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

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 222 255 221
Rank change year-on-year +33 -34 -15
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 1,292 1,461 2,990
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.30% 1.44% 1.90%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.70% 4.40% 7.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1,092 1,112 1,504
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £41,000 £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 £46,250 £49,704
% change year-on-year +5.95% -6.95% +4.64%

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 27,491 33,185 42,304
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 27.72% 32.68% 26.87%
Number of salaries quoted 17,282 14,890 18,866
10th Percentile £28,254 £31,250 £31,000
25th Percentile £38,500 £41,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £59,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.24% +8.18% -
75th Percentile £71,000 £77,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £87,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £51,350 £50,000
% change year-on-year -2.63% +2.70% +1.01%

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 8 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 8 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 +37 1,143 £51,182 -5.22% 270
UK excluding London +29 926 £49,000 +5.95% 188
Work from Home -20 436 £55,000 -4.35% 116
London +29 312 £65,000 - 110
South East -10 274 £49,000 +3.16% 60
North of England +83 246 £47,500 +6.13% 41
Midlands +51 156 £49,000 +13.29% 24
North West +53 145 £45,000 - 21
West Midlands +38 118 £48,750 +8.33% 17
Yorkshire +112 88 £52,500 +7.69% 18
South West -21 88 £50,000 -0.99% 23
East of England +16 63 £45,000 -10.00% 17
Scotland -60 50 £55,000 +41.03% 24
East Midlands +8 38 £50,000 +17.65% 7
Wales +33 35 £40,500 -4.71% 8
North East -22 13 £70,000 +64.71% 3
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
Northern Ireland +22 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 64 (4.95%) Microsoft Exchange
2 39 (3.02%) SharePoint
3 16 (1.24%) Confluence
4 9 (0.70%) IIS
5 5 (0.39%) CMS
6 2 (0.15%) Exchange Server 2013
7 1 (0.077%) BizTalk Server
7 1 (0.077%) OpenStack
7 1 (0.077%) SAS
Applications
1 47 (3.64%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.23%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.15%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.077%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.077%) Dynamics NAV
2 1 (0.077%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 441 (34.13%) Azure
2 232 (17.96%) AWS
3 220 (17.03%) Microsoft 365
4 49 (3.79%) GCP
5 39 (3.02%) Entra ID
6 37 (2.86%) PaaS
7 35 (2.71%) Cloud Computing
8 34 (2.63%) IaaS
9 23 (1.78%) SaaS
10 19 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
11 17 (1.32%) Microsoft Purview
12 14 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (0.93%) AWS Direct Connect
13 12 (0.93%) OCI
14 11 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 9 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 9 (0.70%) OneDrive
16 7 (0.54%) WhatsApp
17 5 (0.39%) Azure Stack
18 2 (0.15%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 552 (42.72%) Firewall
2 464 (35.91%) WAN
3 345 (26.70%) LAN
4 246 (19.04%) SD-WAN
5 221 (17.11%) VPN
6 216 (16.72%) Wireless
7 212 (16.41%) Network Security
8 210 (16.25%) BGP
9 186 (14.40%) TCP/IP
10 165 (12.77%) OSPF
11 158 (12.23%) MPLS
12 148 (11.46%) DHCP
12 148 (11.46%) DNS
13 136 (10.53%) Wi-Fi
14 126 (9.75%) VLAN
15 109 (8.44%) Cisco Firepower
16 91 (7.04%) SAN
17 80 (6.19%) Internet
18 76 (5.88%) WLAN
