Cisco Certification Job Trends

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 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 229 241 205
Rank change year-on-year +12 -36 -42
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 955 631 1,041
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.84% 1.28% 1.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.69% 3.72% 4.98%
Number of salaries quoted 441 405 601
10th Percentile £32,261 £29,300 £34,500
25th Percentile £44,750 £31,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £63,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £41,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +34.15% -21.90% +11.14%

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 20,348 16,948 20,888
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 17.83% 34.33% 26.83%
Number of salaries quoted 11,143 7,485 9,750
10th Percentile £32,000 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,500 £37,170 £42,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% -1.79% -3.45%
75th Percentile £80,000 £73,708 £75,000
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +15.00% -4.76% -

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Top 17 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 16 September 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
England +7 846 £65,000 +25.00% 744
UK excluding London +19 703 £55,000 +34.15% 475
London -10 233 £77,500 +10.71% 346
South East -9 180 £52,500 +5.00% 113
Work from Home -55 162 £62,500 +8.99% 265
North of England +25 160 £60,000 +48.15% 102
Midlands +39 132 £63,750 +65.58% 60
South West -95 85 £50,000 +53.85% 71
Yorkshire +31 82 £62,500 +140.38% 35
West Midlands +12 74 £75,000 +20.00% 40
North West +10 60 £57,500 - 57
East of England -1 58 £65,000 +62.50% 61
East Midlands -4 58 £41,000 +17.14% 20
Scotland +39 54 £28,000 -22.22% 43
Wales -48 31 £45,000 -9.55% 13
North East -59 18 £80,288 +139.66% 12
Northern Ireland -78 9 £65,000 +23.81% 16

Cisco Certification
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:

