Cisco Certified Internetwork Expert (CCIE)
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for CCIE qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 748 784 905
Rank change year-on-year +36 +121 -168
Permanent jobs citing CCIE 135 175 337
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.14% 0.18% 0.21%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.49% 0.53% 0.78%
Number of salaries quoted 97 143 277
10th Percentile - £50,000 £50,000
25th Percentile £46,750 £65,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £80,000 £80,000
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% - +18.52%
75th Percentile £72,500 £88,125 £92,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £95,000 £104,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,073 £65,000 £82,500
% change year-on-year -19.89% -21.21% +26.92%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

CCIE is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 27,478 32,741 43,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.54% 32.99% 27.01%
Number of salaries quoted 17,239 14,745 18,961
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,393 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,875 £41,134
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,090 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.01% +4.18% +1.83%

CCIE
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing CCIE as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for CCIE in the UK

CCIE
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing CCIE.

Salary trend for CCIE in the UK

CCIE
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing CCIE over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Salary histogram for CCIE in the UK

CCIE
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing CCIE within the UK over the 6 months to 17 May 2024. 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
England +87 119 £60,000 -14.29% 33
UK excluding London +33 100 £52,073 -19.89% 22
Work from Home +26 66 £48,500 -39.38% 14
Midlands +33 40 £48,500 -46.11% 4
West Midlands +53 39 £48,500 -46.11% 4
London +72 27 £75,000 -9.09% 12
North of England +69 25 £60,000 -25.00% 11
South East -23 16 £60,000 -7.69% 2
Yorkshire - 15 £65,050 - 6
South West -12 11 £48,500 - 3
North West +4 10 £60,000 -25.00% 5
Scotland - 5 £75,000 - 1
Wales - 3 - -
East Midlands - 1 £51,700 -

