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 13 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 244 219 199
Rank change year-on-year -25 -20 -11
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 222 177 314
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.85% 1.52% 1.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.58% 5.20% 6.13%
Number of salaries quoted 153 91 207
10th Percentile £45,500 £35,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £56,625 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% - -
75th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £82,500
90th Percentile £110,000 £126,875 £99,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £59,500
% change year-on-year +23.81% -11.76% +8.18%

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 4,846 3,407 5,124
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.60% 29.22% 28.18%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 1,913 2,266
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,097 £38,000
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -3.57% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £88,750 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £117,250 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -0.86%

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 13 October 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 13 October 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 +3 16 £75,000 +7.14% 38
West London -21 4 £77,500 +31.36% 8
East London -8 1 £70,000 - 4
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 9 (4.05%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.05%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.90%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.45%) Eikon
2 1 (0.45%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 92 (41.44%) Azure
2 74 (33.33%) AWS
3 35 (15.77%) Microsoft 365
4 30 (13.51%) GCP
5 23 (10.36%) SaaS
6 16 (7.21%) Entra ID
7 15 (6.76%) Datadog
8 13 (5.86%) OpenShift
9 10 (4.50%) IaaS
9 10 (4.50%) PaaS
10 8 (3.60%) Amazon EKS
10 8 (3.60%) Google Compute Engine
10 8 (3.60%) Google Kubernetes Engine
10 8 (3.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 7 (3.15%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (2.25%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (2.25%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.25%) Nutanix
13 4 (1.80%) AWS KMS
13 4 (1.80%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 107 (48.20%) Firewall
2 86 (38.74%) Network Security
3 85 (38.29%) VPN
4 81 (36.49%) WAN
5 56 (25.23%) LAN
6 48 (21.62%) DNS
7 47 (21.17%) BGP
8 45 (20.27%) TCP/IP
9 44 (19.82%) SD-WAN
10 37 (16.67%) OSPF
10 37 (16.67%) Wireless
11 32 (14.41%) Cisco ISE
11 32 (14.41%) VLAN
12 27 (12.16%) DHCP
12 27 (12.16%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (9.01%) VXLAN
14 15 (6.76%) MPLS
15 14 (6.31%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (5.86%) Cisco Wireless
17 12 (5.41%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.31%) SQL Server
2 9 (4.05%) PostgreSQL
3 8 (3.60%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.80%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.90%) Big Data
6 1 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 14 (6.31%) JIRA
2 8 (3.60%) TeamCity
3 6 (2.70%) Chocolatey
3 6 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
4 4 (1.80%) GitLab
4 4 (1.80%) Jenkins
5 3 (1.35%) Git
6 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
General
1 109 (49.10%) Social Skills
2 65 (29.28%) Finance
3 30 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.06%) Banking
5 22 (9.91%) Telecoms
6 15 (6.76%) Retail
7 13 (5.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (5.41%) Law
8 12 (5.41%) Legal
9 11 (4.95%) Financial Institution
10 9 (4.05%) Local Government
11 8 (3.60%) Back Office
11 8 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.60%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (2.70%) Digital Health
12 6 (2.70%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.25%) Marketing
13 5 (2.25%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.90%) Documentation Skills
14 2 (0.90%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 68 (30.63%) Network Engineer
2 42 (18.92%) Senior
3 27 (12.16%) Architect
4 24 (10.81%) Security Engineer
5 22 (9.91%) Security Specialist
6 19 (8.56%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 16 (7.21%) Lead
8 15 (6.76%) Network Specialist
8 15 (6.76%) Senior Network Engineer
9 14 (6.31%) Consultant
9 14 (6.31%) Network Security Specialist
9 14 (6.31%) Security Architect
10 13 (5.86%) Cloud Engineer
11 12 (5.41%) Senior Security Engineer
12 10 (4.50%) IT Engineer
12 10 (4.50%) Network Architect
13 9 (4.05%) Network Security Engineer
14 8 (3.60%) GCP Engineer
14 8 (3.60%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 8 (3.60%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 32 (14.41%) Terraform
2 6 (2.70%) LDAP
2 6 (2.70%) SAML
3 4 (1.80%) JWT
3 4 (1.80%) OAuth
3 4 (1.80%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.80%) REST
4 2 (0.90%) ARM Templates
