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 16 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 190 208 236
Rank change year-on-year +18 +28 +20
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 248 203 308
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.16% 1.66% 1.25%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.83% 5.34% 4.59%
Number of salaries quoted 159 114 257
10th Percentile £59,500 £33,200 £39,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £46,563 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,500 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +28.10% -3.20% -3.85%
75th Percentile £90,000 £83,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £91,375 £96,000
England median annual salary £67,500 £54,500 £51,364
% change year-on-year +23.85% +6.11% -6.61%

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 4,255 3,805 6,703
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.87% 31.21% 27.30%
Number of salaries quoted 2,675 1,827 4,116
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,903 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year - +3.70% -
75th Percentile £89,375 £90,000 £86,250
90th Percentile £102,500 £110,000 £101,250
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -9.51%

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 16 June 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 16 June 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 +11 30 £80,000 +23.08% 11
East London -4 8 £70,000 +124.00% 4
South London +20 4 - - 2
West London -15 3 £77,500 +6.90%
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 7 (2.82%) Confluence
2 4 (1.61%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.81%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 15 (6.05%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.81%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 111 (44.76%) Azure
2 72 (29.03%) AWS
3 39 (15.73%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (13.71%) GCP
5 22 (8.87%) Datadog
6 11 (4.44%) Azure Monitor
6 11 (4.44%) Azure Sentinel
7 10 (4.03%) Entra ID
7 10 (4.03%) SaaS
8 9 (3.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (3.23%) OCI
10 7 (2.82%) IaaS
10 7 (2.82%) PaaS
11 6 (2.42%) ChatGPT
11 6 (2.42%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (2.42%) Mimecast
11 6 (2.42%) Nutanix
12 5 (2.02%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (2.02%) AWS KMS
12 5 (2.02%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 134 (54.03%) Firewall
2 97 (39.11%) WAN
3 89 (35.89%) Network Security
4 85 (34.27%) VPN
5 70 (28.23%) SD-WAN
6 61 (24.60%) LAN
7 49 (19.76%) Wireless
8 38 (15.32%) BGP
8 38 (15.32%) Cisco ISE
9 35 (14.11%) OSPF
10 34 (13.71%) VLAN
11 32 (12.90%) DNS
11 32 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
12 29 (11.69%) Cisco Wireless
13 24 (9.68%) Cisco Firepower
14 18 (7.26%) TCP/IP
15 17 (6.85%) VXLAN
16 16 (6.45%) SSL
17 15 (6.05%) VoIP
18 14 (5.65%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.61%) Big Data
3 2 (0.81%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (5.24%) JIRA
2 8 (3.23%) GitLab
3 7 (2.82%) Chocolatey
3 7 (2.82%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.02%) Git
5 4 (1.61%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.40%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 109 (43.95%) Social Skills
2 73 (29.44%) Finance
3 47 (18.95%) Banking
4 42 (16.94%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.27%) Retail
6 17 (6.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (6.45%) Local Government
7 16 (6.45%) Telecoms
8 10 (4.03%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.23%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.42%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.02%) Law
11 5 (2.02%) Marketing
12 4 (1.61%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.61%) Automotive
12 4 (1.61%) Electronics
12 4 (1.61%) Legal
12 4 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.61%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.21%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 89 (35.89%) Network Engineer
2 50 (20.16%) Senior
3 39 (15.73%) Architect
4 29 (11.69%) Consultant
5 28 (11.29%) Network Architect
6 26 (10.48%) Senior Network Engineer
7 23 (9.27%) Azure Engineer
8 21 (8.47%) Lead
9 17 (6.85%) Cisco Engineer
9 17 (6.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 17 (6.85%) Network Consultant
10 14 (5.65%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 13 (5.24%) Security Specialist
12 12 (4.84%) Principal Architect
12 12 (4.84%) Security Engineer
13 11 (4.44%) Network Security Specialist
13 11 (4.44%) Network Specialist
14 10 (4.03%) Analyst
15 9 (3.63%) Lead Network Engineer
