Cisco
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Cisco Systems, Inc.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 108 113 141
Rank change year-on-year +5 +28 -43
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 2,479 2,979 4,782
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.46% 3.02% 2.92%
As % of the Vendors category 6.79% 7.20% 7.50%
Number of salaries quoted 2,012 1,967 2,829
10th Percentile £31,250 £32,150 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,000 £39,500 £37,707
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £62,625 £67,750 £66,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,850 £80,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +5.56% - -

All Vendors
UK

Cisco is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 36,517 41,380 63,756
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 36.18% 42.01% 38.92%
Number of salaries quoted 24,842 23,662 33,005
10th Percentile £26,700 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,000 £41,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £68,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £92,500 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% +5.26% +3.26%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco.

Salary trend for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco in the UK

Cisco
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 within the UK over the 6 months to 23 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 +19 2,256 £50,000 - 472
UK excluding London -6 1,727 £47,500 +5.56% 357
Work from Home -14 771 £52,500 -4.55% 198
London +37 657 £57,500 -4.17% 157
South East +9 520 £49,250 +5.91% 106
North of England +7 441 £45,000 -2.17% 73
Midlands 0 327 £45,000 - 50
West Midlands +45 246 £45,000 - 34
North West -25 236 £50,000 +5.26% 42
South West +8 208 £49,000 +14.62% 51
Yorkshire +46 152 £47,500 +2.70% 25
East of England -17 122 £47,500 -5.00% 35
East Midlands -60 76 £44,225 -6.90% 16
Scotland -110 72 £42,500 +13.33% 37
North East -5 56 £42,500 - 7
Wales +6 54 £44,886 +5.61% 17
Isle of Man - 10 £50,000 -
Northern Ireland -9 2 - - 6
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

