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 17 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 246 240 161
Rank change year-on-year -6 -79 +173
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 193 311 513
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 1.19% 1.33% 2.06%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.39% 4.88% 7.71%
Number of salaries quoted 130 166 396
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,875 £36,250
25th Percentile £35,313 £50,000 £41,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,347 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +9.09% -15.38%
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £72,813
90th Percentile £95,250 £78,750 £83,125
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

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 5,691 6,369 6,650
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 35.04% 27.29% 26.77%
Number of salaries quoted 2,327 3,096 4,998
10th Percentile £31,000 £34,404 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £95,000 £87,500 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £56,000 £58,000
% change year-on-year -1.79% -3.45% +5.45%

Cisco Certification
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Certification trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend for Jobs with Hybrid Work Options

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

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

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 17 September 2025.

Cisco Certification salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 15 (7.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.52%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.52%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.52%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 70 (36.27%) Azure
2 40 (20.73%) AWS
3 33 (17.10%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (4.66%) Entra ID
4 9 (4.66%) IaaS
5 8 (4.15%) PaaS
5 8 (4.15%) SaaS
6 5 (2.59%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.55%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (1.55%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (1.55%) Cloudflare
7 3 (1.55%) GCP
8 2 (1.04%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.52%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.52%) GitHub
9 1 (0.52%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.52%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.52%) OCI
9 1 (0.52%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 66 (34.20%) Firewall
2 56 (29.02%) LAN
3 52 (26.94%) VPN
4 50 (25.91%) WAN
5 39 (20.21%) Network Security
6 36 (18.65%) Wi-Fi
7 28 (14.51%) SD-WAN
8 26 (13.47%) TCP/IP
9 21 (10.88%) VLAN
10 20 (10.36%) DNS
11 17 (8.81%) VoIP
11 17 (8.81%) Wireless
12 15 (7.77%) BGP
13 13 (6.74%) Junos
14 12 (6.22%) DHCP
15 10 (5.18%) MPLS
15 10 (5.18%) OSPF
16 8 (4.15%) SAN
17 7 (3.63%) Internet
17 7 (3.63%) IPsec
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (1.55%) Burp Suite
1 3 (1.55%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.52%) Git
2 1 (0.52%) GitLab
2 1 (0.52%) Jenkins
General
1 67 (34.72%) Finance
2 44 (22.80%) Social Skills
3 27 (13.99%) Telecoms
4 11 (5.70%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (4.15%) Manufacturing
6 5 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (2.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (2.07%) Banking
7 4 (2.07%) Law
7 4 (2.07%) Public Sector
8 3 (1.55%) Electronics
8 3 (1.55%) Marketing
9 2 (1.04%) French Language
9 2 (1.04%) Legal
9 2 (1.04%) Retail
10 1 (0.52%) Automotive
10 1 (0.52%) Local Government
10 1 (0.52%) Military
10 1 (0.52%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 45 (23.32%) Administrator
1 45 (23.32%) Systems Administrator
2 41 (21.24%) Network Engineer
3 26 (13.47%) Senior
4 21 (10.88%) Security Engineer
5 19 (9.84%) Architect
6 12 (6.22%) 2nd Line Support
6 12 (6.22%) Network Architect
7 11 (5.70%) Senior Network Engineer
8 10 (5.18%) IT Support
8 10 (5.18%) Lead
9 8 (4.15%) 3rd Line Support
9 8 (4.15%) Senior Security Engineer
9 8 (4.15%) Support Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 7 (3.63%) Support Team Leader
10 7 (3.63%) Team Leader
11 6 (3.11%) 3rd Line Support Technician
11 6 (3.11%) Head of IT Operations
