Cisco Engineer Job Trends in England

Cisco Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 July 2026.

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

6 months to
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 667 600 736
Rank change year-on-year -67 +136 -38
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 64 52 93
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.073% 0.12% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.13% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 49 34 84
10th Percentile £51,250 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year - +22.45% -10.91%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £61,250
90th Percentile - £77,500 £76,000
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 82,694 39,203 81,184
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.28% 90.51% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 58,229 23,636 58,908
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,000 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £54,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +1.85% -10.00%
75th Percentile £75,754 £75,000 £71,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £97,500 £90,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year - +4.66% -12.42%

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 17 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 17 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 -11 41 £81,000 +32.79% 5
North West - 11 £57,500 - 1
North of England - 11 £57,500 - 3
West Midlands -13 7 £55,000 -38.89% 2
Midlands -29 7 £55,000 -15.38% 2
South East -29 3 £80,000 +128.57% 3
South West -56 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 17 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 64 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (64.06%) Firewall
3 29 (45.31%) LAN
4 28 (43.75%) Azure
5 27 (42.19%) Network Security
5 27 (42.19%) WAN
6 26 (40.63%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
8 22 (34.38%) CCNP
9 21 (32.81%) VPN
10 18 (28.13%) Meraki
11 17 (26.56%) SD-WAN
12 15 (23.44%) CCNA
12 15 (23.44%) SolarWinds
13 13 (20.31%) Aruba
13 13 (20.31%) Degree
13 13 (20.31%) Juniper
13 13 (20.31%) Network Segmentation
14 12 (18.75%) BGP
14 12 (18.75%) Fortinet
15 11 (17.19%) AWS
15 11 (17.19%) OSPF
16 10 (15.63%) Azure Certification
16 10 (15.63%) Incident Response
16 10 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 10 (15.63%) Network Architecture
16 10 (15.63%) Network Monitoring
16 10 (15.63%) NIST
16 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
16 10 (15.63%) 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 (3.13%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 28 (43.75%) Azure
2 11 (17.19%) AWS
3 9 (14.06%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (14.06%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (6.25%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (6.25%) SaaS
4 4 (6.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.13%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.13%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.56%) GCP
7 1 (1.56%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.56%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 41 (64.06%) Firewall
2 29 (45.31%) LAN
3 27 (42.19%) Network Security
3 27 (42.19%) WAN
4 26 (40.63%) Wi-Fi
5 21 (32.81%) VPN
6 17 (26.56%) SD-WAN
7 12 (18.75%) BGP
8 11 (17.19%) OSPF
9 10 (15.63%) Wireless
10 9 (14.06%) Cisco ASA
10 9 (14.06%) Cisco Firepower
11 8 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
12 6 (9.38%) EIGRP
13 5 (7.81%) IPsec
13 5 (7.81%) MPLS
13 5 (7.81%) Unified Communications
13 5 (7.81%) VXLAN
13 5 (7.81%) WLAN
14 4 (6.25%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Git
General
1 8 (12.50%) Finance
1 8 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.94%) Presentation Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Telecoms
4 3 (4.69%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.56%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) Jinja
1 1 (1.56%) NETCONF
1 1 (1.56%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.81%) Management Information System
3 4 (6.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.56%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.56%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.56%) Social Media
4 1 (1.56%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.56%) Windows
1 1 (1.56%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (20.31%) Network Segmentation
2 10 (15.63%) Incident Response
2 10 (15.63%) Network Architecture
2 10 (15.63%) Network Monitoring
2 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (14.06%) Vulnerability Assessment
4 7 (10.94%) Network Design
4 7 (10.94%) Presales
5 6 (9.38%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 6 (9.38%) Zero Trust
6 5 (7.81%) High Availability
6 5 (7.81%) Runbook
7 4 (6.25%) Cloud Security
7 4 (6.25%) Computer Science
7 4 (6.25%) Information Management
7 4 (6.25%) Kalman Filter
7 4 (6.25%) Process Improvement
8 3 (4.69%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (4.69%) Security Operations
9 2 (3.13%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 24 (37.50%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (34.38%) CCNP
3 15 (23.44%) CCNA
4 13 (20.31%) Degree
5 10 (15.63%) Azure Certification
6 6 (9.38%) DBS Check
7 5 (7.81%) CCIE
8 4 (6.25%) CCSA
8 4 (6.25%) CCSE
8 4 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (4.69%) Security Cleared
10 2 (3.13%) SC Cleared
11 1 (1.56%) CISSP
11 1 (1.56%) CREST Certified
11 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.56%) JNCIA
11 1 (1.56%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (15.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (15.63%) NIST
2 9 (14.06%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (14.06%) Cisco Prime
2 8 (12.50%) FortiGate
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) Cisco
2 18 (28.13%) Meraki
3 15 (23.44%) SolarWinds
4 13 (20.31%) Aruba
4 13 (20.31%) Juniper
5 12 (18.75%) Fortinet
6 9 (14.06%) CheckPoint
7 6 (9.38%) Palo Alto
8 5 (7.81%) Dynatrace
8 5 (7.81%) ServiceNow
9 2 (3.13%) Microsoft
9 2 (3.13%) VMware
10 1 (1.56%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.56%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.56%) Zscaler