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 19 September 2026.

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

6 months to
19 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 698 587 647
Rank change year-on-year -111 +60 -65
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 71 57 104
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.069% 0.13% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.074% 0.15% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 65 32 94
10th Percentile £46,100 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £47,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £54,250 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.99% -1.36% -8.33%
75th Percentile £67,500 £61,000 £69,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £76,500 £77,500
UK median annual salary £58,750 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.82% - -7.56%

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 95,470 39,067 65,781
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.25% 90.41% 95.18%
Number of salaries quoted 67,267 23,458 39,748
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,300 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,500 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £93,750
UK median annual salary £58,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.36% - -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 19 September 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 19 September 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 -66 38 £65,000 +7.44% 17
North of England - 14 £57,500 - 6
North West - 13 £57,500 - 2
West Midlands -44 9 £55,000 -0.90% 5
Midlands -46 9 £55,000 -0.90% 8
South East -52 6 £60,000 +60.00% 1
East of England -25 2 £77,500 +40.91% 11
South West -77 2 £50,000 -14.89% 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 September 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 71 (100.00%) Cisco
2 30 (42.25%) Firewall
3 27 (38.03%) Meraki
4 25 (35.21%) Cisco Certification
4 25 (35.21%) LAN
5 22 (30.99%) Azure
6 21 (29.58%) CCNP
6 21 (29.58%) Network Security
7 18 (25.35%) WAN
8 17 (23.94%) VPN
9 15 (21.13%) Microsoft
9 15 (21.13%) Microsoft 365
9 15 (21.13%) Zscaler
10 14 (19.72%) HP
10 14 (19.72%) Wireless
11 13 (18.31%) Aruba
11 13 (18.31%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (16.90%) BGP
12 12 (16.90%) Juniper
12 12 (16.90%) Network Design
12 12 (16.90%) OSPF
13 11 (15.49%) Incident Response
14 10 (14.08%) Active Directory
14 10 (14.08%) Cybersecurity
14 10 (14.08%) Degree
14 10 (14.08%) Entra ID
15 9 (12.68%) CCNA
15 9 (12.68%) Cisco Nexus
15 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Intune
15 9 (12.68%) VMware

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 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.99%) Azure
2 15 (21.13%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (14.08%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (4.23%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.82%) AWS
5 2 (2.82%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.41%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.41%) GCP
6 1 (1.41%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.41%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 30 (42.25%) Firewall
2 25 (35.21%) LAN
3 21 (29.58%) Network Security
4 18 (25.35%) WAN
5 17 (23.94%) VPN
6 14 (19.72%) Wireless
7 13 (18.31%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (16.90%) BGP
8 12 (16.90%) OSPF
9 9 (12.68%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (11.27%) EIGRP
11 7 (9.86%) SD-WAN
11 7 (9.86%) Unified Communications
12 4 (5.63%) VXLAN
13 3 (4.23%) Ethernet VPN
13 3 (4.23%) MPLS
13 3 (4.23%) Multicast
13 3 (4.23%) NX-OS
13 3 (4.23%) VLAN
14 2 (2.82%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (9.86%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.23%) Finance
5 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.82%) Legal
5 2 (2.82%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.41%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.41%) Jinja
1 1 (1.41%) REST
1 1 (1.41%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.90%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.82%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.82%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.41%) Digital Signage
3 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.41%) IoT
3 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.41%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.27%) Linux
1 8 (11.27%) Windows
1 8 (11.27%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.90%) Network Design
2 11 (15.49%) Incident Response
3 10 (14.08%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (11.27%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (11.27%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (11.27%) Runbook
5 7 (9.86%) Asset Management
5 7 (9.86%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (9.86%) IT Asset Management
5 7 (9.86%) Statistics
5 7 (9.86%) Virtual Environments
6 6 (8.45%) Network Architecture
6 6 (8.45%) Project Delivery
7 5 (7.04%) Presales
8 4 (5.63%) Information Management
8 4 (5.63%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (5.63%) Network Segmentation
8 4 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (5.63%) Validation
9 3 (4.23%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (35.21%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (29.58%) CCNP
3 10 (14.08%) Degree
4 9 (12.68%) CCNA
5 8 (11.27%) DBS Check
6 5 (7.04%) CCIE
7 3 (4.23%) Azure Certification
7 3 (4.23%) Security Cleared
8 2 (2.82%) CCIE Data Center
8 2 (2.82%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.41%) CCIE Service Provider
9 1 (1.41%) CCIP
9 1 (1.41%) CISSP
9 1 (1.41%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.41%) Server+ Certification
9 1 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.63%) NIST
2 3 (4.23%) GDPR
3 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (14.08%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (12.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.63%) Ansible
3 3 (4.23%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.41%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (100.00%) Cisco
2 27 (38.03%) Meraki
3 15 (21.13%) Microsoft
3 15 (21.13%) Zscaler
4 14 (19.72%) HP
5 13 (18.31%) Aruba
6 12 (16.90%) Juniper
7 9 (12.68%) VMware
8 4 (5.63%) Fortinet
8 4 (5.63%) SolarWinds
9 3 (4.23%) Arista
10 2 (2.82%) Huawei
10 2 (2.82%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.82%) Ruckus Wireless
11 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.41%) Nokia
11 1 (1.41%) SonicWALL
11 1 (1.41%) Veeam