Cisco Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 176 271 264
Rank change year-on-year +95 -7 -120
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 1,050 1,646 1,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.98% 1.34% 1.39%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.08% 4.54% 5.61%
Number of salaries quoted 831 1,225 1,421
10th Percentile £33,000 £31,250 £31,151
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £45,401
% change year-on-year -5.00% +10.13% +0.89%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Cisco Certification is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,261 36,220 31,728
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 32.58% 29.49% 24.76%
Number of salaries quoted 10,821 16,971 17,946
10th Percentile £31,207 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £73,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +2.04%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification.

Salary trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Top 18 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 +103 918 £55,000 - 328
UK excluding London +87 661 £47,500 -5.00% 232
Work from Home +64 381 £55,000 -15.38% 133
London +124 331 £65,000 - 107
South East +88 210 £42,250 -23.18% 64
Midlands +80 128 £48,500 +1.04% 55
West Midlands +87 108 £48,500 -1.58% 39
North of England +87 97 £47,500 +13.36% 56
South West +40 93 £47,500 +5.56% 23
East of England +97 69 £60,000 +20.00% 22
Yorkshire +81 43 £47,500 +17.28% 23
Scotland +39 42 £55,000 +10.00% 10
North West +79 40 £50,000 +11.11% 29
Wales +29 33 £39,000 -2.50% 6
East Midlands +28 20 £53,000 +11.58% 16
North East +44 19 £40,128 +1.96% 4
Northern Ireland +38 9 £64,000 +28.00% 4
Channel Islands +10 2 £52,500 +5.00%

Cisco Certification
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 27 (2.57%) MS Exchange
2 20 (1.90%) Confluence
3 13 (1.24%) SharePoint
4 9 (0.86%) Apache
5 7 (0.67%) IIS
5 7 (0.67%) OpenStack
6 6 (0.57%) Skype for Business
7 2 (0.19%) nginx
8 1 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2003
8 1 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2007
8 1 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2010
8 1 (0.095%) Exchange Server 2013
Applications
1 36 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 14 (1.33%) MS Visio
3 9 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.19%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.095%) Fidessa
2 1 (0.095%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.095%) PlanetPress Connect
2 1 (0.095%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 247 (23.52%) Azure
2 135 (12.86%) Microsoft 365
3 128 (12.19%) AWS
4 36 (3.43%) Entra ID
5 25 (2.38%) GCP
6 24 (2.29%) IaaS
7 21 (2.00%) Azure Sentinel
8 17 (1.62%) Nutanix
9 13 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
10 12 (1.14%) PaaS
11 9 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
11 9 (0.86%) Datadog
11 9 (0.86%) SaaS
12 8 (0.76%) Rubrik
13 7 (0.67%) WhatsApp
14 6 (0.57%) Azure Monitor
15 5 (0.48%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 5 (0.48%) Mimecast
16 4 (0.38%) Amazon EC2
16 4 (0.38%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 501 (47.71%) Firewall
2 379 (36.10%) WAN
3 322 (30.67%) LAN
4 237 (22.57%) Network Security
5 235 (22.38%) Wireless
6 233 (22.19%) VPN
7 196 (18.67%) BGP
8 192 (18.29%) SD-WAN
9 177 (16.86%) OSPF
10 171 (16.29%) TCP/IP
11 163 (15.52%) DNS
12 141 (13.43%) DHCP
13 128 (12.19%) MPLS
14 123 (11.71%) Cisco ASA
14 123 (11.71%) Wi-Fi
15 120 (11.43%) Cisco Firepower
16 115 (10.95%) VLAN
17 92 (8.76%) Cisco Nexus
18 76 (7.24%) IPsec
19 69 (6.57%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (2.10%) MySQL