CCIE
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.48%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (1.48%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (2.22%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.48%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.48%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.48%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 18 (13.33%) Azure
2 8 (5.93%) AWS
3 4 (2.96%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (2.22%) GCP
5 2 (1.48%) AWS Direct Connect
5 2 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (0.74%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.74%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.74%) IaaS
6 1 (0.74%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 90 (66.67%) WAN
2 75 (55.56%) LAN
3 61 (45.19%) BGP
4 59 (43.70%) OSPF
5 55 (40.74%) Firewall
6 52 (38.52%) Network Security
7 47 (34.81%) SD-WAN
8 45 (33.33%) MPLS
9 38 (28.15%) WLAN
10 35 (25.93%) Wireless
11 32 (23.70%) VPN
12 27 (20.00%) Wi-Fi
13 21 (15.56%) Cisco Nexus
14 20 (14.81%) VLAN
15 18 (13.33%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (10.37%) Cisco Firepower
16 14 (10.37%) TCP/IP
17 12 (8.89%) VoIP
17 12 (8.89%) VRRP
18 11 (8.15%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.70%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.48%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.48%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (1.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.74%) DynamoDB
General
1 52 (38.52%) Social Skills
2 19 (14.07%) Retail
3 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.15%) Finance
5 10 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 9 (6.67%) Manufacturing
7 7 (5.19%) Legal
8 4 (2.96%) Financial Institution
8 4 (2.96%) Police
9 3 (2.22%) Automotive
9 3 (2.22%) Banking
9 3 (2.22%) Local Government
9 3 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
9 3 (2.22%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.48%) Electronics
10 2 (1.48%) Front Office
10 2 (1.48%) Games
10 2 (1.48%) Military
11 1 (0.74%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 56 (41.48%) Network Engineer
2 40 (29.63%) Senior
3 36 (26.67%) Analyst
3 36 (26.67%) Network Analyst
4 35 (25.93%) Network Operations Analyst
4 35 (25.93%) Operations Analyst
5 23 (17.04%) Senior Network Engineer
6 17 (12.59%) Architect
7 10 (7.41%) IT Engineer
8 8 (5.93%) Consultant
8 8 (5.93%) Network Architect
8 8 (5.93%) Security Consultant
9 7 (5.19%) Senior Architect
10 6 (4.44%) Project Engineer
10 6 (4.44%) Senior Analyst
10 6 (4.44%) Senior Network Analyst
10 6 (4.44%) Senior Network Architect
10 6 (4.44%) Senior Operations Analyst
11 5 (3.70%) Cisco Engineer
11 5 (3.70%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (3.70%) 802.1X
2 3 (2.22%) HTML
3 2 (1.48%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 27 (20.00%) Data Centre
2 7 (5.19%) Cyber Threat
2 7 (5.19%) FMCG
2 7 (5.19%) Public Cloud
3 6 (4.44%) Management Information System
4 5 (3.70%) Algorithms
4 5 (3.70%) Data Structures
4 5 (3.70%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.70%) PKI
4 5 (3.70%) PropTech
5 3 (2.22%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.48%) Cybercrime
6 2 (1.48%) Driving Licence
6 2 (1.48%) EPoS
6 2 (1.48%) Fibre Optics
6 2 (1.48%) Molecular Biology
6 2 (1.48%) Operational Technology
6 2 (1.48%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.74%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.15%) Windows
2 9 (6.67%) Android
3 8 (5.93%) Windows Server
4 7 (5.19%) Apple iOS
5 4 (2.96%) Linux
6 3 (2.22%) CatOS
7 1 (0.74%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (20.74%) Computer Science
1 28 (20.74%) Problem-Solving
2 25 (18.52%) Roadmaps
3 23 (17.04%) Network Architecture
4 18 (13.33%) Network Design
4 18 (13.33%) Project Management
5 17 (12.59%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 15 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 15 (11.11%) Network Monitoring
6 15 (11.11%) Project Delivery
7 13 (9.63%) Network Virtualisation
8 12 (8.89%) Business Analysis
8 12 (8.89%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (7.41%) Change Management
9 10 (7.41%) Patch Management
10 9 (6.67%) High Availability
10 9 (6.67%) Information Security
10 9 (6.67%) Network Management
10 9 (6.67%) Presales
10 9 (6.67%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 9 (6.67%) Python
2 4 (2.96%) Bash
3 3 (2.22%) C#
3 3 (2.22%) PowerShell
3 3 (2.22%) SQL
Qualifications
1 135 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 114 (84.44%) CCNP
3 41 (30.37%) CCNA
4 37 (27.41%) CCDP
5 34 (25.19%) Degree
6 26 (19.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 24 (17.78%) CISSP
8 13 (9.63%) Security Cleared
9 10 (7.41%) CCIE Routing and Switching
9 10 (7.41%) SC Cleared
10 9 (6.67%) Master's Degree
11 8 (5.93%) CCIE Security
11 8 (5.93%) CCSP
12 6 (4.44%) (ISC)2 CCSP
12 6 (4.44%) JNCIE
13 5 (3.70%) CISM
14 4 (2.96%) ITIL Certification
14 4 (2.96%) Microsoft Certification
15 3 (2.22%) Check Point Certification
15 3 (2.22%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (5.19%) NIST
2 5 (3.70%) SLA
3 4 (2.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.48%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
5 1 (0.74%) GxP
System Software
1 8 (5.93%) Active Directory
2 7 (5.19%) Firmware
3 6 (4.44%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.22%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (8.15%) Ansible
2 4 (2.96%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (2.22%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (1.48%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (1.48%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.74%) CASB
5 1 (0.74%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 84 (62.22%) Cisco
2 35 (25.93%) Palo Alto
3 20 (14.81%) CheckPoint
4 17 (12.59%) Fortinet
4 17 (12.59%) Meraki
5 13 (9.63%) VMware
6 10 (7.41%) Microsoft
7 8 (5.93%) Aruba
7 8 (5.93%) Zscaler
8 7 (5.19%) Ekahau
8 7 (5.19%) F5
9 6 (4.44%) Blue Coat
9 6 (4.44%) CrowdStrike
9 6 (4.44%) Netskope
9 6 (4.44%) Symantec
10 4 (2.96%) Juniper
11 3 (2.22%) SolarWinds
11 3 (2.22%) Splunk
12 2 (1.48%) Apple
12 2 (1.48%) Huawei