Meraki Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Meraki
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 Meraki products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Meraki over the 6 months leading up to 17 April 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 Meraki.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 440 356 424
Rank change year-on-year -84 +68 +77
Permanent jobs citing Meraki 131 140 341
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.53% 0.51%
As % of the Vendors category 0.85% 1.40% 1.40%
Number of salaries quoted 121 134 261
10th Percentile £26,500 £30,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £31,000 £32,750 £33,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £44,500 £44,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.49% - -6.32%
75th Percentile £58,750 £54,688 £55,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £67,500 £66,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

All Vendors
UK excluding London

Meraki 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 15,384 10,005 24,273
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 24.68% 37.90% 36.20%
Number of salaries quoted 7,851 6,428 17,617
10th Percentile £27,500 £27,500 £25,759
25th Percentile £32,000 £35,000 £31,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% +11.11% -10.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £79,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - +10.00% -13.04%

Meraki
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Meraki relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Meraki job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Meraki
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Meraki.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Meraki

Meraki
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Meraki in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 17 April 2026.

Salary histogram for Meraki in the UK excluding London

Meraki
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 Meraki within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 17 April 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
Midlands -60 41 £52,500 +5.00% 8
South East -37 39 £42,500 +13.33% 13
North of England -54 28 £36,500 -10.98% 13
West Midlands -25 26 £55,000 +10.00% 5
Yorkshire -51 15 £30,000 -57.14% 9
East Midlands -55 14 £26,500 -37.65% 3
North West -22 13 £36,500 -2.67% 4
Scotland -16 10 £60,000 +84.62% 9
East of England -21 9 £32,500 -0.10% 7
South West -53 3 £52,500 -4.55% 2
Wales - 1 £35,000 - 3
Meraki
UK