2 18 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.33%) MongoDB
4 11 (1.05%) SQL Server
5 9 (0.86%) Metadata
6 8 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
7 3 (0.29%) GIS
8 2 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 2 (0.19%) InfluxDB
8 2 (0.19%) MariaDB
Development Applications
1 23 (2.19%) JIRA
2 13 (1.24%) Sonatype Nexus
3 12 (1.14%) Jenkins
4 10 (0.95%) Bitbucket
5 2 (0.19%) GitLab
6 1 (0.095%) Robot Framework
General
1 239 (22.76%) Social Skills
2 115 (10.95%) Telecoms
3 108 (10.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 104 (9.90%) Finance
5 85 (8.10%) Analytical Skills
6 56 (5.33%) Public Sector
7 40 (3.81%) Law
8 24 (2.29%) Banking
8 24 (2.29%) Legal
9 20 (1.90%) Aerospace
10 18 (1.71%) Games
10 18 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
11 17 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
12 15 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
12 15 (1.43%) Retail
13 14 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
14 8 (0.76%) Advertising
14 8 (0.76%) Financial Institution
14 8 (0.76%) Police
15 7 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 424 (40.38%) Network Engineer
2 211 (20.10%) Senior
3 134 (12.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 114 (10.86%) Analyst
5 111 (10.57%) Support Engineer
6 94 (8.95%) Senior Network Engineer
7 75 (7.14%) Security Engineer
8 72 (6.86%) Cisco Engineer
9 70 (6.67%) Network Support
10 66 (6.29%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 63 (6.00%) Architect
12 62 (5.90%) Consultant
13 57 (5.43%) Network Analyst
13 57 (5.43%) Network Support Engineer
14 51 (4.86%) IT Engineer
15 44 (4.19%) Security Analyst
16 42 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
17 41 (3.90%) Network Architect
18 38 (3.62%) Senior Analyst
19 36 (3.43%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 25 (2.38%) 802.1X
2 6 (0.57%) Apache NiFi
2 6 (0.57%) Kafka
2 6 (0.57%) REST
3 5 (0.48%) HTML
4 4 (0.38%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (0.38%) SAML
4 4 (0.38%) XMPP
5 3 (0.29%) LAMP
5 3 (0.29%) NETCONF
5 3 (0.29%) YANG
6 2 (0.19%) .NET
6 2 (0.19%) CSS
6 2 (0.19%) Velocity
7 1 (0.095%) .NET Framework
7 1 (0.095%) ADSI
7 1 (0.095%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.095%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.095%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 191 (18.19%) Data Centre
2 51 (4.86%) Management Information System
3 30 (2.86%) Self-Motivation
3 30 (2.86%) Virtual Team
4 26 (2.48%) Driving Licence
5 23 (2.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 21 (2.00%) Cyber Threat
7 20 (1.90%) Public Cloud
8 18 (1.71%) PKI
9 17 (1.62%) Onboarding
10 16 (1.52%) Security Posture
11 13 (1.24%) IoT
12 11 (1.05%) Hedge funds
13 10 (0.95%) Tandem
14 9 (0.86%) Data Structures
14 9 (0.86%) Replication
15 8 (0.76%) Hybrid Cloud
15 8 (0.76%) Operational Technology
15 8 (0.76%) Security Operations Centre
16 7 (0.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 225 (21.43%) Windows
2 150 (14.29%) Linux
3 135 (12.86%) Windows Server
4 56 (5.33%) Android
5 47 (4.48%) Windows 10
6 29 (2.76%) Windows Server 2019
7 27 (2.57%) Windows Server 2016
8 26 (2.48%) Unix
9 24 (2.29%) Windows Server 2012
10 19 (1.81%) Mac OS
11 10 (0.95%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.48%) Windows XP
13 4 (0.38%) Apple iOS
13 4 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.29%) Mac OS X
14 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2008
15 2 (0.19%) CentOS
15 2 (0.19%) Debian
15 2 (0.19%) Solaris
15 2 (0.19%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 178 (16.95%) ITIL
2 150 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 145 (13.81%) Cybersecurity
