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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 240 219 195
Rank change year-on-year -21 -24 -18
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 221 178 316
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.85% 1.51% 1.72%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.61% 5.17% 6.09%
Number of salaries quoted 152 92 210
10th Percentile £45,250 £32,750 £40,000
25th Percentile £62,500 £55,563 £51,563
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 £84,375
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 4,797 3,440 5,192
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 18.52% 29.26% 28.20%
Number of salaries quoted 2,823 1,922 2,301
10th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £38,000
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 £118,625 £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 10 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 10 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 +9 17 £75,000 +7.14% 34
West London -23 4 £77,500 +31.36% 4
East London -12 1 £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 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 72 (32.58%) 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%) AWS KMS
13 4 (1.81%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 103 (46.61%) 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 44 (19.91%) BGP
7 44 (19.91%) SD-WAN
8 42 (19.00%) TCP/IP
9 37 (16.74%) Wireless
10 36 (16.29%) OSPF
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 13 (5.88%) Cisco Nexus
15 13 (5.88%) Cisco Wireless
16 12 (5.43%) Software-Defined Networking
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%) TeamCity
3 5 (2.26%) GitLab
3 5 (2.26%) Jenkins
3 5 (2.26%) Sonatype Nexus
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
3 30 (13.57%) Banking
4 21 (9.50%) Telecoms
5 16 (7.24%) Retail
6 14 (6.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 12 (5.43%) Law
8 11 (4.98%) Legal
9 10 (4.52%) Local Government
10 9 (4.07%) Financial Institution
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%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 68 (30.77%) 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%) RESTful
5 1 (0.45%) Jinja
5 1 (0.45%) Rendezvous
5 1 (0.45%) Software Packaging
5 1 (0.45%) YAML
5 1 (0.45%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 68 (30.77%) Data Centre
2 53 (23.98%) Security Posture
3 17 (7.69%) Cloud Native
4 16 (7.24%) Management Information System
5 13 (5.88%) Cyber Threat
6 12 (5.43%) PKI
7 9 (4.07%) Hybrid Cloud
7 9 (4.07%) Onboarding
8 8 (3.62%) Enterprise Software
9 6 (2.71%) Blog
9 6 (2.71%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
9 6 (2.71%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (2.71%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.71%) Replication
10 5 (2.26%) Cyber Security Posture
11 4 (1.81%) Driving Licence
11 4 (1.81%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.81%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.36%) Renewable Energy
13 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 70 (31.67%) Cybersecurity
2 60 (27.15%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (24.89%) Incident Response
3 55 (24.89%) Information Security
4 53 (23.98%) Security Architecture
5 46 (20.81%) Roadmaps
6 45 (20.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 42 (19.00%) Cloud Security
8 41 (18.55%) ITIL
9 39 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
10 37 (16.74%) Infrastructure as Code
11 35 (15.84%) SIEM
12 34 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
12 34 (15.38%) Vulnerability Management
13 32 (14.48%) AI
13 32 (14.48%) Network Design
14 30 (13.57%) Zero Trust
15 29 (13.12%) Computer Science
15 29 (13.12%) Project Delivery
16 28 (12.67%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 51 (23.08%) 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
1 107 (48.42%) CCNP
2 89 (40.27%) CISSP
3 83 (37.56%) CCNA
4 61 (27.60%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 60 (27.15%) Degree
6 57 (25.79%) CCSP
7 41 (18.55%) 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 17 (7.69%) Master's Degree
13 16 (7.24%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (6.33%) CEH
15 9 (4.07%) Security Cleared
15 9 (4.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
16 8 (3.62%) MCSE
17 7 (3.17%) GCIH
17 7 (3.17%) RHCSA
18 6 (2.71%) CCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (23.98%) NIST
2 49 (22.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 23 (10.41%) PCI DSS
4 16 (7.24%) Cyber Essentials
4 16 (7.24%) GDPR
4 16 (7.24%) QA
5 13 (5.88%) SLA
6 12 (5.43%) SOC 2
7 11 (4.98%) GRC
8 6 (2.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 5 (2.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
10 4 (1.81%) COBIT
10 4 (1.81%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.90%) ISO 31000
12 1 (0.45%) HMG Security Policy Framework
12 1 (0.45%) JSP 440
12 1 (0.45%) NCSC
12 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 38 (17.19%) 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 89 (40.27%) Cisco
2 69 (31.22%) Microsoft
3 60 (27.15%) Palo Alto
4 41 (18.55%) VMware
5 32 (14.48%) Fortinet
6 27 (12.22%) Zscaler
7 26 (11.76%) Arista
8 25 (11.31%) F5
9 22 (9.95%) Splunk
10 18 (8.14%) CheckPoint
11 17 (7.69%) SolarWinds
12 16 (7.24%) Tenable
13 15 (6.79%) Meraki
14 13 (5.88%) Google
15 12 (5.43%) ForeScout
15 12 (5.43%) Red Hat
16 10 (4.52%) Infoblox
17 9 (4.07%) Citrix
17 9 (4.07%) SevOne
18 8 (3.62%) Oracle