Cisco Certification Jobs

Cisco Certification
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 235 234 236
Rank change year-on-year -1 +2 -16
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 1,276 1,501 3,040
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.22% 1.59% 1.80%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.57% 4.69% 6.65%
Number of salaries quoted 1,056 1,107 1,514
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,625 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,364 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £90,875
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £47,368 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.45% -5.26% +1.52%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

Cisco Certification 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 27,927 31,974 45,711
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.61% 33.78% 27.09%
Number of salaries quoted 17,249 14,434 19,201
10th Percentile £28,668 £32,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,503 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,772 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.38% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -

Cisco Certification
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco Certification.

Salary trend for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Certification over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Top 18 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Certification within the UK over the 6 months to 1 June 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 +12 1,125 £51,000 -7.27% 240
UK excluding London +8 923 £49,000 +3.45% 178
Work from Home -47 437 £55,000 -4.35% 132
London +13 298 £63,264 -2.67% 92
South East -23 274 £49,000 +3.16% 52
North of England +66 255 £47,500 +5.56% 33
North West +41 152 £45,000 -1.64% 18
Midlands +25 151 £49,500 +7.61% 25
West Midlands +6 113 £49,000 +3.73% 14
Yorkshire +82 90 £55,000 +12.82% 14
South West -54 81 £50,000 -2.91% 22
East of England +6 62 £45,000 -9.09% 18
Scotland -67 50 £55,000 +35.80% 27
Wales +35 38 £40,500 -4.71% 5
East Midlands -1 38 £50,000 +17.65% 11
North East -30 13 £70,000 +64.71% 2
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
Northern Ireland +15 3 £32,500 -27.78% 4

