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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 101 124 128
Rank change year-on-year +23 +4 -34
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 2,561 2,925 4,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 2.61% 2.79% 3.01%
As % of the Vendors category 7.01% 6.67% 7.72%
Number of salaries quoted 2,071 2,029 2,822
10th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,192 £38,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
75th Percentile £63,750 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £83,550 £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 36,515 43,852 60,018
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 37.25% 41.90% 38.94%
Number of salaries quoted 25,094 24,954 33,291
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 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £93,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% +4.40%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +36 2,323 £50,000 - 498
UK excluding London +7 1,762 £47,500 +5.56% 376
Work from Home 0 808 £52,500 -4.55% 161
London +49 699 £60,000 - 167
South East +9 513 £49,000 +3.16% 112
North of England +22 437 £45,000 - 83
Midlands +28 334 £45,000 -2.07% 49
West Midlands +59 253 £45,000 - 37
North West -6 235 £50,000 +8.70% 48
South West +32 230 £49,000 +14.62% 52
Yorkshire +73 154 £47,500 +5.56% 26
East of England -17 127 £47,500 +11.76% 44
Scotland -98 80 £45,000 +20.81% 39
East Midlands -38 76 £44,225 -6.90% 12
Wales +16 58 £44,886 +8.81% 7
North East -4 56 £42,500 - 12
Isle of Man - 10 £50,000 -
Northern Ireland +2 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
1 349 (13.63%) Microsoft Exchange
2 158 (6.17%) SharePoint
3 45 (1.76%) Skype for Business
4 26 (1.02%) IIS
5 15 (0.59%) Exchange Server 2010
6 7 (0.27%) SharePoint 2010
6 7 (0.27%) SharePoint 2013
7 6 (0.23%) Exchange Server 2000
7 6 (0.23%) OpenStack
8 5 (0.20%) Exchange Server 2013
8 5 (0.20%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.12%) WordPress
10 2 (0.078%) Apache
10 2 (0.078%) CMS
10 2 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2003
10 2 (0.078%) Exchange Server 2007
10 2 (0.078%) nginx
11 1 (0.039%) BizTalk Server
11 1 (0.039%) SAS
11 1 (0.039%) WebLogic
Applications
1 154 (6.01%) Microsoft Office
2 32 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
3 19 (0.74%) MS Visio
4 15 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.078%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.039%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
1 4 (0.16%) Sage 200
2 2 (0.078%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.039%) CA PPM
3 1 (0.039%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.039%) HiPortfolio
3 1 (0.039%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.039%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 825 (32.21%) Azure
2 707 (27.61%) Microsoft 365
3 318 (12.42%) AWS
4 137 (5.35%) Entra ID
5 91 (3.55%) GCP
6 81 (3.16%) IaaS
7 62 (2.42%) PaaS
8 57 (2.23%) Cloud Computing
8 57 (2.23%) SaaS
9 40 (1.56%) Mimecast
10 37 (1.44%) OneDrive
11 27 (1.05%) Azure DevOps
12 25 (0.98%) Rubrik
13 18 (0.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
14 16 (0.62%) Nutanix
15 15 (0.59%) OCI
15 15 (0.59%) Power Platform
16 14 (0.55%) WhatsApp
17 13 (0.51%) AWS Direct Connect
18 11 (0.43%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1,084 (42.33%) Firewall
2 900 (35.14%) WAN
3 649 (25.34%) LAN
4 503 (19.64%) Wireless
5 436 (17.02%) SD-WAN
6 417 (16.28%) VPN
7 332 (12.96%) DNS
7 332 (12.96%) Wi-Fi
8 323 (12.61%) Network Security
9 289 (11.28%) BGP
10 283 (11.05%) DHCP
11 258 (10.07%) MPLS
12 242 (9.45%) VLAN
13 233 (9.10%) TCP/IP
14 223 (8.71%) Cisco IOS
15 208 (8.12%) OSPF
16 135 (5.27%) SAN
17 130 (5.08%) Cisco Firepower
18 128 (5.00%) Cisco ASA
19 127 (4.96%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (3.28%) SQL Server
2 25 (0.98%) Amazon RDS
