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 10 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 386 342 356
Rank change year-on-year -44 +14 +152
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 390 806 795
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.65% 0.77% 0.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.54% 2.93% 2.76%
Number of salaries quoted 304 582 568
10th Percentile £30,500 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £37,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year - +5.56% -5.26%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £60,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £44,225 £42,500
% change year-on-year +1.75% +4.06% -5.56%

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 25,375 27,503 28,773
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 42.16% 26.34% 33.11%
Number of salaries quoted 10,700 16,512 14,467
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,000 £32,000
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -10.83% +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £70,906 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +8.25%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCNA.

Salary trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNA over the 6 months to 10 July 2025.

Salary histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 18 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 10 July 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 -44 371 £47,500 - 248
UK excluding London -61 270 £45,000 +1.75% 205
London +76 114 £54,000 -1.82% 63
South East -5 82 £42,500 - 64
Work from Home -54 75 £48,489 -0.02% 101
South West +120 64 £41,250 -2.94% 28
North of England -54 57 £55,000 +29.41% 46
Midlands -26 49 £38,500 -20.62% 26
North West -42 34 £56,250 +40.63% 22
East Midlands +27 28 £35,000 -26.32% 9
West Midlands -32 21 £65,000 +32.65% 17
Yorkshire +7 17 £38,600 -18.74% 19
Scotland +74 8 £25,500 -49.00% 9
North East +41 6 £50,000 -28.57% 6
East of England -15 6 £47,500 +5.56% 22
Wales +5 3 £49,750 +24.38% 11
Northern Ireland +42 2 £52,500 +61.54% 2
Isle of Man +3 1 £34,500 -21.14%

CCNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 33 (8.46%) Microsoft Exchange
2 14 (3.59%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.54%) nginx
4 1 (0.26%) Confluence
4 1 (0.26%) SAS
Applications
1 20 (5.13%) MS Visio
2 13 (3.33%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.28%) NetSuite
2 3 (0.77%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 112 (28.72%) Azure
2 77 (19.74%) Microsoft 365
3 52 (13.33%) AWS
4 21 (5.38%) GCP
5 13 (3.33%) Entra ID
6 11 (2.82%) PaaS
7 10 (2.56%) IaaS
7 10 (2.56%) SaaS
8 7 (1.79%) Azure Sentinel
9 6 (1.54%) OpenShift
10 5 (1.28%) Rubrik
11 4 (1.03%) AWS Direct Connect
11 4 (1.03%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.03%) Dropbox
11 4 (1.03%) Google Workspace
11 4 (1.03%) Mimecast
11 4 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 2 (0.51%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.51%) Smartsheet
13 1 (0.26%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 181 (46.41%) Firewall
2 156 (40.00%) WAN
3 144 (36.92%) LAN
4 118 (30.26%) VPN
5 85 (21.79%) BGP
6 83 (21.28%) Network Security
7 73 (18.72%) MPLS
8 65 (16.67%) OSPF
9 63 (16.15%) Wi-Fi
10 57 (14.62%) TCP/IP
11 53 (13.59%) DNS
12 51 (13.08%) VLAN
13 45 (11.54%) IPsec
14 41 (10.51%) Wireless
15 37 (9.49%) DHCP
16 34 (8.72%) VSAT
17 32 (8.21%) Junos
18 26 (6.67%) SD-WAN
19 21 (5.38%) Cisco Firepower
20 20 (5.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.28%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.51%) InfluxDB
3 1 (0.26%) MySQL
3 1 (0.26%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.26%) Power BI
3 1 (0.26%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (1.79%) GitLab
3 1 (0.26%) JIRA
General
1 107 (27.44%) Social Skills
2 82 (21.03%) Finance
3 47 (12.05%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (8.97%) Banking
5 32 (8.21%) Telecoms
6 21 (5.38%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (5.13%) Manufacturing
8 16 (4.10%) Documentation Skills
8 16 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 13 (3.33%) Military
10 10 (2.56%) Aerospace
10 10 (2.56%) Billing
11 9 (2.31%) Public Sector
12 8 (2.05%) Automotive
12 8 (2.05%) Law
13 6 (1.54%) Electronics
13 6 (1.54%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.28%) Advertising
15 3 (0.77%) Organisational Skills
15 3 (0.77%) Retail
Job Titles
1 130 (33.33%) Network Engineer
2 68 (17.44%) Support Engineer
3 57 (14.62%) Architect
4 45 (11.54%) Technical Support
5 44 (11.28%) Technical Engineer
6 43 (11.03%) Technical Support Engineer
7 36 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 35 (8.97%) IT Support
9 34 (8.72%) Network Architect
10 33 (8.46%) Senior
11 30 (7.69%) Junior
12 25 (6.41%) NOC Engineer
13 19 (4.87%) Lead
14 18 (4.62%) IT Engineer
15 17 (4.36%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.36%) Team Leader
16 16 (4.10%) Solutions Architect
17 15 (3.85%) 2nd Line Support
17 15 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
17 15 (3.85%) Junior Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (3.59%) 802.1X
2 6 (1.54%) SAML
3 1 (0.26%) JSON
3 1 (0.26%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.26%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 43 (11.03%) Data Centre
2 36 (9.23%) Driving Licence
3 10 (2.56%) Management Information System
4 8 (2.05%) PKI
5 7 (1.79%) Public Cloud
5 7 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.54%) CCTV
6 6 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
6 6 (1.54%) IPTV
6 6 (1.54%) PMI
6 6 (1.54%) Private Cloud
7 5 (1.28%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.28%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.28%) Operational Technology
7 5 (1.28%) Renewable Energy
8 4 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (0.77%) e-Learning
9 3 (0.77%) Security Posture
10 2 (0.51%) Fibre Optics
10 2 (0.51%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 101 (25.90%) Windows
2 61 (15.64%) Windows Server
3 56 (14.36%) Linux
4 23 (5.90%) Windows 10
5 10 (2.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 8 (2.05%) Windows Server 2016
7 5 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
8 4 (1.03%) Unix
9 3 (0.77%) Windows Server 2012
10 2 (0.51%) Mac OS
10 2 (0.51%) Ubuntu
10 2 (0.51%) Windows Server 2008
11 1 (0.26%) CentOS
11 1 (0.26%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 103 (26.41%) Problem-Solving
2 72 (18.46%) Mentoring
3 63 (16.15%) Customer Service
4 54 (13.85%) ITIL
5 45 (11.54%) High Availability
6 42 (10.77%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 41 (10.51%) Network Design
7 41 (10.51%) Presales
8 39 (10.00%) Technical Leadership
9 34 (8.72%) Cybersecurity
10 33 (8.46%) Network Management
11 31 (7.95%) Commercial Awareness
11 31 (7.95%) Project Delivery
11 31 (7.95%) Root Cause Analysis
12 27 (6.92%) Requirements Gathering
13 25 (6.41%) Incident Management
13 25 (6.41%) Migration
13 25 (6.41%) Proactive Monitoring
14 24 (6.15%) Artificial Intelligence
15 23 (5.90%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 33 (8.46%) PowerShell
2 29 (7.44%) Python
3 12 (3.08%) Bash
4 10 (2.56%) R
5 7 (1.79%) C
6 2 (0.51%) SQL
7 1 (0.26%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 390 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 176 (45.13%) CCNP
3 99 (25.38%) Security Cleared
4 85 (21.79%) JNCIA
5 76 (19.49%) SC Cleared
6 65 (16.67%) Degree
7 59 (15.13%) Microsoft Certification
8 31 (7.95%) MCSE
8 31 (7.95%) Network+ Certification
9 30 (7.69%) Azure Certification
10 28 (7.18%) JNCIS
11 26 (6.67%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 23 (5.90%) MCSA
13 21 (5.38%) DV Cleared
14 14 (3.59%) MCP
15 13 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (3.08%) CCIE
16 12 (3.08%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 10 (2.56%) CompTIA Security+
18 9 (2.31%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (10.26%) SLA
2 7 (1.79%) MIL-STD-1553
3 6 (1.54%) NIST
4 3 (0.77%) GDPR
4 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (0.77%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
5 2 (0.51%) Accessibility
5 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
5 2 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 2 (0.51%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.26%) ISO 9000
6 1 (0.26%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 68 (17.44%) Active Directory
2 40 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (7.69%) Hyper-V
4 16 (4.10%) vSphere
5 12 (3.08%) Virtual Machines
6 10 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
7 6 (1.54%) Firmware
8 4 (1.03%) BitLocker
8 4 (1.03%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.51%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.26%) Docker
10 1 (0.26%) NFS
10 1 (0.26%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (6.41%) Ansible
2 17 (4.36%) Terraform
3 15 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 12 (3.08%) Nagios
5 7 (1.79%) Cisco CUCM
5 7 (1.79%) Kubernetes
6 6 (1.54%) SCCM
7 5 (1.28%) Autotask
7 5 (1.28%) CASB
7 5 (1.28%) FortiGate
7 5 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 5 (1.28%) vCenter Server
8 4 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (1.03%) VxRail
9 3 (0.77%) Iperf
9 3 (0.77%) Nessus
10 2 (0.51%) Grafana
10 2 (0.51%) Prometheus
11 1 (0.26%) QRadar
Vendors
1 246 (63.08%) Cisco
2 111 (28.46%) Microsoft
3 96 (24.62%) Juniper
4 79 (20.26%) Fortinet
5 60 (15.38%) VMware
6 58 (14.87%) Meraki
7 37 (9.49%) SolarWinds
8 36 (9.23%) Palo Alto
9 27 (6.92%) CheckPoint
10 26 (6.67%) Aruba
11 19 (4.87%) HP
12 15 (3.85%) Arista
13 13 (3.33%) F5
14 9 (2.31%) Ekahau
15 8 (2.05%) Citrix
15 8 (2.05%) ServiceNow
15 8 (2.05%) Veeam
16 7 (1.79%) Google
17 6 (1.54%) Bloomberg
17 6 (1.54%) SonicWALL