Cisco Certification Job Trends in Central London

Cisco Certification
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 119 123
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +52
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 18 65 48
As % of all permanent jobs in Central London 0.70% 2.02% 1.57%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.88% 6.16% 6.63%
Number of salaries quoted 16 38 45
10th Percentile £58,750 £46,250 £50,250
25th Percentile £69,688 £61,250 £54,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £76,500 £62,618
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +22.17% -6.54%
75th Percentile £80,000 £85,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £94,125 £93,250
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year - +7.69% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Central London

Cisco Certification 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 in Central London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 625 1,055 724
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 24.42% 32.81% 23.73%
Number of salaries quoted 457 499 592
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £37,000
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £45,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -7.14%
75th Percentile £86,250 £92,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £116,750 £120,250 £115,000
London median annual salary £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year - - +2.87%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cisco Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Central London.

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in Central London

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend in Central London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cisco Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Central London citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram in Central London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in Central London over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in Central London

Cisco Certification
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the Central London region over the 6 months to 14 January 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
City of London -13 17 £75,000 -1.96% 10
City of Westminster +34 2 - -
Cisco Certification
London

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Central London 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 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (11.11%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 7 (38.89%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (22.22%) Azure
3 3 (16.67%) Entra ID
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
5 1 (5.56%) AWS
5 1 (5.56%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (5.56%) GCP
5 1 (5.56%) IaaS
5 1 (5.56%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 14 (77.78%) Firewall
2 5 (27.78%) VPN
3 4 (22.22%) Intrusion Detection
3 4 (22.22%) LAN
3 4 (22.22%) WAN
3 4 (22.22%) Wi-Fi
4 3 (16.67%) BGP
4 3 (16.67%) Network Security
4 3 (16.67%) OSPF
5 2 (11.11%) DHCP
5 2 (11.11%) DNS
5 2 (11.11%) MPLS
5 2 (11.11%) SD-WAN
5 2 (11.11%) VLAN
6 1 (5.56%) Cisco Wireless
6 1 (5.56%) Ethernet VPN
6 1 (5.56%) IGMP
6 1 (5.56%) NAS
6 1 (5.56%) VSAN
6 1 (5.56%) VXLAN
General
1 12 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Law
4 1 (5.56%) Banking
4 1 (5.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Network Engineer
1 5 (27.78%) Senior
2 4 (22.22%) IT Security Specialist
2 4 (22.22%) Security Operations Specialist
2 4 (22.22%) Security Specialist
3 2 (11.11%) Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Information Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Information Security Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Security Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Senior Security Engineer
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (11.11%) Technical Security Analyst
4 1 (5.56%) Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Information Security Consultant
4 1 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Support Engineer
4 1 (5.56%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 2 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.56%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Windows
2 3 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Linux
3 1 (5.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) SIEM
2 7 (38.89%) Cybersecurity
2 7 (38.89%) Incident Response
3 6 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 6 (33.33%) Information Security
3 6 (33.33%) Security Management
3 6 (33.33%) Security Operations
4 4 (22.22%) Change Management
4 4 (22.22%) Computer Science
4 4 (22.22%) Data Loss Prevention
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Privileged Access Management
4 4 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (22.22%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
4 4 (22.22%) Threat Detection
5 2 (11.11%) Data Encryption
5 2 (11.11%) Key Management
5 2 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
5 2 (11.11%) Risk Register
5 2 (11.11%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) Python
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (44.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
1 8 (44.44%) CCNA
1 8 (44.44%) CCNP
1 8 (44.44%) CISSP
2 7 (38.89%) Degree
3 3 (16.67%) CCSP
4 2 (11.11%) CCIE
4 2 (11.11%) CISA
4 2 (11.11%) CISM
4 2 (11.11%) CompTIA CySA+
4 2 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (11.11%) GCIH
4 2 (11.11%) GIAC
4 2 (11.11%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
4 2 (11.11%) MCITP
4 2 (11.11%) MCSA
4 2 (11.11%) MCSE
4 2 (11.11%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (11.11%) Postgraduate
4 2 (11.11%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (22.22%) GDPR
2 4 (22.22%) NIST
3 2 (11.11%) HIPAA
3 2 (11.11%) ITGC
3 2 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (5.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 4 (22.22%) Active Directory
2 3 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (11.11%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (5.56%) Docker
4 1 (5.56%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) ArcSight ESM
1 2 (11.11%) QRadar
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Cisco CUCM
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (5.56%) Nagios
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (66.67%) Microsoft
2 7 (38.89%) Cisco
3 4 (22.22%) VMware
4 3 (16.67%) Citrix
4 3 (16.67%) Juniper
4 3 (16.67%) Meraki
4 3 (16.67%) Palo Alto
4 3 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (11.11%) ArcSight
5 2 (11.11%) Forcepoint
5 2 (11.11%) ForeScout
5 2 (11.11%) LogicMonitor
5 2 (11.11%) LogLogic
5 2 (11.11%) McAfee
5 2 (11.11%) Splunk
6 1 (5.56%) Arista
6 1 (5.56%) CheckPoint
6 1 (5.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds