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

6 months to
2 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 393 235 304
Rank change year-on-year -158 +69 +113
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 286 685 689
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.45% 1.33% 0.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.46% 3.54% 3.31%
Number of salaries quoted 197 329 599
10th Percentile £25,750 £33,750 £30,150
25th Percentile £31,250 £42,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £41,551 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -24.45% +15.79% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £65,000 £56,875
90th Percentile £67,500 £70,000 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,500 £52,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year -22.86% +23.53% -1.16%

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 19,587 19,329 20,816
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 30.65% 37.42% 28.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7,861 7,433 14,749
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £28,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £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 £75,900 £76,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £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 2 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 2 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 -140 260 £45,000 -18.18% 107
UK excluding London -133 223 £40,500 -22.86% 100
Work from Home +53 88 £43,000 -21.82% 38
North of England -63 56 £50,000 +5.26% 20
South East -24 54 £52,500 -12.50% 29
London -25 52 £50,000 -20.00% 26
North West -13 42 £50,000 +5.26% 11
Midlands -118 37 £32,500 -48.00% 12
East Midlands -26 33 £32,500 -12.16% 3
East of England +24 30 £40,000 -20.00% 10
South West +2 28 £32,500 -30.11% 20
Scotland -17 10 £31,075 -52.19% 10
Yorkshire -35 10 £47,750 -2.05% 9
Northern Ireland -7 7 £37,500 -28.57%
North East -10 4 £38,500 -40.77%
West Midlands -109 4 £41,000 -34.40% 9
Wales -24 1 £32,500 -25.29% 1

