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 7 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 234 234 238
Rank change year-on-year 0 +4 -16
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 1,286 1,492 3,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.19% 1.59% 1.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.55% 4.69% 6.52%
Number of salaries quoted 1,048 1,098 1,519
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,188 £41,250 £41,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,364 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.61% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £85,000 £90,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £47,236 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.73% -5.53% +2.15%

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 28,250 31,784 46,762
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.18% 33.91% 27.29%
Number of salaries quoted 17,298 14,393 19,390
10th Percentile £28,750 £32,000 £30,861
25th Percentile £38,734 £42,500 £40,606
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,750 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £49,549
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.96% -0.90%

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 7 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 7 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 1,136 £51,000 -6.42% 241
UK excluding London +1 931 £49,000 +3.73% 172
Work from Home -42 442 £55,000 -1.35% 109
London -5 303 £62,500 -3.85% 90
South East -30 278 £49,000 +3.16% 51
North of England +69 259 £50,000 +9.29% 35
North West +50 155 £45,000 -4.26% 16
Midlands +11 149 £49,000 +8.89% 22
West Midlands +7 111 £49,000 +6.52% 14
Yorkshire +92 91 £55,000 +15.79% 18
South West -53 81 £50,000 - 22
East of England +4 63 £45,000 -9.09% 26
Scotland -64 50 £60,000 +48.15% 19
Wales +32 39 £40,500 -4.71% 4
East Midlands -4 38 £50,000 +17.65% 8
North East -36 13 £70,000 +64.71% 2
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
Northern Ireland +13 3 £32,500 -27.78% 3

