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

6 months to
4 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 312 345 344
Rank change year-on-year +33 -1 +15
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 593 385 811
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.61% 0.81% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.15% 2.20% 3.03%
Number of salaries quoted 203 304 593
10th Percentile £27,000 £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 £82,250 £72,200 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,250 £45,000 £43,794
% change year-on-year +0.56% +2.75% +3.05%

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 18,821 17,529 26,785
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.46% 36.81% 25.49%
Number of salaries quoted 9,903 7,668 16,816
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 4 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 4 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 +29 522 £52,500 +10.53% 245
UK excluding London +63 499 £45,250 +0.56% 253
North of England +41 133 £50,000 -7.19% 49
South East -4 104 £45,000 +5.88% 60
London -47 92 £74,000 +38.32% 51
Midlands +3 80 £51,058 +32.62% 27
Yorkshire +25 69 £44,000 +13.99% 20
South West -61 68 £50,000 +17.65% 43
Work from Home -20 58 £49,250 +3.68% 46
North West +4 52 £50,000 -9.09% 18
East of England +25 50 £35,250 -15.57% 32
Scotland +49 42 £27,075 +6.18% 20
East Midlands -7 41 £51,058 +45.88% 10
West Midlands -7 39 £53,162 -18.21% 17
Wales -27 22 £40,750 -18.09% 14
North East -37 12 - - 11
Northern Ireland -44 6 - - 11

