Cisco Job Trends in England

Cisco
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring knowledge or experience of Cisco products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cisco over the 6 months leading up to 16 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT labour market in general and are not representative of salaries within Cisco Systems, Inc.

6 months to
16 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 78 102
Rank change year-on-year -42 +24 +6
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 1,427 1,604 2,195
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.63% 3.70% 2.49%
As % of the Vendors category 6.28% 8.80% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 820 979 1,741
10th Percentile £30,000 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £35,500 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,000 £82,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Vendors
England

Cisco falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 22,737 18,226 30,371
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 25.96% 42.07% 34.39%
Number of salaries quoted 14,066 10,358 21,017
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,188 £26,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,239 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.07% +10.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,688 £70,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £91,250 £88,750
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.64% +10.00% -13.04%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cisco relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

Cisco job vacancy trend in England

Cisco
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing Cisco

Cisco
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco in England over the 6 months to 16 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco in England

Cisco
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 16 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 -6 378 £70,000 +7.69% 185
North of England -54 318 £50,000 +51.52% 136
South East -25 311 £50,000 - 156
Midlands +14 229 £45,000 -5.26% 77
Yorkshire -7 165 £45,000 +38.46% 49
West Midlands +1 158 £53,500 +7.00% 39
South West -40 131 £36,423 -27.15% 111
North West -86 123 £55,000 +29.41% 67
East Midlands -19 70 £44,472 +36.84% 37
East of England +9 68 £50,000 -3.85% 69
North East -55 30 £45,000 +55.17% 21
Cisco
UK

