Meraki Job Trends in the North of England

Meraki
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England requiring knowledge or experience of Meraki products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Meraki over the 6 months leading up to 14 March 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 Meraki.

6 months to
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 224 286
Rank change year-on-year -55 +62 +60
Permanent jobs citing Meraki 20 30 69
As % of all permanent jobs in the North of England 0.14% 0.44% 0.47%
As % of the Vendors category 0.54% 1.22% 1.30%
Number of salaries quoted 16 22 53
10th Percentile £26,625 £36,375 £30,100
25th Percentile £27,281 £40,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,250 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.56% +5.88% -7.61%
75th Percentile £52,188 £60,313 £55,000
90th Percentile £60,625 £75,000 £68,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% -

All Vendors
North of England

Meraki 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 North of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 3,705 2,465 5,307
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 26.02% 35.84% 36.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2,109 1,491 4,239
10th Percentile £26,750 £26,929 £26,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £48,306 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +1.70% -5.00%
75th Percentile £61,250 £63,950 £62,500
90th Percentile £77,647 £82,500 £77,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £57,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -8.70% +15.00% -13.04%

Meraki
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Meraki job vacancy trend in the North of England

Meraki
Salary Trend in the North of England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Meraki.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Meraki

Meraki
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Meraki in the North of England over the 6 months to 14 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Meraki in the North of England

Meraki
Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Meraki within the North of England region over the 6 months to 14 March 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
Yorkshire -37 13 £38,000 -45.71% 9
North West -18 7 £47,500 +8.57% 6
Meraki
England

Meraki
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of 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 5 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (10.00%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 12 (60.00%) Azure
2 9 (45.00%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (25.00%) Entra ID
4 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (10.00%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 12 (60.00%) WAN
2 11 (55.00%) LAN
3 9 (45.00%) Firewall
4 6 (30.00%) TCP/IP
5 5 (25.00%) DHCP
5 5 (25.00%) DNS
5 5 (25.00%) VLAN
6 4 (20.00%) VoIP
7 3 (15.00%) BGP
7 3 (15.00%) Network Security
7 3 (15.00%) SD-WAN
7 3 (15.00%) VPN
8 2 (10.00%) IPv4
8 2 (10.00%) IPv6
8 2 (10.00%) MPLS
8 2 (10.00%) NAS
8 2 (10.00%) OSPF
8 2 (10.00%) SAN
8 2 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (10.00%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
3 3 (15.00%) Law
4 1 (5.00%) Finance
4 1 (5.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (30.00%) IT Support
2 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) Senior
3 4 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (15.00%) Analyst
4 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) IT Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior IT Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Senior IT Support
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Support Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Administrator
6 1 (5.00%) Core Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Network Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Service Desk Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Support Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) Systems Administrator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (20.00%) Social Media
2 3 (15.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (5.00%) Driving Licence
4 1 (5.00%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 14 (70.00%) Windows
2 10 (50.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (20.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (15.00%) Android
5 2 (10.00%) Apple iOS
5 2 (10.00%) Mac OS
6 1 (5.00%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Customer Service
2 7 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (30.00%) ITIL
4 5 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 5 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 5 (25.00%) Service Management
5 4 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
5 4 (20.00%) Kalman Filter
5 4 (20.00%) Server Management
5 4 (20.00%) Web Filtering
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (15.00%) Data Protection
6 3 (15.00%) High Availability
6 3 (15.00%) Incident Management
6 3 (15.00%) Task Automation
6 3 (15.00%) Ticket Management
7 2 (10.00%) Asset Management
7 2 (10.00%) Change Management
7 2 (10.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 2 (10.00%) ITSM
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) Cisco Certification
2 6 (30.00%) CCNA
3 5 (25.00%) Degree
4 4 (20.00%) DBS Check
5 3 (15.00%) CCNP
5 3 (15.00%) MCSA
5 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (5.00%) A+ Certification
6 1 (5.00%) ACSP
6 1 (5.00%) CompTIA Security+
6 1 (5.00%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 22301
2 1 (5.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 7 (35.00%) Active Directory
1 7 (35.00%) Hyper-V
2 4 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (30.00%) Jamf Pro
2 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (10.00%) VxRail
3 2 (10.00%) WSUS
4 1 (5.00%) FortiGate
4 1 (5.00%) Proxmox
4 1 (5.00%) SmoothWall
Vendors
1 15 (75.00%) Cisco
2 12 (60.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (20.00%) Apple
3 4 (20.00%) Fortinet
3 4 (20.00%) VMware
4 3 (15.00%) Ubiquiti
4 3 (15.00%) Veeam
5 2 (10.00%) Commvault
5 2 (10.00%) Dell
5 2 (10.00%) HP
5 2 (10.00%) Huawei
5 2 (10.00%) Tenable
5 2 (10.00%) Zerto
6 1 (5.00%) Palo Alto
6 1 (5.00%) Polycom
6 1 (5.00%) WatchGuard