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 11 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 360 358 426
Rank change year-on-year -2 +68 -109
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 406 772 751
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.78% 0.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.51% 2.81% 2.28%
Number of salaries quoted 312 662 570
10th Percentile £30,500 £30,750 £30,932
25th Percentile £33,200 £36,250 £36,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £43,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +9.20% -3.33%
75th Percentile £63,750 £57,500 £59,500
90th Percentile £72,500 £67,500 £71,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year - +5.88% -5.56%

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 26,900 27,489 32,962
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.16% 27.71% 32.63%
Number of salaries quoted 11,537 17,297 14,888
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £59,250
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -8.86% +7.73%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £51,276
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.49% +2.55%

CCNA
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCNA as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCNA.

Salary trend for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCNA over the 6 months to 11 May 2025.

Salary histogram for CCNA in the UK

CCNA
Top 18 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 11 May 2025. 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 -17 390 £50,000 +5.26% 244
UK excluding London -18 284 £45,000 - 206
London +104 120 £60,000 +9.09% 82
Midlands +22 83 £42,500 -12.37% 28
South East +21 82 £45,000 +12.50% 68
Work from Home -15 72 £49,479 +2.02% 154
North of England -30 58 £50,000 +25.00% 42
West Midlands +21 54 £65,000 +34.02% 13
South West +84 40 £43,750 -11.17% 37
North West -58 35 £55,000 +37.50% 18
East Midlands +40 29 £35,000 -30.00% 15
Yorkshire +34 19 £37,500 -16.67% 17
Wales +18 8 £43,000 +6.83% 9
East of England -2 6 £52,000 +22.35% 14
Scotland +101 5 £35,250 -29.50% 7
North East +48 4 £37,500 -46.43% 8
Northern Ireland +39 1 £57,500 +76.92% 9
Isle of Man +4 1 £34,500 -21.14% 2

