Cisco Job Trends in the South West

Cisco
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 13 July 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
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 106 60 118
Rank change year-on-year -46 +58 -12
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 132 115 191
As % of all permanent jobs in the South West 1.59% 3.47% 1.96%
As % of the Vendors category 6.77% 10.19% 7.03%
Number of salaries quoted 58 75 137
10th Percentile - £27,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £30,000 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,962 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -26.08% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £57,279 £57,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £63,750 £63,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Vendors
South West

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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 1,949 1,129 2,718
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 23.48% 34.09% 27.85%
Number of salaries quoted 997 718 2,009
10th Percentile £27,900 £27,500 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £32,000 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £44,543 £47,500 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -6.23% - -2.06%
75th Percentile £62,500 £63,750 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,625 £73,750
England median annual salary £57,375 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.32% +10.00% -13.04%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Cisco job vacancy trend in the South West

Cisco
Salary Trend in the South West

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cisco.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Cisco

Cisco
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the South West over the 6 months to 13 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco in the South West

Cisco
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco within the South West region over the 6 months to 13 July 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
Gloucestershire -15 32 £35,000 -33.33% 10
Cornwall +17 21 £30,000 +7.14% 1
Wiltshire -29 19 £72,500 +38.10% 18
Somerset -33 19 £50,000 +5.26% 25
Bristol -22 17 £55,000 +37.50% 6
Devon -19 13 £36,423 -27.88% 19
Dorset -13 11 £37,500 -25.00% 4
Cisco
England

