Cisco Job Trends in Birmingham

Cisco
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 7 February 2026, 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
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 81 36 57
Rank change year-on-year -45 +21 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 27 105 72
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 1.43% 5.98% 3.65%
As % of the Vendors category 4.55% 13.17% 8.50%
Number of salaries quoted 20 58 60
10th Percentile £53,000 £46,775 £36,250
25th Percentile £56,625 £49,688 £48,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £66,250 £64,800 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.24% +8.00% +20.00%
75th Percentile £77,313 £65,788 £79,688
90th Percentile £77,500 £70,125 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £58,250 £57,500 £48,500
% change year-on-year +1.30% +18.56% +2.68%

All Vendors
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 594 797 847
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 31.51% 45.36% 42.95%
Number of salaries quoted 366 383 710
10th Percentile £31,250 £37,500 £26,500
25th Percentile £43,497 £46,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% +5.45% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £68,750 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £82,500 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £53,000 £52,900 £47,500
% change year-on-year +0.19% +11.37% -5.00%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Cisco
Salary Trend in Birmingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cisco.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Cisco

Cisco
Salary Histogram in Birmingham

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Birmingham over the 6 months to 7 February 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco in Birmingham

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (3.70%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 6 (22.22%) Azure
2 3 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 18 (66.67%) Firewall
2 15 (55.56%) WAN
3 11 (40.74%) LAN
3 11 (40.74%) SD-WAN
4 9 (33.33%) VPN
5 7 (25.93%) Wireless
6 5 (18.52%) BGP
6 5 (18.52%) DHCP
6 5 (18.52%) DNS
6 5 (18.52%) Network Security
6 5 (18.52%) WebEx
6 5 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
7 4 (14.81%) IPsec
7 4 (14.81%) OSPF
7 4 (14.81%) WLAN
8 3 (11.11%) Cisco ASA
8 3 (11.11%) Cisco Nexus
8 3 (11.11%) VLAN
8 3 (11.11%) Wireshark
9 2 (7.41%) MPLS
Development Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (29.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (25.93%) Documentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 2 (7.41%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (7.41%) Retail
4 1 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (3.70%) Public Sector
4 1 (3.70%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (29.63%) Network Engineer
2 5 (18.52%) Architect
2 5 (18.52%) Network Architect
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Cisco Network Engineer
3 4 (14.81%) Designer
3 4 (14.81%) Lead
3 4 (14.81%) Lead Designer
3 4 (14.81%) Network Designer
4 3 (11.11%) Consultant
4 3 (11.11%) Network Support
4 3 (11.11%) Network Support Engineer
4 3 (11.11%) Support Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (7.41%) Network Consultant
5 2 (7.41%) Senior
5 2 (7.41%) Technical Manager
6 1 (3.70%) Analyst
6 1 (3.70%) Network Security Engineer
6 1 (3.70%) Server Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Data Centre
2 3 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 3 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.70%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (29.63%) Network Design
2 6 (22.22%) Presales
3 5 (18.52%) Customer Experience
3 5 (18.52%) ITIL
4 4 (14.81%) High Availability
4 4 (14.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (11.11%) Change Control
5 3 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 3 (11.11%) DevOps
5 3 (11.11%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (11.11%) SIEM
6 2 (7.41%) Collaborative Culture
6 2 (7.41%) Customer Requirements
6 2 (7.41%) Migration
6 2 (7.41%) Network Architecture
6 2 (7.41%) Process Improvement
6 2 (7.41%) Requirements Gathering
6 2 (7.41%) Requirements Management
6 2 (7.41%) Roadmaps
6 2 (7.41%) Value Proposition
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.70%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (29.63%) CCNP
3 4 (14.81%) Azure Certification
4 3 (11.11%) DV Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 3 (11.11%) Security Cleared
5 2 (7.41%) CCNA
6 1 (3.70%) CCIE
6 1 (3.70%) Degree
6 1 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (3.70%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
System Software
1 4 (14.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (11.11%) Firmware
3 1 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 4 (14.81%) Terraform
2 3 (11.11%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (7.41%) Endace
4 1 (3.70%) Ansible
4 1 (3.70%) FortiGate
4 1 (3.70%) Nagios
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) Fortinet
2 8 (29.63%) Juniper
3 7 (25.93%) Aruba
3 7 (25.93%) Meraki
3 7 (25.93%) Microsoft
4 5 (18.52%) Palo Alto
4 5 (18.52%) SolarWinds
4 5 (18.52%) Zscaler
5 4 (14.81%) Dell
5 4 (14.81%) VMware
6 3 (11.11%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (3.70%) Ekahau