Cisco Job Trends in Reading

Cisco
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Reading 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 43 62 63
Rank change year-on-year +19 +1 +35
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 6 14 37
As % of all permanent jobs in Reading 1.02% 1.93% 3.45%
As % of the Vendors category 3.68% 6.33% 7.66%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 35
10th Percentile £50,000 £46,875 £35,500
25th Percentile £53,750 £52,500 £58,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £77,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -29.03% +19.23%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £85,000
90th Percentile £64,375 £59,375 £85,750
Berkshire median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £58,500
% change year-on-year -15.00% -14.53% +6.36%

All Vendors
Reading

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 Reading.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 163 221 483
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Reading 27.82% 30.52% 45.01%
Number of salaries quoted 69 103 361
10th Percentile £31,250 £36,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £34,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +14.29% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £81,250
Berkshire median annual salary £47,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.55% +4.76% -8.70%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in Reading

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Salary Trend in Reading

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Cisco.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Cisco

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Salary Histogram in Reading

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco in Reading over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco in Reading

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (33.33%) IIS
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 3 (50.00%) Firewall
2 2 (33.33%) DHCP
2 2 (33.33%) DNS
2 2 (33.33%) TCP/IP
2 2 (33.33%) VPN
3 1 (16.67%) BGP
3 1 (16.67%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (16.67%) Network Security
3 1 (16.67%) SD-WAN
3 1 (16.67%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Subversion
General
1 1 (16.67%) Law
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Account Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Lead
1 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Network Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Data Centre
2 2 (33.33%) Clustering
2 2 (33.33%) Replication
3 1 (16.67%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 3 (50.00%) Windows
1 3 (50.00%) Windows Server
2 2 (33.33%) Linux
3 1 (16.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (16.67%) Agile
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
2 1 (16.67%) Migration
2 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (16.67%) V-Model
2 1 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) PowerShell
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) DV Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
1 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 3 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (33.33%) Docker
2 2 (33.33%) Hyper-V
3 1 (16.67%) Terminal Server
3 1 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Failover Clustering
2 1 (16.67%) FortiGate
2 1 (16.67%) SCCM
2 1 (16.67%) SCOM
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) McAfee
2 1 (16.67%) Meraki
2 1 (16.67%) VMware