Cisco Certification Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 184 233 203
Rank change year-on-year +49 -30 +16
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 642 364 997
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.96% 1.23% 1.27%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.99% 2.90% 5.13%
Number of salaries quoted 255 290 736
10th Percentile £28,500 £28,800 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £32,500 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £49,739 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +15.60% +1.51% +3.16%
75th Percentile £75,000 £62,500 £58,750
90th Percentile £83,750 £70,000 £67,750
UK median annual salary £65,000 £54,444 £52,000
% change year-on-year +19.39% +4.70% -5.45%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,864 12,563 19,447
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 19.20% 42.30% 24.77%
Number of salaries quoted 6,364 5,026 12,300
10th Percentile £28,500 £27,500 £27,338
25th Percentile £38,500 £35,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £51,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% +2.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £71,438 £66,250 £65,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cisco Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 15 June 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK excluding London

Cisco Certification
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 15 June 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
North of England +39 180 £52,500 -4.55% 68
South East +11 129 £65,000 +40.54% 72
Midlands +20 118 £63,750 +34.21% 24
South West -50 85 £55,000 +15.79% 51
North West +26 79 £52,500 -8.70% 35
Yorkshire +11 79 £55,000 +91.30% 20
West Midlands +27 72 £75,000 +15.38% 19
East of England +21 49 £38,250 -19.47% 29
East Midlands -14 46 £53,029 +37.74% 5
Scotland +41 44 £28,000 -39.46% 24
Wales -20 31 £45,000 -6.25% 12
North East -30 22 £95,000 +90.00% 13
Northern Ireland -32 7 £57,500 - 18
Channel Islands - 5 £75,000 -
Cisco Certification
UK

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 25 (3.89%) Microsoft Exchange
2 12 (1.87%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.62%) Confluence
4 1 (0.16%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 8 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
2 7 (1.09%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 11 (1.71%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 414 (64.49%) Azure
2 58 (9.03%) AWS
3 41 (6.39%) Microsoft 365
4 16 (2.49%) GCP
5 15 (2.34%) Entra ID
6 7 (1.09%) Serverless
7 5 (0.78%) IaaS
7 5 (0.78%) Nutanix
7 5 (0.78%) Power Platform
8 4 (0.62%) Amazon EC2
8 4 (0.62%) Amazon EKS
8 4 (0.62%) Amazon S3
8 4 (0.62%) AWS CloudTrail
8 4 (0.62%) AWS Fargate
8 4 (0.62%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (0.62%) Azure Sentinel
9 3 (0.47%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.47%) Vertex AI
10 2 (0.31%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 2 (0.31%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 176 (27.41%) Firewall
2 136 (21.18%) WAN
3 127 (19.78%) LAN
4 107 (16.67%) VPN
5 80 (12.46%) Network Security
6 59 (9.19%) BGP
7 56 (8.72%) Wireless
8 51 (7.94%) OSPF
9 47 (7.32%) SD-WAN
10 45 (7.01%) VLAN
11 42 (6.54%) DNS
12 41 (6.39%) DHCP
12 41 (6.39%) Wi-Fi
13 32 (4.98%) TCP/IP
13 32 (4.98%) VoIP
14 31 (4.83%) Cisco ASA
14 31 (4.83%) MPLS
15 28 (4.36%) WLAN
16 25 (3.89%) EIGRP
17 17 (2.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.47%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (1.40%) GitLab
1 9 (1.40%) JIRA
2 5 (0.78%) Jenkins
2 5 (0.78%) Yeoman
3 4 (0.62%) Bitbucket
3 4 (0.62%) Burp Suite
3 4 (0.62%) Git
3 4 (0.62%) Metasploit
4 2 (0.31%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 431 (67.13%) Social Skills
2 66 (10.28%) Analytical Skills
3 39 (6.07%) Public Sector
4 17 (2.65%) Finance
5 15 (2.34%) Legal
6 14 (2.18%) Retail
6 14 (2.18%) Telecoms
7 13 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
8 12 (1.87%) Law
8 12 (1.87%) Manufacturing
9 10 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 10 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 8 (1.25%) Banking
10 8 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
11 7 (1.09%) Military
12 6 (0.93%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (0.62%) Advertising
13 4 (0.62%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.31%) Social Housing
14 2 (0.31%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 446 (69.47%) Network Engineer
2 64 (9.97%) Senior
3 47 (7.32%) Senior Network Engineer
4 46 (7.17%) IT Engineer
5 35 (5.45%) Architect
6 27 (4.21%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 26 (4.05%) IT Support
