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

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 238 214 193
Rank change year-on-year -24 -21 -9
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 221 177 314
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.85% 1.51% 1.71%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.60% 5.15% 6.08%
Number of salaries quoted 153 91 208
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 £69,375
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% +0.90% -0.89%
75th Percentile £97,500 £88,750 £83,125
90th Percentile £110,000 £126,875 £99,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £52,500 £59,000
% change year-on-year +23.81% -11.02% +7.27%

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 4,807 3,438 5,168
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.55% 29.30% 28.13%
Number of salaries quoted 2,826 1,924 2,292
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £38,035
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £68,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.62% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,250 £117,500 £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 11 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 11 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 +13 16 £75,000 +7.14% 32
West London -22 4 £77,500 +31.36% 5
East London -12 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 10 (4.52%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 9 (4.07%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.36%) 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 (41.63%) Azure
2 73 (33.03%) AWS
3 35 (15.84%) Microsoft 365
4 28 (12.67%) GCP
5 21 (9.50%) SaaS
6 16 (7.24%) Entra ID
7 15 (6.79%) Datadog
8 13 (5.88%) OpenShift
9 10 (4.52%) IaaS
9 10 (4.52%) PaaS
10 7 (3.17%) Azure Sentinel
11 6 (2.71%) Amazon EKS
11 6 (2.71%) Google Compute Engine
11 6 (2.71%) Google Kubernetes Engine
11 6 (2.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 5 (2.26%) AWS Direct Connect
12 5 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (2.26%) Nutanix
13 4 (1.81%) OCI
13 4 (1.81%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 104 (47.06%) Firewall
2 84 (38.01%) Network Security
3 83 (37.56%) VPN
4 81 (36.65%) WAN
5 56 (25.34%) LAN
6 48 (21.72%) DNS
7 45 (20.36%) BGP
8 44 (19.91%) SD-WAN
9 43 (19.46%) TCP/IP
10 37 (16.74%) OSPF
10 37 (16.74%) Wireless
11 32 (14.48%) Cisco ISE
11 32 (14.48%) VLAN
12 27 (12.22%) DHCP
12 27 (12.22%) Wi-Fi
13 20 (9.05%) VXLAN
14 15 (6.79%) MPLS
15 14 (6.33%) Cisco Nexus
16 13 (5.88%) Cisco Wireless
17 12 (5.43%) Cisco Firepower
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.33%) SQL Server
2 7 (3.17%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (2.71%) Amazon RDS
4 4 (1.81%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.90%) Big Data
6 1 (0.45%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 15 (6.79%) JIRA
2 6 (2.71%) Chocolatey
2 6 (2.71%) Sonatype Nexus
2 6 (2.71%) TeamCity
3 5 (2.26%) GitLab
3 5 (2.26%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.81%) Git
5 3 (1.36%) Bitbucket
General
1 107 (48.42%) Social Skills
2 63 (28.51%) Finance
3 30 (13.57%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (13.12%) Banking
5 22 (9.95%) Telecoms
6 15 (6.79%) Retail
7 13 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 12 (5.43%) Law
9 11 (4.98%) Legal
10 9 (4.07%) Financial Institution
10 9 (4.07%) Local Government
11 8 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (3.62%) Mandarin Language
12 6 (2.71%) Back Office
12 6 (2.71%) Digital Health
12 6 (2.71%) Public Sector
13 5 (2.26%) Marketing
13 5 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.36%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.36%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 69 (31.22%) Network Engineer
2 41 (18.55%) Senior
3 26 (11.76%) Architect
4 22 (9.95%) Security Engineer
4 22 (9.95%) Security Specialist
5 19 (8.60%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 17 (7.69%) Lead
7 15 (6.79%) Network Specialist
7 15 (6.79%) Senior Network Engineer
8 14 (6.33%) Consultant
8 14 (6.33%) Network Security Specialist
9 13 (5.88%) Security Architect
10 11 (4.98%) Cloud Engineer
10 11 (4.98%) Senior Security Engineer
11 10 (4.52%) IT Engineer
11 10 (4.52%) Network Architect
12 9 (4.07%) Network Security Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) Analyst
13 8 (3.62%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 8 (3.62%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 31 (14.03%) Terraform
2 6 (2.71%) LDAP
2 6 (2.71%) SAML
3 4 (1.81%) JWT
3 4 (1.81%) OAuth
3 4 (1.81%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.81%) 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 (31.22%) Data Centre
2 53 (23.98%) Security Posture
