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 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 221 204 188
Rank change year-on-year -17 -16 +216
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 187 315 386
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 1.57% 1.64% 1.74%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.43% 5.85% 6.69%
Number of salaries quoted 96 216 306
10th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £44,375
25th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £65,000 £67,750
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -4.06% +7.54%
75th Percentile £86,563 £85,000 £87,375
90th Percentile £113,750 £100,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -

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 3,447 5,386 5,766
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 28.89% 28.09% 26.03%
Number of salaries quoted 1,914 2,548 4,301
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,283 £39,085
25th Percentile £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +4.48%
75th Percentile £90,000 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £115,000 £104,125 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £56,180 £59,000
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.78% +7.27%

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Cisco Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 -25 14 £70,000 +3.70% 13
West London +47 7 £59,000 +12.38% 5
East London -5 3 £31,500 -
South London +15 1 £60,000 -11.11% 2
North London - 1 £32,500 - 2
Cisco Certification
England

Cisco Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 8 (4.28%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.60%) Confluence
2 3 (1.60%) nginx
3 2 (1.07%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.53%) CMS
Applications
1 18 (9.63%) MS Visio
2 14 (7.49%) Microsoft Office
3 7 (3.74%) Microsoft Project
4 4 (2.14%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.53%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.53%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 83 (44.39%) Azure
2 49 (26.20%) AWS
3 25 (13.37%) GCP
4 16 (8.56%) Microsoft 365
5 11 (5.88%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.74%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.21%) IaaS
7 6 (3.21%) Mimecast
7 6 (3.21%) Rubrik
7 6 (3.21%) SaaS
8 5 (2.67%) Microsoft Purview
8 5 (2.67%) Virtual Private Cloud
9 4 (2.14%) AWS Direct Connect
9 4 (2.14%) Azure Key Vault
9 4 (2.14%) Dropbox
9 4 (2.14%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.60%) Cloudflare
10 3 (1.60%) GitHub
10 3 (1.60%) Miro
10 3 (1.60%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 84 (44.92%) Firewall
2 68 (36.36%) VPN
3 66 (35.29%) LAN
4 54 (28.88%) Network Security
5 51 (27.27%) BGP
5 51 (27.27%) WAN
6 47 (25.13%) OSPF
7 33 (17.65%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (13.37%) Wireless
9 22 (11.76%) MPLS
10 20 (10.70%) DNS
10 20 (10.70%) TCP/IP
10 20 (10.70%) VLAN
11 18 (9.63%) SD-WAN
12 17 (9.09%) HSRP
13 14 (7.49%) EIGRP
13 14 (7.49%) IPsec
14 13 (6.95%) NX-OS
14 13 (6.95%) SNMP
15 12 (6.42%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.14%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.60%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 6 (3.21%) JIRA
2 4 (2.14%) Git
2 4 (2.14%) Jenkins
3 3 (1.60%) Burp Suite
3 3 (1.60%) GitLab
3 3 (1.60%) Metasploit
4 1 (0.53%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 76 (40.64%) Social Skills
2 66 (35.29%) Finance
3 48 (25.67%) Banking
4 33 (17.65%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (13.90%) Telecoms
6 25 (13.37%) Documentation Skills
7 12 (6.42%) Law
8 9 (4.81%) Legal
9 7 (3.74%) Marketing
10 6 (3.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (3.21%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.21%) Retail
11 5 (2.67%) Local Government
12 3 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
12 3 (1.60%) Military
12 3 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 2 (1.07%) French Language
13 2 (1.07%) Mandarin Language
13 2 (1.07%) Organisational Skills
14 1 (0.53%) German Language
Job Titles
1 83 (44.39%) Network Engineer
2 48 (25.67%) Senior
3 21 (11.23%) Senior Network Engineer
4 15 (8.02%) Security Engineer
5 13 (6.95%) Architect
6 11 (5.88%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 11 (5.88%) Lead
7 10 (5.35%) Security Manager
8 9 (4.81%) AWS Engineer
8 9 (4.81%) Cisco Engineer
8 9 (4.81%) Operations Engineer
