Cisco Engineer Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer salary in England is £54,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 16 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 582 647 601
Rank change year-on-year +65 -46 +336
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 55 100 143
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.13% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.15% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 30 90 131
10th Percentile £36,250 - £40,000
25th Percentile £49,250 £45,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,250 £52,250 £59,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.83% -12.18% +13.33%
75th Percentile £61,000 £68,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £106,289
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year - -5.98% +11.43%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 38,927 65,264 51,744
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 95.19% 93.90%
Number of salaries quoted 23,272 39,661 39,990
10th Percentile £28,500 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £93,750 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year - -8.33% -

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Cisco Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 2025. 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 +44 33 £61,000 -10.95% 8
South East +33 9 £37,500 -37.50% 5
Midlands +70 8 £55,500 +25.30% 6
West Midlands +61 8 £55,500 +25.30% 6
South West +60 4 £58,750 +30.56%
East of England -9 1 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Cisco Engineer
UK

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 16 September 2025, Cisco Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 55 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (72.73%) Firewall
3 33 (60.00%) WAN
4 30 (54.55%) LAN
5 21 (38.18%) VMware
5 21 (38.18%) DevOps
6 20 (36.36%) Azure
6 20 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
6 20 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (34.55%) Meraki
7 19 (34.55%) Ansible
7 19 (34.55%) Terraform
8 17 (30.91%) Kubernetes
8 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure as Code
8 17 (30.91%) GitHub
8 17 (30.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 17 (30.91%) Git
8 17 (30.91%) Fortinet
8 17 (30.91%) Commvault
8 17 (30.91%) Linux
8 17 (30.91%) NFS
8 17 (30.91%) VPN
9 16 (29.09%) BGP
9 16 (29.09%) SD-WAN
10 15 (27.27%) Management Information System
10 15 (27.27%) OSPF
10 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
11 14 (25.45%) CCNP
11 14 (25.45%) Data Centre

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.82%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.64%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 20 (36.36%) Azure
2 17 (30.91%) GitHub
3 11 (20.00%) AWS
4 9 (16.36%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (5.45%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.45%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.64%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (72.73%) Firewall
2 33 (60.00%) WAN
3 30 (54.55%) LAN
4 17 (30.91%) VPN
5 16 (29.09%) BGP
5 16 (29.09%) SD-WAN
6 15 (27.27%) OSPF
7 13 (23.64%) MPLS
8 12 (21.82%) IPsec
9 10 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (18.18%) Fibre Channel
9 10 (18.18%) Network Security
9 10 (18.18%) TCP/IP
10 9 (16.36%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (16.36%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (16.36%) NX-OS
10 9 (16.36%) VXLAN
10 9 (16.36%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (16.36%) WLAN
11 5 (9.09%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 17 (30.91%) Git
2 2 (3.64%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (21.82%) Finance
2 7 (12.73%) Social Skills
3 5 (9.09%) Public Sector
4 4 (7.27%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Advertising
5 2 (3.64%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (27.27%) Management Information System
2 14 (25.45%) Data Centre
3 7 (12.73%) Hybrid Cloud
4 4 (7.27%) Driving Licence
5 2 (3.64%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.64%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.64%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.91%) Linux
1 17 (30.91%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (23.64%) Windows
3 9 (16.36%) Windows Server
4 7 (12.73%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.64%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (38.18%) DevOps
2 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (23.64%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (20.00%) Incident Response
4 11 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 10 (18.18%) Containerisation
6 9 (16.36%) Change Management
6 9 (16.36%) ITIL
6 9 (16.36%) Network Segmentation
7 7 (12.73%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (12.73%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (9.09%) Cloud Security
8 5 (9.09%) High Availability
8 5 (9.09%) Kalman Filter
8 5 (9.09%) Mentoring
8 5 (9.09%) Network Architecture
9 4 (7.27%) Runbook
10 3 (5.45%) Presales
10 3 (5.45%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.91%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (36.36%) Cisco Certification
2 14 (25.45%) CCNP
3 12 (21.82%) CCNA
4 7 (12.73%) SC Cleared
4 7 (12.73%) Security Cleared
5 4 (7.27%) AWS Certification
5 4 (7.27%) Azure Certification
5 4 (7.27%) CCIE
5 4 (7.27%) CCSA
5 4 (7.27%) CCSE
5 4 (7.27%) Degree
5 4 (7.27%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (5.45%) DV Cleared
7 2 (3.64%) CCDA
7 2 (3.64%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.64%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (36.36%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (30.91%) NFS
3 10 (18.18%) vSphere
4 7 (12.73%) Firmware
5 1 (1.82%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (34.55%) Ansible
1 19 (34.55%) Terraform
2 17 (30.91%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.45%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (3.64%) CASB
4 2 (3.64%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (3.64%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.64%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 55 (100.00%) Cisco
2 21 (38.18%) VMware
3 19 (34.55%) Meraki
4 17 (30.91%) Commvault
4 17 (30.91%) Fortinet
5 15 (27.27%) Microsoft
6 13 (23.64%) SolarWinds
7 10 (18.18%) Pure Storage
7 10 (18.18%) Red Hat
8 9 (16.36%) CheckPoint
8 9 (16.36%) Dynatrace
9 6 (10.91%) Juniper
10 5 (9.09%) Draytek
10 5 (9.09%) Infoblox
10 5 (9.09%) Palo Alto
10 5 (9.09%) Sophos
11 4 (7.27%) ServiceNow
12 3 (5.45%) Forcepoint
13 2 (3.64%) Aerohive Networks
13 2 (3.64%) Dell