Cisco Engineer Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer salary in England is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 29 May 2026.

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

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 600 568 771
Rank change year-on-year -32 +203 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 89 51 74
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.11% 0.13% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.15% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 63 37 69
10th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £61,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.74% +22.00% -2.90%
75th Percentile £77,250 £67,500 £71,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £77,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £61,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.74% +22.00% -3.85%

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 77,713 34,322 82,395
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.42% 89.63% 94.61%
Number of salaries quoted 52,897 19,727 62,281
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,748 £38,087
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,200 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +9.52% -13.65%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £96,250 £100,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%

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 29 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 29 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 56 £75,000 - 2
North of England -25 24 £50,000 -
North West - 24 £50,000 -
West Midlands -30 5 £55,500 -38.33% 4
Midlands -35 5 £55,500 -14.62% 4
South East -39 2 £80,000 +55.34% 2
South West -57 2 £47,500 -26.92%
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 89 (100.00%) Cisco
2 64 (71.91%) Firewall
3 50 (56.18%) WAN
4 49 (55.06%) LAN
5 42 (47.19%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (41.57%) Azure
7 36 (40.45%) Fortinet
8 32 (35.96%) CCNA
8 32 (35.96%) Wi-Fi
9 28 (31.46%) CCNP
9 28 (31.46%) Network Security
10 26 (29.21%) Aruba
10 26 (29.21%) Juniper
10 26 (29.21%) SD-WAN
11 23 (25.84%) Meraki
12 21 (23.60%) AWS
12 21 (23.60%) VPN
13 20 (22.47%) Presales
13 20 (22.47%) SolarWinds
14 19 (21.35%) CheckPoint
14 19 (21.35%) Cisco ASA
14 19 (21.35%) Cisco Firepower
15 18 (20.22%) Cisco ISE
15 18 (20.22%) Degree
15 18 (20.22%) Network Segmentation
16 17 (19.10%) BGP
17 15 (16.85%) FortiGate
18 14 (15.73%) JNCIA
18 14 (15.73%) OSPF
18 14 (15.73%) Problem-Solving

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 1 (1.12%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 37 (41.57%) Azure
2 21 (23.60%) AWS
3 9 (10.11%) AWS Direct Connect
3 9 (10.11%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (10.11%) Azure Monitor
3 9 (10.11%) SaaS
3 9 (10.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 2 (2.25%) Entra ID
5 1 (1.12%) Azure Sentinel
5 1 (1.12%) GCP
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.12%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.12%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.12%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 64 (71.91%) Firewall
2 50 (56.18%) WAN
3 49 (55.06%) LAN
4 32 (35.96%) Wi-Fi
5 28 (31.46%) Network Security
6 26 (29.21%) SD-WAN
7 21 (23.60%) VPN
8 19 (21.35%) Cisco ASA
8 19 (21.35%) Cisco Firepower
9 18 (20.22%) Cisco ISE
10 17 (19.10%) BGP
11 14 (15.73%) OSPF
12 12 (13.48%) MPLS
13 10 (11.24%) IPsec
13 10 (11.24%) VXLAN
13 10 (11.24%) WLAN
14 9 (10.11%) NetScaler
14 9 (10.11%) NX-OS
14 9 (10.11%) Wireless
15 5 (5.62%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Git
General
1 23 (25.84%) Social Skills
2 20 (22.47%) Presentation Skills
3 13 (14.61%) Finance
4 8 (8.99%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.62%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.12%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.37%) Jinja
1 3 (3.37%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.37%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.47%) Data Centre
2 10 (11.24%) Management Information System
3 9 (10.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.37%) Social Media
5 1 (1.12%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.12%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.12%) Windows
1 1 (1.12%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (22.47%) Presales
2 18 (20.22%) Network Segmentation
3 14 (15.73%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (13.48%) High Availability
5 11 (12.36%) Zero Trust
6 10 (11.24%) Incident Response
6 10 (11.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 10 (11.24%) Network Architecture
6 10 (11.24%) Network Monitoring
6 10 (11.24%) Runbook
7 9 (10.11%) Cloud Security
7 9 (10.11%) Computer Science
7 9 (10.11%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (10.11%) Process Improvement
7 9 (10.11%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 8 (8.99%) Network Design
9 4 (4.49%) Information Management
10 3 (3.37%) Agile
10 3 (3.37%) Data Science
10 3 (3.37%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.37%) Python
Qualifications
1 42 (47.19%) Cisco Certification
2 32 (35.96%) CCNA
3 28 (31.46%) CCNP
4 18 (20.22%) Degree
5 14 (15.73%) JNCIA
6 10 (11.24%) Azure Certification
6 10 (11.24%) CCIE
7 9 (10.11%) CCSA
7 9 (10.11%) CCSE
7 9 (10.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (5.62%) DBS Check
8 5 (5.62%) Security Cleared
9 4 (4.49%) SC Cleared
10 1 (1.12%) CISSP
10 1 (1.12%) CREST Certified
10 1 (1.12%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (11.24%) NIST
2 9 (10.11%) GDPR
3 1 (1.12%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.12%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.25%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (16.85%) FortiGate
2 9 (10.11%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.12%) Ansible
3 1 (1.12%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.12%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 89 (100.00%) Cisco
2 36 (40.45%) Fortinet
3 26 (29.21%) Aruba
3 26 (29.21%) Juniper
4 23 (25.84%) Meraki
5 20 (22.47%) SolarWinds
6 19 (21.35%) CheckPoint
7 10 (11.24%) Dynatrace
7 10 (11.24%) ServiceNow
8 9 (10.11%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.25%) Microsoft
9 2 (2.25%) VMware
10 1 (1.12%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.12%) Ekahau
10 1 (1.12%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.12%) Zscaler