Application Platforms
1 41 (4.29%) Microsoft Exchange
2 35 (3.66%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.68%) Confluence
4 11 (1.15%) Skype for Business
5 2 (0.21%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 13 (1.36%) MS Visio
2 7 (0.73%) Microsoft Office
3 6 (0.63%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 11 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.21%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.10%) Eikon
3 1 (0.10%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 553 (57.91%) Azure
2 156 (16.34%) AWS
3 111 (11.62%) Microsoft 365
4 57 (5.97%) Entra ID
5 46 (4.82%) GCP
6 21 (2.20%) Datadog
7 19 (1.99%) SaaS
8 14 (1.47%) IaaS
8 14 (1.47%) PaaS
9 13 (1.36%) OpenShift
10 12 (1.26%) Azure Sentinel
11 9 (0.94%) OCI
11 9 (0.94%) OneDrive
11 9 (0.94%) Serverless
12 8 (0.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 6 (0.63%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (0.63%) Nutanix
13 6 (0.63%) Power Platform
14 5 (0.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
14 5 (0.52%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 344 (36.02%) Firewall
2 252 (26.39%) WAN
3 235 (24.61%) Network Security
4 214 (22.41%) LAN
5 210 (21.99%) VPN
6 142 (14.87%) Wireless
7 131 (13.72%) DNS
8 120 (12.57%) VLAN
9 110 (11.52%) SD-WAN
10 104 (10.89%) BGP
11 102 (10.68%) DHCP
12 99 (10.37%) Wi-Fi
13 93 (9.74%) OSPF
14 83 (8.69%) TCP/IP
15 46 (4.82%) Cisco ISE
16 44 (4.61%) VoIP
17 42 (4.40%) WLAN
18 37 (3.87%) MPLS
19 34 (3.56%) Cisco Wireless
20 32 (3.35%) Cisco Nexus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (1.88%) SQL Server
2 7 (0.73%) Big Data
3 5 (0.52%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.10%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.10%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 45 (4.71%) JIRA
2 17 (1.78%) GitLab
3 12 (1.26%) Git
4 11 (1.15%) Jenkins
5 9 (0.94%) Chocolatey
6 8 (0.84%) Bitbucket
7 5 (0.52%) Sonatype Nexus
8 4 (0.42%) Yeoman
General
1 572 (59.90%) Social Skills
2 113 (11.83%) Analytical Skills
3 89 (9.32%) Finance
4 60 (6.28%) Telecoms
5 45 (4.71%) Banking
6 36 (3.77%) Public Sector
7 33 (3.46%) Aerospace
7 33 (3.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 32 (3.35%) Retail
9 24 (2.51%) Legal
10 20 (2.09%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.99%) Law
11 19 (1.99%) Organisational Skills
12 17 (1.78%) Military
13 13 (1.36%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
13 13 (1.36%) Local Government
14 8 (0.84%) Mandarin Language
14 8 (0.84%) Presentation Skills
15 7 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 546 (57.17%) Network Engineer
2 111 (11.62%) Senior
3 73 (7.64%) Architect
4 68 (7.12%) IT Engineer
5 66 (6.91%) Senior Network Engineer
6 54 (5.65%) Lead
7 48 (5.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 43 (4.50%) IT Support
9 36 (3.77%) Consultant
10 35 (3.66%) Support Engineer
11 32 (3.35%) IT Support Engineer
11 32 (3.35%) Network Architect
12 30 (3.14%) Security Architect
13 29 (3.04%) Security Engineer
14 28 (2.93%) Security Specialist
15 25 (2.62%) Cisco Engineer
16 24 (2.51%) Cisco Network Engineer
16 24 (2.51%) Field Engineer
17 23 (2.41%) Analyst
17 23 (2.41%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 61 (6.39%) Terraform
2 15 (1.57%) ModSecurity
3 7 (0.73%) LDAP
4 6 (0.63%) JSON
4 6 (0.63%) SAML
5 5 (0.52%) OAuth
6 4 (0.42%) 802.1X
6 4 (0.42%) boto
6 4 (0.42%) EDI
6 4 (0.42%) Jinja
6 4 (0.42%) JWT
6 4 (0.42%) OAuth2
6 4 (0.42%) REST
6 4 (0.42%) YAML
7 3 (0.31%) ARM Templates
7 3 (0.31%) OpenID
8 2 (0.21%) IDoc
8 2 (0.21%) NETCONF
8 2 (0.21%) RESTful
9 1 (0.10%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 143 (14.97%) Data Centre
2 76 (7.96%) Security Posture
3 47 (4.92%) Driving Licence
4 36 (3.77%) Management Information System
5 29 (3.04%) Cyber Threat
5 29 (3.04%) Hybrid Cloud
5 29 (3.04%) PKI
6 24 (2.51%) Onboarding
6 24 (2.51%) Self-Motivation
7 18 (1.88%) Cloud Native
7 18 (1.88%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 15 (1.57%) Social Media
9 14 (1.47%) Analytical Mindset
10 12 (1.26%) CCTV
10 12 (1.26%) FMCG
11 11 (1.15%) Private Cloud
11 11 (1.15%) Smartphone
12 9 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
13 8 (0.84%) Public Cloud
