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Number of CCIEs in the world – Starting Salaries – Demand by Track

Written By Harris Andrea

I have collected some statistics about the Cisco CCIE certification which is the top spot you can get in the Cisco certification pyramid (of course there is also Cisco Architect in Design track but that’s another story).

A lot of people are asking me about total number of CCIEs in the world, starting salaries of CCIEs and also which CCIE track has the most demand in Job openings, so I did some research and presenting you the results below.

Total number of CCIEs in the world:

This number is not officially published by Cisco but I have done some research and also read some Cisco Live presentations where they leaked some numbers.

The latest official number of the total CCIEs in the world comes from a Cisco Live presentation slide and the numbers are as following (Latest update of the numbers below is March 2, 2013):

  • Total number of CCIEs in the world (all tracks): 38,005
  • Total of Routing & Switching CCIEs: 27,552
  • Total of Security CCIEs: 4,264
  • Total of Service Provider CCIEs: 3,142
  • Total of Voice CCIEs: 2,341
  • Total of Wireless CCIEs: 64
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Also, the same presentation slide above shows the numbers of multiple CCIEs (people who hold more than one CCIE cert) as shown below:

  • Total of Routing & Switching + Security CCIE: 1026
  • Total of Routing & Switching + Service Provider CCIE: 1053
  • Total of Routing & Switching + Voice CCIE: 502
  • Total of 3 or more CCIEs: 511
  • Total of 4 or more CCIEs: 110
  • Total of 5 or more CCIEs: 25
  • Total of 7 CCIEs: 1

Average CCIE Starting Salaries:

Another important figure that interests people (maybe the most important one !!) is the starting salary of CCIE professionals. After all, you don’t get the CCIE just for fun right :) , you are expecting also a nice salary increase!!

Of course the salary of CCIE professionals depends a lot on which company they work, in which country etc. The numbers below, based on my research (I got some great info from bradreese.com), are for USA for Q1 of 2014:

  • Wireless CCIE average starting salary (per year): $110,000
  • Routing & Switching CCIE average starting salary (per year): $120,000
  • Voice CCIE average starting salary (per year): $140,000
  • Security CCIE average starting salary (per year): $165,000
  • Data Center CCIE average starting salary (per year): $175,000
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I hope the numbers above will inspire some of you to push harder for this prestigious certification.

CCIE Demand by Track in Job openings:

From the total number of Job openings, the CCIE track with most demand is the classic Routing & Switching CCIE track. See the percentages below for all tracks:

  • Routing & Switching CCIE: 73% of all Job opportunities
  • Voice CCIE : 21% of all Job opportunities
  • Security CCIE : 4% of all Job opportunities
  • Data Center CCIE : less than 1%
  • Wireless CCIE : less than 1%

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About Harris Andrea

Harris Andrea is an Engineer with more than two decades of professional experience in the fields of TCP/IP Networks, Information Security and I.T. Over the years he has acquired several professional certifications such as CCNA, CCNP, CEH, ECSA etc.

He is a self-published author of two books ("Cisco ASA Firewall Fundamentals" and "Cisco VPN Configuration Guide") which are available at Amazon and on this website as well.

Comments

  1. Jaseem says

    October 29, 2014 at 5:23 am

    Wow..!
    Really excited!

  2. Noor Muhammad Wafa says

    November 2, 2014 at 5:17 am

    Wonderful & amazing one!. I also have aim to enter to CCIE once I passed my CCNP papers.

  3. mudasar says

    August 1, 2015 at 10:51 am

    This is wonderful now i go for CCIE (SEC+R&S)

  4. saurabh says

    March 5, 2016 at 5:47 am

    i want to do ccie and i want to know which centre is give best training in India

  5. Harris Andrea says

    March 6, 2016 at 6:50 am

    Hi, sorry but I don’t know any CCIE trainings in India

  6. James says

    April 5, 2021 at 3:19 am

    I know of at LEAST one CCIE Collaboration that is a complete fraud. A guy I worked with went to Dubai and PAID people there to take his CCIE test for him for a few thousand dollars.

    He did the same with his CCNP Collaboration though, so….

  7. Harris Andrea says

    April 5, 2021 at 6:26 am

    James,
    Fraudsters will always exist. The thing is sooner or later they will be exposed when they will have to work in real projects.

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