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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 223 257 219
Rank change year-on-year +34 -38 -20
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 1,313 1,477 2,982
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.33% 1.43% 1.91%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.80% 4.38% 7.08%
Number of salaries quoted 1,105 1,125 1,521
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £46,500 £48,750
% change year-on-year +5.38% -4.62% +2.63%

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 27,375 33,735 42,105
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.79% 32.58% 26.91%
Number of salaries quoted 17,286 15,174 19,044
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.47% +7.27% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +0.41%

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 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Top 19 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 4 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 +43 1,165 £51,364 -5.10% 277
UK excluding London +44 948 £49,000 +5.38% 197
Work from Home -7 445 £55,000 -5.98% 113
London +27 312 £62,882 -3.26% 111
South East 0 290 £47,500 -1.55% 60
North of England +83 245 £47,750 +6.69% 49
Midlands +64 157 £48,750 +12.72% 19
North West +60 144 £45,750 +1.67% 26
West Midlands +45 119 £48,500 +7.78% 13
South West -13 90 £50,000 -0.99% 27
Yorkshire +121 88 £52,500 +7.69% 21
East of England +29 68 £45,000 -10.00% 20
Scotland -66 50 £55,000 +35.80% 23
East Midlands +9 38 £50,000 +17.65% 6
Wales +36 34 £40,500 -4.71% 9
North East -24 13 £70,000 +64.71% 3
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
Northern Ireland +20 3 £32,500 -45.83% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

