Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 418 325
Rank change year-on-year +69 -93 -5
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 802 773 1,936
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.82% 0.74% 1.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.94% 2.25% 4.65%
Number of salaries quoted 685 582 825
10th Percentile £30,100 £30,836 £30,825
25th Percentile £36,250 £35,473 £35,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,005 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.94% -2.21% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £58,750 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £71,250 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,225 £42,500 £43,500
% change year-on-year +4.06% -2.30% +2.35%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCNA is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,286 34,290 41,595
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.76% 26.99%
Number of salaries quoted 17,237 15,306 18,961
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,296 £50,000
% change year-on-year -0.59% +0.59% -

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 27 April 2024.

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 27 April 2024. 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 +89 715 £47,500 +5.56% 171
UK excluding London +59 651 £44,225 +4.06% 141
Work from Home +57 277 £48,500 +4.30% 55
South East +32 193 £38,500 -14.44% 40
North of England +85 150 £42,500 - 31
London +61 132 £55,000 +4.76% 52
Midlands +52 125 £48,500 +14.12% 18
West Midlands +55 92 £48,500 +18.29% 14
North West +46 91 £40,000 -3.61% 16
South West +4 64 £50,000 +17.65% 24
Yorkshire +112 52 £45,000 +21.15% 13
East of England +29 48 £42,500 +8.97% 16
East Midlands +2 33 £50,000 +17.65% 4
Wales +32 29 £40,500 +9.46% 5
Scotland -80 27 £50,000 +37.93% 14
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
North East -19 7 £70,000 +64.71% 3
Northern Ireland +29 3 £32,500 -53.57% 3

