Cisco Network Engineer Jobs in England

Cisco Network Engineer
UK > England

The median Cisco Network Engineer salary in England is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 May 2025.

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

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 629 771 844
Rank change year-on-year +142 +73 +136
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 41 66 97
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.085% 0.077% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.094% 0.082% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 30 62 80
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £49,250 £41,250 £42,163
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,000 £53,750
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -6.98% +0.47%
75th Percentile £65,938 £76,875 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £82,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +20.00% -9.09% +1.38%

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 43,436 80,761 84,301
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.39% 94.49% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 24,713 60,391 53,470
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £53,500 £60,800
Median % change year-on-year +7.48% -12.01% +1.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,995 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,500 £91,250 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,550 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.42% -12.42% -

Cisco Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Network Engineer in England

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in England.

Salary trend for Cisco Network Engineer in England

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in England

Cisco Network 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 Network Engineer within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +91 19 £90,000 +20.00% 3
South East +102 11 £51,500 -6.36%
Midlands +41 4 £60,000 +22.45% 2
South West - 3 £65,000 - 2
West Midlands +26 2 £71,250 +45.41% 2
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
Yorkshire +70 1 - - 3
North of England +47 1 - - 3
Cisco Network Engineer
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 2025, Cisco Network 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 Network Engineer in the job title.

1 41 (100.00%) Cisco
2 31 (75.61%) Firewall
3 25 (60.98%) BGP
4 24 (58.54%) LAN
5 23 (56.10%) WAN
5 23 (56.10%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (53.66%) OSPF
7 21 (51.22%) Fortinet
8 19 (46.34%) Data Centre
9 17 (41.46%) CCNP
10 16 (39.02%) Azure
11 15 (36.59%) VPN
11 15 (36.59%) SD-WAN
12 13 (31.71%) Palo Alto
12 13 (31.71%) WLAN
12 13 (31.71%) Meraki
13 12 (29.27%) Cisco ISE
14 11 (26.83%) Change Management
15 10 (24.39%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (24.39%) CCNA
15 10 (24.39%) SolarWinds
15 10 (24.39%) Network Security
16 9 (21.95%) Juniper
16 9 (21.95%) CheckPoint
16 9 (21.95%) MPLS
16 9 (21.95%) Cisco Firepower
17 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
17 8 (19.51%) CCIE
17 8 (19.51%) AWS

Cisco Network 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:

Applications
1 5 (12.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (2.44%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (39.02%) Azure
2 8 (19.51%) AWS
3 6 (14.63%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (7.32%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (4.88%) SaaS
6 1 (2.44%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.44%) IaaS
6 1 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.44%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 31 (75.61%) Firewall
2 25 (60.98%) BGP
3 24 (58.54%) LAN
4 23 (56.10%) WAN
5 22 (53.66%) OSPF
6 15 (36.59%) SD-WAN
6 15 (36.59%) VPN
7 13 (31.71%) WLAN
8 12 (29.27%) Cisco ISE
9 10 (24.39%) Network Security
9 10 (24.39%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (21.95%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (21.95%) MPLS
11 8 (19.51%) Cisco Nexus
12 7 (17.07%) Cisco ASA
12 7 (17.07%) Cisco IOS
12 7 (17.07%) IPsec
12 7 (17.07%) Wireless
13 6 (14.63%) BIG-IP
13 6 (14.63%) TACACS
Development Applications
1 7 (17.07%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (2.44%) GitLab
2 1 (2.44%) Robot Framework
General
1 5 (12.20%) Social Skills
2 4 (9.76%) Advertising
3 2 (4.88%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (4.88%) Finance
3 2 (4.88%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.44%) Banking
4 1 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (2.44%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (14.63%) 802.1X
2 2 (4.88%) YAML
3 1 (2.44%) Jinja
3 1 (2.44%) JSON
3 1 (2.44%) OpenConfig
Miscellaneous
1 19 (46.34%) Data Centre
2 6 (14.63%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.44%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.44%) NHS
3 1 (2.44%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.44%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.44%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (26.83%) Change Management
2 8 (19.51%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 7 (17.07%) Process Improvement
4 6 (14.63%) Network Segmentation
4 6 (14.63%) Task Automation
5 5 (12.20%) Network Architecture
6 4 (9.76%) Cloud Security
6 4 (9.76%) High Availability
6 4 (9.76%) Kalman Filter
6 4 (9.76%) Network Design
7 3 (7.32%) Capacity Planning
7 3 (7.32%) Network Monitoring
7 3 (7.32%) Presales
8 2 (4.88%) Incident Response
8 2 (4.88%) Problem-Solving
8 2 (4.88%) Project Delivery
8 2 (4.88%) Root Cause Analysis
8 2 (4.88%) Runbook
8 2 (4.88%) Zero Trust
9 1 (2.44%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (56.10%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (41.46%) CCNP
3 10 (24.39%) CCNA
4 8 (19.51%) CCIE
5 6 (14.63%) Security Cleared
6 5 (12.20%) DV Cleared
7 4 (9.76%) Degree
7 4 (9.76%) SC Cleared
8 2 (4.88%) AWS Certification
8 2 (4.88%) CCSA
8 2 (4.88%) CCSE
9 1 (2.44%) CCDA
9 1 (2.44%) CCDP
9 1 (2.44%) HND
System Software
1 6 (14.63%) Firmware
2 1 (2.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.44%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 7 (17.07%) Ansible
2 6 (14.63%) Terraform
3 4 (9.76%) FortiGate
4 1 (2.44%) CASB
4 1 (2.44%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 41 (100.00%) Cisco
2 21 (51.22%) Fortinet
3 13 (31.71%) Meraki
3 13 (31.71%) Palo Alto
4 10 (24.39%) SolarWinds
5 9 (21.95%) CheckPoint
5 9 (21.95%) Juniper
6 8 (19.51%) Microsoft
7 6 (14.63%) Dynatrace
7 6 (14.63%) F5
8 5 (12.20%) LogicMonitor
9 4 (9.76%) Infoblox
10 3 (7.32%) HP
11 2 (4.88%) Aruba
11 2 (4.88%) Citrix
11 2 (4.88%) ServiceNow
12 1 (2.44%) Aerohive Networks
12 1 (2.44%) Arista
12 1 (2.44%) Extreme Networks
12 1 (2.44%) VMware