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 12 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 230 254
Rank change year-on-year -41 +24 -32
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 643 1,283 1,474
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.17% 1.29% 1.46%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.37% 4.67% 4.46%
Number of salaries quoted 475 1,084 1,120
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £38,750 £38,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.58% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £65,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £82,500 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £49,000 £46,500
% change year-on-year +12.24% +5.38% -7.00%

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 27,186 27,486 33,056
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 49.31% 27.70% 32.76%
Number of salaries quoted 11,493 17,304 14,953
10th Percentile £32,500 £28,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,000 £38,500 £41,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £54,000 £59,526
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% -9.28% +8.23%
75th Percentile £68,568 £71,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -2.91% +3.00%

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 12 May 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 12 May 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 -37 602 £57,500 +12.75% 545
UK excluding London -44 407 £55,000 +12.24% 409
London +47 223 £65,000 - 225
Work from Home -77 125 £57,500 +4.55% 335
North of England -48 109 £57,500 +21.05% 80
South East -30 106 £52,500 +7.14% 146
Midlands +19 98 £62,000 +26.53% 64
North West -71 62 £57,500 +27.78% 36
West Midlands +1 58 £65,000 +33.33% 39
South West +72 54 £47,500 -5.00% 55
Yorkshire +26 41 £38,750 -26.19% 36
East Midlands +44 40 £36,250 -27.50% 23
Scotland +77 15 £50,890 -7.47% 17
Wales +17 9 £44,319 +9.43% 10
East of England -7 8 £52,000 +15.56% 38
Northern Ireland +43 7 £57,500 +76.92% 10
North East +39 6 £60,000 -14.29% 9
Isle of Man +4 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 36 (5.60%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (2.80%) SharePoint
3 4 (0.62%) Confluence
4 2 (0.31%) nginx
4 2 (0.31%) SAS
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 40 (6.22%) MS Visio
2 25 (3.89%) Microsoft Office
3 11 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 4 (0.62%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (0.47%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.31%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 195 (30.33%) Azure
2 116 (18.04%) AWS
3 86 (13.37%) Microsoft 365
4 39 (6.07%) GCP
5 33 (5.13%) Entra ID
6 26 (4.04%) SaaS
7 21 (3.27%) PaaS
8 19 (2.95%) IaaS
9 8 (1.24%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 5 (0.78%) Azure Key Vault
11 5 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (0.78%) Microsoft Purview
12 4 (0.62%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (0.62%) AWS Direct Connect
12 4 (0.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 3 (0.47%) Azure AKS
13 3 (0.47%) GitHub
13 3 (0.47%) Miro
13 3 (0.47%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 301 (46.81%) Firewall
2 203 (31.57%) WAN
3 191 (29.70%) LAN
4 178 (27.68%) Network Security
5 146 (22.71%) VPN
6 123 (19.13%) BGP
7 87 (13.53%) OSPF
7 87 (13.53%) Wireless
8 82 (12.75%) MPLS
9 75 (11.66%) TCP/IP
10 73 (11.35%) Wi-Fi