19 70 (5.42%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.40%) SQL Server
2 21 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
3 20 (1.55%) MySQL
4 5 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
4 5 (0.39%) Big Data
4 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.077%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.077%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.077%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.077%) InfluxDB
5 1 (0.077%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (0.077%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 25 (1.93%) JIRA
2 16 (1.24%) Bitbucket
3 15 (1.16%) Jenkins
4 6 (0.46%) Rational DOORS
5 4 (0.31%) Git
6 3 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
7 2 (0.15%) GitLab
7 2 (0.15%) Hudson
8 1 (0.077%) Selenium
8 1 (0.077%) Snyk
8 1 (0.077%) Vagrant
General
1 357 (27.63%) Social Skills
2 146 (11.30%) Analytical Skills
3 134 (10.37%) Finance
4 77 (5.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 60 (4.64%) Public Sector
6 58 (4.49%) Telecoms
7 53 (4.10%) Retail
8 33 (2.55%) Manufacturing
9 31 (2.40%) Organisational Skills
10 30 (2.32%) Law
11 25 (1.93%) Legal
12 22 (1.70%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.55%) Aerospace
14 16 (1.24%) Games
15 14 (1.08%) Documentation Skills
15 14 (1.08%) Electronics
16 11 (0.85%) Banking
16 11 (0.85%) Police
17 10 (0.77%) Local Government
17 10 (0.77%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 476 (36.84%) Network Engineer
2 233 (18.03%) Senior
3 164 (12.69%) Architect
4 134 (10.37%) Analyst
5 102 (7.89%) Support Engineer
6 100 (7.74%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 98 (7.59%) Security Architect
8 95 (7.35%) Senior Network Engineer
9 91 (7.04%) Lead
10 86 (6.66%) Network Analyst
11 85 (6.58%) IT Engineer
12 64 (4.95%) IT Support
13 57 (4.41%) Security Engineer
13 57 (4.41%) Senior Architect
14 49 (3.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 45 (3.48%) 3rd Line Support
16 40 (3.10%) Network Support
17 39 (3.02%) Consultant
17 39 (3.02%) IT Support Engineer
18 37 (2.86%) Operations Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (3.17%) 802.1X
2 11 (0.85%) HTML
3 7 (0.54%) 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 (0.15%) ARM Templates
7 2 (0.15%) EDI
7 2 (0.15%) OpenID
7 2 (0.15%) SAML
7 2 (0.15%) Web Services
8 1 (0.077%) ADSI
8 1 (0.077%) NETCONF
8 1 (0.077%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 227 (17.57%) Data Centre
2 95 (7.35%) Management Information System
3 66 (5.11%) Driving Licence
4 61 (4.72%) Security Posture
5 51 (3.95%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 41 (3.17%) Public Cloud
7 29 (2.24%) Cyber Threat
7 29 (2.24%) Replication
7 29 (2.24%) Self-Motivation
8 27 (2.09%) PKI
9 22 (1.70%) Hybrid Cloud
10 18 (1.39%) CCTV
11 17 (1.32%) Security Operations Centre
12 15 (1.16%) Cloud Security Posture
13 12 (0.93%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (0.93%) Cloud Native
14 11 (0.85%) IoT
14 11 (0.85%) Onboarding
15 10 (0.77%) Social Media
16 9 (0.70%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 328 (25.39%) Windows
2 177 (13.70%) Linux
3 155 (12.00%) Windows Server
4 43 (3.33%) Windows 10
5 37 (2.86%) Windows Server 2016
6 32 (2.48%) Windows Server 2019
7 31 (2.40%) Windows Server 2012
8 28 (2.17%) Android
9 27 (2.09%) Mac OS
10 25 (1.93%) Apple iOS
11 18 (1.39%) VyOS
12 15 (1.16%) Unix
13 12 (0.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 12 (0.93%) Windows XP
14 6 (0.46%) Debian
15 5 (0.39%) CentOS
15 5 (0.39%) Windows Vista
16 4 (0.31%) Ubuntu
17 3 (0.23%) CatOS
17 3 (0.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 247 (19.12%) Cybersecurity