CCNA
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 31 (7.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 7 (1.72%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.49%) nginx
3 2 (0.49%) SAS
4 1 (0.25%) Confluence
Applications
1 29 (7.14%) MS Visio
2 16 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (2.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (0.74%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.49%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 104 (25.62%) Azure
2 77 (18.97%) Microsoft 365
3 55 (13.55%) AWS
4 25 (6.16%) Entra ID
5 20 (4.93%) PaaS
5 20 (4.93%) SaaS
6 16 (3.94%) IaaS
7 14 (3.45%) GCP
8 4 (0.99%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (0.74%) Azure Sentinel
10 2 (0.49%) AWS Direct Connect
10 2 (0.49%) Azure Stack
10 2 (0.49%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.49%) OpenShift
10 2 (0.49%) Rubrik
10 2 (0.49%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 1 (0.25%) Azure DevOps
11 1 (0.25%) Nutanix
11 1 (0.25%) Power Platform
11 1 (0.25%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 182 (44.83%) Firewall
2 136 (33.50%) WAN
3 128 (31.53%) LAN
4 113 (27.83%) Network Security
5 105 (25.86%) VPN
6 78 (19.21%) BGP
7 66 (16.26%) MPLS
8 58 (14.29%) TCP/IP
9 54 (13.30%) OSPF
10 53 (13.05%) Wi-Fi
11 50 (12.32%) DNS
11 50 (12.32%) VLAN
12 47 (11.58%) IPsec
13 41 (10.10%) DHCP
14 39 (9.61%) WLAN
15 36 (8.87%) Internet
16 34 (8.37%) Wireless
17 32 (7.88%) Cisco IOS
18 31 (7.64%) Cisco Firepower
19 26 (6.40%) Cisco ASA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.97%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.99%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.25%) MySQL
3 1 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.25%) Power BI
3 1 (0.25%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (1.97%) Sonatype Nexus
2 2 (0.49%) GitLab
General
1 128 (31.53%) Social Skills
2 77 (18.97%) Finance
3 45 (11.08%) Analytical Skills
4 27 (6.65%) Presentation Skills
5 25 (6.16%) Telecoms
6 23 (5.67%) Banking
7 14 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
8 11 (2.71%) Public Sector
9 8 (1.97%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.97%) Military
10 5 (1.23%) Investment Banking
10 5 (1.23%) Law
10 5 (1.23%) Legal
11 4 (0.99%) Advertising
11 4 (0.99%) Retail
11 4 (0.99%) Welsh Language
12 3 (0.74%) Automotive
12 3 (0.74%) Police
13 2 (0.49%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 107 (26.35%) Network Engineer
2 74 (18.23%) Support Engineer
3 59 (14.53%) IT Support
4 51 (12.56%) Architect
5 47 (11.58%) IT Engineer
6 44 (10.84%) Senior
7 40 (9.85%) IT Support Engineer
8 38 (9.36%) Junior
9 33 (8.13%) NOC Engineer
10 32 (7.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 27 (6.65%) Technical Support
12 25 (6.16%) Network Architect
13 24 (5.91%) Junior Architect
13 24 (5.91%) Junior Solutions Architect
13 24 (5.91%) Lead
13 24 (5.91%) Solutions Architect
13 24 (5.91%) Technical Engineer
13 24 (5.91%) Technical Support Engineer
14 22 (5.42%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
15 17 (4.19%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.48%) 802.1X
2 3 (0.74%) SAML
3 1 (0.25%) JSON
3 1 (0.25%) ModSecurity
3 1 (0.25%) Windows Identity Foundation
Miscellaneous
1 43 (10.59%) Driving Licence
2 41 (10.10%) Data Centre
3 13 (3.20%) Management Information System
4 12 (2.96%) Public Cloud
5 11 (2.71%) Private Cloud
5 11 (2.71%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.48%) CCTV
6 6 (1.48%) PMI
7 5 (1.23%) Cyber Threat
7 5 (1.23%) IPTV
7 5 (1.23%) PKI
8 4 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (0.99%) Security Operations Centre
9 3 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.74%) Fat Client
9 3 (0.74%) Operational Technology
9 3 (0.74%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.74%) Thin Client
10 2 (0.49%) Enterprise Software
10 2 (0.49%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 123 (30.30%) Windows
2 71 (17.49%) Linux
3 54 (13.30%) Windows Server
4 31 (7.64%) Windows 10
5 12 (2.96%) Android
6 7 (1.72%) CentOS
6 7 (1.72%) Ubuntu
7 5 (1.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2008
8 4 (0.99%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.74%) VMS
9 3 (0.74%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.25%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.25%) Unix
10 1 (0.25%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 124 (30.54%) Problem-Solving
2 89 (21.92%) ITIL
3 84 (20.69%) Mentoring
4 63 (15.52%) Network Management
5 51 (12.56%) Customer Service
6 48 (11.82%) Computer Science
7 45 (11.08%) Presales
8 37 (9.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 35 (8.62%) Network Design
10 32 (7.88%) High Availability
11 30 (7.39%) Technical Leadership
12 29 (7.14%) Asset Management
12 29 (7.14%) Cybersecurity
13 28 (6.90%) IT Asset Management
14 27 (6.65%) Incident Management
14 27 (6.65%) Network Monitoring
15 24 (5.91%) Commercial Awareness
16 23 (5.67%) Disaster Recovery
16 23 (5.67%) Proactive Monitoring
17 21 (5.17%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 28 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 27 (6.65%) Python
3 10 (2.46%) Bash
4 8 (1.97%) R
5 7 (1.72%) C
6 6 (1.48%) SQL
7 2 (0.49%) JavaScript
7 2 (0.49%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 406 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 194 (47.78%) CCNP
3 99 (24.38%) Degree
4 95 (23.40%) Security Cleared
5 93 (22.91%) Microsoft Certification
6 76 (18.72%) SC Cleared
7 62 (15.27%) JNCIA
8 59 (14.53%) MCSE
9 44 (10.84%) MCP
10 42 (10.34%) Computer Science Degree
11 40 (9.85%) JNCIS
12 39 (9.61%) Network+ Certification
13 28 (6.90%) LPIC
14 27 (6.65%) Azure Certification
15 26 (6.40%) MCSA
16 21 (5.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 18 (4.43%) DV Cleared
18 12 (2.96%) CompTIA Security+
19 11 (2.71%) CISSP
20 9 (2.22%) GSEC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (9.36%) SLA
2 7 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (1.72%) MIL-STD-1553
3 6 (1.48%) NIST
4 5 (1.23%) Cyber Essentials
5 4 (0.99%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 3 (0.74%) ISO 9001
6 3 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 2 (0.49%) GDPR
7 2 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.25%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 69 (17.00%) Active Directory
2 50 (12.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (8.37%) Hyper-V
4 15 (3.69%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (1.97%) Virtual Desktop
6 7 (1.72%) Firmware
7 5 (1.23%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (0.74%) vSphere
9 2 (0.49%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 1 (0.25%) Docker
10 1 (0.25%) VMware NSX
10 1 (0.25%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 25 (6.16%) Ansible
2 20 (4.93%) Microsoft Intune
3 13 (3.20%) SCCM
3 13 (3.20%) Terraform
3 13 (3.20%) WSUS
4 9 (2.22%) FortiGate
5 8 (1.97%) Nagios
6 3 (0.74%) Cisco CUCM
6 3 (0.74%) Iperf
6 3 (0.74%) Kubernetes
6 3 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
7 2 (0.49%) Autotask
7 2 (0.49%) CASB
7 2 (0.49%) Nessus
7 2 (0.49%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.49%) VxRail
8 1 (0.25%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.25%) Dell DRAC
8 1 (0.25%) OpenVAS
8 1 (0.25%) Opsview
Vendors
1 283 (69.70%) Cisco
2 136 (33.50%) Microsoft
3 103 (25.37%) Juniper
4 80 (19.70%) Fortinet
5 61 (15.02%) VMware
6 51 (12.56%) Palo Alto
7 48 (11.82%) Meraki
8 36 (8.87%) SolarWinds
9 35 (8.62%) Aruba
10 25 (6.16%) F5
11 20 (4.93%) Veeam
12 19 (4.68%) CheckPoint
13 18 (4.43%) Citrix
14 14 (3.45%) HP
15 12 (2.96%) Arista
16 11 (2.71%) Red Hat
17 8 (1.97%) Dell
18 7 (1.72%) ServiceNow
19 6 (1.48%) Acronis
19 6 (1.48%) SonicWALL