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

6 months to
17 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 332 322 335
Rank change year-on-year -10 +13 -43
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 610 411 612
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.53% 0.83% 0.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.97% 2.43% 2.93%
Number of salaries quoted 222 297 313
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £34,625 £31,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £48,750
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -17.95% +8.15%
75th Percentile £67,500 £59,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £81,000 £69,250 £68,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £37,500 £46,000
% change year-on-year +13.33% -18.48% +8.24%

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 20,536 16,948 20,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.87% 34.33% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,230 7,485 9,750
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £37,170 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,708 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -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 17 September 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 17 September 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 -23 529 £52,500 +29.63% 290
UK excluding London -3 519 £42,500 +13.33% 263
North of England +15 120 £42,500 +4.94% 52
South East -30 120 £47,500 +11.76% 56
Midlands +21 101 £41,000 +17.14% 33
London -56 85 £70,000 +16.67% 80
Work from Home -57 71 £45,000 +9.76% 56
Yorkshire +13 69 £42,500 +63.46% 20
South West -96 63 £50,000 +56.25% 39
East Midlands -17 54 £39,194 +11.98% 10
Scotland +36 48 £28,000 -22.22% 21
West Midlands +4 47 £53,162 +29.66% 23
East of England -12 45 £55,000 +37.50% 39
North West -7 39 £52,500 -2.33% 21
Wales -54 22 £40,750 -18.09% 13
North East -62 12 - - 11
Northern Ireland -74 6 - - 12

