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 22 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 187 207 236
Rank change year-on-year +20 +29 -16
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 265 199 279
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.18% 1.61% 1.29%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.87% 5.50% 4.69%
Number of salaries quoted 169 106 227
10th Percentile £57,500 £33,200 £37,413
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,313 £49,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £91,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £106,000 £88,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year +23.81% - -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 4,514 3,616 5,954
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.05% 29.27% 27.47%
Number of salaries quoted 2,736 1,966 3,438
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,312 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,750 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £86,969
90th Percentile £104,375 £110,000 £101,075
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 25 £72,500 +11.54% 16
East London -6 4 £70,000 +124.00% 1
West London -17 3 £77,500 -11.43% 1
South London +10 2 - - 1
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 (4.15%) Confluence
2 4 (1.51%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.13%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.75%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 15 (5.66%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.26%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 119 (44.91%) Azure
2 85 (32.08%) AWS
3 43 (16.23%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (13.58%) GCP
5 24 (9.06%) Datadog
6 12 (4.53%) Azure Monitor
6 12 (4.53%) OpenShift
7 11 (4.15%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.15%) SaaS
8 9 (3.40%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 9 (3.40%) Azure Sentinel
8 9 (3.40%) IaaS
8 9 (3.40%) PaaS
9 8 (3.02%) Nutanix
9 8 (3.02%) OCI
10 6 (2.26%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 6 (2.26%) AWS KMS
10 6 (2.26%) Mimecast
11 5 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (1.89%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 138 (52.08%) Firewall
2 108 (40.75%) Network Security
2 108 (40.75%) WAN
3 100 (37.74%) VPN
4 78 (29.43%) SD-WAN
5 70 (26.42%) LAN
6 49 (18.49%) BGP
6 49 (18.49%) Wireless
7 44 (16.60%) Cisco ISE
7 44 (16.60%) OSPF
8 43 (16.23%) DNS
9 42 (15.85%) VLAN
10 32 (12.08%) Wi-Fi
11 29 (10.94%) Cisco Wireless
12 27 (10.19%) TCP/IP
13 21 (7.92%) VXLAN
14 19 (7.17%) Cisco Firepower
15 18 (6.79%) DHCP
16 16 (6.04%) SSL
16 16 (6.04%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.42%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.89%) Big Data
3 4 (1.51%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (7.17%) JIRA
2 9 (3.40%) Chocolatey
3 8 (3.02%) GitLab
3 8 (3.02%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.89%) Git
5 4 (1.51%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.38%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 121 (45.66%) Social Skills
2 69 (26.04%) Finance
3 49 (18.49%) Banking
4 42 (15.85%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.43%) Retail
6 24 (9.06%) Telecoms
7 16 (6.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (6.04%) Local Government
8 13 (4.91%) Public Sector
9 8 (3.02%) Mandarin Language
9 8 (3.02%) Marketing
10 7 (2.64%) Legal
10 7 (2.64%) Presentation Skills
10 7 (2.64%) Retail Banking
11 6 (2.26%) Law
12 5 (1.89%) Documentation Skills
12 5 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (1.51%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.51%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (32.83%) Network Engineer
2 48 (18.11%) Senior
3 41 (15.47%) Architect
4 30 (11.32%) Consultant
5 29 (10.94%) Network Architect
6 26 (9.81%) Lead
7 24 (9.06%) Senior Network Engineer
8 23 (8.68%) Security Specialist
9 21 (7.92%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (7.55%) Network Specialist
11 19 (7.17%) Network Security Specialist
12 17 (6.42%) Infrastructure Engineer
13 15 (5.66%) Cisco Engineer
13 15 (5.66%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 15 (5.66%) Network Consultant
14 12 (4.53%) Principal Architect
14 12 (4.53%) Security Engineer
15 10 (3.77%) Analyst
16 9 (3.40%) Principal Consultant
16 9 (3.40%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.64%) 802.1X
2 5 (1.89%) OAuth
3 4 (1.51%) LDAP
3 4 (1.51%) REST
4 3 (1.13%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.13%) OpenID
5 2 (0.75%) EDI
5 2 (0.75%) IDoc
5 2 (0.75%) JSON
5 2 (0.75%) JWT
5 2 (0.75%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.75%) RESTful
5 2 (0.75%) SailPoint
