Cisco Jobs in the Midlands

Cisco
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 17 June 2025, 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
17 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 85 87
Rank change year-on-year -23 +2 -41
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 180 394 309
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 2.67% 2.76% 3.64%
As % of the Vendors category 7.02% 8.30% 8.30%
Number of salaries quoted 134 251 174
10th Percentile £26,250 £30,000 £33,950
25th Percentile £32,500 £35,000 £39,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £49,443 £45,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.87% - -3.23%
75th Percentile £64,375 £57,500 £55,188
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £63,525
England median annual salary £51,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +3.00% - -

All Vendors
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 2,563 4,749 3,725
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 38.08% 33.23% 43.89%
Number of salaries quoted 1,364 3,233 2,158
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £31,250 £37,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -10.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £62,500 £60,000 £63,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

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Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the Midlands

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Salary Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco in the Midlands.

Salary trend for Cisco in the Midlands

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Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the Midlands over the 6 months to 17 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco in the Midlands

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Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 17 June 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
West Midlands -20 125 £50,000 +11.11% 333
East Midlands +14 55 £32,500 -26.51% 229
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England

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 17 (9.44%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (5.00%) Skype for Business
3 7 (3.89%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.56%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 60 (33.33%) Azure
2 50 (27.78%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (7.22%) AWS
3 13 (7.22%) Azure Sentinel
4 9 (5.00%) Google Workspace
5 5 (2.78%) Mimecast
5 5 (2.78%) Nutanix
6 4 (2.22%) Cloudflare
7 2 (1.11%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.56%) Google Drive
Communications & Networking
1 98 (54.44%) WAN
2 79 (43.89%) Firewall
3 55 (30.56%) LAN
4 37 (20.56%) SD-WAN
4 37 (20.56%) VLAN
5 31 (17.22%) DNS
6 26 (14.44%) VPN
7 25 (13.89%) BGP
8 22 (12.22%) DHCP
8 22 (12.22%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (11.67%) Cisco IOS
9 21 (11.67%) MPLS
9 21 (11.67%) TCP/IP
10 14 (7.78%) IPsec
10 14 (7.78%) Network Security
11 13 (7.22%) Wireless
12 12 (6.67%) Junos
12 12 (6.67%) OSPF
13 11 (6.11%) Cisco Firepower
13 11 (6.11%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (0.56%) GitLab
1 1 (0.56%) Robot Framework
General
1 55 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 31 (17.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 15 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (6.67%) Retail
5 11 (6.11%) Finance
6 9 (5.00%) Automotive
7 5 (2.78%) Billing
7 5 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 4 (2.22%) Public Sector
9 3 (1.67%) Police
9 3 (1.67%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.11%) Advertising
10 2 (1.11%) Legal
10 2 (1.11%) Marketing
11 1 (0.56%) Electronics
11 1 (0.56%) Law
11 1 (0.56%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 44 (24.44%) Support Engineer
2 34 (18.89%) Architect
3 33 (18.33%) Network Architect
4 28 (15.56%) Network Engineer
5 27 (15.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
6 25 (13.89%) 3rd Line Support
