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 9 March 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 552 561 712
Rank change year-on-year +9 +151 +162
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 88 73 65
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.18% 0.088%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.20% 0.093%
Number of salaries quoted 55 65 60
10th Percentile £46,750 £49,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £57,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £50,650
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +28.33% -12.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £51,300
% change year-on-year -23.08% +26.71% -10.78%

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 58,500 35,914 69,536
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.74% 90.72% 94.44%
Number of salaries quoted 38,046 21,101 55,004
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -9.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
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 9 March 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 9 March 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 +29 52 £74,000 -1.33% 7
North West +7 20 £50,000 -
North of England -9 20 £50,000 -
South East -14 9 £37,500 -27.18% 6
West Midlands +10 6 £55,500 -22.11% 1
Midlands -18 6 £55,500 -14.62% 1
South West -23 1 £47,500 -26.92% 1
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 9 March 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 88 (100.00%) Cisco
2 74 (84.09%) Firewall
3 58 (65.91%) WAN
4 50 (56.82%) Cisco Certification
4 50 (56.82%) LAN
5 46 (52.27%) Fortinet
6 38 (43.18%) CCNA
7 37 (42.05%) Azure
8 31 (35.23%) CCNP
8 31 (35.23%) Wi-Fi
9 28 (31.82%) AWS
10 27 (30.68%) Meraki
11 25 (28.41%) SD-WAN
12 24 (27.27%) CheckPoint
12 24 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
12 24 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
12 24 (27.27%) Juniper
13 22 (25.00%) Aruba
14 21 (23.86%) FortiGate
14 21 (23.86%) Presales
15 20 (22.73%) BGP
15 20 (22.73%) High Availability
15 20 (22.73%) SolarWinds
16 19 (21.59%) Degree
16 19 (21.59%) JNCIA
17 17 (19.32%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (19.32%) OSPF
18 16 (18.18%) VPN
19 15 (17.05%) CCIE
19 15 (17.05%) Computer Science

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 37 (42.05%) Azure
2 28 (31.82%) AWS
3 10 (11.36%) AWS Direct Connect
4 9 (10.23%) SaaS
4 9 (10.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (5.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.14%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (84.09%) Firewall
2 58 (65.91%) WAN
3 50 (56.82%) LAN
4 31 (35.23%) Wi-Fi
5 25 (28.41%) SD-WAN
6 24 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
6 24 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
7 20 (22.73%) BGP
8 17 (19.32%) Cisco ISE
8 17 (19.32%) OSPF
9 16 (18.18%) VPN
10 13 (14.77%) MPLS
11 12 (13.64%) Network Security
12 11 (12.50%) IPsec
13 10 (11.36%) WLAN
14 9 (10.23%) NetScaler
14 9 (10.23%) NX-OS
14 9 (10.23%) VXLAN
15 8 (9.09%) Wireless
16 6 (6.82%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Git
General
1 32 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.86%) Presentation Skills
3 15 (17.05%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.55%) Retail
6 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) Jinja
1 3 (3.41%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.41%) YANG
2 1 (1.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 14 (15.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (10.23%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.41%) Social Media
5 1 (1.14%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.14%) e-Health
5 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.86%) Presales
2 20 (22.73%) High Availability
3 15 (17.05%) Computer Science
4 14 (15.91%) Process Improvement
5 13 (14.77%) Network Segmentation
5 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (10.23%) Cloud Security
7 9 (10.23%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (10.23%) Runbook
7 9 (10.23%) Zero Trust
8 6 (6.82%) Migration
9 5 (5.68%) Network Monitoring
10 4 (4.55%) Incident Response
10 4 (4.55%) Network Architecture
10 4 (4.55%) Network Design
10 4 (4.55%) Service Delivery
10 4 (4.55%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 3 (3.41%) Data Science
11 3 (3.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 50 (56.82%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (43.18%) CCNA
3 31 (35.23%) CCNP
4 19 (21.59%) Degree
4 19 (21.59%) JNCIA
5 15 (17.05%) CCIE
6 14 (15.91%) CCSA
6 14 (15.91%) CCSE
6 14 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (7.95%) Azure Certification
7 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
7 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
8 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (5.68%) NIST
2 4 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (1.14%) Firmware
1 1 (1.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (23.86%) FortiGate
2 4 (4.55%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.14%) CA Spectrum
3 1 (1.14%) Dell DRAC
3 1 (1.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 88 (100.00%) Cisco
2 46 (52.27%) Fortinet
3 27 (30.68%) Meraki
4 24 (27.27%) CheckPoint
4 24 (27.27%) Juniper
5 22 (25.00%) Aruba
6 20 (22.73%) SolarWinds
7 12 (13.64%) Dynatrace
7 12 (13.64%) ServiceNow
8 9 (10.23%) Palo Alto
9 4 (4.55%) Draytek
9 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
9 4 (4.55%) Sophos
10 2 (2.27%) F5
10 2 (2.27%) Zscaler
11 1 (1.14%) Dell
11 1 (1.14%) Ekahau
11 1 (1.14%) VMware