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

6 months to
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 242 217 201
Rank change year-on-year -25 -16 -13
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 225 183 317
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.87% 1.55% 1.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.62% 5.30% 5.93%
Number of salaries quoted 156 94 212
10th Percentile £47,500 £33,250 £37,750
25th Percentile £63,750 £51,938 £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 £97,500 £87,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £126,875 £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 4,866 3,450 5,346
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.77% 29.17% 28.32%
Number of salaries quoted 2,856 1,905 2,386
10th Percentile £41,250 £39,400 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £69,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.07% -1.43% -
75th Percentile £91,250 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £115,000 £105,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% -4.35% -1.71%

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 2 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 2 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 +4 17 £80,000 +12.28% 35
West London -18 4 £77,500 +31.36% 4
East London -10 1 £70,000 +122.22% 5
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 11 (4.89%) Confluence
2 2 (0.89%) Cloud Foundry
2 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.44%) SharePoint
Applications
1 12 (5.33%) MS Visio
2 3 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.89%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.44%) Eikon
2 1 (0.44%) FLEXCUBE
Cloud Services
1 94 (41.78%) Azure
2 71 (31.56%) AWS
3 33 (14.67%) Microsoft 365
4 25 (11.11%) GCP
5 18 (8.00%) Datadog
5 18 (8.00%) SaaS
6 14 (6.22%) Entra ID
7 13 (5.78%) OpenShift
8 10 (4.44%) IaaS
8 10 (4.44%) PaaS
9 7 (3.11%) Azure Sentinel
10 5 (2.22%) AWS Direct Connect
10 5 (2.22%) Cloud Computing
10 5 (2.22%) Nutanix
11 4 (1.78%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 4 (1.78%) AWS KMS
11 4 (1.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
11 4 (1.78%) Azure Monitor
11 4 (1.78%) OCI
11 4 (1.78%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 103 (45.78%) Firewall
2 86 (38.22%) Network Security
3 84 (37.33%) WAN
4 83 (36.89%) VPN
5 55 (24.44%) LAN
6 51 (22.67%) DNS
7 48 (21.33%) SD-WAN
8 42 (18.67%) BGP
9 41 (18.22%) Wireless
10 38 (16.89%) TCP/IP
11 37 (16.44%) OSPF
12 35 (15.56%) Cisco ISE
13 34 (15.11%) VLAN
14 27 (12.00%) DHCP
15 25 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
16 20 (8.89%) VXLAN
17 18 (8.00%) Cisco Wireless
18 15 (6.67%) MPLS
18 15 (6.67%) SSL
19 13 (5.78%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (6.22%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.78%) MongoDB
2 4 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
3 3 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.89%) Big Data
5 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 16 (7.11%) JIRA
2 6 (2.67%) Chocolatey
2 6 (2.67%) GitLab
2 6 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.22%) Git
4 4 (1.78%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.78%) Sonatype Nexus
5 3 (1.33%) TeamCity
General
1 104 (46.22%) Social Skills
2 62 (27.56%) Finance
3 31 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
3 31 (13.78%) Banking
4 20 (8.89%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.11%) Retail
6 15 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.33%) Law
8 11 (4.89%) Local Government
9 10 (4.44%) Legal
10 8 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
10 8 (3.56%) Mandarin Language
11 6 (2.67%) Digital Health
11 6 (2.67%) Financial Institution
11 6 (2.67%) Public Sector
12 5 (2.22%) Marketing
12 5 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
13 4 (1.78%) Aerospace
13 4 (1.78%) Automotive
13 4 (1.78%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 71 (31.56%) Network Engineer
2 44 (19.56%) Senior
3 26 (11.56%) Architect
4 22 (9.78%) Security Specialist
5 20 (8.89%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 19 (8.44%) Lead
6 19 (8.44%) Security Engineer
6 19 (8.44%) Senior Network Engineer
7 15 (6.67%) Network Specialist
8 14 (6.22%) Consultant
8 14 (6.22%) Network Security Specialist
9 12 (5.33%) Security Architect
10 11 (4.89%) Network Architect
11 9 (4.00%) IT Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Network Security Engineer
11 9 (4.00%) Senior Security Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Analyst
12 8 (3.56%) Cloud Engineer
12 8 (3.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
13 7 (3.11%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (13.33%) Terraform
2 6 (2.67%) LDAP
2 6 (2.67%) SAML
3 4 (1.78%) JWT
3 4 (1.78%) OAuth
3 4 (1.78%) OAuth2
3 4 (1.78%) REST
4 3 (1.33%) ARM Templates
5 2 (0.89%) EDI
5 2 (0.89%) IDoc
5 2 (0.89%) JSON
5 2 (0.89%) NETCONF
5 2 (0.89%) OpenID
