Cisco Jobs in the UK excluding London

Cisco
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 16 May 2025, 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
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 113 109
Rank change year-on-year +28 -4 -43
Permanent jobs citing Cisco 1,314 1,717 1,826
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 3.33% 2.42% 3.08%
As % of the Vendors category 9.11% 6.87% 7.23%
Number of salaries quoted 791 1,435 1,099
10th Percentile £29,750 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £36,250 £36,250 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
90th Percentile £70,000 £67,500 £68,750
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Vendors
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,420 24,976 25,268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 36.55% 35.20% 42.59%
Number of salaries quoted 8,190 17,220 12,963
10th Percentile £25,087 £25,759 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,110 £32,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £63,750 £61,250 £64,639
90th Percentile £75,000 £73,886 £77,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £57,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%

Cisco
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco in the UK excluding London

Cisco
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 within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 16 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
North of England +33 521 £44,700 -0.67% 219
North West +40 389 £51,250 +5.67% 111
South East +18 365 £50,000 +2.04% 263
Midlands +9 237 £50,000 +11.11% 100
West Midlands +15 184 £51,800 +15.11% 61
Yorkshire +33 118 £32,500 -31.58% 91
South West +15 86 £50,000 +2.04% 77
East of England -1 65 £53,500 +12.63% 60
East Midlands +10 53 £35,000 -20.86% 33
Scotland +57 19 £52,500 +23.53% 47
Wales +5 19 £48,802 +8.72% 11
North East +4 14 £44,500 +4.71% 24
Northern Ireland +39 1 £57,500 - 18
Isle of Man +6 1 £34,500 -31.00%
Cisco
UK

Cisco
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 68 (5.18%) Microsoft Exchange
2 46 (3.50%) SharePoint
3 18 (1.37%) Skype for Business
4 9 (0.68%) Confluence
5 8 (0.61%) IIS
6 7 (0.53%) IBM Domino
7 6 (0.46%) Apache
7 6 (0.46%) WordPress
8 3 (0.23%) nginx
9 2 (0.15%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) Tomcat
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere Application Server
10 1 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2003
10 1 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2007
10 1 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2010
10 1 (0.076%) Exchange Server 2013
10 1 (0.076%) SharePoint 2010
10 1 (0.076%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 55 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
2 20 (1.52%) MS Visio
3 13 (0.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (0.15%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 3 (0.23%) NetSuite
1 3 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
1 3 (0.23%) Sage 50
2 2 (0.15%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.076%) Dynamics NAV
Cloud Services
1 240 (18.26%) Azure
2 198 (15.07%) Microsoft 365
3 77 (5.86%) AWS
4 46 (3.50%) Entra ID
5 25 (1.90%) SaaS
6 19 (1.45%) Azure Sentinel
7 16 (1.22%) Mimecast
8 14 (1.07%) Google Workspace
9 11 (0.84%) GCP
9 11 (0.84%) Power Platform
10 10 (0.76%) Amazon EC2
11 9 (0.68%) Nutanix
11 9 (0.68%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 8 (0.61%) Amazon S3
13 7 (0.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 7 (0.53%) Microsoft Purview
14 6 (0.46%) GitHub
14 6 (0.46%) OneDrive
14 6 (0.46%) PaaS
15 4 (0.30%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 384 (29.22%) VPN
2 367 (27.93%) Firewall
3 337 (25.65%) Cisco IOS
4 314 (23.90%) WAN
5 215 (16.36%) LAN
