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 15 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 251 289
Rank change year-on-year -85 +38 +141
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 335 672 562
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.58% 1.16% 1.14%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.70% 3.44% 3.65%
Number of salaries quoted 231 308 481
10th Percentile £25,750 £34,404 £30,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £41,438 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £63,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,650 £73,750
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 19,713 19,562 15,382
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 33.85% 33.84% 31.26%
Number of salaries quoted 7,825 8,068 10,691
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,750 £30,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £58,230 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.55% +1.27% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,450 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £48,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -12.73% +4.76% +5.00%

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 15 December 2025.

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 15 December 2025. 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 -88 300 £40,500 -26.36% 122
UK excluding London -66 272 £40,000 -23.81% 126
Work from Home +91 98 £41,000 -25.45% 39
South East -4 77 £52,500 -7.09% 50
South West +55 60 £32,000 -29.67% 8
London -32 52 £65,000 +8.33% 22
North of England -22 43 £46,000 -3.16% 25
Midlands -101 36 £32,500 -35.00% 23
East of England +27 31 £40,000 -21.57% 10
East Midlands -25 29 £32,500 -18.75% 8
North West -5 26 £50,000 +5.26% 17
Scotland +10 14 £36,000 -44.62% 5
North East -2 9 £31,000 -52.31% 2
Northern Ireland +4 8 £37,500 -28.57% 1
Yorkshire -36 8 £26,000 -54.78% 7
West Midlands -102 7 £51,000 -2.86% 15
Wales -21 3 £49,750 +13.07% 9

