CCNA Job Trends

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 19 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 417 225 313
Rank change year-on-year -192 +88 +108
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 273 677 652
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 1.38% 0.88%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.36% 3.65% 3.10%
Number of salaries quoted 189 332 564
10th Percentile £27,150 £33,200 £28,300
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £46,700
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +17.77% -1.68%
75th Percentile £58,750 £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £52,500 £42,000
% change year-on-year -14.29% +25.00% -1.18%

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 20,098 18,539 21,037
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.43% 37.92% 28.27%
Number of salaries quoted 8,145 7,368 14,844
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,750 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%
75th Percentile £76,250 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -0.99%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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 -177 253 £50,000 -9.09% 118
UK excluding London -161 204 £45,000 -14.29% 114
Work from Home +46 86 £45,000 -21.74% 45
London -39 61 £55,000 -12.00% 30
North of England -82 52 £50,000 +5.26% 20
South East -43 50 £52,500 -12.50% 41
North West -36 41 £50,000 +5.26% 15
Midlands -133 37 £32,500 -49.69% 9
East Midlands -43 32 £32,500 -12.16%
East of England +13 25 £40,000 -20.79% 12
South West -6 24 £40,000 -17.95% 26
Yorkshire -48 9 £50,000 +11.86% 4
Scotland -18 8 £26,150 -59.77% 8
Northern Ireland -19 7 £37,500 -28.57% 1
West Midlands -114 5 £47,500 -26.47% 9
North East -17 2 £55,500 -14.62% 1
Wales -31 1 £32,500 -24.42% 3

