Cisco Network Engineer Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cisco Network Engineer
UK > UK excluding London

The median Cisco Network Engineer salary in the UK excluding London is £52,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 17 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 556 714 703
Rank change year-on-year +158 -11 +18
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Network Engineer 19 41 44
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.048% 0.057% 0.074%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.053% 0.061% 0.083%
Number of salaries quoted 18 39 35
10th Percentile £32,500 - £39,025
25th Percentile £36,563 £37,500 £40,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £49,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.12% - -6.67%
75th Percentile £61,875 £51,750 £55,875
90th Percentile £65,000 £56,950 £65,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £50,000 £53,750
% change year-on-year +20.00% -6.98% -2.27%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 36,103 67,726 52,846
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.94% 94.86% 89.17%
Number of salaries quoted 18,704 47,866 30,035
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +6.67% -12.50% -

Cisco Network Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Cisco Network Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Network Engineer
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Network Engineer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco Network Engineer in the UK excluding London

Cisco Network Engineer
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 Network Engineer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 May 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
South East +89 11 £51,500 -6.36% 1
Midlands +47 4 £60,000 +22.45% 1
South West - 3 £65,000 - 1
West Midlands +40 2 £71,250 +45.41% 1
East Midlands - 2 £60,000 -
Yorkshire +62 1 - - 2
North of England +28 1 - - 2
Cisco Network Engineer
UK

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 17 May 2025, Cisco Network Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Cisco Network Engineer in the job title.

1 19 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (68.42%) Fortinet
3 12 (63.16%) Firewall
4 11 (57.89%) Cisco Certification
5 10 (52.63%) OSPF
5 10 (52.63%) BGP
6 9 (47.37%) WAN
7 8 (42.11%) LAN
7 8 (42.11%) CCNA
7 8 (42.11%) Juniper
7 8 (42.11%) Network Security
8 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
8 6 (31.58%) CCNP
8 6 (31.58%) Meraki
9 5 (26.32%) Cisco Firepower
9 5 (26.32%) MS Visio
9 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
9 5 (26.32%) Azure
10 4 (21.05%) Advertising
10 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
10 4 (21.05%) EIGRP
10 4 (21.05%) VPN
11 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
11 3 (15.79%) Presales
11 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
11 3 (15.79%) HP
11 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
11 3 (15.79%) MPLS
11 3 (15.79%) Network Design
12 2 (10.53%) Finance

Cisco Network Engineer Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 5 (26.32%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 5 (26.32%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (5.26%) SaaS
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (63.16%) Firewall
2 10 (52.63%) BGP
2 10 (52.63%) OSPF
3 9 (47.37%) WAN
4 8 (42.11%) LAN
4 8 (42.11%) Network Security
5 5 (26.32%) Cisco Firepower
6 4 (21.05%) EIGRP
6 4 (21.05%) VPN
7 3 (15.79%) MPLS
7 3 (15.79%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (10.53%) SD-WAN
9 1 (5.26%) Cisco ASA
9 1 (5.26%) Cisco IOS
9 1 (5.26%) Cisco Nexus
9 1 (5.26%) IOS XR
9 1 (5.26%) LoRaWAN
9 1 (5.26%) Modbus
9 1 (5.26%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (5.26%) VPLS
Development Applications
1 1 (5.26%) GitLab
1 1 (5.26%) Robot Framework
1 1 (5.26%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 4 (21.05%) Advertising
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Finance
4 1 (5.26%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) YAML
2 1 (5.26%) Jinja
2 1 (5.26%) JSON
2 1 (5.26%) OpenConfig
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.26%) NHS
2 1 (5.26%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (15.79%) Network Design
1 3 (15.79%) Presales
2 2 (10.53%) Zero Trust
3 1 (5.26%) Business Continuity
3 1 (5.26%) Case Management
3 1 (5.26%) Change Management
3 1 (5.26%) CI/CD
3 1 (5.26%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (5.26%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (5.26%) Customer Engagement
3 1 (5.26%) Incident Management
3 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (5.26%) Knowledge Management
3 1 (5.26%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (5.26%) Mentoring
3 1 (5.26%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (5.26%) Roadmaps
3 1 (5.26%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (5.26%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (5.26%) Test Automation
Qualifications
1 11 (57.89%) Cisco Certification
2 8 (42.11%) CCNA
3 6 (31.58%) CCNP
3 6 (31.58%) Security Cleared
4 5 (26.32%) DV Cleared
5 4 (21.05%) SC Cleared
6 2 (10.53%) CCIE
7 1 (5.26%) CCDA
7 1 (5.26%) CCDP
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) FortiGate
2 1 (5.26%) Ansible
2 1 (5.26%) CASB
2 1 (5.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 19 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (68.42%) Fortinet
3 8 (42.11%) Juniper
4 6 (31.58%) Meraki
5 3 (15.79%) HP
5 3 (15.79%) Palo Alto
6 2 (10.53%) Aruba
6 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
7 1 (5.26%) Aerohive Networks
7 1 (5.26%) Citrix
7 1 (5.26%) Ekahau
7 1 (5.26%) Extreme Networks
7 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds