Cisco Engineer Jobs

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 July 2025.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 679 804 775
Rank change year-on-year +125 -29 +280
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 54 99 135
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.091% 0.093% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.098% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 37 92 124
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £45,000 £44,938
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £49,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +22.45% -6.67% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,063 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,548
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £45,000 £51,743
% change year-on-year +22.22% -13.03% -1.44%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 53,646 100,958 81,022
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.91% 94.82% 91.25%
Number of salaries quoted 29,258 71,135 54,610
10th Percentile £27,500 £28,573 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,750 £44,180
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,708 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £53,000
% change year-on-year - -5.66% +4.74%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco Engineer.

Salary trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 6 July 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 +114 52 £60,000 +22.45% 31
London +108 27 £61,000 -12.86% 16
UK excluding London +135 23 £55,000 +22.22% 16
Work from Home +111 16 £62,500 -3.85% 12
South East +63 9 £35,000 -36.36% 9
Midlands +77 8 £65,000 +32.65% 5
East Midlands - 7 £65,000 - 1
South West +102 5 £65,000 +44.44% 1
West Midlands +59 1 £90,000 +83.67% 4
East of England +30 1 £55,000 +22.22%

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Cisco 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 featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 54 (100.00%) Cisco
2 37 (68.52%) Firewall
3 32 (59.26%) WAN
4 30 (55.56%) LAN
5 28 (51.85%) Fortinet
6 26 (48.15%) Cisco Certification
7 25 (46.30%) Azure
8 23 (42.59%) Meraki
9 22 (40.74%) BGP
10 21 (38.89%) VPN
11 20 (37.04%) SD-WAN
12 19 (35.19%) OSPF
13 18 (33.33%) Data Centre
14 17 (31.48%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (31.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
15 16 (29.63%) Microsoft
15 16 (29.63%) CCNP
16 15 (27.78%) CCNA
16 15 (27.78%) Palo Alto
17 14 (25.93%) Wi-Fi
17 14 (25.93%) MPLS
18 13 (24.07%) Change Management
19 12 (22.22%) CCIE
19 12 (22.22%) CheckPoint
19 12 (22.22%) AWS
19 12 (22.22%) SolarWinds
19 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
20 11 (20.37%) Ansible
20 11 (20.37%) Process Improvement
20 11 (20.37%) Cisco ASA

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (9.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (3.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 25 (46.30%) Azure
2 12 (22.22%) AWS
3 9 (16.67%) AWS Direct Connect
4 8 (14.81%) GitHub
5 5 (9.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.70%) IaaS
6 2 (3.70%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 37 (68.52%) Firewall
2 32 (59.26%) WAN
3 30 (55.56%) LAN
4 22 (40.74%) BGP
5 21 (38.89%) VPN
6 20 (37.04%) SD-WAN
7 19 (35.19%) OSPF
8 17 (31.48%) Cisco Firepower
9 14 (25.93%) MPLS
9 14 (25.93%) Wi-Fi
10 11 (20.37%) Cisco ASA
11 10 (18.52%) Cisco ISE
11 10 (18.52%) IPsec
11 10 (18.52%) Network Security
11 10 (18.52%) WLAN
12 9 (16.67%) NX-OS
12 9 (16.67%) VXLAN
13 6 (11.11%) TCP/IP
14 5 (9.26%) NetScaler
14 5 (9.26%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 8 (14.81%) Git
2 3 (5.56%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) Robot Framework
General
1 12 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.96%) Finance
3 3 (5.56%) Advertising
3 3 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.70%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.70%) YAML
2 1 (1.85%) 802.1X
2 1 (1.85%) Jinja
2 1 (1.85%) JSON
2 1 (1.85%) OpenConfig
2 1 (1.85%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 9 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.41%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (3.70%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.70%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.85%) NHS
5 1 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Windows
2 8 (14.81%) Linux
2 8 (14.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (11.11%) Windows Server
4 4 (7.41%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (31.48%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 13 (24.07%) Change Management
3 11 (20.37%) Process Improvement
4 10 (18.52%) DevOps
5 9 (16.67%) Network Segmentation
5 9 (16.67%) Presales
6 8 (14.81%) Incident Response
7 7 (12.96%) Infrastructure as Code
7 7 (12.96%) Zero Trust
8 6 (11.11%) Network Architecture
9 5 (9.26%) Cloud Security
9 5 (9.26%) Kalman Filter
10 4 (7.41%) Containerisation
10 4 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.41%) Disaster Recovery
10 4 (7.41%) ITIL
10 4 (7.41%) Network Design
10 4 (7.41%) Root Cause Analysis
10 4 (7.41%) Runbook
11 3 (5.56%) Capacity Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (48.15%) Cisco Certification
2 16 (29.63%) CCNP
3 15 (27.78%) CCNA
4 12 (22.22%) CCIE
5 5 (9.26%) Degree
5 5 (9.26%) Security Cleared
6 4 (7.41%) AWS Certification
6 4 (7.41%) CCSA
6 4 (7.41%) CCSE
6 4 (7.41%) Network+ Certification
6 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
7 3 (5.56%) DV Cleared
8 2 (3.70%) Azure Certification
8 2 (3.70%) CCDA
8 2 (3.70%) CCDP
9 1 (1.85%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (14.81%) NFS
3 5 (9.26%) Firmware
4 4 (7.41%) vSphere
5 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Ansible
2 9 (16.67%) Terraform
3 8 (14.81%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.56%) Cisco CUCM
4 3 (5.56%) FortiGate
5 2 (3.70%) CASB
5 2 (3.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 54 (100.00%) Cisco
2 28 (51.85%) Fortinet
3 23 (42.59%) Meraki
4 16 (29.63%) Microsoft
5 15 (27.78%) Palo Alto
6 12 (22.22%) CheckPoint
6 12 (22.22%) SolarWinds
7 11 (20.37%) Juniper
7 11 (20.37%) VMware
8 9 (16.67%) Dynatrace
8 9 (16.67%) HP
9 8 (14.81%) Commvault
10 7 (12.96%) Aruba
11 5 (9.26%) Infoblox
12 4 (7.41%) Citrix
12 4 (7.41%) Pure Storage
12 4 (7.41%) Red Hat
12 4 (7.41%) ServiceNow
13 2 (3.70%) Ekahau
13 2 (3.70%) Extreme Networks