Cisco
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
1 299 (12.06%) Microsoft Exchange
2 161 (6.49%) SharePoint
3 44 (1.77%) Skype for Business
4 26 (1.05%) IIS
5 14 (0.56%) SharePoint 2013
6 13 (0.52%) SharePoint 2010
7 11 (0.44%) Exchange Server 2010
8 6 (0.24%) Exchange Server 2000
9 5 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
9 5 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 5 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 3 (0.12%) WordPress
11 2 (0.081%) BizTalk Server
11 2 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2003
11 2 (0.081%) Exchange Server 2007
12 1 (0.040%) Apache
12 1 (0.040%) CMS
12 1 (0.040%) SAS
12 1 (0.040%) WebLogic
Applications
1 133 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (1.21%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 16 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.081%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.040%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (0.20%) Dynamics NAV
2 4 (0.16%) Sage 200
3 2 (0.081%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.040%) CA PPM
4 1 (0.040%) HiPortfolio
4 1 (0.040%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 812 (32.76%) Azure
2 663 (26.74%) Microsoft 365
3 317 (12.79%) AWS
4 137 (5.53%) Entra ID
5 99 (3.99%) GCP
6 79 (3.19%) IaaS
7 66 (2.66%) PaaS
8 62 (2.50%) SaaS
9 56 (2.26%) Cloud Computing
10 41 (1.65%) Mimecast
11 38 (1.53%) OneDrive
12 26 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
13 23 (0.93%) Rubrik
14 18 (0.73%) Azure ExpressRoute
15 15 (0.61%) Dynamics 365
15 15 (0.61%) Nutanix
15 15 (0.61%) OCI
16 13 (0.52%) AWS Direct Connect
16 13 (0.52%) Power Platform
17 12 (0.48%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 1,058 (42.68%) Firewall
2 856 (34.53%) WAN
3 594 (23.96%) LAN
4 461 (18.60%) Wireless
5 430 (17.35%) SD-WAN
6 400 (16.14%) VPN
7 335 (13.51%) Network Security
8 325 (13.11%) Wi-Fi
9 319 (12.87%) DNS
10 284 (11.46%) BGP
11 266 (10.73%) DHCP
12 264 (10.65%) MPLS
13 223 (9.00%) VLAN
14 221 (8.91%) TCP/IP
15 209 (8.43%) OSPF
16 188 (7.58%) Cisco IOS
17 139 (5.61%) Cisco Firepower
18 127 (5.12%) SAN
19 125 (5.04%) Cisco ASA
20 105 (4.24%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 87 (3.51%) SQL Server
2 19 (0.77%) Amazon RDS
3 15 (0.61%) MySQL
4 11 (0.44%) MongoDB
4 11 (0.44%) NoSQL
5 8 (0.32%) PostgreSQL
5 8 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 7 (0.28%) DB2
7 6 (0.24%) MariaDB
8 5 (0.20%) InfluxDB
8 5 (0.20%) Power BI
9 4 (0.16%) Big Data
9 4 (0.16%) Data Warehouse
9 4 (0.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 3 (0.12%) Relational Database
11 2 (0.081%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.081%) Metadata
11 2 (0.081%) Oracle Database
11 2 (0.081%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.081%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 36 (1.45%) JIRA
2 17 (0.69%) GitLab
3 8 (0.32%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.28%) Git
4 7 (0.28%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (0.24%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.081%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.081%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.040%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 622 (25.09%) Social Skills
2 249 (10.04%) Finance
3 170 (6.86%) Analytical Skills
4 160 (6.45%) Telecoms
5 86 (3.47%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 77 (3.11%) Public Sector
7 76 (3.07%) Law
8 70 (2.82%) Retail
9 53 (2.14%) Aerospace
9 53 (2.14%) Legal
10 48 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
11 38 (1.53%) Automotive
12 34 (1.37%) Manufacturing
13 33 (1.33%) Banking
13 33 (1.33%) Pharmaceutical
14 32 (1.29%) Marketing
15 26 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
16 25 (1.01%) Documentation Skills
17 23 (0.93%) Games
18 22 (0.89%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 742 (29.93%) Network Engineer
2 434 (17.51%) Senior
3 282 (11.38%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 238 (9.60%) IT Support
5 228 (9.20%) Support Engineer
6 195 (7.87%) Senior Network Engineer
7 187 (7.54%) Analyst
8 186 (7.50%) IT Engineer
9 161 (6.49%) Architect
10 112 (4.52%) Lead
11 98 (3.95%) Support Specialist
12 92 (3.71%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 88 (3.55%) IT Support Specialist
14 80 (3.23%) IT Manager
15 79 (3.19%) IT Support Engineer
16 73 (2.94%) Cisco Engineer
17 69 (2.78%) Security Engineer
18 68 (2.74%) 3rd Line Support
19 65 (2.62%) Consultant
19 65 (2.62%) Network Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 50 (2.02%) 802.1X
2 23 (0.93%) XML
3 17 (0.69%) LDAP
4 15 (0.61%) JSON
5 13 (0.52%) YAML
6 12 (0.48%) NETCONF
7 11 (0.44%) HTML
7 11 (0.44%) REST
7 11 (0.44%) RESTCONF
7 11 (0.44%) SOAP
7 11 (0.44%) YANG
8 9 (0.36%) XMPP
9 7 (0.28%) Web Services
10 5 (0.20%) SAML
10 5 (0.20%) WebSphere MQ
11 4 (0.16%) Akka
11 4 (0.16%) RESTful
12 2 (0.081%) V-Ray
12 2 (0.081%) WebRTC
12 2 (0.081%) X-Windows
Miscellaneous
1 408 (16.46%) Data Centre
2 155 (6.25%) Video Conferencing
3 132 (5.32%) Driving Licence
4 118 (4.76%) Management Information System
5 95 (3.83%) Public Cloud
6 86 (3.47%) Wiki
7 72 (2.90%) Self-Motivation
