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

6 months to
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 205 239
Rank change year-on-year +2 +34 -38
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 269 200 261
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.13% 1.64% 1.34%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.62% 5.63% 4.88%
Number of salaries quoted 174 101 202
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,500 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,000 £49,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% +4.00% -3.85%
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 4,784 3,553 5,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.01% 29.12% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,847 1,973 2,838
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,750 £49,156
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 £111,000 £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 17 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 17 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 23 £77,500 +19.23% 8
West London -23 4 £77,500 +31.36% 4
East London -10 2 £70,000 +124.00% 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 (4.46%) Confluence
2 3 (1.12%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 12 (4.46%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.37%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 117 (43.49%) Azure
2 88 (32.71%) AWS
3 44 (16.36%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (12.27%) GCP
5 21 (7.81%) Datadog
6 14 (5.20%) SaaS
7 13 (4.83%) OpenShift
8 10 (3.72%) Azure Monitor
8 10 (3.72%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.72%) IaaS
8 10 (3.72%) PaaS
9 9 (3.35%) Nutanix
10 8 (2.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (2.97%) OCI
11 7 (2.60%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.86%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (1.86%) AWS KMS
12 5 (1.86%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.86%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.49%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 130 (48.33%) Firewall
2 107 (39.78%) Network Security
3 104 (38.66%) WAN
4 96 (35.69%) VPN
5 70 (26.02%) SD-WAN
6 69 (25.65%) LAN
7 48 (17.84%) DNS
8 44 (16.36%) BGP
8 44 (16.36%) Wireless
9 42 (15.61%) OSPF
10 41 (15.24%) Cisco ISE
11 36 (13.38%) VLAN
12 32 (11.90%) TCP/IP
13 31 (11.52%) Wi-Fi
14 24 (8.92%) DHCP
15 22 (8.18%) Cisco Wireless
15 22 (8.18%) VXLAN
16 16 (5.95%) MPLS
16 16 (5.95%) Software-Defined Networking
17 15 (5.58%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (6.69%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.23%) Big Data
3 5 (1.86%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.37%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 18 (6.69%) JIRA
2 9 (3.35%) Chocolatey
3 7 (2.60%) GitLab
3 7 (2.60%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.86%) Git
5 4 (1.49%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 123 (45.72%) Social Skills
2 72 (26.77%) Finance
3 50 (18.59%) Banking
4 44 (16.36%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.67%) Telecoms
6 25 (9.29%) Retail
7 20 (7.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 16 (5.95%) Local Government
9 14 (5.20%) Public Sector
10 9 (3.35%) Legal
10 9 (3.35%) Marketing
10 9 (3.35%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.97%) Mandarin Language
12 7 (2.60%) Law
13 6 (2.23%) Digital Health
13 6 (2.23%) Influencing Skills
13 6 (2.23%) Organisational Skills
14 5 (1.86%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.49%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 83 (30.86%) Network Engineer
2 44 (16.36%) Senior
3 37 (13.75%) Architect
4 29 (10.78%) Consultant
5 28 (10.41%) Lead
6 23 (8.55%) Network Architect
7 22 (8.18%) Security Specialist
8 21 (7.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 21 (7.81%) Senior Network Engineer
9 19 (7.06%) Network Specialist
10 18 (6.69%) Network Security Specialist
11 17 (6.32%) Azure Engineer
12 14 (5.20%) Network Consultant
12 14 (5.20%) Security Engineer
13 13 (4.83%) Cisco Engineer
13 13 (4.83%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 12 (4.46%) IT Engineer
15 10 (3.72%) Principal Architect
15 10 (3.72%) Solutions Consultant
16 9 (3.35%) Lead Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.60%) LDAP
2 6 (2.23%) OAuth
2 6 (2.23%) SAML
3 4 (1.49%) JWT
3 4 (1.49%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.49%) OpenID
3 4 (1.49%) REST
4 3 (1.12%) 802.1X
4 3 (1.12%) 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%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.37%) YAML
6 1 (0.37%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 85 (31.60%) Data Centre
