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 2 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 208 208 221
Rank change year-on-year 0 +13 -23
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 251 187 291
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.04% 1.56% 1.50%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.28% 5.37% 5.42%
Number of salaries quoted 171 95 214
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,780 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% - -
75th Percentile £91,125 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,288 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.58% -9.09% -

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 4,750 3,481 5,368
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.68% 29.09% 27.71%
Number of salaries quoted 2,845 1,946 2,723
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,750
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £68,900
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -2.03% -1.57%
75th Percentile £91,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £113,750 £102,750
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 2 September 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 2 September 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 19 £80,000 +18.52% 21
West London -24 4 £77,500 +31.36% 3
East London -5 2 £70,000 +122.22% 3
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 12 (4.78%) Confluence
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.80%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.78%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.80%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.40%) Eikon
2 1 (0.40%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 115 (45.82%) Azure
2 87 (34.66%) AWS
3 41 (16.33%) Microsoft 365
4 32 (12.75%) GCP
5 21 (8.37%) Datadog
6 16 (6.37%) SaaS
7 13 (5.18%) Entra ID
7 13 (5.18%) OpenShift
8 11 (4.38%) IaaS
8 11 (4.38%) PaaS
9 8 (3.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 8 (3.19%) Azure Monitor
9 8 (3.19%) Azure Sentinel
9 8 (3.19%) Nutanix
9 8 (3.19%) OCI
10 5 (1.99%) Amazon GuardDuty
10 5 (1.99%) AWS Direct Connect
10 5 (1.99%) AWS KMS
10 5 (1.99%) Cloud Computing
11 4 (1.59%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 119 (47.41%) Firewall
2 98 (39.04%) Network Security
3 96 (38.25%) WAN
4 90 (35.86%) VPN
5 65 (25.90%) LAN
6 64 (25.50%) SD-WAN
7 49 (19.52%) DNS
8 45 (17.93%) Wireless
9 42 (16.73%) BGP
10 40 (15.94%) OSPF
11 39 (15.54%) Cisco ISE
12 35 (13.94%) VLAN
13 32 (12.75%) TCP/IP
14 29 (11.55%) Wi-Fi
15 25 (9.96%) DHCP
16 21 (8.37%) Cisco Wireless
16 21 (8.37%) VXLAN
17 16 (6.37%) MPLS
17 16 (6.37%) Software-Defined Networking
18 15 (5.98%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.99%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.59%) Big Data
4 1 (0.40%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 18 (7.17%) JIRA
2 9 (3.59%) Chocolatey
3 7 (2.79%) GitLab
3 7 (2.79%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.99%) Git
5 4 (1.59%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.20%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 115 (45.82%) Social Skills
2 65 (25.90%) Finance
3 42 (16.73%) Banking
4 38 (15.14%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.16%) Telecoms
6 20 (7.97%) Retail
7 17 (6.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (5.18%) Local Government
9 11 (4.38%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.98%) Legal
11 9 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
12 8 (3.19%) Law
12 8 (3.19%) Mandarin Language
13 7 (2.79%) Influencing Skills
13 7 (2.79%) Marketing
14 6 (2.39%) Digital Health
15 4 (1.59%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.59%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 79 (31.47%) Network Engineer
2 43 (17.13%) Senior
3 33 (13.15%) Architect
4 25 (9.96%) Lead
5 22 (8.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (8.37%) Consultant
6 21 (8.37%) Security Specialist
7 20 (7.97%) Senior Network Engineer
8 17 (6.77%) Network Architect
8 17 (6.77%) Network Specialist
8 17 (6.77%) Security Engineer
9 16 (6.37%) Network Security Specialist
10 15 (5.98%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.38%) Cisco Engineer
11 11 (4.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
11 11 (4.38%) IT Engineer
12 10 (3.98%) Network Consultant
12 10 (3.98%) Network Security Engineer
13 9 (3.59%) Analyst
13 9 (3.59%) Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (12.75%) Terraform
2 7 (2.79%) LDAP
3 6 (2.39%) SAML
4 5 (1.99%) OAuth
5 4 (1.59%) JWT
5 4 (1.59%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.59%) REST
6 3 (1.20%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.20%) OpenID
7 2 (0.80%) EDI
7 2 (0.80%) IDoc
7 2 (0.80%) JSON
7 2 (0.80%) RESTful
8 1 (0.40%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.40%) Jinja
8 1 (0.40%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.40%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.40%) YAML