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 61 (4.74%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (3.11%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.86%) Confluence
4 8 (0.62%) 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 39 (3.03%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (0.31%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.078%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.31%) Ripple
2 3 (0.23%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
4 1 (0.078%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.078%) SAP Business One
Cloud Services
1 436 (33.90%) Azure
2 223 (17.34%) AWS
3 208 (16.17%) Microsoft 365
4 56 (4.35%) GCP
5 40 (3.11%) Entra ID
6 37 (2.88%) Cloud Computing
6 37 (2.88%) PaaS
7 31 (2.41%) IaaS
8 23 (1.79%) SaaS
9 16 (1.24%) Azure DevOps
10 14 (1.09%) Microsoft Purview
11 12 (0.93%) AWS Direct Connect
11 12 (0.93%) Azure Sentinel
11 12 (0.93%) OCI
12 9 (0.70%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 8 (0.62%) Azure ExpressRoute
13 8 (0.62%) OneDrive
14 5 (0.39%) Azure Stack
14 5 (0.39%) WhatsApp
15 2 (0.16%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 526 (40.90%) Firewall
2 456 (35.46%) WAN
3 316 (24.57%) LAN
4 248 (19.28%) SD-WAN
5 229 (17.81%) VPN
6 224 (17.42%) Network Security
7 210 (16.33%) Wireless
8 208 (16.17%) BGP
9 187 (14.54%) TCP/IP
10 161 (12.52%) MPLS
11 155 (12.05%) OSPF
12 147 (11.43%) DHCP
13 145 (11.28%) DNS
14 143 (11.12%) Wi-Fi
15 120 (9.33%) VLAN
16 111 (8.63%) Cisco Firepower
17 89 (6.92%) Internet
17 89 (6.92%) SAN
18 71 (5.52%) VoIP
19 66 (5.13%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.01%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (0.93%) 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 20 (1.56%) JIRA
2 9 (0.70%) Bitbucket
3 8 (0.62%) Git
3 8 (0.62%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.31%) Artifactory
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
1 360 (27.99%) Social Skills
2 141 (10.96%) Analytical Skills
3 133 (10.34%) Finance
4 74 (5.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (4.35%) Public Sector
5 56 (4.35%) Retail
6 55 (4.28%) Telecoms
7 34 (2.64%) Manufacturing
8 29 (2.26%) Law
9 28 (2.18%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
11 21 (1.63%) Legal
12 18 (1.40%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.24%) Games
14 15 (1.17%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.17%) Electronics
15 14 (1.09%) Mandarin Language
16 12 (0.93%) Banking
17 11 (0.86%) Local Government
18 10 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 473 (36.78%) Network Engineer
2 251 (19.52%) Senior
3 181 (14.07%) Architect
4 113 (8.79%) Security Architect
5 105 (8.16%) Analyst
6 104 (8.09%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 88 (6.84%) Senior Network Engineer
8 86 (6.69%) Lead
9 82 (6.38%) IT Engineer
9 82 (6.38%) Support Engineer
10 70 (5.44%) Senior Architect
11 66 (5.13%) Network Analyst
12 56 (4.35%) IT Support
12 56 (4.35%) Security Engineer
13 52 (4.04%) 3rd Line Engineer
14 48 (3.73%) Consultant
15 47 (3.65%) Cisco Architect
16 45 (3.50%) 3rd Line Support
16 45 (3.50%) Senior Cisco Architect
17 42 (3.27%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 38 (2.95%) 802.1X
2 7 (0.54%) HTML
2 7 (0.54%) XML
3 5 (0.39%) ADO
3 5 (0.39%) XMPP
4 4 (0.31%) Akka
4 4 (0.31%) EDI
4 4 (0.31%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (0.23%) OAuth
6 2 (0.16%) OpenID
6 2 (0.16%) SAML
6 2 (0.16%) Web Services
7 1 (0.078%) ARM Templates
7 1 (0.078%) NETCONF
7 1 (0.078%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 249 (19.36%) Data Centre
2 94 (7.31%) Management Information System
3 69 (5.37%) Driving Licence
4 59 (4.59%) Security Posture
5 41 (3.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 40 (3.11%) Public Cloud
7 29 (2.26%) Replication
8 28 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
9 21 (1.63%) Hybrid Cloud
10 20 (1.56%) PKI
11 19 (1.48%) CCTV
12 16 (1.24%) Cyber Threat
12 16 (1.24%) IoT
13 15 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.09%) Cloud Security Posture
14 14 (1.09%) Security Operations Centre
15 11 (0.86%) Onboarding
15 11 (0.86%) Virtual Team
16 10 (0.78%) Cloud Native
16 10 (0.78%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 303 (23.56%) Windows
2 174 (13.53%) Linux
3 150 (11.66%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.80%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (2.64%) Windows 10
6 32 (2.49%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (2.26%) Windows Server 2012
8 23 (1.79%) Android
9 22 (1.71%) Apple iOS
10 19 (1.48%) Mac OS
11 17 (1.32%) VyOS
12 14 (1.09%) Unix
13 12 (0.93%) Windows XP
14 11 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 7 (0.54%) 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 (0.23%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 242 (18.82%) ITIL
2 239 (18.58%) Cybersecurity
3 218 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
4 166 (12.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 158 (12.29%) Information Security
6 154 (11.98%) Customer Service
7 142 (11.04%) Project Delivery
8 122 (9.49%) Mentoring
9 116 (9.02%) Project Management
10 110 (8.55%) Computer Science
11 95 (7.39%) Disaster Recovery
12 88 (6.84%) Network Monitoring
13 81 (6.30%) Roadmaps
14 78 (6.07%) Service Delivery
15 77 (5.99%) Time Management
16 74 (5.75%) Cloud Security
17 73 (5.68%) Presales
18 71 (5.52%) Security Architecture
19 70 (5.44%) Network Design
20 69 (5.37%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 87 (6.77%) PowerShell
2 84 (6.53%) Python
3 25 (1.94%) SQL
4 24 (1.87%) Bash
5 10 (0.78%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.39%) Java
7 4 (0.31%) C#
7 4 (0.31%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.23%) C
9 2 (0.16%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 775 (60.26%) CCNA
2 625 (48.60%) CCNP
3 342 (26.59%) Degree
4 220 (17.11%) Security Cleared
5 200 (15.55%) CISSP
6 163 (12.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 149 (11.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 140 (10.89%) CCSP
9 135 (10.50%) CCIE
10 117 (9.10%) SC Cleared
11 109 (8.48%) Azure Certification
12 104 (8.09%) MCSE
13 95 (7.39%) Computer Science Degree
14 89 (6.92%) Network+ Certification
15 81 (6.30%) AWS Certification
16 77 (5.99%) CISM
17 62 (4.82%) JNCIA
18 59 (4.59%) DV Cleared
19 58 (4.51%) CCDP
20 53 (4.12%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (7.70%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 90 (7.00%) NIST
3 62 (4.82%) SLA
4 52 (4.04%) Cyber Essentials
5 31 (2.41%) PCI DSS
6 25 (1.94%) GDPR
7 18 (1.40%) QA
8 15 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
9 9 (0.70%) NIST 800
10 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 8 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 8 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 6 (0.47%) IASME
12 5 (0.39%) NCSC
13 4 (0.31%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.23%) GRC
14 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.16%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.16%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 187 (14.54%) Active Directory
2 183 (14.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 118 (9.18%) Hyper-V
4 36 (2.80%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (2.72%) Docker
6 25 (1.94%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.40%) Firmware
8 17 (1.32%) vSphere
9 12 (0.93%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.54%) 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%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 2 (0.16%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.078%) LXC
Systems Management
1 59 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 55 (4.28%) FortiGate
3 43 (3.34%) Ansible
3 43 (3.34%) Single Sign-On
4 40 (3.11%) Kubernetes
5 30 (2.33%) Stealthwatch
6 29 (2.26%) SCCM
7 27 (2.10%) Terraform
8 23 (1.79%) CASB
9 21 (1.63%) vCenter Server
10 17 (1.32%) WSUS
11 15 (1.17%) Cisco CUCM
12 13 (1.01%) Nmap
12 13 (1.01%) SCOM
12 13 (1.01%) ServiceCenter
13 12 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
13 12 (0.93%) NetBackup
14 10 (0.78%) Cisco Prime
15 9 (0.70%) Puppet
16 7 (0.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 779 (60.58%) Cisco
2 423 (32.89%) Microsoft
3 250 (19.44%) VMware
4 197 (15.32%) Juniper
5 173 (13.45%) Palo Alto
6 169 (13.14%) Meraki
7 149 (11.59%) Fortinet
8 80 (6.22%) CheckPoint
9 61 (4.74%) Veeam
10 59 (4.59%) HP
11 57 (4.43%) Aruba
12 53 (4.12%) Apple
13 51 (3.97%) F5
14 48 (3.73%) Adobe
15 47 (3.65%) Citrix
16 45 (3.50%) Ruckus Wireless
16 45 (3.50%) SolarWinds
17 37 (2.88%) Dell
18 34 (2.64%) Nokia
19 24 (1.87%) Oracle