Cisco Certification
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 63 (4.94%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (3.13%) SharePoint
3 13 (1.02%) Confluence
4 8 (0.63%) IIS
5 5 (0.39%) CMS
6 2 (0.16%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.078%) SAS
Applications
1 40 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.24%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.078%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.078%) Ripple
Cloud Services
1 437 (34.25%) Azure
2 219 (17.16%) AWS
3 212 (16.61%) Microsoft 365
4 52 (4.08%) GCP
5 40 (3.13%) Entra ID
6 37 (2.90%) PaaS
7 36 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
8 31 (2.43%) IaaS
9 23 (1.80%) SaaS
10 19 (1.49%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.33%) Microsoft Purview
12 15 (1.18%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (0.94%) AWS Direct Connect
13 12 (0.94%) OCI
14 10 (0.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 8 (0.63%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 8 (0.63%) OneDrive
16 5 (0.39%) Azure Stack
16 5 (0.39%) WhatsApp
17 2 (0.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 533 (41.77%) Firewall
2 457 (35.82%) WAN
3 323 (25.31%) LAN
4 248 (19.44%) SD-WAN
5 223 (17.48%) VPN
6 222 (17.40%) Network Security
7 210 (16.46%) Wireless
8 204 (15.99%) BGP
9 188 (14.73%) TCP/IP
10 160 (12.54%) MPLS
11 156 (12.23%) OSPF
12 148 (11.60%) DHCP
13 144 (11.29%) DNS
14 142 (11.13%) Wi-Fi
15 118 (9.25%) VLAN
16 112 (8.78%) Cisco Firepower
17 91 (7.13%) SAN
18 88 (6.90%) Internet
19 69 (5.41%) VoIP
19 69 (5.41%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 15 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
3 14 (1.10%) MySQL
4 5 (0.39%) Big Data
4 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
5 4 (0.31%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.16%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
6 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 2 (0.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.078%) DynamoDB
7 1 (0.078%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (1.72%) JIRA
2 11 (0.86%) Bitbucket
3 10 (0.78%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
5 5 (0.39%) Git
6 3 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.16%) GitLab
7 2 (0.16%) Hudson
8 1 (0.078%) Artifactory
8 1 (0.078%) Selenium
8 1 (0.078%) Snyk
8 1 (0.078%) Vagrant
General
1 355 (27.82%) Social Skills
2 141 (11.05%) Analytical Skills
3 133 (10.42%) Finance
4 72 (5.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 57 (4.47%) Public Sector
6 56 (4.39%) Retail
7 54 (4.23%) Telecoms
8 32 (2.51%) Manufacturing
9 29 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.12%) Law
11 23 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
12 22 (1.72%) Legal
13 19 (1.49%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.25%) Games
15 15 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
15 15 (1.18%) Electronics
16 12 (0.94%) Banking
17 11 (0.86%) Marketing
18 10 (0.78%) Local Government
19 9 (0.71%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 468 (36.68%) Network Engineer
2 242 (18.97%) Senior
3 177 (13.87%) Architect
4 109 (8.54%) Security Architect
5 108 (8.46%) Analyst
6 101 (7.92%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 89 (6.97%) Lead
8 88 (6.90%) Senior Network Engineer
9 87 (6.82%) Support Engineer
10 84 (6.58%) IT Engineer
11 68 (5.33%) Network Analyst
12 67 (5.25%) Senior Architect
13 57 (4.47%) IT Support
13 57 (4.47%) Security Engineer
14 52 (4.08%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 45 (3.53%) 3rd Line Support
15 45 (3.53%) Consultant
16 44 (3.45%) Cisco Architect
17 42 (3.29%) Senior Cisco Architect
18 39 (3.06%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (3.13%) 802.1X
2 8 (0.63%) HTML
3 7 (0.55%) XML
4 5 (0.39%) ADO
4 5 (0.39%) XMPP
5 4 (0.31%) Akka
5 4 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
6 3 (0.24%) EDI
6 3 (0.24%) OAuth
7 2 (0.16%) OpenID
7 2 (0.16%) SAML
7 2 (0.16%) Web Services
8 1 (0.078%) ARM Templates
8 1 (0.078%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.078%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 240 (18.81%) Data Centre
2 96 (7.52%) Management Information System
3 67 (5.25%) Driving Licence
4 58 (4.55%) Security Posture
5 43 (3.37%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 38 (2.98%) Public Cloud
7 28 (2.19%) Replication
7 28 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (1.65%) PKI
9 19 (1.49%) CCTV
10 18 (1.41%) Cyber Threat
11 17 (1.33%) Security Operations Centre
12 14 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
12 14 (1.10%) IoT
13 11 (0.86%) Onboarding
13 11 (0.86%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.78%) Cloud Native
14 10 (0.78%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 311 (24.37%) Windows
2 178 (13.95%) Linux
3 152 (11.91%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (2.66%) Windows 10
6 32 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 26 (2.04%) Android
9 25 (1.96%) Apple iOS
10 22 (1.72%) Mac OS
11 18 (1.41%) VyOS
12 15 (1.18%) Unix
13 12 (0.94%) Windows XP
14 11 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.55%) Windows Vista
16 6 (0.47%) CentOS
16 6 (0.47%) Debian
16 6 (0.47%) Ubuntu
17 5 (0.39%) Mac OS X
18 3 (0.24%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (18.97%) Cybersecurity
2 240 (18.81%) ITIL
3 215 (16.85%) Problem-Solving
4 162 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 159 (12.46%) Information Security
6 151 (11.83%) Customer Service
7 144 (11.29%) Project Delivery
8 123 (9.64%) Mentoring
9 117 (9.17%) Project Management
10 106 (8.31%) Computer Science
11 97 (7.60%) Disaster Recovery
12 85 (6.66%) Network Monitoring
13 84 (6.58%) Roadmaps
14 79 (6.19%) Service Delivery
15 77 (6.03%) Cloud Security
16 73 (5.72%) Time Management
17 71 (5.56%) Security Architecture
18 69 (5.41%) Migration
18 69 (5.41%) Presales
19 68 (5.33%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 93 (7.29%) PowerShell
2 84 (6.58%) Python
3 27 (2.12%) SQL
4 26 (2.04%) Bash
5 10 (0.78%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.39%) C#
6 5 (0.39%) Java
7 4 (0.31%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.24%) C
9 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 771 (60.42%) CCNA
2 613 (48.04%) CCNP
3 332 (26.02%) Degree
4 219 (17.16%) Security Cleared
5 202 (15.83%) CISSP
6 166 (13.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 155 (12.15%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 145 (11.36%) CCSP
9 132 (10.34%) CCIE
10 115 (9.01%) SC Cleared
11 109 (8.54%) Azure Certification
12 106 (8.31%) MCSE
13 93 (7.29%) Computer Science Degree
14 90 (7.05%) Network+ Certification
15 80 (6.27%) AWS Certification
16 76 (5.96%) CISM
17 61 (4.78%) DV Cleared
17 61 (4.78%) JNCIA
18 58 (4.55%) CCDP
19 53 (4.15%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (7.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 96 (7.52%) NIST
3 60 (4.70%) SLA
4 51 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 35 (2.74%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.88%) GDPR
7 18 (1.41%) QA
8 15 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 9 (0.71%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 8 (0.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.47%) IASME
11 6 (0.47%) SOC 2
12 5 (0.39%) NCSC
13 3 (0.24%) GRC
13 3 (0.24%) HMG Security Policy Framework
14 2 (0.16%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 22301
14 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 191 (14.97%) Active Directory
2 185 (14.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.40%) Hyper-V
4 38 (2.98%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (2.74%) Docker
6 24 (1.88%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.41%) Firmware
8 17 (1.33%) vSphere
9 15 (1.18%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.55%) Terminal Services
11 6 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.31%) vCloud
13 3 (0.24%) KVM
13 3 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
14 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.078%) LXC
Systems Management
1 62 (4.86%) Microsoft Intune
2 53 (4.15%) FortiGate
3 43 (3.37%) Ansible
3 43 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
4 40 (3.13%) Kubernetes
5 28 (2.19%) SCCM
5 28 (2.19%) Stealthwatch
6 27 (2.12%) Terraform
7 23 (1.80%) CASB
8 21 (1.65%) vCenter Server
9 17 (1.33%) WSUS
10 16 (1.25%) Cisco CUCM
10 16 (1.25%) Nmap
11 13 (1.02%) SCOM
11 13 (1.02%) ServiceCenter
12 12 (0.94%) EMC NetWorker
12 12 (0.94%) NetBackup
13 10 (0.78%) Cisco Prime
14 9 (0.71%) Puppet
15 7 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 774 (60.66%) Cisco
2 423 (33.15%) Microsoft
3 255 (19.98%) VMware
4 196 (15.36%) Juniper
5 173 (13.56%) Palo Alto
6 164 (12.85%) Meraki
7 144 (11.29%) Fortinet
8 78 (6.11%) CheckPoint
9 60 (4.70%) HP
9 60 (4.70%) Veeam
10 55 (4.31%) Aruba
11 51 (4.00%) F5
12 50 (3.92%) Apple
13 48 (3.76%) Citrix
14 47 (3.68%) SolarWinds
15 46 (3.61%) Ruckus Wireless
16 44 (3.45%) Adobe
17 37 (2.90%) Dell
18 35 (2.74%) Nokia
19 24 (1.88%) Oracle