8 56 (2.26%) Replication
9 32 (1.29%) CCTV
9 32 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 30 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
11 27 (1.09%) IoT
12 24 (0.97%) PKI
13 21 (0.85%) Enterprise Software
14 20 (0.81%) Private Cloud
15 19 (0.77%) Clustering
16 18 (0.73%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
17 17 (0.69%) PMI
18 16 (0.65%) Virtual Team
19 14 (0.56%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 828 (33.40%) Windows
2 443 (17.87%) Windows Server
3 321 (12.95%) Linux
4 286 (11.54%) Windows 10
5 111 (4.48%) Android
6 97 (3.91%) Windows Server 2016
7 80 (3.23%) Windows Server 2019
8 78 (3.15%) Windows Server 2012
9 54 (2.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 41 (1.65%) Windows 7
11 37 (1.49%) Unix
12 36 (1.45%) CentOS
13 33 (1.33%) Windows Server 2008
14 32 (1.29%) Mac OS
15 20 (0.81%) Mac OS X
16 18 (0.73%) Ubuntu
16 18 (0.73%) VyOS
17 12 (0.48%) Windows XP
18 9 (0.36%) VMS
18 9 (0.36%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 409 (16.50%) ITIL
2 407 (16.42%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 342 (13.80%) Problem-Solving
4 297 (11.98%) Cybersecurity
5 270 (10.89%) Customer Service
6 207 (8.35%) Project Delivery
7 182 (7.34%) Computer Science
7 182 (7.34%) Project Management
8 169 (6.82%) Disaster Recovery
9 147 (5.93%) Continuous Improvement
10 141 (5.69%) Business Continuity
10 141 (5.69%) Incident Management
11 136 (5.49%) Agile
12 134 (5.41%) Mentoring
13 130 (5.24%) Presales
14 109 (4.40%) Network Management
14 109 (4.40%) Service Delivery
15 107 (4.32%) Network Monitoring
15 107 (4.32%) Time Management
16 105 (4.24%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 187 (7.54%) PowerShell
2 124 (5.00%) Python
3 104 (4.20%) SQL
4 60 (2.42%) Bash
5 27 (1.09%) C#
6 25 (1.01%) Java
6 25 (1.01%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.65%) Perl
8 13 (0.52%) VBScript
9 11 (0.44%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.28%) C++
11 6 (0.24%) C
12 4 (0.16%) Lua
12 4 (0.16%) Ruby
12 4 (0.16%) Tcl
13 2 (0.081%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 2 (0.081%) R
13 2 (0.081%) TypeScript
13 2 (0.081%) VB
14 1 (0.040%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 769 (31.02%) Cisco Certification
2 488 (19.69%) CCNA
3 470 (18.96%) CCNP
4 469 (18.92%) Security Cleared
5 433 (17.47%) Degree
6 259 (10.45%) SC Cleared
7 166 (6.70%) DV Cleared
8 159 (6.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 123 (4.96%) Master's Degree
10 109 (4.40%) Microsoft Certification
11 84 (3.39%) Azure Certification
12 79 (3.19%) CCIE
13 62 (2.50%) Network+ Certification
14 60 (2.42%) MCSE
15 57 (2.30%) JNCIA
16 41 (1.65%) CISSP
17 40 (1.61%) MCSA
18 35 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 33 (1.33%) A+ Certification
20 30 (1.21%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (4.88%) SLA
2 86 (3.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 62 (2.50%) Cyber Essentials
4 43 (1.73%) GDPR
5 28 (1.13%) NIST
6 20 (0.81%) QA
7 19 (0.77%) PCI DSS
8 14 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 13 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 11 (0.44%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.36%) COSHH
11 9 (0.36%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 7 (0.28%) NCSC
14 6 (0.24%) SOC 2
15 5 (0.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 5 (0.20%) SOC 1
16 4 (0.16%) PMO
17 3 (0.12%) COBIT
18 2 (0.081%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
System Software
1 651 (26.26%) Active Directory
2 391 (15.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 247 (9.96%) Hyper-V
4 183 (7.38%) VMware ESXi
5 101 (4.07%) XenApp
5 101 (4.07%) XenDesktop
6 82 (3.31%) Microsoft App-V
7 59 (2.38%) vSphere
8 37 (1.49%) VMware NSX
9 32 (1.29%) Docker
10 27 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
11 20 (0.81%) Firmware
12 11 (0.44%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 11 (0.44%) KVM
12 11 (0.44%) VMware Workstation
13 9 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
14 8 (0.32%) pfSense
15 7 (0.28%) Terminal Services
15 7 (0.28%) Virtual Servers
16 4 (0.16%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 182 (7.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 153 (6.17%) SCCM
3 130 (5.24%) FortiGate
4 83 (3.35%) AirWatch
5 77 (3.11%) Ansible
6 62 (2.50%) Terraform
7 57 (2.30%) WSUS
8 35 (1.41%) Kubernetes
9 34 (1.37%) vCenter Server
10 31 (1.25%) Puppet
11 29 (1.17%) Stealthwatch
12 23 (0.93%) CASB
12 23 (0.93%) Progress Chef
12 23 (0.93%) SCOM
13 22 (0.89%) Cisco CUCM
13 22 (0.89%) ZABBIX
14 18 (0.73%) Single Sign-On
15 17 (0.69%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 17 (0.69%) Cisco Prime
16 16 (0.65%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 934 (37.68%) Microsoft
2 642 (25.90%) VMware
3 443 (17.87%) Juniper
4 379 (15.29%) Meraki
5 346 (13.96%) Fortinet
6 336 (13.55%) Palo Alto
7 227 (9.16%) Citrix
8 216 (8.71%) HP
9 199 (8.03%) Aruba
10 151 (6.09%) CheckPoint
11 139 (5.61%) Veeam
12 134 (5.41%) Dell
13 131 (5.28%) SolarWinds
14 98 (3.95%) Apple
15 96 (3.87%) F5
16 91 (3.67%) NetApp
17 77 (3.11%) Ruckus Wireless
18 64 (2.58%) Red Hat
19 59 (2.38%) Google
20 51 (2.06%) Mitel