Cisco
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 94 (6.59%) Microsoft Exchange
2 80 (5.61%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.70%) IIS
4 6 (0.42%) SAS
5 4 (0.28%) Skype for Business
6 1 (0.070%) Confluence
6 1 (0.070%) OpenStack
Applications
1 24 (1.68%) Microsoft Office
2 23 (1.61%) MS Visio
3 18 (1.26%) Chatbot
4 14 (0.98%) PlantUML
5 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Excel
6 8 (0.56%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.14%) SOLIDWORKS
8 1 (0.070%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.070%) Microsoft PowerPoint
8 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 8 (0.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite
2 2 (0.14%) Infor CloudSuite Industrial (formerly SyteLine)
2 2 (0.14%) Sage 200
Cloud Services
1 655 (45.90%) Azure
2 203 (14.23%) Microsoft 365
3 170 (11.91%) AWS
4 115 (8.06%) Entra ID
5 43 (3.01%) Google Workspace
6 27 (1.89%) OneDrive
7 25 (1.75%) IaaS
7 25 (1.75%) SaaS
8 24 (1.68%) GCP
9 23 (1.61%) Mimecast
10 20 (1.40%) PaaS
11 18 (1.26%) Azure ExpressRoute
12 17 (1.19%) Azure Sentinel
12 17 (1.19%) Datadog
13 16 (1.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (1.05%) OpenShift
15 12 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
16 11 (0.77%) Cloud Computing
17 10 (0.70%) AWS Direct Connect
17 10 (0.70%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 508 (35.60%) Firewall
2 375 (26.28%) WAN
3 320 (22.42%) LAN
4 269 (18.85%) VPN
5 248 (17.38%) Network Security
6 191 (13.38%) SD-WAN
7 187 (13.10%) Wireless
8 176 (12.33%) VLAN
9 155 (10.86%) DNS
10 151 (10.58%) BGP
11 141 (9.88%) Wi-Fi
12 116 (8.13%) DHCP
13 112 (7.85%) OSPF
14 101 (7.08%) Cisco ISE
15 89 (6.24%) TCP/IP
16 83 (5.82%) VoIP
17 81 (5.68%) Cisco Nexus
18 77 (5.40%) Cisco ASA
19 71 (4.98%) Cisco Firepower
20 69 (4.84%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (1.68%) SQL Server
2 12 (0.84%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (0.42%) Power BI
4 4 (0.28%) Big Data
4 4 (0.28%) GIS
5 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.070%) InfluxDB
6 1 (0.070%) MariaDB
6 1 (0.070%) MySQL
6 1 (0.070%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 33 (2.31%) JIRA
2 14 (0.98%) GitLab
3 13 (0.91%) Git
4 6 (0.42%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
6 2 (0.14%) Subversion
7 1 (0.070%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.070%) Rational DOORS
7 1 (0.070%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 618 (43.31%) Social Skills
2 130 (9.11%) Finance
3 80 (5.61%) Organisational Skills
4 67 (4.70%) Analytical Skills
4 67 (4.70%) Marketing
5 61 (4.27%) Telecoms
6 56 (3.92%) Public Sector
7 49 (3.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 41 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (2.31%) Law
10 29 (2.03%) Retail
11 26 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.75%) Banking
12 25 (1.75%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.19%) Legal
14 13 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
15 12 (0.84%) Military
16 9 (0.63%) Advertising
16 9 (0.63%) Retail Banking
17 4 (0.28%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 614 (43.03%) Network Engineer
2 214 (15.00%) Senior
3 117 (8.20%) IT Support
4 113 (7.92%) Architect
5 97 (6.80%) Senior Network Engineer
5 97 (6.80%) Support Engineer
6 89 (6.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 74 (5.19%) IT Engineer
8 65 (4.56%) Analyst
9 64 (4.48%) Cisco Engineer
10 60 (4.20%) Consultant
11 56 (3.92%) Lead
12 55 (3.85%) Cisco Network Engineer
13 48 (3.36%) IT Support Engineer
13 48 (3.36%) Network Architect
14 44 (3.08%) Security Engineer
15 40 (2.80%) Sales Executive
16 39 (2.73%) Corporate Sales Executive
17 37 (2.59%) Technical Manager
18 34 (2.38%) Network Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.26%) 802.1X
2 17 (1.19%) JSON
3 13 (0.91%) Jinja
4 12 (0.84%) YAML
5 11 (0.77%) REST
5 11 (0.77%) XMPP
6 10 (0.70%) OAuth
6 10 (0.70%) SAML
7 7 (0.49%) YANG
8 6 (0.42%) XML
9 5 (0.35%) A2A Protocol
9 5 (0.35%) FreeSWITCH
9 5 (0.35%) Model Context Protocol
10 4 (0.28%) Web Services
11 3 (0.21%) Apache NiFi
11 3 (0.21%) ARM Templates
11 3 (0.21%) Middleware
11 3 (0.21%) Node.js
12 2 (0.14%) CSS
12 2 (0.14%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 185 (12.96%) Data Centre
2 73 (5.12%) Driving Licence
3 56 (3.92%) Self-Motivation
4 55 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 49 (3.43%) Security Posture
6 38 (2.66%) Hybrid Cloud
7 34 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
8 30 (2.10%) PKI
9 27 (1.89%) IVR
10 22 (1.54%) Cloud Native
11 21 (1.47%) Public Cloud
