Cisco Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 28 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 233 226
Rank change year-on-year -1 -7 -7
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 1,261 1,522 3,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.23% 1.56% 1.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.55% 4.69% 6.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,055 1,122 1,523
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,050 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,364 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £47,236 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.73% -5.53% +2.15%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Cisco Certification 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 27,701 32,451 45,338
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.99% 33.33% 27.16%
Number of salaries quoted 17,227 14,614 19,248
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £42,500 £40,853
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,555 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.74% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification.

Salary trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 28 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 28 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 +18 1,115 £51,000 -6.42% 252
UK excluding London +12 913 £49,000 +3.73% 188
Work from Home -33 431 £55,000 -4.35% 140
London +15 295 £64,132 -1.34% 99
South East -14 273 £49,000 +3.16% 47
North of England +68 251 £47,500 +5.56% 36
Midlands +30 154 £49,000 +8.89% 26
North West +48 150 £45,000 - 18
West Midlands +25 116 £49,000 +3.73% 19
Yorkshire +97 88 £53,750 +13.16% 17
South West -60 78 £50,000 -0.99% 26
East of England +4 62 £45,000 -9.09% 16
Scotland -60 48 £52,500 +29.63% 31
East Midlands +4 38 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Wales +27 35 £40,500 -4.71% 10
North East -27 13 £70,000 +64.71% 2
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
Northern Ireland +13 3 £32,500 -27.78% 5

Cisco Certification
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 64 (5.08%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (3.09%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.95%) Confluence
4 8 (0.63%) IIS
5 5 (0.40%) CMS
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.079%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.079%) SAS
Applications
1 40 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.079%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.079%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.079%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 432 (34.26%) Azure
2 214 (16.97%) AWS
3 211 (16.73%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (3.89%) GCP
5 39 (3.09%) Entra ID
6 37 (2.93%) PaaS
7 35 (2.78%) Cloud Computing
8 33 (2.62%) IaaS
9 23 (1.82%) SaaS
10 19 (1.51%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
12 15 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (0.95%) AWS Direct Connect
13 12 (0.95%) OCI
14 10 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (0.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 8 (0.63%) OneDrive
16 5 (0.40%) Azure Stack
16 5 (0.40%) WhatsApp
17 2 (0.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 524 (41.55%) Firewall
2 452 (35.84%) WAN
3 319 (25.30%) LAN
4 248 (19.67%) SD-WAN
5 216 (17.13%) VPN
6 215 (17.05%) Network Security
7 208 (16.49%) Wireless
8 201 (15.94%) BGP
9 184 (14.59%) TCP/IP
10 159 (12.61%) MPLS
11 154 (12.21%) OSPF
12 146 (11.58%) DHCP
13 144 (11.42%) DNS
14 137 (10.86%) Wi-Fi
15 116 (9.20%) VLAN
16 108 (8.56%) Cisco Firepower
17 90 (7.14%) SAN
18 83 (6.58%) Internet
19 70 (5.55%) WLAN
20 66 (5.23%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.46%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.11%) MySQL
4 5 (0.40%) Big Data
4 5 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.079%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.079%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (1.74%) JIRA
2 11 (0.87%) Bitbucket
3 10 (0.79%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.48%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.32%) Git
6 3 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.16%) GitLab
7 2 (0.16%) Hudson
8 1 (0.079%) Selenium
8 1 (0.079%) Snyk
8 1 (0.079%) Vagrant
General
1 348 (27.60%) Social Skills
2 142 (11.26%) Analytical Skills
3 135 (10.71%) Finance
4 74 (5.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (4.44%) Public Sector
6 55 (4.36%) Retail
7 52 (4.12%) Telecoms
8 32 (2.54%) Manufacturing
9 28 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.14%) Law
11 22 (1.74%) Legal
11 22 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.51%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.27%) Games
14 15 (1.19%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.19%) Electronics
15 12 (0.95%) Banking
16 11 (0.87%) Marketing
17 10 (0.79%) Local Government
18 9 (0.71%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 454 (36.00%) Network Engineer
2 234 (18.56%) Senior
3 177 (14.04%) Architect
4 114 (9.04%) Analyst
5 109 (8.64%) Security Architect
6 100 (7.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 89 (7.06%) Lead
8 88 (6.98%) Senior Network Engineer
9 87 (6.90%) Support Engineer
10 84 (6.66%) IT Engineer
11 72 (5.71%) Network Analyst
12 66 (5.23%) Senior Architect
13 58 (4.60%) IT Support
14 57 (4.52%) Security Engineer
15 51 (4.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 45 (3.57%) 3rd Line Support
17 44 (3.49%) Cisco Architect
18 42 (3.33%) Senior Cisco Architect
19 41 (3.25%) Consultant
20 38 (3.01%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.17%) 802.1X
