Cisco Certification Jobs

Cisco Certification
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 223 257
Rank change year-on-year +4 +34 -42
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 723 1,330 1,481
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.39% 1.35% 1.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.84% 4.86% 4.35%
Number of salaries quoted 492 1,119 1,123
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,500 £37,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,250 £51,700 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.67% -6.00% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £81,250 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year +12.24% +3.16% -2.56%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 25,484 27,371 34,026
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 48.86% 27.83% 32.72%
Number of salaries quoted 11,203 17,308 15,226
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,776
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £58,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -6.90% +5.45%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -0.99% +1.00%

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 30 April 2025.

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 30 April 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
England +9 681 £60,000 +17.65% 298
UK excluding London +1 474 £55,000 +12.24% 207
London +38 235 £65,000 +4.00% 109
Midlands +59 169 £62,500 +28.21% 33
Work from Home -55 129 £60,000 +9.09% 222
West Midlands +39 112 £65,000 +34.02% 21
South East -32 110 £55,000 +15.79% 61
North of England -32 109 £57,500 +20.42% 37
North West -44 63 £57,500 +25.68% 13
East Midlands +67 57 £39,250 -21.50% 12
South West +71 44 £47,500 -5.00% 38
Yorkshire +27 41 £40,000 -23.81% 19
Scotland +89 14 £50,890 -7.47% 9
Wales +16 10 £43,000 +6.17% 8
East of England -3 10 £55,000 +22.22% 13
Northern Ireland +40 7 £57,500 +76.92% 7
North East +44 5 £60,000 -14.29% 6
Isle of Man +5 1 £34,500 -21.14% 4