11 6 (3.11%) Infrastructure Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (2.59%) SAML
2 3 (1.55%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.55%) FreeSWITCH
2 3 (1.55%) Node.js
3 2 (1.04%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.52%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.52%) HTML
4 1 (0.52%) JSON
4 1 (0.52%) ModSecurity
4 1 (0.52%) React
4 1 (0.52%) Svelte
4 1 (0.52%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 46 (23.83%) e-Learning
2 19 (9.84%) Data Centre
3 15 (7.77%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.15%) Cloud Security Posture
4 8 (4.15%) Management Information System
4 8 (4.15%) Security Posture
5 7 (3.63%) PKI
5 7 (3.63%) Security Operations Centre
5 7 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (3.11%) CCTV
6 6 (3.11%) Operational Technology
7 4 (2.07%) Cloud Native
8 3 (1.55%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 3 (1.55%) Low-Code
8 3 (1.55%) Onboarding
8 3 (1.55%) Web3
9 2 (1.04%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (1.04%) Fibre Optics
9 2 (1.04%) Virtual Team
10 1 (0.52%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 73 (37.82%) Linux
2 43 (22.28%) Windows
3 25 (12.95%) Windows Server
4 22 (11.40%) Unix
5 2 (1.04%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.52%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.52%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.52%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (33.68%) High Availability
2 54 (27.98%) Innovative Thinking
3 38 (19.69%) ITIL
4 35 (18.13%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (15.54%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (10.88%) DevOps
7 19 (9.84%) Mentoring
8 18 (9.33%) Information Security
8 18 (9.33%) ITSM
8 18 (9.33%) Service Delivery
9 16 (8.29%) Computer Science
9 16 (8.29%) Project Delivery
10 15 (7.77%) Infrastructure as Code
11 14 (7.25%) Project Management
11 14 (7.25%) SIEM
11 14 (7.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (6.74%) Cloud Security
12 13 (6.74%) Customer Service
12 13 (6.74%) Technical Leadership
13 12 (6.22%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 14 (7.25%) Python
2 12 (6.22%) PowerShell
3 5 (2.59%) Bash
4 3 (1.55%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (1.04%) Go
6 1 (0.52%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 137 (70.98%) CCNP
2 101 (52.33%) CCNA
3 80 (41.45%) Security Cleared
4 76 (39.38%) SC Cleared
5 57 (29.53%) DV Cleared
6 43 (22.28%) Degree
7 31 (16.06%) CISSP
8 24 (12.44%) RHCSA
9 22 (11.40%) Azure Certification
9 22 (11.40%) CCIE
10 17 (8.81%) (ISC)2 CCSP
10 17 (8.81%) Microsoft Certification
11 16 (8.29%) CISM
12 13 (6.74%) CompTIA Security+
12 13 (6.74%) MCSE
13 12 (6.22%) AWS Certification
13 12 (6.22%) MCP
13 12 (6.22%) MCSA
14 11 (5.70%) JNCIA
14 11 (5.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (8.29%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 12 (6.22%) NIST
3 11 (5.70%) SLA
4 10 (5.18%) GDPR
5 9 (4.66%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (1.55%) HIPAA
7 2 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (1.04%) NIST 800
7 2 (1.04%) QA
7 2 (1.04%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.52%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 21 (10.88%) Active Directory
2 8 (4.15%) Hyper-V
3 6 (3.11%) Docker
4 5 (2.59%) Firmware
4 5 (2.59%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.55%) VMware Infrastructure
6 2 (1.04%) pfSense
7 1 (0.52%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (6.74%) Terraform
2 12 (6.22%) Ansible
3 8 (4.15%) Microsoft Intune
4 6 (3.11%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
6 4 (2.07%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.55%) Autotask
7 3 (1.55%) Nmap
8 2 (1.04%) Dell DRAC
9 1 (0.52%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.52%) Nagios
9 1 (0.52%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 130 (67.36%) Cisco
2 47 (24.35%) Microsoft
3 26 (13.47%) Juniper
4 24 (12.44%) Red Hat
5 15 (7.77%) VMware
6 14 (7.25%) Fortinet
7 12 (6.22%) Palo Alto
8 11 (5.70%) Meraki
9 5 (2.59%) CheckPoint
9 5 (2.59%) HP
9 5 (2.59%) SolarWinds
9 5 (2.59%) Veeam
9 5 (2.59%) Zscaler
10 4 (2.07%) Citrix
10 4 (2.07%) F5
10 4 (2.07%) Ubiquiti
11 3 (1.55%) Arista
11 3 (1.55%) Rapid7
11 3 (1.55%) SAP
12 2 (1.04%) Dell