Meraki
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 26 (19.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 21 (16.03%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.29%) Confluence
3 3 (2.29%) IIS
4 1 (0.76%) WordPress
Applications
1 10 (7.63%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 66 (50.38%) Azure
2 56 (42.75%) Microsoft 365
3 39 (29.77%) Entra ID
4 7 (5.34%) Microsoft Purview
5 6 (4.58%) Google Workspace
6 4 (3.05%) AWS
6 4 (3.05%) Azure Sentinel
6 4 (3.05%) Mimecast
7 2 (1.53%) Azure AKS
7 2 (1.53%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
7 2 (1.53%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.53%) SaaS
7 2 (1.53%) Viva Engage
8 1 (0.76%) Azure ExpressRoute
8 1 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.76%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.76%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 51 (38.93%) WAN
2 49 (37.40%) Firewall
3 46 (35.11%) LAN
4 36 (27.48%) VPN
5 33 (25.19%) Wireless
6 31 (23.66%) DNS
7 28 (21.37%) DHCP
8 27 (20.61%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (19.85%) BGP
10 20 (15.27%) OSPF
10 20 (15.27%) VLAN
11 17 (12.98%) SD-WAN
12 16 (12.21%) VoIP
13 15 (11.45%) TCP/IP
14 13 (9.92%) MPLS
15 11 (8.40%) Cisco ASA
16 10 (7.63%) EIGRP
17 8 (6.11%) Cisco Nexus
17 8 (6.11%) Network Security
17 8 (6.11%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.82%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (2.29%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.53%) Data Lake
3 2 (1.53%) Neo4j
3 2 (1.53%) Pinecone
3 2 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.76%) MySQL
4 1 (0.76%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (9.16%) JIRA
General
1 30 (22.90%) Social Skills
2 21 (16.03%) Law
3 18 (13.74%) Organisational Skills
4 10 (7.63%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (7.63%) Finance
5 8 (6.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (3.05%) Legal
6 4 (3.05%) Public Sector
7 3 (2.29%) Front Office
7 3 (2.29%) Retail
7 3 (2.29%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.53%) Aerospace
8 2 (1.53%) Automotive
8 2 (1.53%) Health Technology
8 2 (1.53%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.76%) Advertising
9 1 (0.76%) Banking
9 1 (0.76%) Electronics
9 1 (0.76%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 39 (29.77%) IT Support
2 28 (21.37%) IT Engineer
3 21 (16.03%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (16.03%) Senior
4 18 (13.74%) Network Engineer
5 17 (12.98%) 2nd Line Support
6 16 (12.21%) Support Engineer
7 14 (10.69%) IT Support Engineer
8 11 (8.40%) Consultant
9 10 (7.63%) Analyst
10 9 (6.87%) Infrastructure Operations Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
10 9 (6.87%) Operations Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Cisco Consultant
11 8 (6.11%) Cisco Network Consultant
11 8 (6.11%) Field Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) Lead
11 8 (6.11%) Network Consultant
11 8 (6.11%) Senior Network Engineer
11 8 (6.11%) WAN Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (6.11%) REST
2 2 (1.53%) pgvector
3 1 (0.76%) 802.1X
3 1 (0.76%) CSS
3 1 (0.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 17 (12.98%) Driving Licence
2 14 (10.69%) Data Centre
3 11 (8.40%) Social Media
4 8 (6.11%) iPhone
5 4 (3.05%) Replication
6 3 (2.29%) CCTV
7 2 (1.53%) Cloud Native
7 2 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.53%) FMCG
7 2 (1.53%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (1.53%) IoT
7 2 (1.53%) iPad
7 2 (1.53%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.53%) Robotics
8 1 (0.76%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.76%) PKI
8 1 (0.76%) Raspberry Pi
8 1 (0.76%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 56 (42.75%) Windows
2 28 (21.37%) Windows Server
3 13 (9.92%) Mac OS
4 10 (7.63%) Android
5 7 (5.34%) Windows Server 2016
6 6 (4.58%) Windows 10
7 3 (2.29%) Apple iOS
7 3 (2.29%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (1.53%) Linux
9 1 (0.76%) Ubuntu
9 1 (0.76%) VMS
9 1 (0.76%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (27.48%) ITIL
2 31 (23.66%) Customer Service
3 29 (22.14%) Problem-Solving
4 25 (19.08%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 21 (16.03%) Service Delivery
6 19 (14.50%) Disaster Recovery
7 18 (13.74%) Service Management
8 16 (12.21%) Network Management
9 13 (9.92%) Migration
10 12 (9.16%) Cloud Security
10 12 (9.16%) Cybersecurity
10 12 (9.16%) Task Automation
11 10 (7.63%) Network Segmentation
11 10 (7.63%) Proactive Maintenance
11 10 (7.63%) Root Cause Analysis
12 9 (6.87%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (6.87%) Data Migration
12 9 (6.87%) Performance Optimisation
12 9 (6.87%) Roadmaps
13 8 (6.11%) Web Filtering
Programming Languages
1 23 (17.56%) PowerShell
2 17 (12.98%) Python
3 2 (1.53%) SQL
4 1 (0.76%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.76%) PHP
Qualifications
1 34 (25.95%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (16.79%) CCNP
3 19 (14.50%) Degree
3 19 (14.50%) Microsoft Certification
4 15 (11.45%) DBS Check
5 14 (10.69%) CCNA
6 10 (7.63%) SC Cleared
6 10 (7.63%) Security Cleared
7 8 (6.11%) BPSS Clearance
8 7 (5.34%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (3.05%) MCSA
10 3 (2.29%) MCDST
10 3 (2.29%) Microsoft Certified Professional
10 3 (2.29%) Network+ Certification
11 2 (1.53%) CompTIA Security+
12 1 (0.76%) ACSP
12 1 (0.76%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.76%) CCIE Security
12 1 (0.76%) HNC
12 1 (0.76%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (9.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 10 (7.63%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (6.87%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 4 (3.05%) PCI DSS
5 3 (2.29%) GDPR
6 1 (0.76%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.76%) ISO 9001
6 1 (0.76%) SLA
System Software
1 39 (29.77%) Active Directory
2 21 (16.03%) Hyper-V
3 12 (9.16%) VMware Infrastructure
4 3 (2.29%) vSphere
5 2 (1.53%) XenApp
6 1 (0.76%) Firmware
6 1 (0.76%) Virtual Machines
6 1 (0.76%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 31 (23.66%) Microsoft Intune
2 13 (9.92%) Jamf Pro
3 11 (8.40%) FortiGate
4 8 (6.11%) Ansible
5 5 (3.82%) SmoothWall
6 4 (3.05%) Backup Exec
6 4 (3.05%) SCCM
7 3 (2.29%) Proxmox
7 3 (2.29%) VxRail
7 3 (2.29%) WSUS
8 2 (1.53%) Kubernetes
9 1 (0.76%) Autotask
9 1 (0.76%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 100 (76.34%) Cisco
2 60 (45.80%) Microsoft
3 21 (16.03%) Fortinet
4 12 (9.16%) Veeam
4 12 (9.16%) VMware
5 11 (8.40%) HP
6 10 (7.63%) Sophos
7 9 (6.87%) Apple
7 9 (6.87%) Palo Alto
8 8 (6.11%) Ubiquiti
9 7 (5.34%) Aruba
10 6 (4.58%) Google
11 4 (3.05%) CheckPoint
11 4 (3.05%) Synology
12 3 (2.29%) Adobe
12 3 (2.29%) Commvault
12 3 (2.29%) Dell
12 3 (2.29%) Tenable
12 3 (2.29%) WatchGuard
12 3 (2.29%) Zerto