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 15 February 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 522 584 683
Rank change year-on-year +62 +99 +189
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 83 86 78
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.14% 0.19% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.15% 0.21% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50 75 69
10th Percentile £45,750 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £53,750 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £71,500 £51,300
Median % change year-on-year -30.07% +39.38% -6.73%
75th Percentile £58,250 £76,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £76,150 £91,250 £115,000
UK median annual salary £50,000 £70,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -28.57% +27.27% -

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 54,103 40,882 62,969
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.26% 91.50% 94.76%
Number of salaries quoted 34,863 21,550 50,248
10th Percentile £29,142 £33,613 £29,000
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,986
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -11.41%
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 15 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 15 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 +4 42 £64,500 -12.84% 12
North West +28 20 £50,000 - 1
North of England +15 20 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands +29 11 £55,500 +5.71% 1
Midlands +10 11 £55,500 -14.62% 1
South East +17 9 £37,500 -31.82% 7
South West - 1 £47,500 - 2
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 15 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 83 (100.00%) Cisco
2 73 (87.95%) Firewall
3 59 (71.08%) WAN
4 52 (62.65%) LAN
5 51 (61.45%) Cisco Certification
6 45 (54.22%) Fortinet
7 35 (42.17%) CCNA
8 32 (38.55%) CCNP
9 31 (37.35%) Azure
10 28 (33.73%) Wi-Fi
11 27 (32.53%) AWS
12 24 (28.92%) Juniper
12 24 (28.92%) SD-WAN
13 23 (27.71%) CheckPoint
13 23 (27.71%) Cisco ASA
13 23 (27.71%) Cisco Firepower
14 22 (26.51%) High Availability
14 22 (26.51%) Meraki
15 21 (25.30%) Aruba
15 21 (25.30%) BGP
16 20 (24.10%) Presales
17 19 (22.89%) FortiGate
17 19 (22.89%) JNCIA
18 18 (21.69%) SolarWinds
19 17 (20.48%) OSPF
20 16 (19.28%) Degree
21 15 (18.07%) CCIE
21 15 (18.07%) Computer Science
21 15 (18.07%) VPN
22 14 (16.87%) 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 31 (37.35%) Azure
2 27 (32.53%) AWS
3 9 (10.84%) AWS Direct Connect
4 8 (9.64%) SaaS
4 8 (9.64%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.41%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.41%) GitHub
7 1 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 73 (87.95%) Firewall
2 59 (71.08%) WAN
3 52 (62.65%) LAN
4 28 (33.73%) Wi-Fi
5 24 (28.92%) SD-WAN
6 23 (27.71%) Cisco ASA
6 23 (27.71%) Cisco Firepower
7 21 (25.30%) BGP
8 17 (20.48%) OSPF
9 15 (18.07%) VPN
10 14 (16.87%) Cisco ISE
11 13 (15.66%) IPsec
11 13 (15.66%) MPLS
12 8 (9.64%) NetScaler
12 8 (9.64%) Network Security
12 8 (9.64%) NX-OS
12 8 (9.64%) VLAN
12 8 (9.64%) VXLAN
12 8 (9.64%) WLAN
13 6 (7.23%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 5 (6.02%) Git
General
1 33 (39.76%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.10%) Presentation Skills
3 16 (19.28%) Finance
4 8 (9.64%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.82%) Retail
6 3 (3.61%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.20%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) Jinja
1 3 (3.61%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.61%) YANG
2 1 (1.20%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.12%) Data Centre
2 14 (16.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (12.05%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.61%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (3.61%) Social Media
5 1 (1.20%) e-Health
5 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Linux
1 2 (2.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (26.51%) High Availability
2 20 (24.10%) Presales
3 15 (18.07%) Computer Science
4 14 (16.87%) Process Improvement
5 12 (14.46%) Problem-Solving
6 11 (13.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (10.84%) Network Segmentation
8 8 (9.64%) Cloud Security
8 8 (9.64%) Kalman Filter
8 8 (9.64%) Runbook
8 8 (9.64%) Zero Trust
9 6 (7.23%) Migration
10 5 (6.02%) DevOps
10 5 (6.02%) Infrastructure as Code
11 4 (4.82%) Agile
11 4 (4.82%) Network Design
11 4 (4.82%) Service Delivery
12 3 (3.61%) Change Control
12 3 (3.61%) ITIL
12 3 (3.61%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.02%) Python
Qualifications
1 51 (61.45%) Cisco Certification
2 35 (42.17%) CCNA
3 32 (38.55%) CCNP
4 19 (22.89%) JNCIA
5 16 (19.28%) Degree
6 15 (18.07%) CCIE
7 14 (16.87%) CCSA
7 14 (16.87%) CCSE
7 14 (16.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (12.05%) SC Cleared
8 10 (12.05%) Security Cleared
9 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (2.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (2.41%) NIST
2 1 (1.20%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (6.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (3.61%) Firmware
3 2 (2.41%) NFS
3 2 (2.41%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (22.89%) FortiGate
2 5 (6.02%) Terraform
3 3 (3.61%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (2.41%) Ansible
4 2 (2.41%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.20%) CA Spectrum
5 1 (1.20%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 83 (100.00%) Cisco
2 45 (54.22%) Fortinet
3 24 (28.92%) Juniper
4 23 (27.71%) CheckPoint
5 22 (26.51%) Meraki
6 21 (25.30%) Aruba
7 18 (21.69%) SolarWinds
8 11 (13.25%) Dynatrace
8 11 (13.25%) ServiceNow
9 9 (10.84%) Palo Alto
10 5 (6.02%) VMware
11 4 (4.82%) Draytek
11 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
11 4 (4.82%) Sophos
11 4 (4.82%) Zscaler
12 3 (3.61%) Dell
13 2 (2.41%) Commvault
13 2 (2.41%) F5
13 2 (2.41%) Pure Storage
13 2 (2.41%) Red Hat