Cisco Job Trends in Lancashire

Cisco
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 2 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
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 56 32
Rank change year-on-year +10 -24 +32
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 16 19 11
As % of all permanent jobs in Lancashire 1.42% 2.32% 2.82%
As % of the Vendors category 8.60% 6.40% 7.91%
Number of salaries quoted 16 19 11
10th Percentile £46,625 - £45,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £47,500 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +23.53%
75th Percentile £52,500 £61,250 £65,000
90th Percentile - £65,500 -
North West median annual salary £50,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +16.28%

All Vendors
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 186 297 139
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Lancashire 16.52% 36.26% 35.64%
Number of salaries quoted 118 176 121
10th Percentile £22,324 £36,600 £25,750
25th Percentile £25,087 £40,620 £31,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £48,438 £58,943 £57,500
90th Percentile £52,500 £65,000 £67,500
North West median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Lancashire

Cisco
Salary Trend in Lancashire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Cisco.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Lancashire citing Cisco

Cisco
Salary Histogram in Lancashire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Lancashire over the 6 months to 2 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco in Lancashire

Cisco
Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Lancashire region over the 6 months to 2 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
Preston +7 1 £38,932 -40.11% 1
Skelmersdale - 1 £46,500 -
Cisco
North West

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Lancashire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (6.25%) AWS
1 1 (6.25%) Azure
1 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 15 (93.75%) Firewall
2 14 (87.50%) LAN
2 14 (87.50%) WAN
3 1 (6.25%) DMZ
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) SQL Server
General
1 15 (93.75%) Social Skills
2 14 (87.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Cisco Engineer
1 14 (87.50%) Firewall Engineer
1 14 (87.50%) Juniper Engineer
1 14 (87.50%) LAN Engineer
1 14 (87.50%) LAN/WAN Engineer
1 14 (87.50%) Presales Engineer
1 14 (87.50%) WAN Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (6.25%) Infrastructure Team Leader
2 1 (6.25%) Lead
2 1 (6.25%) Team Leader
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Windows
1 1 (6.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Presales
2 2 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (6.25%) Cyber Resilience
3 1 (6.25%) Data Encryption
3 1 (6.25%) Deployment Automation
3 1 (6.25%) Disaster Recovery
3 1 (6.25%) Incident Response
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL
3 1 (6.25%) Patch Management
3 1 (6.25%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (6.25%) Project Delivery
3 1 (6.25%) Server Patching
3 1 (6.25%) Strategic Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 14 (87.50%) CCNA
1 14 (87.50%) Cisco Certification
1 14 (87.50%) JNCIA
2 1 (6.25%) Azure Certification
2 1 (6.25%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (12.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (87.50%) Aruba
1 14 (87.50%) Fortinet
1 14 (87.50%) Juniper
2 1 (6.25%) Citrix
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft