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

6 months to
14 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 221 203 199
Rank change year-on-year -18 -4 -8
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 234 188 312
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.95% 1.58% 1.63%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.96% 5.44% 5.84%
Number of salaries quoted 159 97 219
10th Percentile £52,500 £34,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £63,125 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +7.69% -4.41%
75th Percentile £91,125 £86,250 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £113,250 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -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 4,717 3,454 5,339
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.11% 29.03% 27.95%
Number of salaries quoted 2,803 1,923 2,577
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,283
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,713 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £91,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £115,000 £103,750
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,881
% change year-on-year +9.09% -1.58% -4.48%

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 14 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 14 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 +4 19 £80,000 +14.29% 17
West London -22 4 £77,500 +31.36% 1
East London -8 1 £70,000 +122.22% 6
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 (5.13%) Confluence
2 2 (0.85%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (0.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.13%) MS Visio
2 4 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.85%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.43%) Eikon
2 1 (0.43%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 109 (46.58%) Azure
2 80 (34.19%) AWS
3 39 (16.67%) Microsoft 365
4 27 (11.54%) GCP
5 21 (8.97%) Datadog
6 16 (6.84%) SaaS
7 14 (5.98%) Entra ID
8 13 (5.56%) OpenShift
9 11 (4.70%) IaaS
9 11 (4.70%) PaaS
10 8 (3.42%) OCI
11 7 (2.99%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 7 (2.99%) Azure Monitor
11 7 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
12 6 (2.56%) Nutanix
13 5 (2.14%) Amazon GuardDuty
13 5 (2.14%) AWS Direct Connect
13 5 (2.14%) AWS KMS
13 5 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
14 4 (1.71%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 108 (46.15%) Firewall
2 91 (38.89%) Network Security
3 86 (36.75%) VPN
3 86 (36.75%) WAN
4 56 (23.93%) LAN
5 55 (23.50%) SD-WAN
6 50 (21.37%) DNS
7 43 (18.38%) Wireless
8 39 (16.67%) BGP
9 37 (15.81%) OSPF
10 36 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
11 34 (14.53%) VLAN
12 32 (13.68%) TCP/IP
13 28 (11.97%) Wi-Fi
14 26 (11.11%) DHCP
15 20 (8.55%) VXLAN
16 18 (7.69%) Cisco Wireless
17 16 (6.84%) Software-Defined Networking
18 15 (6.41%) MPLS
18 15 (6.41%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.14%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.71%) Big Data
4 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 17 (7.26%) JIRA
2 9 (3.85%) Chocolatey
3 6 (2.56%) GitLab
3 6 (2.56%) Jenkins
4 5 (2.14%) Git
5 4 (1.71%) Bitbucket
5 4 (1.71%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 106 (45.30%) Social Skills
2 59 (25.21%) Finance
3 39 (16.67%) Banking
4 35 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (10.26%) Telecoms
6 18 (7.69%) Retail
7 15 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.70%) Local Government
9 10 (4.27%) Law
9 10 (4.27%) Legal
10 8 (3.42%) Mandarin Language
10 8 (3.42%) Presentation Skills
10 8 (3.42%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.99%) Marketing
12 6 (2.56%) Digital Health
13 4 (1.71%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.71%) Automotive
13 4 (1.71%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 75 (32.05%) Network Engineer
2 42 (17.95%) Senior
3 28 (11.97%) Architect
4 23 (9.83%) Lead
5 22 (9.40%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 22 (9.40%) Security Specialist
6 19 (8.12%) Senior Network Engineer
7 18 (7.69%) Consultant
8 16 (6.84%) Network Specialist
8 16 (6.84%) Security Engineer
9 15 (6.41%) Network Security Specialist
10 13 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
11 12 (5.13%) Network Architect
12 10 (4.27%) IT Engineer
12 10 (4.27%) Network Security Engineer
12 10 (4.27%) Security Architect
13 9 (3.85%) Cisco Engineer
13 9 (3.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 9 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.42%) Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (13.25%) Terraform
2 7 (2.99%) LDAP
3 6 (2.56%) SAML
4 5 (2.14%) OAuth
