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 14 January 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
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 112 75 74
Rank change year-on-year -37 -1 +55
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 1,029 1,730 1,812
As % of all permanent jobs in England 1.95% 3.59% 3.68%
As % of the Vendors category 6.36% 9.55% 9.37%
Number of salaries quoted 694 1,088 1,442
10th Percentile £28,500 £34,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £41,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £75,000 £65,000
90th Percentile £87,500 £85,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £51,300
% change year-on-year -4.55% +7.21% +2.60%

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 16,183 18,122 19,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 30.62% 37.65% 39.26%
Number of salaries quoted 9,597 9,228 15,028
10th Percentile £27,750 £32,000 £29,440
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,004 £39,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £73,750 £76,528 £72,500
90th Percentile £90,000 £93,750 £91,934
UK median annual salary £51,000 £57,001 £55,000
% change year-on-year -10.53% +3.64% -4.35%

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 14 January 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 14 January 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 -41 324 £70,000 -4.11% 106
South East -36 215 £50,000 -6.54% 144
North of England -12 177 £41,250 -17.50% 105
Midlands -75 127 £51,058 -4.12% 64
South West +25 106 £52,500 +16.67% 47
North West +3 95 £50,000 +5.26% 52
West Midlands -75 79 £56,200 +7.05% 37
Yorkshire -12 55 £32,500 -53.57% 39
East of England -2 51 £47,500 -13.64% 56
East Midlands -39 48 £32,500 -40.91% 26
North East +13 27 £31,000 -38.00% 15
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 64 (6.22%) Microsoft Exchange
2 42 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 10 (0.97%) Confluence
4 8 (0.78%) IIS
4 8 (0.78%) WordPress
5 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
5 2 (0.19%) FactoryTalk
5 2 (0.19%) nginx
5 2 (0.19%) WinCC
6 1 (0.097%) Blackberry Enterprise Server
Applications
1 70 (6.80%) Microsoft Office
2 38 (3.69%) MS Visio
3 24 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (1.46%) AutoCAD
5 14 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (1.17%) InDesign
7 6 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
8 4 (0.39%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 4 (0.39%) CATIA
8 4 (0.39%) Revit
9 3 (0.29%) Adobe Illustrator
9 3 (0.29%) Photoshop
10 2 (0.19%) Acrobat
Business Applications
1 5 (0.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.19%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.19%) Sage 50
Cloud Services
1 281 (27.31%) Azure
2 182 (17.69%) Microsoft 365
3 100 (9.72%) AWS
4 83 (8.07%) Entra ID
5 29 (2.82%) SaaS
6 15 (1.46%) Cloud Computing
7 14 (1.36%) Azure Sentinel
8 11 (1.07%) GCP
8 11 (1.07%) Nutanix
9 9 (0.87%) AWS Direct Connect
9 9 (0.87%) GitHub
9 9 (0.87%) Mimecast
10 8 (0.78%) IaaS
11 7 (0.68%) OneDrive
12 6 (0.58%) Azure DevOps
12 6 (0.58%) Google Workspace
12 6 (0.58%) PaaS
12 6 (0.58%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 5 (0.49%) Dynamics 365
14 4 (0.39%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 429 (41.69%) Firewall
2 293 (28.47%) WAN
3 282 (27.41%) LAN
4 192 (18.66%) VPN
5 140 (13.61%) SD-WAN
6 132 (12.83%) Wireless
7 129 (12.54%) BGP
8 127 (12.34%) Wi-Fi
9 120 (11.66%) Network Security
10 115 (11.18%) VLAN
11 99 (9.62%) OSPF
12 82 (7.97%) TCP/IP
13 79 (7.68%) VoIP
14 78 (7.58%) Cisco ASA
15 75 (7.29%) DNS
