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 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 153 180
Rank change year-on-year -64 +27 +115
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 168 337 318
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.24% 2.10% 1.82%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.15% 6.74% 6.75%
Number of salaries quoted 98 223 256
10th Percentile £40,000 £43,000 £46,875
25th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £89,688 £85,250 £83,125
90th Percentile £126,875 £97,200 £97,500
England median annual salary £55,500 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -7.50% +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 4,046 5,000 4,709
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.75% 31.22% 26.97%
Number of salaries quoted 2,127 2,109 3,441
10th Percentile £31,250 £41,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £50,000 £53,750 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +1.71%
75th Percentile £90,000 £92,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -

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 24 December 2025.

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 24 December 2025. 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 -14 15 £75,000 -1.96% 12
East London -3 11 - - 3
West London - 5 £30,500 -
South London +33 3 - - 4
North London - 1 £32,500 - 2
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 9 (5.36%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Confluence
Applications
1 18 (10.71%) MS Visio
2 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 59 (35.12%) Azure
2 44 (26.19%) AWS
3 15 (8.93%) Microsoft 365
4 9 (5.36%) Entra ID
4 9 (5.36%) GCP
5 6 (3.57%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (2.98%) Microsoft Purview
7 4 (2.38%) AWS Direct Connect
7 4 (2.38%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 4 (2.38%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.79%) Cloudflare
9 2 (1.19%) Dropbox
9 2 (1.19%) Google Workspace
9 2 (1.19%) OneDrive
9 2 (1.19%) Rubrik
9 2 (1.19%) SecurityScorecard
10 1 (0.60%) Datadog
10 1 (0.60%) IaaS
10 1 (0.60%) Stackdriver
10 1 (0.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 92 (54.76%) Firewall
2 58 (34.52%) LAN
3 46 (27.38%) WAN
4 41 (24.40%) VPN
5 40 (23.81%) Wireless
6 35 (20.83%) Network Security
7 34 (20.24%) Wi-Fi
8 33 (19.64%) VLAN
9 32 (19.05%) BGP
9 32 (19.05%) OSPF
10 21 (12.50%) Cisco Wireless
11 19 (11.31%) SD-WAN
12 18 (10.71%) Cisco ASA
12 18 (10.71%) MPLS
13 16 (9.52%) DNS
14 15 (8.93%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (8.93%) TCP/IP
15 13 (7.74%) EIGRP
16 11 (6.55%) Cisco Nexus
17 10 (5.95%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.79%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.79%) Burp Suite
1 3 (1.79%) Git
1 3 (1.79%) Metasploit
1 3 (1.79%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.60%) JIRA
General
1 50 (29.76%) Finance
1 50 (29.76%) Social Skills
2 21 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
4 13 (7.74%) Banking
5 12 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (6.55%) Law
6 11 (6.55%) Telecoms
7 8 (4.76%) Marketing
8 6 (3.57%) Legal
9 5 (2.98%) Retail
10 3 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.79%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.19%) Advertising
11 2 (1.19%) Mandarin Language
12 1 (0.60%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.60%) French Language
12 1 (0.60%) Games
12 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
12 1 (0.60%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 81 (48.21%) Network Engineer
2 43 (25.60%) Senior
3 24 (14.29%) Senior Network Engineer
4 16 (9.52%) Consultant
5 15 (8.93%) Cisco Engineer
5 15 (8.93%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 13 (7.74%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (6.55%) Analyst
7 11 (6.55%) Cisco Consultant
7 11 (6.55%) Cisco Network Consultant
7 11 (6.55%) Network Consultant
7 11 (6.55%) WAN Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Azure Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Security Engineer
8 10 (5.95%) Security Manager
9 9 (5.36%) LAN Engineer
9 9 (5.36%) LAN/WAN Engineer
10 8 (4.76%) Architect
11 7 (4.17%) Deployment Engineer
11 7 (4.17%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.57%) 802.1X
2 3 (1.79%) REST
3 2 (1.19%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 46 (27.38%) Data Centre
2 9 (5.36%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (5.36%) Security Posture
3 7 (4.17%) Cloud Native
4 5 (2.98%) Virtual Team
5 4 (2.38%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 4 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.38%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.38%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 4 (2.38%) Web3
6 3 (1.79%) Cloud Security Posture
6 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.79%) Driving Licence
6 3 (1.79%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (1.79%) Management Information System
7 2 (1.19%) Cyber Defence
7 2 (1.19%) Operational Technology
7 2 (1.19%) PKI
8 1 (0.60%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.71%) Linux
1 18 (10.71%) Windows
2 8 (4.76%) Windows Server
3 7 (4.17%) Unix
4 2 (1.19%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (19.64%) Computer Science
2 29 (17.26%) Load Balancing
3 27 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (13.69%) Change Control
4 23 (13.69%) High Availability
4 23 (13.69%) Information Security
5 22 (13.10%) Migration
6 21 (12.50%) AI
6 21 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
6 21 (12.50%) Kalman Filter
6 21 (12.50%) Vulnerability Management
7 20 (11.90%) ITIL
7 20 (11.90%) Low Latency
7 20 (11.90%) SIEM
8 17 (10.12%) Change Management
9 16 (9.52%) Zero Trust
10 15 (8.93%) DevOps
11 14 (8.33%) Data Loss Prevention
11 14 (8.33%) Inventory Management
11 14 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 48 (28.57%) Python
2 15 (8.93%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.79%) Bash
4 2 (1.19%) VB
5 1 (0.60%) Go
5 1 (0.60%) PromQL
5 1 (0.60%) SQL
Qualifications
1 103 (61.31%) CCNP
2 68 (40.48%) Degree
3 57 (33.93%) CCIE
4 54 (32.14%) CCNA
5 32 (19.05%) CISSP
6 31 (18.45%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 29 (17.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 20 (11.90%) CCSA
9 19 (11.31%) CCSE
10 17 (10.12%) Network+ Certification
11 16 (9.52%) CCSP
12 15 (8.93%) CISM
13 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (7.14%) Security Cleared
14 10 (5.95%) GCIH
15 9 (5.36%) AWS Certification
15 9 (5.36%) Azure Certification
16 8 (4.76%) CISA
16 8 (4.76%) MCSA
16 8 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (17.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (11.90%) GDPR
2 20 (11.90%) NIST
3 6 (3.57%) PMO
4 5 (2.98%) SLA
5 4 (2.38%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.79%) ITGC
7 2 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
7 2 (1.19%) GRC
7 2 (1.19%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.60%) QA
8 1 (0.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 13 (7.74%) Active Directory
2 11 (6.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.95%) Firmware
4 8 (4.76%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (2.98%) vSphere
6 4 (2.38%) pfSense
6 4 (2.38%) ProxySG
7 2 (1.19%) BitLocker
7 2 (1.19%) Docker
7 2 (1.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 2 (1.19%) Hyper-V
7 2 (1.19%) Squid
8 1 (0.60%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 38 (22.62%) Ansible
2 16 (9.52%) Terraform
3 12 (7.14%) FortiGate
4 6 (3.57%) CASB
4 6 (3.57%) Grafana
4 6 (3.57%) Kubernetes
5 5 (2.98%) Cisco CUCM
5 5 (2.98%) Prometheus
6 4 (2.38%) Microsoft Intune
7 3 (1.79%) ArcSight ESM
7 3 (1.79%) Nagios
7 3 (1.79%) Nmap
7 3 (1.79%) QRadar
8 2 (1.19%) CA Spectrum
8 2 (1.19%) Jamf Pro
8 2 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (1.19%) VxRail
9 1 (0.60%) Kibana
9 1 (0.60%) vRealize Orchestrator
9 1 (0.60%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 120 (71.43%) Cisco
2 46 (27.38%) Fortinet
3 41 (24.40%) CheckPoint
4 28 (16.67%) Meraki
5 27 (16.07%) Juniper
6 26 (15.48%) Microsoft
7 24 (14.29%) Palo Alto
8 22 (13.10%) Arista
9 20 (11.90%) F5
10 17 (10.12%) VMware
11 16 (9.52%) SolarWinds
12 8 (4.76%) Infoblox
13 7 (4.17%) Splunk
14 6 (3.57%) Motorola
15 5 (2.98%) Zscaler
16 4 (2.38%) Blue Coat
16 4 (2.38%) Citrix
16 4 (2.38%) Dell
16 4 (2.38%) LogicMonitor
16 4 (2.38%) ServiceNow