3 18 (8.14%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.24%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (5.43%) PKI
7 10 (4.52%) Onboarding
8 9 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
9 8 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
10 6 (2.71%) Blog
10 6 (2.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
10 6 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
10 6 (2.71%) Private Cloud
10 6 (2.71%) Replication
11 5 (2.26%) Cyber Security Posture
12 4 (1.81%) Driving Licence
12 4 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
13 3 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
14 2 (0.90%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 52 (23.53%) Windows
2 34 (15.38%) Windows Server
3 30 (13.57%) Linux
4 7 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.81%) Unix
6 3 (1.36%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.90%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.90%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.45%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (31.22%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (27.15%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (24.89%) Incident Response
4 54 (24.43%) Information Security
5 53 (23.98%) Security Architecture
6 46 (20.81%) Roadmaps
7 45 (20.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 42 (19.00%) Cloud Security
9 41 (18.55%) ITIL
10 39 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
11 37 (16.74%) Infrastructure as Code
12 35 (15.84%) Continuous Improvement
12 35 (15.84%) SIEM
13 34 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
14 32 (14.48%) AI
14 32 (14.48%) Network Design
15 30 (13.57%) Zero Trust
16 29 (13.12%) Computer Science
16 29 (13.12%) Project Delivery
17 28 (12.67%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 52 (23.53%) Python
2 17 (7.69%) PowerShell
3 14 (6.33%) Java
4 8 (3.62%) Bash
4 8 (3.62%) SQL
5 6 (2.71%) Go
6 2 (0.90%) Kusto Query Language
6 2 (0.90%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (0.45%) Bicep
7 1 (0.45%) C
7 1 (0.45%) C#
7 1 (0.45%) C++
7 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 108 (48.87%) CCNP
2 88 (39.82%) CISSP
3 83 (37.56%) CCNA
4 60 (27.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 59 (26.70%) Degree
6 56 (25.34%) CCSP
7 40 (18.10%) CISM
8 39 (17.65%) Azure Certification
9 31 (14.03%) CCIE
10 27 (12.22%) AWS Certification
11 23 (10.41%) Computer Science Degree
12 16 (7.24%) Master's Degree
12 16 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (6.33%) CEH
14 9 (4.07%) Security Cleared
14 9 (4.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (3.62%) MCSE
16 7 (3.17%) GCIH
16 7 (3.17%) RHCSA
17 6 (2.71%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (23.53%) NIST
2 48 (21.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (10.41%) PCI DSS
4 16 (7.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 16 (7.24%) GDPR
5 15 (6.79%) QA
6 13 (5.88%) SLA
7 12 (5.43%) SOC 2
8 11 (4.98%) GRC
9 6 (2.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.81%) COBIT
11 4 (1.81%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.90%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.45%) NCSC
13 1 (0.45%) RMADS
System Software
1 41 (18.55%) Active Directory
2 32 (14.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 7 (3.17%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.71%) Virtual Desktop
5 5 (2.26%) vSphere
6 4 (1.81%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.36%) Docker
7 3 (1.36%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.36%) Squid
7 3 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
7 3 (1.36%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.90%) EMC RecoverPoint
8 2 (0.90%) ProxySG
9 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.45%) Firmware
9 1 (0.45%) KVM
Systems Management
1 39 (17.65%) Ansible
2 22 (9.95%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 16 (7.24%) FortiGate
5 11 (4.98%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.71%) Cilium
6 6 (2.71%) Grafana
6 6 (2.71%) SCCM
7 4 (1.81%) Red Hat Satellite
7 4 (1.81%) ZABBIX
8 3 (1.36%) Control-M
8 3 (1.36%) Packer
8 3 (1.36%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
9 2 (0.90%) CASB
9 2 (0.90%) VxRail
10 1 (0.45%) Check_MK
10 1 (0.45%) OpenView
10 1 (0.45%) Proxmox
10 1 (0.45%) Tivoli
10 1 (0.45%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 90 (40.72%) Cisco
2 69 (31.22%) Microsoft
3 60 (27.15%) Palo Alto
4 41 (18.55%) VMware
5 33 (14.93%) Fortinet
6 27 (12.22%) Arista
6 27 (12.22%) Zscaler
7 25 (11.31%) F5
8 22 (9.95%) Splunk
9 18 (8.14%) CheckPoint
9 18 (8.14%) SolarWinds
10 16 (7.24%) Tenable
11 15 (6.79%) Meraki
12 13 (5.88%) Google
13 12 (5.43%) ForeScout
13 12 (5.43%) Red Hat
14 10 (4.52%) Infoblox
15 9 (4.07%) Citrix
15 9 (4.07%) SevOne
16 8 (3.62%) Oracle