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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 225 260 212
Rank change year-on-year +35 -48 -15
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 1,336 1,491 2,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.36% 1.42% 1.94%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.89% 4.33% 7.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1,124 1,130 1,511
10th Percentile £31,500 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,063 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £81,250 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +5.26%

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 27,325 34,428 41,571
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.83% 32.74% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,299 15,366 18,926
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £30,875
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £57,825 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% +5.14% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,863
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000

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 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Top 19 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 25 April 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 +58 1,181 £51,000 -4.67% 256
UK excluding London +36 966 £49,000 +3.16% 186
Work from Home +8 463 £55,000 -5.58% 116
London +39 315 £62,750 -3.46% 96
South East +3 299 £47,500 -3.55% 51
North of England +76 245 £48,000 +7.84% 40
Midlands +55 155 £48,500 +7.78% 25
North West +57 145 £45,750 +1.67% 23
West Midlands +49 117 £48,500 +7.78% 19
South West -20 90 £50,000 +2.56% 31
Yorkshire +114 87 £55,000 +10.00% 15
East of England +34 73 £46,750 -6.50% 19
Scotland -56 54 £55,000 +41.03% 19
East Midlands +2 38 £50,000 +11.11% 6
Wales +30 35 £40,500 +9.46% 5
North East -23 13 £70,000 +64.71% 3
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
Northern Ireland +15 3 £32,500 -45.83% 7
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