2 9 (0.71%) HTML
3 7 (0.56%) XML
4 5 (0.40%) ADO
4 5 (0.40%) XMPP
5 4 (0.32%) Akka
5 4 (0.32%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.24%) OAuth
7 2 (0.16%) EDI
7 2 (0.16%) OpenID
7 2 (0.16%) SAML
7 2 (0.16%) Web Services
8 1 (0.079%) ADSI
8 1 (0.079%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.079%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.079%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 236 (18.72%) Data Centre
2 95 (7.53%) Management Information System
3 65 (5.15%) Driving Licence
4 60 (4.76%) Security Posture
5 43 (3.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 36 (2.85%) Public Cloud
7 28 (2.22%) Replication
7 28 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.82%) PKI
9 21 (1.67%) Cyber Threat
9 21 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
10 19 (1.51%) CCTV
11 17 (1.35%) Security Operations Centre
12 14 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
12 14 (1.11%) IoT
13 13 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
14 11 (0.87%) Cloud Native
14 11 (0.87%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.79%) Operational Technology
15 10 (0.79%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 315 (24.98%) Windows
2 178 (14.12%) Linux
3 152 (12.05%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.85%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (2.70%) Windows 10
6 32 (2.54%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (2.30%) Windows Server 2012
8 26 (2.06%) Android
9 25 (1.98%) Apple iOS
10 22 (1.74%) Mac OS
11 18 (1.43%) VyOS
12 16 (1.27%) Unix
13 12 (0.95%) Windows XP
14 11 (0.87%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.56%) Windows Vista
16 6 (0.48%) Debian
17 5 (0.40%) CentOS
17 5 (0.40%) Mac OS X
17 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
18 3 (0.24%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 244 (19.35%) Cybersecurity
2 240 (19.03%) ITIL
3 211 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
4 160 (12.69%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 159 (12.61%) Information Security
6 149 (11.82%) Customer Service
7 143 (11.34%) Project Delivery
8 122 (9.67%) Mentoring
9 114 (9.04%) Project Management
10 102 (8.09%) Computer Science
11 97 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
12 82 (6.50%) Roadmaps
13 81 (6.42%) Network Monitoring
14 79 (6.26%) Cloud Security
15 78 (6.19%) Service Delivery
16 71 (5.63%) Security Architecture
17 70 (5.55%) Presales
17 70 (5.55%) Time Management
18 67 (5.31%) Network Architecture
19 66 (5.23%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 94 (7.45%) PowerShell
2 81 (6.42%) Python
3 28 (2.22%) SQL
4 25 (1.98%) Bash
5 10 (0.79%) JavaScript
6 6 (0.48%) C#
7 5 (0.40%) Java
8 4 (0.32%) C
8 4 (0.32%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 762 (60.43%) CCNA
2 602 (47.74%) CCNP
3 328 (26.01%) Degree
4 217 (17.21%) Security Cleared
5 204 (16.18%) CISSP
6 166 (13.16%) Microsoft Certification
7 158 (12.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 148 (11.74%) CCSP
9 131 (10.39%) CCIE
10 114 (9.04%) SC Cleared
11 107 (8.49%) Azure Certification
12 106 (8.41%) MCSE
13 91 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
14 90 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
15 79 (6.26%) AWS Certification
16 76 (6.03%) CISM
17 62 (4.92%) DV Cleared
18 60 (4.76%) JNCIA
19 59 (4.68%) CCDP
20 54 (4.28%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (7.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (7.85%) NIST
3 56 (4.44%) SLA
4 50 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 34 (2.70%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.90%) GDPR
7 17 (1.35%) QA
8 16 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 9 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 8 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 7 (0.56%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.40%) IASME
12 5 (0.40%) NCSC
13 3 (0.24%) GRC
13 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.16%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 190 (15.07%) Active Directory
2 186 (14.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.52%) Hyper-V
4 38 (3.01%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (2.78%) Docker
6 22 (1.74%) VMware NSX
7 17 (1.35%) Firmware
7 17 (1.35%) vSphere
8 15 (1.19%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.56%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.40%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.32%) vCloud
12 3 (0.24%) KVM
12 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.079%) LXC
14 1 (0.079%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 63 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 49 (3.89%) FortiGate
3 43 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
4 42 (3.33%) Ansible
5 40 (3.17%) Kubernetes
6 29 (2.30%) Stealthwatch
7 28 (2.22%) SCCM
8 27 (2.14%) Terraform
9 23 (1.82%) CASB
10 21 (1.67%) vCenter Server
11 17 (1.35%) Cisco CUCM
11 17 (1.35%) WSUS
12 16 (1.27%) Nmap
13 13 (1.03%) SCOM
13 13 (1.03%) ServiceCenter
14 12 (0.95%) EMC NetWorker
14 12 (0.95%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.79%) Cisco Prime
16 9 (0.71%) Puppet
17 7 (0.56%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 765 (60.67%) Cisco
2 424 (33.62%) Microsoft
3 254 (20.14%) VMware
4 193 (15.31%) Juniper
5 174 (13.80%) Palo Alto
6 163 (12.93%) Meraki
7 138 (10.94%) Fortinet
8 77 (6.11%) CheckPoint
9 59 (4.68%) Veeam
10 58 (4.60%) HP
11 52 (4.12%) Aruba
12 50 (3.97%) Apple
12 50 (3.97%) Citrix
13 49 (3.89%) F5
14 48 (3.81%) SolarWinds
15 45 (3.57%) Ruckus Wireless
16 44 (3.49%) Adobe
17 36 (2.85%) Dell
18 35 (2.78%) Nokia
19 24 (1.90%) Oracle