8 1 (0.40%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 82 (32.67%) Data Centre
2 51 (20.32%) Security Posture
3 16 (6.37%) Cyber Threat
4 13 (5.18%) Cloud Native
4 13 (5.18%) PKI
5 12 (4.78%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.98%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.98%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.79%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (2.39%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.39%) Replication
10 4 (1.59%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.20%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.20%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 59 (23.51%) Windows
2 36 (14.34%) Linux
3 33 (13.15%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.59%) Unix
6 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.80%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.40%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.40%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (28.29%) Cybersecurity
2 59 (23.51%) Problem-Solving
3 58 (23.11%) Roadmaps
4 53 (21.12%) Incident Response
5 52 (20.72%) ITIL
6 50 (19.92%) Information Security
7 47 (18.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 43 (17.13%) Security Architecture
9 41 (16.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 40 (15.94%) Network Design
10 40 (15.94%) SIEM
10 40 (15.94%) Technical Leadership
11 37 (14.74%) Cloud Security
11 37 (14.74%) Infrastructure as Code
12 36 (14.34%) High Availability
12 36 (14.34%) Project Delivery
13 34 (13.55%) Presales
14 33 (13.15%) Computer Science
14 33 (13.15%) Mentoring
15 32 (12.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 48 (19.12%) Python
2 24 (9.56%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.59%) Bash
3 9 (3.59%) Java
4 2 (0.80%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.80%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.40%) Bicep
5 1 (0.40%) C
5 1 (0.40%) SQL
Qualifications
1 140 (55.78%) CCNP
2 86 (34.26%) CISSP
3 85 (33.86%) CCNA
4 76 (30.28%) Degree
5 62 (24.70%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 58 (23.11%) Azure Certification
7 53 (21.12%) CCSP
8 49 (19.52%) CCIE
9 42 (16.73%) CISM
10 33 (13.15%) AWS Certification
11 27 (10.76%) Computer Science Degree
12 21 (8.37%) Master's Degree
12 21 (8.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (5.98%) Security Cleared
14 13 (5.18%) CCSE
14 13 (5.18%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 11 (4.38%) CEH
15 11 (4.38%) CompTIA Security+
15 11 (4.38%) MCSE
16 10 (3.98%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (23.90%) NIST
2 51 (20.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (8.76%) GDPR
4 19 (7.57%) PCI DSS
4 19 (7.57%) QA
5 16 (6.37%) SLA
6 15 (5.98%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (3.59%) GRC
8 8 (3.19%) SOC 2
9 7 (2.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (1.99%) COBIT
11 4 (1.59%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.59%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 2 (0.80%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.40%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.40%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.40%) NCSC
13 1 (0.40%) PMO
13 1 (0.40%) RMADS
System Software
1 45 (17.93%) Active Directory
2 41 (16.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.59%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.19%) VMware NSX
4 8 (3.19%) vSphere
5 5 (1.99%) Docker
5 5 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.59%) Squid
7 3 (1.20%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (1.20%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.20%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.80%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.40%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (15.94%) Ansible
2 19 (7.57%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.37%) FortiGate
4 14 (5.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (3.98%) SCCM
6 9 (3.59%) Single Sign-On
7 5 (1.99%) Cisco Prime
7 5 (1.99%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (1.99%) ZABBIX
8 4 (1.59%) Packer
9 3 (1.20%) Control-M
9 3 (1.20%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 3 (1.20%) VxRail
10 2 (0.80%) Check_MK
10 2 (0.80%) OpenView
10 2 (0.80%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.40%) CASB
11 1 (0.40%) Nagios
11 1 (0.40%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 121 (48.21%) Cisco
2 83 (33.07%) Microsoft
3 66 (26.29%) Palo Alto
4 52 (20.72%) VMware
5 39 (15.54%) Fortinet
6 31 (12.35%) Arista
7 30 (11.95%) Splunk
8 28 (11.16%) F5
8 28 (11.16%) Zscaler
9 27 (10.76%) CheckPoint
9 27 (10.76%) SolarWinds
10 22 (8.76%) Meraki
11 21 (8.37%) Tenable
12 18 (7.17%) ForeScout
13 15 (5.98%) Red Hat
14 13 (5.18%) Infoblox
15 12 (4.78%) SevOne
16 10 (3.98%) Oracle
16 10 (3.98%) Sophos
17 9 (3.59%) Citrix