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 8 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 197 208 233
Rank change year-on-year +11 +25 -29
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 270 196 263
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.14% 1.61% 1.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.66% 5.55% 4.90%
Number of salaries quoted 171 100 208
10th Percentile £52,500 £33,130 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £47,188 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +24.00% -3.85% -
75th Percentile £91,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £92,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.00% -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 4,771 3,534 5,370
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.16% 28.94% 27.46%
Number of salaries quoted 2,841 1,959 2,916
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,625
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,463 £49,219
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £101,250
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 8 August 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 8 August 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 +5 23 £77,500 +23.02% 13
West London -31 4 £77,500 -11.43% 6
East London -9 2 £70,000 +124.00% 1
South London +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 12 (4.44%) Confluence
2 3 (1.11%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
3 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (4.44%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 119 (44.07%) Azure
2 88 (32.59%) AWS
3 43 (15.93%) Microsoft 365
4 34 (12.59%) GCP
5 21 (7.78%) Datadog
6 14 (5.19%) SaaS
7 13 (4.81%) OpenShift
8 11 (4.07%) Azure Monitor
9 10 (3.70%) Entra ID
9 10 (3.70%) IaaS
9 10 (3.70%) PaaS
10 9 (3.33%) Nutanix
11 8 (2.96%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 8 (2.96%) OCI
12 7 (2.59%) Azure Sentinel
13 5 (1.85%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (1.85%) AWS KMS
13 5 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
13 5 (1.85%) Mimecast
14 4 (1.48%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 132 (48.89%) Firewall
2 108 (40.00%) Network Security
3 106 (39.26%) WAN
4 98 (36.30%) VPN
5 73 (27.04%) SD-WAN
6 69 (25.56%) LAN
7 47 (17.41%) DNS
8 44 (16.30%) BGP
9 43 (15.93%) Wireless
10 41 (15.19%) OSPF
11 39 (14.44%) Cisco ISE
12 37 (13.70%) VLAN
13 32 (11.85%) TCP/IP
14 31 (11.48%) Wi-Fi
15 23 (8.52%) Cisco Wireless
15 23 (8.52%) DHCP
16 20 (7.41%) VXLAN
17 16 (5.93%) Software-Defined Networking
18 15 (5.56%) Cisco Firepower
18 15 (5.56%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.22%) Big Data
3 5 (1.85%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 19 (7.04%) JIRA
2 9 (3.33%) Chocolatey
3 7 (2.59%) GitLab
3 7 (2.59%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.85%) Git
5 4 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 124 (45.93%) Social Skills
2 71 (26.30%) Finance
3 51 (18.89%) Banking
4 45 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 27 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 25 (9.26%) Retail
7 20 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (5.93%) Local Government
9 14 (5.19%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.33%) Legal
10 9 (3.33%) Marketing
11 8 (2.96%) Mandarin Language
11 8 (2.96%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.59%) Law
13 6 (2.22%) Digital Health
13 6 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.48%) Electronics
15 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (30.74%) Network Engineer
2 44 (16.30%) Senior
3 39 (14.44%) Architect
4 30 (11.11%) Lead
5 29 (10.74%) Consultant
6 26 (9.63%) Network Architect
7 22 (8.15%) Security Specialist
8 21 (7.78%) Senior Network Engineer
9 20 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 19 (7.04%) Network Specialist
11 18 (6.67%) Azure Engineer
11 18 (6.67%) Network Security Specialist
12 14 (5.19%) Network Consultant
12 14 (5.19%) Security Engineer
13 13 (4.81%) Cisco Engineer
13 13 (4.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 11 (4.07%) IT Engineer
14 11 (4.07%) Principal Architect
15 10 (3.70%) Lead Network Engineer
15 10 (3.70%) Solutions Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.59%) LDAP
2 6 (2.22%) OAuth
2 6 (2.22%) SAML
3 4 (1.48%) 802.1X
3 4 (1.48%) JWT
3 4 (1.48%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.48%) OpenID
3 4 (1.48%) REST
4 3 (1.11%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.74%) EDI
5 2 (0.74%) IDoc
5 2 (0.74%) JSON
5 2 (0.74%) RESTful
6 1 (0.37%) Jinja
6 1 (0.37%) NETCONF
6 1 (0.37%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.37%) YAML
