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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 408 226 314
Rank change year-on-year -182 +88 +105
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 270 678 670
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.40% 1.37% 0.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.36% 3.62% 3.16%
Number of salaries quoted 186 331 578
10th Percentile £26,000 £33,200 £29,175
25th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,750 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -11.36% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £57,500 £65,000 £56,250
90th Percentile £68,750 £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 19,913 18,705 21,202
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 29.62% 37.70% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 8,050 7,379 14,941
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 £93,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -1.96%

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 15 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 15 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 -150 249 £50,000 -9.09% 112
UK excluding London -166 204 £45,000 -14.29% 108
Work from Home +37 86 £45,000 -20.00% 39
London -52 58 £55,000 -10.20% 28
North of England -60 52 £50,000 +5.26% 17
South East -42 48 £52,500 -8.70% 43
North West -22 41 £50,000 +5.26% 10
Midlands -129 36 £32,500 -49.69% 8
East Midlands -33 32 £32,500 -12.16% 1
East of England +21 27 £40,000 -20.79% 13
South West -5 24 £40,000 -15.79% 22
Scotland -18 9 £26,150 -59.77% 7
Yorkshire -42 9 £50,000 +11.86% 6
Northern Ireland -16 7 £37,500 -28.57% 1
West Midlands -108 4 £35,000 -45.82% 7
North East -14 2 £55,500 -14.62% 1
Wales -26 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 21 (7.78%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.22%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.48%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (1.11%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (27.41%) Azure
2 41 (15.19%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (14.44%) AWS
4 26 (9.63%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.85%) IaaS
6 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.11%) SaaS
8 2 (0.74%) AWS Direct Connect
8 2 (0.74%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 2 (0.74%) Mimecast
9 1 (0.37%) Azure DevOps
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Logic Apps
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Sentinel
9 1 (0.37%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.37%) GCP
9 1 (0.37%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.37%) Google Workspace
9 1 (0.37%) Pulumi
9 1 (0.37%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 145 (53.70%) Firewall
2 109 (40.37%) WAN
3 105 (38.89%) LAN
4 68 (25.19%) VPN
5 42 (15.56%) Wi-Fi
6 35 (12.96%) Network Security
6 35 (12.96%) VLAN
7 34 (12.59%) TCP/IP
8 26 (9.63%) Cisco ASA
9 23 (8.52%) DNS
10 22 (8.15%) Wireless
11 21 (7.78%) MPLS
12 20 (7.41%) DHCP
13 19 (7.04%) BGP
14 17 (6.30%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (6.30%) Intrusion Detection
14 17 (6.30%) SD-WAN
14 17 (6.30%) WLAN
15 16 (5.93%) VoIP
16 15 (5.56%) OSPF
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (2.59%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.59%) Metasploit
2 5 (1.85%) GitLab
3 4 (1.48%) JIRA
4 1 (0.37%) Git
General
1 98 (36.30%) Social Skills
2 42 (15.56%) Finance
3 22 (8.15%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.78%) Presentation Skills
5 20 (7.41%) Public Sector
6 15 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 14 (5.19%) Organisational Skills
7 14 (5.19%) Telecoms
8 12 (4.44%) Law
9 11 (4.07%) Legal
10 10 (3.70%) Retail
11 4 (1.48%) Banking
11 4 (1.48%) Documentation Skills
12 1 (0.37%) Marketing
12 1 (0.37%) Military
12 1 (0.37%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 70 (25.93%) Network Engineer
2 36 (13.33%) Support Engineer
3 35 (12.96%) Cisco Engineer
3 35 (12.96%) IT Engineer
4 33 (12.22%) LAN Engineer
4 33 (12.22%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 33 (12.22%) WAN Engineer
5 28 (10.37%) Technical Engineer
6 26 (9.63%) Senior
7 21 (7.78%) Presales Engineer
8 19 (7.04%) Firewall Engineer
8 19 (7.04%) Juniper Engineer
9 18 (6.67%) Analyst
10 17 (6.30%) IT Support
10 17 (6.30%) IT Support Engineer
10 17 (6.30%) Senior Network Engineer
11 16 (5.93%) Azure Engineer
11 16 (5.93%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 15 (5.56%) Technical Support
