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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 219 166 182
Rank change year-on-year -53 +16 +116
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 160 344 333
As % of all permanent jobs in London 1.21% 2.04% 1.81%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.08% 6.87% 6.84%
Number of salaries quoted 88 230 274
10th Percentile £39,250 £43,175 £46,625
25th Percentile £60,000 £55,781 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.69% -
75th Percentile £87,813 £85,000 £84,375
90th Percentile £126,875 £99,000 £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 3,919 5,009 4,866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 29.65% 29.63% 26.40%
Number of salaries quoted 2,085 2,193 3,591
10th Percentile £32,000 £41,250 £39,085
25th Percentile £51,000 £53,000 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £91,250 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £112,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £59,430 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.45% +3.36% +1.81%

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 13 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 13 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 -9 13 £72,500 -5.23% 9
East London -7 9 - - 6
West London - 6 £59,000 -
South London +32 2 - - 1
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 9 (5.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.88%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.63%) Confluence
Applications
1 20 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 13 (8.13%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.63%) OmniGraffle
Business Applications
1 1 (0.63%) NetSuite
1 1 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 63 (39.38%) Azure
2 44 (27.50%) AWS
3 16 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 11 (6.88%) Entra ID
5 9 (5.63%) GCP
6 7 (4.38%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (3.75%) Mimecast
8 5 (3.13%) AWS Direct Connect
8 5 (3.13%) Microsoft Purview
9 4 (2.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
9 4 (2.50%) Dropbox
9 4 (2.50%) Google Workspace
10 3 (1.88%) Cloudflare
11 2 (1.25%) IaaS
11 2 (1.25%) OneDrive
11 2 (1.25%) Rubrik
11 2 (1.25%) SecurityScorecard
11 2 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 1 (0.63%) Azure Key Vault
12 1 (0.63%) Stackdriver
Communications & Networking
1 90 (56.25%) Firewall
2 62 (38.75%) LAN
3 49 (30.63%) WAN
4 41 (25.63%) VPN
5 40 (25.00%) Wireless
6 37 (23.13%) Network Security
7 36 (22.50%) OSPF
7 36 (22.50%) VLAN
8 35 (21.88%) BGP
8 35 (21.88%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (13.75%) Cisco Wireless
10 20 (12.50%) MPLS
10 20 (12.50%) SD-WAN
11 18 (11.25%) DNS
12 17 (10.63%) TCP/IP
13 16 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
14 13 (8.13%) Cisco Firepower
14 13 (8.13%) EIGRP
15 11 (6.88%) Cisco Nexus
16 10 (6.25%) HSRP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.50%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.88%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 3 (1.88%) Burp Suite
1 3 (1.88%) Git
1 3 (1.88%) Metasploit
2 2 (1.25%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (0.63%) JIRA
General
1 48 (30.00%) Social Skills
2 42 (26.25%) Finance
3 20 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (7.50%) Telecoms
6 11 (6.88%) Banking
6 11 (6.88%) Law
7 10 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (5.00%) Marketing
9 6 (3.75%) Legal
10 3 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.88%) Public Sector
11 2 (1.25%) Advertising
11 2 (1.25%) French Language
11 2 (1.25%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
11 2 (1.25%) Retail
12 1 (0.63%) Financial Institution
12 1 (0.63%) Fire and Rescue
12 1 (0.63%) Games
Job Titles
1 79 (49.38%) Network Engineer
2 40 (25.00%) Senior
3 21 (13.13%) Senior Network Engineer
4 15 (9.38%) Cisco Engineer
4 15 (9.38%) Cisco Network Engineer
5 14 (8.75%) Consultant
6 13 (8.13%) Analyst
7 12 (7.50%) AWS Engineer
8 11 (6.88%) Security Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Cisco Consultant
9 9 (5.63%) Cisco Network Consultant
9 9 (5.63%) Deployment Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) Network Consultant
9 9 (5.63%) WAN Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
10 8 (5.00%) Network Deployment Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Cisco Wireless Consultant