2 25 (0.98%) MongoDB
3 16 (0.62%) MySQL
4 11 (0.43%) NoSQL
5 8 (0.31%) PostgreSQL
6 7 (0.27%) DB2
6 7 (0.27%) Power BI
7 6 (0.23%) InfluxDB
7 6 (0.23%) MariaDB
7 6 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 4 (0.16%) Big Data
9 3 (0.12%) Data Warehouse
9 3 (0.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
10 2 (0.078%) Metadata
10 2 (0.078%) Oracle Database
10 2 (0.078%) RDBMS
10 2 (0.078%) Relational Database
10 2 (0.078%) SQL Server Analysis Services
11 1 (0.039%) Azure SQL Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 36 (1.41%) JIRA
2 17 (0.66%) GitLab
3 8 (0.31%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.27%) Rational DOORS
5 6 (0.23%) Git
5 6 (0.23%) Sonatype Nexus
6 2 (0.078%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.078%) Visual Studio
7 1 (0.039%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 658 (25.69%) Social Skills
2 255 (9.96%) Finance
3 174 (6.79%) Analytical Skills
4 163 (6.36%) Telecoms
5 105 (4.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 83 (3.24%) Public Sector
7 77 (3.01%) Law
8 63 (2.46%) Retail
9 58 (2.26%) Legal
10 49 (1.91%) Aerospace
10 49 (1.91%) Organisational Skills
11 37 (1.44%) Automotive
12 34 (1.33%) Banking
13 33 (1.29%) Pharmaceutical
14 32 (1.25%) Marketing
15 31 (1.21%) Manufacturing
16 28 (1.09%) Games
16 28 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
17 24 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
18 23 (0.90%) Military
Job Titles
1 783 (30.57%) Network Engineer
2 462 (18.04%) Senior
3 285 (11.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 263 (10.27%) IT Support
5 243 (9.49%) Support Engineer
6 217 (8.47%) Senior Network Engineer
7 196 (7.65%) Analyst
8 182 (7.11%) IT Engineer
9 149 (5.82%) Architect
10 122 (4.76%) Lead
10 122 (4.76%) Support Specialist
11 111 (4.33%) IT Support Specialist
12 91 (3.55%) 3rd Line Engineer
13 81 (3.16%) Cisco Engineer
13 81 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
14 80 (3.12%) IT Manager
15 70 (2.73%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 70 (2.73%) Support Analyst
16 69 (2.69%) 3rd Line Support
17 67 (2.62%) Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 51 (1.99%) 802.1X
2 22 (0.86%) XML
3 21 (0.82%) LDAP
4 17 (0.66%) JSON
5 14 (0.55%) HTML
6 13 (0.51%) YAML
7 12 (0.47%) NETCONF
8 11 (0.43%) REST
8 11 (0.43%) RESTCONF
8 11 (0.43%) SOAP
8 11 (0.43%) YANG
9 9 (0.35%) XMPP
10 6 (0.23%) Web Services
11 5 (0.20%) SAML
11 5 (0.20%) WebSphere MQ
12 4 (0.16%) Akka
12 4 (0.16%) RESTful
13 3 (0.12%) ARM Templates
14 2 (0.078%) Lightning Web Components
14 2 (0.078%) V-Ray
Miscellaneous
1 395 (15.42%) Data Centre
2 177 (6.91%) Video Conferencing
3 133 (5.19%) Driving Licence
4 131 (5.12%) Management Information System
5 109 (4.26%) Wiki
6 101 (3.94%) Public Cloud
7 74 (2.89%) Self-Motivation
8 58 (2.26%) Replication
9 33 (1.29%) CCTV
9 33 (1.29%) Onboarding
10 31 (1.21%) PKI
11 30 (1.17%) Hybrid Cloud
12 22 (0.86%) Enterprise Software
12 22 (0.86%) IoT
13 21 (0.82%) Clustering
14 20 (0.78%) Private Cloud
15 19 (0.74%) Cyber Threat
16 18 (0.70%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
16 18 (0.70%) Virtual Team
17 17 (0.66%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 879 (34.32%) Windows
2 461 (18.00%) Windows Server
3 322 (12.57%) Windows 10
4 317 (12.38%) Linux
5 138 (5.39%) Android
6 102 (3.98%) Windows Server 2016
7 88 (3.44%) Windows Server 2012
8 83 (3.24%) Windows Server 2019
9 58 (2.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 41 (1.60%) Windows 7
11 38 (1.48%) Windows Server 2008
12 35 (1.37%) CentOS
13 34 (1.33%) Mac OS
13 34 (1.33%) Unix
14 19 (0.74%) VyOS
15 18 (0.70%) Mac OS X
15 18 (0.70%) Ubuntu
16 12 (0.47%) Windows XP
17 10 (0.39%) VMS
18 9 (0.35%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (16.56%) ITIL
2 402 (15.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 351 (13.71%) Problem-Solving
4 300 (11.71%) Cybersecurity
