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 16 December 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 537 595 570
Rank change year-on-year +58 -25 +305
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 64 92 111
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.12% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.19% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 38 82 100
10th Percentile £36,250 £48,800 £41,250
25th Percentile £44,688 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £67,500 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -6.90% +38.10%
75th Percentile £58,250 £76,000 £106,289
90th Percentile £71,250 £77,250 £107,160
UK median annual salary £50,000 £65,000 £65,000
% change year-on-year -23.08% - +23.81%

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 46,413 48,190 41,376
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 93.64% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 29,005 26,207 32,361
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,750
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -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 16 December 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 December 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 +16 30 £50,000 -31.51% 2
South East +33 14 £37,500 -37.50% 4
Midlands +34 10 £55,500 +3.26% 1
West Midlands +33 10 £55,500 +5.71% 1
North West +27 9 £50,000 - 2
North of England +26 9 £50,000 - 3
South West - 1 £65,000 -
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 16 December 2025, 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 64 (100.00%) Cisco
2 55 (85.94%) Firewall
3 38 (59.38%) WAN
4 34 (53.13%) Cisco Certification
4 34 (53.13%) LAN
5 25 (39.06%) CCNP
6 24 (37.50%) Fortinet
7 23 (35.94%) Azure
8 19 (29.69%) CCNA
8 19 (29.69%) Meraki
9 15 (23.44%) AWS
9 15 (23.44%) High Availability
10 14 (21.88%) DevOps
10 14 (21.88%) SD-WAN
10 14 (21.88%) Terraform
10 14 (21.88%) VMware
10 14 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
11 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
11 13 (20.31%) Wi-Fi
12 12 (18.75%) FortiGate
12 12 (18.75%) Juniper
13 11 (17.19%) Ansible
13 11 (17.19%) CheckPoint
13 11 (17.19%) Cisco ASA
13 11 (17.19%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (17.19%) Commvault
13 11 (17.19%) Git
13 11 (17.19%) GitHub
13 11 (17.19%) Kubernetes
13 11 (17.19%) Linux

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 (1.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (35.94%) Azure
2 15 (23.44%) AWS
3 11 (17.19%) GitHub
4 4 (6.25%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (4.69%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.69%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.13%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 55 (85.94%) Firewall
2 38 (59.38%) WAN
3 34 (53.13%) LAN
4 14 (21.88%) SD-WAN
5 13 (20.31%) Wi-Fi
6 11 (17.19%) Cisco ASA
6 11 (17.19%) Cisco Firepower
7 10 (15.63%) BGP
8 9 (14.06%) OSPF
8 9 (14.06%) VPN
9 8 (12.50%) VLAN
10 7 (10.94%) Fibre Channel
10 7 (10.94%) IPsec
10 7 (10.94%) TCP/IP
11 6 (9.38%) Network Security
11 6 (9.38%) Wireless
12 5 (7.81%) MPLS
13 4 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
13 4 (6.25%) Cisco Wireless
14 3 (4.69%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) Git
General
1 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 15 (23.44%) Finance
3 9 (14.06%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.25%) Retail
6 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 14 (21.88%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.06%) Management Information System
3 8 (12.50%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 4 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.69%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.56%) e-Health
6 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 11 (17.19%) Linux
1 11 (17.19%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 6 (9.38%) Windows
3 4 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (6.25%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (23.44%) High Availability
2 14 (21.88%) DevOps
3 13 (20.31%) Infrastructure as Code
4 10 (15.63%) Presales
4 10 (15.63%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (14.06%) Computer Science
5 9 (14.06%) Process Improvement
6 7 (10.94%) Containerisation
6 7 (10.94%) ITIL
6 7 (10.94%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (7.81%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (7.81%) Incident Response
8 5 (7.81%) Migration
8 5 (7.81%) Service Delivery
9 4 (6.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (6.25%) Mentoring
10 3 (4.69%) Collaborative Working
10 3 (4.69%) Network Segmentation
10 3 (4.69%) Runbook
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 34 (53.13%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (39.06%) CCNP
3 19 (29.69%) CCNA
4 10 (15.63%) CCIE
4 10 (15.63%) Degree
5 9 (14.06%) CCSA
5 9 (14.06%) CCSE
5 9 (14.06%) JNCIA
6 8 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
7 7 (10.94%) Security Cleared
8 4 (6.25%) Azure Certification
9 2 (3.13%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 14 (21.88%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (17.19%) NFS
3 7 (10.94%) vSphere
4 3 (4.69%) Firmware
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 14 (21.88%) Terraform
2 12 (18.75%) FortiGate
3 11 (17.19%) Ansible
3 11 (17.19%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.69%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.56%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (37.50%) Fortinet
3 19 (29.69%) Meraki
4 14 (21.88%) VMware
5 12 (18.75%) Juniper
6 11 (17.19%) CheckPoint
6 11 (17.19%) Commvault
6 11 (17.19%) SolarWinds
7 10 (15.63%) Aruba
8 9 (14.06%) Draytek
8 9 (14.06%) Sophos
9 7 (10.94%) Microsoft
9 7 (10.94%) Pure Storage
9 7 (10.94%) Red Hat
10 5 (7.81%) Dynatrace
10 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
11 4 (6.25%) Palo Alto
11 4 (6.25%) Zscaler
12 3 (4.69%) Dell
12 3 (4.69%) Forcepoint