11 71 (11.04%) SD-WAN
12 67 (10.42%) VLAN
13 63 (9.80%) DNS
14 58 (9.02%) Cisco Firepower
15 54 (8.40%) IPsec
16 53 (8.24%) Cisco Nexus
17 51 (7.93%) Cisco IOS
18 48 (7.47%) DHCP
19 46 (7.15%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (0.62%) SQL Server
3 3 (0.47%) Big Data
3 3 (0.47%) Power BI
4 1 (0.16%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.16%) HBase
4 1 (0.16%) MySQL
4 1 (0.16%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.16%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 14 (2.18%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (0.93%) JIRA
3 3 (0.47%) GitLab
4 1 (0.16%) Git
4 1 (0.16%) Jenkins
4 1 (0.16%) Subversion
General
1 224 (34.84%) Social Skills
2 129 (20.06%) Finance
3 74 (11.51%) Analytical Skills
4 49 (7.62%) Telecoms
5 45 (7.00%) Banking
6 37 (5.75%) Presentation Skills
7 25 (3.89%) Law
8 22 (3.42%) Legal
9 21 (3.27%) Documentation Skills
10 19 (2.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 16 (2.49%) Public Sector
12 13 (2.02%) Retail
13 11 (1.71%) Manufacturing
14 8 (1.24%) Military
15 7 (1.09%) Marketing
16 5 (0.78%) Influencing Skills
16 5 (0.78%) Investment Banking
16 5 (0.78%) Local Government
17 4 (0.62%) Advertising
17 4 (0.62%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 174 (27.06%) Network Engineer
2 102 (15.86%) Senior
3 95 (14.77%) Architect
4 86 (13.37%) Support Engineer
5 66 (10.26%) IT Support
6 57 (8.86%) Consultant
7 50 (7.78%) IT Engineer
8 40 (6.22%) IT Support Engineer
8 40 (6.22%) Network Architect
9 38 (5.91%) Junior
10 37 (5.75%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 35 (5.44%) Network Consultant
12 34 (5.29%) Lead
12 34 (5.29%) NOC Engineer
12 34 (5.29%) Security Architect
13 32 (4.98%) Cisco Engineer
14 31 (4.82%) Analyst
15 30 (4.67%) Senior Consultant
15 30 (4.67%) Senior Network Engineer
16 29 (4.51%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (3.27%) 802.1X
2 4 (0.62%) JSON
2 4 (0.62%) RESTful
3 3 (0.47%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (0.47%) SAML
4 2 (0.31%) YAML
5 1 (0.16%) cloud-init
5 1 (0.16%) FreeSWITCH
5 1 (0.16%) HTML
5 1 (0.16%) Jinja
5 1 (0.16%) ModSecurity
5 1 (0.16%) Node.js
5 1 (0.16%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.16%) Windows Identity Foundation
Miscellaneous
1 90 (14.00%) Data Centre
2 51 (7.93%) Management Information System
3 46 (7.15%) Driving Licence
4 43 (6.69%) Security Posture
5 41 (6.38%) Self-Motivation
6 23 (3.58%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 21 (3.27%) Social Media
8 17 (2.64%) Public Cloud
9 12 (1.87%) Private Cloud
10 9 (1.40%) PKI
10 9 (1.40%) PMI
11 8 (1.24%) CCTV
11 8 (1.24%) Cloud Security Posture
12 7 (1.09%) Cloud Native
13 6 (0.93%) Cyber Threat
13 6 (0.93%) e-Learning
13 6 (0.93%) IoT
13 6 (0.93%) Virtual Team
14 5 (0.78%) IPTV
15 4 (0.62%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 178 (27.68%) Windows
2 111 (17.26%) Linux
3 73 (11.35%) Windows Server
4 49 (7.62%) Windows 10
5 21 (3.27%) Windows Vista
6 12 (1.87%) Android
7 10 (1.56%) Mac OS X
8 7 (1.09%) CentOS
8 7 (1.09%) Ubuntu
9 6 (0.93%) AIX
9 6 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.78%) VMS
11 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2008
11 4 (0.62%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.47%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
13 1 (0.16%) Unix
13 1 (0.16%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
2 110 (17.11%) ITIL
3 97 (15.09%) Mentoring