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 25 (7.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 5 (1.49%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.60%) Apache
3 2 (0.60%) Confluence
3 2 (0.60%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (2.09%) Microsoft Office
2 6 (1.79%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.49%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 76 (22.69%) Azure
2 51 (15.22%) Microsoft 365
3 31 (9.25%) AWS
4 30 (8.96%) Entra ID
5 6 (1.79%) IaaS
6 5 (1.49%) Mimecast
7 4 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
7 4 (1.19%) Google Workspace
7 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (1.19%) SaaS
8 3 (0.90%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.90%) Dropbox
8 3 (0.90%) GitHub
8 3 (0.90%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (0.60%) Azure AKS
9 2 (0.60%) Rubrik
9 2 (0.60%) SecurityScorecard
9 2 (0.60%) Smartsheet
10 1 (0.30%) Azure Logic Apps
10 1 (0.30%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 154 (45.97%) Firewall
2 93 (27.76%) WAN
3 92 (27.46%) LAN
4 72 (21.49%) VPN
5 50 (14.93%) VSAT
6 47 (14.03%) Wi-Fi
7 46 (13.73%) Network Security
8 36 (10.75%) TCP/IP
9 33 (9.85%) VLAN
10 27 (8.06%) MPLS
11 25 (7.46%) Wireless
12 23 (6.87%) BGP
12 23 (6.87%) DNS
13 19 (5.67%) Cisco ASA
13 19 (5.67%) SD-WAN
14 18 (5.37%) DHCP
14 18 (5.37%) Intrusion Detection
14 18 (5.37%) OSPF
14 18 (5.37%) WLAN
15 17 (5.07%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (1.79%) SQL Server
2 3 (0.90%) InfluxDB
3 2 (0.60%) MySQL
3 2 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (0.90%) Burp Suite
1 3 (0.90%) GitLab
1 3 (0.90%) Metasploit
2 2 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 108 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 54 (16.12%) Finance
3 26 (7.76%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (7.46%) Telecoms
5 18 (5.37%) Public Sector
6 17 (5.07%) Manufacturing
7 15 (4.48%) Organisational Skills
8 12 (3.58%) Presentation Skills
9 10 (2.99%) Aerospace
9 10 (2.99%) Law
10 9 (2.69%) Legal
10 9 (2.69%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (2.39%) Billing
11 8 (2.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 7 (2.09%) Automotive
12 7 (2.09%) Electronics
13 5 (1.49%) Documentation Skills
13 5 (1.49%) Retail
14 4 (1.19%) Military
15 3 (0.90%) Banking
Job Titles
1 72 (21.49%) Support Engineer
2 71 (21.19%) Network Engineer
3 63 (18.81%) Technical Engineer
4 59 (17.61%) Technical Support
5 51 (15.22%) Technical Support Engineer
6 33 (9.85%) Administrator
7 32 (9.55%) Analyst
7 32 (9.55%) Senior
8 29 (8.66%) IT Engineer
8 29 (8.66%) Systems Administrator
9 25 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 22 (6.57%) IT Support
11 20 (5.97%) NOC Engineer
12 18 (5.37%) Support Analyst
13 17 (5.07%) Cisco Engineer
13 17 (5.07%) Senior Network Engineer
14 15 (4.48%) LAN Engineer
14 15 (4.48%) LAN/WAN Engineer
14 15 (4.48%) WAN Engineer
15 13 (3.88%) IT Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (2.69%) 802.1X
2 4 (1.19%) ModSecurity
3 2 (0.60%) Middleware
4 1 (0.30%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.30%) LAMP
4 1 (0.30%) React
4 1 (0.30%) Svelte
4 1 (0.30%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 43 (12.84%) Data Centre
2 33 (9.85%) Driving Licence
3 26 (7.76%) e-Learning
4 15 (4.48%) CCTV
5 13 (3.88%) Onboarding
6 11 (3.28%) Management Information System
7 9 (2.69%) Analytical Mindset
7 9 (2.69%) Smartphone
8 8 (2.39%) Security Operations Centre
9 7 (2.09%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 7 (2.09%) Renewable Energy
9 7 (2.09%) Security Posture
10 6 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.79%) Handset
11 5 (1.49%) LIMS
11 5 (1.49%) SCADA
12 4 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
12 4 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.19%) Social Media
13 3 (0.90%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 76 (22.69%) Windows
2 61 (18.21%) Linux
3 45 (13.43%) Windows Server
4 32 (9.55%) Unix
5 18 (5.37%) Windows 10
6 8 (2.39%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 5 (1.49%) Android
9 4 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
10 2 (0.60%) CentOS
10 2 (0.60%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.60%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 109 (32.54%) Customer Service
2 72 (21.49%) ITIL
3 71 (21.19%) Problem-Solving
4 65 (19.40%) Mentoring
5 47 (14.03%) High Availability
6 42 (12.54%) Cybersecurity
7 40 (11.94%) Commercial Awareness
8 37 (11.04%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 36 (10.75%) Kalman Filter
10 28 (8.36%) Innovative Thinking
11 27 (8.06%) Service Delivery
11 27 (8.06%) Web Filtering
12 26 (7.76%) Project Delivery
13 25 (7.46%) Presales
14 23 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
15 22 (6.57%) Proactive Monitoring
16 21 (6.27%) Security Operations
17 20 (5.97%) Regulatory Change
17 20 (5.97%) Requirements Gathering
18 19 (5.67%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 27 (8.06%) PowerShell
1 27 (8.06%) Python
2 6 (1.79%) Bash
3 3 (0.90%) Bicep
4 2 (0.60%) C
4 2 (0.60%) R
4 2 (0.60%) VB
5 1 (0.30%) Go
5 1 (0.30%) SQL
Qualifications
1 335 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 130 (38.81%) CCNP
3 96 (28.66%) Security Cleared
4 75 (22.39%) SC Cleared
5 73 (21.79%) JNCIA
6 66 (19.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 56 (16.72%) Degree
8 47 (14.03%) DV Cleared
9 45 (13.43%) MCSE
10 35 (10.45%) MCSA
10 35 (10.45%) Network+ Certification
11 25 (7.46%) DBS Check
12 24 (7.16%) MCP
13 14 (4.18%) A+ Certification
13 14 (4.18%) CompTIA Security+
13 14 (4.18%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (3.88%) CCIE
14 13 (3.88%) CISSP
15 11 (3.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 10 (2.99%) JNCIS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.46%) Cyber Essentials
2 20 (5.97%) SLA
3 16 (4.78%) GDPR
4 14 (4.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 13 (3.88%) NIST
6 7 (2.09%) GxP
7 5 (1.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 3 (0.90%) Actionable Recommendations
8 3 (0.90%) ITGC
8 3 (0.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 2 (0.60%) Accessibility
10 1 (0.30%) HIPAA
System Software
1 49 (14.63%) Active Directory
2 20 (5.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (5.07%) Hyper-V
4 11 (3.28%) vSphere
5 9 (2.69%) Virtual Machines
6 6 (1.79%) Docker
6 6 (1.79%) Firmware
7 4 (1.19%) pfSense
8 3 (0.90%) BitLocker
8 3 (0.90%) KVM
8 3 (0.90%) Virtual Servers
8 3 (0.90%) VMware ESXi
9 2 (0.60%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 2 (0.60%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Virtual Server
9 2 (0.60%) RHEV
9 2 (0.60%) Samba
9 2 (0.60%) Squid
9 2 (0.60%) Xen
10 1 (0.30%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (10.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 16 (4.78%) Ansible
2 16 (4.78%) FortiGate
3 7 (2.09%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (2.09%) SCCM
4 6 (1.79%) Terraform
5 5 (1.49%) Autotask
5 5 (1.49%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.19%) Cisco CUCM
6 4 (1.19%) Grafana
6 4 (1.19%) vCenter Server
7 3 (0.90%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (0.90%) Nmap
7 3 (0.90%) PaperCut
7 3 (0.90%) Prometheus
7 3 (0.90%) QRadar
8 2 (0.60%) Nagios
8 2 (0.60%) Proxmox
8 2 (0.60%) VxRail
9 1 (0.30%) Podman
Vendors
1 196 (58.51%) Cisco
2 88 (26.27%) Microsoft
3 62 (18.51%) Fortinet
4 54 (16.12%) Juniper
5 45 (13.43%) VMware
6 32 (9.55%) Meraki
7 23 (6.87%) Aruba
8 21 (6.27%) CheckPoint
8 21 (6.27%) Palo Alto
9 20 (5.97%) SolarWinds
10 16 (4.78%) Dell
11 15 (4.48%) Citrix
12 13 (3.88%) Apple
12 13 (3.88%) Starlink
13 11 (3.28%) Freshdesk
13 11 (3.28%) Remedy
13 11 (3.28%) ServiceNow
14 9 (2.69%) Arista
15 8 (2.39%) F5
15 8 (2.39%) Splunk