CCIE Routing and Switching Job Trends

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE) Routing and Switching
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCIE Routing and Switching qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 803 - 742
Rank change year-on-year - - -21
Permanent jobs citing CCIE Routing and Switching 2 0 10
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.002% - 0.014%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.010% - 0.049%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 - £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - - -21.21%
75th Percentile - - £65,938
90th Percentile - - £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £65,000 - £65,000
% change year-on-year - - -7.14%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCIE Routing and Switching 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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 20,376 17,273 20,572
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.26% 34.94% 28.31%
Number of salaries quoted 11,525 7,345 8,761
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,500
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.04%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,000 £47,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.89% -9.52% -

CCIE Routing and Switching
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CCIE Routing and Switching relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CCIE Routing and Switching job vacancy trend in the UK

CCIE Routing and Switching
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCIE Routing and Switching.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing CCIE Routing and Switching

CCIE Routing and Switching
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE Routing and Switching within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 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
Work from Home - 2 £65,000 - 3
UK excluding London - 1 £65,000 - 2
Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands - 1 £65,000 - 1
England - 1 £65,000 - 5

CCIE Routing and Switching
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) BGP
1 2 (100.00%) Ethernet VPN
1 2 (100.00%) VXLAN
2 1 (50.00%) Cisco Firepower
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) Firewall
2 1 (50.00%) HSRP
2 1 (50.00%) IPv4
2 1 (50.00%) IPv6
2 1 (50.00%) Multicast
2 1 (50.00%) OSPF
2 1 (50.00%) Spanning Tree
2 1 (50.00%) tcpdump
2 1 (50.00%) VLAN
2 1 (50.00%) VRRP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (50.00%) ASIC
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) High Availability
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) CCIE
1 2 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (50.00%) CCNP
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) iptables
1 1 (50.00%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Cisco
1 1 (50.00%) Mellanox
1 1 (50.00%) NVIDIA
1 1 (50.00%) VMware