2 246 (19.04%) ITIL
3 219 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
4 169 (13.08%) Information Security
5 158 (12.23%) Customer Service
6 155 (12.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 145 (11.22%) Project Delivery
8 122 (9.44%) Mentoring
9 118 (9.13%) Project Management
10 102 (7.89%) Computer Science
10 102 (7.89%) Disaster Recovery
11 80 (6.19%) Roadmaps
11 80 (6.19%) Service Delivery
12 79 (6.11%) Cloud Security
13 77 (5.96%) Network Monitoring
14 72 (5.57%) Network Architecture
15 70 (5.42%) Security Architecture
16 66 (5.11%) Network Design
17 62 (4.80%) Presales
18 61 (4.72%) Incident Response
Programming Languages
1 100 (7.74%) PowerShell
2 80 (6.19%) Python
3 30 (2.32%) Bash
3 30 (2.32%) SQL
4 10 (0.77%) JavaScript
5 8 (0.62%) C#
6 5 (0.39%) Java
7 4 (0.31%) Shell Script
8 3 (0.23%) C
9 2 (0.15%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 772 (59.75%) CCNA
2 606 (46.90%) CCNP
3 317 (24.54%) Degree
4 231 (17.88%) Security Cleared
5 209 (16.18%) CISSP
6 178 (13.78%) Microsoft Certification
7 166 (12.85%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 156 (12.07%) CCSP
9 141 (10.91%) CCIE
10 119 (9.21%) SC Cleared
11 109 (8.44%) Network+ Certification
12 108 (8.36%) Azure Certification
13 107 (8.28%) MCSE
14 90 (6.97%) Computer Science Degree
15 81 (6.27%) AWS Certification
16 78 (6.04%) CISM
17 68 (5.26%) DV Cleared
18 62 (4.80%) CCDP
19 61 (4.72%) JNCIA
20 55 (4.26%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 109 (8.44%) NIST
2 103 (7.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (4.26%) SLA
4 53 (4.10%) Cyber Essentials
5 36 (2.79%) PCI DSS
6 24 (1.86%) GDPR
7 17 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8 16 (1.24%) QA
9 15 (1.16%) SOC 2
10 9 (0.70%) NIST 800
11 8 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 8 (0.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 7 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 5 (0.39%) IASME
13 5 (0.39%) NCSC
14 3 (0.23%) GRC
14 3 (0.23%) HMG Security Policy Framework
15 2 (0.15%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
15 2 (0.15%) ISO 22301
15 2 (0.15%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 196 (15.17%) Active Directory
2 195 (15.09%) VMware Infrastructure
3 120 (9.29%) Hyper-V
4 44 (3.41%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (2.71%) Docker
6 25 (1.93%) VMware NSX
7 19 (1.47%) vSphere
8 16 (1.24%) Firmware
9 15 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.54%) Terminal Services
11 5 (0.39%) Virtual Servers
12 4 (0.31%) vCloud
13 3 (0.23%) KVM
13 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
14 2 (0.15%) VMware Workstation
15 1 (0.077%) Citrix Hypervisor
15 1 (0.077%) LXC
Systems Management
1 64 (4.95%) Microsoft Intune
2 52 (4.02%) FortiGate
3 44 (3.41%) Single Sign-On
4 43 (3.33%) Ansible
5 39 (3.02%) Kubernetes
6 27 (2.09%) Terraform
7 26 (2.01%) SCCM
8 23 (1.78%) CASB
9 22 (1.70%) Stealthwatch
10 21 (1.63%) vCenter Server
11 19 (1.47%) Cisco CUCM
12 18 (1.39%) WSUS
13 16 (1.24%) Nmap
14 14 (1.08%) SCOM
15 13 (1.01%) ServiceCenter
16 12 (0.93%) EMC NetWorker
16 12 (0.93%) NetBackup
17 10 (0.77%) Cisco Prime
17 10 (0.77%) Puppet
18 7 (0.54%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 794 (61.46%) Cisco
2 422 (32.66%) Microsoft
3 273 (21.13%) VMware
4 194 (15.02%) Juniper
5 180 (13.93%) Palo Alto
6 156 (12.07%) Meraki
7 132 (10.22%) Fortinet
8 82 (6.35%) CheckPoint
9 62 (4.80%) HP
10 58 (4.49%) Veeam
11 54 (4.18%) Aruba
11 54 (4.18%) Citrix
12 51 (3.95%) F5
13 45 (3.48%) SolarWinds
14 43 (3.33%) Ruckus Wireless
15 41 (3.17%) Apple
16 35 (2.71%) Adobe
16 35 (2.71%) Nokia
17 32 (2.48%) Dell
18 26 (2.01%) Oracle