5 4 (1.71%) JWT
5 4 (1.71%) OAuth2
5 4 (1.71%) REST
6 3 (1.28%) ARM Templates
6 3 (1.28%) OpenID
7 2 (0.85%) EDI
7 2 (0.85%) IDoc
7 2 (0.85%) JSON
7 2 (0.85%) NETCONF
7 2 (0.85%) RESTful
8 1 (0.43%) Jinja
8 1 (0.43%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.43%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.43%) YAML
8 1 (0.43%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 75 (32.05%) Data Centre
2 48 (20.51%) Security Posture
3 16 (6.84%) Cyber Threat
4 14 (5.98%) PKI
5 12 (5.13%) Cloud Native
5 12 (5.13%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (4.27%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
7 9 (3.85%) Onboarding
8 6 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
8 6 (2.56%) Private Cloud
8 6 (2.56%) Replication
9 5 (2.14%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.71%) Cyber Security Posture
10 4 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.28%) Cyber Defence
11 3 (1.28%) Driving Licence
12 2 (0.85%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 56 (23.93%) Windows
2 34 (14.53%) Windows Server
3 32 (13.68%) Linux
4 8 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.71%) Unix
6 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (29.91%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (24.79%) Problem-Solving
3 53 (22.65%) Roadmaps
4 52 (22.22%) Incident Response
5 50 (21.37%) ITIL
6 48 (20.51%) Disaster Recovery
6 48 (20.51%) Information Security
7 45 (19.23%) Security Architecture
8 42 (17.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 38 (16.24%) Network Design
9 38 (16.24%) SIEM
10 37 (15.81%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
12 35 (14.96%) Cloud Security
13 33 (14.10%) Project Delivery
14 32 (13.68%) Business Continuity
14 32 (13.68%) High Availability
14 32 (13.68%) Zero Trust
15 31 (13.25%) AI
15 31 (13.25%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.37%) Python
2 22 (9.40%) PowerShell
3 10 (4.27%) Java
4 8 (3.42%) Bash
5 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
5 2 (0.85%) SQL
6 1 (0.43%) Bicep
6 1 (0.43%) C
6 1 (0.43%) C#
6 1 (0.43%) C++
6 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 129 (55.13%) CCNP
2 85 (36.32%) CISSP
3 84 (35.90%) CCNA
4 68 (29.06%) Degree
5 58 (24.79%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 56 (23.93%) Azure Certification
7 51 (21.79%) CCSP
8 39 (16.67%) CISM
9 38 (16.24%) CCIE
10 34 (14.53%) AWS Certification
11 25 (10.68%) Computer Science Degree
12 20 (8.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (7.69%) Master's Degree
14 13 (5.56%) CEH
15 12 (5.13%) CCSE
16 10 (4.27%) MCSE
16 10 (4.27%) Security Cleared
16 10 (4.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 9 (3.85%) GCIH
17 9 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (24.36%) NIST
2 48 (20.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 21 (8.97%) GDPR
4 19 (8.12%) PCI DSS
5 17 (7.26%) QA
6 16 (6.84%) Cyber Essentials
6 16 (6.84%) SLA
7 9 (3.85%) GRC
8 7 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (2.99%) SOC 2
9 5 (2.14%) COBIT
10 4 (1.71%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.71%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (1.71%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.85%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.43%) NCSC
12 1 (0.43%) PMO
12 1 (0.43%) RMADS
System Software
1 45 (19.23%) Active Directory
2 38 (16.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.85%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (3.42%) VMware NSX
5 7 (2.99%) vSphere
6 5 (2.14%) Virtual Machines
7 4 (1.71%) Docker
7 4 (1.71%) Squid
8 3 (1.28%) Hyper-V
8 3 (1.28%) VMware ESXi
8 3 (1.28%) VMware Server
9 2 (0.85%) EMC RecoverPoint
9 2 (0.85%) ProxySG
10 1 (0.43%) BitLocker
10 1 (0.43%) Firmware
10 1 (0.43%) KVM
Systems Management
1 41 (17.52%) Ansible
2 18 (7.69%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 15 (6.41%) FortiGate
5 11 (4.70%) Single Sign-On
6 10 (4.27%) SCCM
7 5 (2.14%) Red Hat Satellite
7 5 (2.14%) ZABBIX
8 4 (1.71%) Cisco Prime
8 4 (1.71%) Packer
9 3 (1.28%) Control-M
9 3 (1.28%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 2 (0.85%) VxRail
11 1 (0.43%) CASB
11 1 (0.43%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.43%) OpenView
11 1 (0.43%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 109 (46.58%) Cisco
2 80 (34.19%) Microsoft
3 66 (28.21%) Palo Alto
4 48 (20.51%) VMware
5 36 (15.38%) Fortinet
6 30 (12.82%) Arista
7 29 (12.39%) F5
7 29 (12.39%) Splunk
8 27 (11.54%) Zscaler
9 25 (10.68%) CheckPoint
10 24 (10.26%) SolarWinds
11 20 (8.55%) Meraki
11 20 (8.55%) Tenable
12 18 (7.69%) ForeScout
13 13 (5.56%) Infoblox
13 13 (5.56%) Red Hat
14 12 (5.13%) SevOne
15 10 (4.27%) Oracle
16 9 (3.85%) Citrix
16 9 (3.85%) Sophos