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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 315 344 341
Rank change year-on-year +29 -3 -14
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 600 395 696
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.60% 0.80% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.11% 2.29% 3.00%
Number of salaries quoted 206 296 477
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £31,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £67,500 £60,000 £57,854
90th Percentile £81,250 £72,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,750
% change year-on-year +12.50% -12.57% +7.65%

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 19,272 17,216 23,194
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.13% 35.04% 25.80%
Number of salaries quoted 10,142 7,834 13,757
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £30,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -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 25 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 25 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 +14 528 £52,500 +16.67% 164
UK excluding London +47 504 £45,000 +12.50% 183
North of England +34 123 £50,000 -3.61% 33
South East -9 115 £45,000 +12.50% 40
London -48 93 £70,000 +29.03% 32
Midlands +3 83 £46,801 +23.16% 18
Yorkshire +10 69 £42,500 +44.68% 12
South West -77 68 £50,000 +25.00% 38
Work from Home -37 61 £48,500 +2.11% 17
East of England +32 51 £38,250 -21.54% 21
Scotland +52 42 £28,000 -8.94% 15
North West +7 42 £52,500 -8.70% 12
East Midlands -17 42 £40,097 +14.56% 4
West Midlands +4 41 £53,162 -5.49% 14
Wales -35 22 £40,750 -18.09% 11
North East -45 12 - - 9
Northern Ireland -63 6 - - 8

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 37 (6.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (3.00%) SharePoint
3 8 (1.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 10 (1.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.17%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.17%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 436 (72.67%) Azure
2 65 (10.83%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (9.17%) AWS
4 28 (4.67%) Entra ID
5 13 (2.17%) GCP
6 11 (1.83%) Azure Monitor
7 8 (1.33%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 6 (1.00%) OneDrive
9 5 (0.83%) Power Platform
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon EC2
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon EKS
10 4 (0.67%) Amazon S3
10 4 (0.67%) AWS CloudTrail
10 4 (0.67%) AWS Fargate
10 4 (0.67%) AWS Lambda
10 4 (0.67%) Mimecast
10 4 (0.67%) Power Automate
10 4 (0.67%) Rubrik
10 4 (0.67%) Serverless
11 3 (0.50%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 167 (27.83%) Firewall
2 127 (21.17%) WAN
3 110 (18.33%) VPN
4 104 (17.33%) LAN
5 74 (12.33%) Network Security
6 65 (10.83%) VLAN
7 64 (10.67%) TCP/IP
8 59 (9.83%) DNS
8 59 (9.83%) Wi-Fi
9 58 (9.67%) DHCP
10 50 (8.33%) Wireless
11 45 (7.50%) SD-WAN
12 40 (6.67%) VoIP
13 33 (5.50%) BGP
14 25 (4.17%) OSPF
15 22 (3.67%) MPLS
16 19 (3.17%) SAN
17 18 (3.00%) Internet
17 18 (3.00%) WLAN
18 15 (2.50%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.17%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 25 (4.17%) JIRA
2 12 (2.00%) GitLab
3 10 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (1.33%) Bitbucket
4 8 (1.33%) Git
5 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 449 (74.83%) Social Skills
2 41 (6.83%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (4.00%) Public Sector
4 19 (3.17%) Finance
5 18 (3.00%) Telecoms
6 15 (2.50%) Manufacturing
7 12 (2.00%) Retail
8 10 (1.67%) Aerospace
8 10 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 10 (1.67%) Legal
8 10 (1.67%) Organisational Skills
9 9 (1.50%) Banking
9 9 (1.50%) Military
10 7 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
11 5 (0.83%) Automotive
11 5 (0.83%) Digital Health
12 4 (0.67%) Electronics
12 4 (0.67%) Law
13 3 (0.50%) Mandarin Language
13 3 (0.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 425 (70.83%) Network Engineer
2 56 (9.33%) IT Engineer
3 38 (6.33%) IT Support
4 31 (5.17%) Senior
5 29 (4.83%) Support Engineer
6 27 (4.50%) IT Support Engineer
7 23 (3.83%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (3.50%) Lead
9 20 (3.33%) Field Engineer
9 20 (3.33%) Field Service Engineer
9 20 (3.33%) Senior Network Engineer
10 18 (3.00%) 3rd Line Support
11 15 (2.50%) Analyst
12 13 (2.17%) Cisco Engineer
12 13 (2.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 13 (2.17%) Security Engineer
13 12 (2.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 12 (2.00%) Azure Engineer
13 12 (2.00%) Systems Engineer
