Cisco IOS Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cisco IOS
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Cisco IOS skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Cisco IOS over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 298 717 574
Rank change year-on-year +419 -143 +197
Permanent jobs citing Cisco IOS 348 58 145
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.88% 0.073% 0.26%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 4.64% 0.58% 1.36%
Number of salaries quoted 72 23 64
10th Percentile £26,750 £27,700 £34,313
25th Percentile £29,750 £29,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £33,000 £39,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% -8.24% -29.17%
75th Percentile £65,000 £52,625 £47,813
90th Percentile £76,250 £65,593 £53,125
UK median annual salary £37,500 £39,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -13.33% -28.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK excluding London

Cisco IOS falls under the Communications and Computer Networking category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring communications or computer networking skills in the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 7,498 10,080 10,633
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.99% 12.64% 19.17%
Number of salaries quoted 3,594 7,149 4,577
10th Percentile £23,504 £25,760 £26,250
25th Percentile £25,087 £31,250 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £32,500 £44,886 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.59% -0.25% -5.26%
75th Percentile £53,750 £58,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £69,000 £69,550 £75,000
UK median annual salary £39,500 £47,500 £50,743
% change year-on-year -16.84% -6.39% -3.35%

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Cisco IOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco IOS in the UK excluding London

Cisco IOS
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco IOS in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Cisco IOS in the UK excluding London

Cisco IOS
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco IOS in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco IOS in the UK excluding London

Cisco IOS
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco IOS within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England +263 296 £32,000 -47.70% 7
North West +196 255 £38,500 -37.08% 3
Yorkshire +88 39 £31,250 -34.21% 4
South East +116 23 £56,500 +76.56% 21
Midlands +102 22 £72,500 +85.90% 13
West Midlands +87 14 £72,500 - 11
East Midlands +59 8 - - 1
Scotland +102 4 £55,000 +96.43%
South West +116 2 £52,500 -5.41% 2
North East - 2 £55,000 -
East of England +43 1 - - 17
Cisco IOS
UK

