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

6 months to
4 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 230 235 238
Rank change year-on-year +5 +3 -14
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Certification 1,275 1,498 3,048
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 1.21% 1.60% 1.79%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.56% 4.71% 6.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1,051 1,104 1,522
10th Percentile £32,500 £32,500 £32,750
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,250 £41,563
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 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.16% -5.00% +2.04%

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 27,956 31,818 46,256
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 26.42% 33.88% 27.15%
Number of salaries quoted 17,206 14,425 19,343
10th Percentile £28,657 £32,000 £30,932
25th Percentile £38,603 £42,500 £40,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.83% +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 4 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 4 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 +10 1,125 £51,000 -7.27% 242
UK excluding London -4 924 £49,000 +3.16% 182
Work from Home -47 439 £55,000 -3.51% 120
London +6 298 £62,500 -3.85% 87
South East -17 277 £49,000 +3.16% 48
North of England +60 255 £47,750 +6.11% 37
North West +43 154 £45,000 -3.23% 17
Midlands +21 151 £49,000 +6.52% 23
West Midlands +11 113 £49,000 +3.73% 15
Yorkshire +85 88 £55,000 +15.79% 19
South West -68 79 £50,000 - 24
East of England -5 62 £45,000 -9.09% 23
Scotland -66 50 £55,000 +35.80% 27
Wales +35 38 £40,500 -4.71% 4
East Midlands -7 38 £50,000 +17.65% 8
North East -33 13 £70,000 +64.71% 2
Isle of Man - 12 £43,750 -
Northern Ireland +18 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 62 (4.86%) Microsoft Exchange
2 40 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 11 (0.86%) 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 39 (3.06%) 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
1 3 (0.24%) Ripple
2 2 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
3 1 (0.078%) Dynamics GP
3 1 (0.078%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 433 (33.96%) Azure
2 219 (17.18%) AWS
3 208 (16.31%) Microsoft 365
4 54 (4.24%) GCP
5 40 (3.14%) Entra ID
6 37 (2.90%) PaaS
7 36 (2.82%) Cloud Computing
8 31 (2.43%) IaaS
9 23 (1.80%) SaaS
10 17 (1.33%) Azure DevOps
11 15 (1.18%) Microsoft Purview
12 13 (1.02%) Azure Sentinel
13 12 (0.94%) AWS Direct Connect
13 12 (0.94%) OCI
14 9 (0.71%) 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%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 527 (41.33%) Firewall
2 455 (35.69%) WAN
3 316 (24.78%) LAN
4 250 (19.61%) SD-WAN
5 224 (17.57%) VPN
6 220 (17.25%) Network Security
7 209 (16.39%) Wireless
8 206 (16.16%) BGP
9 186 (14.59%) TCP/IP
10 160 (12.55%) MPLS
11 155 (12.16%) OSPF
12 148 (11.61%) DHCP
13 144 (11.29%) DNS
13 144 (11.29%) Wi-Fi
14 117 (9.18%) VLAN
15 114 (8.94%) Cisco Firepower
16 89 (6.98%) Internet
16 89 (6.98%) SAN
17 68 (5.33%) WLAN
18 67 (5.25%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.43%) SQL Server
2 13 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
3 12 (0.94%) 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 (1.57%) JIRA
2 9 (0.71%) Bitbucket
3 8 (0.63%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.55%) Git
5 6 (0.47%) Rational DOORS
6 3 (0.24%) Artifactory
6 3 (0.24%) 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
1 355 (27.84%) Social Skills
2 141 (11.06%) Analytical Skills
3 133 (10.43%) Finance
4 74 (5.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 56 (4.39%) Public Sector
5 56 (4.39%) Retail
6 54 (4.24%) Telecoms
7 32 (2.51%) Manufacturing
8 29 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (2.20%) Law
10 23 (1.80%) Presentation Skills
11 22 (1.73%) Legal
12 18 (1.41%) Aerospace
13 16 (1.25%) Games
14 15 (1.18%) Documentation Skills
14 15 (1.18%) Electronics
15 12 (0.94%) Banking
16 11 (0.86%) Local Government
16 11 (0.86%) Mandarin Language
17 10 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 467 (36.63%) Network Engineer
2 249 (19.53%) Senior
3 180 (14.12%) Architect
4 113 (8.86%) Security Architect
5 107 (8.39%) Analyst
6 103 (8.08%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 88 (6.90%) Senior Network Engineer
8 86 (6.75%) Lead
9 83 (6.51%) IT Engineer
9 83 (6.51%) Support Engineer
10 70 (5.49%) Senior Architect