5 293 (11.44%) Customer Service
6 207 (8.08%) Project Delivery
7 201 (7.85%) Computer Science
8 179 (6.99%) Disaster Recovery
9 176 (6.87%) Project Management
10 169 (6.60%) Business Continuity
11 144 (5.62%) Continuous Improvement
12 135 (5.27%) Incident Management
13 129 (5.04%) Mentoring
14 126 (4.92%) Agile
15 125 (4.88%) Presales
16 123 (4.80%) Service Delivery
17 119 (4.65%) Mobile Device Management
18 118 (4.61%) DevOps
19 114 (4.45%) BCP
20 109 (4.26%) Business Continuity Planning
Programming Languages
1 216 (8.43%) PowerShell
2 141 (5.51%) Python
3 124 (4.84%) SQL
4 79 (3.08%) Bash
5 30 (1.17%) C#
6 25 (0.98%) Java
6 25 (0.98%) JavaScript
7 16 (0.62%) Perl
8 13 (0.51%) VBScript
9 11 (0.43%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.27%) C++
11 4 (0.16%) C
11 4 (0.16%) Lua
11 4 (0.16%) Ruby
11 4 (0.16%) Tcl
12 2 (0.078%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 2 (0.078%) R
12 2 (0.078%) TypeScript
12 2 (0.078%) VB
13 1 (0.039%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 826 (32.25%) Cisco Certification
2 517 (20.19%) CCNA
3 483 (18.86%) Security Cleared
4 478 (18.66%) CCNP
5 453 (17.69%) Degree
6 255 (9.96%) SC Cleared
7 179 (6.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 178 (6.95%) DV Cleared
9 146 (5.70%) Master's Degree
10 127 (4.96%) Microsoft Certification
11 87 (3.40%) CCIE
12 83 (3.24%) Azure Certification
13 78 (3.05%) Network+ Certification
14 63 (2.46%) JNCIA
15 54 (2.11%) MCSE
16 45 (1.76%) MCSA
17 38 (1.48%) CISSP
18 36 (1.41%) A+ Certification
18 36 (1.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 34 (1.33%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 123 (4.80%) SLA
2 83 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (2.15%) Cyber Essentials
4 43 (1.68%) GDPR
5 23 (0.90%) NIST
6 20 (0.78%) QA
7 17 (0.66%) PCI DSS
8 13 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 13 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 11 (0.43%) Accessibility
10 9 (0.35%) COSHH
10 9 (0.35%) ISO 9001
11 8 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 6 (0.23%) NCSC
12 6 (0.23%) SOC 2
13 5 (0.20%) SOC 1
14 4 (0.16%) PMO
15 3 (0.12%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 2 (0.078%) GPG for Computer-Based Electronic Evidence
16 2 (0.078%) NIST 800
System Software
1 702 (27.41%) Active Directory
2 413 (16.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 257 (10.04%) Hyper-V
4 209 (8.16%) VMware ESXi
5 118 (4.61%) XenApp
5 118 (4.61%) XenDesktop
6 105 (4.10%) Microsoft App-V
7 59 (2.30%) vSphere
8 32 (1.25%) Docker
8 32 (1.25%) VMware NSX
9 29 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
10 23 (0.90%) Firmware
11 12 (0.47%) Citrix Hypervisor
12 11 (0.43%) KVM
12 11 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
12 11 (0.43%) VMware Workstation
13 8 (0.31%) Terminal Services
13 8 (0.31%) Virtual Servers
14 7 (0.27%) pfSense
15 4 (0.16%) vCloud
Systems Management
1 193 (7.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 168 (6.56%) SCCM
3 129 (5.04%) FortiGate
4 105 (4.10%) AirWatch
5 79 (3.08%) Ansible
6 64 (2.50%) Terraform
7 61 (2.38%) WSUS
8 35 (1.37%) Kubernetes
9 34 (1.33%) vCenter Server
10 31 (1.21%) Puppet
11 28 (1.09%) SCOM
12 25 (0.98%) Cisco CUCM
13 24 (0.94%) Progress Chef
14 23 (0.90%) Stealthwatch
14 23 (0.90%) ZABBIX
15 21 (0.82%) CASB
16 19 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
17 18 (0.70%) Cisco Prime
18 17 (0.66%) Active Directory Federation Services
19 16 (0.62%) EMC NetWorker
Vendors
1 952 (37.17%) Microsoft
2 663 (25.89%) VMware
3 438 (17.10%) Juniper
4 379 (14.80%) Meraki
5 344 (13.43%) Fortinet
6 334 (13.04%) Palo Alto
7 253 (9.88%) Citrix
8 211 (8.24%) Aruba
9 209 (8.16%) HP
10 152 (5.94%) CheckPoint
11 139 (5.43%) Veeam
12 131 (5.12%) SolarWinds
13 122 (4.76%) Dell
14 91 (3.55%) F5
15 90 (3.51%) Apple
16 85 (3.32%) NetApp
17 81 (3.16%) Ruckus Wireless
18 68 (2.66%) Red Hat
19 56 (2.19%) Google
20 53 (2.07%) Mitel