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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 202 205 228
Rank change year-on-year +3 +23 -19
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 260 195 270
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.09% 1.61% 1.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.44% 5.52% 5.05%
Number of salaries quoted 172 96 206
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,850 £38,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £49,444 £49,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £62,882
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +3.37% -3.26%
75th Percentile £91,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,576 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +31.15% -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 4,780 3,532 5,351
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.97% 29.19% 27.43%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 1,935 2,815
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,381
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,463 £49,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £67,500 £68,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.41% -1.46% -2.14%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £111,250 £102,500
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 21 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 21 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 +10 20 £80,000 +23.08% 12
West London -23 4 £77,500 +31.36% 3
East London -11 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 (4.62%) Confluence
2 3 (1.15%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.77%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 12 (4.62%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.38%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 116 (44.62%) Azure
2 88 (33.85%) AWS
3 43 (16.54%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (12.69%) GCP
5 21 (8.08%) Datadog
6 14 (5.38%) SaaS
7 13 (5.00%) OpenShift
8 10 (3.85%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (3.85%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.85%) IaaS
8 10 (3.85%) PaaS
9 9 (3.46%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 9 (3.46%) Nutanix
10 8 (3.08%) OCI
11 7 (2.69%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.92%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (1.92%) AWS KMS
12 5 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.54%) AWS Direct Connect
13 4 (1.54%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 126 (48.46%) Firewall
2 104 (40.00%) Network Security
3 103 (39.62%) WAN
4 93 (35.77%) VPN
5 69 (26.54%) LAN
5 69 (26.54%) SD-WAN
6 48 (18.46%) DNS
7 45 (17.31%) Wireless
8 42 (16.15%) BGP
9 40 (15.38%) Cisco ISE
9 40 (15.38%) OSPF
10 36 (13.85%) VLAN
11 32 (12.31%) TCP/IP
12 31 (11.92%) Wi-Fi
13 24 (9.23%) DHCP
14 22 (8.46%) Cisco Wireless
15 21 (8.08%) VXLAN
16 16 (6.15%) MPLS
16 16 (6.15%) Software-Defined Networking
17 14 (5.38%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.92%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.92%) Big Data
2 5 (1.92%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.38%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 18 (6.92%) JIRA
2 9 (3.46%) Chocolatey
3 7 (2.69%) GitLab
3 7 (2.69%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.92%) Git
5 4 (1.54%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.15%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 117 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 67 (25.77%) Finance
3 44 (16.92%) Banking
4 39 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 25 (9.62%) Telecoms
6 21 (8.08%) Retail
7 17 (6.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (5.00%) Local Government
8 13 (5.00%) Public Sector
9 10 (3.85%) Legal
10 9 (3.46%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (3.08%) Mandarin Language
11 8 (3.08%) Marketing
12 7 (2.69%) Law
13 6 (2.31%) Digital Health
13 6 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
14 5 (1.92%) Organisational Skills
15 4 (1.54%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.54%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 81 (31.15%) Network Engineer
2 43 (16.54%) Senior
3 37 (14.23%) Architect
4 28 (10.77%) Lead
5 26 (10.00%) Consultant
6 22 (8.46%) Network Architect
7 21 (8.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 21 (8.08%) Security Specialist
8 20 (7.69%) Senior Network Engineer
9 18 (6.92%) Network Specialist
10 17 (6.54%) Azure Engineer
10 17 (6.54%) Network Security Specialist
11 14 (5.38%) Security Engineer
12 13 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
12 13 (5.00%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 13 (5.00%) Network Consultant
13 11 (4.23%) IT Engineer
14 9 (3.46%) Lead Network Engineer
14 9 (3.46%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (3.46%) Principal Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.08%) Terraform
2 7 (2.69%) LDAP
3 6 (2.31%) OAuth
3 6 (2.31%) SAML
4 4 (1.54%) JWT
4 4 (1.54%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.54%) OpenID
4 4 (1.54%) REST
5 3 (1.15%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.77%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.77%) EDI
6 2 (0.77%) IDoc
6 2 (0.77%) JSON
6 2 (0.77%) RESTful
7 1 (0.38%) Jinja
7 1 (0.38%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.38%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.38%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.38%) YAML