11 68 (5.33%) Network Analyst
12 57 (4.47%) Security Engineer
13 56 (4.39%) IT Support
14 51 (4.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
15 47 (3.69%) Cisco Architect
16 46 (3.61%) Consultant
17 45 (3.53%) 3rd Line Support
17 45 (3.53%) Senior Cisco Architect
18 42 (3.29%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 39 (3.06%) 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
1 242 (18.98%) Data Centre
2 94 (7.37%) Management Information System
3 67 (5.25%) Driving Licence
4 59 (4.63%) Security Posture
5 41 (3.22%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 39 (3.06%) Public Cloud
7 28 (2.20%) Replication
7 28 (2.20%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.65%) Hybrid Cloud
8 21 (1.65%) PKI
9 19 (1.49%) CCTV
10 17 (1.33%) Cyber Threat
11 15 (1.18%) IoT
11 15 (1.18%) Security Operations Centre
12 14 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.10%) Cloud Security Posture
13 11 (0.86%) Onboarding
13 11 (0.86%) Virtual Team
14 10 (0.78%) Cloud Native
14 10 (0.78%) Cyberattack
Operating Systems
1 305 (23.92%) Windows
2 174 (13.65%) Linux
3 152 (11.92%) Windows Server
4 36 (2.82%) Windows Server 2016
5 34 (2.67%) Windows 10
6 32 (2.51%) Windows Server 2019
7 29 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 23 (1.80%) Android
8 23 (1.80%) Apple iOS
9 19 (1.49%) Mac OS
10 18 (1.41%) VyOS
11 14 (1.10%) Unix
12 12 (0.94%) Windows XP
13 11 (0.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.55%) Windows Vista
15 6 (0.47%) CentOS
15 6 (0.47%) Debian
15 6 (0.47%) Ubuntu
16 5 (0.39%) Mac OS X
17 3 (0.24%) CatOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 241 (18.90%) Cybersecurity
2 238 (18.67%) ITIL
3 215 (16.86%) Problem-Solving
4 163 (12.78%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 156 (12.24%) Information Security
6 151 (11.84%) Customer Service
7 143 (11.22%) Project Delivery
8 121 (9.49%) Mentoring
9 115 (9.02%) Project Management
10 106 (8.31%) Computer Science
11 96 (7.53%) Disaster Recovery
12 84 (6.59%) Network Monitoring
13 82 (6.43%) Roadmaps
14 77 (6.04%) Service Delivery
15 76 (5.96%) Cloud Security
15 76 (5.96%) Time Management
16 72 (5.65%) Presales
17 71 (5.57%) Security Architecture
18 68 (5.33%) Network Architecture
18 68 (5.33%) Network Design
Programming Languages
1 88 (6.90%) PowerShell
2 83 (6.51%) Python
3 26 (2.04%) SQL
4 23 (1.80%) 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
1 770 (60.39%) CCNA
2 618 (48.47%) CCNP
3 334 (26.20%) Degree
4 216 (16.94%) Security Cleared
5 201 (15.76%) CISSP
6 164 (12.86%) Microsoft Certification
7 152 (11.92%) (ISC)2 CCSP
8 143 (11.22%) CCSP
9 134 (10.51%) CCIE
10 114 (8.94%) SC Cleared
11 108 (8.47%) Azure Certification
12 104 (8.16%) MCSE
13 92 (7.22%) Computer Science Degree
14 89 (6.98%) Network+ Certification
15 80 (6.27%) AWS Certification
16 76 (5.96%) CISM
17 63 (4.94%) JNCIA
18 59 (4.63%) DV Cleared
19 58 (4.55%) CCDP
20 53 (4.16%) CCSK
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (7.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 93 (7.29%) NIST
3 60 (4.71%) SLA
4 51 (4.00%) Cyber Essentials
5 32 (2.51%) 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
12 5 (0.39%) NCSC
12 5 (0.39%) SOC 2
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
1 188 (14.75%) Active Directory
2 183 (14.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 119 (9.33%) Hyper-V
4 36 (2.82%) VMware ESXi
5 35 (2.75%) Docker
6 24 (1.88%) VMware NSX
7 18 (1.41%) Firmware
8 17 (1.33%) vSphere
9 13 (1.02%) 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 59 (4.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 55 (4.31%) FortiGate
3 43 (3.37%) Ansible
3 43 (3.37%) Single Sign-On
4 40 (3.14%) Kubernetes
5 31 (2.43%) Stealthwatch
6 28 (2.20%) SCCM
7 27 (2.12%) Terraform
8 23 (1.80%) CASB
9 21 (1.65%) vCenter Server
10 17 (1.33%) WSUS
11 16 (1.25%) Cisco CUCM
12 14 (1.10%) Nmap
13 13 (1.02%) SCOM
13 13 (1.02%) ServiceCenter
14 12 (0.94%) EMC NetWorker
14 12 (0.94%) NetBackup
15 10 (0.78%) Cisco Prime
16 9 (0.71%) Puppet
17 7 (0.55%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 773 (60.63%) Cisco
2 423 (33.18%) Microsoft
3 251 (19.69%) VMware
4 197 (15.45%) Juniper
5 172 (13.49%) Palo Alto
6 167 (13.10%) Meraki
7 145 (11.37%) Fortinet
8 77 (6.04%) CheckPoint
9 60 (4.71%) HP
9 60 (4.71%) Veeam
10 55 (4.31%) Aruba
11 53 (4.16%) Apple
12 50 (3.92%) F5
13 48 (3.76%) Citrix
14 47 (3.69%) Adobe
15 46 (3.61%) Ruckus Wireless
16 45 (3.53%) SolarWinds
17 37 (2.90%) Dell
18 35 (2.75%) Nokia
19 24 (1.88%) Oracle