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

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 203 208 242
Rank change year-on-year +5 +34 -16
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 255 199 292
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.15% 1.60% 1.26%
As % of the Qualifications category 5.68% 5.39% 4.60%
Number of salaries quoted 161 106 241
10th Percentile £60,000 £33,200 £37,283
25th Percentile £65,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,500 £60,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +29.17% -4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £91,000 £83,750 £83,750
90th Percentile £105,000 £88,750 £100,000
England median annual salary £65,000 £53,594 £52,500
% change year-on-year +21.28% +2.08% -4.55%

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 4,489 3,690 6,352
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 20.20% 29.63% 27.49%
Number of salaries quoted 2,704 1,970 3,787
10th Percentile £41,250 £40,557 £35,750
25th Percentile £55,938 £52,000 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £67,500 £65,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +3.05% -2.96%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £103,750 £110,000 £100,000
England median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
% change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -9.51%

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 16 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 16 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 +12 26 £75,000 +15.38% 11
East London 0 5 £70,000 +124.00% 2
West London -17 3 £77,500 -11.43% 2
South London +8 2 - - 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 (4.31%) Confluence
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.57%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.78%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 15 (5.88%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 119 (46.67%) Azure
2 84 (32.94%) AWS
3 43 (16.86%) Microsoft 365
4 35 (13.73%) GCP
5 23 (9.02%) Datadog
6 12 (4.71%) Azure Monitor
7 11 (4.31%) Entra ID
7 11 (4.31%) OpenShift
7 11 (4.31%) SaaS
8 10 (3.92%) Azure Sentinel
9 9 (3.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
10 8 (3.14%) IaaS
10 8 (3.14%) Nutanix
10 8 (3.14%) OCI
10 8 (3.14%) PaaS
11 6 (2.35%) Amazon GuardDuty
11 6 (2.35%) AWS KMS
11 6 (2.35%) ChatGPT
11 6 (2.35%) Microsoft Copilot
11 6 (2.35%) Mimecast
Communications & Networking
1 133 (52.16%) Firewall
2 103 (40.39%) Network Security
2 103 (40.39%) WAN
3 97 (38.04%) VPN
4 74 (29.02%) SD-WAN
5 64 (25.10%) LAN
6 49 (19.22%) Wireless
7 47 (18.43%) BGP
8 42 (16.47%) OSPF
9 41 (16.08%) Cisco ISE
9 41 (16.08%) DNS
10 40 (15.69%) VLAN
11 30 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
12 29 (11.37%) Cisco Wireless
13 26 (10.20%) TCP/IP
14 21 (8.24%) Cisco Firepower
15 19 (7.45%) VXLAN
16 16 (6.27%) DHCP
16 16 (6.27%) SSL
17 15 (5.88%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.27%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.57%) Big Data
2 4 (1.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (7.45%) JIRA
2 8 (3.14%) Chocolatey
2 8 (3.14%) GitLab
3 7 (2.75%) Jenkins
4 4 (1.57%) Bitbucket
4 4 (1.57%) Git
General
1 114 (44.71%) Social Skills
2 71 (27.84%) Finance
3 47 (18.43%) Banking
4 41 (16.08%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (9.41%) Retail
6 21 (8.24%) Telecoms
7 16 (6.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 16 (6.27%) Local Government
8 12 (4.71%) Public Sector
9 7 (2.75%) Mandarin Language
9 7 (2.75%) Marketing
9 7 (2.75%) Retail Banking
10 6 (2.35%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
12 4 (1.57%) Aerospace
12 4 (1.57%) Automotive
12 4 (1.57%) Electronics
12 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
12 4 (1.57%) Law
12 4 (1.57%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 84 (32.94%) Network Engineer
2 49 (19.22%) Senior
3 39 (15.29%) Architect
4 28 (10.98%) Consultant
4 28 (10.98%) Network Architect
5 26 (10.20%) Lead
6 24 (9.41%) Senior Network Engineer
7 22 (8.63%) Security Specialist
8 21 (8.24%) Azure Engineer
9 19 (7.45%) Network Specialist
10 18 (7.06%) Network Security Specialist
11 16 (6.27%) Infrastructure Engineer
12 15 (5.88%) Network Consultant
13 14 (5.49%) Cisco Engineer
13 14 (5.49%) Cisco Network Engineer
14 12 (4.71%) Principal Architect
14 12 (4.71%) Security Engineer
15 10 (3.92%) Analyst
16 9 (3.53%) Lead Network Engineer
16 9 (3.53%) Principal Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.75%) 802.1X
1 7 (2.75%) OAuth
2 5 (1.96%) OpenID
3 4 (1.57%) LDAP
4 3 (1.18%) ARM Templates
4 3 (1.18%) REST
4 3 (1.18%) SAML
5 2 (0.78%) EDI
5 2 (0.78%) IDoc
5 2 (0.78%) JSON
5 2 (0.78%) JWT
5 2 (0.78%) OAuth2
5 2 (0.78%) RESTful
5 2 (0.78%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 91 (35.69%) Data Centre
2 49 (19.22%) Security Posture
3 15 (5.88%) Cloud Native
3 15 (5.88%) PKI
4 12 (4.71%) Cyber Threat
5 9 (3.53%) Hybrid Cloud
5 9 (3.53%) Management Information System
6 8 (3.14%) Onboarding
6 8 (3.14%) Public Cloud
7 7 (2.75%) Cyber Defence
8 6 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
8 6 (2.35%) Private Cloud
9 5 (1.96%) Replication
9 5 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
10 4 (1.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 4 (1.57%) Renewable Energy
11 3 (1.18%) Greenfield Project
11 3 (1.18%) Video Conferencing
12 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
13 1 (0.39%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 59 (23.14%) Windows
2 34 (13.33%) Linux
3 31 (12.16%) Windows Server
4 7 (2.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (1.18%) Unix
6 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (0.78%) Windows Server 2019
7 1 (0.39%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (22.75%) ITIL
2 57 (22.35%) Cybersecurity
3 55 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
3 55 (21.57%) Roadmaps
4 48 (18.82%) Incident Response
5 43 (16.86%) Information Security
5 43 (16.86%) Technical Leadership
6 42 (16.47%) Disaster Recovery
7 40 (15.69%) High Availability
7 40 (15.69%) Mentoring
8 38 (14.90%) Security Architecture
9 36 (14.12%) Network Design
9 36 (14.12%) Network Monitoring
10 34 (13.33%) AI
11 33 (12.94%) Infrastructure as Code
11 33 (12.94%) SIEM
12 31 (12.16%) Cloud Security
12 31 (12.16%) Project Delivery
13 30 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 30 (11.76%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 46 (18.04%) Python
2 29 (11.37%) PowerShell
3 10 (3.92%) Bash
4 8 (3.14%) Java
5 2 (0.78%) Kusto Query Language
5 2 (0.78%) Search Processing Language
6 1 (0.39%) Bicep
6 1 (0.39%) C
6 1 (0.39%) SQL
Qualifications
1 145 (56.86%) CCNP
2 91 (35.69%) CCNA
3 76 (29.80%) Degree
4 73 (28.63%) CISSP
5 60 (23.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 57 (22.35%) CCIE
7 56 (21.96%) Azure Certification
8 48 (18.82%) CCSP
9 42 (16.47%) CISM
10 27 (10.59%) Computer Science Degree
11 26 (10.20%) AWS Certification
12 25 (9.80%) Microsoft Certification
13 23 (9.02%) Master's Degree
14 18 (7.06%) CCSE
15 14 (5.49%) CCSA
15 14 (5.49%) Security Cleared
16 13 (5.10%) MCSE
16 13 (5.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
17 12 (4.71%) CompTIA Security+
18 11 (4.31%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (24.71%) NIST
2 51 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 22 (8.63%) GDPR
3 22 (8.63%) QA
4 18 (7.06%) PCI DSS
4 18 (7.06%) SLA
5 13 (5.10%) Cyber Essentials
6 9 (3.53%) SOC 2
7 5 (1.96%) COBIT
7 5 (1.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 4 (1.57%) Accessibility
9 2 (0.78%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.39%) NCSC
10 1 (0.39%) PMO
10 1 (0.39%) RMADS
System Software
1 40 (15.69%) Active Directory
2 36 (14.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 8 (3.14%) Virtual Desktop
3 8 (3.14%) vSphere
4 7 (2.75%) VMware NSX
5 5 (1.96%) Docker
6 4 (1.57%) EMC RecoverPoint
6 4 (1.57%) Squid
6 4 (1.57%) Virtual Machines
7 3 (1.18%) Hyper-V
7 3 (1.18%) VMware Server
8 1 (0.39%) BitLocker
8 1 (0.39%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 37 (14.51%) Ansible
2 34 (13.33%) Terraform
3 18 (7.06%) Kubernetes
4 16 (6.27%) FortiGate
5 12 (4.71%) Microsoft Intune
6 10 (3.92%) Cisco Prime
7 9 (3.53%) SCCM
7 9 (3.53%) Single Sign-On
8 8 (3.14%) Check_MK
9 5 (1.96%) Control-M
9 5 (1.96%) ZABBIX
10 4 (1.57%) Packer
10 4 (1.57%) Red Hat Satellite
10 4 (1.57%) VxRail
11 2 (0.78%) Nagios
11 2 (0.78%) OpenView
11 2 (0.78%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 128 (50.20%) Cisco
2 88 (34.51%) Microsoft
3 64 (25.10%) Palo Alto
4 46 (18.04%) VMware
5 45 (17.65%) SolarWinds
6 43 (16.86%) Fortinet
7 36 (14.12%) Splunk
8 31 (12.16%) Arista
8 31 (12.16%) CheckPoint
9 23 (9.02%) F5
9 23 (9.02%) Meraki
10 21 (8.24%) ForeScout
11 19 (7.45%) Tenable
11 19 (7.45%) Zscaler
12 15 (5.88%) Infoblox
12 15 (5.88%) Red Hat
12 15 (5.88%) SevOne
13 12 (4.71%) Sophos
14 10 (3.92%) Dynatrace
15 8 (3.14%) AppDynamics