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 74 (5.64%) Microsoft Exchange
2 38 (2.89%) SharePoint
3 17 (1.29%) Confluence
4 9 (0.69%) IIS
5 5 (0.38%) CMS
6 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.076%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.076%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.076%) SAS
Applications
1 50 (3.81%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.076%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.076%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 440 (33.51%) Azure
2 233 (17.75%) AWS
3 224 (17.06%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (3.73%) GCP
5 40 (3.05%) Entra ID
6 37 (2.82%) PaaS
7 35 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
8 34 (2.59%) IaaS
9 23 (1.75%) SaaS
10 19 (1.45%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.29%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (1.07%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (0.91%) AWS Direct Connect
13 12 (0.91%) OCI
14 11 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (0.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (0.69%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.53%) WhatsApp
17 5 (0.38%) Azure Stack
18 2 (0.15%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 555 (42.27%) Firewall
2 470 (35.80%) WAN
3 353 (26.88%) LAN
4 243 (18.51%) SD-WAN
5 224 (17.06%) Wireless
6 219 (16.68%) VPN
7 211 (16.07%) BGP
7 211 (16.07%) Network Security
8 187 (14.24%) TCP/IP
9 166 (12.64%) OSPF
10 159 (12.11%) MPLS
11 149 (11.35%) DHCP
12 147 (11.20%) DNS
13 139 (10.59%) Wi-Fi
14 131 (9.98%) VLAN
15 108 (8.23%) Cisco Firepower
16 91 (6.93%) SAN
17 80 (6.09%) Internet
18 77 (5.86%) WLAN
19 70 (5.33%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.36%) SQL Server
2 22 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
3 21 (1.60%) MySQL
4 10 (0.76%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.38%) Big Data
5 5 (0.38%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.076%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.076%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.076%) DynamoDB
6 1 (0.076%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.076%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.076%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.076%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 26 (1.98%) JIRA
2 17 (1.29%) Bitbucket
3 16 (1.22%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.30%) Git
6 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) GitLab
7 2 (0.15%) Hudson
8 1 (0.076%) Selenium
8 1 (0.076%) Snyk
8 1 (0.076%) Vagrant
General
1 362 (27.57%) Social Skills
2 146 (11.12%) Analytical Skills
3 133 (10.13%) Finance
4 87 (6.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 64 (4.87%) Telecoms
6 60 (4.57%) Public Sector
7 54 (4.11%) Retail
8 33 (2.51%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.36%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.28%) Law
11 25 (1.90%) Aerospace
11 25 (1.90%) Legal
12 22 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.22%) Games
14 14 (1.07%) Electronics
15 13 (0.99%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.84%) Banking
16 11 (0.84%) Police
17 10 (0.76%) Local Government
17 10 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 480 (36.56%) Network Engineer
2 234 (17.82%) Senior
3 164 (12.49%) Architect
4 139 (10.59%) Analyst
5 115 (8.76%) Support Engineer
6 101 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 98 (7.46%) Security Architect
8 95 (7.24%) Senior Network Engineer
9 92 (7.01%) Lead
10 88 (6.70%) Network Analyst
11 85 (6.47%) IT Engineer
12 65 (4.95%) IT Support
13 57 (4.34%) Senior Architect
14 56 (4.27%) Security Engineer
15 47 (3.58%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 47 (3.58%) Network Support
16 44 (3.35%) 3rd Line Support
17 39 (2.97%) IT Support Engineer
18 38 (2.89%) Consultant
19 37 (2.82%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.12%) 802.1X
2 11 (0.84%) HTML
3 7 (0.53%) XML
4 5 (0.38%) ADO
4 5 (0.38%) XMPP
5 4 (0.30%) Akka
5 4 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.23%) OAuth
7 2 (0.15%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.15%) EDI
7 2 (0.15%) OpenID
7 2 (0.15%) SAML
7 2 (0.15%) Web Services
8 1 (0.076%) ADSI
8 1 (0.076%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.076%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 227 (17.29%) Data Centre
2 105 (8.00%) Management Information System
3 66 (5.03%) Driving Licence
4 60 (4.57%) Security Posture
5 52 (3.96%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 41 (3.12%) Public Cloud
7 31 (2.36%) Cyber Threat
8 30 (2.28%) Self-Motivation
9 28 (2.13%) Replication
10 27 (2.06%) PKI
11 22 (1.68%) Hybrid Cloud
12 18 (1.37%) CCTV
13 17 (1.29%) Security Operations Centre
14 15 (1.14%) Cloud Security Posture
15 12 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.91%) Cloud Native
16 11 (0.84%) IoT
16 11 (0.84%) Onboarding
17 10 (0.76%) Social Media
18 9 (0.69%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 334 (25.44%) Windows
2 178 (13.56%) Linux
3 155 (11.81%) Windows Server
4 47 (3.58%) Windows 10
5 37 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (2.44%) Windows Server 2019
7 31 (2.36%) Windows Server 2012
8 28 (2.13%) Android
8 28 (2.13%) Mac OS
9 25 (1.90%) Apple iOS
10 19 (1.45%) VyOS
11 15 (1.14%) Unix
12 12 (0.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (0.91%) Windows XP
13 5 (0.38%) CentOS
13 5 (0.38%) Debian
14 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.23%) CatOS
15 3 (0.23%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.23%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (18.89%) Cybersecurity
1 248 (18.89%) ITIL
2 219 (16.68%) Problem-Solving
3 170 (12.95%) Information Security
4 161 (12.26%) Customer Service
5 158 (12.03%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 145 (11.04%) Project Delivery
7 124 (9.44%) Mentoring
8 119 (9.06%) Project Management
9 103 (7.84%) Computer Science
10 102 (7.77%) Disaster Recovery
11 80 (6.09%) Roadmaps
11 80 (6.09%) Service Delivery
12 79 (6.02%) Cloud Security
13 76 (5.79%) Network Architecture
14 75 (5.71%) Network Monitoring
15 70 (5.33%) Security Architecture
16 66 (5.03%) Network Design
17 63 (4.80%) DevOps
18 62 (4.72%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 111 (8.45%) PowerShell
2 90 (6.85%) Python
3 41 (3.12%) Bash
4 40 (3.05%) SQL
5 10 (0.76%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.61%) C#
7 5 (0.38%) Java
8 4 (0.30%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.23%) C
10 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 790 (60.17%) CCNA
2 602 (45.85%) CCNP
3 325 (24.75%) Degree
4 234 (17.82%) Security Cleared
5 211 (16.07%) CISSP
6 182 (13.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 168 (12.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 158 (12.03%) CCSP
9 140 (10.66%) CCIE
10 119 (9.06%) SC Cleared
11 116 (8.83%) Network+ Certification
12 108 (8.23%) Azure Certification
13 106 (8.07%) MCSE
14 90 (6.85%) Computer Science Degree
15 81 (6.17%) AWS Certification
16 78 (5.94%) CISM
17 71 (5.41%) DV Cleared
18 67 (5.10%) CCDP
19 62 (4.72%) JNCIA
20 55 (4.19%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (8.45%) NIST
2 103 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (4.27%) SLA
4 53 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 35 (2.67%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.83%) GDPR
7 17 (1.29%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 17 (1.29%) SOC 2
8 16 (1.22%) QA
9 9 (0.69%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 8 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.38%) IASME
12 5 (0.38%) NCSC
13 3 (0.23%) GRC
13 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.15%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 207 (15.77%) Active Directory
2 195 (14.85%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.14%) Hyper-V
4 45 (3.43%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (2.67%) Docker
6 24 (1.83%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.45%) vSphere
8 16 (1.22%) Firmware
8 16 (1.22%) Virtual Desktop
9 7 (0.53%) Terminal Services
10 5 (0.38%) Virtual Servers
11 4 (0.30%) vCloud
12 3 (0.23%) KVM
12 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
13 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
14 1 (0.076%) Citrix Hypervisor
14 1 (0.076%) LXC
Systems Management
1 63 (4.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (3.96%) FortiGate
3 44 (3.35%) Single Sign-On
4 43 (3.27%) Ansible
5 39 (2.97%) Kubernetes
6 27 (2.06%) SCCM
6 27 (2.06%) Terraform
7 23 (1.75%) CASB
8 22 (1.68%) Stealthwatch
9 21 (1.60%) vCenter Server
10 19 (1.45%) Cisco CUCM
11 18 (1.37%) WSUS
12 16 (1.22%) Nmap
13 14 (1.07%) SCOM
14 13 (0.99%) ServiceCenter
15 12 (0.91%) EMC NetWorker
15 12 (0.91%) NetBackup
16 10 (0.76%) Cisco Prime
16 10 (0.76%) Puppet
17 7 (0.53%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 815 (62.07%) Cisco
2 424 (32.29%) Microsoft
3 273 (20.79%) VMware
4 195 (14.85%) Juniper
5 179 (13.63%) Palo Alto
6 155 (11.81%) Meraki
7 131 (9.98%) Fortinet
8 82 (6.25%) CheckPoint
9 62 (4.72%) HP
10 58 (4.42%) Veeam
11 55 (4.19%) Aruba
12 54 (4.11%) Citrix
13 52 (3.96%) F5
14 44 (3.35%) Ruckus Wireless
14 44 (3.35%) SolarWinds
15 41 (3.12%) Apple
16 36 (2.74%) Nokia
17 35 (2.67%) Adobe
18 32 (2.44%) Dell
19 26 (1.98%) Oracle