Cisco Job Trends in Berkshire

Cisco
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Berkshire requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 79 60
Rank change year-on-year -18 -19 +49
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 32 54 83
As % of all permanent jobs in Berkshire 1.59% 3.13% 4.28%
As % of the Vendors category 3.95% 10.98% 10.56%
Number of salaries quoted 30 33 76
10th Percentile £36,200 £31,125 £40,438
25th Percentile £36,250 £39,125 £48,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -14.53% -2.50%
75th Percentile £59,750 £57,500 £72,313
90th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £85,000
South East median annual salary £48,000 £54,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year -11.11% +10.20% +3.16%

All Vendors
Berkshire

Cisco falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in Berkshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 810 492 786
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Berkshire 40.34% 28.54% 40.58%
Number of salaries quoted 255 245 625
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,500 £29,850
25th Percentile £33,750 £40,500 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -7.08%
75th Percentile £70,625 £70,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £77,000 £80,000 £75,000
South East median annual salary £45,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -4.76%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Cisco job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Cisco
Salary Trend in Berkshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cisco.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Cisco

Cisco
Salary Histogram in Berkshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Berkshire over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco in Berkshire

Cisco
Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 30 December 2025. 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
Bracknell +12 10 £54,250 +14.21% 2
Maidenhead - 7 £37,500 - 2
Reading +19 6 £58,750 +6.82% 15
Cisco
South East

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) SharePoint
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (6.25%) IIS
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (6.25%) AWS
2 2 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (3.13%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 15 (46.88%) Firewall
2 5 (15.63%) Wireless
3 4 (12.50%) VPN
4 3 (9.38%) WAN
5 2 (6.25%) DHCP
5 2 (6.25%) DNS
5 2 (6.25%) Junos
5 2 (6.25%) LAN
5 2 (6.25%) TCP/IP
5 2 (6.25%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (3.13%) BGP
6 1 (3.13%) Cisco ISE
6 1 (3.13%) Network Security
6 1 (3.13%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.13%) JIRA
1 1 (3.13%) Subversion
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (12.50%) Retail
3 2 (6.25%) Finance
4 1 (3.13%) Law
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Cisco Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Cisco Field Engineer
2 8 (25.00%) Field Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 6 (18.75%) Network Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) 3rd Line Network Engineer
4 5 (15.63%) Field Service Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Audio Visual Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Cabling Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Installations Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Network Architect
5 3 (9.38%) Network Field Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Account Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Juniper Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared Network Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Senior
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Driving Licence
2 4 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 3 (9.38%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (6.25%) Clustering
4 2 (6.25%) Replication
5 1 (3.13%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Windows
2 4 (12.50%) Linux
2 4 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
3 3 (9.38%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (21.88%) Mentoring
2 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
2 6 (18.75%) Project Delivery
2 6 (18.75%) Requirements Gathering
3 5 (15.63%) Presales
3 5 (15.63%) Service Delivery
4 4 (12.50%) Break/Fix
4 4 (12.50%) Project Planning
4 4 (12.50%) Risk Analysis
5 3 (9.38%) Incident Management
5 3 (9.38%) ITIL
5 3 (9.38%) ITSM
5 3 (9.38%) People Management
5 3 (9.38%) Service Management
6 2 (6.25%) Agile
6 2 (6.25%) Collaborative Working
6 2 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (6.25%) High Availability
6 2 (6.25%) Network Design
6 2 (6.25%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (6.25%) PowerShell
1 2 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (34.38%) Security Cleared
2 9 (28.13%) SC Cleared
3 4 (12.50%) CCNA
3 4 (12.50%) Cisco Certification
3 4 (12.50%) DV Cleared
4 2 (6.25%) CCNP
4 2 (6.25%) JNCIA
5 1 (3.13%) HP APS
5 1 (3.13%) ISTQB
5 1 (3.13%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Active Directory
2 4 (12.50%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (6.25%) Docker
3 2 (6.25%) Hyper-V
4 1 (3.13%) Terminal Server
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Failover Clustering
1 2 (6.25%) SCOM
2 1 (3.13%) FortiGate
2 1 (3.13%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (40.63%) Draytek
2 12 (37.50%) Sophos
3 11 (34.38%) Juniper
4 10 (31.25%) Meraki
5 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
6 5 (15.63%) Fortinet
6 5 (15.63%) VMware
7 4 (12.50%) Aruba
8 3 (9.38%) Forcepoint
9 1 (3.13%) ConnectWise
9 1 (3.13%) HP
9 1 (3.13%) Logitech
9 1 (3.13%) McAfee
9 1 (3.13%) Peplink
9 1 (3.13%) ServiceNow
9 1 (3.13%) Ubiquiti
9 1 (3.13%) Yealink