Cisco Certification Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Cisco Certification
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 164 139 93
Rank change year-on-year -25 -46 +98
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 26 55 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the Thames Valley 0.68% 1.25% 2.85%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.70% 3.75% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 26 21 58
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £35,000
25th Percentile £51,563 £41,732 £40,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £52,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +15.38% -0.95% -7.89%
75th Percentile £67,500 £62,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £73,125 £63,750 £83,750
South East median annual salary £55,000 £56,509 £46,500
% change year-on-year -2.67% +21.52% -15.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,532 1,468 1,494
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 40.33% 33.33% 42.54%
Number of salaries quoted 493 585 908
10th Percentile £29,500 £35,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,854 £45,000 £39,085
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £59,125 £53,760
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% +9.98% +2.40%
75th Percentile £66,410 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £83,750
South East median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,550
% change year-on-year -13.04% +9.42% +0.10%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cisco Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 18 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in the Thames Valley

Cisco Certification
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 18 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
Berkshire -6 23 £60,000 +12.41% 22
Oxfordshire +6 2 £77,500 +37.15% 9
Buckinghamshire -9 1 £65,000 +52.94% 3
Cisco Certification
South East

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 5 (19.23%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Spreadsheet
Cloud Services
1 8 (30.77%) Azure
2 6 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (19.23%) IaaS
4 2 (7.69%) AWS
5 1 (3.85%) GCP
5 1 (3.85%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 17 (65.38%) Firewall
2 11 (42.31%) VPN
3 10 (38.46%) Network Security
4 8 (30.77%) WAN
5 7 (26.92%) LAN
5 7 (26.92%) TCP/IP
6 5 (19.23%) SAN
6 5 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (15.38%) SD-WAN
8 2 (7.69%) Cisco ASA
8 2 (7.69%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
8 2 (7.69%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (7.69%) DMZ
8 2 (7.69%) DNS
8 2 (7.69%) HSRP
8 2 (7.69%) Internet
8 2 (7.69%) Junos
8 2 (7.69%) Software-Defined Networking
8 2 (7.69%) Spanning Tree
General
1 2 (7.69%) Finance
1 2 (7.69%) Retail
1 2 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (38.46%) Senior
2 7 (26.92%) Cybersecurity Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Security Engineer
2 7 (26.92%) Senior Security Engineer
3 6 (23.08%) Network Engineer
4 5 (19.23%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (19.23%) Infrastructure Support
5 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
5 3 (11.54%) Lead
6 2 (7.69%) Architect
6 2 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (7.69%) Network Architect
7 1 (3.85%) Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Lead Infrastructure Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Network Manager
7 1 (3.85%) Security Analyst
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Network Engineer
7 1 (3.85%) Senior Security Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) SAML
2 2 (7.69%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 8 (30.77%) Security Operations Centre
2 6 (23.08%) Data Centre
3 5 (19.23%) PKI
4 1 (3.85%) CMDB
4 1 (3.85%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.85%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.85%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 7 (26.92%) Windows
2 5 (19.23%) Windows Server
3 1 (3.85%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (30.77%) Cybersecurity
1 8 (30.77%) ITIL
1 8 (30.77%) Security Operations
1 8 (30.77%) SIEM
2 7 (26.92%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 7 (26.92%) Penetration Testing
2 7 (26.92%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (19.23%) Customer Service
3 5 (19.23%) Innovative Thinking
3 5 (19.23%) Presales
3 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
3 5 (19.23%) Project Management
4 3 (11.54%) Mentoring
5 2 (7.69%) Capacity Management
5 2 (7.69%) Disaster Recovery
5 2 (7.69%) Load Balancing
5 2 (7.69%) Network Architecture
5 2 (7.69%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (7.69%) Risk Management
5 2 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.85%) Kusto Query Language
1 1 (3.85%) PowerShell
1 1 (3.85%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (80.77%) CCNA
2 20 (76.92%) CCNP
3 9 (34.62%) CISSP
4 7 (26.92%) CompTIA Security+
4 7 (26.92%) GCIA
4 7 (26.92%) SANS
5 6 (23.08%) Azure Certification
5 6 (23.08%) Security Cleared
5 6 (23.08%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
6 4 (15.38%) Degree
6 4 (15.38%) SC Cleared
7 3 (11.54%) DV Cleared
8 2 (7.69%) JNCIA
8 2 (7.69%) MCSE
8 2 (7.69%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (3.85%) CCIE
9 1 (3.85%) CCSP
9 1 (3.85%) CISM
9 1 (3.85%) MCP
9 1 (3.85%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (30.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (26.92%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (19.23%) SLA
4 1 (3.85%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (23.08%) Active Directory
1 6 (23.08%) Hyper-V
2 5 (19.23%) VMware ESXi
3 1 (3.85%) NFS
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (3.85%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 5 (19.23%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (7.69%) Terraform
3 1 (3.85%) Ansible
3 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 9 (34.62%) Cisco
2 8 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 7 (26.92%) Juniper
4 6 (23.08%) VMware
5 5 (19.23%) Veeam
6 2 (7.69%) F5
7 1 (3.85%) Aruba
7 1 (3.85%) HP
7 1 (3.85%) Oracle
7 1 (3.85%) Palo Alto