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

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 195 207 236
Rank change year-on-year +12 +29 -19
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 271 198 271
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.19% 1.61% 1.30%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.89% 5.57% 4.71%
Number of salaries quoted 171 103 217
10th Percentile £57,500 £33,200 £40,000
25th Percentile £64,375 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -7.69% -
75th Percentile £91,000 £83,750 £85,000
90th Percentile £110,000 £88,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £52,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -1.89% -3.64%

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 4,604 3,554 5,758
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.26% 28.92% 27.54%
Number of salaries quoted 2,776 1,965 3,263
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,421 £36,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £51,675 £48,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% - -
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £87,500
90th Percentile £105,000 £110,000 £101,250
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 July 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 July 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 +8 25 £72,500 +15.08% 14
East London -10 4 £70,000 +124.00% 1
West London -21 3 £77,500 -11.43% 2
South London +9 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 11 (4.06%) Confluence
2 4 (1.48%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.11%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.74%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 15 (5.54%) MS Visio
2 6 (2.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (1.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.74%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 120 (44.28%) Azure
2 88 (32.47%) AWS
3 44 (16.24%) Microsoft 365
4 36 (13.28%) GCP
5 24 (8.86%) Datadog
6 13 (4.80%) OpenShift
7 12 (4.43%) SaaS
8 11 (4.06%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (4.06%) Entra ID
9 9 (3.32%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (3.32%) IaaS
9 9 (3.32%) PaaS
10 8 (2.95%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (2.95%) Nutanix
10 8 (2.95%) OCI
11 6 (2.21%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 6 (2.21%) AWS KMS
11 6 (2.21%) Mimecast
12 5 (1.85%) Cloud Computing
12 5 (1.85%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 139 (51.29%) Firewall
2 110 (40.59%) Network Security
3 108 (39.85%) WAN
4 100 (36.90%) VPN
5 77 (28.41%) SD-WAN
6 70 (25.83%) LAN
7 50 (18.45%) Wireless
8 49 (18.08%) BGP
9 46 (16.97%) DNS
10 44 (16.24%) Cisco ISE
10 44 (16.24%) OSPF
11 43 (15.87%) VLAN
12 31 (11.44%) Wi-Fi
13 29 (10.70%) Cisco Wireless
13 29 (10.70%) TCP/IP
14 22 (8.12%) VXLAN
15 20 (7.38%) DHCP
16 18 (6.64%) Cisco Firepower
17 16 (5.90%) SSL
17 16 (5.90%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (6.27%) SQL Server
2 6 (2.21%) Big Data
3 4 (1.48%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (7.01%) JIRA
2 9 (3.32%) Chocolatey
3 8 (2.95%) GitLab
3 8 (2.95%) Jenkins
4 5 (1.85%) Git
5 4 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.37%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 122 (45.02%) Social Skills
2 71 (26.20%) Finance
3 50 (18.45%) Banking
4 42 (15.50%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (9.59%) Retail
5 26 (9.59%) Telecoms
6 17 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (5.90%) Local Government
8 14 (5.17%) Public Sector
9 9 (3.32%) Marketing
10 8 (2.95%) Legal
10 8 (2.95%) Mandarin Language
10 8 (2.95%) Presentation Skills
11 6 (2.21%) Law
11 6 (2.21%) Organisational Skills
11 6 (2.21%) Retail Banking
12 5 (1.85%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (1.48%) Digital Health
13 4 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
13 4 (1.48%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 87 (32.10%) Network Engineer
2 49 (18.08%) Senior
3 41 (15.13%) Architect
4 31 (11.44%) Consultant
5 28 (10.33%) Network Architect
6 26 (9.59%) Lead
7 25 (9.23%) Senior Network Engineer
8 24 (8.86%) Security Specialist
9 21 (7.75%) Network Specialist
10 20 (7.38%) Azure Engineer
10 20 (7.38%) Network Security Specialist
11 17 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (5.54%) Network Consultant
13 14 (5.17%) Cisco Engineer
13 14 (5.17%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 13 (4.80%) Security Engineer
15 12 (4.43%) Principal Architect
16 10 (3.69%) Analyst
16 10 (3.69%) Solutions Consultant
17 9 (3.32%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (2.21%) 802.1X
1 6 (2.21%) OAuth
2 4 (1.48%) LDAP
2 4 (1.48%) OpenID