16 73 (7.09%) MPLS
17 67 (6.51%) DHCP
18 63 (6.12%) Cisco IOS
19 61 (5.93%) Cisco Nexus
20 50 (4.86%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (2.04%) SQL Server
2 17 (1.65%) Amazon RDS
3 9 (0.87%) Metadata
4 8 (0.78%) GIS
5 4 (0.39%) Power BI
6 2 (0.19%) Data Lake
6 2 (0.19%) KNIME
6 2 (0.19%) MongoDB
6 2 (0.19%) MySQL
6 2 (0.19%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.19%) QlikView
6 2 (0.19%) Tableau
7 1 (0.097%) InfluxDB
Development Applications
1 23 (2.24%) Git
2 13 (1.26%) JIRA
3 7 (0.68%) Burp Suite
3 7 (0.68%) Metasploit
4 5 (0.49%) Sonatype Nexus
5 4 (0.39%) GitLab
6 3 (0.29%) Jenkins
7 2 (0.19%) Jaeger
7 2 (0.19%) MLflow
8 1 (0.097%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.097%) Subversion
General
1 375 (36.44%) Social Skills
2 175 (17.01%) Finance
3 97 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 94 (9.14%) Telecoms
5 87 (8.45%) Marketing
6 76 (7.39%) Analytical Skills
7 45 (4.37%) Law
8 44 (4.28%) Retail
9 39 (3.79%) Organisational Skills
10 38 (3.69%) Public Sector
11 30 (2.92%) Manufacturing
12 25 (2.43%) Documentation Skills
13 22 (2.14%) Presentation Skills
14 21 (2.04%) Back Office
14 21 (2.04%) Banking
15 20 (1.94%) Legal
16 15 (1.46%) Electronics
17 9 (0.87%) Police
18 5 (0.49%) Automotive
18 5 (0.49%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 277 (26.92%) Network Engineer
2 159 (15.45%) Senior
3 92 (8.94%) Senior Network Engineer
4 87 (8.45%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 87 (8.45%) Support Engineer
5 83 (8.07%) Cisco Engineer
6 80 (7.77%) Analyst
7 68 (6.61%) IT Support
8 51 (4.96%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 50 (4.86%) Sales Executive
10 48 (4.66%) Architect
11 47 (4.57%) Corporate Sales Executive
12 44 (4.28%) Lead
13 41 (3.98%) Consultant
14 39 (3.79%) WAN Engineer
15 38 (3.69%) Administrator
15 38 (3.69%) Firewall Engineer
16 37 (3.60%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
17 35 (3.40%) 2nd Line Support
17 35 (3.40%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (1.75%) REST
2 10 (0.97%) Jinja
2 10 (0.97%) NETCONF
2 10 (0.97%) YANG
3 9 (0.87%) CSS
3 9 (0.87%) HTML
4 8 (0.78%) JSON
5 6 (0.58%) 802.1X
5 6 (0.58%) FreeSWITCH
6 5 (0.49%) SOAP
6 5 (0.49%) Web Services
7 4 (0.39%) XML
8 3 (0.29%) WebRTC
9 2 (0.19%) FastAPI
9 2 (0.19%) FIX Protocol
9 2 (0.19%) Kafka
9 2 (0.19%) Keycloak
9 2 (0.19%) Middleware
10 1 (0.097%) LDAP
10 1 (0.097%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 153 (14.87%) Data Centre
2 42 (4.08%) Driving Licence
3 38 (3.69%) Onboarding
4 37 (3.60%) e-Learning
4 37 (3.60%) Management Information System
5 31 (3.01%) Social Media
6 24 (2.33%) Video Conferencing
7 21 (2.04%) Hybrid Cloud
8 17 (1.65%) Security Posture
9 16 (1.55%) Public Cloud
10 15 (1.46%) CMDB
10 15 (1.46%) Smart Home
11 14 (1.36%) PKI
12 13 (1.26%) Operational Technology
13 11 (1.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
13 11 (1.07%) Home Automation
13 11 (1.07%) Private Cloud
13 11 (1.07%) Self-Motivation
14 10 (0.97%) CCTV
14 10 (0.97%) Digital Signage
Operating Systems
1 229 (22.25%) Windows
2 103 (10.01%) Windows Server
3 91 (8.84%) Linux
4 61 (5.93%) Windows 10
5 32 (3.11%) Android
6 31 (3.01%) Unix
7 16 (1.55%) Windows Server 2019
8 13 (1.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 11 (1.07%) Windows Server 2016
10 6 (0.58%) Mac OS
11 4 (0.39%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.19%) Kali Linux
12 2 (0.19%) Solaris
12 2 (0.19%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.097%) CentOS
13 1 (0.097%) Debian
13 1 (0.097%) OpenWrt
Processes & Methodologies
1 170 (16.52%) ITIL
2 158 (15.35%) Problem-Solving
3 121 (11.76%) Customer Service
3 121 (11.76%) Mentoring
4 97 (9.43%) High Availability
5 96 (9.33%) AI
5 96 (9.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 93 (9.04%) Customer Experience
7 89 (8.65%) Analytics
7 89 (8.65%) Continuous Improvement
8 86 (8.36%) Cybersecurity
9 78 (7.58%) Project Delivery
10 74 (7.19%) Coaching
11 70 (6.80%) Root Cause Analysis
12 66 (6.41%) IT Strategy
13 63 (6.12%) Computer Science
13 63 (6.12%) Service Delivery
13 63 (6.12%) Service Management
14 60 (5.83%) Network Monitoring
15 59 (5.73%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 105 (10.20%) Python
2 92 (8.94%) PowerShell
3 18 (1.75%) SQL
4 16 (1.55%) Bash
5 9 (0.87%) JavaScript
6 5 (0.49%) PHP
7 3 (0.29%) Kusto Query Language
8 2 (0.19%) R
9 1 (0.097%) Bicep
9 1 (0.097%) C#
9 1 (0.097%) Go
9 1 (0.097%) Java
9 1 (0.097%) Perl
9 1 (0.097%) PromQL
9 1 (0.097%) VB.NET
9 1 (0.097%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 343 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 239 (23.23%) CCNP
3 191 (18.56%) Security Cleared
4 188 (18.27%) Degree
5 177 (17.20%) CCNA
6 161 (15.65%) SC Cleared
7 83 (8.07%) DV Cleared
8 76 (7.39%) CCIE
9 47 (4.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 35 (3.40%) Network+ Certification
11 34 (3.30%) Computer Science Degree
12 32 (3.11%) DBS Check
13 31 (3.01%) JNCIA
14 30 (2.92%) Azure Certification
15 25 (2.43%) CTC Cleared
16 23 (2.24%) MCSE
17 22 (2.14%) MCSA
18 21 (2.04%) CCSA
18 21 (2.04%) CCSE
19 20 (1.94%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (5.83%) SLA
2 40 (3.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 18 (1.75%) PMO
4 13 (1.26%) Cyber Essentials
4 13 (1.26%) ISO 9001
5 12 (1.17%) GDPR
5 12 (1.17%) NIST
6 8 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
7 7 (0.68%) Actionable Recommendations
8 6 (0.58%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.49%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 5 (0.49%) GRC
9 5 (0.49%) GxP
10 4 (0.39%) PCI DSS
11 3 (0.29%) QA
12 2 (0.19%) Def Stans
13 1 (0.097%) NCSC
13 1 (0.097%) SOC 2
System Software
1 163 (15.84%) Active Directory
2 106 (10.30%) VMware Infrastructure
3 55 (5.34%) Firmware
4 54 (5.25%) Hyper-V
5 28 (2.72%) vSphere
6 23 (2.24%) VMware NSX
7 15 (1.46%) Virtual Machines
8 13 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (1.17%) ProxySG
10 11 (1.07%) NFS
11 9 (0.87%) Docker
12 6 (0.58%) KVM
13 4 (0.39%) BitLocker
13 4 (0.39%) pfSense
13 4 (0.39%) XenApp
13 4 (0.39%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.19%) EMC RecoverPoint
14 2 (0.19%) RHEV
14 2 (0.19%) Squid
14 2 (0.19%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 109 (10.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 69 (6.71%) Ansible
3 67 (6.51%) FortiGate
4 60 (5.83%) Terraform
5 35 (3.40%) SCCM
6 33 (3.21%) Kubernetes
7 19 (1.85%) vCenter Server
8 18 (1.75%) Cisco CUCM
9 16 (1.55%) Nagios
10 11 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.78%) Endace
12 7 (0.68%) Grafana
12 7 (0.68%) Nmap
12 7 (0.68%) SmoothWall
12 7 (0.68%) VxRail
13 5 (0.49%) Autotask
13 5 (0.49%) CASB
13 5 (0.49%) Dell DRAC
13 5 (0.49%) Prometheus
13 5 (0.49%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 355 (34.50%) Microsoft
2 186 (18.08%) Fortinet
3 170 (16.52%) Meraki
4 168 (16.33%) VMware
5 139 (13.51%) Juniper
6 108 (10.50%) Palo Alto
7 103 (10.01%) CheckPoint
8 90 (8.75%) SolarWinds
9 87 (8.45%) Dell
10 62 (6.03%) Salesforce
11 61 (5.93%) F5
12 60 (5.83%) Aruba
13 42 (4.08%) ServiceNow
14 40 (3.89%) Veeam
15 33 (3.21%) HP
16 32 (3.11%) Citrix
17 25 (2.43%) Zscaler
18 22 (2.14%) Sophos
19 21 (2.04%) Draytek
20 20 (1.94%) Arista