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 35 (5.90%) Microsoft Exchange
2 16 (2.70%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 431 (72.68%) Azure
2 58 (9.78%) Microsoft 365
3 56 (9.44%) AWS
4 24 (4.05%) Entra ID
5 12 (2.02%) Azure Monitor
5 12 (2.02%) GCP
6 9 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 6 (1.01%) OneDrive
8 5 (0.84%) Mimecast
8 5 (0.84%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.67%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.67%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (0.67%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.67%) Rubrik
9 4 (0.67%) Serverless
10 3 (0.51%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.34%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 163 (27.49%) Firewall
2 126 (21.25%) WAN
3 106 (17.88%) VPN
4 105 (17.71%) LAN
5 73 (12.31%) Network Security
6 62 (10.46%) Wi-Fi
7 53 (8.94%) TCP/IP
8 51 (8.60%) VLAN
9 50 (8.43%) DNS
10 49 (8.26%) DHCP
11 43 (7.25%) Wireless
12 40 (6.75%) SD-WAN
13 36 (6.07%) VoIP
14 31 (5.23%) BGP
15 22 (3.71%) MPLS
15 22 (3.71%) OSPF
16 19 (3.20%) Cisco Firepower
16 19 (3.20%) SAN
17 18 (3.04%) WLAN
18 17 (2.87%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (3.54%) JIRA
2 14 (2.36%) GitLab
3 9 (1.52%) Git
3 9 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.35%) Bitbucket
5 1 (0.17%) Burp Suite
5 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
5 1 (0.17%) Metasploit
General
1 440 (74.20%) Social Skills
2 42 (7.08%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (4.22%) Public Sector
4 21 (3.54%) Finance
5 14 (2.36%) Telecoms
6 13 (2.19%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.02%) Retail
8 11 (1.85%) Legal
9 10 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 9 (1.52%) Aerospace
10 9 (1.52%) Banking
11 8 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.35%) Law
11 8 (1.35%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.01%) Military
13 5 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.67%) Automotive
14 4 (0.67%) Digital Health
14 4 (0.67%) Electronics
15 3 (0.51%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 427 (72.01%) Network Engineer
2 58 (9.78%) IT Engineer
3 36 (6.07%) Senior
4 35 (5.90%) IT Support
5 28 (4.72%) Support Engineer
6 26 (4.38%) IT Support Engineer
7 24 (4.05%) Senior Network Engineer
8 23 (3.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
9 22 (3.71%) Lead
10 19 (3.20%) Cisco Engineer
11 18 (3.04%) Field Engineer
11 18 (3.04%) Field Service Engineer
12 15 (2.53%) Azure Engineer
13 14 (2.36%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 13 (2.19%) Analyst
14 13 (2.19%) Security Engineer
15 10 (1.69%) 3rd Line Support
15 10 (1.69%) LAN Engineer
15 10 (1.69%) Systems Engineer
15 10 (1.69%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.67%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.67%) boto
1 4 (0.67%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (0.51%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 60 (10.12%) Data Centre
2 24 (4.05%) Driving Licence
3 19 (3.20%) Security Posture
4 15 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.02%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (1.85%) Smartphone
7 10 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
8 8 (1.35%) FMCG
8 8 (1.35%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.18%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (1.01%) PKI
11 5 (0.84%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
11 5 (0.84%) Replication
12 4 (0.67%) Cyber Threat
12 4 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (0.67%) Public Cloud
12 4 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.51%) Operational Technology
13 3 (0.51%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 99 (16.69%) Windows
2 60 (10.12%) Windows Server
3 45 (7.59%) Linux
4 14 (2.36%) Windows Server 2016
5 10 (1.69%) Windows Server 2019
6 8 (1.35%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (0.51%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (14.50%) Problem-Solving
2 67 (11.30%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (9.61%) ITIL
4 49 (8.26%) Disaster Recovery
5 47 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 45 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (7.42%) High Availability
8 34 (5.73%) Computer Science
9 32 (5.40%) Business Continuity
10 31 (5.23%) Incident Response
10 31 (5.23%) Network Monitoring
11 30 (5.06%) Customer Service
12 27 (4.55%) SIEM
13 26 (4.38%) Network Design
14 25 (4.22%) Network Architecture
15 24 (4.05%) Project Delivery
16 18 (3.04%) Infrastructure as Code
17 17 (2.87%) Proactive Monitoring
17 17 (2.87%) Process Improvement
18 16 (2.70%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 43 (7.25%) PowerShell
2 22 (3.71%) Python
3 9 (1.52%) Bash
4 8 (1.35%) Java
5 3 (0.51%) SQL
6 2 (0.34%) Bicep
7 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 593 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 370 (62.39%) Azure Certification
3 366 (61.72%) Network+ Certification
4 125 (21.08%) CCNP
5 72 (12.14%) Microsoft Certification
6 70 (11.80%) Degree
7 36 (6.07%) MCSE
8 34 (5.73%) Security Cleared
9 26 (4.38%) Computer Science Degree
10 20 (3.37%) CCIE
11 17 (2.87%) SC Cleared
12 16 (2.70%) AWS Certification
13 15 (2.53%) A+ Certification
13 15 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (2.53%) MCSA
14 12 (2.02%) CISSP
14 12 (2.02%) DV Cleared
14 12 (2.02%) RHCSA
15 10 (1.69%) CompTIA Security+
15 10 (1.69%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (3.54%) SLA
3 20 (3.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 18 (3.04%) GDPR
5 12 (2.02%) NIST
6 6 (1.01%) QA
7 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.51%) COBIT
9 2 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 1 (0.17%) Actionable Recommendations
10 1 (0.17%) GRC
10 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
10 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
10 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 71 (11.97%) Active Directory
2 44 (7.42%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (4.89%) Hyper-V
4 17 (2.87%) vSphere
5 14 (2.36%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.85%) Docker
7 8 (1.35%) Squid
8 7 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 3 (0.51%) Firmware
10 3 (0.51%) Virtual Machines
10 3 (0.51%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 21 (3.54%) FortiGate
2 19 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 18 (3.04%) Ansible
3 18 (3.04%) Terraform
4 10 (1.69%) Cisco Prime
5 9 (1.52%) ZABBIX
6 8 (1.35%) Kubernetes
6 8 (1.35%) Packer
7 5 (0.84%) Control-M
8 4 (0.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.67%) VxRail
8 4 (0.67%) WSUS
9 3 (0.51%) Iperf
9 3 (0.51%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (0.51%) OpenView
9 3 (0.51%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.17%) Nmap
10 1 (0.17%) SCCM
10 1 (0.17%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 463 (78.08%) Cisco
2 421 (70.99%) Microsoft
3 330 (55.65%) ForeScout
4 62 (10.46%) VMware
5 52 (8.77%) Fortinet
6 33 (5.56%) Palo Alto
7 28 (4.72%) Meraki
8 23 (3.88%) Aruba
8 23 (3.88%) Dell
9 22 (3.71%) SolarWinds
10 21 (3.54%) CheckPoint
11 20 (3.37%) Splunk
12 19 (3.20%) Juniper
13 14 (2.36%) Sophos
14 12 (2.02%) Citrix
14 12 (2.02%) HP
15 11 (1.85%) Red Hat
15 11 (1.85%) Veeam
16 8 (1.35%) F5
16 8 (1.35%) Oracle