4 82 (12.75%) Computer Science
5 77 (11.98%) Information Security
6 75 (11.66%) Cybersecurity
7 71 (11.04%) Network Management
8 67 (10.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 66 (10.26%) Presales
10 58 (9.02%) Customer Service
11 53 (8.24%) Incident Response
12 52 (8.09%) Risk Management
13 51 (7.93%) Network Design
14 50 (7.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 50 (7.78%) Migration
15 47 (7.31%) Cloud Security
15 47 (7.31%) Project Management
16 43 (6.69%) Security Architecture
17 42 (6.53%) High Availability
18 41 (6.38%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 65 (10.11%) Python
2 42 (6.53%) PowerShell
3 22 (3.42%) Bash
4 16 (2.49%) SQL
5 15 (2.33%) R
6 7 (1.09%) C
7 3 (0.47%) JavaScript
8 2 (0.31%) Java
8 2 (0.31%) Ruby
9 1 (0.16%) Bicep
9 1 (0.16%) C#
9 1 (0.16%) C++
9 1 (0.16%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.16%) VBA
Qualifications
1 402 (62.52%) CCNA
2 341 (53.03%) CCNP
3 176 (27.37%) Degree
4 128 (19.91%) Security Cleared
5 108 (16.80%) Microsoft Certification
6 101 (15.71%) SC Cleared
7 82 (12.75%) CISSP
8 72 (11.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 70 (10.89%) CCIE
10 68 (10.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
11 62 (9.64%) JNCIA
12 60 (9.33%) MCSE
13 44 (6.84%) MCP
14 43 (6.69%) CISA
15 41 (6.38%) CISM
16 40 (6.22%) JNCIS
16 40 (6.22%) Network+ Certification
17 38 (5.91%) MCSA
18 36 (5.60%) DV Cleared
19 35 (5.44%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (8.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 50 (7.78%) SLA
3 46 (7.15%) NIST
4 39 (6.07%) GDPR
5 20 (3.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 12 (1.87%) PCI DSS
7 10 (1.56%) QA
8 7 (1.09%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (1.09%) MIL-STD-1553
9 4 (0.62%) Accessibility
9 4 (0.62%) COBIT
9 4 (0.62%) GRC
9 4 (0.62%) SOC 2
10 3 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 3 (0.47%) ISO 9001
10 3 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 2 (0.31%) HIPAA
11 2 (0.31%) NCSC
11 2 (0.31%) NIST 800
12 1 (0.16%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 90 (14.00%) Active Directory
2 66 (10.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (5.60%) Hyper-V
4 18 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
5 9 (1.40%) Virtual Machines
6 8 (1.24%) Firmware
6 8 (1.24%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.78%) VMware NSX
8 4 (0.62%) Docker
9 3 (0.47%) vSphere
10 2 (0.31%) EMC RecoverPoint
11 1 (0.16%) HDFS
11 1 (0.16%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 40 (6.22%) Ansible
2 35 (5.44%) Terraform
3 34 (5.29%) FortiGate
4 24 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
5 20 (3.11%) SCCM
6 13 (2.02%) CASB
6 13 (2.02%) WSUS
7 9 (1.40%) Kubernetes
8 8 (1.24%) Nagios
9 4 (0.62%) Cisco CUCM
9 4 (0.62%) CSIRT
10 3 (0.47%) Iperf
10 3 (0.47%) Istio
10 3 (0.47%) linkerd
10 3 (0.47%) Progress Chef
10 3 (0.47%) Puppet
10 3 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
10 3 (0.47%) VxRail
11 2 (0.31%) Autotask
11 2 (0.31%) Nessus
Vendors
1 426 (66.25%) Cisco
2 171 (26.59%) Microsoft
3 139 (21.62%) Fortinet
4 119 (18.51%) Juniper
5 100 (15.55%) Palo Alto
6 86 (13.37%) VMware
7 79 (12.29%) Meraki
8 57 (8.86%) F5
9 54 (8.40%) CheckPoint
10 47 (7.31%) Aruba
11 40 (6.22%) SolarWinds
12 29 (4.51%) Citrix
13 24 (3.73%) HP
14 23 (3.58%) Veeam
15 22 (3.42%) Arista
16 18 (2.80%) Google
17 17 (2.64%) Red Hat
18 11 (1.71%) ServiceNow
18 11 (1.71%) Zscaler
19 10 (1.56%) Dell