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 78 (5.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 37 (2.77%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.35%) Confluence
4 9 (0.67%) IIS
5 5 (0.37%) CMS
6 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.075%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.075%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.075%) SAS
Applications
1 55 (4.12%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.22%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.075%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.075%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.075%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.075%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 437 (32.71%) Azure
2 234 (17.51%) AWS
3 232 (17.37%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (3.59%) GCP
5 40 (2.99%) Entra ID
6 37 (2.77%) PaaS
7 35 (2.62%) Cloud Computing
8 34 (2.54%) IaaS
9 23 (1.72%) SaaS
10 19 (1.42%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.27%) Microsoft Purview
12 16 (1.20%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (0.90%) AWS Direct Connect
13 12 (0.90%) OCI
14 11 (0.82%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (0.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (0.67%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.52%) WhatsApp
17 4 (0.30%) Azure Stack
18 2 (0.15%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 561 (41.99%) Firewall
2 475 (35.55%) WAN
3 363 (27.17%) LAN
4 241 (18.04%) SD-WAN
5 231 (17.29%) Wireless
6 218 (16.32%) VPN
7 215 (16.09%) BGP
8 207 (15.49%) Network Security
9 187 (14.00%) TCP/IP
10 168 (12.57%) OSPF
11 162 (12.13%) MPLS
12 147 (11.00%) DHCP
13 146 (10.93%) DNS
14 139 (10.40%) Wi-Fi
15 137 (10.25%) VLAN
16 111 (8.31%) Cisco Firepower
17 91 (6.81%) SAN
18 79 (5.91%) Internet
19 75 (5.61%) WLAN
20 71 (5.31%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.32%) SQL Server
2 23 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
3 22 (1.65%) MySQL
4 14 (1.05%) MongoDB
5 5 (0.37%) Amazon RDS
5 5 (0.37%) Big Data
5 5 (0.37%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.075%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.075%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.075%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.075%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.075%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 1 (0.075%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 27 (2.02%) JIRA
2 18 (1.35%) Bitbucket
3 17 (1.27%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.30%) Git
6 3 (0.22%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) GitLab
7 2 (0.15%) Hudson
8 1 (0.075%) Selenium
8 1 (0.075%) Snyk
8 1 (0.075%) Vagrant
General
1 362 (27.10%) Social Skills
2 146 (10.93%) Analytical Skills
3 133 (9.96%) Finance
4 93 (6.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 70 (5.24%) Telecoms
6 59 (4.42%) Public Sector
7 55 (4.12%) Retail
8 33 (2.47%) Law
9 32 (2.40%) Manufacturing
9 32 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.02%) Aerospace
11 26 (1.95%) Legal
12 23 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.20%) Games
14 14 (1.05%) Electronics
15 13 (0.97%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.82%) Police
17 10 (0.75%) Local Government
17 10 (0.75%) Marketing
18 9 (0.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 490 (36.68%) Network Engineer
2 233 (17.44%) Senior
3 159 (11.90%) Architect
4 145 (10.85%) Analyst
5 128 (9.58%) Support Engineer
6 101 (7.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 94 (7.04%) Security Architect
8 92 (6.89%) Network Analyst
8 92 (6.89%) Senior Network Engineer
9 91 (6.81%) Lead
10 84 (6.29%) IT Engineer
11 67 (5.01%) IT Support
12 58 (4.34%) Security Engineer
13 56 (4.19%) Network Support
14 54 (4.04%) Senior Architect
15 49 (3.67%) 3rd Line Engineer
16 45 (3.37%) 3rd Line Support
17 40 (2.99%) IT Support Engineer
18 39 (2.92%) Cisco Engineer
18 39 (2.92%) Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 42 (3.14%) 802.1X
2 11 (0.82%) HTML
3 7 (0.52%) XML
4 5 (0.37%) ADO
4 5 (0.37%) XMPP
5 4 (0.30%) Akka
5 4 (0.30%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.22%) OAuth
7 2 (0.15%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.15%) EDI
7 2 (0.15%) OpenID
7 2 (0.15%) SAML
7 2 (0.15%) Web Services
8 1 (0.075%) ADSI
8 1 (0.075%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.075%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 220 (16.47%) Data Centre
2 109 (8.16%) Management Information System
3 71 (5.31%) Driving Licence
4 58 (4.34%) Security Posture
5 53 (3.97%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 42 (3.14%) Public Cloud
7 33 (2.47%) Cyber Threat
8 30 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
9 27 (2.02%) PKI
9 27 (2.02%) Replication
10 21 (1.57%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.35%) CCTV
12 17 (1.27%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.12%) Cloud Security Posture
14 13 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
15 12 (0.90%) Cloud Native
16 11 (0.82%) Onboarding
17 10 (0.75%) IoT
17 10 (0.75%) Social Media
17 10 (0.75%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 338 (25.30%) Windows
2 178 (13.32%) Linux
3 154 (11.53%) Windows Server
4 53 (3.97%) Windows 10
5 37 (2.77%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (2.40%) Windows Server 2019
7 31 (2.32%) Windows Server 2012
8 29 (2.17%) Android
8 29 (2.17%) Mac OS
9 25 (1.87%) Apple iOS
10 19 (1.42%) VyOS
11 15 (1.12%) Unix
12 12 (0.90%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (0.90%) Windows XP
13 5 (0.37%) CentOS
13 5 (0.37%) Debian
14 4 (0.30%) Ubuntu
15 3 (0.22%) CatOS
15 3 (0.22%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.22%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 249 (18.64%) Cybersecurity
2 246 (18.41%) ITIL
3 219 (16.39%) Problem-Solving
4 172 (12.87%) Information Security
5 170 (12.72%) Customer Service
6 157 (11.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 145 (10.85%) Project Delivery
8 123 (9.21%) Mentoring
9 119 (8.91%) Project Management
10 103 (7.71%) Computer Science
11 102 (7.63%) Disaster Recovery
12 80 (5.99%) Roadmaps
12 80 (5.99%) Service Delivery
13 78 (5.84%) Cloud Security
13 78 (5.84%) Network Architecture
14 73 (5.46%) Network Monitoring
15 69 (5.16%) Security Architecture
16 67 (5.01%) DevOps
16 67 (5.01%) Network Design
17 62 (4.64%) Application Security
Programming Languages
1 114 (8.53%) PowerShell
2 92 (6.89%) Python
3 46 (3.44%) Bash
4 44 (3.29%) SQL
5 10 (0.75%) JavaScript
6 8 (0.60%) C#
7 5 (0.37%) Java
8 4 (0.30%) Shell Script
9 3 (0.22%) C
10 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 808 (60.48%) CCNA
2 603 (45.13%) CCNP
3 321 (24.03%) Degree
4 234 (17.51%) Security Cleared
5 213 (15.94%) CISSP
6 187 (14.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 171 (12.80%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 160 (11.98%) CCSP
9 140 (10.48%) CCIE
10 126 (9.43%) Network+ Certification
11 118 (8.83%) SC Cleared
12 107 (8.01%) Azure Certification
13 105 (7.86%) MCSE
14 89 (6.66%) Computer Science Degree
15 80 (5.99%) AWS Certification
15 80 (5.99%) CISM
16 70 (5.24%) DV Cleared
17 69 (5.16%) CCDP
18 65 (4.87%) JNCIA
19 55 (4.12%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 115 (8.61%) NIST
2 105 (7.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (4.34%) SLA
4 53 (3.97%) Cyber Essentials
5 35 (2.62%) PCI DSS
6 26 (1.95%) GDPR
7 19 (1.42%) SOC 2
8 17 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 15 (1.12%) QA
10 9 (0.67%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 8 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.37%) IASME
13 5 (0.37%) NCSC
14 3 (0.22%) GRC
14 3 (0.22%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.15%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
15 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 210 (15.72%) Active Directory
2 192 (14.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 117 (8.76%) Hyper-V
4 46 (3.44%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (2.62%) Docker
6 24 (1.80%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.42%) vSphere
8 17 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 16 (1.20%) Firmware
10 7 (0.52%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.37%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.30%) vCloud
13 3 (0.22%) KVM
13 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
14 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.075%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.075%) LXC
Systems Management
1 63 (4.72%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (3.82%) FortiGate
3 44 (3.29%) Single Sign-On
4 43 (3.22%) Ansible
5 39 (2.92%) Kubernetes
6 28 (2.10%) SCCM
6 28 (2.10%) Terraform
7 22 (1.65%) CASB
8 21 (1.57%) vCenter Server
9 19 (1.42%) Cisco CUCM
9 19 (1.42%) Stealthwatch
10 18 (1.35%) WSUS
11 16 (1.20%) Nmap
12 14 (1.05%) SCOM
13 13 (0.97%) ServiceCenter
14 12 (0.90%) EMC NetWorker
14 12 (0.90%) NetBackup
15 11 (0.82%) Cisco Prime
16 10 (0.75%) Puppet
17 7 (0.52%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 836 (62.57%) Cisco
2 427 (31.96%) Microsoft
3 271 (20.28%) VMware
4 199 (14.90%) Juniper
5 185 (13.85%) Palo Alto
6 150 (11.23%) Meraki
7 131 (9.81%) Fortinet
8 79 (5.91%) CheckPoint
9 61 (4.57%) HP
10 56 (4.19%) Aruba
10 56 (4.19%) Veeam
11 55 (4.12%) Citrix
12 53 (3.97%) F5
13 44 (3.29%) SolarWinds
14 43 (3.22%) Ruckus Wireless
15 38 (2.84%) Apple
16 36 (2.69%) Nokia
17 35 (2.62%) Dell
18 32 (2.40%) Adobe
19 26 (1.95%) Oracle