Hybrid/Remote Cisco Certification Job Trends

Cisco Certification
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid work with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 16 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 193 228 183
Rank change year-on-year +35 -45 +79
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 189 247 372
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.23% 1.40% 1.87%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.70% 5.13% 6.68%
Number of salaries quoted 134 164 338
10th Percentile £31,250 £42,500 £31,175
25th Percentile £38,750 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £77,188 £75,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £105,000 £86,250 £85,000
UK median annual salary £53,750 £60,822 £55,000
% change year-on-year -11.63% +10.59% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Work from Home

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

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 5,108 4,819 5,573
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 33.30% 27.38% 27.99%
Number of salaries quoted 2,455 2,532 4,104
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,000 £35,500
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £46,050
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £78,750 £76,250 £76,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,112 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.36% +1.06% -

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

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

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

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Salary distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 16 December 2025.

Cisco Certification salary histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Cisco Certification
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (7.41%) Microsoft Exchange
2 6 (3.17%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 75 (39.68%) Azure
2 44 (23.28%) AWS
3 40 (21.16%) Microsoft 365
4 26 (13.76%) Entra ID
5 7 (3.70%) IaaS
6 4 (2.12%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (2.12%) Azure Logic Apps
6 4 (2.12%) Azure Sentinel
7 3 (1.59%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (1.59%) Cloudflare
7 3 (1.59%) Microsoft Purview
7 3 (1.59%) OCI
8 2 (1.06%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (1.06%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (1.06%) GCP
9 1 (0.53%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 1 (0.53%) GitHub
9 1 (0.53%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.53%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 69 (36.51%) Firewall
2 53 (28.04%) LAN
3 51 (26.98%) WAN
4 42 (22.22%) VPN
5 33 (17.46%) SD-WAN
6 32 (16.93%) Network Security
7 27 (14.29%) VLAN
8 24 (12.70%) TCP/IP
9 23 (12.17%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (9.52%) VoIP
11 17 (8.99%) DNS
12 16 (8.47%) BGP
13 14 (7.41%) MPLS
14 12 (6.35%) OSPF
15 11 (5.82%) Wireless
16 9 (4.76%) DHCP
16 9 (4.76%) IPsec
16 9 (4.76%) Unified Communications
17 7 (3.70%) IP Telephony
17 7 (3.70%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 6 (3.17%) Burp Suite
1 6 (3.17%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.53%) GitLab
General
1 61 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 47 (24.87%) Finance
3 31 (16.40%) Telecoms
4 11 (5.82%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.76%) Retail
6 6 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
6 6 (3.17%) Law
7 5 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.12%) Legal
8 4 (2.12%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (1.59%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.06%) Marketing
11 1 (0.53%) Banking
11 1 (0.53%) Electronics
11 1 (0.53%) Fire and Rescue
11 1 (0.53%) French Language
11 1 (0.53%) Military
11 1 (0.53%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 35 (18.52%) Senior
2 34 (17.99%) Network Engineer
3 32 (16.93%) Administrator
3 32 (16.93%) Systems Administrator
4 20 (10.58%) Security Engineer
5 15 (7.94%) Senior Network Engineer
6 11 (5.82%) IT Engineer
6 11 (5.82%) Support Engineer
7 10 (5.29%) Analyst
7 10 (5.29%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) 2nd Line Support
8 9 (4.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) IT Support
8 9 (4.76%) IT Support Engineer