6 162 (12.33%) Network Security
7 158 (12.02%) BGP
8 134 (10.20%) OSPF
9 107 (8.14%) DNS
10 88 (6.70%) Wireless
11 86 (6.54%) EIGRP
12 85 (6.47%) SD-WAN
13 76 (5.78%) DHCP
13 76 (5.78%) MPLS
14 72 (5.48%) VLAN
15 70 (5.33%) TCP/IP
16 67 (5.10%) Wi-Fi
17 65 (4.95%) Cisco Firepower
17 65 (4.95%) Cisco ISE
18 57 (4.34%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (2.36%) SQL Server
2 12 (0.91%) PostgreSQL
3 5 (0.38%) DB2
3 5 (0.38%) Power BI
4 4 (0.30%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 3 (0.23%) NoSQL
6 2 (0.15%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.15%) Crystal Reports
6 2 (0.15%) MySQL
7 1 (0.076%) GIS
7 1 (0.076%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.076%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (1.14%) JIRA
2 14 (1.07%) Sonatype Nexus
3 9 (0.68%) Jenkins
4 5 (0.38%) Git
5 4 (0.30%) GitLab
6 3 (0.23%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.076%) Robot Framework
7 1 (0.076%) Selenium
7 1 (0.076%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
7 1 (0.076%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 364 (27.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 313 (23.82%) Social Skills
3 301 (22.91%) Analytical Skills
4 68 (5.18%) Finance
5 39 (2.97%) Law
6 33 (2.51%) Retail
7 30 (2.28%) Marketing
8 29 (2.21%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (1.98%) Legal
10 25 (1.90%) Automotive
11 24 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 21 (1.60%) Telecoms
13 20 (1.52%) Public Sector
14 16 (1.22%) Organisational Skills
15 12 (0.91%) Advertising
16 11 (0.84%) Banking
16 11 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
16 11 (0.84%) Police
17 9 (0.68%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.68%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 315 (23.97%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 258 (19.63%) Network Engineer
3 130 (9.89%) Support Engineer
4 116 (8.83%) Architect
5 112 (8.52%) IT Support
6 86 (6.54%) IT Engineer
7 85 (6.47%) Senior
8 81 (6.16%) Network Architect
9 59 (4.49%) Designer
9 59 (4.49%) Network Designer
10 50 (3.81%) IT Support Engineer
11 49 (3.73%) 3rd Line Engineer
11 49 (3.73%) Analyst
11 49 (3.73%) Security Engineer
12 43 (3.27%) 2nd Line Support
13 42 (3.20%) 3rd Line Support
13 42 (3.20%) Technical Support
14 41 (3.12%) Lead
15 36 (2.74%) Senior Network Engineer
16 35 (2.66%) Junior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 260 (19.79%) Elastic Stack
2 11 (0.84%) 802.1X
3 8 (0.61%) CSS
3 8 (0.61%) React
4 7 (0.53%) HTML
5 6 (0.46%) LDAP
6 5 (0.38%) REST
7 4 (0.30%) JSON
8 3 (0.23%) YAML
9 2 (0.15%) Middleware
10 1 (0.076%) Jinja
10 1 (0.076%) Kafka
10 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Graph
10 1 (0.076%) ModSecurity
10 1 (0.076%) OpenConfig
10 1 (0.076%) RabbitMQ
10 1 (0.076%) Tailwind CSS
10 1 (0.076%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 260 (19.79%) Cyberattack
2 74 (5.63%) Data Centre
3 64 (4.87%) Driving Licence
4 30 (2.28%) Video Conferencing
5 24 (1.83%) Onboarding
6 23 (1.75%) Management Information System
7 19 (1.45%) Digital Signage
8 14 (1.07%) Enterprise Cloud
8 14 (1.07%) Smartphone
9 13 (0.99%) Replication
10 12 (0.91%) Self-Motivation
11 10 (0.76%) Social Media
12 9 (0.68%) Cyber Threat
12 9 (0.68%) Hybrid Cloud
12 9 (0.68%) PMI
13 8 (0.61%) e-Learning
13 8 (0.61%) Private Cloud
13 8 (0.61%) Virtual Team
14 7 (0.53%) CCTV
14 7 (0.53%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 563 (42.85%) Windows
2 409 (31.13%) Linux
3 285 (21.69%) Android
4 113 (8.60%) Windows Server
5 61 (4.64%) Windows 10
6 44 (3.35%) Windows Server 2019
7 40 (3.04%) Windows Server 2016
8 35 (2.66%) Mac OS X
9 27 (2.05%) Mac OS
9 27 (2.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 20 (1.52%) Ubuntu
11 10 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.53%) CentOS