2 49 (18.22%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.58%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (4.46%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.46%) PKI
5 11 (4.09%) Management Information System
5 11 (4.09%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.72%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.72%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.60%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.23%) Cyber Defence
9 6 (2.23%) Replication
10 4 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 4 (1.49%) Renewable Energy
10 4 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.49%) Video Conferencing
11 3 (1.12%) Cyber Security Posture
11 3 (1.12%) Driving Licence
11 3 (1.12%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 62 (23.05%) Windows
2 38 (14.13%) Linux
3 33 (12.27%) Windows Server
4 8 (2.97%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.12%) Unix
5 3 (1.12%) 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 70 (26.02%) Cybersecurity
2 62 (23.05%) Problem-Solving
3 60 (22.30%) Roadmaps
4 55 (20.45%) ITIL
5 52 (19.33%) Information Security
6 51 (18.96%) Incident Response
7 47 (17.47%) Disaster Recovery
8 46 (17.10%) Technical Leadership
9 43 (15.99%) Network Design
10 40 (14.87%) Mentoring
10 40 (14.87%) Security Architecture
11 38 (14.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 38 (14.13%) SIEM
12 37 (13.75%) Presales
12 37 (13.75%) Project Delivery
13 36 (13.38%) Computer Science
13 36 (13.38%) High Availability
13 36 (13.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 36 (13.38%) Risk Management
14 35 (13.01%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (17.84%) Python
2 26 (9.67%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.35%) Bash
3 9 (3.35%) 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 (56.88%) CCNP
2 91 (33.83%) CCNA
3 85 (31.60%) CISSP
4 83 (30.86%) Degree
5 65 (24.16%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 59 (21.93%) Azure Certification
7 55 (20.45%) CCSP
8 54 (20.07%) CCIE
9 47 (17.47%) CISM
10 31 (11.52%) AWS Certification
11 29 (10.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 24 (8.92%) Master's Degree
12 24 (8.92%) Microsoft Certification
13 16 (5.95%) Security Cleared
13 16 (5.95%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
14 15 (5.58%) CCSE
15 13 (4.83%) MCSE
16 12 (4.46%) RHCSA
17 11 (4.09%) CompTIA Security+
18 10 (3.72%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (24.54%) NIST
2 56 (20.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (8.55%) GDPR
4 22 (8.18%) QA
5 20 (7.43%) PCI DSS
6 17 (6.32%) SLA
7 13 (4.83%) Cyber Essentials
8 7 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 7 (2.60%) SOC 2
9 6 (2.23%) COBIT
10 4 (1.49%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.49%) GRC
10 4 (1.49%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.74%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.37%) NCSC
12 1 (0.37%) PMO
12 1 (0.37%) RMADS
System Software
1 44 (16.36%) Active Directory
1 44 (16.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 10 (3.72%) vSphere
3 9 (3.35%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (2.97%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.86%) Docker
5 5 (1.86%) Hyper-V
5 5 (1.86%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.49%) Squid
7 3 (1.12%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (1.12%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.74%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.37%) Firmware
9 1 (0.37%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 40 (14.87%) Ansible
2 35 (13.01%) Terraform
3 19 (7.06%) Kubernetes
4 16 (5.95%) FortiGate
5 12 (4.46%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.72%) SCCM
7 7 (2.60%) Cisco Prime
7 7 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
8 5 (1.86%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.86%) ZABBIX
9 4 (1.49%) Check_MK
9 4 (1.49%) Control-M
9 4 (1.49%) Packer
10 3 (1.12%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 3 (1.12%) VxRail
11 2 (0.74%) Nagios
11 2 (0.74%) OpenView
11 2 (0.74%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.37%) CASB
12 1 (0.37%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 132 (49.07%) Cisco
2 87 (32.34%) Microsoft
3 71 (26.39%) Palo Alto
4 56 (20.82%) VMware
5 45 (16.73%) Fortinet
6 35 (13.01%) Arista
7 33 (12.27%) SolarWinds
8 32 (11.90%) CheckPoint
8 32 (11.90%) Splunk
9 29 (10.78%) F5
10 28 (10.41%) Zscaler
11 24 (8.92%) Meraki
12 21 (7.81%) Tenable
13 18 (6.69%) ForeScout
14 16 (5.95%) Red Hat
15 13 (4.83%) Infoblox
16 12 (4.46%) SevOne
16 12 (4.46%) Sophos
17 9 (3.35%) AppDynamics
17 9 (3.35%) Dynatrace