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 22 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (2.10%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.70%) Apache
3 2 (0.70%) Confluence
3 2 (0.70%) WildFly
Applications
1 7 (2.45%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.40%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.35%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.40%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 74 (25.87%) Azure
2 45 (15.73%) Microsoft 365
3 38 (13.29%) AWS
4 27 (9.44%) Entra ID
5 5 (1.75%) IaaS
6 4 (1.40%) Microsoft Purview
6 4 (1.40%) SaaS
7 2 (0.70%) AWS Direct Connect
7 2 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.35%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Logic Apps
8 1 (0.35%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.35%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.35%) GCP
8 1 (0.35%) GitHub
8 1 (0.35%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (0.35%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.35%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.35%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 151 (52.80%) Firewall
2 108 (37.76%) WAN
3 102 (35.66%) LAN
4 68 (23.78%) VPN
5 43 (15.03%) Wi-Fi
6 36 (12.59%) VLAN
7 35 (12.24%) Network Security
8 34 (11.89%) TCP/IP
9 25 (8.74%) Cisco ASA
10 24 (8.39%) DNS
11 23 (8.04%) MPLS
12 22 (7.69%) Wireless
13 21 (7.34%) DHCP
14 20 (6.99%) BGP
14 20 (6.99%) VSAT
15 18 (6.29%) SD-WAN
16 16 (5.59%) Cisco Firepower
16 16 (5.59%) Intrusion Detection
16 16 (5.59%) VoIP
17 15 (5.24%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.40%) SQL Server
2 2 (0.70%) MySQL
2 2 (0.70%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (2.45%) Burp Suite
1 7 (2.45%) Metasploit
2 4 (1.40%) GitLab
3 2 (0.70%) JIRA
4 1 (0.35%) Git
General
1 102 (35.66%) Social Skills
2 45 (15.73%) Finance
3 22 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (7.34%) Presentation Skills
4 21 (7.34%) Public Sector
5 16 (5.59%) Organisational Skills
6 15 (5.24%) Telecoms
7 13 (4.55%) Law
8 12 (4.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.85%) Legal
10 9 (3.15%) Retail
11 5 (1.75%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.40%) Documentation Skills
13 3 (1.05%) Banking
13 3 (1.05%) Billing
13 3 (1.05%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.70%) Aerospace
14 2 (0.70%) Automotive
14 2 (0.70%) Electronics
15 1 (0.35%) Military
Job Titles
1 70 (24.48%) Network Engineer
2 42 (14.69%) Support Engineer
3 40 (13.99%) Technical Engineer
4 35 (12.24%) IT Engineer
5 34 (11.89%) Cisco Engineer
6 32 (11.19%) LAN Engineer
6 32 (11.19%) LAN/WAN Engineer
6 32 (11.19%) WAN Engineer
7 26 (9.09%) Senior
8 25 (8.74%) Technical Support
9 21 (7.34%) Analyst
9 21 (7.34%) Presales Engineer
9 21 (7.34%) Technical Support Engineer
10 19 (6.64%) Firewall Engineer
10 19 (6.64%) Juniper Engineer
11 18 (6.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 18 (6.29%) IT Support
12 16 (5.59%) IT Support Engineer
12 16 (5.59%) NOC Engineer
12 16 (5.59%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.05%) OpenTelemetry
2 2 (0.70%) 802.1X
2 2 (0.70%) Middleware
3 1 (0.35%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.35%) React
3 1 (0.35%) Svelte
3 1 (0.35%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 50 (17.48%) Data Centre
2 21 (7.34%) Driving Licence
3 13 (4.55%) e-Learning
3 13 (4.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 12 (4.20%) Security Posture
5 11 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
5 11 (3.85%) Smartphone
6 10 (3.50%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.15%) CCTV
7 9 (3.15%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (2.80%) Onboarding
9 7 (2.45%) Insider Threat
10 5 (1.75%) Security Operations Centre
10 5 (1.75%) Social Media
11 4 (1.40%) PKI
12 3 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.05%) iPad
12 3 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
13 2 (0.70%) Cloud Native
13 2 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 67 (23.43%) Windows
2 40 (13.99%) Linux
3 34 (11.89%) Windows Server
4 19 (6.64%) Unix
5 11 (3.85%) Windows 10
6 5 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
7 4 (1.40%) Android
8 2 (0.70%) CentOS
8 2 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 2 (0.70%) Ubuntu
8 2 (0.70%) Windows Server 2012
9 1 (0.35%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (26.57%) Customer Service
2 64 (22.38%) Problem-Solving
3 62 (21.68%) ITIL
4 41 (14.34%) Cybersecurity
5 39 (13.64%) Mentoring
6 34 (11.89%) Presales
7 32 (11.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 31 (10.84%) High Availability
9 26 (9.09%) Continuous Improvement
10 22 (7.69%) Kalman Filter
11 21 (7.34%) Computer Science
11 21 (7.34%) Project Delivery
11 21 (7.34%) Service Delivery
12 20 (6.99%) Commercial Awareness
12 20 (6.99%) Process Improvement
13 18 (6.29%) Information Security
13 18 (6.29%) Penetration Testing
13 18 (6.29%) Security Operations
14 16 (5.59%) Decision-Making
14 16 (5.59%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 20 (6.99%) PowerShell
2 18 (6.29%) Python
3 4 (1.40%) Bash
4 2 (0.70%) Bicep
4 2 (0.70%) C
4 2 (0.70%) SQL
5 1 (0.35%) Go
5 1 (0.35%) VB
Qualifications
1 286 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 118 (41.26%) CCNP
3 72 (25.17%) Security Cleared
4 59 (20.63%) Degree
5 57 (19.93%) Microsoft Certification
6 55 (19.23%) SC Cleared
7 52 (18.18%) JNCIA
8 42 (14.69%) MCSE
9 34 (11.89%) Network+ Certification
10 33 (11.54%) DV Cleared
11 30 (10.49%) MCSA
12 28 (9.79%) Microsoft Certified Professional
13 25 (8.74%) DBS Check
14 22 (7.69%) CCIE
15 19 (6.64%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (5.59%) CCSA
16 16 (5.59%) CCSE
17 14 (4.90%) BPSS Clearance
17 14 (4.90%) CompTIA Security+
18 13 (4.55%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (8.04%) Cyber Essentials
2 22 (7.69%) SLA
3 20 (6.99%) GDPR
4 15 (5.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 14 (4.90%) NIST
6 7 (2.45%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (1.05%) GxP
7 3 (1.05%) ITGC
8 2 (0.70%) 21 CFR Part 11
8 2 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.35%) HIPAA
System Software
1 41 (14.34%) Active Directory
2 15 (5.24%) Hyper-V
3 13 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (1.75%) Firmware
5 5 (1.75%) vSphere
6 3 (1.05%) Docker
6 3 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.05%) VMware NSX
7 2 (0.70%) Citrix Hypervisor
7 2 (0.70%) KVM
7 2 (0.70%) pfSense
7 2 (0.70%) RHEV
7 2 (0.70%) Samba
7 2 (0.70%) Virtual Servers
7 2 (0.70%) Xen
8 1 (0.35%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 32 (11.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 25 (8.74%) FortiGate
3 12 (4.20%) Ansible
4 7 (2.45%) Nmap
5 6 (2.10%) SCCM
6 5 (1.75%) Autotask
6 5 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
7 4 (1.40%) PaperCut
7 4 (1.40%) Terraform
8 3 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 3 (1.05%) ArcSight ESM
8 3 (1.05%) Kubernetes
8 3 (1.05%) QRadar
8 3 (1.05%) WSUS
9 2 (0.70%) Cisco CUCM
9 2 (0.70%) Nagios
9 2 (0.70%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.35%) Grafana
10 1 (0.35%) OpenView
10 1 (0.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 174 (60.84%) Cisco
2 76 (26.57%) Microsoft
3 70 (24.48%) Fortinet
4 64 (22.38%) Juniper
5 35 (12.24%) VMware
6 29 (10.14%) Aruba
7 25 (8.74%) Meraki
8 23 (8.04%) CheckPoint
9 21 (7.34%) SolarWinds
10 20 (6.99%) Dell
10 20 (6.99%) Palo Alto
11 13 (4.55%) Citrix
12 10 (3.50%) Apple
12 10 (3.50%) Remedy
13 9 (3.15%) CrowdStrike
13 9 (3.15%) ServiceNow
13 9 (3.15%) Starlink
14 8 (2.80%) Arista
14 8 (2.80%) Splunk
14 8 (2.80%) WatchGuard