5 2 (0.89%) RESTful
6 1 (0.44%) Jinja
6 1 (0.44%) Software Packaging
6 1 (0.44%) YAML
6 1 (0.44%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 73 (32.44%) Data Centre
2 53 (23.56%) Security Posture
3 15 (6.67%) PKI
4 14 (6.22%) Cloud Native
5 13 (5.78%) Cyber Threat
5 13 (5.78%) Management Information System
6 11 (4.89%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
8 8 (3.56%) Onboarding
9 6 (2.67%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (2.67%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.67%) Replication
10 5 (2.22%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.78%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.78%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.33%) Blog
12 3 (1.33%) Distributed Systems
12 3 (1.33%) Driving Licence
13 2 (0.89%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 51 (22.67%) Windows
2 34 (15.11%) Windows Server
3 30 (13.33%) Linux
4 7 (3.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (1.78%) Unix
6 3 (1.33%) Windows Server 2019
7 2 (0.89%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.89%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.44%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 70 (31.11%) Cybersecurity
2 58 (25.78%) Problem-Solving
3 54 (24.00%) Incident Response
4 52 (23.11%) Information Security
4 52 (23.11%) Security Architecture
5 46 (20.44%) Roadmaps
6 45 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 44 (19.56%) Disaster Recovery
8 41 (18.22%) ITIL
9 38 (16.89%) Cloud Security
10 36 (16.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 36 (16.00%) Network Design
11 35 (15.56%) SIEM
12 33 (14.67%) Business Continuity
13 32 (14.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (13.78%) Vulnerability Management
15 30 (13.33%) AI
15 30 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
16 29 (12.89%) Project Delivery
16 29 (12.89%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 51 (22.67%) Python
2 19 (8.44%) PowerShell
3 12 (5.33%) Java
4 8 (3.56%) Bash
5 5 (2.22%) SQL
6 3 (1.33%) Go
7 2 (0.89%) Kusto Query Language
7 2 (0.89%) Search Processing Language
8 1 (0.44%) Bicep
8 1 (0.44%) C
8 1 (0.44%) C#
8 1 (0.44%) C++
8 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 114 (50.67%) CCNP
2 87 (38.67%) CISSP
3 85 (37.78%) CCNA
4 63 (28.00%) Degree
5 59 (26.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 55 (24.44%) CCSP
7 43 (19.11%) Azure Certification
8 39 (17.33%) CISM
9 32 (14.22%) CCIE
10 29 (12.89%) AWS Certification
11 23 (10.22%) Computer Science Degree
12 18 (8.00%) Master's Degree
12 18 (8.00%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (6.22%) CEH
14 9 (4.00%) Security Cleared
14 9 (4.00%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 8 (3.56%) MCSE
15 8 (3.56%) RHCSA
16 7 (3.11%) GCIH
16 7 (3.11%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (24.00%) NIST
2 47 (20.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (9.78%) PCI DSS
4 17 (7.56%) GDPR
4 17 (7.56%) QA
5 16 (7.11%) Cyber Essentials
6 13 (5.78%) SLA
7 11 (4.89%) GRC
8 9 (4.00%) SOC 2
9 6 (2.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 5 (2.22%) COBIT
10 5 (2.22%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
11 4 (1.78%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.78%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.89%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.44%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.44%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.44%) NCSC
13 1 (0.44%) RMADS
System Software
1 41 (18.22%) Active Directory
2 33 (14.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.56%) VMware NSX
4 6 (2.67%) Virtual Desktop
4 6 (2.67%) vSphere
5 4 (1.78%) Docker
5 4 (1.78%) Squid
5 4 (1.78%) Virtual Machines
6 3 (1.33%) Hyper-V
6 3 (1.33%) VMware ESXi
6 3 (1.33%) VMware Server
7 2 (0.89%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (0.89%) ProxySG
8 1 (0.44%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.44%) Firmware
8 1 (0.44%) KVM
Systems Management
1 40 (17.78%) Ansible
2 20 (8.89%) Kubernetes
3 17 (7.56%) FortiGate
4 15 (6.67%) Microsoft Intune
5 11 (4.89%) Single Sign-On
6 6 (2.67%) SCCM
7 5 (2.22%) ZABBIX
8 4 (1.78%) Packer
8 4 (1.78%) Red Hat Satellite
9 3 (1.33%) Cilium
9 3 (1.33%) Control-M
9 3 (1.33%) Grafana
9 3 (1.33%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 2 (0.89%) VxRail
11 1 (0.44%) CASB
11 1 (0.44%) Check_MK
11 1 (0.44%) Cisco Prime
11 1 (0.44%) OpenView
11 1 (0.44%) Tivoli
11 1 (0.44%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 96 (42.67%) Cisco
2 72 (32.00%) Microsoft
3 62 (27.56%) Palo Alto
4 42 (18.67%) VMware
5 29 (12.89%) F5
5 29 (12.89%) Fortinet
6 28 (12.44%) Arista
7 26 (11.56%) Splunk
7 26 (11.56%) Zscaler
8 21 (9.33%) SolarWinds
9 18 (8.00%) CheckPoint
10 16 (7.11%) ForeScout
10 16 (7.11%) Meraki
10 16 (7.11%) Tenable
11 13 (5.78%) Infoblox
12 12 (5.33%) Red Hat
12 12 (5.33%) SevOne
13 9 (4.00%) Citrix
13 9 (4.00%) Google
13 9 (4.00%) Oracle