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 5 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 206 217 164
Rank change year-on-year +11 -53 +125
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 208 282 462
As % of all permanent jobs with remote/hybrid work options 1.30% 1.42% 2.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.45% 5.38% 7.49%
Number of salaries quoted 140 165 364
10th Percentile £31,025 £41,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £36,500 £52,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,000 £62,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.20% +13.64% -15.38%
75th Percentile £77,500 £72,500 £68,750
90th Percentile £100,500 £82,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £52,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +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 6,029 5,238 6,168
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 37.83% 26.37% 28.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,366 2,567 4,516
10th Percentile £30,165 £35,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £42,500 £46,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
75th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £77,250
90th Percentile £92,500 £87,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £58,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.17% +0.87% +3.60%

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 5 November 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 12 (5.77%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (0.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 73 (35.10%) Azure
2 44 (21.15%) AWS
3 33 (15.87%) Microsoft 365
4 19 (9.13%) Entra ID
5 10 (4.81%) IaaS
6 4 (1.92%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.92%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (1.44%) Amazon ECS
7 3 (1.44%) Azure Key Vault
7 3 (1.44%) Cloudflare
7 3 (1.44%) GCP
8 2 (0.96%) Azure Sentinel
8 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.96%) PaaS
8 2 (0.96%) SaaS
9 1 (0.48%) Amazon GuardDuty
9 1 (0.48%) GitHub Actions
9 1 (0.48%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.48%) OCI
9 1 (0.48%) Pulumi
Communications & Networking
1 72 (34.62%) Firewall
2 59 (28.37%) LAN
3 55 (26.44%) VPN
3 55 (26.44%) WAN
4 40 (19.23%) Wi-Fi
5 35 (16.83%) Network Security
6 33 (15.87%) SD-WAN
7 29 (13.94%) TCP/IP
8 25 (12.02%) VLAN
9 21 (10.10%) DNS
10 19 (9.13%) BGP
11 18 (8.65%) VoIP
12 15 (7.21%) Wireless
13 14 (6.73%) Junos
14 13 (6.25%) DHCP
14 13 (6.25%) OSPF
15 12 (5.77%) MPLS
16 9 (4.33%) IPsec
16 9 (4.33%) Unified Communications
17 7 (3.37%) IP Telephony
Development Applications
1 6 (2.88%) Burp Suite
1 6 (2.88%) Metasploit
2 1 (0.48%) Git
2 1 (0.48%) GitLab
2 1 (0.48%) Jenkins
General
1 75 (36.06%) Finance
2 53 (25.48%) Social Skills
3 34 (16.35%) Telecoms
4 12 (5.77%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (2.88%) Law
5 6 (2.88%) Manufacturing
5 6 (2.88%) Retail
6 5 (2.40%) Public Sector
7 4 (1.92%) Legal
8 2 (0.96%) Banking
8 2 (0.96%) Electronics
8 2 (0.96%) French Language
8 2 (0.96%) Marketing
8 2 (0.96%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.48%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (0.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.48%) Local Government
9 1 (0.48%) Military
Job Titles
1 49 (23.56%) Administrator
1 49 (23.56%) Systems Administrator
2 41 (19.71%) Network Engineer
3 34 (16.35%) Senior
4 21 (10.10%) Security Engineer
5 19 (9.13%) Architect
6 13 (6.25%) Senior Network Engineer
7 12 (5.77%) 2nd Line Support
8 10 (4.81%) Cybersecurity Engineer
8 10 (4.81%) Network Architect
8 10 (4.81%) Support Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) IT Engineer
9 9 (4.33%) IT Support
9 9 (4.33%) Senior Security Engineer
10 8 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support
10 8 (3.85%) 3rd Line Support Technician
10 8 (3.85%) Support Technician
11 7 (3.37%) Head of IT
11 7 (3.37%) Head of IT Operations
11 7 (3.37%) Head of Operations
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.44%) FreeSWITCH