13 14 (5.19%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (1.48%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.74%) Middleware
3 1 (0.37%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.37%) React
3 1 (0.37%) Svelte
3 1 (0.37%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 53 (19.63%) Data Centre
2 18 (6.67%) Driving Licence
3 14 (5.19%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (4.44%) Security Posture
5 11 (4.07%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
5 11 (4.07%) Smartphone
6 8 (2.96%) CCTV
6 8 (2.96%) e-Learning
6 8 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 7 (2.59%) Insider Threat
8 6 (2.22%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.22%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (1.85%) PKI
9 5 (1.85%) Social Media
10 4 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
11 3 (1.11%) iPad
12 2 (0.74%) Hybrid Cloud
12 2 (0.74%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.96%) Windows
2 35 (12.96%) Linux
3 30 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 14 (5.19%) Unix
5 8 (2.96%) Windows 10
6 4 (1.48%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.11%) Android
8 2 (0.74%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (24.07%) Problem-Solving
2 64 (23.70%) Customer Service
3 57 (21.11%) ITIL
4 43 (15.93%) Cybersecurity
5 34 (12.59%) Mentoring
6 30 (11.11%) Presales
7 28 (10.37%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 26 (9.63%) Continuous Improvement
9 25 (9.26%) High Availability
10 23 (8.52%) Project Delivery
11 22 (8.15%) Process Improvement
11 22 (8.15%) Service Delivery
12 21 (7.78%) Computer Science
13 20 (7.41%) Kalman Filter
13 20 (7.41%) Penetration Testing
14 18 (6.67%) Network Design
15 17 (6.30%) Information Security
15 17 (6.30%) SIEM
16 16 (5.93%) Change Control
16 16 (5.93%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 20 (7.41%) PowerShell
2 17 (6.30%) Python
3 2 (0.74%) Bicep
3 2 (0.74%) SQL
4 1 (0.37%) Bash
4 1 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 270 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 112 (41.48%) CCNP
3 65 (24.07%) Security Cleared
4 58 (21.48%) Degree
5 53 (19.63%) Microsoft Certification
6 47 (17.41%) SC Cleared
7 45 (16.67%) JNCIA
8 41 (15.19%) MCSE
9 34 (12.59%) Network+ Certification
10 28 (10.37%) DV Cleared
11 27 (10.00%) MCSA
11 27 (10.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 23 (8.52%) CCIE
12 23 (8.52%) DBS Check
13 19 (7.04%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (6.30%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (6.30%) CCSA
14 17 (6.30%) CCSE
15 14 (5.19%) CompTIA Security+
16 13 (4.81%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.52%) SLA
2 19 (7.04%) Cyber Essentials
3 16 (5.93%) GDPR
4 15 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 10 (3.70%) NIST
6 7 (2.59%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.11%) ITGC
8 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 1 (0.37%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 36 (13.33%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.56%) Hyper-V
3 14 (5.19%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.85%) Firmware
5 5 (1.85%) vSphere
6 4 (1.48%) VMware NSX
7 3 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
8 2 (0.74%) KVM
8 2 (0.74%) RHEV
8 2 (0.74%) Xen
9 1 (0.37%) Docker
9 1 (0.37%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 1 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 30 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 26 (9.63%) FortiGate
3 13 (4.81%) Ansible
4 7 (2.59%) Nmap
5 5 (1.85%) Autotask
5 5 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (1.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (1.48%) PaperCut
6 4 (1.48%) SCCM
6 4 (1.48%) Terraform
6 4 (1.48%) WSUS
7 3 (1.11%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (1.11%) QRadar
8 2 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
8 2 (0.74%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.74%) Nagios
8 2 (0.74%) Proxmox
9 1 (0.37%) Grafana
9 1 (0.37%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 168 (62.22%) Cisco
2 73 (27.04%) Microsoft
3 71 (26.30%) Fortinet
4 61 (22.59%) Juniper
5 36 (13.33%) VMware
6 28 (10.37%) Aruba
7 26 (9.63%) CheckPoint
8 23 (8.52%) Meraki
9 22 (8.15%) SolarWinds
10 21 (7.78%) Palo Alto
11 18 (6.67%) Dell
12 13 (4.81%) Citrix
13 11 (4.07%) CrowdStrike
14 9 (3.33%) Apple
14 9 (3.33%) Remedy
14 9 (3.33%) Splunk
15 8 (2.96%) Arista
15 8 (2.96%) Draytek
15 8 (2.96%) ServiceNow
15 8 (2.96%) WatchGuard