Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 682 588 837
Rank change year-on-year -94 +249 +10
Permanent jobs citing CCIE 108 192 335
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.32% 0.23%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.44% 0.97% 0.82%
Number of salaries quoted 68 108 227
10th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £49,150
25th Percentile £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £81,250 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -16.92% +1.56% -
75th Percentile £82,500 £95,000 £95,000
90th Percentile £85,375 £100,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £60,000 £65,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -21.21% +24.53%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCIE 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 24,389 19,754 41,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 31.18% 32.63% 28.36%
Number of salaries quoted 9,097 11,787 18,027
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +5.26%

CCIE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCIE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE in the UK

CCIE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCIE.

Salary trend for CCIE in the UK

CCIE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCIE over the 6 months to 11 October 2024.

Salary histogram for CCIE in the UK

CCIE
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the UK over the 6 months to 11 October 2024. 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
England -136 84 £76,500 -7.27% 23
London -44 53 £78,000 -13.33% 10
Work from Home -44 44 £67,500 -15.63% 47
UK excluding London -57 44 £60,000 -7.69% 17
North of England -14 16 £65,000 -18.75% 3
Wales - 11 £55,000 -
North West -33 9 £65,000 -21.21% 3
West Midlands -29 8 £75,000 -9.09% 2
Midlands -40 8 £75,000 -9.09% 2
Yorkshire +24 6 £60,000 -25.00%
Scotland +3 3 - - 3
East of England -47 3 £62,500 -24.24% 2
South West -41 2 £55,000 -18.52% 1
North East -39 1 £80,000 -5.88%
South East -69 1 - - 4

CCIE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.93%) BizTalk Server
2 1 (0.93%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.85%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (0.93%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 26 (24.07%) Azure
2 12 (11.11%) AWS
3 8 (7.41%) OpenShift
4 2 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (1.85%) GCP
4 2 (1.85%) Nutanix
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon Kinesis
5 1 (0.93%) Amazon S3
5 1 (0.93%) AWS Lambda
5 1 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 52 (48.15%) WAN
2 44 (40.74%) Firewall
3 39 (36.11%) SD-WAN
4 33 (30.56%) Network Security
5 30 (27.78%) LAN
6 29 (26.85%) BGP
7 24 (22.22%) OSPF
8 22 (20.37%) Wireless
9 20 (18.52%) MPLS
10 18 (16.67%) VPN
11 16 (14.81%) Cisco Firepower
12 14 (12.96%) Cisco ISE
13 13 (12.04%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (11.11%) IPsec
15 9 (8.33%) 802.11
15 9 (8.33%) DNS
15 9 (8.33%) TCP/IP
15 9 (8.33%) VoIP
15 9 (8.33%) WLAN
16 8 (7.41%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.85%) Big Data
2 1 (0.93%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.93%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.93%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 1 (0.93%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 22 (20.37%) Social Skills
2 15 (13.89%) Finance
3 10 (9.26%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (9.26%) Telecoms
4 7 (6.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (5.56%) Banking
6 4 (3.70%) Retail
7 3 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (1.85%) Marketing
8 2 (1.85%) Public Sector
9 1 (0.93%) Electronics
9 1 (0.93%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.93%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 46 (42.59%) Senior
2 31 (28.70%) Consultant
3 30 (27.78%) Network Engineer
4 24 (22.22%) Network Consultant
5 20 (18.52%) Cisco Engineer
5 20 (18.52%) Senior Consultant
6 19 (17.59%) Senior Network Consultant
7 17 (15.74%) Architect
8 14 (12.96%) Lead
9 13 (12.04%) Lead Cisco Engineer
9 13 (12.04%) Security Consultant
9 13 (12.04%) Senior Network Engineer
9 13 (12.04%) Senior Security Consultant
9 13 (12.04%) Technical Consultant
10 12 (11.11%) Network Architect
10 12 (11.11%) Network Security Consultant
10 12 (11.11%) Senior Network Security Consultant
11 9 (8.33%) Senior Technical Consultant
12 7 (6.48%) Security Technical Consultant
12 7 (6.48%) Senior Cisco Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.33%) 802.1X
2 5 (4.63%) XMPP
3 1 (0.93%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 31 (28.70%) Data Centre
2 6 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
3 5 (4.63%) Robotics
4 2 (1.85%) Management Information System
4 2 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (0.93%) Clustering
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Security Posture
5 1 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (0.93%) Hedge funds
5 1 (0.93%) IoT
5 1 (0.93%) Operational Technology
5 1 (0.93%) Public Cloud
5 1 (0.93%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 4 (3.70%) Linux
1 4 (3.70%) Windows
1 4 (3.70%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 17 (15.74%) Analytics
3 13 (12.04%) High Availability
3 13 (12.04%) Network Design
4 11 (10.19%) Performance Monitoring
4 11 (10.19%) Technical Leadership
5 10 (9.26%) Computer Science
5 10 (9.26%) Containerisation
5 10 (9.26%) Network Virtualisation
5 10 (9.26%) Proactive Monitoring
5 10 (9.26%) Project Delivery
6 9 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
6 9 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (8.33%) Roadmaps
6 9 (8.33%) Scenario Testing
7 8 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (7.41%) Infrastructure Management
7 8 (7.41%) Load Balancing
7 8 (7.41%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 13 (12.04%) Python
2 3 (2.78%) PowerShell
3 2 (1.85%) Bash
4 1 (0.93%) Go
Qualifications
1 108 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 62 (57.41%) CCNP
3 23 (21.30%) Security Cleared
4 16 (14.81%) Degree
5 13 (12.04%) CISSP
5 13 (12.04%) SC Cleared
6 12 (11.11%) CCSA
7 11 (10.19%) CCSE
8 10 (9.26%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 8 (7.41%) CCIE Data Center
9 8 (7.41%) CCNA
9 8 (7.41%) RHCA
9 8 (7.41%) VCDX
10 7 (6.48%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (5.56%) CCDP
11 6 (5.56%) JNCIA
11 6 (5.56%) JNCIS
12 4 (3.70%) TOGAF Certification
13 3 (2.78%) CCIE Wireless
13 3 (2.78%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (6.48%) GDPR
2 2 (1.85%) NIST
2 2 (1.85%) PCI DSS
2 2 (1.85%) SLA
3 1 (0.93%) GxP
3 1 (0.93%) QA
System Software
1 23 (21.30%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (10.19%) VMware NSX
3 8 (7.41%) vSphere
4 2 (1.85%) Active Directory
5 1 (0.93%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 15 (13.89%) Ansible
2 10 (9.26%) Kubernetes
2 10 (9.26%) Terraform
3 6 (5.56%) Cisco CUCM
3 6 (5.56%) FortiGate
4 3 (2.78%) Cisco CME
5 2 (1.85%) CASB
6 1 (0.93%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.93%) Nagios
6 1 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (85.19%) Cisco
2 39 (36.11%) Palo Alto
3 34 (31.48%) F5
4 33 (30.56%) Fortinet
5 26 (24.07%) Aruba
5 26 (24.07%) VMware
6 24 (22.22%) CheckPoint
7 16 (14.81%) Juniper
7 16 (14.81%) Meraki
8 10 (9.26%) Arista
9 8 (7.41%) Red Hat
10 6 (5.56%) HP
11 5 (4.63%) Riverbed
11 5 (4.63%) SolarWinds
11 5 (4.63%) Zscaler
12 2 (1.85%) Citrix
12 2 (1.85%) Huawei
12 2 (1.85%) Infoblox
13 1 (0.93%) Dell
13 1 (0.93%) Symantec