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 27 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 308 328 351
Rank change year-on-year +20 +23 +33
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 572 374 761
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.62% 0.88% 0.77%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.71% 2.19% 2.91%
Number of salaries quoted 176 275 650
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,842 £32,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - +9.20%
75th Percentile £64,063 £62,500 £57,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £75,250 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,801 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% - +5.88%

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 21,141 17,041 26,119
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 22.74% 40.09% 26.33%
Number of salaries quoted 9,353 7,042 17,161
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £42,215 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £71,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,058 £50,000
% change year-on-year +7.72% +2.12% -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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +15 504 £50,000 +5.26% 183
UK excluding London +64 480 £46,801 +4.00% 204
North of England +56 140 £50,000 -9.09% 37
South East +2 90 £45,000 +9.09% 51
London -45 85 £74,000 +28.70% 26
Midlands -27 82 £51,058 +32.62% 22
Yorkshire +9 67 £47,750 +23.70% 11
South West -36 65 £40,000 -5.88% 37
North West +18 61 £50,000 -9.09% 17
Work from Home +6 52 £50,000 +11.11% 32
East Midlands -21 45 £51,058 +45.88% 3
East of England +14 44 £34,000 -18.43% 25
Scotland +32 39 £27,075 -23.19% 13
West Midlands -43 37 £53,401 -17.85% 19
Wales -23 20 £32,993 -27.71% 11
North East -30 12 - - 9
Northern Ireland -32 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 26 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 7 (1.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 9 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 412 (72.03%) Azure
2 49 (8.57%) AWS
3 46 (8.04%) Microsoft 365
4 13 (2.27%) Entra ID
5 11 (1.92%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (1.92%) GCP
6 9 (1.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 5 (0.87%) Mimecast
8 4 (0.70%) Power Platform
9 3 (0.52%) Amazon EC2
9 3 (0.52%) Amazon EKS
9 3 (0.52%) Amazon S3
9 3 (0.52%) AWS CloudTrail
9 3 (0.52%) AWS Fargate
9 3 (0.52%) AWS Lambda
9 3 (0.52%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.52%) Rubrik
9 3 (0.52%) Serverless
10 2 (0.35%) ChatGPT
10 2 (0.35%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 138 (24.13%) Firewall
2 107 (18.71%) WAN
3 86 (15.03%) LAN
4 71 (12.41%) VPN
5 56 (9.79%) Network Security
6 50 (8.74%) Wi-Fi
7 32 (5.59%) TCP/IP
8 29 (5.07%) DNS
9 28 (4.90%) DHCP
9 28 (4.90%) VLAN
9 28 (4.90%) VoIP
10 27 (4.72%) SD-WAN
10 27 (4.72%) Wireless
11 21 (3.67%) SAN
12 19 (3.32%) Cisco Firepower
13 17 (2.97%) BGP
13 17 (2.97%) Cisco ASA
14 15 (2.62%) Cisco ISE
14 15 (2.62%) MPLS
15 14 (2.45%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 18 (3.15%) JIRA
2 12 (2.10%) GitLab
3 8 (1.40%) Git
3 8 (1.40%) Jenkins
4 7 (1.22%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.70%) Burp Suite
5 4 (0.70%) Metasploit
6 1 (0.17%) Chocolatey
General
1 425 (74.30%) Social Skills
2 39 (6.82%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (4.20%) Public Sector
4 20 (3.50%) Finance
5 18 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
6 13 (2.27%) Legal
7 12 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (1.92%) Manufacturing
8 11 (1.92%) Retail
9 8 (1.40%) Aerospace
9 8 (1.40%) Telecoms
10 7 (1.22%) Law
10 7 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (1.05%) Banking
12 4 (0.70%) Automotive
12 4 (0.70%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (0.70%) Electronics
12 4 (0.70%) Military
13 2 (0.35%) Local Government
14 1 (0.17%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 410 (71.68%) Network Engineer
2 51 (8.92%) IT Engineer
3 34 (5.94%) Cisco Engineer
4 25 (4.37%) IT Support
4 25 (4.37%) LAN Engineer
4 25 (4.37%) LAN/WAN Engineer
4 25 (4.37%) WAN Engineer
5 23 (4.02%) Support Engineer
6 22 (3.85%) Senior
7 21 (3.67%) IT Support Engineer
8 20 (3.50%) Lead
8 20 (3.50%) Presales Engineer
9 19 (3.32%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (3.32%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 19 (3.32%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 18 (3.15%) Field Engineer
