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 1 August 2026.

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

6 months to
1 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 611 688
Rank change year-on-year -56 +77 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 70 53 88
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.076% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 58 32 80
10th Percentile £52,125 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £46,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £49,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +16.16% -14.29%
75th Percentile £85,000 £66,563 £65,000
90th Percentile - £77,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +20.00% -13.79%

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 86,335 39,475 70,908
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.30% 90.65% 94.72%
Number of salaries quoted 60,644 23,957 49,503
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,075 £75,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £92,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year - - -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 1 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 1 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 -20 45 £70,000 +2.94% 3
North West - 10 £57,500 - 1
North of England - 10 £57,500 - 4
West Midlands -22 9 £55,000 -22.54% 1
Midlands -26 9 £55,000 -15.38% 2
South East -40 5 £80,000 +120.69% 4
South West -75 1 - -
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 70 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (57.14%) Firewall
3 30 (42.86%) Azure
4 28 (40.00%) LAN
5 27 (38.57%) WAN
6 26 (37.14%) Network Security
7 24 (34.29%) Meraki
7 24 (34.29%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (32.86%) Cisco Certification
9 22 (31.43%) VPN
10 20 (28.57%) CCNP
11 16 (22.86%) SD-WAN
12 14 (20.00%) BGP
12 14 (20.00%) OSPF
13 13 (18.57%) CCNA
14 12 (17.14%) Aruba
14 12 (17.14%) Juniper
14 12 (17.14%) SolarWinds
15 11 (15.71%) Degree
15 11 (15.71%) Network Segmentation
16 10 (14.29%) Incident Response
16 10 (14.29%) Wireless
17 9 (12.86%) Azure Certification
17 9 (12.86%) Fortinet
17 9 (12.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 9 (12.86%) Network Architecture
17 9 (12.86%) Network Monitoring
17 9 (12.86%) NIST
17 9 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
18 8 (11.43%) Azure ExpressRoute

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 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.86%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 30 (42.86%) Azure
2 8 (11.43%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 8 (11.43%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (10.00%) AWS
3 7 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.71%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.29%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (4.29%) SaaS
5 3 (4.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (2.86%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.43%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.43%) GCP
7 1 (1.43%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.43%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 40 (57.14%) Firewall
2 28 (40.00%) LAN
3 27 (38.57%) WAN
4 26 (37.14%) Network Security
5 24 (34.29%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (31.43%) VPN
7 16 (22.86%) SD-WAN
8 14 (20.00%) BGP
8 14 (20.00%) OSPF
9 10 (14.29%) Wireless
10 8 (11.43%) EIGRP
11 7 (10.00%) Cisco ISE
12 6 (8.57%) VXLAN
13 5 (7.14%) Cisco ASA
13 5 (7.14%) Cisco Firepower
13 5 (7.14%) NX-OS
13 5 (7.14%) Unified Communications
14 4 (5.71%) MPLS
14 4 (5.71%) WLAN
15 3 (4.29%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 1 (1.43%) Git
1 1 (1.43%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (11.43%) Social Skills
2 6 (8.57%) Finance
2 6 (8.57%) Presentation Skills
3 5 (7.14%) Telecoms
4 2 (2.86%) Legal
5 1 (1.43%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (1.43%) Law
5 1 (1.43%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.43%) Jinja
1 1 (1.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 4 (5.71%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.43%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.43%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.43%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Linux
1 2 (2.86%) Windows
1 2 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (15.71%) Network Segmentation
2 10 (14.29%) Incident Response
3 9 (12.86%) Network Architecture
3 9 (12.86%) Network Monitoring
3 9 (12.86%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (11.43%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 7 (10.00%) Network Design
6 6 (8.57%) Presales
7 5 (7.14%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (7.14%) Runbook
7 5 (7.14%) Zero Trust
8 4 (5.71%) Cybersecurity
8 4 (5.71%) Information Management
9 3 (4.29%) Cloud Security
9 3 (4.29%) Kalman Filter
9 3 (4.29%) Security Operations
10 2 (2.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (2.86%) Infrastructure as Code
10 2 (2.86%) Network Virtualisation
10 2 (2.86%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.86%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (32.86%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (28.57%) CCNP
3 13 (18.57%) CCNA
4 11 (15.71%) Degree
5 9 (12.86%) Azure Certification
6 6 (8.57%) DBS Check
7 5 (7.14%) CCIE
8 2 (2.86%) CCSA
8 2 (2.86%) CCSE
8 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (2.86%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.43%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.43%) CISSP
9 1 (1.43%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.43%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.43%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.43%) Server+ Certification
9 1 (1.43%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (12.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (12.86%) NIST
2 8 (11.43%) GDPR
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.43%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (5.71%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.86%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (11.43%) Cisco Prime
2 6 (8.57%) FortiGate
3 3 (4.29%) Ansible
3 3 (4.29%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 70 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (34.29%) Meraki
3 12 (17.14%) Aruba
3 12 (17.14%) Juniper
3 12 (17.14%) SolarWinds
4 9 (12.86%) Fortinet
5 8 (11.43%) Zscaler
6 7 (10.00%) HP
6 7 (10.00%) Microsoft
7 5 (7.14%) CheckPoint
7 5 (7.14%) Palo Alto
8 3 (4.29%) Dynatrace
8 3 (4.29%) ServiceNow
8 3 (4.29%) VMware
9 2 (2.86%) Arista
10 1 (1.43%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.43%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.43%) Veeam