Cisco Engineer Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer salary in England is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 February 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 539 574 692
Rank change year-on-year +35 +118 +168
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 85 87 72
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.20% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.16% 0.22% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 52 76 63
10th Percentile £46,375 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £54,375 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £71,500 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.07% +32.41% -1.82%
75th Percentile £61,375 £76,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £79,750 £91,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £68,750 £60,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +14.58% +9.09%

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 54,650 40,463 62,780
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.29% 91.38% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 35,243 21,304 50,139
10th Percentile £29,250 £33,500 £28,750
25th Percentile £38,208 £45,000 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.29%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -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 18 February 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 18 February 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 +13 44 £74,000 - 14
North West +25 20 £50,000 -
North of England -1 20 £50,000 -
West Midlands +26 11 £55,500 +5.71% 1
Midlands +13 11 £55,500 -14.62% 1
South East +20 9 £37,500 -31.82% 6
South West - 1 £47,500 - 1
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 18 February 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 85 (100.00%) Cisco
2 74 (87.06%) Firewall
3 60 (70.59%) WAN
4 52 (61.18%) Cisco Certification
4 52 (61.18%) LAN
5 45 (52.94%) Fortinet
6 36 (42.35%) CCNA
7 33 (38.82%) Azure
7 33 (38.82%) CCNP
8 29 (34.12%) Wi-Fi
9 27 (31.76%) AWS
10 25 (29.41%) SD-WAN
11 24 (28.24%) Juniper
11 24 (28.24%) Meraki
12 23 (27.06%) CheckPoint
12 23 (27.06%) Cisco ASA
12 23 (27.06%) Cisco Firepower
13 22 (25.88%) High Availability
14 21 (24.71%) Aruba
14 21 (24.71%) BGP
15 20 (23.53%) Presales
16 19 (22.35%) FortiGate
16 19 (22.35%) JNCIA
16 19 (22.35%) SolarWinds
17 17 (20.00%) Degree
17 17 (20.00%) OSPF
18 16 (18.82%) VPN
19 15 (17.65%) CCIE
19 15 (17.65%) Computer Science
20 14 (16.47%) CCSA

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:

Cloud Services
1 33 (38.82%) Azure
2 27 (31.76%) AWS
3 9 (10.59%) AWS Direct Connect
4 8 (9.41%) SaaS
4 8 (9.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.53%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.35%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (2.35%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 74 (87.06%) Firewall
2 60 (70.59%) WAN
3 52 (61.18%) LAN
4 29 (34.12%) Wi-Fi
5 25 (29.41%) SD-WAN
6 23 (27.06%) Cisco ASA
6 23 (27.06%) Cisco Firepower
7 21 (24.71%) BGP
8 17 (20.00%) OSPF
9 16 (18.82%) VPN
10 14 (16.47%) Cisco ISE
11 13 (15.29%) IPsec
11 13 (15.29%) MPLS
12 9 (10.59%) Network Security
13 8 (9.41%) NetScaler
13 8 (9.41%) NX-OS
13 8 (9.41%) VLAN
13 8 (9.41%) VXLAN
13 8 (9.41%) WLAN
14 6 (7.06%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (5.88%) Git
General
1 33 (38.82%) Social Skills
2 20 (23.53%) Presentation Skills
3 16 (18.82%) Finance
4 8 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.71%) Retail
6 3 (3.53%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.53%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.18%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.18%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.53%) Jinja
1 3 (3.53%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.53%) YANG
2 1 (1.18%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.41%) Data Centre
2 14 (16.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (11.76%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.53%) Social Media
5 1 (1.18%) e-Health
5 1 (1.18%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.35%) Linux
1 2 (2.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (25.88%) High Availability
2 20 (23.53%) Presales
3 15 (17.65%) Computer Science
4 14 (16.47%) Process Improvement
5 12 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (12.94%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 10 (11.76%) Network Segmentation
8 8 (9.41%) Cloud Security
8 8 (9.41%) Kalman Filter
8 8 (9.41%) Runbook
8 8 (9.41%) Zero Trust
9 6 (7.06%) Migration
10 5 (5.88%) DevOps
10 5 (5.88%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (4.71%) Agile
11 4 (4.71%) Network Design
11 4 (4.71%) Service Delivery
12 3 (3.53%) Change Control
12 3 (3.53%) ITIL
12 3 (3.53%) Network Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.88%) Python
Qualifications
1 52 (61.18%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (42.35%) CCNA
3 33 (38.82%) CCNP
4 19 (22.35%) JNCIA
5 17 (20.00%) Degree
6 15 (17.65%) CCIE
7 14 (16.47%) CCSA
7 14 (16.47%) CCSE
7 14 (16.47%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (11.76%) SC Cleared
8 10 (11.76%) Security Cleared
9 6 (7.06%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.18%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.53%) NIST
2 2 (2.35%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.53%) Firmware
3 2 (2.35%) NFS
3 2 (2.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (22.35%) FortiGate
2 5 (5.88%) Terraform
3 3 (3.53%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (2.35%) Ansible
4 2 (2.35%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (2.35%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.18%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 85 (100.00%) Cisco
2 45 (52.94%) Fortinet
3 24 (28.24%) Juniper
3 24 (28.24%) Meraki
4 23 (27.06%) CheckPoint
5 21 (24.71%) Aruba
6 19 (22.35%) SolarWinds
7 11 (12.94%) Dynatrace
7 11 (12.94%) ServiceNow
8 9 (10.59%) Palo Alto
9 5 (5.88%) VMware
10 4 (4.71%) Draytek
10 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
10 4 (4.71%) Sophos
10 4 (4.71%) Zscaler
11 3 (3.53%) Dell
12 2 (2.35%) Commvault
12 2 (2.35%) F5
12 2 (2.35%) Pure Storage
12 2 (2.35%) Red Hat