2 4 (1.48%) REST
3 3 (1.11%) ARM Templates
3 3 (1.11%) JWT
3 3 (1.11%) OAuth2
3 3 (1.11%) SAML
4 2 (0.74%) EDI
4 2 (0.74%) IDoc
4 2 (0.74%) JSON
4 2 (0.74%) RESTful
4 2 (0.74%) SailPoint
5 1 (0.37%) Jinja
5 1 (0.37%) NETCONF
5 1 (0.37%) YAML
5 1 (0.37%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 94 (34.69%) Data Centre
2 48 (17.71%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.54%) PKI
4 14 (5.17%) Cloud Native
5 13 (4.80%) Cyber Threat
6 10 (3.69%) Management Information System
6 10 (3.69%) Onboarding
6 10 (3.69%) Public Cloud
7 9 (3.32%) Hybrid Cloud
8 7 (2.58%) Cyber Defence
8 7 (2.58%) Private Cloud
9 6 (2.21%) Enterprise Software
10 5 (1.85%) Replication
10 5 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (1.48%) Renewable Energy
11 4 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
12 3 (1.11%) Driving Licence
12 3 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 3 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
13 2 (0.74%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 61 (22.51%) Windows
2 35 (12.92%) Linux
3 33 (12.18%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.58%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.11%) Unix
6 2 (0.74%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.37%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (22.51%) Cybersecurity
1 61 (22.51%) ITIL
2 58 (21.40%) Problem-Solving
2 58 (21.40%) Roadmaps
3 50 (18.45%) Incident Response
4 48 (17.71%) Technical Leadership
5 47 (17.34%) Information Security
6 45 (16.61%) Disaster Recovery
7 42 (15.50%) Network Design
8 41 (15.13%) Mentoring
8 41 (15.13%) Security Architecture
9 40 (14.76%) High Availability
10 37 (13.65%) Network Monitoring
11 36 (13.28%) Infrastructure as Code
11 36 (13.28%) Presales
11 36 (13.28%) Project Delivery
12 35 (12.92%) SIEM
13 34 (12.55%) AI
13 34 (12.55%) Cloud Security
14 32 (11.81%) Infrastructure Engineering
Programming Languages
1 49 (18.08%) Python
2 28 (10.33%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.69%) Bash
4 8 (2.95%) Java
5 2 (0.74%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.74%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.37%) C
6 1 (0.37%) SQL
Qualifications
1 156 (57.56%) CCNP
2 93 (34.32%) CCNA
3 80 (29.52%) CISSP
4 78 (28.78%) Degree
5 63 (23.25%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 59 (21.77%) CCIE
7 58 (21.40%) Azure Certification
8 52 (19.19%) CCSP
9 46 (16.97%) CISM
10 28 (10.33%) AWS Certification
11 27 (9.96%) Computer Science Degree
12 25 (9.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 24 (8.86%) Master's Degree
14 18 (6.64%) CCSE
15 15 (5.54%) Security Cleared
16 14 (5.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 13 (4.80%) CompTIA Security+
17 13 (4.80%) MCSE
18 12 (4.43%) CCSA
18 12 (4.43%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (23.99%) NIST
2 53 (19.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (8.12%) GDPR
3 22 (8.12%) QA
4 20 (7.38%) PCI DSS
5 19 (7.01%) SLA
6 13 (4.80%) Cyber Essentials
7 9 (3.32%) SOC 2
8 6 (2.21%) COBIT
8 6 (2.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (1.48%) Accessibility
10 2 (0.74%) GRC
10 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
11 1 (0.37%) HMG Security Policy Framework
11 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
11 1 (0.37%) NCSC
11 1 (0.37%) PMO
11 1 (0.37%) RMADS
System Software
1 43 (15.87%) Active Directory
2 40 (14.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 9 (3.32%) Virtual Desktop
4 8 (2.95%) vSphere
5 7 (2.58%) VMware NSX
6 5 (1.85%) Docker
6 5 (1.85%) Hyper-V
7 4 (1.48%) EMC RecoverPoint
7 4 (1.48%) Squid
7 4 (1.48%) Virtual Machines
8 3 (1.11%) VMware Server
9 1 (0.37%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.37%) Firmware
9 1 (0.37%) ProxySG
Systems Management
1 42 (15.50%) Ansible
2 36 (13.28%) Terraform
3 20 (7.38%) Kubernetes
4 17 (6.27%) FortiGate
5 12 (4.43%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.69%) SCCM
7 9 (3.32%) Cisco Prime
8 7 (2.58%) Check_MK
8 7 (2.58%) Single Sign-On
9 5 (1.85%) Control-M
9 5 (1.85%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.48%) Packer
10 4 (1.48%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (1.48%) VxRail
11 2 (0.74%) Nagios
11 2 (0.74%) OpenView
11 2 (0.74%) Tivoli
12 1 (0.37%) CASB
Vendors
1 137 (50.55%) Cisco
2 90 (33.21%) Microsoft
3 69 (25.46%) Palo Alto
4 50 (18.45%) VMware
5 48 (17.71%) Fortinet
6 42 (15.50%) SolarWinds
7 36 (13.28%) Arista
7 36 (13.28%) Splunk
8 34 (12.55%) CheckPoint
9 28 (10.33%) F5
10 26 (9.59%) Meraki
10 26 (9.59%) Zscaler
11 21 (7.75%) ForeScout
12 20 (7.38%) Tenable
13 15 (5.54%) Infoblox
13 15 (5.54%) Red Hat
13 15 (5.54%) SevOne
14 14 (5.17%) Sophos
15 10 (3.69%) Dynatrace
16 9 (3.32%) AppDynamics