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 24 (8.79%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.20%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.73%) Confluence
Applications
1 5 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.47%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.10%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 78 (28.57%) Azure
2 45 (16.48%) Microsoft 365
3 42 (15.38%) AWS
4 26 (9.52%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.83%) IaaS
6 4 (1.47%) GCP
6 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.10%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (1.10%) SaaS
8 2 (0.73%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (0.73%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.37%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.37%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.37%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 149 (54.58%) Firewall
2 112 (41.03%) WAN
3 108 (39.56%) LAN
4 72 (26.37%) VPN
5 43 (15.75%) Wi-Fi
6 37 (13.55%) Network Security
7 35 (12.82%) VLAN
8 33 (12.09%) TCP/IP
9 26 (9.52%) Cisco ASA
10 23 (8.42%) DNS
11 22 (8.06%) Wireless
12 21 (7.69%) MPLS
13 20 (7.33%) DHCP
14 19 (6.96%) BGP
15 18 (6.59%) SD-WAN
16 17 (6.23%) Cisco Firepower
16 17 (6.23%) Intrusion Detection
16 17 (6.23%) WLAN
17 16 (5.86%) VoIP
18 15 (5.49%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.56%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.56%) Metasploit
2 5 (1.83%) GitLab
2 5 (1.83%) JIRA
3 1 (0.37%) Git
General
1 100 (36.63%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.38%) Finance
3 22 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
5 19 (6.96%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (5.13%) Organisational Skills
8 13 (4.76%) Law
8 13 (4.76%) Telecoms
9 11 (4.03%) Legal
10 10 (3.66%) Retail
11 4 (1.47%) Banking
11 4 (1.47%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Military
12 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 71 (26.01%) Network Engineer
2 39 (14.29%) Support Engineer
3 38 (13.92%) IT Engineer
4 36 (13.19%) Cisco Engineer
5 33 (12.09%) LAN Engineer
5 33 (12.09%) LAN/WAN Engineer
5 33 (12.09%) WAN Engineer
6 26 (9.52%) Senior
6 26 (9.52%) Technical Engineer
7 21 (7.69%) Presales Engineer
8 20 (7.33%) IT Support
8 20 (7.33%) IT Support Engineer
9 19 (6.96%) Firewall Engineer
9 19 (6.96%) Juniper Engineer
10 18 (6.59%) Analyst
11 17 (6.23%) Azure Engineer
11 17 (6.23%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 17 (6.23%) Senior Network Engineer
12 14 (5.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 14 (5.13%) NOC Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.47%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.73%) Middleware
3 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.37%) React
3 1 (0.37%) Svelte
3 1 (0.37%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 54 (19.78%) Data Centre
2 16 (5.86%) Driving Licence
3 14 (5.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (4.40%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.03%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.03%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.03%) Smartphone
6 8 (2.93%) e-Learning
6 8 (2.93%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.56%) CCTV
7 7 (2.56%) Insider Threat
8 6 (2.20%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.20%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.83%) PKI
9 5 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (1.83%) Social Media
10 3 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.10%) iPad
11 2 (0.73%) Cloud Native
11 2 (0.73%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 65 (23.81%) Windows
2 35 (12.82%) Linux
3 31 (11.36%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.13%) Unix
5 8 (2.93%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.83%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.10%) Android
8 2 (0.73%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2012
8 2 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (24.18%) Problem-Solving
2 62 (22.71%) Customer Service
3 57 (20.88%) ITIL
4 45 (16.48%) Cybersecurity
5 34 (12.45%) Mentoring
6 29 (10.62%) Presales
7 28 (10.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 27 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (9.16%) High Availability
9 25 (9.16%) Process Improvement
10 24 (8.79%) Project Delivery
11 22 (8.06%) Service Delivery
12 21 (7.69%) Computer Science
13 20 (7.33%) Kalman Filter
13 20 (7.33%) Penetration Testing
14 19 (6.96%) Network Design
15 17 (6.23%) Information Security
15 17 (6.23%) SIEM
16 16 (5.86%) Change Control
16 16 (5.86%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (6.96%) PowerShell
2 17 (6.23%) Python
3 2 (0.73%) Bicep
3 2 (0.73%) SQL
4 1 (0.37%) Bash
4 1 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 273 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 114 (41.76%) CCNP
3 65 (23.81%) Security Cleared
4 59 (21.61%) Degree
5 52 (19.05%) Microsoft Certification
6 47 (17.22%) SC Cleared
7 44 (16.12%) JNCIA
8 41 (15.02%) MCSE
9 34 (12.45%) Network+ Certification
10 28 (10.26%) DV Cleared
11 27 (9.89%) MCSA
12 26 (9.52%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 23 (8.42%) CCIE
14 22 (8.06%) DBS Check
15 19 (6.96%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (6.23%) BPSS Clearance
16 17 (6.23%) CCSA
16 17 (6.23%) CCSE
17 14 (5.13%) CompTIA Security+
18 13 (4.76%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.42%) SLA
2 18 (6.59%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (5.86%) GDPR
3 16 (5.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 10 (3.66%) NIST
5 7 (2.56%) Actionable Recommendations
6 3 (1.10%) ITGC
7 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 39 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 19 (6.96%) Hyper-V
3 18 (6.59%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.56%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.83%) Firmware
5 5 (1.83%) vSphere
6 4 (1.47%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.73%) KVM
8 2 (0.73%) RHEV
8 2 (0.73%) Xen
9 1 (0.37%) Docker
9 1 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (10.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (9.52%) FortiGate
3 13 (4.76%) Ansible
4 7 (2.56%) Nmap
5 5 (1.83%) Autotask
5 5 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.47%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.47%) PaperCut
6 4 (1.47%) SCCM
6 4 (1.47%) Terraform
6 4 (1.47%) WSUS
7 3 (1.10%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (1.10%) Cisco Prime
7 3 (1.10%) QRadar
8 2 (0.73%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.73%) Nagios
8 2 (0.73%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.37%) Control-M
9 1 (0.37%) OpenView
9 1 (0.37%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 171 (62.64%) Cisco
2 76 (27.84%) Microsoft
3 71 (26.01%) Fortinet
4 61 (22.34%) Juniper
5 40 (14.65%) VMware
6 28 (10.26%) Aruba
7 26 (9.52%) CheckPoint
8 23 (8.42%) Meraki
8 23 (8.42%) SolarWinds
9 21 (7.69%) Palo Alto
10 18 (6.59%) Dell
11 16 (5.86%) Citrix
12 11 (4.03%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (3.30%) Apple
13 9 (3.30%) Remedy
13 9 (3.30%) Splunk
14 8 (2.93%) Arista
14 8 (2.93%) Draytek
14 8 (2.93%) ServiceNow
14 8 (2.93%) WatchGuard