Cisco Certified Network Associate (CCNA)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCNA qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 353 403 330
Rank change year-on-year +50 -73 +21
Permanent jobs citing CCNA 765 783 1,968
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.76% 0.79% 1.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.78% 2.40% 4.43%
Number of salaries quoted 652 568 814
10th Percentile £31,250 £30,932 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £43,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.20% -8.42% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £60,000 £57,500
90th Percentile £67,500 £72,325 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £44,225 £42,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.06% -5.56% +4.65%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCNA is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,546 32,627 44,457
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.29% 33.12% 27.14%
Number of salaries quoted 17,214 14,683 19,092
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,573 £42,210 £40,967
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +2.04%

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 23 May 2024.

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 23 May 2024. 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 +59 679 £47,500 +9.20% 153
UK excluding London +47 625 £44,225 +4.06% 122
Work from Home +4 268 £48,500 +7.78% 63
South East -5 167 £40,000 -8.05% 33
North of England +63 153 £40,000 -5.88% 23
Midlands +40 124 £48,500 +14.79% 18
London +37 123 £55,000 - 50
North West +29 95 £40,000 -5.88% 9
West Midlands +39 91 £48,500 +14.12% 11
South West -26 60 £48,500 +21.25% 15
Yorkshire +91 51 £45,000 +20.00% 12
East of England +38 51 £42,500 +8.97% 14
East Midlands +11 33 £50,000 +19.05% 7
Wales +27 29 £40,000 -5.88% 10
Scotland -74 27 £50,000 +42.86% 18
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
North East -21 7 £70,000 +60.90% 3
Northern Ireland +23 3 £32,500 -27.78% 1

