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 6 May 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 403 506
Rank change year-on-year +20 +103 +31
Permanent jobs citing CCIE 22 14 69
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.12% 0.099% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 0.33% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 15 11 50
10th Percentile £70,000 £53,750 -
25th Percentile £73,750 £60,625 £46,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £48,500
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +34.02% -39.38%
75th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £112,500 - £90,000
UK median annual salary £75,000 £80,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -6.25% +33.33% -25.00%

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 4,281 4,240 8,757
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 23.36% 30.01% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 2,894 2,475 5,908
10th Percentile £31,750 £29,563 £32,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £42,750 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,500 £60,000 £57,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £71,622 £72,500
90th Percentile £92,500 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £56,500 £54,296
% change year-on-year +6.19% +4.06% -7.97%

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 6 May 2026.

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 9 (40.91%) AWS
2 8 (36.36%) Azure
3 5 (22.73%) GCP
4 3 (13.64%) OCI
5 2 (9.09%) AWS Direct Connect
Communications & Networking
1 15 (68.18%) Firewall
1 15 (68.18%) SD-WAN
2 13 (59.09%) LAN
3 12 (54.55%) Network Security
3 12 (54.55%) WAN
4 11 (50.00%) Wireless
5 5 (22.73%) Cisco Wireless
5 5 (22.73%) MPLS
5 5 (22.73%) VLAN
5 5 (22.73%) WLAN
6 3 (13.64%) Cisco Firepower
6 3 (13.64%) Cisco ISE
6 3 (13.64%) HSRP
6 3 (13.64%) Software-Defined Networking
6 3 (13.64%) VPN
7 2 (9.09%) BGP
7 2 (9.09%) OSPF
7 2 (9.09%) SNMP
7 2 (9.09%) TCP/IP
7 2 (9.09%) VoIP
General
1 12 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 8 (36.36%) Finance
3 5 (22.73%) Military
4 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 3 (13.64%) Telecoms
5 2 (9.09%) Public Sector
6 1 (4.55%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (22.73%) Architect
2 5 (22.73%) Network Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Principal Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Network Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) Sales Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Lead
5 1 (4.55%) Lead Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Network Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Network Operations Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Operations Manager
5 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 7 (31.82%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 2 (9.09%) Private Cloud
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) Security Posture
3 1 (4.55%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (18.18%) Windows
2 3 (13.64%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (40.91%) Technical Leadership
2 8 (36.36%) Roadmaps
3 7 (31.82%) High Availability
3 7 (31.82%) Presales
4 5 (22.73%) Project Delivery
4 5 (22.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 4 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 4 (18.18%) ITIL
5 4 (18.18%) Service Management
5 4 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (18.18%) Translating Business Requirements
5 4 (18.18%) Zero Trust
6 3 (13.64%) Agile
6 3 (13.64%) Customer Experience
6 3 (13.64%) Mentoring
6 3 (13.64%) Network Architecture
6 3 (13.64%) PRINCE2
6 3 (13.64%) Scrum
6 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.64%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (72.73%) CCNP
3 9 (40.91%) SC Cleared
3 9 (40.91%) Security Cleared
4 5 (22.73%) CCSA
4 5 (22.73%) CCSE
4 5 (22.73%) DV Cleared
5 4 (18.18%) CCNA
5 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (18.18%) Degree
5 4 (18.18%) JNCIP
6 3 (13.64%) AWS Certification
6 3 (13.64%) Azure Certification
6 3 (13.64%) CCIE Security
6 3 (13.64%) JNCIE
7 1 (4.55%) CCDE
7 1 (4.55%) CISSP
7 1 (4.55%) Master's Degree
7 1 (4.55%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (4.55%) NIST
Systems Management
1 4 (18.18%) Terraform
2 3 (13.64%) Ansible
3 2 (9.09%) OpenView
3 2 (9.09%) Tivoli
4 1 (4.55%) Nagios
Vendors
1 17 (77.27%) Cisco
2 7 (31.82%) CheckPoint
2 7 (31.82%) Fortinet
3 6 (27.27%) Palo Alto
4 3 (13.64%) F5
4 3 (13.64%) Juniper
5 2 (9.09%) ArcSight
5 2 (9.09%) Dynatrace
5 2 (9.09%) EMC
5 2 (9.09%) ExtraHop
5 2 (9.09%) HP
5 2 (9.09%) Meraki
5 2 (9.09%) Riverbed
5 2 (9.09%) SolarWinds
6 1 (4.55%) Arista
6 1 (4.55%) Radware
6 1 (4.55%) Siebel