8 23 (3.58%) Security Architect
9 21 (3.27%) Field Engineer
9 21 (3.27%) Support Engineer
10 20 (3.12%) Cisco Engineer
10 20 (3.12%) Lead
11 19 (2.96%) Field Service Engineer
11 19 (2.96%) IT Support Engineer
12 18 (2.80%) Consultant
13 16 (2.49%) Juniper Engineer
13 16 (2.49%) LAN Engineer
13 16 (2.49%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (2.18%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 14 (2.18%) WAN Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (0.78%) 802.1X
1 5 (0.78%) REST
2 4 (0.62%) boto
2 4 (0.62%) ModSecurity
2 4 (0.62%) OpenTelemetry
Miscellaneous
1 57 (8.88%) Data Centre
2 22 (3.43%) Security Posture
3 21 (3.27%) Driving Licence
4 16 (2.49%) Analytical Mindset
5 12 (1.87%) Smartphone
6 11 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (1.71%) PKI
7 10 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
8 9 (1.40%) Management Information System
9 6 (0.93%) CMDB
9 6 (0.93%) Cyber Kill Chain
9 6 (0.93%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (0.93%) FMCG
10 5 (0.78%) Replication
11 4 (0.62%) Cyber Threat
11 4 (0.62%) Insider Threat
12 3 (0.47%) Cyber Defence
12 3 (0.47%) Fibre Optics
12 3 (0.47%) Operational Technology
12 3 (0.47%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 65 (10.12%) Windows
2 32 (4.98%) Windows Server
3 31 (4.83%) Linux
4 12 (1.87%) Windows Server 2016
5 8 (1.25%) Windows 10
6 7 (1.09%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.31%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (14.95%) Cybersecurity
2 79 (12.31%) Problem-Solving
3 52 (8.10%) ITIL
4 47 (7.32%) Continuous Improvement
5 39 (6.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 38 (5.92%) Disaster Recovery
7 37 (5.76%) Customer Service
8 36 (5.61%) Security Architecture
9 34 (5.30%) Computer Science
10 33 (5.14%) Mentoring
11 31 (4.83%) Cloud Security
11 31 (4.83%) Presales
12 30 (4.67%) Business Continuity
13 28 (4.36%) High Availability
14 27 (4.21%) Network Monitoring
14 27 (4.21%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (3.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 24 (3.74%) Identity Access Management
16 24 (3.74%) Incident Response
17 23 (3.58%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 33 (5.14%) Python
2 26 (4.05%) PowerShell
3 6 (0.93%) Bash
4 4 (0.62%) Java
5 3 (0.47%) Bicep
6 2 (0.31%) SQL
7 1 (0.16%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 491 (76.48%) CCNA
2 354 (55.14%) Network+ Certification
3 338 (52.65%) Azure Certification
4 143 (22.27%) CCNP
5 71 (11.06%) Security Cleared
6 66 (10.28%) CISSP
7 58 (9.03%) Degree
8 53 (8.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 50 (7.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 49 (7.63%) CISM
11 45 (7.01%) SC Cleared
12 37 (5.76%) DV Cleared
13 36 (5.61%) CCSP
14 34 (5.30%) CCIE
15 33 (5.14%) MCSE
16 27 (4.21%) Computer Science Degree
17 19 (2.96%) BPSS Clearance
18 16 (2.49%) A+ Certification
19 15 (2.34%) CompTIA Security+
20 14 (2.18%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (9.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (7.48%) NIST
3 22 (3.43%) GDPR
4 20 (3.12%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (2.65%) GRC
6 14 (2.18%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.87%) SLA
8 8 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 7 (1.09%) JSP 440
10 6 (0.93%) Actionable Recommendations
10 6 (0.93%) PMO
11 4 (0.62%) NCSC
11 4 (0.62%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) COBIT
12 1 (0.16%) NEBOSH
12 1 (0.16%) SOC 2
System Software
1 41 (6.39%) Active Directory
1 41 (6.39%) VMware Infrastructure
2 21 (3.27%) Hyper-V
3 20 (3.12%) VMware NSX
4 14 (2.18%) vSphere
5 8 (1.25%) VMware ESXi
6 7 (1.09%) Docker
7 6 (0.93%) ProxySG
8 5 (0.78%) KVM
9 4 (0.62%) Squid
10 3 (0.47%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 32 (4.98%) Ansible
2 18 (2.80%) Terraform
3 15 (2.34%) FortiGate
4 13 (2.02%) Microsoft Intune
5 5 (0.78%) Kubernetes
6 4 (0.62%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 4 (0.62%) Nmap
6 4 (0.62%) Packer
6 4 (0.62%) WSUS
6 4 (0.62%) ZABBIX
7 3 (0.47%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (0.31%) Cisco Prime
8 2 (0.31%) Nagios
8 2 (0.31%) vRealize
9 1 (0.16%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.16%) Iperf
9 1 (0.16%) OpenView
9 1 (0.16%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 473 (73.68%) Cisco
2 383 (59.66%) Microsoft
3 324 (50.47%) ForeScout
4 58 (9.03%) Fortinet
5 55 (8.57%) VMware
6 37 (5.76%) Aruba
7 29 (4.52%) Palo Alto
8 26 (4.05%) Juniper
9 23 (3.58%) Dell
10 20 (3.12%) Meraki
11 15 (2.34%) CheckPoint
12 13 (2.02%) Veeam
13 12 (1.87%) F5
14 11 (1.71%) SAP
15 10 (1.56%) HP
16 9 (1.40%) SolarWinds
17 8 (1.25%) Citrix
17 8 (1.25%) Google
17 8 (1.25%) Splunk
18 7 (1.09%) ServiceNow