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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 229 255 221
Rank change year-on-year +26 -34 -13
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 1,284 1,471 2,989
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.29% 1.46% 1.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.67% 4.46% 7.05%
Number of salaries quoted 1,084 1,119 1,493
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £71,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £46,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.38% -7.00% +5.26%

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 27,489 32,962 42,407
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.71% 32.63% 26.96%
Number of salaries quoted 17,297 14,888 18,855
10th Percentile £28,500 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.86% +7.73% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,276 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.49% +2.55% +0.50%

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 10 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Certification in the UK

Cisco Certification
Top 19 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 10 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 +50 1,135 £51,000 -6.42% 239
UK excluding London +26 924 £49,000 +5.38% 176
Work from Home -20 433 £55,000 -4.35% 106
London +26 306 £65,000 - 92
South East -8 270 £49,000 +3.16% 55
North of England +95 249 £47,500 +5.56% 36
Midlands +32 157 £49,000 +11.05% 26
North West +47 148 £45,000 - 20
West Midlands +25 119 £48,750 +8.33% 17
Yorkshire +117 88 £52,500 +5.00% 14
South West -17 88 £50,000 -2.91% 18
East of England +20 61 £45,000 -9.09% 18
Scotland -59 51 £55,000 +35.80% 25
East Midlands +6 38 £50,000 +17.65% 9
Wales +30 34 £40,500 -4.71% 7
North East -26 13 £70,000 +64.71% 3
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
Northern Ireland +17 3 £32,500 -35.00% 3
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