14 10 (1.67%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.67%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.67%) boto
2 3 (0.50%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.33%) OpenTelemetry
4 1 (0.17%) EDI
4 1 (0.17%) NETCONF
4 1 (0.17%) YAML
4 1 (0.17%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 61 (10.17%) Data Centre
2 31 (5.17%) Driving Licence
3 16 (2.67%) Security Posture
4 14 (2.33%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (2.00%) Hybrid Cloud
5 12 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
6 10 (1.67%) Smartphone
7 9 (1.50%) Management Information System
8 8 (1.33%) FMCG
9 6 (1.00%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (1.00%) Replication
10 5 (0.83%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (0.83%) Cyber Threat
10 5 (0.83%) Onboarding
11 4 (0.67%) Fibre Optics
11 4 (0.67%) Public Cloud
11 4 (0.67%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (0.67%) Social Media
12 3 (0.50%) CCTV
12 3 (0.50%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 106 (17.67%) Windows
2 70 (11.67%) Windows Server
3 43 (7.17%) Linux
4 15 (2.50%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.00%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.00%) Windows Server 2019
6 4 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
7 3 (0.50%) Android
7 3 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.33%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (14.67%) Problem-Solving
2 69 (11.50%) Cybersecurity
3 67 (11.17%) ITIL
4 55 (9.17%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 51 (8.50%) Disaster Recovery
6 47 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 44 (7.33%) High Availability
8 34 (5.67%) Customer Service
9 33 (5.50%) Network Monitoring
9 33 (5.50%) Project Delivery
10 32 (5.33%) Business Continuity
11 31 (5.17%) Computer Science
12 29 (4.83%) Incident Response
13 28 (4.67%) Network Design
14 26 (4.33%) SIEM
15 21 (3.50%) Network Architecture
16 18 (3.00%) Infrastructure as Code
16 18 (3.00%) Mentoring
17 16 (2.67%) Proactive Monitoring
17 16 (2.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 44 (7.33%) PowerShell
2 24 (4.00%) Python
3 10 (1.67%) Bash
4 8 (1.33%) Java
5 2 (0.33%) SQL
6 1 (0.17%) Bicep
6 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 600 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 373 (62.17%) Azure Certification
3 372 (62.00%) Network+ Certification
4 123 (20.50%) CCNP
5 74 (12.33%) Microsoft Certification
6 70 (11.67%) Degree
7 37 (6.17%) Security Cleared
8 32 (5.33%) MCSE
9 24 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
10 21 (3.50%) SC Cleared
11 18 (3.00%) AWS Certification
12 16 (2.67%) DV Cleared
13 14 (2.33%) A+ Certification
13 14 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (2.33%) CCIE
13 14 (2.33%) MCSA
14 12 (2.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 12 (2.00%) RHCSA
15 10 (1.67%) CISSP
16 9 (1.50%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 23 (3.83%) Cyber Essentials
3 22 (3.67%) SLA
4 15 (2.50%) GDPR
5 12 (2.00%) NIST
6 6 (1.00%) QA
7 4 (0.67%) PCI DSS
8 3 (0.50%) COBIT
9 1 (0.17%) Accessibility
9 1 (0.17%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.17%) GRC
9 1 (0.17%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 78 (13.00%) Active Directory
2 49 (8.17%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (5.67%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.50%) vSphere
5 13 (2.17%) VMware NSX
6 11 (1.83%) Docker
7 8 (1.33%) Squid
8 5 (0.83%) Virtual Machines
8 5 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
9 4 (0.67%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 4 (0.67%) Firmware
10 3 (0.50%) VMware Server
11 1 (0.17%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 20 (3.33%) FortiGate
1 20 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
2 18 (3.00%) Terraform
3 17 (2.83%) Ansible
4 9 (1.50%) Cisco Prime
4 9 (1.50%) ZABBIX
5 8 (1.33%) Kubernetes
5 8 (1.33%) Packer
6 5 (0.83%) Control-M
7 4 (0.67%) Iperf
7 4 (0.67%) VxRail
8 3 (0.50%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (0.50%) OpenView
8 3 (0.50%) Tivoli
9 2 (0.33%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 2 (0.33%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (0.33%) WSUS
10 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 468 (78.00%) Cisco
2 428 (71.33%) Microsoft
3 330 (55.00%) ForeScout
4 67 (11.17%) VMware
5 56 (9.33%) Fortinet
6 35 (5.83%) Palo Alto
7 34 (5.67%) Meraki
8 20 (3.33%) Dell
8 20 (3.33%) Splunk
9 19 (3.17%) CheckPoint
9 19 (3.17%) SolarWinds
9 19 (3.17%) Sophos
10 18 (3.00%) Aruba
11 15 (2.50%) Juniper
12 13 (2.17%) Citrix
13 12 (2.00%) HP
14 11 (1.83%) F5
14 11 (1.83%) Red Hat
14 11 (1.83%) Veeam
15 9 (1.50%) Zscaler