4 138 (13.14%) Problem-Solving
5 83 (7.90%) Customer Service
6 82 (7.81%) Information Security
7 78 (7.43%) SIEM
8 72 (6.86%) Network Monitoring
9 66 (6.29%) Network Design
10 63 (6.00%) Network Architecture
11 61 (5.81%) Project Delivery
12 56 (5.33%) Disaster Recovery
13 55 (5.24%) Infrastructure as Code
14 53 (5.05%) Network Management
15 51 (4.86%) Proactive Monitoring
15 51 (4.86%) Project Planning
16 50 (4.76%) Cloud Security
16 50 (4.76%) Virtual Infrastructure
17 49 (4.67%) DevOps
18 48 (4.57%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 153 (14.57%) PowerShell
2 140 (13.33%) Python
3 52 (4.95%) Bash
4 32 (3.05%) SQL
5 9 (0.86%) Perl
5 9 (0.86%) Search Processing Language
6 5 (0.48%) C#
6 5 (0.48%) Kusto Query Language
7 4 (0.38%) C
7 4 (0.38%) PHP
8 2 (0.19%) Go
9 1 (0.095%) Bicep
9 1 (0.095%) Groovy
9 1 (0.095%) Java
9 1 (0.095%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 579 (55.14%) CCNA
2 526 (50.10%) CCNP
3 226 (21.52%) Degree
4 193 (18.38%) Security Cleared
5 129 (12.29%) CCIE
6 125 (11.90%) Microsoft Certification
7 116 (11.05%) SC Cleared
8 113 (10.76%) CISSP
9 97 (9.24%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 81 (7.71%) CCSP
11 73 (6.95%) Network+ Certification
12 64 (6.10%) DV Cleared
13 58 (5.52%) MCSE
14 54 (5.14%) CISM
15 52 (4.95%) JNCIA
16 41 (3.90%) Azure Certification
17 36 (3.43%) CCDP
18 34 (3.24%) CompTIA Security+
19 32 (3.05%) MCSA
20 31 (2.95%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (6.76%) SLA
2 64 (6.10%) NIST
3 58 (5.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 29 (2.76%) Cyber Essentials
5 17 (1.62%) GDPR
6 16 (1.52%) SOC 2
7 15 (1.43%) PCI DSS
8 10 (0.95%) QA
9 8 (0.76%) COBIT
9 8 (0.76%) NCSC
10 7 (0.67%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 7 (0.67%) NIST 800
11 5 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (0.38%) IASME
13 3 (0.29%) Accessibility
13 3 (0.29%) GRC
13 3 (0.29%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 2 (0.19%) GLBA
14 2 (0.19%) HIPAA
14 2 (0.19%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 145 (13.81%) Active Directory
2 104 (9.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (3.81%) Hyper-V
4 23 (2.19%) Docker
5 22 (2.10%) VMware ESXi
5 22 (2.10%) VMware NSX
5 22 (2.10%) vSphere
6 14 (1.33%) Firmware
7 11 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
8 7 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
9 3 (0.29%) vCloud
10 2 (0.19%) Citrix Hypervisor
10 2 (0.19%) KVM
10 2 (0.19%) Terminal Services
10 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.095%) BitLocker
11 1 (0.095%) Ceph
11 1 (0.095%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.095%) VMware Workstation
11 1 (0.095%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 105 (10.00%) Ansible
2 90 (8.57%) FortiGate
3 82 (7.81%) Terraform
4 55 (5.24%) Puppet
5 36 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 27 (2.57%) Cisco CUCM
7 26 (2.48%) Kubernetes
8 19 (1.81%) SCCM
9 9 (0.86%) Cisco Prime
10 8 (0.76%) Nagios
10 8 (0.76%) vCenter Server
10 8 (0.76%) ZABBIX
11 7 (0.67%) SCOM
11 7 (0.67%) Stealthwatch
11 7 (0.67%) WSUS
12 6 (0.57%) Consul
12 6 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.48%) Backup Exec
13 5 (0.48%) EMC NetWorker
13 5 (0.48%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 741 (70.57%) Cisco
2 229 (21.81%) Microsoft
3 200 (19.05%) Juniper
3 200 (19.05%) Palo Alto
4 169 (16.10%) VMware
5 124 (11.81%) CheckPoint
6 121 (11.52%) Meraki
7 92 (8.76%) Aruba
7 92 (8.76%) Fortinet
8 70 (6.67%) F5
9 64 (6.10%) SolarWinds
10 58 (5.52%) Citrix
11 50 (4.76%) HP
12 34 (3.24%) Dell
13 29 (2.76%) Forcepoint
14 27 (2.57%) McAfee
14 27 (2.57%) Symantec
15 25 (2.38%) Oracle
16 24 (2.29%) Splunk
17 22 (2.10%) Riverbed