Cisco Job Trends in the East Midlands

Cisco
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 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
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 51 76
Rank change year-on-year -40 +25 +15
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 46 87 44
As % of all permanent jobs in the East Midlands 1.82% 3.78% 2.71%
As % of the Vendors category 6.12% 10.94% 6.79%
Number of salaries quoted 45 26 41
10th Percentile £25,525 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £29,750 £37,500 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £53,750 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -39.53% +13.16% +5.56%
75th Percentile £47,500 £60,000 £54,500
90th Percentile £53,951 £80,000 £60,000
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 the East Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 752 795 648
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.83% 34.57% 39.93%
Number of salaries quoted 447 354 491
10th Percentile £26,250 £29,750 £25,750
25th Percentile £30,500 £33,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £75,900 £72,500 £72,500
England median annual salary £51,500 £57,500 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.43% +4.55% -4.35%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Cisco
Salary Trend in the East Midlands

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cisco.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Cisco

Cisco
Salary Histogram in the East Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco in the East Midlands

Cisco
Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Northamptonshire +7 15 £32,500 -45.83% 11
Nottinghamshire +11 12 £46,779 -14.95% 6
Leicestershire -22 9 £26,500 -55.83% 16
Lincolnshire - 5 £45,000 - 9
Derbyshire -25 3 £31,500 -21.25% 11
Cisco
England

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 10 (21.74%) SharePoint
2 4 (8.70%) Confluence
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (8.70%) CATIA
2 1 (2.17%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 19 (41.30%) Azure
2 10 (21.74%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (17.39%) AWS
4 7 (15.22%) Entra ID
5 5 (10.87%) Cloud Computing
6 2 (4.35%) GCP
6 2 (4.35%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 18 (39.13%) Firewall
2 7 (15.22%) VLAN
3 6 (13.04%) Cisco ASA
3 6 (13.04%) Cisco Nexus
4 5 (10.87%) VPN
5 4 (8.70%) Network Security
5 4 (8.70%) WAN
6 3 (6.52%) DHCP
6 3 (6.52%) DNS
6 3 (6.52%) LAN
7 2 (4.35%) MPLS
7 2 (4.35%) TCP/IP
8 1 (2.17%) BGP
8 1 (2.17%) IPv4
8 1 (2.17%) IPv6
8 1 (2.17%) NAS
8 1 (2.17%) OSPF
8 1 (2.17%) SAN
8 1 (2.17%) VPLS
8 1 (2.17%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.17%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Burp Suite
1 6 (13.04%) Metasploit
2 4 (8.70%) JIRA
General
1 24 (52.17%) Social Skills
2 10 (21.74%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Law
3 6 (13.04%) Organisational Skills
3 6 (13.04%) Retail
4 5 (10.87%) Automotive
5 3 (6.52%) Finance
5 3 (6.52%) Marketing
6 1 (2.17%) Legal
Job Titles
1 15 (32.61%) IT Support
2 13 (28.26%) 2nd Line Support
3 7 (15.22%) IT Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) IT Support Engineer
3 7 (15.22%) Support Engineer
4 6 (13.04%) Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Help Desk Analyst
4 6 (13.04%) Security Specialist
4 6 (13.04%) Threat Intelligence Specialist
5 5 (10.87%) Cisco Support
5 5 (10.87%) Technical Engineer
5 5 (10.87%) Technical Support
5 5 (10.87%) Technical Support Engineer
6 4 (8.70%) 2nd Line Support Technician
6 4 (8.70%) Senior
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Support Technician
6 4 (8.70%) Senior Technician
6 4 (8.70%) Support Technician
7 2 (4.35%) Architect
7 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.35%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.57%) Onboarding
2 7 (15.22%) Driving Licence
3 6 (13.04%) Insider Threat
3 6 (13.04%) Security Posture
4 5 (10.87%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (4.35%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (2.17%) e-Learning
6 1 (2.17%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (2.17%) iPhone
6 1 (2.17%) Operational Technology
6 1 (2.17%) Replication
6 1 (2.17%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 6 (13.04%) Windows
2 4 (8.70%) Windows 10
3 3 (6.52%) Linux
4 2 (4.35%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.17%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 22 (47.83%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (26.09%) Customer Service
4 9 (19.57%) Change Control
4 9 (19.57%) Project Delivery
4 9 (19.57%) Server Management
5 7 (15.22%) ITIL
6 6 (13.04%) Actionable Insight
6 6 (13.04%) Anomaly Detection
6 6 (13.04%) Break/Fix
6 6 (13.04%) Decision-Making
6 6 (13.04%) Ethical Hacking
6 6 (13.04%) Information Security
6 6 (13.04%) Offensive Security
6 6 (13.04%) Open Source
6 6 (13.04%) Penetration Testing
6 6 (13.04%) Red Team
6 6 (13.04%) Threat Intelligence
7 5 (10.87%) Logistics
7 5 (10.87%) Service Desk Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.87%) PowerShell
1 5 (10.87%) SQL
Qualifications
1 24 (52.17%) CCNA
1 24 (52.17%) Cisco Certification
2 15 (32.61%) MCP
2 15 (32.61%) MCSE
2 15 (32.61%) Microsoft Certification
3 11 (23.91%) Degree
4 9 (19.57%) CCA
4 9 (19.57%) Citrix Certification
4 9 (19.57%) MCSA
5 7 (15.22%) SC Cleared
5 7 (15.22%) Security Cleared
6 6 (13.04%) CEH
6 6 (13.04%) CISMP
6 6 (13.04%) CISSP
6 6 (13.04%) CompTIA Security+
6 6 (13.04%) CREST Certified
6 6 (13.04%) GIAC
6 6 (13.04%) GPEN
6 6 (13.04%) OSCP
7 3 (6.52%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (19.57%) SLA
2 6 (13.04%) Actionable Recommendations
3 5 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 14 (30.43%) Active Directory
2 9 (19.57%) Hyper-V
3 5 (10.87%) Firmware
4 4 (8.70%) vSphere
5 3 (6.52%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (15.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (13.04%) Nmap
3 1 (2.17%) Terraform
Vendors
1 28 (60.87%) Microsoft
2 12 (26.09%) VMware
3 9 (19.57%) Citrix
4 8 (17.39%) Meraki
5 4 (8.70%) SonicWALL
6 3 (6.52%) HP
7 2 (4.35%) Darktrace
7 2 (4.35%) Juniper
8 1 (2.17%) Aruba
8 1 (2.17%) iManage