Cisco Engineer Job Trends

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 14 August 2026.

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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 715 620 709
Rank change year-on-year -95 +89 -59
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 80 58 99
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.075% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.080% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 71 36 89
10th Percentile £51,250 £32,500 £40,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £41,875 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +10.00% -14.89%
75th Percentile £81,000 £65,313 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,900
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,750 £49,000
% change year-on-year +6.28% +5.61% -10.91%

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 100,001 44,901 79,174
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.04% 89.94% 95.02%
Number of salaries quoted 68,291 26,543 52,845
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £56,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.82% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £48,122 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.10% -3.76% -6.54%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Cisco Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Salary distribution trend for Cisco Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 14 August 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 11 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 14 August 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
England -47 79 £60,000 +10.60% 17
London -29 52 £65,000 -4.41% 9
UK excluding London -95 28 £55,000 +6.28% 11
Work from Home -20 23 £60,000 -7.69% 6
North of England - 11 £57,500 - 4
North West - 11 £57,500 - 3
West Midlands -19 9 £55,000 - 1
Midlands -22 9 £55,000 -15.38% 3
South East -36 6 £60,000 +60.00% 1
South West -66 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 2026, Cisco Engineer 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 Engineer in the job title.

1 80 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (50.00%) Firewall
3 34 (42.50%) Azure
4 31 (38.75%) Meraki
5 27 (33.75%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (32.50%) LAN
6 26 (32.50%) Network Security
7 25 (31.25%) WAN
8 23 (28.75%) CCNP
9 22 (27.50%) VPN
10 21 (26.25%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (18.75%) Zscaler
12 14 (17.50%) BGP
12 14 (17.50%) HP
12 14 (17.50%) OSPF
12 14 (17.50%) SD-WAN
13 13 (16.25%) CCNA
14 12 (15.00%) Aruba
14 12 (15.00%) Degree
14 12 (15.00%) Incident Response
14 12 (15.00%) Juniper
14 12 (15.00%) Wireless
15 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
15 11 (13.75%) Microsoft 365
15 11 (13.75%) Network Design
16 10 (12.50%) Network Architecture
16 10 (12.50%) SolarWinds
17 9 (11.25%) Azure Certification
17 9 (11.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 9 (11.25%) Network Monitoring

Cisco Engineer 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 34 (42.50%) Azure
2 11 (13.75%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (10.00%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 8 (10.00%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (7.50%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.00%) AWS
6 2 (2.50%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.25%) AWS Direct Connect
7 1 (1.25%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.25%) GCP
7 1 (1.25%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.25%) SaaS
7 1 (1.25%) Tessian
7 1 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 40 (50.00%) Firewall
2 26 (32.50%) LAN
2 26 (32.50%) Network Security
3 25 (31.25%) WAN
4 22 (27.50%) VPN
5 21 (26.25%) Wi-Fi
6 14 (17.50%) BGP
6 14 (17.50%) OSPF
6 14 (17.50%) SD-WAN
7 12 (15.00%) Wireless
8 8 (10.00%) EIGRP
9 6 (7.50%) Cisco Nexus
9 6 (7.50%) Unified Communications
10 5 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
10 5 (6.25%) VXLAN
11 4 (5.00%) MPLS
11 4 (5.00%) NX-OS
12 3 (3.75%) Cisco ASA
12 3 (3.75%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (3.75%) Multicast
Development Applications
1 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.25%) Git
General
1 8 (10.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.50%) Telecoms
3 5 (6.25%) Finance
3 5 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (3.75%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.50%) Legal
5 2 (2.50%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.25%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.25%) Jinja
1 1 (1.25%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.50%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.25%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.25%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.25%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.25%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.00%) Linux
1 4 (5.00%) Windows
1 4 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.00%) Incident Response
2 11 (13.75%) Network Design
3 10 (12.50%) Network Architecture
4 9 (11.25%) Network Monitoring
4 9 (11.25%) Network Segmentation
5 8 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 8 (10.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 6 (7.50%) Cybersecurity
7 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (6.25%) Presales
7 5 (6.25%) Runbook
8 4 (5.00%) Information Management
8 4 (5.00%) Project Delivery
9 3 (3.75%) Asset Management
9 3 (3.75%) Identity Access Management
9 3 (3.75%) IT Asset Management
9 3 (3.75%) Security Operations
9 3 (3.75%) Statistics
9 3 (3.75%) Validation
9 3 (3.75%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.75%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (33.75%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (28.75%) CCNP
3 13 (16.25%) CCNA
4 12 (15.00%) Degree
5 9 (11.25%) Azure Certification
6 7 (8.75%) DBS Check
7 6 (7.50%) CCIE
8 4 (5.00%) Security Cleared
9 3 (3.75%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.50%) CCIE Data Center
11 1 (1.25%) CCIE Service Provider
11 1 (1.25%) CCIP
11 1 (1.25%) CCSA
11 1 (1.25%) CCSE
11 1 (1.25%) CISSP
11 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (1.25%) CREST Certified
11 1 (1.25%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.25%) Network+ Certification
11 1 (1.25%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (11.25%) NIST
2 8 (10.00%) GDPR
3 1 (1.25%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (7.50%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 8 (10.00%) Cisco Prime
2 5 (6.25%) FortiGate
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (5.00%) Ansible
4 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 80 (100.00%) Cisco
2 31 (38.75%) Meraki
3 15 (18.75%) Zscaler
4 14 (17.50%) HP
5 12 (15.00%) Aruba
5 12 (15.00%) Juniper
6 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
7 10 (12.50%) SolarWinds
8 6 (7.50%) Fortinet
9 5 (6.25%) Palo Alto
9 5 (6.25%) VMware
10 3 (3.75%) Arista
10 3 (3.75%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.25%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.25%) Dynatrace
11 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
11 1 (1.25%) SonicWALL
11 1 (1.25%) Veeam