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

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 209 209 224
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 -26
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 256 192 279
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.06% 1.59% 1.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.36% 5.49% 5.19%
Number of salaries quoted 169 98 211
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,990 £40,000
25th Percentile £63,750 £50,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £65,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +19.23% - -
75th Percentile £91,000 £83,750 £85,125
90th Percentile £110,000 £95,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,288 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +30.58% -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 4,778 3,500 5,372
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 19.86% 29.05% 27.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,843 1,938 2,797
10th Percentile £41,000 £40,000 £36,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,250 £49,607
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 £89,688 £87,500
90th Percentile £106,000 £112,500 £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 25 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 25 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 +13 20 £80,000 +23.08% 9
West London -27 4 £77,500 +31.36% 2
East London -7 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 (4.69%) Confluence
2 3 (1.17%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.17%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 12 (4.69%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.39%) Eikon
Cloud Services
1 115 (44.92%) Azure
2 88 (34.38%) AWS
3 43 (16.80%) Microsoft 365
4 33 (12.89%) GCP
5 21 (8.20%) Datadog
6 14 (5.47%) SaaS
7 13 (5.08%) OpenShift
8 10 (3.91%) Entra ID
8 10 (3.91%) IaaS
8 10 (3.91%) PaaS
9 9 (3.52%) Azure Monitor
9 9 (3.52%) Nutanix
10 8 (3.13%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (3.13%) OCI
11 7 (2.73%) Azure Sentinel
12 5 (1.95%) Amazon GuardDuty
12 5 (1.95%) AWS KMS
12 5 (1.95%) Cloud Computing
13 4 (1.56%) Mimecast
13 4 (1.56%) WeChat
Communications & Networking
1 123 (48.05%) Firewall
2 101 (39.45%) Network Security
2 101 (39.45%) WAN
3 92 (35.94%) VPN
4 69 (26.95%) LAN
5 67 (26.17%) SD-WAN
6 48 (18.75%) DNS
7 44 (17.19%) Wireless
8 42 (16.41%) BGP
9 40 (15.63%) Cisco ISE
9 40 (15.63%) OSPF
10 35 (13.67%) VLAN
11 32 (12.50%) TCP/IP
12 30 (11.72%) Wi-Fi
13 24 (9.38%) DHCP
14 21 (8.20%) Cisco Wireless
14 21 (8.20%) VXLAN
15 16 (6.25%) MPLS
15 16 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
16 14 (5.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (7.03%) SQL Server
2 5 (1.95%) MongoDB
3 4 (1.56%) Big Data
4 1 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 18 (7.03%) JIRA
2 9 (3.52%) Chocolatey
3 7 (2.73%) GitLab
3 7 (2.73%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.95%) Git
5 4 (1.56%) Bitbucket
6 3 (1.17%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 116 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 67 (26.17%) Finance
3 43 (16.80%) Banking
4 39 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.38%) Telecoms
6 20 (7.81%) Retail
7 17 (6.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (5.08%) Local Government
9 12 (4.69%) Public Sector
10 10 (3.91%) Legal
11 8 (3.13%) Mandarin Language
11 8 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
12 7 (2.73%) Law
12 7 (2.73%) Marketing
13 6 (2.34%) Digital Health
13 6 (2.34%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (1.95%) Documentation Skills
15 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
15 4 (1.56%) Manufacturing
15 4 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 43 (16.80%) Senior
3 35 (13.67%) Architect
4 27 (10.55%) Lead
5 24 (9.38%) Consultant
6 21 (8.20%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 21 (8.20%) Security Specialist
7 20 (7.81%) Network Architect
7 20 (7.81%) Senior Network Engineer
8 18 (7.03%) Network Specialist
9 17 (6.64%) Network Security Specialist
10 16 (6.25%) Azure Engineer
11 14 (5.47%) Security Engineer
12 12 (4.69%) Cisco Engineer
12 12 (4.69%) Cisco Network Engineer
12 12 (4.69%) Network Consultant
13 11 (4.30%) IT Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) Analyst
14 9 (3.52%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
14 9 (3.52%) Network Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 34 (13.28%) Terraform
2 7 (2.73%) LDAP
3 6 (2.34%) OAuth
3 6 (2.34%) SAML
4 4 (1.56%) JWT
4 4 (1.56%) OAuth2
4 4 (1.56%) OpenID
4 4 (1.56%) REST
5 3 (1.17%) ARM Templates
6 2 (0.78%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.78%) EDI
6 2 (0.78%) IDoc
6 2 (0.78%) JSON
6 2 (0.78%) RESTful
7 1 (0.39%) Jinja