15 9 (3.63%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.23%) 802.1X
2 7 (2.82%) OAuth
3 5 (2.02%) OpenID
4 4 (1.61%) REST
5 3 (1.21%) SAML
6 2 (0.81%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.81%) EDI
6 2 (0.81%) IDoc
6 2 (0.81%) JSON
6 2 (0.81%) JWT
6 2 (0.81%) LDAP
6 2 (0.81%) OAuth2
6 2 (0.81%) RESTful
6 2 (0.81%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 89 (35.89%) Data Centre
2 45 (18.15%) Security Posture
3 15 (6.05%) PKI
4 14 (5.65%) Cloud Native
5 11 (4.44%) Cyber Threat
5 11 (4.44%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 8 (3.23%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.82%) Cyber Defence
7 7 (2.82%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.82%) Onboarding
8 5 (2.02%) Replication
8 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.61%) Private Cloud
9 4 (1.61%) Renewable Energy
10 3 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
11 2 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
11 2 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
12 1 (0.40%) Home Automation
12 1 (0.40%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 54 (21.77%) Windows
2 32 (12.90%) Linux
3 27 (10.89%) Windows Server
4 5 (2.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.21%) Unix
6 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.81%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (22.58%) ITIL
2 51 (20.56%) Cybersecurity
2 51 (20.56%) Problem-Solving
3 43 (17.34%) Roadmaps
4 40 (16.13%) High Availability
4 40 (16.13%) Incident Response
5 39 (15.73%) Technical Leadership
6 38 (15.32%) Disaster Recovery
7 37 (14.92%) Information Security
8 36 (14.52%) Security Architecture
9 34 (13.71%) Mentoring
9 34 (13.71%) Network Design
10 33 (13.31%) Computer Science
10 33 (13.31%) Network Monitoring
11 32 (12.90%) AI
12 31 (12.50%) SIEM
13 29 (11.69%) Project Delivery
14 27 (10.89%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 27 (10.89%) Presales
15 26 (10.48%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (18.15%) Python
2 24 (9.68%) PowerShell
3 10 (4.03%) Bash
4 6 (2.42%) Java
5 2 (0.81%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.81%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.40%) Bicep
6 1 (0.40%) C
6 1 (0.40%) SQL
Qualifications
1 139 (56.05%) CCNP
2 90 (36.29%) CCNA
3 74 (29.84%) Degree
4 65 (26.21%) CISSP
5 61 (24.60%) CCIE
6 58 (23.39%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 54 (21.77%) Azure Certification
8 43 (17.34%) CISM
9 42 (16.94%) CCSP
10 29 (11.69%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (10.48%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (8.47%) CCSE
12 21 (8.47%) Master's Degree
13 20 (8.06%) AWS Certification
14 17 (6.85%) CCSA
15 15 (6.05%) Security Cleared
16 14 (5.65%) MCSE
17 13 (5.24%) Network+ Certification
18 12 (4.84%) CompTIA Security+
18 12 (4.84%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (24.60%) NIST
2 47 (18.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (8.87%) QA
4 19 (7.66%) SLA
5 18 (7.26%) GDPR
5 18 (7.26%) PCI DSS
6 12 (4.84%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (3.23%) SOC 2
8 5 (2.02%) COBIT
9 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 2 (0.81%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.40%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 1 (0.40%) HIPAA
11 1 (0.40%) NCSC
11 1 (0.40%) PMO
11 1 (0.40%) RMADS
System Software
1 34 (13.71%) Active Directory
2 31 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.23%) vSphere
4 7 (2.82%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.02%) Docker
5 5 (2.02%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.61%) Firmware
6 4 (1.61%) Squid
7 3 (1.21%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (1.21%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.81%) Hyper-V
8 2 (0.81%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 39 (15.73%) Ansible
2 31 (12.50%) Terraform
3 15 (6.05%) FortiGate
4 12 (4.84%) Kubernetes
5 11 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (4.03%) Cisco Prime
7 9 (3.63%) Check_MK
8 8 (3.23%) SCCM
9 7 (2.82%) Single Sign-On
10 5 (2.02%) Control-M
10 5 (2.02%) ZABBIX
11 4 (1.61%) Nagios
11 4 (1.61%) Packer
12 3 (1.21%) VxRail
13 2 (0.81%) OpenView
13 2 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.81%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 134 (54.03%) Cisco
2 83 (33.47%) Microsoft
3 52 (20.97%) Palo Alto
4 48 (19.35%) SolarWinds
5 44 (17.74%) Fortinet
6 39 (15.73%) VMware
7 32 (12.90%) Arista
7 32 (12.90%) CheckPoint
7 32 (12.90%) Splunk
8 24 (9.68%) Meraki
9 21 (8.47%) ForeScout
10 20 (8.06%) F5
11 15 (6.05%) Infoblox
11 15 (6.05%) SevOne
11 15 (6.05%) Tenable
12 13 (5.24%) Red Hat
13 11 (4.44%) Zscaler
14 9 (3.63%) Dynatrace
14 9 (3.63%) Sophos
15 7 (2.82%) AppDynamics