10 18 (3.15%) Field Service Engineer
11 15 (2.62%) Firewall Engineer
11 15 (2.62%) Juniper Engineer
12 12 (2.10%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (0.70%) 802.1X
1 4 (0.70%) OpenTelemetry
2 3 (0.52%) boto
3 2 (0.35%) ARM Templates
3 2 (0.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 59 (10.31%) Data Centre
2 17 (2.97%) Analytical Mindset
3 16 (2.80%) Driving Licence
3 16 (2.80%) Security Posture
4 13 (2.27%) Smartphone
5 10 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 10 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (1.57%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (1.57%) Management Information System
6 9 (1.57%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (0.87%) Cyber Defence
7 5 (0.87%) FMCG
7 5 (0.87%) PKI
7 5 (0.87%) Replication
7 5 (0.87%) Social Media
8 4 (0.70%) Insider Threat
8 4 (0.70%) Public Cloud
8 4 (0.70%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (0.52%) Fibre Optics
9 3 (0.52%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 81 (14.16%) Windows
2 42 (7.34%) Linux
3 39 (6.82%) Windows Server
4 10 (1.75%) Windows 10
4 10 (1.75%) Windows Server 2016
5 6 (1.05%) Windows Server 2019
6 3 (0.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.17%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.17%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (14.34%) Problem-Solving
2 52 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
3 47 (8.22%) ITIL
4 41 (7.17%) Customer Service
5 39 (6.82%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 34 (5.94%) High Availability
7 32 (5.59%) Computer Science
7 32 (5.59%) Disaster Recovery
8 27 (4.72%) Incident Response
8 27 (4.72%) Network Monitoring
8 27 (4.72%) Presales
9 25 (4.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 24 (4.20%) SIEM
11 22 (3.85%) Process Improvement
12 21 (3.67%) Network Architecture
13 20 (3.50%) Business Continuity
13 20 (3.50%) Network Design
14 17 (2.97%) Penetration Testing
15 14 (2.45%) Coaching
15 14 (2.45%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 31 (5.42%) PowerShell
2 18 (3.15%) Python
3 8 (1.40%) Bash
4 7 (1.22%) Java
5 2 (0.35%) Bicep
5 2 (0.35%) SQL
6 1 (0.17%) C
Qualifications
1 572 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 370 (64.69%) Network+ Certification
3 359 (62.76%) Azure Certification
4 98 (17.13%) CCNP
5 64 (11.19%) Degree
5 64 (11.19%) Microsoft Certification
6 39 (6.82%) MCSE
7 37 (6.47%) Security Cleared
8 27 (4.72%) Computer Science Degree
9 21 (3.67%) SC Cleared
10 20 (3.50%) CCIE
10 20 (3.50%) JNCIA
11 18 (3.15%) BPSS Clearance
12 17 (2.97%) A+ Certification
13 14 (2.45%) DBS Check
14 12 (2.10%) CCSA
14 12 (2.10%) CCSE
14 12 (2.10%) CISSP
15 11 (1.92%) OSCP
15 11 (1.92%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (3.32%) SLA
3 17 (2.97%) GDPR
4 13 (2.27%) NIST
5 12 (2.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 4 (0.70%) Actionable Recommendations
7 3 (0.52%) COBIT
7 3 (0.52%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.35%) QA
9 1 (0.17%) HIPAA
9 1 (0.17%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 49 (8.57%) Active Directory
2 32 (5.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (3.15%) Hyper-V
4 15 (2.62%) vSphere
5 11 (1.92%) VMware NSX
6 10 (1.75%) Docker
7 8 (1.40%) Firmware
8 7 (1.22%) Squid
8 7 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
9 3 (0.52%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 3 (0.52%) VMware Server
10 1 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 22 (3.85%) FortiGate
2 19 (3.32%) Ansible
3 15 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
3 15 (2.62%) Terraform
4 10 (1.75%) Cisco Prime
5 8 (1.40%) ZABBIX
6 7 (1.22%) Kubernetes
6 7 (1.22%) Packer
7 5 (0.87%) Jamf Pro
8 4 (0.70%) Active Directory Federation Services
8 4 (0.70%) Nmap
8 4 (0.70%) WSUS
9 3 (0.52%) OpenView
9 3 (0.52%) Tivoli
9 3 (0.52%) VxRail
10 2 (0.35%) Control-M
10 2 (0.35%) PaperCut
11 1 (0.17%) SCCM
Vendors
1 454 (79.37%) Cisco
2 404 (70.63%) Microsoft
3 330 (57.69%) ForeScout
4 57 (9.97%) Fortinet
5 43 (7.52%) VMware
6 28 (4.90%) Aruba
7 26 (4.55%) Meraki
8 25 (4.37%) Dell
8 25 (4.37%) Juniper
9 21 (3.67%) CheckPoint
10 20 (3.50%) SolarWinds
11 18 (3.15%) Splunk
12 16 (2.80%) Palo Alto
13 12 (2.10%) HP
14 11 (1.92%) Sophos
15 10 (1.75%) Red Hat
15 10 (1.75%) Veeam
16 8 (1.40%) Citrix
17 7 (1.22%) Oracle
17 7 (1.22%) Zscaler