 (5.70%) Computer Science
9 33 (5.53%) Business Continuity
10 31 (5.19%) Customer Service
10 31 (5.19%) Incident Response
10 31 (5.19%) Network Monitoring
11 28 (4.69%) Project Delivery
12 27 (4.52%) Network Design
12 27 (4.52%) SIEM
13 25 (4.19%) Network Architecture
14 18 (3.02%) Infrastructure as Code
15 17 (2.85%) Mentoring
15 17 (2.85%) Proactive Monitoring
15 17 (2.85%) Process Improvement
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.20%) PowerShell
2 22 (3.69%) Python
3 9 (1.51%) Bash
4 8 (1.34%) Java
5 3 (0.50%) SQL
6 2 (0.34%) Bicep
7 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 597 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 372 (62.31%) Azure Certification
3 368 (61.64%) Network+ Certification
4 127 (21.27%) CCNP
5 73 (12.23%) Microsoft Certification
6 70 (11.73%) Degree
7 35 (5.86%) MCSE
8 34 (5.70%) Security Cleared
9 26 (4.36%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.35%) CCIE
11 17 (2.85%) AWS Certification
12 16 (2.68%) MCSA
12 16 (2.68%) SC Cleared
13 15 (2.51%) A+ Certification
13 15 (2.51%) BPSS Clearance
14 13 (2.18%) DV Cleared
15 12 (2.01%) RHCSA
16 11 (1.84%) CISSP
16 11 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 9 (1.51%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (3.52%) Cyber Essentials
2 21 (3.52%) SLA
3 18 (3.02%) GDPR
4 12 (2.01%) NIST
5 6 (1.01%) QA
6 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.50%) COBIT
8 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 74 (12.40%) Active Directory
2 46 (7.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (5.19%) Hyper-V
4 17 (2.85%) vSphere
5 15 (2.51%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.84%) Docker
7 8 (1.34%) Squid
8 7 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.50%) Firmware
10 3 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (3.69%) FortiGate
2 19 (3.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (3.02%) Ansible
3 18 (3.02%) Terraform
4 10 (1.68%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (1.51%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.34%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.34%) Packer
7 5 (0.84%) Control-M
8 4 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.67%) Iperf
8 4 (0.67%) VxRail
8 4 (0.67%) WSUS
9 3 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.50%) OpenView
9 3 (0.50%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.17%) SCCM
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 467 (78.22%) Cisco
2 423 (70.85%) Microsoft
3 330 (55.28%) ForeScout
4 65 (10.89%) VMware
5 55 (9.21%) Fortinet
6 35 (5.86%) Palo Alto
7 30 (5.03%) Meraki
8 23 (3.85%) Dell
9 22 (3.69%) CheckPoint
10 21 (3.52%) Aruba
10 21 (3.52%) SolarWinds
11 20 (3.35%) Splunk
12 18 (3.02%) Juniper
13 15 (2.51%) Sophos
14 13 (2.18%) Citrix
15 12 (2.01%) HP
16 11 (1.84%) Red Hat
16 11 (1.84%) Veeam
17 9 (1.51%) F5
18 8 (1.34%) Zscaler