8 9 (4.81%) Security Architect
8 9 (4.81%) Senior Manager
8 9 (4.81%) Technical Manager
9 8 (4.28%) Team Leader
10 7 (3.74%) Project Manager
10 7 (3.74%) Senior Security Engineer
11 6 (3.21%) Analyst
11 6 (3.21%) Consultant
11 6 (3.21%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.21%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.60%) RESTful
3 2 (1.07%) Jinja
3 2 (1.07%) Microsoft Graph
4 1 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.53%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (28.34%) Data Centre
2 17 (9.09%) Security Posture
3 13 (6.95%) Management Information System
4 9 (4.81%) Cloud Security Posture
4 9 (4.81%) Self-Motivation
5 8 (4.28%) Onboarding
6 7 (3.74%) Cloud Native
7 6 (3.21%) IPTV
8 5 (2.67%) Driving Licence
8 5 (2.67%) PKI
8 5 (2.67%) Public Cloud
8 5 (2.67%) Virtual Team
9 4 (2.14%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 4 (2.14%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (2.14%) Low-Code
9 4 (2.14%) Web3
10 3 (1.60%) Cyber Defence
10 3 (1.60%) Machine to Machine
10 3 (1.60%) Private Cloud
11 2 (1.07%) Hybrid Cloud
Operating Systems
1 36 (19.25%) Windows
2 21 (11.23%) Windows Server
3 18 (9.63%) Linux
4 3 (1.60%) Windows 10
4 3 (1.60%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (0.53%) Unix
5 1 (0.53%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (29.41%) Problem-Solving
2 38 (20.32%) ITIL
3 35 (18.72%) High Availability
4 30 (16.04%) Information Security
5 29 (15.51%) Agile
6 26 (13.90%) Load Balancing
7 25 (13.37%) Artificial Intelligence
7 25 (13.37%) Low Latency
8 24 (12.83%) DevOps
8 24 (12.83%) Incident Response
9 22 (11.76%) Cybersecurity
9 22 (11.76%) Incident Management
10 21 (11.23%) Cloud Security
10 21 (11.23%) Roadmaps
11 20 (10.70%) Change Management
11 20 (10.70%) CI/CD
12 19 (10.16%) Project Management
12 19 (10.16%) Root Cause Analysis
13 18 (9.63%) Mentoring
14 17 (9.09%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 45 (24.06%) Python
2 21 (11.23%) PowerShell
3 12 (6.42%) Bash
4 9 (4.81%) R
5 3 (1.60%) Go
6 2 (1.07%) VB
7 1 (0.53%) C
7 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
7 1 (0.53%) PromQL
7 1 (0.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 111 (59.36%) CCNP
2 85 (45.45%) CCNA
3 68 (36.36%) Degree
4 50 (26.74%) CCIE
5 36 (19.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 32 (17.11%) CISSP
7 25 (13.37%) CCSP
8 22 (11.76%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (9.09%) CISM
10 16 (8.56%) Azure Certification
11 13 (6.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (6.42%) CISA
13 11 (5.88%) CCSA
14 10 (5.35%) CCSE
14 10 (5.35%) Master's Degree
14 10 (5.35%) MCSA
15 9 (4.81%) CCSK
16 8 (4.28%) MCSE
16 8 (4.28%) PMI Certification
16 8 (4.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (14.44%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 21 (11.23%) NIST
3 17 (9.09%) GDPR
4 16 (8.56%) SLA
5 6 (3.21%) SOC 2
6 5 (2.67%) QA
7 4 (2.14%) HIPAA
7 4 (2.14%) PMO
7 4 (2.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 3 (1.60%) GRC
9 2 (1.07%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 1 (0.53%) MIL-STD-1553
10 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 29 (15.51%) Active Directory
2 15 (8.02%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (3.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 6 (3.21%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.14%) BitLocker
5 4 (2.14%) pfSense
5 4 (2.14%) ProxySG
6 2 (1.07%) Squid
6 2 (1.07%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.07%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 31 (16.58%) Ansible
2 24 (12.83%) Terraform
3 10 (5.35%) Cisco CUCM
3 10 (5.35%) Microsoft Intune
3 10 (5.35%) Nagios
4 7 (3.74%) CASB
4 7 (3.74%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.21%) Grafana
5 6 (3.21%) Prometheus
5 6 (3.21%) VxRail
6 4 (2.14%) FortiGate
6 4 (2.14%) Jamf Pro
7 3 (1.60%) Nmap
7 3 (1.60%) Progress Chef
7 3 (1.60%) Puppet
8 2 (1.07%) Kibana
9 1 (0.53%) CA Spectrum
9 1 (0.53%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 109 (58.29%) Cisco
2 39 (20.86%) CheckPoint
3 36 (19.25%) Microsoft
4 35 (18.72%) Fortinet
5 29 (15.51%) Meraki
5 29 (15.51%) SolarWinds
6 25 (13.37%) F5
6 25 (13.37%) VMware
7 22 (11.76%) Arista
8 15 (8.02%) Palo Alto
9 12 (6.42%) Google
10 11 (5.88%) Juniper
10 11 (5.88%) ServiceNow
11 10 (5.35%) Zscaler
12 9 (4.81%) Splunk
13 6 (3.21%) Bloomberg
13 6 (3.21%) Refinitiv
13 6 (3.21%) Sophos
14 5 (2.67%) Apple
14 5 (2.67%) Citrix