8 9 (4.76%) Senior Security Engineer
9 8 (4.23%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (4.23%) 3rd Line Support Technician
9 8 (4.23%) Architect
9 8 (4.23%) Security Analyst
9 8 (4.23%) Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.59%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (1.59%) Node.js
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.53%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.53%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.53%) React
3 1 (0.53%) Svelte
3 1 (0.53%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 35 (18.52%) e-Learning
2 20 (10.58%) Data Centre
3 15 (7.94%) Driving Licence
4 14 (7.41%) Security Posture
5 12 (6.35%) CCTV
6 11 (5.82%) Management Information System
7 9 (4.76%) Operational Technology
8 8 (4.23%) Cloud Native
8 8 (4.23%) Security Operations Centre
9 5 (2.65%) Cloud Security Posture
9 5 (2.65%) Onboarding
9 5 (2.65%) Self-Motivation
9 5 (2.65%) Social Media
10 3 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (1.59%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 3 (1.59%) Hybrid Cloud
10 3 (1.59%) Insider Threat
10 3 (1.59%) Low-Code
10 3 (1.59%) Web3
11 2 (1.06%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 55 (29.10%) Linux
2 42 (22.22%) Windows
3 25 (13.23%) Unix
4 20 (10.58%) Windows Server
5 5 (2.65%) Windows 10
6 2 (1.06%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2012
6 2 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (28.04%) High Availability
2 49 (25.93%) ITIL
3 42 (22.22%) Cybersecurity
4 35 (18.52%) Innovative Thinking
5 27 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 24 (12.70%) Mentoring
6 24 (12.70%) Service Delivery
7 23 (12.17%) Information Security
8 21 (11.11%) DevOps
9 20 (10.58%) ITSM
10 18 (9.52%) Computer Science
10 18 (9.52%) Customer Service
10 18 (9.52%) SIEM
11 17 (8.99%) Change Control
11 17 (8.99%) Data Protection
11 17 (8.99%) Infrastructure as Code
12 16 (8.47%) Project Delivery
13 15 (7.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 14 (7.41%) Cloud Security
14 14 (7.41%) Security Architecture
Programming Languages
1 18 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 15 (7.94%) Python
3 8 (4.23%) Bash
4 3 (1.59%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (0.53%) Bicep
5 1 (0.53%) Go
Qualifications
1 103 (54.50%) CCNP
2 99 (52.38%) CCNA
3 62 (32.80%) Security Cleared
4 58 (30.69%) SC Cleared
5 45 (23.81%) Degree
6 41 (21.69%) DV Cleared
7 39 (20.63%) CISSP
8 35 (18.52%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (15.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 27 (14.29%) Azure Certification
11 24 (12.70%) MCSA
12 21 (11.11%) MCSE
13 20 (10.58%) CISM
13 20 (10.58%) MCP
14 19 (10.05%) CompTIA Security+
15 18 (9.52%) CCIE
16 15 (7.94%) AWS Certification
17 12 (6.35%) CCSP
17 12 (6.35%) DBS Check
18 9 (4.76%) CCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (15.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 22 (11.64%) Cyber Essentials
3 21 (11.11%) NIST
4 15 (7.94%) GDPR
5 13 (6.88%) SLA
6 4 (2.12%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 3 (1.59%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (1.06%) GRC
8 2 (1.06%) PCI DSS
8 2 (1.06%) SOC 2
9 1 (0.53%) HIPAA
System Software
1 18 (9.52%) Active Directory
2 9 (4.76%) Hyper-V
3 7 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
4 6 (3.17%) Firmware
5 4 (2.12%) Docker
6 2 (1.06%) pfSense
6 2 (1.06%) vSphere
7 1 (0.53%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 22 (11.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 14 (7.41%) Terraform
3 12 (6.35%) Ansible
4 6 (3.17%) Nmap
5 5 (2.65%) Autotask
5 5 (2.65%) Jamf Pro
6 4 (2.12%) Kubernetes
6 4 (2.12%) PaperCut
7 3 (1.59%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (1.59%) FortiGate
8 2 (1.06%) Nagios
9 1 (0.53%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.53%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.53%) OpenView
9 1 (0.53%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 119 (62.96%) Cisco
2 61 (32.28%) Microsoft
3 28 (14.81%) VMware
4 19 (10.05%) Fortinet
4 19 (10.05%) Juniper
5 17 (8.99%) Palo Alto
6 10 (5.29%) Citrix
6 10 (5.29%) Meraki
7 8 (4.23%) Mitel
8 7 (3.70%) Draytek
8 7 (3.70%) Red Hat
8 7 (3.70%) WatchGuard
9 6 (3.17%) Zscaler
10 5 (2.65%) Apple
10 5 (2.65%) CheckPoint
10 5 (2.65%) SolarWinds
11 4 (2.12%) F5
12 3 (1.59%) Dell
12 3 (1.59%) Rapid7
12 3 (1.59%) Ubiquiti