7 1 (0.39%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.39%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.39%) Software Packaging
7 1 (0.39%) YAML
7 1 (0.39%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 85 (33.20%) Data Centre
2 46 (17.97%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.86%) Cyber Threat
4 12 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 12 (4.69%) PKI
5 11 (4.30%) Hybrid Cloud
6 10 (3.91%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.91%) Onboarding
7 9 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
8 7 (2.73%) Private Cloud
8 7 (2.73%) Public Cloud
9 6 (2.34%) Replication
10 5 (1.95%) Cyber Defence
10 5 (1.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
11 4 (1.56%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.17%) Cyber Security Posture
12 3 (1.17%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 60 (23.44%) Windows
2 36 (14.06%) Linux
3 32 (12.50%) Windows Server
4 8 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.17%) Unix
6 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.39%) Ubuntu
7 1 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (25.78%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
3 59 (23.05%) Roadmaps
4 54 (21.09%) ITIL
5 50 (19.53%) Incident Response
5 50 (19.53%) Information Security
6 47 (18.36%) Disaster Recovery
7 43 (16.80%) Technical Leadership
8 40 (15.63%) Network Design
9 39 (15.23%) Security Architecture
9 39 (15.23%) SIEM
10 37 (14.45%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (14.06%) High Availability
11 36 (14.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 35 (13.67%) Cloud Security
12 35 (13.67%) Mentoring
12 35 (13.67%) Presales
12 35 (13.67%) Project Delivery
13 33 (12.89%) Computer Science
13 33 (12.89%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.75%) Python
2 25 (9.77%) PowerShell
3 9 (3.52%) Bash
3 9 (3.52%) Java
4 2 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
4 2 (0.78%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (0.39%) C
5 1 (0.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 144 (56.25%) CCNP
2 87 (33.98%) CCNA
3 81 (31.64%) CISSP
4 77 (30.08%) Degree
5 62 (24.22%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 58 (22.66%) Azure Certification
7 52 (20.31%) CCIE
7 52 (20.31%) CCSP
8 42 (16.41%) CISM
9 32 (12.50%) AWS Certification
10 27 (10.55%) Computer Science Degree
11 23 (8.98%) Microsoft Certification
12 21 (8.20%) Master's Degree
13 16 (6.25%) Security Cleared
14 15 (5.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
15 13 (5.08%) CCSE
16 12 (4.69%) MCSE
17 11 (4.30%) CompTIA Security+
17 11 (4.30%) RHCSA
18 10 (3.91%) GCIH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (24.22%) NIST
2 52 (20.31%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (8.98%) GDPR
4 19 (7.42%) PCI DSS
4 19 (7.42%) QA
5 17 (6.64%) SLA
6 14 (5.47%) Cyber Essentials
7 8 (3.13%) SOC 2
8 7 (2.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 6 (2.34%) GRC
10 5 (1.95%) COBIT
11 4 (1.56%) Accessibility
11 4 (1.56%) NIST 800
12 2 (0.78%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 1 (0.39%) HMG Security Policy Framework
13 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
13 1 (0.39%) NCSC
13 1 (0.39%) PMO
13 1 (0.39%) RMADS
System Software
1 44 (17.19%) Active Directory
2 42 (16.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.52%) Virtual Desktop
3 9 (3.52%) vSphere
4 8 (3.13%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.95%) Docker
5 5 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
6 4 (1.56%) Hyper-V
6 4 (1.56%) Squid
7 3 (1.17%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 3 (1.17%) VMware Server
8 2 (0.78%) ProxySG
8 2 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
9 1 (0.39%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 40 (15.63%) Ansible
2 19 (7.42%) Kubernetes
3 16 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 12 (4.69%) Microsoft Intune
5 10 (3.91%) SCCM
6 8 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
7 6 (2.34%) Cisco Prime
8 5 (1.95%) Red Hat Satellite
8 5 (1.95%) ZABBIX
9 4 (1.56%) Control-M
9 4 (1.56%) Packer
10 3 (1.17%) Check_MK
10 3 (1.17%) Symantec Endpoint Protection
10 3 (1.17%) VxRail
11 2 (0.78%) OpenView
11 2 (0.78%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.39%) CASB
12 1 (0.39%) Nagios
12 1 (0.39%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 125 (48.83%) Cisco
2 85 (33.20%) Microsoft
3 68 (26.56%) Palo Alto
4 54 (21.09%) VMware
5 41 (16.02%) Fortinet
6 32 (12.50%) Arista
7 31 (12.11%) Splunk
8 30 (11.72%) SolarWinds
9 29 (11.33%) CheckPoint
10 28 (10.94%) Zscaler
11 27 (10.55%) F5
12 22 (8.59%) Meraki
13 21 (8.20%) Tenable
14 18 (7.03%) ForeScout
15 16 (6.25%) Red Hat
16 13 (5.08%) Infoblox
17 12 (4.69%) SevOne
18 11 (4.30%) Sophos
19 9 (3.52%) Oracle
19 9 (3.52%) Qualys