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

6 months to
10 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 217 176 178
Rank change year-on-year -41 +2 +159
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 178 329 346
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.44% 1.91% 1.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.78% 6.80% 6.82%
Number of salaries quoted 90 213 271
10th Percentile £39,250 £41,800 £42,500
25th Percentile £57,500 £52,500 £54,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £88,438 £82,500 £87,500
90th Percentile £126,875 £97,500 £97,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +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 3,727 4,839 5,074
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.09% 28.03% 26.07%
Number of salaries quoted 2,043 2,126 3,697
10th Percentile £33,350 £38,875 £39,085
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £67,500 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% - +3.70%
75th Percentile £88,750 £87,500 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £108,750 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +4.55%

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 November 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 10 November 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 -4 19 £70,000 -1.69% 70
East London -8 7 - - 2
West London - 7 £59,000 - 4
North London - 1 £32,500 - 1
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 (6.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (2.25%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.69%) nginx
4 1 (0.56%) CMS
Applications
1 19 (10.67%) MS Visio
2 12 (6.74%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
5 1 (0.56%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 74 (41.57%) Azure
2 49 (27.53%) AWS
3 19 (10.67%) Microsoft 365
4 15 (8.43%) GCP
5 12 (6.74%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.93%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.37%) IaaS
7 6 (3.37%) Mimecast
8 5 (2.81%) AWS Direct Connect
8 5 (2.81%) Rubrik
9 4 (2.25%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (2.25%) Dropbox
9 4 (2.25%) Google Workspace
9 4 (2.25%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (1.69%) Cloudflare
10 3 (1.69%) OpenShift
11 2 (1.12%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.12%) SaaS
11 2 (1.12%) SecurityScorecard
11 2 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 94 (52.81%) Firewall
2 70 (39.33%) LAN
3 59 (33.15%) WAN
4 55 (30.90%) VPN
5 45 (25.28%) BGP
6 44 (24.72%) Network Security
7 43 (24.16%) OSPF
8 41 (23.03%) Wireless
9 37 (20.79%) Wi-Fi
10 36 (20.22%) VLAN
11 24 (13.48%) MPLS
12 22 (12.36%) SD-WAN
13 21 (11.80%) DNS
13 21 (11.80%) TCP/IP
14 20 (11.24%) Cisco Wireless
15 16 (8.99%) EIGRP
16 14 (7.87%) Cisco ASA
17 12 (6.74%) Cisco Nexus
17 12 (6.74%) HSRP
18 11 (6.18%) NX-OS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.25%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.69%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 5 (2.81%) Git
2 3 (1.69%) Burp Suite
2 3 (1.69%) GitLab
2 3 (1.69%) Jenkins
2 3 (1.69%) Metasploit
3 1 (0.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 61 (34.27%) Social Skills
2 53 (29.78%) Finance
3 31 (17.42%) Analytical Skills
4 25 (14.04%) Banking
5 19 (10.67%) Documentation Skills
6 17 (9.55%) Telecoms
7 11 (6.18%) Law
8 9 (5.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 8 (4.49%) Marketing
10 7 (3.93%) Retail
11 6 (3.37%) Legal
12 5 (2.81%) Local Government
13 3 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
13 3 (1.69%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (1.12%) Advertising
14 2 (1.12%) French Language
14 2 (1.12%) Mandarin Language
14 2 (1.12%) Military
14 2 (1.12%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 87 (48.88%) Network Engineer
2 43 (24.16%) Senior
3 21 (11.80%) Senior Network Engineer
4 15 (8.43%) Cisco Engineer
5 14 (7.87%) Analyst
5 14 (7.87%) Cisco Network Engineer
6 12 (6.74%) Architect
6 12 (6.74%) Consultant
7 11 (6.18%) AWS Engineer
7 11 (6.18%) Security Engineer
8 9 (5.06%) Security Architect
9 8 (4.49%) Deployment Engineer
9 8 (4.49%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Network Analyst
10 7 (3.93%) Network Deployment Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) Operations Engineer