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 (4.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (3.04%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.25%) Confluence
4 9 (0.70%) IIS
5 5 (0.39%) CMS
6 2 (0.16%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.078%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.078%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.078%) SAS
Applications
1 44 (3.43%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.078%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 439 (34.19%) Azure
2 228 (17.76%) AWS
3 216 (16.82%) Microsoft 365
4 48 (3.74%) GCP
5 40 (3.12%) Entra ID
6 37 (2.88%) PaaS
7 35 (2.73%) Cloud Computing
8 34 (2.65%) IaaS
9 23 (1.79%) SaaS
10 19 (1.48%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (0.93%) AWS Direct Connect
13 12 (0.93%) OCI
14 11 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (0.70%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.55%) WhatsApp
17 5 (0.39%) Azure Stack
18 2 (0.16%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 545 (42.45%) Firewall
2 462 (35.98%) WAN
3 340 (26.48%) LAN
4 249 (19.39%) SD-WAN
5 221 (17.21%) VPN
6 212 (16.51%) BGP
7 211 (16.43%) Wireless
8 210 (16.36%) Network Security
9 185 (14.41%) TCP/IP
10 166 (12.93%) OSPF
11 159 (12.38%) MPLS
12 147 (11.45%) DNS
13 146 (11.37%) DHCP
14 134 (10.44%) Wi-Fi
15 121 (9.42%) VLAN
16 111 (8.64%) Cisco Firepower
17 91 (7.09%) SAN
18 81 (6.31%) Internet
19 76 (5.92%) WLAN
20 70 (5.45%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.56%) MySQL
4 5 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.39%) Big Data
4 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.078%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.078%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.078%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.078%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.078%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.078%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.078%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (1.95%) JIRA
2 16 (1.25%) Bitbucket
3 15 (1.17%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.31%) Git
6 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.16%) GitLab
7 2 (0.16%) Hudson
8 1 (0.078%) Selenium
8 1 (0.078%) Snyk
8 1 (0.078%) Vagrant
General
1 353 (27.49%) Social Skills
2 147 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
3 134 (10.44%) Finance
4 76 (5.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (4.67%) Public Sector
6 56 (4.36%) Telecoms
7 54 (4.21%) Retail
8 33 (2.57%) Manufacturing
9 30 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 29 (2.26%) Law
11 25 (1.95%) Legal
12 22 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.48%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.25%) Games
15 14 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.09%) Electronics
16 12 (0.93%) Banking
17 11 (0.86%) Police
18 10 (0.78%) Local Government
18 10 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 473 (36.84%) Network Engineer
2 233 (18.15%) Senior
3 166 (12.93%) Architect
4 128 (9.97%) Analyst
5 100 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 100 (7.79%) Security Architect
6 98 (7.63%) Support Engineer
7 93 (7.24%) Senior Network Engineer
8 91 (7.09%) Lead
9 85 (6.62%) IT Engineer
10 82 (6.39%) Network Analyst
11 62 (4.83%) IT Support
12 60 (4.67%) Senior Architect
13 58 (4.52%) Security Engineer
14 49 (3.82%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 45 (3.50%) 3rd Line Support
16 38 (2.96%) Cisco Architect
16 38 (2.96%) Consultant
16 38 (2.96%) IT Support Engineer
17 37 (2.88%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.19%) 802.1X
2 11 (0.86%) 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 (0.23%) OAuth
7 2 (0.16%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.16%) EDI
7 2 (0.16%) OpenID
7 2 (0.16%) SAML
7 2 (0.16%) Web Services
8 1 (0.078%) ADSI
8 1 (0.078%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.078%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 228 (17.76%) Data Centre
2 95 (7.40%) Management Information System
3 66 (5.14%) Driving Licence
4 59 (4.60%) Security Posture
5 49 (3.82%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 40 (3.12%) Public Cloud
7 29 (2.26%) Replication
7 29 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (2.10%) PKI
9 26 (2.02%) Cyber Threat
10 22 (1.71%) Hybrid Cloud
11 18 (1.40%) CCTV
12 17 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
13 15 (1.17%) Cloud Security Posture
14 13 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
15 11 (0.86%) Cloud Native
15 11 (0.86%) IoT
15 11 (0.86%) Onboarding
16 10 (0.78%) Social Media
17 9 (0.70%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 323 (25.16%) Windows
2 178 (13.86%) Linux
3 153 (11.92%) Windows Server
4 38 (2.96%) Windows 10
5 37 (2.88%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 30 (2.34%) Windows Server 2012
8 27 (2.10%) Android
8 27 (2.10%) Mac OS
9 25 (1.95%) Apple iOS
10 18 (1.40%) VyOS
11 15 (1.17%) Unix
12 12 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 12 (0.93%) Windows XP
13 7 (0.55%) Windows Vista
14 6 (0.47%) CentOS
14 6 (0.47%) Debian
15 5 (0.39%) Ubuntu
16 3 (0.23%) CatOS
16 3 (0.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 248 (19.31%) Cybersecurity
2 245 (19.08%) ITIL
3 218 (16.98%) Problem-Solving
4 165 (12.85%) Information Security
5 156 (12.15%) Customer Service
5 156 (12.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 144 (11.21%) Project Delivery
7 122 (9.50%) Mentoring
8 120 (9.35%) Project Management
9 102 (7.94%) Disaster Recovery
10 100 (7.79%) Computer Science
11 80 (6.23%) Roadmaps
12 79 (6.15%) Cloud Security
12 79 (6.15%) Service Delivery
13 77 (6.00%) Network Monitoring
14 70 (5.45%) Network Architecture
15 69 (5.37%) Security Architecture
16 65 (5.06%) Network Design
16 65 (5.06%) Presales
17 62 (4.83%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 101 (7.87%) PowerShell
2 81 (6.31%) Python
3 30 (2.34%) Bash
3 30 (2.34%) SQL
4 10 (0.78%) JavaScript
5 8 (0.62%) C#
6 5 (0.39%) Java
7 4 (0.31%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.23%) C
9 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 772 (60.12%) CCNA
2 605 (47.12%) CCNP
3 320 (24.92%) Degree
4 230 (17.91%) Security Cleared
5 206 (16.04%) CISSP
6 175 (13.63%) Microsoft Certification
7 162 (12.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 153 (11.92%) CCSP
9 139 (10.83%) CCIE
10 118 (9.19%) SC Cleared
11 109 (8.49%) Azure Certification
11 109 (8.49%) MCSE
12 103 (8.02%) Network+ Certification
13 89 (6.93%) Computer Science Degree
14 81 (6.31%) AWS Certification
15 77 (6.00%) CISM
16 67 (5.22%) DV Cleared
17 61 (4.75%) CCDP
18 60 (4.67%) JNCIA
19 54 (4.21%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (8.18%) NIST
2 102 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (4.36%) SLA
4 52 (4.05%) Cyber Essentials
5 36 (2.80%) PCI DSS
6 23 (1.79%) GDPR
7 16 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
7 16 (1.25%) QA
8 13 (1.01%) SOC 2
9 9 (0.70%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 8 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 7 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 5 (0.39%) IASME
12 5 (0.39%) NCSC
13 3 (0.23%) GRC
13 3 (0.23%) 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
1 198 (15.42%) Active Directory
2 193 (15.03%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.35%) Hyper-V
4 44 (3.43%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (2.73%) Docker
6 25 (1.95%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.40%) vSphere
8 16 (1.25%) Firmware
9 15 (1.17%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.55%) Terminal Services
11 6 (0.47%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.31%) vCloud
13 3 (0.23%) KVM
13 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
14 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.078%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.078%) LXC
15 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 64 (4.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 51 (3.97%) FortiGate
3 44 (3.43%) Single Sign-On
4 43 (3.35%) Ansible
5 39 (3.04%) Kubernetes
6 27 (2.10%) Terraform
7 26 (2.02%) SCCM
8 25 (1.95%) Stealthwatch
9 23 (1.79%) CASB
10 21 (1.64%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.48%) Cisco CUCM
12 18 (1.40%) WSUS
13 16 (1.25%) Nmap
14 14 (1.09%) SCOM
15 13 (1.01%) ServiceCenter
16 12 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
16 12 (0.93%) NetBackup
17 10 (0.78%) Cisco Prime
17 10 (0.78%) Puppet
18 7 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 787 (61.29%) Cisco
2 423 (32.94%) Microsoft
3 271 (21.11%) VMware
4 192 (14.95%) Juniper
5 177 (13.79%) Palo Alto
6 159 (12.38%) Meraki
7 131 (10.20%) Fortinet
8 80 (6.23%) CheckPoint
9 61 (4.75%) HP
10 58 (4.52%) Veeam
11 53 (4.13%) Aruba
11 53 (4.13%) Citrix
12 50 (3.89%) F5
13 45 (3.50%) SolarWinds
14 44 (3.43%) Apple
15 43 (3.35%) Ruckus Wireless
16 38 (2.96%) Adobe
17 35 (2.73%) Nokia
18 32 (2.49%) Dell
19 25 (1.95%) Oracle