Cisco Certification Job Trends in London

Cisco Certification
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 206 196
Rank change year-on-year -34 -10 -5
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 224 181 317
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.87% 1.54% 1.70%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.64% 5.23% 5.98%
Number of salaries quoted 155 91 212
10th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,125 £53,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £68,125
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +2.75% -2.68%
75th Percentile £97,500 £88,125 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £126,875 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% +4.55%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,829 3,463 5,302
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.66% 29.41% 28.37%
Number of salaries quoted 2,824 1,919 2,345
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,750 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £50,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.84% -2.14% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -2.54%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cisco Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in London.

Cisco Certification job vacancy trend in London

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cisco Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Cisco Certification

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification in London over the 6 months to 5 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in London

Cisco Certification
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the London region over the 6 months to 5 October 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +8 18 £77,500 +8.77% 33
West London -18 4 £77,500 +31.36% 4
East London -13 1 £70,000 +122.22% 6
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (4.91%) Confluence
2 2 (0.89%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (4.46%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) Eikon
2 1 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 95 (42.41%) Azure
2 72 (32.14%) AWS
3 35 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (11.16%) GCP
5 18 (8.04%) SaaS
6 16 (7.14%) Datadog
6 16 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 13 (5.80%) OpenShift
8 10 (4.46%) IaaS
8 10 (4.46%) PaaS
9 7 (3.13%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (2.23%) AWS Direct Connect
10 5 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.23%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.79%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (1.79%) AWS KMS
11 4 (1.79%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.79%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.79%) OCI
11 4 (1.79%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 102 (45.54%) Firewall
2 84 (37.50%) WAN
3 83 (37.05%) Network Security
3 83 (37.05%) VPN
4 56 (25.00%) LAN
5 51 (22.77%) DNS
6 45 (20.09%) SD-WAN
7 41 (18.30%) BGP
7 41 (18.30%) TCP/IP
8 39 (17.41%) Wireless
9 36 (16.07%) OSPF
10 33 (14.73%) Cisco ISE
11 32 (14.29%) VLAN
12 29 (12.95%) DHCP
13 27 (12.05%) Wi-Fi
14 20 (8.93%) VXLAN
15 15 (6.70%) MPLS
16 14 (6.25%) Cisco Wireless
17 13 (5.80%) Cisco Nexus
17 13 (5.80%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.25%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.79%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.79%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.34%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.89%) Big Data
5 1 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 16 (7.14%) JIRA
2 6 (2.68%) Chocolatey
2 6 (2.68%) GitLab
2 6 (2.68%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.23%) Git
3 5 (2.23%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.79%) Bitbucket
5 3 (1.34%) TeamCity
General
1 107 (47.77%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.68%) Finance
3 32 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (13.84%) Banking
5 21 (9.38%) Telecoms
6 16 (7.14%) Retail
7 15 (6.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (5.36%) Law
9 11 (4.91%) Local Government
10 10 (4.46%) Legal
11 8 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.57%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (2.68%) Digital Health
12 6 (2.68%) Financial Institution
12 6 (2.68%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.23%) Marketing
13 5 (2.23%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (1.79%) Aerospace
14 4 (1.79%) Electronics
14 4 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 71 (31.70%) Network Engineer
2 41 (18.30%) Senior
3 25 (11.16%) Architect
4 22 (9.82%) Security Specialist
5 20 (8.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (8.48%) Lead
6 19 (8.48%) Security Engineer
7 16 (7.14%) Senior Network Engineer
8 15 (6.70%) Network Specialist
9 14 (6.25%) Consultant
9 14 (6.25%) Network Security Specialist
10 12 (5.36%) Security Architect
11 10 (4.46%) Network Architect
12 9 (4.02%) IT Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Network Security Engineer
12 9 (4.02%) Senior Security Engineer
13 8 (3.57%) Analyst
13 8 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
