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

6 months to
23 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 227 207 200
Rank change year-on-year -20 -7 -11
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 234 184 310
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.92% 1.56% 1.65%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.80% 5.40% 5.86%
Number of salaries quoted 162 94 210
10th Percentile £50,250 £33,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,438 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £70,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +3.70% -3.57%
75th Percentile £96,563 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £123,688 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year +23.81% -8.70% +4.55%

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 4,870 3,408 5,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.09% 28.82% 28.22%
Number of salaries quoted 2,889 1,895 2,455
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,370
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,750 £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 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £56,509
% change year-on-year +9.09% -2.67% -5.82%

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 23 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 23 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 +7 18 £82,500 +17.86% 31
West London -23 4 £77,500 +31.36% 2
East London -7 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
1 105 (44.87%) Azure
2 75 (32.05%) AWS
3 37 (15.81%) Microsoft 365
4 24 (10.26%) GCP
5 21 (8.97%) Datadog
6 19 (8.12%) SaaS
7 14 (5.98%) Entra ID
8 13 (5.56%) IaaS
8 13 (5.56%) OpenShift
8 13 (5.56%) PaaS
9 7 (2.99%) Azure Sentinel
10 6 (2.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 6 (2.56%) Azure Monitor
10 6 (2.56%) Nutanix
11 5 (2.14%) AWS Direct Connect
11 5 (2.14%) Cloud Computing
11 5 (2.14%) OCI
12 4 (1.71%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 4 (1.71%) AWS KMS
12 4 (1.71%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 105 (44.87%) Firewall
2 88 (37.61%) Network Security
3 85 (36.32%) VPN
3 85 (36.32%) WAN
4 55 (23.50%) LAN
5 53 (22.65%) DNS
6 51 (21.79%) SD-WAN
7 41 (17.52%) Wireless
8 40 (17.09%) BGP
9 37 (15.81%) OSPF
10 36 (15.38%) VLAN
11 35 (14.96%) Cisco ISE
11 35 (14.96%) TCP/IP
12 29 (12.39%) DHCP
12 29 (12.39%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (8.55%) VXLAN
14 18 (7.69%) Cisco Wireless
15 15 (6.41%) MPLS
15 15 (6.41%) SSL
16 14 (5.98%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.69%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.14%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.71%) Big Data
4 2 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
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
6 1 (0.43%) TeamCity
General
1 106 (45.30%) Social Skills
2 59 (25.21%) Finance
3 37 (15.81%) Banking
4 35 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
5 23 (9.83%) Telecoms
6 18 (7.69%) Retail
7 15 (6.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (5.56%) Law
9 11 (4.70%) Local Government
10 10 (4.27%) Legal
11 9 (3.85%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (3.42%) Mandarin Language
12 8 (3.42%) Public Sector
13 7 (2.99%) Marketing
13 7 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
14 6 (2.56%) Digital Health
15 4 (1.71%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.71%) Automotive
15 4 (1.71%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.71%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 74 (31.62%) Network Engineer
2 43 (18.38%) Senior
3 27 (11.54%) Architect
4 22 (9.40%) Lead
4 22 (9.40%) Security Specialist
5 21 (8.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (8.12%) Senior Network Engineer
7 17 (7.26%) Consultant
7 17 (7.26%) Security Engineer
8 15 (6.41%) Network Specialist
9 14 (5.98%) Network Security Specialist
10 12 (5.13%) Azure Engineer
11 11 (4.70%) Network Architect
11 11 (4.70%) Security Architect
12 9 (3.85%) IT Engineer
12 9 (3.85%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
12 9 (3.85%) Network Security Engineer
13 8 (3.42%) Analyst
13 8 (3.42%) Cisco Engineer
13 8 (3.42%) Cisco Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (12.82%) 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%) Software Packaging
8 1 (0.43%) YAML