13 2 (0.15%) Solaris
13 2 (0.15%) SUSE
13 2 (0.15%) VMS
14 1 (0.076%) Debian
14 1 (0.076%) OpenBSD
14 1 (0.076%) Unix
14 1 (0.076%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (34.25%) Problem-Solving
2 321 (24.43%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 276 (21.00%) DevOps
4 272 (20.70%) Line Management
5 270 (20.55%) Risk Management
6 269 (20.47%) Task Automation
7 267 (20.32%) Platform Engineering
8 262 (19.94%) Storage Management
9 261 (19.86%) Mathematics
10 159 (12.10%) ITIL
11 150 (11.42%) Network Management
12 114 (8.68%) Customer Service
13 97 (7.38%) Mentoring
14 94 (7.15%) Cybersecurity
15 69 (5.25%) Network Design
16 66 (5.02%) Computer Science
16 66 (5.02%) Presales
17 58 (4.41%) Migration
18 54 (4.11%) Continuous Improvement
19 51 (3.88%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 325 (24.73%) PowerShell
2 314 (23.90%) Python
3 270 (20.55%) Bash
4 43 (3.27%) SQL
5 16 (1.22%) JavaScript
6 11 (0.84%) Java
7 10 (0.76%) PHP
8 3 (0.23%) Kusto Query Language
9 1 (0.076%) Perl
9 1 (0.076%) Progress 4GL
9 1 (0.076%) R
9 1 (0.076%) TypeScript
9 1 (0.076%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 332 (25.27%) Security Cleared
2 287 (21.84%) Cisco Certification
3 253 (19.25%) SC Cleared
4 204 (15.53%) CCNA
5 184 (14.00%) CCNP
6 162 (12.33%) Degree
7 137 (10.43%) DV Cleared
8 94 (7.15%) Microsoft Certification
9 60 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
9 60 (4.57%) MCSE
10 42 (3.20%) JNCIA
11 36 (2.74%) JNCIS
12 33 (2.51%) CCIE
13 32 (2.44%) MCP
14 28 (2.13%) LPIC
15 25 (1.90%) MCSA
16 19 (1.45%) Network+ Certification
17 15 (1.14%) CISSP
18 14 (1.07%) HND
18 14 (1.07%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (3.96%) SLA
2 20 (1.52%) Cyber Essentials
3 18 (1.37%) GDPR
4 15 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (0.91%) NIST
6 11 (0.84%) QA
7 8 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.46%) ISO 9000
8 6 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 5 (0.38%) Accessibility
10 4 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
10 4 (0.30%) Def Stans
10 4 (0.30%) HIPAA
10 4 (0.30%) NCSC
10 4 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.23%) Government Security Classifications
11 3 (0.23%) GRC
11 3 (0.23%) ISO 9001
11 3 (0.23%) JSP 440
System Software
1 317 (24.12%) Hyper-V
2 275 (20.93%) VMware NSX
3 269 (20.47%) vSphere
4 268 (20.40%) Docker
5 207 (15.75%) Active Directory
6 134 (10.20%) VMware Infrastructure
7 15 (1.14%) XenApp
8 13 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.76%) Virtual Desktop
9 10 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
10 8 (0.61%) Firmware
11 5 (0.38%) Terminal Services
12 2 (0.15%) BitLocker
12 2 (0.15%) KVM
12 2 (0.15%) NFS
12 2 (0.15%) pfSense
12 2 (0.15%) PowerHA
12 2 (0.15%) SRDF
12 2 (0.15%) Veritas Cluster Server
12 2 (0.15%) Xen
Systems Management
1 323 (24.58%) Ansible
2 289 (21.99%) Terraform
3 70 (5.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 48 (3.65%) FortiGate
5 17 (1.29%) SCCM
6 14 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
7 10 (0.76%) SmoothWall
7 10 (0.76%) vCenter Server
8 9 (0.68%) Kubernetes
8 9 (0.68%) Puppet
9 6 (0.46%) Proxmox
10 5 (0.38%) Cisco CUCM
10 5 (0.38%) VxRail
10 5 (0.38%) WSUS
11 4 (0.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
11 4 (0.30%) CASB
11 4 (0.30%) Nagios
11 4 (0.30%) Nessus
11 4 (0.30%) Progress Chef
11 4 (0.30%) QRadar
Vendors
1 573 (43.61%) Juniper
2 325 (24.73%) Microsoft
3 266 (20.24%) Splunk
4 260 (19.79%) 3PAR
5 210 (15.98%) Fortinet
6 202 (15.37%) VMware
7 126 (9.59%) Meraki
8 107 (8.14%) Palo Alto
9 83 (6.32%) Aruba
10 73 (5.56%) Dell
11 60 (4.57%) SolarWinds
12 52 (3.96%) CheckPoint
13 48 (3.65%) Citrix
14 47 (3.58%) HP
14 47 (3.58%) SevOne
15 30 (2.28%) Red Hat
16 28 (2.13%) SonicWALL
17 26 (1.98%) F5
18 22 (1.67%) Mitel
19 20 (1.52%) Google