4 2 (0.90%) EDI
4 2 (0.90%) IDoc
4 2 (0.90%) JSON
4 2 (0.90%) NETCONF
4 2 (0.90%) OpenID
4 2 (0.90%) Rendezvous
4 2 (0.90%) RESTful
5 1 (0.45%) Jinja
5 1 (0.45%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.45%) YAML
5 1 (0.45%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 69 (31.08%) Data Centre
2 55 (24.77%) Security Posture
3 20 (9.01%) Cloud Native
4 18 (8.11%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.86%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (5.41%) PKI
7 10 (4.50%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.60%) Blog
8 8 (3.60%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.60%) Hybrid Cloud
9 6 (2.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (2.70%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.70%) Replication
10 5 (2.25%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.80%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.80%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.80%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
12 2 (0.90%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.97%) Windows
2 33 (14.86%) Windows Server
3 29 (13.06%) Linux
4 7 (3.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.80%) Unix
6 3 (1.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (31.53%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (27.93%) Problem-Solving
3 57 (25.68%) Incident Response
3 57 (25.68%) Information Security
4 56 (25.23%) Security Architecture
5 47 (21.17%) Roadmaps
6 46 (20.72%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 45 (20.27%) Cloud Security
8 41 (18.47%) ITIL
9 39 (17.57%) Disaster Recovery
10 38 (17.12%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (16.22%) Vulnerability Management
12 35 (15.77%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (15.77%) SIEM
13 33 (14.86%) AI
14 32 (14.41%) Network Design
15 31 (13.96%) Zero Trust
16 29 (13.06%) Computer Science
16 29 (13.06%) Project Delivery
17 28 (12.61%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 53 (23.87%) Python
2 16 (7.21%) PowerShell
3 15 (6.76%) Java
4 10 (4.50%) SQL
5 8 (3.60%) Go
6 7 (3.15%) Bash
7 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.45%) Bicep
8 1 (0.45%) C
8 1 (0.45%) C#
8 1 (0.45%) C++
8 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 108 (48.65%) CCNP
2 91 (40.99%) CISSP
3 81 (36.49%) CCNA
4 63 (28.38%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 59 (26.58%) CCSP
5 59 (26.58%) Degree
6 43 (19.37%) CISM
7 38 (17.12%) Azure Certification
8 31 (13.96%) CCIE
9 26 (11.71%) AWS Certification
10 23 (10.36%) Computer Science Degree
11 16 (7.21%) Master's Degree
12 15 (6.76%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (6.31%) CEH
14 9 (4.05%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (3.60%) MCSE
15 8 (3.60%) Security Cleared
16 7 (3.15%) GCIH
17 6 (2.70%) CCSE
17 6 (2.70%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (24.77%) NIST
2 51 (22.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 25 (11.26%) PCI DSS
4 17 (7.66%) GDPR
5 16 (7.21%) Cyber Essentials
6 15 (6.76%) QA
7 14 (6.31%) SOC 2
8 13 (5.86%) SLA
9 11 (4.95%) GRC
10 6 (2.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 5 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 4 (1.80%) Accessibility
12 4 (1.80%) COBIT
12 4 (1.80%) NIST 800
13 2 (0.90%) ISO 31000
14 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
14 1 (0.45%) NCSC
14 1 (0.45%) RMADS
System Software
1 40 (18.02%) Active Directory
2 31 (13.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (2.70%) Virtual Desktop
3 6 (2.70%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.80%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.80%) vSphere
5 3 (1.35%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.35%) VMware ESXi
5 3 (1.35%) VMware Server
6 2 (0.90%) Docker
6 2 (0.90%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 2 (0.90%) ProxySG
6 2 (0.90%) Squid
7 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.45%) Firmware
7 1 (0.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 38 (17.12%) Ansible
2 23 (10.36%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.66%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (7.21%) FortiGate
5 11 (4.95%) Single Sign-On
6 8 (3.60%) Cilium
6 8 (3.60%) Grafana
7 6 (2.70%) SCCM
8 4 (1.80%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.35%) CASB
9 3 (1.35%) Control-M
9 3 (1.35%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 3 (1.35%) ZABBIX
10 2 (0.90%) Packer
10 2 (0.90%) VxRail
11 1 (0.45%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.45%) OpenView
11 1 (0.45%) Proxmox
11 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 89 (40.09%) Cisco
2 67 (30.18%) Microsoft
3 61 (27.48%) Palo Alto
4 40 (18.02%) VMware
5 33 (14.86%) Fortinet
6 28 (12.61%) Zscaler
7 27 (12.16%) Arista
8 25 (11.26%) F5
9 21 (9.46%) Splunk
10 18 (8.11%) CheckPoint
10 18 (8.11%) SolarWinds
11 16 (7.21%) Tenable
12 15 (6.76%) Google
12 15 (6.76%) Meraki
13 11 (4.95%) ForeScout
13 11 (4.95%) Red Hat
14 10 (4.50%) Infoblox
15 9 (4.05%) Citrix
15 9 (4.05%) SevOne
16 8 (3.60%) Qualys