Cisco IOS
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (2.87%) SharePoint
2 7 (2.01%) IBM Domino
2 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 29 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (2.59%) Azure
3 4 (1.15%) AWS
3 4 (1.15%) Nutanix
4 2 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (0.57%) PaaS
4 2 (0.57%) SaaS
5 1 (0.29%) Azure Stack
5 1 (0.29%) Entra ID
5 1 (0.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 267 (76.72%) VPN
2 29 (8.33%) LAN
2 29 (8.33%) WAN
3 21 (6.03%) BGP
3 21 (6.03%) Junos
4 20 (5.75%) MPLS
5 19 (5.46%) IPsec
6 13 (3.74%) Wireless
7 11 (3.16%) Firewall
8 10 (2.87%) DNS
9 9 (2.59%) TCP/IP
10 7 (2.01%) NX-OS
11 6 (1.72%) DHCP
12 4 (1.15%) HTTP
12 4 (1.15%) Software-Defined Networking
12 4 (1.15%) SSH
12 4 (1.15%) VLAN
12 4 (1.15%) VoIP
13 3 (0.86%) Cisco ISE
13 3 (0.86%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 4 (1.15%) Git
1 4 (1.15%) JIRA
2 1 (0.29%) GitLab
2 1 (0.29%) Robot Framework
General
1 267 (76.72%) Analytical Skills
2 260 (74.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 26 (7.47%) Social Skills
4 19 (5.46%) Law
5 14 (4.02%) Finance
6 9 (2.59%) Retail
7 4 (1.15%) Electronics
7 4 (1.15%) Military
8 1 (0.29%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.29%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.29%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (0.29%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.29%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 262 (75.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 30 (8.62%) IT Support
3 23 (6.61%) Analyst
4 22 (6.32%) Desktop Support
5 20 (5.75%) Support Analyst
6 18 (5.17%) Architect
6 18 (5.17%) Network Architect
7 16 (4.60%) 2nd Line Support
7 16 (4.60%) 2nd Line Support Analyst
8 14 (4.02%) Support Engineer
9 12 (3.45%) IT Analyst
9 12 (3.45%) IT Support Analyst
10 8 (2.30%) Network Engineer
11 7 (2.01%) Platform Engineer
11 7 (2.01%) Platform Support Engineer
12 6 (1.72%) Desktop Engineer
12 6 (1.72%) Desktop Support Engineer
12 6 (1.72%) IT Engineer
12 6 (1.72%) IT Support Engineer
13 5 (1.44%) Desktop Support Technician
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (74.71%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.15%) LDAP
3 3 (0.86%) Middleware
4 1 (0.29%) 802.1X
4 1 (0.29%) Jinja
4 1 (0.29%) JSON
4 1 (0.29%) OpenConfig
4 1 (0.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 260 (74.71%) Cyberattack
2 4 (1.15%) Anti-Spyware
2 4 (1.15%) Data Centre
2 4 (1.15%) Linux Command Line
3 3 (0.86%) CCTV
3 3 (0.86%) Driving Licence
3 3 (0.86%) PKI
4 1 (0.29%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.29%) NHS
4 1 (0.29%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.29%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 314 (90.23%) Windows
2 290 (83.33%) Android
3 285 (81.90%) Linux
4 22 (6.32%) Mac OS X
5 14 (4.02%) Windows Server
6 12 (3.45%) Windows 10
7 8 (2.30%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2016
9 3 (0.86%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 276 (79.31%) Problem-Solving
2 267 (76.72%) Platform Engineering
3 265 (76.15%) DevOps
3 265 (76.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 262 (75.29%) Task Automation
5 260 (74.71%) Line Management
5 260 (74.71%) Mathematics
5 260 (74.71%) Risk Management
5 260 (74.71%) Storage Management
6 22 (6.32%) ITIL
7 19 (5.46%) Network Design
7 19 (5.46%) Technical Leadership
8 14 (4.02%) Requirements Gathering
9 11 (3.16%) Customer Service
9 11 (3.16%) Preventative Maintenance
9 11 (3.16%) Vulnerability Management
10 10 (2.87%) Customer Experience
10 10 (2.87%) Service Delivery
11 7 (2.01%) ITSM
11 7 (2.01%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 280 (80.46%) Python
2 262 (75.29%) Bash
3 261 (75.00%) PowerShell
4 10 (2.87%) SQL
5 1 (0.29%) R
Qualifications
1 31 (8.91%) Cisco Certification
1 31 (8.91%) Degree
2 30 (8.62%) CCNP
3 22 (6.32%) Security Cleared
4 20 (5.75%) CCNA
5 18 (5.17%) JNCIS
5 18 (5.17%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.87%) MCSA
6 10 (2.87%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.15%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.29%) DBS Check
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.17%) SLA
2 4 (1.15%) Def Stans
3 1 (0.29%) Accessibility
System Software
1 263 (75.57%) Hyper-V
1 263 (75.57%) VMware NSX
2 262 (75.29%) Docker
3 260 (74.71%) vSphere
4 35 (10.06%) Active Directory
5 5 (1.44%) VMware Infrastructure
6 3 (0.86%) Firmware
7 1 (0.29%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.29%) RHEV
7 1 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 268 (77.01%) Ansible
2 261 (75.00%) Terraform
3 19 (5.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (1.15%) SCCM
4 4 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.86%) vCenter Server
6 1 (0.29%) FortiGate
6 1 (0.29%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 348 (100.00%) Cisco
2 283 (81.32%) Juniper
3 260 (74.71%) 3PAR
3 260 (74.71%) Splunk
4 23 (6.61%) Microsoft
5 9 (2.59%) Palo Alto
6 5 (1.44%) VMware
7 4 (1.15%) Okta
7 4 (1.15%) Perforce
7 4 (1.15%) Riverbed
7 4 (1.15%) ServiceNow
8 3 (0.86%) Aruba
8 3 (0.86%) Broadcom
8 3 (0.86%) MobileIron
8 3 (0.86%) SAP
8 3 (0.86%) SolarWinds
8 3 (0.86%) Trend Micro
9 2 (0.57%) Apple
9 2 (0.57%) Ruckus Wireless
10 1 (0.29%) CheckPoint