Hybrid/Remote CCIE Job Trends

Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 358 418 422
Rank change year-on-year +60 +4 +195
Permanent jobs citing CCIE 19 41 54
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.22% 0.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.36% 0.81% 0.94%
Number of salaries quoted 13 38 52
10th Percentile - £62,205 £46,825
25th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £62,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 £68,125 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year +17.43% -14.84% -
75th Percentile £100,000 £77,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £116,250 £84,125 £95,000
UK median annual salary £70,000 £76,500 £80,000
% change year-on-year -8.50% -4.38% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

CCIE 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 with remote or hybrid options requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,254 5,074 5,736
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 34.35% 26.98% 27.81%
Number of salaries quoted 2,437 2,617 4,273
10th Percentile £29,750 £35,000 £35,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,750 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +0.80%
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £88,850 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,125 £57,500
% change year-on-year -6.98% +2.83% -

CCIE
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing CCIE and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

CCIE job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

CCIE
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CCIE.

Salary distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CCIE

CCIE
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing CCIE over the 6 months to 12 December 2025.

CCIE salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

CCIE
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) AWS
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS Direct Connect
2 1 (5.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 14 (73.68%) Firewall
1 14 (73.68%) SD-WAN
2 13 (68.42%) LAN
3 12 (63.16%) Network Security
3 12 (63.16%) WAN
4 6 (31.58%) MPLS
4 6 (31.58%) VLAN
4 6 (31.58%) Wireless
5 5 (26.32%) Cisco Wireless
5 5 (26.32%) HSRP
5 5 (26.32%) VPN
6 4 (21.05%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (15.79%) VoIP
8 2 (10.53%) BGP
8 2 (10.53%) Cisco Firepower
8 2 (10.53%) EIGRP
8 2 (10.53%) OSPF
8 2 (10.53%) SNMP
9 1 (5.26%) TCP/IP
9 1 (5.26%) VXLAN
General
1 6 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 5 (26.32%) Finance
3 2 (10.53%) French Language
3 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.26%) Law
4 1 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
4 1 (5.26%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Network Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) Senior
2 4 (21.05%) Senior Network Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Network Manager
3 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Automation Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Lead
4 1 (5.26%) Lead Network Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Network Architect
4 1 (5.26%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Sales Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Switch Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Technical Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) WAN Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Data Centre
2 2 (10.53%) CMDB
2 2 (10.53%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
3 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
2 3 (15.79%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (36.84%) High Availability
2 5 (26.32%) Roadmaps
3 4 (21.05%) ITIL
3 4 (21.05%) Network Architecture
3 4 (21.05%) Network Design
4 3 (15.79%) Change Control
4 3 (15.79%) Cybersecurity
4 3 (15.79%) Incident Management
4 3 (15.79%) ITSM
4 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
4 3 (15.79%) Network Monitoring
4 3 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (15.79%) Service Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) Service Management
5 2 (10.53%) Cloud Security
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
5 2 (10.53%) Security Architecture
5 2 (10.53%) Threat Analysis
5 2 (10.53%) Threat Intelligence
5 2 (10.53%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.79%) Python
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (68.42%) CCNP
3 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
4 5 (26.32%) SC Cleared
5 3 (15.79%) CCNA
6 2 (10.53%) AWS Certification
6 2 (10.53%) Azure Certification
6 2 (10.53%) CCDE
6 2 (10.53%) Degree
7 1 (5.26%) CISSP
7 1 (5.26%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (10.53%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (21.05%) Ansible
2 2 (10.53%) Nagios
2 2 (10.53%) Terraform
3 1 (5.26%) OpenView
3 1 (5.26%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 18 (94.74%) Cisco
2 7 (36.84%) Palo Alto
3 4 (21.05%) Juniper
4 3 (15.79%) CheckPoint
4 3 (15.79%) Fortinet
5 2 (10.53%) Arista
5 2 (10.53%) F5
5 2 (10.53%) HP
5 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
6 1 (5.26%) ArcSight
6 1 (5.26%) Aruba
6 1 (5.26%) EMC
6 1 (5.26%) ExtraHop
6 1 (5.26%) Meraki
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle
6 1 (5.26%) Riverbed
6 1 (5.26%) Siebel
6 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
6 1 (5.26%) Sophos