Job Vacancy Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Skill Sets
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The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland with a requirement for knowledge and experience of Cisco products and/or services. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco over the 6 months to 13 August 2022 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

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

Cisco
UK > Northern Ireland
6 months to
13 Aug 2022		 Same period 2021 Same period 2020
Rank 78 70 50
Rank change year-on-year -8 -20 -14
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 21 16 4
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 2.42% 2.32% 1.09%
As % of the Vendors category 7.09% 6.99% 2.58%
Number of salaries quoted 21 1 3
10th Percentile £27,500 - £48,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £84,750 £49,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £89,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -52.51% +70.48% +128.26%
75th Percentile £48,750 £94,250 £53,750
90th Percentile £55,000 - -
UK median annual salary £51,480 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.96% - +8.70%

Cisco is in the Vendor Products and Services category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services advertised in Northern Ireland.

All Vendors
Northern Ireland
Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 296 229 155
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 34.06% 33.24% 42.12%
Number of salaries quoted 165 94 52
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £31,250
25th Percentile £31,750 £31,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +6.67%
75th Percentile £53,000 £48,563 £52,813
90th Percentile £61,850 £67,750 £60,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +5.00%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Cisco as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in Northern Ireland

Cisco
Salary Trend in Northern Ireland

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco in Northern Ireland.

Salary trend for Cisco in Northern Ireland

Cisco
Salary Histogram in Northern Ireland

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Northern Ireland over the 6 months to 13 August 2022.

Salary histogram for Cisco in Northern Ireland

Cisco
Job Locations in Northern Ireland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 13 August 2022. 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
County Antrim +1 12 £44,250 -50.56% 2
County Londonderry -1 5 £30,000 -
County Down -6 3 £67,500 -
Cisco
UK

For the 6 months to 13 August 2022, IT jobs citing Cisco also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the Northern Ireland region with a requirement for Cisco.

1 15 (71.43%) Firewall
2 13 (61.90%) LAN
3 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
4 9 (42.86%) VPN
4 9 (42.86%) Palo Alto
5 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
5 8 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
5 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
5 8 (38.10%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (38.10%) Windows
6 6 (28.57%) Wireless
6 6 (28.57%) Data Centre
7 5 (23.81%) Network Management
7 5 (23.81%) Law
7 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing
7 5 (23.81%) VLAN
7 5 (23.81%) WAN
7 5 (23.81%) Internet
7 5 (23.81%) CCNA
8 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
8 4 (19.05%) Cisco ASA
8 4 (19.05%) Azure
9 3 (14.29%) Proactive Maintenance
9 3 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 3 (14.29%) Juniper
9 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
9 3 (14.29%) CCNP
9 3 (14.29%) WLAN
9 3 (14.29%) MS Exchange

Cisco
Co-occurring IT Skills in Northern Ireland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (14.29%) MS Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) IIS
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 8 (38.10%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (19.05%) Azure
3 2 (9.52%) SaaS
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Active Directory
Communications & Networking
1 15 (71.43%) Firewall
2 13 (61.90%) LAN
3 9 (42.86%) VPN
4 6 (28.57%) Wireless
5 5 (23.81%) Internet
5 5 (23.81%) VLAN
5 5 (23.81%) WAN
6 4 (19.05%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (14.29%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (14.29%) TCP/IP
7 3 (14.29%) WLAN
8 2 (9.52%) BGP
8 2 (9.52%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (9.52%) WebEx
9 1 (4.76%) Cisco Wireless
9 1 (4.76%) MPLS
9 1 (4.76%) Network Security
9 1 (4.76%) OSPF
9 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) MySQL
2 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
General
1 5 (23.81%) Law
1 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Retail
2 2 (9.52%) Social Skills
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 9 (42.86%) Support Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) IT Engineer
2 5 (23.81%) IT Support
2 5 (23.81%) IT Support Engineer
3 4 (19.05%) Network Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (14.29%) Network Analyst
4 3 (14.29%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco Support
5 2 (9.52%) Cisco Support Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Network Support
5 2 (9.52%) Network Support Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Python Developer
5 2 (9.52%) Support Analyst
5 2 (9.52%) Systems Engineer
5 2 (9.52%) Systems Support
5 2 (9.52%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) Django
1 2 (9.52%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (9.52%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (38.10%) Windows
1 8 (38.10%) Windows Server
2 2 (9.52%) Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 2 (9.52%) Unix
2 2 (9.52%) Windows 8
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2016
2 2 (9.52%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (23.81%) Network Management
2 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
2 3 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 3 (14.29%) Proactive Maintenance
2 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
3 2 (9.52%) Change Management
3 2 (9.52%) Configuration Management
3 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
3 2 (9.52%) Desktop Virtualisation
3 2 (9.52%) Full Stack Development
3 2 (9.52%) Network Monitoring
3 2 (9.52%) Proactive Monitoring
3 2 (9.52%) Refactoring
3 2 (9.52%) Task Automation
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science
4 1 (4.76%) Information Security
4 1 (4.76%) Infrastructure Maintenance
4 1 (4.76%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.52%) Bash
1 2 (9.52%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (38.10%) Cisco Certification
2 5 (23.81%) CCNA
3 3 (14.29%) CCNP
4 2 (9.52%) Degree
4 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
5 1 (4.76%) CCSA
5 1 (4.76%) CISSP
5 1 (4.76%) HNC
5 1 (4.76%) HND
System Software
1 8 (38.10%) Active Directory
2 2 (9.52%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (9.52%) VMware ESXi
2 2 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.52%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Cisco CUCM
1 2 (9.52%) FortiGate
2 1 (4.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) Microsoft
2 9 (42.86%) Palo Alto
3 4 (19.05%) CheckPoint
4 3 (14.29%) Fortinet
4 3 (14.29%) Juniper
4 3 (14.29%) VMware
5 2 (9.52%) Meraki
5 2 (9.52%) Red Hat
5 2 (9.52%) SolarWinds
5 2 (9.52%) Zscaler
6 1 (4.76%) Forcepoint
6 1 (4.76%) WatchGuard