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 31 October 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
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 73 50
Rank change year-on-year +11 -23 +14
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 36 55 59
As % of all permanent jobs in Birmingham 2.91% 2.53% 4.71%
As % of the Vendors category 6.69% 7.10% 9.56%
Number of salaries quoted 30 17 54
10th Percentile £32,500 £46,700 £41,250
25th Percentile £41,563 £47,500 £44,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £64,600 £56,250
Median % change year-on-year -22.60% +14.84% +2.27%
75th Percentile £65,500 £67,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £82,500 £85,000
West Midlands median annual salary £51,000 £48,400 £47,000
% change year-on-year +5.37% +2.98% -4.63%

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 538 775 617
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Birmingham 43.42% 35.65% 49.24%
Number of salaries quoted 350 385 513
10th Percentile £31,500 £34,000 £31,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £59,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -3.36% +10.19% -1.82%
75th Percentile £73,750 £74,144 £67,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £90,000 £80,000
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £52,004 £49,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% +6.13% -2.00%

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 31 October 2025.

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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (13.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 3 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.78%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 11 (30.56%) Azure
2 8 (22.22%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (8.33%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.56%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 22 (61.11%) Firewall
2 21 (58.33%) WAN
3 18 (50.00%) LAN
4 15 (41.67%) DNS
5 12 (33.33%) DHCP
5 12 (33.33%) SD-WAN
5 12 (33.33%) VPN
6 6 (16.67%) Network Security
6 6 (16.67%) TCP/IP
6 6 (16.67%) VLAN
7 5 (13.89%) BGP
7 5 (13.89%) OSPF
7 5 (13.89%) Wi-Fi
7 5 (13.89%) WLAN
8 4 (11.11%) IPsec
8 4 (11.11%) SAN
9 3 (8.33%) MPLS
9 3 (8.33%) NAS
9 3 (8.33%) Wireless
9 3 (8.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.33%) Power BI
2 1 (2.78%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (2.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 10 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Organisational Skills
4 4 (11.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (11.11%) Manufacturing
5 2 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.56%) Finance
6 1 (2.78%) Law
6 1 (2.78%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.78%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (19.44%) Support Engineer
3 5 (13.89%) Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Network Architect
3 5 (13.89%) Technical Manager
4 4 (11.11%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 4 (11.11%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support
5 3 (8.33%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
5 3 (8.33%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support
5 3 (8.33%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 3 (8.33%) Systems Manager
6 2 (5.56%) IT Engineer
6 2 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
3 3 (8.33%) Cloud Native
3 3 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (8.33%) Driving Licence
3 3 (8.33%) Public Cloud
4 2 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.78%) FMCG
5 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 12 (33.33%) Windows
2 6 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 4 (11.11%) Linux
3 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (11.11%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (5.56%) Windows Server 2012
5 1 (2.78%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (22.22%) CRM
2 7 (19.44%) ITIL
2 7 (19.44%) Mentoring
2 7 (19.44%) Network Design
3 6 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 5 (13.89%) Customer Experience
4 5 (13.89%) Process Improvement
5 4 (11.11%) AI
5 4 (11.11%) Data Security
5 4 (11.11%) ERP
5 4 (11.11%) Infrastructure Management
6 3 (8.33%) Business Intelligence
6 3 (8.33%) Change Control
6 3 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
6 3 (8.33%) DevOps
6 3 (8.33%) High Availability
6 3 (8.33%) Migration
6 3 (8.33%) Network Monitoring
6 3 (8.33%) Presales
6 3 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 3 (8.33%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) Python
Qualifications
1 9 (25.00%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (22.22%) CCNP
3 4 (11.11%) Azure Certification
4 3 (8.33%) Degree
4 3 (8.33%) DV Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (8.33%) SC Cleared
4 3 (8.33%) Security Cleared
5 2 (5.56%) CCNA
6 1 (2.78%) CCIE
6 1 (2.78%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (2.78%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.78%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.56%) ISO 9000
1 2 (5.56%) SLA
System Software
1 11 (30.56%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (25.00%) Active Directory
3 4 (11.11%) XenApp
4 3 (8.33%) Firmware
4 3 (8.33%) VMware ESXi
4 3 (8.33%) vSphere
5 1 (2.78%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (16.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.11%) Terraform
3 3 (8.33%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (5.56%) Endace
4 2 (5.56%) FortiGate
4 2 (5.56%) Nagios
5 1 (2.78%) Ansible
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Meraki
2 12 (33.33%) VMware
3 10 (27.78%) Microsoft
4 8 (22.22%) Fortinet
5 6 (16.67%) SolarWinds
6 5 (13.89%) Juniper
6 5 (13.89%) SonicWALL
7 4 (11.11%) CheckPoint
7 4 (11.11%) Citrix
7 4 (11.11%) Palo Alto
7 4 (11.11%) Zscaler
8 3 (8.33%) Aruba
8 3 (8.33%) Dell
8 3 (8.33%) Ubiquiti
8 3 (8.33%) Veeam
9 2 (5.56%) Extreme Networks
9 2 (5.56%) Fujitsu
10 1 (2.78%) HP