Cisco Consultant Job Trends

Cisco Consultant
UK

The median Cisco Consultant salary in the UK is £75,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 December 2025.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 629 678 706
Rank change year-on-year +49 +28 +313
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Consultant 18 36 7
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.030% 0.065% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.070% 0.014%
Number of salaries quoted 18 24 7
10th Percentile - £45,000 -
25th Percentile £65,000 £53,125 £62,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £80,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +23.08% -3.70%
75th Percentile £77,500 £81,250 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,750 £88,500 £79,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £75,000 £60,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +25.00% -20.00% +15.38%

All Permanent IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 53,639 51,608 49,016
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.46% 93.39% 95.25%
Number of salaries quoted 33,031 27,303 37,879
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,173 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,671 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £77,715
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Cisco Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cisco Consultant' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Consultant job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Consultant
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Cisco Consultant job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Cisco Consultant job vacancies in the UK

Cisco Consultant
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Consultant over the 6 months to 30 December 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco Consultant in the UK

Cisco Consultant
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 30 December 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
England +48 18 £75,000 -6.25% 3
London +54 11 £70,000 -17.65%
UK excluding London +38 5 £75,000 +25.00% 3
South East +23 5 £75,000 +50.00% 3
Work from Home +55 2 £71,250 -10.94% 1

Cisco Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 30 December 2025, Cisco Consultant job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cisco Consultant in the job title.

1 18 (100.00%) Cisco
2 17 (94.44%) CCNP
2 17 (94.44%) Cisco Certification
2 17 (94.44%) Firewall
3 15 (83.33%) Wireless
4 13 (72.22%) Meraki
5 8 (44.44%) Ansible
5 8 (44.44%) LAN
5 8 (44.44%) Migration
6 7 (38.89%) BGP
6 7 (38.89%) Cisco Wireless
6 7 (38.89%) Fortinet
6 7 (38.89%) OSPF
6 7 (38.89%) SD-WAN
6 7 (38.89%) VLAN
6 7 (38.89%) VXLAN
7 6 (33.33%) FortiGate
7 6 (33.33%) MPLS
7 6 (33.33%) Network Management
7 6 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
7 6 (33.33%) Python
7 6 (33.33%) REST
7 6 (33.33%) VPN
7 6 (33.33%) WAN
8 4 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
9 3 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
9 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
10 2 (11.11%) AlgoSec
10 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
10 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint

Cisco Consultant Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 17 (94.44%) Firewall
2 15 (83.33%) Wireless
3 8 (44.44%) LAN
4 7 (38.89%) BGP
4 7 (38.89%) Cisco Wireless
4 7 (38.89%) OSPF
4 7 (38.89%) SD-WAN
4 7 (38.89%) VLAN
4 7 (38.89%) VXLAN
5 6 (33.33%) MPLS
5 6 (33.33%) VPN
5 6 (33.33%) WAN
6 4 (22.22%) Cisco ASA
7 3 (16.67%) Cisco Firepower
7 3 (16.67%) Cisco Nexus
8 2 (11.11%) Software-Defined Networking
9 1 (5.56%) BIG-IP
9 1 (5.56%) DNS
9 1 (5.56%) IGMP
9 1 (5.56%) Spanning Tree
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 2 (11.11%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 9 (50.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Migration
2 6 (33.33%) Network Management
2 6 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
3 2 (11.11%) Business Continuity
3 2 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (11.11%) ITIL
3 2 (11.11%) Problem Management
3 2 (11.11%) Service Delivery
3 2 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (5.56%) Load Balancing
4 1 (5.56%) Network Monitoring
4 1 (5.56%) Presales
4 1 (5.56%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (33.33%) Python
Qualifications
1 17 (94.44%) CCNP
1 17 (94.44%) Cisco Certification
2 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 8 (44.44%) Ansible
2 6 (33.33%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 18 (100.00%) Cisco
2 13 (72.22%) Meraki
3 7 (38.89%) Fortinet
4 2 (11.11%) AlgoSec
4 2 (11.11%) CheckPoint
5 1 (5.56%) F5
5 1 (5.56%) Infoblox