Cisco
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 9 (6.82%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.03%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.76%) OpenStack
Business Applications
1 4 (3.03%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 64 (48.48%) Azure
2 24 (18.18%) AWS
3 21 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
4 17 (12.88%) Google Workspace
5 14 (10.61%) Entra ID
6 7 (5.30%) Twilio
7 5 (3.79%) GCP
8 2 (1.52%) IaaS
8 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (1.52%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (1.52%) OCI
8 2 (1.52%) PaaS
8 2 (1.52%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.52%) Stripe
9 1 (0.76%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 31 (23.48%) Firewall
2 24 (18.18%) WAN
3 22 (16.67%) LAN
4 19 (14.39%) DNS
5 17 (12.88%) WebEx
6 16 (12.12%) VLAN
7 14 (10.61%) DHCP
8 12 (9.09%) Cisco ASA
8 12 (9.09%) VPN
9 11 (8.33%) Network Security
10 10 (7.58%) Cisco Firepower
10 10 (7.58%) Unified Communications
11 9 (6.82%) VoIP
12 8 (6.06%) Wi-Fi
13 7 (5.30%) BGP
13 7 (5.30%) PBX
14 6 (4.55%) VXLAN
15 5 (3.79%) TCP/IP
16 4 (3.03%) DMZ
16 4 (3.03%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.76%) InfluxDB
1 1 (0.76%) MariaDB
1 1 (0.76%) MySQL
1 1 (0.76%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (1.52%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (0.76%) Bitbucket
2 1 (0.76%) GitLab
General
1 60 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 12 (9.09%) Telecoms
3 11 (8.33%) Marketing
3 11 (8.33%) Public Sector
4 9 (6.82%) Banking
4 9 (6.82%) Retail
5 7 (5.30%) Finance
5 7 (5.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (3.79%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (3.03%) Advertising
8 3 (2.27%) Aerospace
9 2 (1.52%) Law
10 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 58 (43.94%) Network Engineer
2 17 (12.88%) Account Manager
3 15 (11.36%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 12 (9.09%) Senior
5 11 (8.33%) IT Engineer
6 9 (6.82%) IT Support
7 7 (5.30%) Collaboration Engineer
7 7 (5.30%) Network Manager
8 6 (4.55%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 6 (4.55%) Support Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) 3rd Line Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) 3rd Line Support
9 5 (3.79%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (3.79%) Senior Network Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Hyper-V Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Network Engineering Manager
10 4 (3.03%) Windows Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Windows Server Engineer
10 4 (3.03%) Windows Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (7.58%) XMPP
2 4 (3.03%) Apache NiFi
Miscellaneous
1 14 (10.61%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (9.85%) Data Centre
3 11 (8.33%) Onboarding
4 10 (7.58%) FlexPod
4 10 (7.58%) Video Conferencing
5 7 (5.30%) IVR
5 7 (5.30%) Replication
6 6 (4.55%) Driving Licence
7 4 (3.03%) Cloud Native
7 4 (3.03%) Cyber Threat
7 4 (3.03%) Smartphone
8 2 (1.52%) CCTV
8 2 (1.52%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.76%) Apple TV
9 1 (0.76%) CMDB
9 1 (0.76%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.76%) Home Automation
9 1 (0.76%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 25 (18.94%) Windows
2 22 (16.67%) Linux
2 22 (16.67%) Windows Server
3 5 (3.79%) Windows Server 2019
4 4 (3.03%) Windows Server 2012
4 4 (3.03%) Windows Server 2016
5 3 (2.27%) VMS
6 1 (0.76%) CentOS
6 1 (0.76%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (15.15%) Cybersecurity
2 19 (14.39%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (9.85%) Disaster Recovery
4 12 (9.09%) Infrastructure as Code
4 12 (9.09%) Problem-Solving
5 10 (7.58%) ITIL
6 9 (6.82%) Business Intelligence
6 9 (6.82%) Data Management
6 9 (6.82%) Incident Response
6 9 (6.82%) Performance Management
6 9 (6.82%) Root Cause Analysis
7 8 (6.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (6.06%) Infrastructure Automation
7 8 (6.06%) Project Delivery
7 8 (6.06%) Vulnerability Remediation
8 7 (5.30%) Cost Optimisation
8 7 (5.30%) Customer Experience
9 6 (4.55%) IT Strategy
9 6 (4.55%) ITSM
10 5 (3.79%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 15 (11.36%) Python
2 7 (5.30%) PowerShell
3 6 (4.55%) Bash
Qualifications
1 53 (40.15%) Cisco Certification
2 47 (35.61%) CCNA
3 46 (34.85%) Azure Certification
4 42 (31.82%) Network+ Certification
5 28 (21.21%) Security Cleared
6 17 (12.88%) SC Cleared
7 11 (8.33%) DV Cleared
8 7 (5.30%) CTC Cleared
9 6 (4.55%) CCNP
9 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Certification
10 5 (3.79%) CCIE
10 5 (3.79%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 4 (3.03%) AWS Certification
11 4 (3.03%) MCSA
11 4 (3.03%) Microsoft Certified Professional
12 3 (2.27%) Degree
13 2 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (1.52%) CCIE Data Center
13 2 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
14 1 (0.76%) VCAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.85%) Cyber Essentials
2 10 (7.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 8 (6.06%) PCI DSS
4 7 (5.30%) GDPR
5 2 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 27 (20.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (11.36%) Active Directory
3 13 (9.85%) Hyper-V
4 9 (6.82%) VMware NSX
5 8 (6.06%) vSphere
6 6 (4.55%) Microsoft Virtual Server
6 6 (4.55%) Virtual Servers
7 4 (3.03%) Firmware
8 2 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
9 1 (0.76%) Citrix Hypervisor
9 1 (0.76%) Docker
9 1 (0.76%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 20 (15.15%) Ansible
2 13 (9.85%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (9.85%) Terraform
3 10 (7.58%) Cisco CUCM
3 10 (7.58%) Grafana
4 4 (3.03%) FortiGate
4 4 (3.03%) Iperf
4 4 (3.03%) Puppet
5 2 (1.52%) Kubernetes
5 2 (1.52%) NetBackup
5 2 (1.52%) vRealize
6 1 (0.76%) Autotask
6 1 (0.76%) Nagios
6 1 (0.76%) Proxmox
Vendors
1 98 (74.24%) Microsoft
2 42 (31.82%) ForeScout
3 27 (20.45%) VMware
4 22 (16.67%) Fortinet
5 18 (13.64%) Palo Alto
6 17 (12.88%) Google
7 13 (9.85%) Dell
8 10 (7.58%) Splunk
9 8 (6.06%) NetApp
10 7 (5.30%) Genesys
10 7 (5.30%) Juniper
10 7 (5.30%) Verint
11 6 (4.55%) Meraki
12 5 (3.79%) F5
12 5 (3.79%) Red Hat
13 4 (3.03%) Infoblox
13 4 (3.03%) Remedy
13 4 (3.03%) Ruckus Wireless
13 4 (3.03%) ServiceNow
13 4 (3.03%) SonicWALL