10 7 (3.93%) WAN Engineer
11 6 (3.37%) Lead
11 6 (3.37%) Wireless Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.93%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.12%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (1.12%) REST
3 1 (0.56%) Jinja
3 1 (0.56%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (0.56%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 53 (29.78%) Data Centre
2 12 (6.74%) Security Posture
3 7 (3.93%) Public Cloud
4 6 (3.37%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.37%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.81%) Cloud Native
5 5 (2.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 5 (2.81%) Onboarding
6 4 (2.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 4 (2.25%) Driving Licence
6 4 (2.25%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
6 4 (2.25%) Low-Code
6 4 (2.25%) Web3
7 3 (1.69%) Cloud Security Posture
7 3 (1.69%) Private Cloud
7 3 (1.69%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.12%) CCTV
8 2 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (1.12%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 32 (17.98%) Windows
2 22 (12.36%) Linux
3 18 (10.11%) Windows Server
4 6 (3.37%) Unix
5 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2016
5 2 (1.12%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (20.79%) Problem-Solving
2 32 (17.98%) High Availability
3 27 (15.17%) Computer Science
3 27 (15.17%) ITIL
3 27 (15.17%) Load Balancing
4 24 (13.48%) Information Security
4 24 (13.48%) Migration
5 21 (11.80%) DevOps
5 21 (11.80%) Low Latency
6 19 (10.67%) AI
6 19 (10.67%) Cybersecurity
7 18 (10.11%) Disaster Recovery
8 16 (8.99%) Change Management
8 16 (8.99%) Incident Response
8 16 (8.99%) Mentoring
9 15 (8.43%) Risk Management
9 15 (8.43%) Roadmaps
9 15 (8.43%) Zero Trust
10 14 (7.87%) Agile
10 14 (7.87%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 49 (27.53%) Python
2 20 (11.24%) PowerShell
3 7 (3.93%) Bash
4 3 (1.69%) Go
5 2 (1.12%) R
5 2 (1.12%) VB
6 1 (0.56%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.56%) PromQL
6 1 (0.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 113 (63.48%) CCNP
2 72 (40.45%) Degree
3 70 (39.33%) CCNA
4 55 (30.90%) CCIE
5 27 (15.17%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 26 (14.61%) CISSP
7 24 (13.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (9.55%) CCSA
8 17 (9.55%) Microsoft Certification
9 16 (8.99%) CCSE
9 16 (8.99%) CCSP
10 15 (8.43%) Azure Certification
11 14 (7.87%) CISM
12 12 (6.74%) Network+ Certification
13 10 (5.62%) AWS Certification
13 10 (5.62%) MCSA
14 9 (5.06%) CISA
14 9 (5.06%) GIAC
14 9 (5.06%) MCSE
14 9 (5.06%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (15.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (11.24%) NIST
3 19 (10.67%) GDPR
4 8 (4.49%) SLA
5 6 (3.37%) PMO
6 5 (2.81%) QA
7 3 (1.69%) SOC 2
8 2 (1.12%) GRC
8 2 (1.12%) HIPAA
8 2 (1.12%) ITGC
9 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
9 1 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 22 (12.36%) Active Directory
2 16 (8.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (5.62%) Virtual Machines
4 5 (2.81%) EMC RecoverPoint
4 5 (2.81%) vSphere
5 4 (2.25%) BitLocker
5 4 (2.25%) Hyper-V
5 4 (2.25%) pfSense
5 4 (2.25%) ProxySG
6 2 (1.12%) Docker
6 2 (1.12%) Squid
6 2 (1.12%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 34 (19.10%) Ansible
2 23 (12.92%) Terraform
3 9 (5.06%) Cisco CUCM
3 9 (5.06%) Kubernetes
4 8 (4.49%) FortiGate
5 7 (3.93%) Grafana
6 6 (3.37%) CASB
6 6 (3.37%) Microsoft Intune
6 6 (3.37%) Prometheus
7 5 (2.81%) Nagios
7 5 (2.81%) VxRail
8 4 (2.25%) Jamf Pro
9 3 (1.69%) Nmap
10 2 (1.12%) ArcSight ESM
10 2 (1.12%) CA Spectrum
10 2 (1.12%) Kibana
10 2 (1.12%) QRadar
10 2 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
11 1 (0.56%) vRealize Orchestrator
11 1 (0.56%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 123 (69.10%) Cisco
2 43 (24.16%) CheckPoint
3 36 (20.22%) Fortinet
4 32 (17.98%) Microsoft
5 31 (17.42%) Meraki
6 25 (14.04%) Palo Alto
7 24 (13.48%) Arista
7 24 (13.48%) F5
8 23 (12.92%) VMware
9 22 (12.36%) SolarWinds
10 20 (11.24%) Juniper
11 10 (5.62%) Splunk
12 8 (4.49%) Zscaler
13 7 (3.93%) ServiceNow
14 6 (3.37%) Google
14 6 (3.37%) Infoblox
14 6 (3.37%) Motorola
15 5 (2.81%) Citrix
15 5 (2.81%) Oracle
15 5 (2.81%) Sophos