7 1 (0.38%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 85 (32.69%) Data Centre
2 46 (17.69%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.77%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (4.62%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.62%) PKI
5 11 (4.23%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.85%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.85%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.46%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.08%) Public Cloud
9 7 (2.69%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.31%) Replication
11 5 (1.92%) Cyber Defence
11 5 (1.92%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
12 4 (1.54%) Renewable Energy
12 4 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (1.15%) Cyber Security Posture
13 3 (1.15%) Driving Licence
13 3 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 60 (23.08%) Windows
2 36 (13.85%) Linux
3 32 (12.31%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.15%) Unix
6 2 (0.77%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.77%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.38%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.38%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.38%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.38%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
2 60 (23.08%) Roadmaps
3 54 (20.77%) ITIL
4 51 (19.62%) Incident Response
5 50 (19.23%) Information Security
6 47 (18.08%) Disaster Recovery
7 44 (16.92%) Technical Leadership
8 42 (16.15%) Network Design
9 39 (15.00%) Security Architecture
9 39 (15.00%) SIEM
10 37 (14.23%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (13.85%) High Availability
11 36 (13.85%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 36 (13.85%) Mentoring
11 36 (13.85%) Presales
11 36 (13.85%) Project Delivery
12 35 (13.46%) Cloud Security
13 34 (13.08%) Computer Science
13 34 (13.08%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.46%) Python
2 25 (9.62%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.46%) Bash
3 9 (3.46%) Java
4 2 (0.77%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.77%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.38%) C
5 1 (0.38%) SQL
Qualifications
1 148 (56.92%) CCNP
2 88 (33.85%) CCNA
3 82 (31.54%) CISSP
4 79 (30.38%) Degree
5 62 (23.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 59 (22.69%) Azure Certification
7 54 (20.77%) CCIE
8 52 (20.00%) CCSP
9 43 (16.54%) CISM
10 32 (12.31%) AWS Certification
11 28 (10.77%) Computer Science Degree
12 23 (8.85%) Microsoft Certification
13 21 (8.08%) Master's Degree
14 16 (6.15%) Security Cleared
15 15 (5.77%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 14 (5.38%) CCSE
17 12 (4.62%) MCSE
18 11 (4.23%) CompTIA Security+
18 11 (4.23%) RHCSA
19 10 (3.85%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (24.23%) NIST
2 53 (20.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 24 (9.23%) GDPR
4 19 (7.31%) PCI DSS
4 19 (7.31%) QA
5 17 (6.54%) SLA
6 14 (5.38%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (3.08%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (2.31%) GRC
10 5 (1.92%) COBIT
11 4 (1.54%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.54%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.77%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.38%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.38%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.38%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.38%) NCSC
13 1 (0.38%) PMO
13 1 (0.38%) RMADS
System Software
1 44 (16.92%) Active Directory
2 42 (16.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.46%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (3.46%) vSphere
4 8 (3.08%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.92%) Docker
5 5 (1.92%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.54%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.54%) Squid
7 3 (1.15%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (1.15%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.77%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.77%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.38%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.38%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (15.38%) Ansible
2 19 (7.31%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.15%) FortiGate
4 12 (4.62%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (3.85%) SCCM
6 8 (3.08%) Single Sign-On
7 7 (2.69%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (1.92%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.92%) ZABBIX
9 4 (1.54%) Control-M
9 4 (1.54%) Packer
10 3 (1.15%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.15%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 3 (1.15%) VxRail
11 2 (0.77%) OpenView
11 2 (0.77%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.38%) CASB
12 1 (0.38%) Nagios
12 1 (0.38%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 128 (49.23%) Cisco
2 85 (32.69%) Microsoft
3 69 (26.54%) Palo Alto
4 54 (20.77%) VMware
5 42 (16.15%) Fortinet
6 33 (12.69%) Arista
7 31 (11.92%) SolarWinds
7 31 (11.92%) Splunk
8 30 (11.54%) CheckPoint
9 28 (10.77%) F5
9 28 (10.77%) Zscaler
10 24 (9.23%) Meraki
11 21 (8.08%) Tenable
12 18 (6.92%) ForeScout
13 16 (6.15%) Red Hat
14 13 (5.00%) Infoblox
15 12 (4.62%) SevOne
16 11 (4.23%) Sophos
17 9 (3.46%) Dynatrace
17 9 (3.46%) Oracle