6 1 (0.37%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 85 (31.48%) Data Centre
2 48 (17.78%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.56%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (4.44%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.44%) PKI
5 11 (4.07%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.70%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.70%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
8 8 (2.96%) Enterprise Software
9 7 (2.59%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.22%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (1.85%) Replication
11 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (1.11%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
13 3 (1.11%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
14 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 62 (22.96%) Windows
2 37 (13.70%) Linux
3 34 (12.59%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.11%) Unix
5 3 (1.11%) Windows Server 2019
6 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.37%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 67 (24.81%) Cybersecurity
2 64 (23.70%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (21.85%) ITIL
3 59 (21.85%) Roadmaps
4 52 (19.26%) Incident Response
5 51 (18.89%) Information Security
6 45 (16.67%) Technical Leadership
7 44 (16.30%) Disaster Recovery
8 43 (15.93%) Network Design
9 41 (15.19%) Mentoring
10 40 (14.81%) Security Architecture
11 37 (13.70%) Infrastructure as Code
11 37 (13.70%) Project Delivery
12 36 (13.33%) Network Monitoring
12 36 (13.33%) Risk Management
13 35 (12.96%) Cloud Security
13 35 (12.96%) Computer Science
13 35 (12.96%) High Availability
13 35 (12.96%) Presales
13 35 (12.96%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 46 (17.04%) Python
2 26 (9.63%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.33%) Bash
3 9 (3.33%) Java
4 2 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.74%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.37%) C
5 1 (0.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 153 (56.67%) CCNP
2 92 (34.07%) CCNA
3 82 (30.37%) CISSP
3 82 (30.37%) Degree
4 65 (24.07%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 60 (22.22%) Azure Certification
6 55 (20.37%) CCSP
7 53 (19.63%) CCIE
8 47 (17.41%) CISM
9 30 (11.11%) AWS Certification
10 29 (10.74%) Computer Science Degree
11 25 (9.26%) Microsoft Certification
12 24 (8.89%) Master's Degree
13 15 (5.56%) CCSE
13 15 (5.56%) Security Cleared
13 15 (5.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 13 (4.81%) MCSE
15 12 (4.44%) RHCSA
16 11 (4.07%) CompTIA Security+
17 10 (3.70%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (24.07%) NIST
2 55 (20.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (8.52%) GDPR
4 22 (8.15%) QA
5 20 (7.41%) PCI DSS
6 19 (7.04%) SLA
7 13 (4.81%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (2.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (2.59%) SOC 2
9 6 (2.22%) COBIT
10 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.48%) NIST 800
11 3 (1.11%) GRC
12 2 (0.74%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.37%) NCSC
13 1 (0.37%) PMO
13 1 (0.37%) RMADS
System Software
1 44 (16.30%) Active Directory
2 43 (15.93%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.33%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (3.33%) vSphere
4 8 (2.96%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.85%) Docker
5 5 (1.85%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.48%) Squid
7 3 (1.11%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (1.11%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.74%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.37%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 38 (14.07%) Ansible
2 34 (12.59%) Terraform
3 19 (7.04%) Kubernetes
4 15 (5.56%) FortiGate
5 12 (4.44%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.70%) SCCM
7 8 (2.96%) Cisco Prime
8 7 (2.59%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.85%) Check_MK
9 5 (1.85%) Control-M
9 5 (1.85%) Red Hat Satellite
9 5 (1.85%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.48%) Packer
11 3 (1.11%) VxRail
12 2 (0.74%) Nagios
12 2 (0.74%) OpenView
12 2 (0.74%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
12 2 (0.74%) Tivoli
13 1 (0.37%) CASB
Vendors
1 130 (48.15%) Cisco
2 86 (31.85%) Microsoft
3 70 (25.93%) Palo Alto
4 53 (19.63%) VMware
5 44 (16.30%) Fortinet
6 36 (13.33%) SolarWinds
7 33 (12.22%) Arista
8 32 (11.85%) CheckPoint
9 31 (11.48%) Splunk
10 29 (10.74%) F5
11 27 (10.00%) Zscaler
12 25 (9.26%) Meraki
13 20 (7.41%) Tenable
14 18 (6.67%) ForeScout
15 16 (5.93%) Red Hat
16 13 (4.81%) Infoblox
17 12 (4.44%) SevOne
17 12 (4.44%) Sophos
18 9 (3.33%) AppDynamics
18 9 (3.33%) Oracle