1 3 (1.44%) Node.js
1 3 (1.44%) SAML
2 2 (0.96%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (0.48%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.48%) AngularJS
3 1 (0.48%) React
3 1 (0.48%) Svelte
3 1 (0.48%) SvelteKit
Miscellaneous
1 50 (24.04%) e-Learning
2 21 (10.10%) Data Centre
3 16 (7.69%) Driving Licence
4 13 (6.25%) CCTV
5 12 (5.77%) Security Posture
6 9 (4.33%) Management Information System
7 8 (3.85%) Security Operations Centre
8 7 (3.37%) Operational Technology
8 7 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
9 6 (2.88%) Cloud Native
9 6 (2.88%) Cloud Security Posture
10 5 (2.40%) PKI
11 4 (1.92%) Onboarding
12 3 (1.44%) Data Protection Act
12 3 (1.44%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 3 (1.44%) Hybrid Cloud
12 3 (1.44%) Insider Threat
12 3 (1.44%) Low-Code
12 3 (1.44%) Web3
13 2 (0.96%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 74 (35.58%) Linux
2 39 (18.75%) Windows
3 25 (12.02%) Unix
4 21 (10.10%) Windows Server
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2012
5 2 (0.96%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.48%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
6 1 (0.48%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (34.13%) High Availability
2 54 (25.96%) Innovative Thinking
3 43 (20.67%) ITIL
4 34 (16.35%) Cybersecurity
5 30 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
6 23 (11.06%) Information Security
6 23 (11.06%) Mentoring
6 23 (11.06%) Project Delivery
7 22 (10.58%) Service Delivery
8 20 (9.62%) DevOps
8 20 (9.62%) ITSM
9 17 (8.17%) Change Control
10 16 (7.69%) Computer Science
10 16 (7.69%) Infrastructure as Code
11 15 (7.21%) Data Protection
11 15 (7.21%) Project Management
11 15 (7.21%) SIEM
11 15 (7.21%) Stakeholder Management
12 13 (6.25%) Network Design
12 13 (6.25%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 16 (7.69%) PowerShell
2 15 (7.21%) Python
3 6 (2.88%) Bash
4 3 (1.44%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.96%) Go
6 1 (0.48%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 139 (66.83%) CCNP
2 107 (51.44%) CCNA
3 86 (41.35%) Security Cleared
4 82 (39.42%) SC Cleared
5 62 (29.81%) DV Cleared
6 46 (22.12%) Degree
7 36 (17.31%) CISSP
8 27 (12.98%) Azure Certification
8 27 (12.98%) Microsoft Certification
9 24 (11.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
9 24 (11.54%) RHCSA
10 22 (10.58%) MCP
10 22 (10.58%) MCSE
11 21 (10.10%) CCIE
12 19 (9.13%) CompTIA Security+
12 19 (9.13%) MCSA
13 17 (8.17%) CISM
14 16 (7.69%) AWS Certification
15 11 (5.29%) JNCIA
16 10 (4.81%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (12.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 19 (9.13%) NIST
3 17 (8.17%) Cyber Essentials
4 15 (7.21%) SLA
5 13 (6.25%) GDPR
6 3 (1.44%) Actionable Recommendations
7 2 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 2 (0.96%) SOC 2
8 1 (0.48%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 16 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 12 (5.77%) Hyper-V
3 6 (2.88%) Firmware
3 6 (2.88%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (2.40%) Docker
5 3 (1.44%) VMware ESXi
6 2 (0.96%) pfSense
7 1 (0.48%) VMware NSX
7 1 (0.48%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 15 (7.21%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (5.77%) Terraform
3 10 (4.81%) Ansible
4 6 (2.88%) Nmap
5 5 (2.40%) Autotask
5 5 (2.40%) Kubernetes
6 4 (1.92%) FortiGate
7 3 (1.44%) Dell DRAC
7 3 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (0.96%) Nagios
9 1 (0.48%) Cisco CUCM
9 1 (0.48%) Failover Clustering
9 1 (0.48%) OpenView
9 1 (0.48%) Tivoli
9 1 (0.48%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 146 (70.19%) Cisco
2 57 (27.40%) Microsoft
3 27 (12.98%) VMware
4 26 (12.50%) Juniper
5 24 (11.54%) Red Hat
6 15 (7.21%) Fortinet
7 13 (6.25%) Palo Alto
8 11 (5.29%) Meraki
9 10 (4.81%) Citrix
10 8 (3.85%) Mitel
11 7 (3.37%) Draytek
11 7 (3.37%) SolarWinds
11 7 (3.37%) WatchGuard
12 6 (2.88%) CheckPoint
12 6 (2.88%) Zscaler
13 4 (1.92%) F5
13 4 (1.92%) HP
13 4 (1.92%) Veeam
14 3 (1.44%) Aruba
14 3 (1.44%) Ubiquiti