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 8 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 419 315 328
Rank change year-on-year -104 +13 -51
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 456 412 587
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.39% 0.83% 0.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.25% 2.36% 2.86%
Number of salaries quoted 230 287 274
10th Percentile £27,450 £27,000 £33,200
25th Percentile £35,000 £31,000 £38,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +8.11%
75th Percentile £67,500 £58,875 £62,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £68,000 £68,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £37,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -25.00% +17.65%

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 20,301 17,483 20,541
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.24% 35.21% 28.03%
Number of salaries quoted 11,540 7,403 8,852
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,847 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.38%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,350 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +18.63% -9.52% -

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 -98 398 £50,000 +25.00% 254
UK excluding London -78 366 £45,000 +20.00% 179
South East -58 92 £47,500 +5.56% 40
London -56 82 £68,750 +14.58% 94
North of England -35 80 £42,500 +4.94% 33
Work from Home -72 78 £45,000 +11.11% 67
Midlands -4 76 £41,000 +17.14% 41
Yorkshire -2 46 £42,500 +63.46% 16
East Midlands -18 44 £38,847 +10.99% 20
South West -116 41 £44,189 +38.09% 20
Scotland +22 35 £28,000 -22.22% 17
West Midlands -16 32 £53,162 +29.66% 21
East of England -30 29 £62,500 +56.25% 15
North West -20 27 £52,500 -2.33% 13
Wales -66 13 £40,750 -18.09% 9
North East -63 7 £38,378 +23.80% 4
Northern Ireland -83 3 - - 6