13 8 (3.57%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 7 (3.13%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.39%) Terraform
2 6 (2.68%) LDAP
2 6 (2.68%) SAML
3 4 (1.79%) JWT
3 4 (1.79%) OAuth
3 4 (1.79%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.79%) REST
4 3 (1.34%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.89%) EDI
5 2 (0.89%) IDoc
5 2 (0.89%) JSON
5 2 (0.89%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.89%) OpenID
5 2 (0.89%) RESTful
6 1 (0.45%) Jinja
6 1 (0.45%) Rendezvous
6 1 (0.45%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.45%) YAML
6 1 (0.45%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 72 (32.14%) Data Centre
2 52 (23.21%) Security Posture
3 15 (6.70%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.80%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (5.80%) Management Information System
4 13 (5.80%) PKI
5 11 (4.91%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (4.02%) Onboarding
7 6 (2.68%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
7 6 (2.68%) Private Cloud
7 6 (2.68%) Replication
8 5 (2.23%) Cyber Security Posture
9 4 (1.79%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (1.34%) Blog
10 3 (1.34%) Distributed Systems
10 3 (1.34%) Driving Licence
11 2 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 53 (23.66%) Windows
2 36 (16.07%) Windows Server
3 30 (13.39%) Linux
4 7 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.79%) Unix
6 3 (1.34%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (26.79%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (24.11%) Incident Response
4 52 (23.21%) Information Security
5 50 (22.32%) Security Architecture
6 46 (20.54%) Roadmaps
7 45 (20.09%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 42 (18.75%) Disaster Recovery
9 41 (18.30%) ITIL
10 38 (16.96%) Cloud Security
11 36 (16.07%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (15.63%) SIEM
13 33 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
13 33 (14.73%) Network Design
14 31 (13.84%) Business Continuity
14 31 (13.84%) Vulnerability Management
15 30 (13.39%) AI
16 29 (12.95%) Computer Science
16 29 (12.95%) Project Delivery
16 29 (12.95%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 50 (22.32%) Python
2 19 (8.48%) PowerShell
3 12 (5.36%) Java
4 8 (3.57%) Bash
5 5 (2.23%) SQL
6 3 (1.34%) Go
7 2 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.45%) Bicep
8 1 (0.45%) C
8 1 (0.45%) C#
8 1 (0.45%) C++
8 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 111 (49.55%) CCNP
2 87 (38.84%) CCNA
2 87 (38.84%) CISSP
3 63 (28.13%) Degree
4 59 (26.34%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 55 (24.55%) CCSP
6 43 (19.20%) Azure Certification
7 39 (17.41%) CISM
8 31 (13.84%) CCIE
9 29 (12.95%) AWS Certification
10 23 (10.27%) Computer Science Degree
11 18 (8.04%) Master's Degree
11 18 (8.04%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (6.25%) CEH
13 9 (4.02%) Security Cleared
13 9 (4.02%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 8 (3.57%) MCSE
14 8 (3.57%) RHCSA
15 7 (3.13%) GCIH
15 7 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (23.21%) NIST
2 47 (20.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (8.93%) PCI DSS
4 17 (7.59%) GDPR
4 17 (7.59%) QA
5 16 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (5.80%) SLA
7 11 (4.91%) GRC
8 9 (4.02%) SOC 2
9 6 (2.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (2.23%) COBIT
10 5 (2.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.79%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.89%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.45%) NCSC
13 1 (0.45%) RMADS
System Software
1 43 (19.20%) Active Directory
2 33 (14.73%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.57%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.68%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.68%) vSphere
5 4 (1.79%) Docker
5 4 (1.79%) Squid
5 4 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.34%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.34%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.89%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.89%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.45%) Firmware
8 1 (0.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 39 (17.41%) Ansible
2 20 (8.93%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.59%) FortiGate
3 17 (7.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 11 (4.91%) Single Sign-On
5 6 (2.68%) SCCM
6 5 (2.23%) ZABBIX
7 4 (1.79%) Packer
7 4 (1.79%) Red Hat Satellite
8 3 (1.34%) Cilium
8 3 (1.34%) Control-M
8 3 (1.34%) Grafana
8 3 (1.34%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 2 (0.89%) VxRail
10 1 (0.45%) CASB
10 1 (0.45%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.45%) Cisco Prime
10 1 (0.45%) OpenView
10 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 93 (41.52%) Cisco
2 72 (32.14%) Microsoft
3 60 (26.79%) Palo Alto
4 42 (18.75%) VMware
5 32 (14.29%) Fortinet
6 27 (12.05%) Arista
7 26 (11.61%) F5
7 26 (11.61%) Zscaler
8 24 (10.71%) Splunk
9 20 (8.93%) SolarWinds
10 18 (8.04%) CheckPoint
11 17 (7.59%) Meraki
12 16 (7.14%) Tenable
13 14 (6.25%) ForeScout
14 12 (5.36%) Red Hat
15 11 (4.91%) Infoblox
16 10 (4.46%) SevOne
17 9 (4.02%) Citrix
17 9 (4.02%) Google
17 9 (4.02%) Oracle