Cisco Engineer Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer salary in England is £55,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 1 May 2026.

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

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 583 559 741
Rank change year-on-year -24 +182 +91
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 93 54 75
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.14% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.16% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 66 45 70
10th Percentile - £38,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,250 £38,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,250 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.92% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £76,750 £72,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £115,000
UK median annual salary £55,250 £60,000 £50,650
% change year-on-year -7.92% +18.46% -7.91%

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 74,248 33,643 78,805
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.86% 88.94% 94.42%
Number of salaries quoted 48,779 21,258 60,122
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -10.84%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £72,433
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,800 £53,000
% change year-on-year -8.03% +12.83% -11.67%

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 May 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 May 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 +11 59 £75,000 +3.45%
North West -2 26 £50,000 - 5
North of England -38 26 £50,000 - 5
West Midlands -27 4 £55,500 -22.11% 2
Midlands -45 4 £55,500 -14.62% 2
South East -34 3 £42,500 -17.48%
South West -55 1 £47,500 -26.92%
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 93 (100.00%) Cisco
2 72 (77.42%) Firewall
3 55 (59.14%) WAN
4 51 (54.84%) LAN
5 46 (49.46%) Cisco Certification
6 42 (45.16%) Fortinet
7 39 (41.94%) CCNA
8 37 (39.78%) Azure
9 31 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
10 28 (30.11%) Aruba
10 28 (30.11%) Juniper
11 27 (29.03%) CCNP
12 26 (27.96%) Meraki
12 26 (27.96%) SD-WAN
13 25 (26.88%) Presales
14 23 (24.73%) Network Security
15 22 (23.66%) AWS
16 21 (22.58%) SolarWinds
17 20 (21.51%) CheckPoint
17 20 (21.51%) Cisco ASA
17 20 (21.51%) Cisco Firepower
17 20 (21.51%) VPN
18 19 (20.43%) Degree
18 19 (20.43%) JNCIA
19 18 (19.35%) Cisco ISE
19 18 (19.35%) Network Segmentation
20 17 (18.28%) BGP
20 17 (18.28%) FortiGate
21 14 (15.05%) OSPF
22 13 (13.98%) High Availability

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 (39.78%) Azure
2 22 (23.66%) AWS
3 9 (9.68%) AWS Direct Connect
3 9 (9.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (9.68%) Azure Monitor
3 9 (9.68%) SaaS
3 9 (9.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.08%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.08%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.08%) Mimecast
4 1 (1.08%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 72 (77.42%) Firewall
2 55 (59.14%) WAN
3 51 (54.84%) LAN
4 31 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (27.96%) SD-WAN
6 23 (24.73%) Network Security
7 20 (21.51%) Cisco ASA
7 20 (21.51%) Cisco Firepower
7 20 (21.51%) VPN
8 18 (19.35%) Cisco ISE
9 17 (18.28%) BGP
10 14 (15.05%) OSPF
11 12 (12.90%) MPLS
12 10 (10.75%) IPsec
12 10 (10.75%) WLAN
13 9 (9.68%) NetScaler
13 9 (9.68%) NX-OS
13 9 (9.68%) VXLAN
14 7 (7.53%) Wireless
15 5 (5.38%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 3 (3.23%) Git
General
1 29 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 25 (26.88%) Presentation Skills
3 13 (13.98%) Finance
4 5 (5.38%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.38%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.08%) Legal
6 1 (1.08%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.23%) Jinja
1 3 (3.23%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.23%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 21 (22.58%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (10.75%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.23%) Social Media
4 1 (1.08%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.08%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (26.88%) Presales
2 18 (19.35%) Network Segmentation
3 13 (13.98%) High Availability
4 12 (12.90%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (11.83%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (10.75%) Computer Science
6 10 (10.75%) Incident Response
6 10 (10.75%) Network Architecture
6 10 (10.75%) Network Monitoring
6 10 (10.75%) Process Improvement
6 10 (10.75%) Runbook
6 10 (10.75%) Zero Trust
7 9 (9.68%) Cloud Security
7 9 (9.68%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (9.68%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 5 (5.38%) Network Design
9 4 (4.30%) Information Management
10 3 (3.23%) Agile
10 3 (3.23%) Site Reliability Engineering
10 3 (3.23%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 46 (49.46%) Cisco Certification
2 39 (41.94%) CCNA
3 27 (29.03%) CCNP
4 19 (20.43%) Degree
4 19 (20.43%) JNCIA
5 10 (10.75%) Azure Certification
5 10 (10.75%) CCIE
5 10 (10.75%) CCSA
5 10 (10.75%) CCSE
5 10 (10.75%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.30%) Security Cleared
7 3 (3.23%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.15%) DBS Check
9 1 (1.08%) CISSP
9 1 (1.08%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.08%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (10.75%) NIST
2 9 (9.68%) GDPR
3 1 (1.08%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.08%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.08%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.08%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (18.28%) FortiGate
2 9 (9.68%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 93 (100.00%) Cisco
2 42 (45.16%) Fortinet
3 28 (30.11%) Aruba
3 28 (30.11%) Juniper
4 26 (27.96%) Meraki
5 21 (22.58%) SolarWinds
6 20 (21.51%) CheckPoint
7 11 (11.83%) Dynatrace
7 11 (11.83%) ServiceNow
8 9 (9.68%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.15%) Microsoft
10 1 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.08%) Draytek
10 1 (1.08%) Ekahau
10 1 (1.08%) Sophos
10 1 (1.08%) VMware
10 1 (1.08%) Zscaler