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 (6.58%) Microsoft Exchange
2 23 (5.04%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.54%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (1.32%) Microsoft Project
2 4 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (0.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (0.44%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.22%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 278 (60.96%) Azure
2 84 (18.42%) Microsoft 365
3 59 (12.94%) Entra ID
4 52 (11.40%) AWS
5 9 (1.97%) GCP
6 8 (1.75%) OneDrive
7 5 (1.10%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.88%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.88%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.88%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.88%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.88%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.88%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.88%) Azure Sentinel
8 4 (0.88%) Power Automate
8 4 (0.88%) Serverless
9 3 (0.66%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (0.66%) OCI
10 2 (0.44%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.44%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 177 (38.82%) Firewall
2 124 (27.19%) WAN
3 111 (24.34%) LAN
4 104 (22.81%) VPN
5 81 (17.76%) DHCP
5 81 (17.76%) DNS
6 79 (17.32%) Network Security
6 79 (17.32%) VLAN
7 72 (15.79%) TCP/IP
8 71 (15.57%) Wireless
9 57 (12.50%) Wi-Fi
10 40 (8.77%) SD-WAN
11 36 (7.89%) BGP
12 33 (7.24%) VoIP
13 31 (6.80%) OSPF
14 21 (4.61%) SAN
15 19 (4.17%) WLAN
16 18 (3.95%) Internet
16 18 (3.95%) MPLS
17 15 (3.29%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.10%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.22%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (7.24%) JIRA
2 13 (2.85%) GitLab
3 8 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.54%) Bitbucket
4 7 (1.54%) Git
5 1 (0.22%) Chocolatey
General
1 282 (61.84%) Social Skills
2 45 (9.87%) Analytical Skills
3 33 (7.24%) Telecoms
4 23 (5.04%) Public Sector
5 17 (3.73%) Finance
6 16 (3.51%) Manufacturing
7 14 (3.07%) Aerospace
8 13 (2.85%) Retail
9 12 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 12 (2.63%) Law
10 11 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
11 10 (2.19%) Legal
12 8 (1.75%) Banking
13 7 (1.54%) Digital Health
13 7 (1.54%) Military
13 7 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
14 4 (0.88%) Automotive
15 3 (0.66%) Electronics
15 3 (0.66%) Mandarin Language
15 3 (0.66%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 267 (58.55%) Network Engineer
2 64 (14.04%) IT Engineer
3 49 (10.75%) IT Support
4 43 (9.43%) Senior
5 40 (8.77%) Support Engineer
6 34 (7.46%) IT Support Engineer
7 27 (5.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 25 (5.48%) Senior Network Engineer
9 21 (4.61%) Field Engineer
9 21 (4.61%) Field Service Engineer
10 19 (4.17%) 3rd Line Support
11 16 (3.51%) Security Engineer
12 13 (2.85%) 3rd Line Engineer
12 13 (2.85%) Analyst
13 12 (2.63%) IT Technician
13 12 (2.63%) Senior Security Engineer
13 12 (2.63%) Systems Engineer
14 11 (2.41%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
15 10 (2.19%) Architect
15 10 (2.19%) Cybersecurity Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (3.73%) Terraform
2 4 (0.88%) boto
3 3 (0.66%) 802.1X
3 3 (0.66%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.44%) EDI
4 2 (0.44%) LDAP
4 2 (0.44%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.44%) SAML
5 1 (0.22%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.22%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.22%) YAML
5 1 (0.22%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 68 (14.91%) Data Centre
2 49 (10.75%) Driving Licence
3 17 (3.73%) Security Posture
4 16 (3.51%) CCTV
5 15 (3.29%) Management Information System
5 15 (3.29%) Self-Motivation
6 14 (3.07%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.63%) Smartphone
8 11 (2.41%) FMCG
8 11 (2.41%) Hybrid Cloud
9 10 (2.19%) PKI
10 9 (1.97%) Onboarding
11 8 (1.75%) Replication
12 7 (1.54%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (1.32%) Enterprise Software
14 3 (0.66%) Renewable Energy
15 2 (0.44%) Cyber Security Posture
16 1 (0.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 1 (0.22%) IoT
16 1 (0.22%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 124 (27.19%) Windows
2 89 (19.52%) Windows Server
3 45 (9.87%) Linux
4 16 (3.51%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
5 12 (2.63%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (1.54%) Windows Server 2012
7 4 (0.88%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 3 (0.66%) Android
9 2 (0.44%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (18.86%) Problem-Solving
2 85 (18.64%) ITIL
3 70 (15.35%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 63 (13.82%) Cybersecurity
5 51 (11.18%) Disaster Recovery
5 51 (11.18%) Project Delivery
6 44 (9.65%) Continuous Improvement
6 44 (9.65%) Network Design
7 39 (8.55%) Business Continuity
7 39 (8.55%) Customer Service
7 39 (8.55%) High Availability
8 28 (6.14%) Computer Science
8 28 (6.14%) Network Monitoring
9 26 (5.70%) ITSM
9 26 (5.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 25 (5.48%) Mentoring
11 22 (4.82%) Incident Management
11 22 (4.82%) SIEM
12 20 (4.39%) Incident Response
12 20 (4.39%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 41 (8.99%) PowerShell
2 34 (7.46%) Python
3 9 (1.97%) Bash
4 7 (1.54%) Java
5 2 (0.44%) SQL
6 1 (0.22%) C
Qualifications
1 456 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 209 (45.83%) Network+ Certification
3 196 (42.98%) Azure Certification
4 126 (27.63%) CCNP
5 77 (16.89%) Microsoft Certification
6 69 (15.13%) Degree
7 41 (8.99%) MCSE
8 37 (8.11%) Security Cleared
9 23 (5.04%) SC Cleared
10 21 (4.61%) MCSA
11 20 (4.39%) AWS Certification
11 20 (4.39%) DV Cleared
11 20 (4.39%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 19 (4.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 16 (3.51%) A+ Certification
14 15 (3.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 15 (3.29%) CISSP
15 12 (2.63%) CompTIA Security+
16 11 (2.41%) CCIE
17 9 (1.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (8.55%) Cyber Essentials
2 27 (5.92%) SLA
3 17 (3.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 8 (1.75%) GDPR
5 6 (1.32%) QA
6 5 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 5 (1.10%) PCI DSS
7 3 (0.66%) COBIT
7 3 (0.66%) GRC
8 2 (0.44%) Accessibility
8 2 (0.44%) NIST
9 1 (0.22%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 83 (18.20%) Active Directory
2 45 (9.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (8.33%) Hyper-V
4 16 (3.51%) vSphere
5 10 (2.19%) Docker
5 10 (2.19%) Virtual Machines
5 10 (2.19%) VMware NSX
6 7 (1.54%) Squid
7 6 (1.32%) Firmware
8 3 (0.66%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (0.66%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.44%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.22%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.22%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 40 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 30 (6.58%) FortiGate
3 16 (3.51%) Ansible
4 10 (2.19%) Single Sign-On
5 8 (1.75%) ZABBIX
6 7 (1.54%) Kubernetes
6 7 (1.54%) Packer
7 4 (0.88%) Iperf
8 3 (0.66%) Control-M
8 3 (0.66%) SCCM
9 2 (0.44%) VxRail
10 1 (0.22%) Nagios
10 1 (0.22%) OpenView
10 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.22%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 308 (67.54%) Cisco
2 263 (57.68%) Microsoft
3 165 (36.18%) ForeScout
4 75 (16.45%) VMware
5 52 (11.40%) Fortinet
6 44 (9.65%) Palo Alto
7 26 (5.70%) Meraki
8 20 (4.39%) WatchGuard
9 17 (3.73%) Dell
9 17 (3.73%) F5
10 16 (3.51%) Aruba
11 14 (3.07%) Juniper
11 14 (3.07%) Ruckus Wireless
12 13 (2.85%) SolarWinds
12 13 (2.85%) Sophos
12 13 (2.85%) Splunk
12 13 (2.85%) Veeam
13 12 (2.63%) Draytek
14 11 (2.41%) CheckPoint
14 11 (2.41%) Mitel