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 35 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.49%) SharePoint
3 5 (0.69%) Confluence
4 2 (0.28%) SAS
5 1 (0.14%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 42 (5.81%) MS Visio
2 26 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
3 12 (1.66%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.41%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 202 (27.94%) Azure
2 127 (17.57%) AWS
3 88 (12.17%) Microsoft 365
4 40 (5.53%) Entra ID
5 39 (5.39%) GCP
6 23 (3.18%) SaaS
7 18 (2.49%) PaaS
8 17 (2.35%) IaaS
9 9 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (0.69%) Azure AKS
10 5 (0.69%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 5 (0.69%) Azure Key Vault
10 5 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (0.69%) Microsoft Purview
10 5 (0.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 4 (0.55%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 3 (0.41%) AWS Direct Connect
12 3 (0.41%) Azure DevOps
12 3 (0.41%) Miro
12 3 (0.41%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 312 (43.15%) Firewall
2 254 (35.13%) Network Security
3 213 (29.46%) WAN
4 205 (28.35%) LAN
5 149 (20.61%) VPN
6 128 (17.70%) BGP
7 116 (16.04%) WLAN
8 111 (15.35%) Internet
9 91 (12.59%) OSPF
10 88 (12.17%) Wireless
11 86 (11.89%) MPLS
12 80 (11.07%) TCP/IP
13 77 (10.65%) Wi-Fi
14 76 (10.51%) SD-WAN
15 72 (9.96%) VLAN
16 66 (9.13%) DNS
17 58 (8.02%) Cisco Firepower
18 54 (7.47%) Cisco Nexus
18 54 (7.47%) IPsec
19 53 (7.33%) Cisco IOS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (0.41%) Big Data
2 3 (0.41%) Power BI
2 3 (0.41%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.14%) Hadoop
3 1 (0.14%) HBase
3 1 (0.14%) MySQL
3 1 (0.14%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.14%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 13 (1.80%) Sonatype Nexus
2 7 (0.97%) JIRA
3 1 (0.14%) GitLab
3 1 (0.14%) Subversion
General
1 234 (32.37%) Social Skills
2 130 (17.98%) Finance
3 75 (10.37%) Analytical Skills
4 48 (6.64%) Telecoms
5 42 (5.81%) Banking
6 39 (5.39%) Presentation Skills
7 24 (3.32%) Law
8 22 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
8 22 (3.04%) Legal
9 17 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 17 (2.35%) Public Sector
9 17 (2.35%) Retail
10 11 (1.52%) Manufacturing
11 8 (1.11%) Military
12 6 (0.83%) Marketing
13 5 (0.69%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (0.69%) Local Government
13 5 (0.69%) Welsh Language
14 4 (0.55%) Advertising
14 4 (0.55%) Police
Job Titles
1 184 (25.45%) Network Engineer
2 151 (20.89%) Support Engineer
3 136 (18.81%) IT Support
4 117 (16.18%) IT Engineer
5 108 (14.94%) IT Support Engineer
6 105 (14.52%) Senior
7 97 (13.42%) Architect
8 56 (7.75%) Consultant
9 43 (5.95%) Network Architect
10 41 (5.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 40 (5.53%) Junior
12 36 (4.98%) Lead
13 35 (4.84%) Network Consultant
14 33 (4.56%) Cisco Engineer
15 32 (4.43%) Analyst
15 32 (4.43%) Security Architect
15 32 (4.43%) Security Engineer
16 31 (4.29%) NOC Engineer
17 30 (4.15%) Senior Consultant
17 30 (4.15%) Senior Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (3.04%) 802.1X
2 5 (0.69%) Azure Blueprints
3 4 (0.55%) JSON
3 4 (0.55%) RESTful
4 2 (0.28%) YAML
5 1 (0.14%) cloud-init
5 1 (0.14%) FreeSWITCH
5 1 (0.14%) HTML
5 1 (0.14%) Node.js
5 1 (0.14%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.14%) SAML
5 1 (0.14%) Windows Identity Foundation
Miscellaneous
1 110 (15.21%) Driving Licence
2 97 (13.42%) Data Centre
3 57 (7.88%) Management Information System
4 45 (6.22%) Security Posture
5 43 (5.95%) Self-Motivation
6 24 (3.32%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 21 (2.90%) Social Media
8 15 (2.07%) Public Cloud
9 10 (1.38%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.24%) PMI
11 8 (1.11%) CCTV
11 8 (1.11%) Cloud Security Posture
12 7 (0.97%) Cloud Native
12 7 (0.97%) Cyber Threat
12 7 (0.97%) PKI
13 6 (0.83%) IoT
13 6 (0.83%) Security Operations Centre
13 6 (0.83%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
15 4 (0.55%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 254 (35.13%) Windows
2 176 (24.34%) Linux
3 74 (10.24%) Windows Server
4 53 (7.33%) Windows 10
5 21 (2.90%) Windows Vista
6 15 (2.07%) Android
7 12 (1.66%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 10 (1.38%) Mac OS X
9 9 (1.24%) VMS
10 7 (0.97%) AIX
10 7 (0.97%) CentOS
10 7 (0.97%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.69%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.14%) Apple iOS
13 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.14%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 235 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
2 187 (25.86%) ITIL
3 156 (21.58%) Mentoring
4 150 (20.75%) Computer Science
5 137 (18.95%) Network Management
6 96 (13.28%) Asset Management
7 95 (13.14%) IT Asset Management
8 82 (11.34%) Information Security
9 77 (10.65%) Cybersecurity
10 72 (9.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 63 (8.71%) Presales
12 59 (8.16%) Customer Service
13 57 (7.88%) Incident Response
14 54 (7.47%) Network Design
15 53 (7.33%) Risk Management
16 52 (7.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 51 (7.05%) Cloud Security
18 49 (6.78%) Migration
19 47 (6.50%) Project Management
20 45 (6.22%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 72 (9.96%) Python
2 48 (6.64%) PowerShell
3 25 (3.46%) Bash
4 17 (2.35%) SQL
5 15 (2.07%) R
6 7 (0.97%) C
7 3 (0.41%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.28%) Java
8 2 (0.28%) Ruby
9 1 (0.14%) Bicep
9 1 (0.14%) C#
9 1 (0.14%) C++
9 1 (0.14%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.14%) VBA
Qualifications
1 475 (65.70%) CCNA
2 403 (55.74%) CCNP
3 246 (34.02%) Degree
4 177 (24.48%) Microsoft Certification
5 141 (19.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 127 (17.57%) Security Cleared
7 124 (17.15%) MCSE
8 110 (15.21%) MCP
9 97 (13.42%) SC Cleared
10 95 (13.14%) LPIC
11 86 (11.89%) CISSP
12 73 (10.10%) CCIE
13 71 (9.82%) (ISC)2 CCSP
14 57 (7.88%) JNCIA
15 49 (6.78%) Network+ Certification
16 44 (6.09%) CISA
17 41 (5.67%) CISM
18 40 (5.53%) JNCIS
19 39 (5.39%) DV Cleared
20 37 (5.12%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (7.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 49 (6.78%) SLA
3 48 (6.64%) NIST
4 43 (5.95%) GDPR
5 22 (3.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 16 (2.21%) PCI DSS
7 12 (1.66%) QA
8 11 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
9 7 (0.97%) MIL-STD-1553
10 4 (0.55%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.55%) COBIT
10 4 (0.55%) GRC
10 4 (0.55%) SOC 2
11 3 (0.41%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 3 (0.41%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 2 (0.28%) HIPAA
12 2 (0.28%) NCSC
12 2 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.14%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 96 (13.28%) Active Directory
2 70 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (5.26%) Hyper-V
4 20 (2.77%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (1.66%) Virtual Machines
6 11 (1.52%) Firmware
7 8 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 8 (1.11%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.55%) Docker
9 3 (0.41%) EMC RecoverPoint
10 2 (0.28%) vSphere
11 1 (0.14%) HDFS
11 1 (0.14%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 41 (5.67%) Ansible
2 36 (4.98%) FortiGate
2 36 (4.98%) Terraform
3 26 (3.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 25 (3.46%) SCCM
5 17 (2.35%) WSUS
6 12 (1.66%) CASB
7 9 (1.24%) Kubernetes
8 8 (1.11%) Nagios
9 5 (0.69%) Istio
9 5 (0.69%) linkerd
10 4 (0.55%) Cisco CUCM
10 4 (0.55%) CSIRT
10 4 (0.55%) Iperf
10 4 (0.55%) VxRail
11 3 (0.41%) Progress Chef
11 3 (0.41%) Puppet
12 2 (0.28%) Failover Clustering
12 2 (0.28%) vCenter Server
12 2 (0.28%) vRealize
Vendors
1 508 (70.26%) Cisco
2 250 (34.58%) Microsoft
3 136 (18.81%) Fortinet
4 121 (16.74%) Juniper
5 105 (14.52%) Palo Alto
6 87 (12.03%) VMware
7 78 (10.79%) Meraki
8 59 (8.16%) F5
9 54 (7.47%) CheckPoint
10 48 (6.64%) Aruba
11 38 (5.26%) SolarWinds
12 35 (4.84%) Citrix
13 24 (3.32%) Veeam
14 23 (3.18%) HP
15 21 (2.90%) Google
16 20 (2.77%) Arista
17 19 (2.63%) Red Hat
18 12 (1.66%) Zscaler
19 10 (1.38%) Dell
19 10 (1.38%) LogicMonitor