Cisco Engineer Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 August 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 591 679
Rank change year-on-year -76 +88 -72
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 76 56 88
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.080% 0.13% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.14% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 68 33 81
10th Percentile £51,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £36,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £53,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.15% +7.00% -9.91%
75th Percentile £71,750 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -13.04%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 89,484 39,616 68,834
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 90.59% 95.00%
Number of salaries quoted 62,877 23,853 46,367
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £95,000 £92,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cisco Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Cisco Engineer job vacancy trend in England

Cisco Engineer
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for Cisco Engineer job vacancies in England.

Salary distribution trend for Cisco Engineer job vacancies in England

Cisco Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer in England over the 6 months to 20 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in England

Cisco Engineer
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 20 August 2026. 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
London -33 49 £65,000 -4.41% 5
North West - 11 £57,500 - 3
North of England - 11 £57,500 - 4
Midlands -22 9 £55,000 -8.33% 2
West Midlands -23 9 £55,000 -
South East -39 6 £60,000 +60.00% 2
South West -75 1 - -
Cisco Engineer
UK

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 20 August 2026, Cisco Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 76 (100.00%) Cisco
2 38 (50.00%) Firewall
3 31 (40.79%) Azure
4 28 (36.84%) Meraki
5 25 (32.89%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (32.89%) LAN
5 25 (32.89%) Network Security
6 23 (30.26%) WAN
7 21 (27.63%) CCNP
8 20 (26.32%) VPN
9 19 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
10 15 (19.74%) Zscaler
11 14 (18.42%) HP
12 13 (17.11%) BGP
12 13 (17.11%) OSPF
13 12 (15.79%) Aruba
13 12 (15.79%) CCNA
13 12 (15.79%) Juniper
13 12 (15.79%) SD-WAN
13 12 (15.79%) Wireless
14 11 (14.47%) Degree
14 11 (14.47%) Incident Response
14 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
14 11 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
14 11 (14.47%) Network Design
15 9 (11.84%) Network Architecture
16 8 (10.53%) Azure Certification
16 8 (10.53%) EIGRP
16 8 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 8 (10.53%) Network Monitoring

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.63%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (40.79%) Azure
2 11 (14.47%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (9.21%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 7 (9.21%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (7.89%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.95%) AWS
6 2 (2.63%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.32%) GCP
7 1 (1.32%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.32%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 38 (50.00%) Firewall
2 25 (32.89%) LAN
2 25 (32.89%) Network Security
3 23 (30.26%) WAN
4 20 (26.32%) VPN
5 19 (25.00%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (17.11%) BGP
6 13 (17.11%) OSPF
7 12 (15.79%) SD-WAN
7 12 (15.79%) Wireless
8 8 (10.53%) EIGRP
9 6 (7.89%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (7.89%) Unified Communications
10 4 (5.26%) Cisco ISE
10 4 (5.26%) VXLAN
11 3 (3.95%) Ethernet VPN
11 3 (3.95%) MPLS
11 3 (3.95%) Multicast
11 3 (3.95%) NX-OS
12 2 (2.63%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.32%) Git
General
1 8 (10.53%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.89%) Telecoms
3 5 (6.58%) Finance
3 5 (6.58%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.95%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.63%) Legal
5 2 (2.63%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.32%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.32%) Jinja
1 1 (1.32%) REST
1 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 9 (11.84%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (1.32%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.32%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.32%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.26%) Linux
1 4 (5.26%) Windows
1 4 (5.26%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (14.47%) Incident Response
1 11 (14.47%) Network Design
2 9 (11.84%) Network Architecture
3 8 (10.53%) Network Monitoring
4 7 (9.21%) Network Segmentation
4 7 (9.21%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (9.21%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 6 (7.89%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (6.58%) Presales
7 4 (5.26%) Information Management
7 4 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 4 (5.26%) Project Delivery
7 4 (5.26%) Runbook
8 3 (3.95%) Asset Management
8 3 (3.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (3.95%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (3.95%) IT Asset Management
8 3 (3.95%) Statistics
8 3 (3.95%) Technical Leadership
8 3 (3.95%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.95%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (32.89%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (27.63%) CCNP
3 12 (15.79%) CCNA
4 11 (14.47%) Degree
5 8 (10.53%) Azure Certification
6 7 (9.21%) DBS Check
7 6 (7.89%) CCIE
8 3 (3.95%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.63%) CCIE Data Center
9 2 (2.63%) SC Cleared
10 1 (1.32%) CCIE Service Provider
10 1 (1.32%) CCIP
10 1 (1.32%) CCSA
10 1 (1.32%) CCSE
10 1 (1.32%) CISSP
10 1 (1.32%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.32%) CREST Certified
10 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.32%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.32%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (10.53%) NIST
2 7 (9.21%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (7.89%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.63%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (9.21%) Cisco Prime
2 5 (6.58%) FortiGate
2 5 (6.58%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.26%) Ansible
4 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 76 (100.00%) Cisco
2 28 (36.84%) Meraki
3 15 (19.74%) Zscaler
4 14 (18.42%) HP
5 12 (15.79%) Aruba
5 12 (15.79%) Juniper
6 11 (14.47%) Microsoft
7 8 (10.53%) SolarWinds
8 5 (6.58%) Fortinet
8 5 (6.58%) Palo Alto
8 5 (6.58%) VMware
9 3 (3.95%) Arista
10 2 (2.63%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.32%) SonicWALL
11 1 (1.32%) Veeam