5 2 (0.75%) SAML
6 1 (0.38%) Jinja
6 1 (0.38%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.38%) YAML
6 1 (0.38%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 94 (35.47%) Data Centre
2 48 (18.11%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.66%) PKI
4 14 (5.28%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.91%) Cyber Threat
6 9 (3.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 9 (3.40%) Management Information System
6 9 (3.40%) Public Cloud
7 8 (3.02%) Onboarding
8 7 (2.64%) Cyber Defence
8 7 (2.64%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.26%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.89%) Replication
10 5 (1.89%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.51%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.51%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.13%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.75%) Data Protection Act
13 2 (0.75%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
Operating Systems
1 60 (22.64%) Windows
2 35 (13.21%) Linux
3 32 (12.08%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.13%) Unix
6 2 (0.75%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.75%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (23.02%) ITIL
2 58 (21.89%) Cybersecurity
3 57 (21.51%) Problem-Solving
4 56 (21.13%) Roadmaps
5 49 (18.49%) Incident Response
6 46 (17.36%) Technical Leadership
7 45 (16.98%) Disaster Recovery
8 44 (16.60%) Information Security
9 40 (15.09%) Mentoring
9 40 (15.09%) Network Design
10 39 (14.72%) High Availability
11 38 (14.34%) Security Architecture
12 37 (13.96%) Network Monitoring
13 35 (13.21%) Infrastructure as Code
13 35 (13.21%) SIEM
14 34 (12.83%) Presales
14 34 (12.83%) Project Delivery
15 33 (12.45%) AI
16 32 (12.08%) Cloud Security
17 31 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.49%) Python
2 28 (10.57%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.77%) Bash
4 8 (3.02%) Java
5 2 (0.75%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.75%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.38%) C
6 1 (0.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (57.74%) CCNP
2 91 (34.34%) CCNA
3 75 (28.30%) CISSP
3 75 (28.30%) Degree
4 60 (22.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 59 (22.26%) CCIE
6 58 (21.89%) Azure Certification
7 50 (18.87%) CCSP
8 44 (16.60%) CISM
9 27 (10.19%) AWS Certification
10 25 (9.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 25 (9.43%) Microsoft Certification
11 23 (8.68%) Master's Degree
12 17 (6.42%) CCSE
13 14 (5.28%) Security Cleared
13 14 (5.28%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 13 (4.91%) MCSE
15 12 (4.53%) CCSA
15 12 (4.53%) CompTIA Security+
15 12 (4.53%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (24.53%) NIST
2 53 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (8.68%) GDPR
4 22 (8.30%) QA
5 19 (7.17%) PCI DSS
5 19 (7.17%) SLA
6 13 (4.91%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (3.40%) SOC 2
8 5 (1.89%) COBIT
8 5 (1.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.51%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.75%) GRC
10 2 (0.75%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.38%) NCSC
11 1 (0.38%) PMO
11 1 (0.38%) RMADS
System Software
1 42 (15.85%) Active Directory
2 39 (14.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.40%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.02%) vSphere
5 7 (2.64%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.89%) Docker
7 4 (1.51%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 4 (1.51%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.51%) Squid
7 4 (1.51%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.13%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 41 (15.47%) Ansible
2 35 (13.21%) Terraform
3 19 (7.17%) Kubernetes
4 16 (6.04%) FortiGate
5 12 (4.53%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.77%) Cisco Prime
6 10 (3.77%) SCCM
7 8 (3.02%) Check_MK
8 7 (2.64%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.89%) Control-M
9 5 (1.89%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.51%) Packer
10 4 (1.51%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (1.51%) VxRail
11 2 (0.75%) Nagios
11 2 (0.75%) OpenView
11 2 (0.75%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.38%) CASB
Vendors
1 135 (50.94%) Cisco
2 88 (33.21%) Microsoft
3 66 (24.91%) Palo Alto
4 49 (18.49%) VMware
5 45 (16.98%) Fortinet
6 44 (16.60%) SolarWinds
7 36 (13.58%) Splunk
8 34 (12.83%) Arista
9 33 (12.45%) CheckPoint
10 26 (9.81%) F5
10 26 (9.81%) Meraki
11 24 (9.06%) Zscaler
12 21 (7.92%) ForeScout
13 20 (7.55%) Tenable
14 15 (5.66%) Infoblox
14 15 (5.66%) Red Hat
14 15 (5.66%) SevOne
15 13 (4.91%) Sophos
16 10 (3.77%) Dynatrace
17 9 (3.40%) AppDynamics