8 1 (0.43%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 73 (31.20%) Data Centre
2 52 (22.22%) Security Posture
3 16 (6.84%) Cyber Threat
4 15 (6.41%) PKI
5 12 (5.13%) Cloud Native
6 11 (4.70%) Hybrid Cloud
6 11 (4.70%) Management Information System
7 9 (3.85%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.42%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (2.56%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.56%) Replication
10 5 (2.14%) Cyber Security Posture
10 5 (2.14%) Public Cloud
11 4 (1.71%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.71%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.71%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.28%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.85%) Social Media
13 2 (0.85%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 57 (24.36%) Windows
2 35 (14.96%) Windows Server
3 32 (13.68%) Linux
4 8 (3.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.71%) Unix
6 3 (1.28%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.85%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.85%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.43%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (30.34%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (23.50%) Incident Response
4 51 (21.79%) Roadmaps
5 50 (21.37%) Information Security
6 49 (20.94%) Security Architecture
7 47 (20.09%) Disaster Recovery
8 46 (19.66%) ITIL
9 44 (18.80%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 38 (16.24%) Network Design
11 36 (15.38%) Cloud Security
12 35 (14.96%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (14.96%) SIEM
13 33 (14.10%) Business Continuity
13 33 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (13.68%) Project Delivery
14 32 (13.68%) Technical Leadership
15 31 (13.25%) AI
15 31 (13.25%) Computer Science
16 30 (12.82%) High Availability
Programming Languages
1 50 (21.37%) Python
2 20 (8.55%) PowerShell
3 11 (4.70%) Java
4 8 (3.42%) Bash
5 3 (1.28%) SQL
6 2 (0.85%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.85%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.43%) Bicep
7 1 (0.43%) C
7 1 (0.43%) C#
7 1 (0.43%) C++
7 1 (0.43%) Go
7 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 123 (52.56%) CCNP
2 89 (38.03%) CISSP
3 88 (37.61%) CCNA
4 67 (28.63%) Degree
5 59 (25.21%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 53 (22.65%) CCSP
7 52 (22.22%) Azure Certification
8 40 (17.09%) CISM
9 35 (14.96%) CCIE
10 30 (12.82%) AWS Certification
11 25 (10.68%) Computer Science Degree
12 19 (8.12%) Microsoft Certification
13 18 (7.69%) Master's Degree
14 14 (5.98%) CEH
15 10 (4.27%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 9 (3.85%) CCSE
16 9 (3.85%) MCSE
16 9 (3.85%) Network+ Certification
16 9 (3.85%) RHCSA
16 9 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (23.50%) NIST
2 48 (20.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 20 (8.55%) GDPR
3 20 (8.55%) PCI DSS
4 17 (7.26%) QA
5 16 (6.84%) Cyber Essentials
5 16 (6.84%) SLA
6 11 (4.70%) GRC
7 7 (2.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (2.99%) SOC 2
8 5 (2.14%) COBIT
8 5 (2.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 4 (1.71%) Accessibility
9 4 (1.71%) NIST 800
10 2 (0.85%) ISO 31000
11 1 (0.43%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.43%) NCSC
11 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 40 (17.09%) Ansible
2 18 (7.69%) Kubernetes
2 18 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 16 (6.84%) FortiGate
4 12 (5.13%) Single Sign-On
5 9 (3.85%) SCCM
6 5 (2.14%) Red Hat Satellite
6 5 (2.14%) ZABBIX
7 4 (1.71%) Packer
8 3 (1.28%) Cisco Prime
8 3 (1.28%) Control-M
8 3 (1.28%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 2 (0.85%) VxRail
10 1 (0.43%) CASB
10 1 (0.43%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.43%) Cilium
10 1 (0.43%) Grafana
10 1 (0.43%) OpenView
10 1 (0.43%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.43%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 103 (44.02%) Cisco
2 79 (33.76%) Microsoft
3 64 (27.35%) Palo Alto
4 47 (20.09%) VMware
5 32 (13.68%) Fortinet
6 30 (12.82%) Arista
6 30 (12.82%) F5
7 27 (11.54%) Splunk
8 26 (11.11%) Zscaler
9 23 (9.83%) SolarWinds
10 21 (8.97%) CheckPoint
11 20 (8.55%) Tenable
12 18 (7.69%) ForeScout
12 18 (7.69%) Meraki
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%) AppDynamics
16 9 (3.85%) Citrix