12 20 (1.40%) Enterprise Cloud
12 20 (1.40%) Management Information System
13 19 (1.33%) Smart Home
14 18 (1.26%) iPhone
15 17 (1.19%) Replication
16 16 (1.12%) CCTV
17 14 (0.98%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
18 13 (0.91%) Private Cloud
19 12 (0.84%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 269 (18.85%) Windows
2 140 (9.81%) Windows Server
3 114 (7.99%) Linux
4 40 (2.80%) Mac OS
5 25 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
6 22 (1.54%) Android
7 18 (1.26%) Windows 10
8 17 (1.19%) Windows Server 2016
9 7 (0.49%) Unix
10 6 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
11 5 (0.35%) Debian
12 4 (0.28%) Solaris
12 4 (0.28%) VMS
12 4 (0.28%) Windows 7
13 3 (0.21%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 2 (0.14%) tvOS
15 1 (0.070%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 165 (11.56%) Disaster Recovery
2 162 (11.35%) Cybersecurity
2 162 (11.35%) Problem-Solving
3 132 (9.25%) Continuous Improvement
4 131 (9.18%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 128 (8.97%) ITIL
6 107 (7.50%) Project Delivery
7 100 (7.01%) AI
8 94 (6.59%) Network Design
9 90 (6.31%) High Availability
10 88 (6.17%) SIEM
11 86 (6.03%) Mentoring
12 85 (5.96%) Presales
13 80 (5.61%) Network Monitoring
14 78 (5.47%) Technical Leadership
15 74 (5.19%) Roadmaps
16 68 (4.77%) Business Continuity
17 66 (4.63%) Customer Experience
17 66 (4.63%) Service Delivery
18 64 (4.48%) IT Strategy
Programming Languages
1 118 (8.27%) Python
2 105 (7.36%) PowerShell
3 23 (1.61%) SQL
4 18 (1.26%) Bash
5 11 (0.77%) Bicep
6 9 (0.63%) Ruby
7 6 (0.42%) JavaScript
8 3 (0.21%) Java
8 3 (0.21%) Kusto Query Language
9 2 (0.14%) C#
9 2 (0.14%) Perl
9 2 (0.14%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.14%) VBA
10 1 (0.070%) C
Qualifications
1 559 (39.17%) Cisco Certification
2 408 (28.59%) CCNA
3 343 (24.04%) Azure Certification
4 301 (21.09%) Network+ Certification
5 219 (15.35%) CCNP
6 148 (10.37%) Degree
7 122 (8.55%) Security Cleared
8 85 (5.96%) SC Cleared
9 66 (4.63%) CCIE
10 44 (3.08%) Microsoft Certification
11 41 (2.87%) DV Cleared
12 40 (2.80%) Computer Science Degree
13 24 (1.68%) AWS Certification
14 21 (1.47%) DBS Check
15 19 (1.33%) CCSE
16 18 (1.26%) CISSP
17 16 (1.12%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
18 15 (1.05%) CompTIA Security+
18 15 (1.05%) MCSA
19 14 (0.98%) CCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 48 (3.36%) NIST
3 43 (3.01%) SLA
4 41 (2.87%) Cyber Essentials
5 31 (2.17%) GDPR
6 29 (2.03%) PCI DSS
7 15 (1.05%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
8 14 (0.98%) Accessibility
9 12 (0.84%) ISO 9001
10 11 (0.77%) QA
11 9 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 8 (0.56%) PMO
13 7 (0.49%) NCSC
14 4 (0.28%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 1 (0.070%) COSHH
15 1 (0.070%) GRC
15 1 (0.070%) ISO 14001
15 1 (0.070%) ISO/IEC 15288
15 1 (0.070%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 167 (11.70%) Active Directory
2 146 (10.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 86 (6.03%) Hyper-V
4 29 (2.03%) vSphere
5 22 (1.54%) VMware NSX
6 18 (1.26%) Firmware
7 12 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
8 11 (0.77%) Virtual Servers
9 10 (0.70%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 9 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
11 8 (0.56%) ProxySG
12 5 (0.35%) Docker
13 4 (0.28%) EMC RecoverPoint
13 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
14 3 (0.21%) Terminal Services
15 2 (0.14%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.14%) Terminal Server
15 2 (0.14%) UAG
16 1 (0.070%) Citrix Hypervisor
16 1 (0.070%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 86 (6.03%) Ansible
2 74 (5.19%) Microsoft Intune
3 72 (5.05%) Terraform
4 65 (4.56%) FortiGate
5 28 (1.96%) Jamf Pro
6 17 (1.19%) Cisco CUCM
7 15 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
8 13 (0.91%) VxRail
9 11 (0.77%) Autotask
9 11 (0.77%) CASB
9 11 (0.77%) Kubernetes
10 10 (0.70%) Cisco Prime
10 10 (0.70%) Grafana
11 8 (0.56%) Check_MK
11 8 (0.56%) WSUS
12 7 (0.49%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.42%) Endace
13 6 (0.42%) Packer
14 4 (0.28%) Iperf
14 4 (0.28%) Puppet
Vendors
1 710 (49.75%) Microsoft
2 297 (20.81%) ForeScout
3 226 (15.84%) Palo Alto
4 209 (14.65%) Fortinet
5 200 (14.02%) Meraki
6 189 (13.24%) VMware
7 127 (8.90%) Aruba
8 108 (7.57%) Juniper
9 98 (6.87%) Dell
10 84 (5.89%) CheckPoint
11 72 (5.05%) SolarWinds
12 67 (4.70%) F5
13 63 (4.41%) HP
14 49 (3.43%) Google
15 46 (3.22%) Splunk
16 40 (2.80%) ServiceNow
17 39 (2.73%) Arista
18 38 (2.66%) Qualys
19 36 (2.52%) Zscaler
20 34 (2.38%) Veeam