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 62 (8.10%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (5.23%) SharePoint
3 14 (1.83%) Confluence
4 8 (1.05%) IIS
5 5 (0.65%) CMS
6 2 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.26%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 35 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.13%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.26%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 293 (38.30%) Azure
2 161 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 122 (15.95%) AWS
4 33 (4.31%) Entra ID
5 32 (4.18%) GCP
6 21 (2.75%) Cloud Computing
7 19 (2.48%) IaaS
8 17 (2.22%) PaaS
9 12 (1.57%) OCI
10 10 (1.31%) AWS Direct Connect
11 8 (1.05%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (1.05%) OneDrive
11 8 (1.05%) SaaS
12 6 (0.78%) WhatsApp
13 5 (0.65%) Azure DevOps
13 5 (0.65%) Azure Stack
14 4 (0.52%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 2 (0.26%) Dynamics 365
15 2 (0.26%) Google Workspace
16 1 (0.13%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 363 (47.45%) Firewall
2 289 (37.78%) WAN
3 212 (27.71%) LAN
4 154 (20.13%) SD-WAN
5 148 (19.35%) Wireless
6 137 (17.91%) VPN
7 136 (17.78%) TCP/IP
8 134 (17.52%) DHCP
9 120 (15.69%) MPLS
10 119 (15.56%) DNS
11 101 (13.20%) BGP
12 90 (11.76%) Network Security
13 89 (11.63%) OSPF
14 88 (11.50%) Wi-Fi
15 75 (9.80%) VLAN
16 71 (9.28%) SAN
17 54 (7.06%) Internet
18 50 (6.54%) Cisco Firepower
19 49 (6.41%) VoIP
20 44 (5.75%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (4.05%) SQL Server
2 17 (2.22%) PostgreSQL
3 16 (2.09%) MySQL
4 5 (0.65%) Big Data
5 4 (0.52%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.26%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 20 (2.61%) JIRA
2 13 (1.70%) Bitbucket
3 12 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 4 (0.52%) Git
5 3 (0.39%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.26%) GitLab
6 2 (0.26%) Hudson
7 1 (0.13%) Selenium
General
1 231 (30.20%) Social Skills
2 89 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 39 (5.10%) Telecoms
4 31 (4.05%) Finance
5 30 (3.92%) Retail
6 26 (3.40%) Manufacturing
7 24 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
8 20 (2.61%) Public Sector
9 16 (2.09%) Law
10 14 (1.83%) Games
11 12 (1.57%) Electronics
12 11 (1.44%) Documentation Skills
13 10 (1.31%) Legal
14 8 (1.05%) Automotive
14 8 (1.05%) Marketing
15 7 (0.92%) Aerospace
16 4 (0.52%) Publishing
16 4 (0.52%) Welsh Language
17 3 (0.39%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 271 (35.42%) Network Engineer
2 109 (14.25%) Senior
3 88 (11.50%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 87 (11.37%) Support Engineer
5 77 (10.07%) Analyst
6 64 (8.37%) IT Engineer
7 61 (7.97%) Architect
7 61 (7.97%) Network Analyst
8 59 (7.71%) IT Support
9 45 (5.88%) Senior Architect
10 39 (5.10%) Cisco Architect
10 39 (5.10%) Senior Cisco Architect
11 36 (4.71%) IT Support Engineer
12 33 (4.31%) Senior Network Engineer
13 29 (3.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 27 (3.53%) Network Operations Analyst
14 27 (3.53%) Operations Analyst
15 25 (3.27%) IT Manager
16 24 (3.14%) Network Support
16 24 (3.14%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (2.75%) 802.1X
2 7 (0.92%) HTML
2 7 (0.92%) XML
3 5 (0.65%) ADO
3 5 (0.65%) XMPP
4 4 (0.52%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (0.26%) EDI
6 1 (0.13%) ARM Templates
6 1 (0.13%) NETCONF
Miscellaneous
1 165 (21.57%) Data Centre
2 55 (7.19%) Driving Licence
3 28 (3.66%) Management Information System
4 27 (3.53%) Public Cloud
5 23 (3.01%) Replication
6 17 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
7 16 (2.09%) Hybrid Cloud
8 15 (1.96%) PKI
9 11 (1.44%) Onboarding
10 10 (1.31%) Social Media
11 7 (0.92%) CCTV
11 7 (0.92%) Security Posture
12 6 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
12 6 (0.78%) CMDB
12 6 (0.78%) IoT
12 6 (0.78%) Private Cloud
13 5 (0.65%) EPoS
13 5 (0.65%) Operational Technology
14 4 (0.52%) Educational Technology
14 4 (0.52%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 251 (32.81%) Windows
2 152 (19.87%) Linux
3 141 (18.43%) Windows Server
4 25 (3.27%) Windows Server 2012
4 25 (3.27%) Windows Server 2016
5 23 (3.01%) Windows 10
6 22 (2.88%) Mac OS
7 21 (2.75%) Windows Server 2019
8 18 (2.35%) VyOS
9 13 (1.70%) Unix
10 12 (1.57%) Windows XP
11 11 (1.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 7 (0.92%) Windows Vista
13 5 (0.65%) CentOS
13 5 (0.65%) Mac OS X
13 5 (0.65%) Ubuntu
14 4 (0.52%) Apple iOS
14 4 (0.52%) Debian
15 3 (0.39%) Android
15 3 (0.39%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 192 (25.10%) ITIL
2 155 (20.26%) Cybersecurity
3 140 (18.30%) Problem-Solving
4 130 (16.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 113 (14.77%) Customer Service
6 78 (10.20%) Mentoring
7 73 (9.54%) Project Delivery
7 73 (9.54%) Project Management
8 70 (9.15%) Disaster Recovery
9 62 (8.10%) Time Management
10 60 (7.84%) Computer Science
11 55 (7.19%) Presales
12 50 (6.54%) Proactive Monitoring
13 48 (6.27%) Service Delivery
14 43 (5.62%) Network Monitoring
15 42 (5.49%) Migration
16 39 (5.10%) Customer Engagement
16 39 (5.10%) Software Licensing
17 34 (4.44%) Change Control
18 33 (4.31%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 69 (9.02%) PowerShell
2 44 (5.75%) Python
3 20 (2.61%) Bash
3 20 (2.61%) SQL
4 10 (1.31%) JavaScript
5 4 (0.52%) C
5 4 (0.52%) C#
5 4 (0.52%) Java
5 4 (0.52%) Shell Script
6 2 (0.26%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 765 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 310 (40.52%) CCNP
3 221 (28.89%) Degree
4 136 (17.78%) Microsoft Certification
5 135 (17.65%) Security Cleared
6 88 (11.50%) MCSE
7 76 (9.93%) Network+ Certification
8 74 (9.67%) SC Cleared
9 59 (7.71%) Computer Science Degree
10 52 (6.80%) JNCIA
11 46 (6.01%) DV Cleared
12 42 (5.49%) Azure Certification
13 39 (5.10%) CCIE
13 39 (5.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 36 (4.71%) MCSA
15 33 (4.31%) A+ Certification
16 30 (3.92%) CCDP
17 29 (3.79%) CISSP
18 24 (3.14%) AWS Certification
19 19 (2.48%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (6.14%) SLA
2 43 (5.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (3.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 8 (1.05%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 8 (1.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 7 (0.92%) GDPR
6 5 (0.65%) QA
7 3 (0.39%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 2 (0.26%) NIST
System Software
1 156 (20.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 148 (19.35%) Active Directory
3 113 (14.77%) Hyper-V
4 41 (5.36%) VMware ESXi
5 23 (3.01%) VMware NSX
6 16 (2.09%) vSphere
7 9 (1.18%) Firmware
8 7 (0.92%) Terminal Services
9 5 (0.65%) Virtual Servers
10 4 (0.52%) vCloud
11 3 (0.39%) KVM
11 3 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
12 2 (0.26%) VMware Workstation
13 1 (0.13%) Docker
13 1 (0.13%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.13%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 46 (6.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 35 (4.58%) FortiGate
3 27 (3.53%) SCCM
4 25 (3.27%) Ansible
5 24 (3.14%) Stealthwatch
6 23 (3.01%) Terraform
7 18 (2.35%) vCenter Server
8 17 (2.22%) WSUS
9 16 (2.09%) CASB
10 14 (1.83%) Cisco CUCM
11 13 (1.70%) SCOM
11 13 (1.70%) ServiceCenter
12 12 (1.57%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (1.57%) NetBackup
13 7 (0.92%) Progress Chef
13 7 (0.92%) Puppet
14 6 (0.78%) Cisco Prime
15 5 (0.65%) Kubernetes
15 5 (0.65%) Nagios
15 5 (0.65%) SCDPM
Vendors
1 488 (63.79%) Cisco
2 299 (39.08%) Microsoft
3 217 (28.37%) VMware
4 110 (14.38%) Juniper
5 109 (14.25%) Meraki
6 108 (14.12%) Palo Alto
7 98 (12.81%) Fortinet
8 50 (6.54%) HP
9 49 (6.41%) Veeam
10 48 (6.27%) CheckPoint
11 47 (6.14%) Apple
12 42 (5.49%) Ruckus Wireless
13 41 (5.36%) Adobe
14 35 (4.58%) Aruba
15 34 (4.44%) Citrix
16 32 (4.18%) Dell
17 24 (3.14%) Nokia
17 24 (3.14%) Oracle
18 23 (3.01%) SolarWinds
19 22 (2.88%) F5