Cisco Engineer Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer salary in England is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 20 July 2026.

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

6 months to
20 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 651 604 724
Rank change year-on-year -47 +120 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 65 51 92
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.073% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.078% 0.13% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 50 33 83
10th Percentile £51,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,563 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +22.45% -12.50%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £77,500 £76,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £60,000 £49,000
% change year-on-year - +22.45% -14.78%

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 83,530 39,318 79,484
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 90.44% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 58,858 23,754 57,439
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,250
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,750 £39,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,399
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.11% -9.34%
75th Percentile £75,250 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year - +2.80% -10.83%

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 20 July 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 20 July 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 -14 40 £81,000 +32.79% 3
North of England - 11 £57,500 - 5
North West - 11 £57,500 - 3
West Midlands -11 8 £55,000 -38.89% 2
Midlands -25 8 £55,000 -15.38% 2
South East -26 4 £80,000 +128.57% 3
South West -64 2 £47,500 -26.92% 1
Cisco Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 20 July 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 65 (100.00%) Cisco
2 42 (64.62%) Firewall
3 30 (46.15%) LAN
4 29 (44.62%) WAN
5 28 (43.08%) Azure
6 27 (41.54%) Network Security
6 27 (41.54%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (33.85%) CCNP
8 22 (33.85%) VPN
9 18 (27.69%) Meraki
9 18 (27.69%) SD-WAN
10 16 (24.62%) CCNA
11 15 (23.08%) SolarWinds
12 13 (20.00%) Aruba
12 13 (20.00%) Degree
12 13 (20.00%) Juniper
12 13 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
13 12 (18.46%) BGP
13 12 (18.46%) Fortinet
13 12 (18.46%) OSPF
14 11 (16.92%) AWS
15 10 (15.38%) Azure Certification
15 10 (15.38%) Incident Response
15 10 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
15 10 (15.38%) Network Architecture
15 10 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
15 10 (15.38%) NIST
15 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (15.38%) Wireless

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 (3.08%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.08%) Azure
2 11 (16.92%) AWS
3 9 (13.85%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (13.85%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (6.15%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (6.15%) SaaS
4 4 (6.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (4.62%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.08%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.08%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.54%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.54%) GCP
7 1 (1.54%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.54%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 42 (64.62%) Firewall
2 30 (46.15%) LAN
3 29 (44.62%) WAN
4 27 (41.54%) Network Security
4 27 (41.54%) Wi-Fi
5 22 (33.85%) VPN
6 18 (27.69%) SD-WAN
7 12 (18.46%) BGP
7 12 (18.46%) OSPF
8 10 (15.38%) Wireless
9 9 (13.85%) Cisco ASA
9 9 (13.85%) Cisco Firepower
10 8 (12.31%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (10.77%) EIGRP
12 5 (7.69%) IPsec
12 5 (7.69%) Unified Communications
12 5 (7.69%) VXLAN
12 5 (7.69%) WLAN
13 4 (6.15%) MPLS
13 4 (6.15%) NetScaler
General
1 8 (12.31%) Finance
2 7 (10.77%) Presentation Skills
2 7 (10.77%) Social Skills
3 5 (7.69%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.62%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.08%) Legal
6 1 (1.54%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.38%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.69%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.54%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.54%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.54%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.54%) Windows
1 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.00%) Network Segmentation
2 10 (15.38%) Incident Response
2 10 (15.38%) Network Architecture
2 10 (15.38%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.85%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 7 (10.77%) Presales
5 6 (9.23%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (9.23%) Network Design
5 6 (9.23%) Zero Trust
6 5 (7.69%) High Availability
6 5 (7.69%) Runbook
7 4 (6.15%) Cloud Security
7 4 (6.15%) Computer Science
7 4 (6.15%) Information Management
7 4 (6.15%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (6.15%) Process Improvement
8 3 (4.62%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (4.62%) Security Operations
9 2 (3.08%) Network Virtualisation
Qualifications
1 25 (38.46%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (33.85%) CCNP
3 16 (24.62%) CCNA
4 13 (20.00%) Degree
5 10 (15.38%) Azure Certification
6 6 (9.23%) DBS Check
7 5 (7.69%) CCIE
8 4 (6.15%) CCSA
8 4 (6.15%) CCSE
8 4 (6.15%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (4.62%) Security Cleared
10 2 (3.08%) SC Cleared
11 1 (1.54%) CISSP
11 1 (1.54%) CREST Certified
11 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.54%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.54%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (15.38%) NIST
2 9 (13.85%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.54%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.62%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.08%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (13.85%) Cisco Prime
2 8 (12.31%) FortiGate
3 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.54%) Ansible
4 1 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.54%) Terraform
Vendors
1 65 (100.00%) Cisco
2 18 (27.69%) Meraki
3 15 (23.08%) SolarWinds
4 13 (20.00%) Aruba
4 13 (20.00%) Juniper
5 12 (18.46%) Fortinet
6 9 (13.85%) CheckPoint
7 6 (9.23%) Palo Alto
8 5 (7.69%) Dynatrace
8 5 (7.69%) ServiceNow
9 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
9 2 (3.08%) VMware
10 1 (1.54%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.54%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.54%) Zscaler