13 8 (0.84%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 161 (16.86%) Windows
2 108 (11.31%) Windows Server
3 67 (7.02%) Linux
4 22 (2.30%) Windows Server 2016
5 15 (1.57%) Windows 10
6 12 (1.26%) Windows Server 2019
7 8 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 6 (0.63%) Windows Server 2012
9 4 (0.42%) Apple iOS
9 4 (0.42%) Unix
10 3 (0.31%) Android
11 1 (0.10%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 164 (17.17%) Cybersecurity
2 156 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
3 145 (15.18%) ITIL
4 104 (10.89%) Continuous Improvement
5 97 (10.16%) Disaster Recovery
5 97 (10.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 97 (10.16%) Security Architecture
6 90 (9.42%) Incident Response
7 83 (8.69%) Cloud Security
8 82 (8.59%) Mentoring
9 81 (8.48%) Project Delivery
10 77 (8.06%) Network Design
11 76 (7.96%) SIEM
12 75 (7.85%) Stakeholder Management
13 74 (7.75%) Information Security
14 72 (7.54%) Business Continuity
15 68 (7.12%) Roadmaps
15 68 (7.12%) Technical Leadership
16 62 (6.49%) High Availability
17 61 (6.39%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 85 (8.90%) Python
2 59 (6.18%) PowerShell
3 16 (1.68%) Bash
4 14 (1.47%) Java
5 11 (1.15%) Ruby
6 3 (0.31%) Bicep
6 3 (0.31%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.21%) Search Processing Language
7 2 (0.21%) SQL
8 1 (0.10%) C
8 1 (0.10%) C#
8 1 (0.10%) C++
8 1 (0.10%) JavaScript
8 1 (0.10%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 610 (63.87%) CCNA
2 404 (42.30%) Azure Certification
3 379 (39.69%) Network+ Certification
4 320 (33.51%) CCNP
5 164 (17.17%) CISSP
6 141 (14.76%) Degree
7 116 (12.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 105 (10.99%) Security Cleared
9 91 (9.53%) CCSP
10 84 (8.80%) CISM
10 84 (8.80%) Microsoft Certification
11 67 (7.02%) CCIE
12 63 (6.60%) DV Cleared
13 57 (5.97%) SC Cleared
14 52 (5.45%) AWS Certification
15 44 (4.61%) MCSE
16 41 (4.29%) Computer Science Degree
17 23 (2.41%) CompTIA Security+
18 21 (2.20%) Master's Degree
19 20 (2.09%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 108 (11.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 99 (10.37%) NIST
3 54 (5.65%) Cyber Essentials
4 51 (5.34%) SLA
5 44 (4.61%) GDPR
6 30 (3.14%) PCI DSS
7 25 (2.62%) GRC
8 20 (2.09%) NCSC
9 17 (1.78%) QA
10 12 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 9 (0.94%) NIST 800
11 9 (0.94%) SOC 2
12 8 (0.84%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.84%) JSP 440
13 7 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 6 (0.63%) COBIT
15 3 (0.31%) Actionable Recommendations
16 2 (0.21%) Def Stans
16 2 (0.21%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 2 (0.21%) ISO 31000
System Software
1 106 (11.10%) Active Directory
2 98 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (3.77%) Hyper-V
4 32 (3.35%) VMware NSX
5 24 (2.51%) vSphere
6 15 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
7 12 (1.26%) Firmware
8 11 (1.15%) Docker
9 9 (0.94%) Virtual Desktop
10 8 (0.84%) Squid
11 6 (0.63%) VMware ESXi
12 3 (0.31%) VMware Server
13 2 (0.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 2 (0.21%) ProxySG
14 1 (0.10%) BitLocker
14 1 (0.10%) iptables
14 1 (0.10%) KVM
Systems Management
1 73 (7.64%) Ansible
2 51 (5.34%) FortiGate
3 40 (4.19%) Microsoft Intune
4 23 (2.41%) Kubernetes
5 13 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
6 12 (1.26%) SCCM
7 9 (0.94%) ZABBIX
8 8 (0.84%) Packer
9 5 (0.52%) Cisco Prime
9 5 (0.52%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (0.42%) Iperf
11 3 (0.31%) Control-M
11 3 (0.31%) Stealthwatch
11 3 (0.31%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
12 2 (0.21%) SolarWinds Orion
12 2 (0.21%) VxRail
13 1 (0.10%) CASB
13 1 (0.10%) Check_MK
13 1 (0.10%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.10%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 660 (69.11%) Cisco
2 495 (51.83%) Microsoft
3 342 (35.81%) ForeScout
4 132 (13.82%) VMware
5 118 (12.36%) Palo Alto
6 107 (11.20%) Fortinet
7 46 (4.82%) Meraki
8 45 (4.71%) Aruba
9 44 (4.61%) F5
10 42 (4.40%) Splunk
11 35 (3.66%) Juniper
12 33 (3.46%) SolarWinds
13 32 (3.35%) CheckPoint
13 32 (3.35%) Zscaler
14 30 (3.14%) Arista
15 24 (2.51%) HP
16 20 (2.09%) Tenable
17 19 (1.99%) Dell
18 17 (1.78%) Infoblox
18 17 (1.78%) Red Hat