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 74 (9.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (4.61%) SharePoint
3 18 (2.24%) Confluence
4 9 (1.12%) IIS
5 5 (0.62%) CMS
6 2 (0.25%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.12%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.12%) OpenStack
Applications
1 49 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.12%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 2 (0.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.12%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 291 (36.28%) Azure
2 174 (21.70%) Microsoft 365
3 125 (15.59%) AWS
4 34 (4.24%) Entra ID
5 31 (3.87%) GCP
6 21 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
7 20 (2.49%) IaaS
8 17 (2.12%) PaaS
9 12 (1.50%) OCI
10 10 (1.25%) AWS Direct Connect
11 9 (1.12%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 9 (1.12%) OneDrive
12 8 (1.00%) SaaS
13 7 (0.87%) WhatsApp
14 5 (0.62%) Azure DevOps
14 5 (0.62%) Azure Stack
15 4 (0.50%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 2 (0.25%) Azure Storage
16 2 (0.25%) Dynamics 365
16 2 (0.25%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 370 (46.13%) Firewall
2 305 (38.03%) WAN
3 243 (30.30%) LAN
4 165 (20.57%) Wireless
5 150 (18.70%) SD-WAN
6 139 (17.33%) TCP/IP
7 136 (16.96%) DHCP
8 134 (16.71%) VPN
9 124 (15.46%) DNS
10 120 (14.96%) MPLS
11 107 (13.34%) BGP
12 96 (11.97%) OSPF
13 91 (11.35%) VLAN
14 89 (11.10%) Wi-Fi
15 87 (10.85%) Network Security
16 73 (9.10%) SAN
17 54 (6.73%) Internet
18 52 (6.48%) VoIP
19 51 (6.36%) WLAN
20 44 (5.49%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (3.87%) SQL Server
2 23 (2.87%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (2.74%) MySQL
4 14 (1.75%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.62%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.62%) Big Data
6 1 (0.12%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.12%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.12%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.12%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 23 (2.87%) JIRA
2 18 (2.24%) Bitbucket
3 17 (2.12%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.50%) Git
5 3 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.25%) GitLab
6 2 (0.25%) Hudson
7 1 (0.12%) Selenium
General
1 244 (30.42%) Social Skills
2 94 (11.72%) Analytical Skills
3 55 (6.86%) Telecoms
4 53 (6.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 33 (4.11%) Finance
6 28 (3.49%) Retail
7 26 (3.24%) Manufacturing
8 24 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (2.62%) Public Sector
10 17 (2.12%) Law
11 14 (1.75%) Games
12 12 (1.50%) Electronics
12 12 (1.50%) Legal
13 10 (1.25%) Documentation Skills
14 7 (0.87%) Aerospace
14 7 (0.87%) Automotive
14 7 (0.87%) Marketing
15 4 (0.50%) Publishing
15 4 (0.50%) Welsh Language
16 3 (0.37%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 291 (36.28%) Network Engineer
2 119 (14.84%) Support Engineer
3 96 (11.97%) Senior
4 92 (11.47%) Analyst
5 88 (10.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 74 (9.23%) Network Analyst
7 67 (8.35%) IT Engineer
8 66 (8.23%) IT Support
9 51 (6.36%) Architect
10 42 (5.24%) Network Support
11 39 (4.86%) IT Support Engineer
12 36 (4.49%) Senior Architect
13 31 (3.87%) Network Operations Analyst
13 31 (3.87%) Operations Analyst
13 31 (3.87%) Senior Network Engineer
14 30 (3.74%) Cisco Architect
14 30 (3.74%) Network Support Engineer
14 30 (3.74%) Senior Cisco Architect
15 28 (3.49%) Cisco Engineer
16 26 (3.24%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.62%) 802.1X
2 7 (0.87%) HTML
2 7 (0.87%) XML
3 5 (0.62%) ADO
3 5 (0.62%) XMPP
4 4 (0.50%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.25%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.25%) EDI
6 1 (0.12%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 157 (19.58%) Data Centre
2 54 (6.73%) Driving Licence
3 42 (5.24%) Management Information System
4 28 (3.49%) Public Cloud
5 23 (2.87%) Replication
6 18 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
7 17 (2.12%) PKI
8 16 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
9 11 (1.37%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.25%) Social Media
11 6 (0.75%) Analytical Mindset
11 6 (0.75%) CCTV
11 6 (0.75%) IoT
11 6 (0.75%) Private Cloud
11 6 (0.75%) Security Posture
12 5 (0.62%) CMDB
12 5 (0.62%) EPoS
12 5 (0.62%) Operational Technology
13 4 (0.50%) Educational Technology
13 4 (0.50%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 269 (33.54%) Windows
2 153 (19.08%) Linux
3 139 (17.33%) Windows Server
4 40 (4.99%) Windows 10
5 27 (3.37%) Mac OS
5 27 (3.37%) Windows Server 2012
6 26 (3.24%) Windows Server 2016
7 21 (2.62%) Windows Server 2019
8 19 (2.37%) VyOS
9 12 (1.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (1.50%) Unix
9 12 (1.50%) Windows XP
10 6 (0.75%) Android
11 5 (0.62%) CentOS
12 4 (0.50%) Apple iOS
12 4 (0.50%) Debian
12 4 (0.50%) Ubuntu
13 3 (0.37%) CatOS
13 3 (0.37%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.37%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 196 (24.44%) ITIL
2 147 (18.33%) Cybersecurity
2 147 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
3 131 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 129 (16.08%) Customer Service
5 80 (9.98%) Mentoring
6 76 (9.48%) Project Delivery
7 75 (9.35%) Project Management
8 72 (8.98%) Disaster Recovery
9 57 (7.11%) Computer Science
10 51 (6.36%) Proactive Monitoring
10 51 (6.36%) Time Management
11 48 (5.99%) Presales
11 48 (5.99%) Service Delivery
12 47 (5.86%) DevOps
13 39 (4.86%) Network Monitoring
14 38 (4.74%) Migration
15 33 (4.11%) Change Control
15 33 (4.11%) Change Management
15 33 (4.11%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 87 (10.85%) PowerShell
2 58 (7.23%) Python
3 38 (4.74%) Bash
4 34 (4.24%) SQL
5 10 (1.25%) JavaScript
6 4 (0.50%) C#
6 4 (0.50%) Java
6 4 (0.50%) Shell Script
7 3 (0.37%) C
8 2 (0.25%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 802 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 304 (37.91%) CCNP
3 223 (27.81%) Degree
4 154 (19.20%) Microsoft Certification
5 145 (18.08%) Security Cleared
6 93 (11.60%) Network+ Certification
7 88 (10.97%) MCSE
8 78 (9.73%) SC Cleared
9 60 (7.48%) JNCIA
10 58 (7.23%) Computer Science Degree
11 54 (6.73%) DV Cleared
12 44 (5.49%) CCIE
13 40 (4.99%) Azure Certification
14 39 (4.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 34 (4.24%) CCDP
15 34 (4.24%) MCSA
16 33 (4.11%) A+ Certification
17 31 (3.87%) CISSP
18 25 (3.12%) AWS Certification
19 20 (2.49%) MCITP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (6.11%) SLA
2 43 (5.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 26 (3.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 8 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 6 (0.75%) GDPR
6 5 (0.62%) QA
7 2 (0.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.25%) NIST
7 2 (0.25%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.12%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 166 (20.70%) Active Directory
2 156 (19.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 109 (13.59%) Hyper-V
4 46 (5.74%) VMware ESXi
5 24 (2.99%) VMware NSX
6 14 (1.75%) vSphere
7 8 (1.00%) Firmware
8 7 (0.87%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.62%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.50%) vCloud
11 3 (0.37%) KVM
11 3 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 3 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.25%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.12%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 1 (0.12%) Docker
Systems Management
1 45 (5.61%) Microsoft Intune
2 40 (4.99%) FortiGate
3 28 (3.49%) SCCM
4 25 (3.12%) Ansible
5 23 (2.87%) Terraform
6 18 (2.24%) vCenter Server
6 18 (2.24%) WSUS
7 16 (2.00%) CASB
8 15 (1.87%) Stealthwatch
9 14 (1.75%) Cisco CUCM
9 14 (1.75%) SCOM
10 13 (1.62%) ServiceCenter
11 12 (1.50%) EMC NetWorker
11 12 (1.50%) NetBackup
12 7 (0.87%) Progress Chef
12 7 (0.87%) Puppet
13 6 (0.75%) Cisco Prime
14 5 (0.62%) Kubernetes
14 5 (0.62%) Microsoft Data Protection Manager
14 5 (0.62%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 517 (64.46%) Cisco
2 295 (36.78%) Microsoft
3 224 (27.93%) VMware
4 111 (13.84%) Juniper
5 110 (13.72%) Palo Alto
6 104 (12.97%) Meraki
7 95 (11.85%) Fortinet
8 54 (6.73%) HP
9 51 (6.36%) CheckPoint
10 47 (5.86%) Veeam
11 41 (5.11%) Ruckus Wireless
12 38 (4.74%) Apple
13 34 (4.24%) Citrix
14 33 (4.11%) Aruba
15 32 (3.99%) Adobe
16 29 (3.62%) Dell
17 26 (3.24%) Oracle
18 25 (3.12%) Nokia
19 23 (2.87%) F5
20 20 (2.49%) SolarWinds