Cisco Certification Job Trends in the East of England

Cisco Certification
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 140 130 69
Rank change year-on-year -10 -61 +97
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 29 51 67
As % of all permanent jobs in the East of England 0.87% 1.22% 3.04%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.39% 4.34% 8.41%
Number of salaries quoted 15 22 51
10th Percentile £29,000 £37,375 £36,250
25th Percentile £37,125 £47,875 £47,200
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.43% -4.17% +33.33%
75th Percentile £45,982 £73,438 £68,750
90th Percentile £53,200 £74,875 £75,000
England median annual salary £53,750 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.42% +9.09% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,213 1,174 797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 36.33% 28.00% 36.13%
Number of salaries quoted 500 373 470
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,750 £28,800
25th Percentile £30,094 £43,750 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £54,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £73,250 £78,750 £82,625
England median annual salary £55,000 £57,560 £57,500
% change year-on-year -4.45% +0.10% +4.55%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in the East of England

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend in the East of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cisco Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in the East of England over the 6 months to 26 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in the East of England

Cisco Certification
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the East of England region over the 6 months to 26 October 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
Hertfordshire +6 10 £40,000 -26.27% 4
Cambridgeshire +20 7 £50,000 +9.12% 2
Suffolk -20 7 - -
Essex -15 4 £30,500 -39.00% 1
Bedfordshire +4 1 £52,000 -28.28% 2
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (17.24%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 17 (58.62%) Azure
2 10 (34.48%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (20.69%) Entra ID
4 2 (6.90%) SaaS
5 1 (3.45%) AWS
5 1 (3.45%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 19 (65.52%) Firewall
2 12 (41.38%) WAN
3 9 (31.03%) LAN
4 7 (24.14%) IP Telephony
4 7 (24.14%) VPN
4 7 (24.14%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (13.79%) Cisco ASA
5 4 (13.79%) WLAN
6 3 (10.34%) DHCP
6 3 (10.34%) IPsec
6 3 (10.34%) SAN
6 3 (10.34%) VLAN
6 3 (10.34%) VoIP
7 2 (6.90%) Cisco IOS
7 2 (6.90%) DNS
7 2 (6.90%) SSL
7 2 (6.90%) TCP/IP
8 1 (3.45%) Multicast
8 1 (3.45%) OSPF
8 1 (3.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.45%) GitLab
1 1 (3.45%) JIRA
General
1 5 (17.24%) Social Skills
2 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
3 2 (6.90%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.45%) Aviation
4 1 (3.45%) Finance
4 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (3.45%) Military
4 1 (3.45%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (37.93%) Network Engineer
2 8 (27.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (24.14%) Technical Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) IT Engineer
4 5 (17.24%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
5 4 (13.79%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) Administrator
6 3 (10.34%) Core Network Engineer
6 3 (10.34%) IT Administrator
6 3 (10.34%) Network Administrator
7 2 (6.90%) 1st Line Support
7 2 (6.90%) 1st Line Technical Support
7 2 (6.90%) DevOps Engineer
7 2 (6.90%) Technical Support
8 1 (3.45%) Infrastructure Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
8 1 (3.45%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.45%) 802.1X
1 1 (3.45%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Data Centre
2 4 (13.79%) Driving Licence
2 4 (13.79%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (10.34%) iPad
4 2 (6.90%) Biopharmaceutical
4 2 (6.90%) CCTV
5 1 (3.45%) Clustering
5 1 (3.45%) e-Learning
5 1 (3.45%) PKI
5 1 (3.45%) Smartcard
5 1 (3.45%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 13 (44.83%) Windows
2 11 (37.93%) Windows Server
3 6 (20.69%) Windows 10
4 5 (17.24%) Android
5 2 (6.90%) Linux
5 2 (6.90%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (3.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (41.38%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (37.93%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 8 (27.59%) Presales
4 7 (24.14%) Business Enablement
4 7 (24.14%) Business Strategy
4 7 (24.14%) Incident Management
4 7 (24.14%) ITIL
4 7 (24.14%) Security Operations
4 7 (24.14%) Technology Enablement
4 7 (24.14%) Vulnerability Management
5 6 (20.69%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (17.24%) ITSM
6 5 (17.24%) Network Management
6 5 (17.24%) Network Monitoring
6 5 (17.24%) Task Automation
7 4 (13.79%) Network Virtualisation
7 4 (13.79%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (10.34%) Infrastructure Maintenance
8 3 (10.34%) Validation
9 2 (6.90%) Logistics
Programming Languages
1 10 (34.48%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 28 (96.55%) CCNA
2 12 (41.38%) CCNP
3 8 (27.59%) Security Cleared
4 7 (24.14%) DBS Check
5 5 (17.24%) SC Cleared
6 4 (13.79%) Degree
6 4 (13.79%) Microsoft Certification
7 2 (6.90%) DV Cleared
7 2 (6.90%) MCDST
7 2 (6.90%) MCP
7 2 (6.90%) MCSE
8 1 (3.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 1 (3.45%) CCSP
8 1 (3.45%) CISM
8 1 (3.45%) CISMP
8 1 (3.45%) CISSP
8 1 (3.45%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (3.45%) PMI Certification
8 1 (3.45%) PMP
8 1 (3.45%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (24.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 7 (24.14%) GDPR
1 7 (24.14%) NIST
2 2 (6.90%) GxP
2 2 (6.90%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (37.93%) Active Directory
2 4 (13.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.90%) Microsoft Virtual Server
3 2 (6.90%) Virtual Servers
4 1 (3.45%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.45%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (34.48%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (24.14%) SCCM
3 5 (17.24%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.45%) Ansible
4 1 (3.45%) CASB
4 1 (3.45%) Failover Clustering
4 1 (3.45%) Nessus
4 1 (3.45%) WMI
4 1 (3.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 17 (58.62%) Microsoft
2 15 (51.72%) Cisco
3 5 (17.24%) Apple
3 5 (17.24%) Fortinet
3 5 (17.24%) Palo Alto
3 5 (17.24%) Remedy
3 5 (17.24%) ServiceNow
4 4 (13.79%) CrowdStrike
4 4 (13.79%) VMware
5 3 (10.34%) Dell
6 2 (6.90%) Meraki
6 2 (6.90%) Sophos
7 1 (3.45%) Aruba
7 1 (3.45%) EMC
7 1 (3.45%) HP
7 1 (3.45%) Nimble Storage
7 1 (3.45%) Veeam
7 1 (3.45%) Zscaler