6 25 (13.89%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
6 25 (13.89%) IT Support
7 24 (13.33%) 2nd Line Support
8 22 (12.22%) IT Engineer
9 17 (9.44%) Infrastructure Engineer
10 13 (7.22%) 2nd/3rd Line Support
10 13 (7.22%) 2nd/3rd Line Support Engineer
11 12 (6.67%) Project Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Cisco Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Collaboration Specialist
12 9 (5.00%) Systems Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Technical Engineer
12 9 (5.00%) Technical Support
12 9 (5.00%) Technical Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.44%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (0.56%) Jinja
2 1 (0.56%) OpenConfig
2 1 (0.56%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 13 (7.22%) Data Centre
3 12 (6.67%) Driving Licence
4 10 (5.56%) Management Information System
4 10 (5.56%) Video Conferencing
5 9 (5.00%) Digital Signage
5 9 (5.00%) Smartphone
6 8 (4.44%) Cyberattack
7 2 (1.11%) CCTV
7 2 (1.11%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.11%) NHS
7 2 (1.11%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.56%) FMCG
8 1 (0.56%) PKI
8 1 (0.56%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 89 (49.44%) Windows
2 42 (23.33%) Windows Server
3 31 (17.22%) Windows Server 2016
3 31 (17.22%) Windows Server 2019
4 30 (16.67%) Linux
5 19 (10.56%) Mac OS
6 11 (6.11%) Windows 10
7 10 (5.56%) Ubuntu
8 9 (5.00%) Mac OS X
9 8 (4.44%) Android
10 2 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 1 (0.56%) CentOS
11 1 (0.56%) Rocky
11 1 (0.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
2 29 (16.11%) Network Design
3 28 (15.56%) Network Management
4 26 (14.44%) Cybersecurity
5 19 (10.56%) Continuous Improvement
5 19 (10.56%) Customer Service
6 18 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 18 (10.00%) Mentoring
7 16 (8.89%) Network Monitoring
8 15 (8.33%) Data Security
8 15 (8.33%) Infrastructure Management
8 15 (8.33%) Service Delivery
8 15 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
9 11 (6.11%) Computer Science
9 11 (6.11%) Migration
9 11 (6.11%) Proactive Monitoring
9 11 (6.11%) SIEM
10 10 (5.56%) DevOps
10 10 (5.56%) Zero Trust
11 9 (5.00%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 40 (22.22%) PowerShell
2 10 (5.56%) SQL
3 9 (5.00%) Python
4 8 (4.44%) Bash
5 2 (1.11%) PHP
Qualifications
1 54 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 43 (23.89%) SC Cleared
3 38 (21.11%) Cisco Certification
4 28 (15.56%) CCNP
5 26 (14.44%) CCNA
6 24 (13.33%) Degree
7 13 (7.22%) JNCIS
8 11 (6.11%) Computer Science Degree
9 10 (5.56%) Microsoft Certification
10 9 (5.00%) HNC
10 9 (5.00%) HND
10 9 (5.00%) MCSE
11 8 (4.44%) CCIE
12 5 (2.78%) Network+ Certification
13 3 (1.67%) DV Cleared
14 2 (1.11%) CCSA
14 2 (1.11%) Chartered Engineer
14 2 (1.11%) JNCIA
15 1 (0.56%) CISSP
15 1 (0.56%) GIAC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 23 (12.78%) SLA
2 6 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 4 (2.22%) QA
4 3 (1.67%) ISO 9000
5 1 (0.56%) GDPR
5 1 (0.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 65 (36.11%) Active Directory
2 30 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (8.33%) XenApp
4 14 (7.78%) Hyper-V
5 8 (4.44%) Docker
5 8 (4.44%) VMware NSX
5 8 (4.44%) vSphere
6 2 (1.11%) Firmware
6 2 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
7 1 (0.56%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 22 (12.22%) Microsoft Intune
2 12 (6.67%) SCCM
3 9 (5.00%) Ansible
4 8 (4.44%) Terraform
5 5 (2.78%) Autotask
5 5 (2.78%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.11%) Cisco CUCM
7 1 (0.56%) Nagios
7 1 (0.56%) WSUS
Vendors
1 63 (35.00%) Juniper
2 54 (30.00%) Microsoft
3 40 (22.22%) VMware
4 34 (18.89%) Meraki
5 23 (12.78%) Fortinet
6 19 (10.56%) CheckPoint
7 18 (10.00%) Dell
8 17 (9.44%) Citrix
9 16 (8.89%) Aruba
10 15 (8.33%) SonicWALL
11 14 (7.78%) HP
11 14 (7.78%) SolarWinds
12 12 (6.67%) Palo Alto
13 10 (5.56%) Google
13 10 (5.56%) Mitel
14 9 (5.00%) Apple
14 9 (5.00%) McAfee
14 9 (5.00%) Polycom
14 9 (5.00%) SevOne
14 9 (5.00%) Ubiquiti