11 7 (4.38%) LAN Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) LAN/WAN Engineer
11 7 (4.38%) Wireless Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (3.75%) 802.1X
2 2 (1.25%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (1.25%) REST
3 1 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 46 (28.75%) Data Centre
2 7 (4.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 7 (4.38%) Security Posture
3 5 (3.13%) Cloud Native
3 5 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 5 (3.13%) Virtual Team
4 4 (2.50%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 4 (2.50%) Low-Code
4 4 (2.50%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.50%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (2.50%) Web3
5 3 (1.88%) Cloud Security Posture
5 3 (1.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (1.88%) Driving Licence
5 3 (1.88%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (1.88%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.25%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.25%) PKI
7 1 (0.63%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 21 (13.13%) Windows
2 18 (11.25%) Linux
3 9 (5.63%) Windows Server
4 7 (4.38%) Unix
5 2 (1.25%) Windows Server 2019
6 1 (0.63%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (18.75%) Computer Science
1 30 (18.75%) Load Balancing
2 28 (17.50%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (16.25%) Migration
4 23 (14.38%) High Availability
5 21 (13.13%) Information Security
5 21 (13.13%) ITIL
6 18 (11.25%) Change Control
6 18 (11.25%) Low Latency
7 17 (10.63%) Change Management
7 17 (10.63%) DevOps
7 17 (10.63%) Kalman Filter
8 16 (10.00%) AI
8 16 (10.00%) Zero Trust
9 15 (9.38%) Disaster Recovery
9 15 (9.38%) Inventory Management
10 14 (8.75%) Cybersecurity
10 14 (8.75%) Network Monitoring
10 14 (8.75%) SIEM
11 13 (8.13%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 45 (28.13%) Python
2 16 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 3 (1.88%) Bash
4 2 (1.25%) R
4 2 (1.25%) VB
5 1 (0.63%) Go
5 1 (0.63%) PromQL
5 1 (0.63%) SQL
Qualifications
1 100 (62.50%) CCNP
2 67 (41.88%) Degree
3 56 (35.00%) CCIE
4 54 (33.75%) CCNA
5 27 (16.88%) Computer Science Degree
6 24 (15.00%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 23 (14.38%) CISSP
8 19 (11.88%) CCSA
9 18 (11.25%) CCSE
10 14 (8.75%) Network+ Certification
11 13 (8.13%) CCSP
11 13 (8.13%) Microsoft Certification
12 10 (6.25%) AWS Certification
12 10 (6.25%) Azure Certification
12 10 (6.25%) CISM
12 10 (6.25%) Security Cleared
13 9 (5.63%) CISA
13 9 (5.63%) MCSA
13 9 (5.63%) MCSE
14 8 (5.00%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (15.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 20 (12.50%) GDPR
3 15 (9.38%) NIST
4 6 (3.75%) PMO
5 4 (2.50%) SLA
5 4 (2.50%) SOC 2
6 3 (1.88%) ITGC
7 2 (1.25%) GRC
7 2 (1.25%) HIPAA
8 1 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 42001
8 1 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 15 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 10 (6.25%) Virtual Machines
2 10 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (3.13%) vSphere
4 4 (2.50%) BitLocker
4 4 (2.50%) Firmware
4 4 (2.50%) Hyper-V
4 4 (2.50%) pfSense
4 4 (2.50%) ProxySG
5 2 (1.25%) Docker
5 2 (1.25%) EMC RecoverPoint
5 2 (1.25%) Squid
6 1 (0.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 35 (21.88%) Ansible
2 18 (11.25%) Terraform
3 10 (6.25%) FortiGate
4 7 (4.38%) Grafana
5 6 (3.75%) CASB
5 6 (3.75%) Kubernetes
5 6 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
5 6 (3.75%) Prometheus
6 5 (3.13%) Cisco CUCM
7 4 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
8 3 (1.88%) ArcSight ESM
8 3 (1.88%) Nmap
8 3 (1.88%) QRadar
9 2 (1.25%) CA Spectrum
9 2 (1.25%) Kibana
9 2 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (1.25%) VxRail
10 1 (0.63%) Nagios
10 1 (0.63%) vRealize Orchestrator
10 1 (0.63%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 118 (73.75%) Cisco
2 41 (25.63%) CheckPoint
3 38 (23.75%) Fortinet
4 30 (18.75%) Meraki
5 29 (18.13%) Microsoft
6 27 (16.88%) Palo Alto
7 24 (15.00%) Juniper
8 21 (13.13%) Arista
8 21 (13.13%) F5
9 17 (10.63%) VMware
10 15 (9.38%) SolarWinds
11 8 (5.00%) Infoblox
11 8 (5.00%) Splunk
12 6 (3.75%) Google
12 6 (3.75%) Motorola
12 6 (3.75%) ServiceNow
12 6 (3.75%) Zscaler
13 5 (3.13%) Oracle
14 4 (2.50%) McAfee
14 4 (2.50%) Webroot