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 30 (4.92%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (3.77%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.31%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (0.98%) Microsoft Project
2 5 (0.82%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.16%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.33%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.16%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 432 (70.82%) Azure
2 76 (12.46%) Microsoft 365
3 51 (8.36%) AWS
4 48 (7.87%) Entra ID
5 9 (1.48%) GCP
6 8 (1.31%) OneDrive
7 6 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
8 5 (0.82%) Power Platform
9 4 (0.66%) Amazon EC2
9 4 (0.66%) Amazon EKS
9 4 (0.66%) Amazon S3
9 4 (0.66%) AWS CloudTrail
9 4 (0.66%) AWS Fargate
9 4 (0.66%) AWS Lambda
9 4 (0.66%) Power Automate
9 4 (0.66%) Serverless
10 3 (0.49%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 3 (0.49%) Azure Sentinel
11 2 (0.33%) ChatGPT
11 2 (0.33%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 173 (28.36%) Firewall
2 116 (19.02%) WAN
3 103 (16.89%) VPN
4 100 (16.39%) LAN
5 80 (13.11%) DHCP
5 80 (13.11%) DNS
5 80 (13.11%) Network Security
6 75 (12.30%) VLAN
7 69 (11.31%) TCP/IP
8 65 (10.66%) Wireless
9 59 (9.67%) Wi-Fi
10 41 (6.72%) SD-WAN
11 37 (6.07%) VoIP
12 31 (5.08%) BGP
13 26 (4.26%) OSPF
14 21 (3.44%) SAN
15 19 (3.11%) Internet
16 18 (2.95%) MPLS
17 16 (2.62%) WLAN
18 12 (1.97%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (0.82%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.16%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.16%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 35 (5.74%) JIRA
2 15 (2.46%) GitLab
3 10 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.31%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.31%) Git
5 1 (0.16%) Chocolatey
General
1 448 (73.44%) Social Skills
2 49 (8.03%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (4.75%) Telecoms
4 22 (3.61%) Public Sector
5 20 (3.28%) Manufacturing
6 16 (2.62%) Finance
7 12 (1.97%) Aerospace
7 12 (1.97%) Law
7 12 (1.97%) Retail
8 11 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 10 (1.64%) Documentation Skills
10 9 (1.48%) Legal
10 9 (1.48%) Organisational Skills
11 8 (1.31%) Banking
12 7 (1.15%) Digital Health
12 7 (1.15%) Military
13 5 (0.82%) Automotive
14 4 (0.66%) Electronics
15 3 (0.49%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.49%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 424 (69.51%) Network Engineer
2 64 (10.49%) IT Engineer
3 43 (7.05%) IT Support
4 36 (5.90%) Senior
5 35 (5.74%) Support Engineer
6 32 (5.25%) IT Support Engineer
7 27 (4.43%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (3.44%) Field Engineer
8 21 (3.44%) Field Service Engineer
9 19 (3.11%) 3rd Line Support
9 19 (3.11%) Senior Network Engineer
10 14 (2.30%) Analyst
10 14 (2.30%) Security Engineer
11 13 (2.13%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 13 (2.13%) Lead
12 12 (1.97%) Systems Engineer
13 11 (1.80%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
14 10 (1.64%) Architect
14 10 (1.64%) Senior Security Engineer
15 9 (1.48%) Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (3.28%) Terraform
2 4 (0.66%) boto
3 3 (0.49%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.49%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.33%) EDI
4 2 (0.33%) LDAP
4 2 (0.33%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.33%) SAML
5 1 (0.16%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.16%) YAML
5 1 (0.16%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 66 (10.82%) Data Centre
2 45 (7.38%) Driving Licence
3 17 (2.79%) Security Posture
3 17 (2.79%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (2.62%) Management Information System
5 14 (2.30%) Analytical Mindset
6 12 (1.97%) CCTV
6 12 (1.97%) FMCG
6 12 (1.97%) Hybrid Cloud
7 11 (1.80%) Smartphone
8 9 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 9 (1.48%) PKI
9 8 (1.31%) Replication
10 7 (1.15%) Cyber Threat
11 6 (0.98%) Enterprise Software
12 4 (0.66%) Fibre Optics
12 4 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
13 3 (0.49%) Cyber Security Posture
13 3 (0.49%) Operational Technology
14 1 (0.16%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 115 (18.85%) Windows
2 80 (13.11%) Windows Server
3 44 (7.21%) Linux
4 15 (2.46%) Windows 10
5 11 (1.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 11 (1.80%) Windows Server 2019
6 6 (0.98%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.49%) Android
7 3 (0.49%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (14.43%) Problem-Solving
2 76 (12.46%) ITIL
3 66 (10.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 62 (10.16%) Cybersecurity
5 51 (8.36%) Disaster Recovery
6 49 (8.03%) Project Delivery
7 44 (7.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 41 (6.72%) Network Design
9 39 (6.39%) High Availability
10 37 (6.07%) Business Continuity
11 35 (5.74%) Customer Service
12 29 (4.75%) Computer Science
12 29 (4.75%) Network Monitoring
13 26 (4.26%) Stakeholder Management
14 22 (3.61%) Network Architecture
15 21 (3.44%) Incident Response
15 21 (3.44%) Infrastructure as Code
15 21 (3.44%) SIEM
16 20 (3.28%) Mentoring
17 19 (3.11%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 44 (7.21%) PowerShell
2 33 (5.41%) Python
3 11 (1.80%) Bash
4 8 (1.31%) Java
5 2 (0.33%) SQL
6 1 (0.16%) Bicep
6 1 (0.16%) C
Qualifications
1 610 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 379 (62.13%) Network+ Certification
3 367 (60.16%) Azure Certification
4 122 (20.00%) CCNP
5 77 (12.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 74 (12.13%) Degree
7 40 (6.56%) MCSE
8 35 (5.74%) Security Cleared
9 23 (3.77%) SC Cleared
10 21 (3.44%) AWS Certification
11 20 (3.28%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (2.95%) DV Cleared
13 17 (2.79%) MCSA
14 16 (2.62%) A+ Certification
15 15 (2.46%) CISSP
16 14 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
17 12 (1.97%) Microsoft Certified Professional
18 11 (1.80%) CCIE
18 11 (1.80%) CompTIA Security+
19 9 (1.48%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (5.57%) Cyber Essentials
2 27 (4.43%) SLA
3 19 (3.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 11 (1.80%) GDPR
5 6 (0.98%) NIST
5 6 (0.98%) QA
6 4 (0.66%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 4 (0.66%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.49%) COBIT
8 2 (0.33%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.33%) GRC
9 1 (0.16%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 77 (12.62%) Active Directory
2 46 (7.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (5.57%) Hyper-V
4 16 (2.62%) vSphere
5 11 (1.80%) Docker
5 11 (1.80%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.64%) Virtual Machines
7 8 (1.31%) Squid
8 6 (0.98%) Firmware
9 3 (0.49%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.49%) VMware Server
10 2 (0.33%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.16%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 30 (4.92%) Microsoft Intune
2 24 (3.93%) FortiGate
3 16 (2.62%) Ansible
4 9 (1.48%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.31%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.31%) Packer
5 8 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (0.66%) Iperf
7 3 (0.49%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (0.49%) Control-M
7 3 (0.49%) SCCM
8 2 (0.33%) VxRail
9 1 (0.16%) OpenView
9 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 470 (77.05%) Cisco
2 424 (69.51%) Microsoft
3 330 (54.10%) ForeScout
4 71 (11.64%) VMware
5 49 (8.03%) Fortinet
6 39 (6.39%) Palo Alto
7 27 (4.43%) Meraki
8 18 (2.95%) Dell
9 15 (2.46%) Aruba
9 15 (2.46%) F5
9 15 (2.46%) Splunk
9 15 (2.46%) WatchGuard
10 14 (2.30%) Juniper
10 14 (2.30%) Sophos
11 13 (2.13%) SolarWinds
11 13 (2.13%) Veeam
12 12 (1.97%) Ruckus Wireless
13 11 (1.80%) CheckPoint
13 11 (1.80%) HP
13 11 (1.80%) Red Hat