Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £50,650 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 815 845 1025
Rank change year-on-year +30 +180 -283
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 81 125 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.083% 0.12% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.13% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 76 102 159
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,000 £31,765
25th Percentile £41,250 £41,488 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,650 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £75,000 £77,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -13.27% -6.67% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 92,756 95,826 148,057
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.61% 91.56% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 66,592 60,202 85,221
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,550 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.42% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +5.26%

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 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 12 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 27 April 2024. 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 +78 75 £50,000 -9.09% 10
UK excluding London +7 46 £42,500 -13.27% 7
Work from Home +76 30 £55,000 -4.35% 5
London +102 29 £75,000 +7.14% 3
North of England +47 20 £40,000 -32.20% 3
West Midlands +43 19 £49,000 +19.44%
Midlands +21 19 £49,000 +15.84%
North West +18 14 £40,000 -32.20% 1
Yorkshire +85 6 £35,000 -49.09% 2
South East +19 5 £55,000 +22.22% 2
East of England +13 1 £50,000 -4.76%
South West -3 1 £54,000 +13.68% 2

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

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, 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 81 (100.00%) Cisco
2 42 (51.85%) WAN
3 41 (50.62%) Firewall
4 39 (48.15%) Cisco Certification
5 33 (40.74%) LAN
6 31 (38.27%) TCP/IP
7 28 (34.57%) CCNA
7 28 (34.57%) MPLS
8 26 (32.10%) Juniper
9 24 (29.63%) BGP
10 22 (27.16%) Palo Alto
11 21 (25.93%) Finance
11 21 (25.93%) OSPF
12 19 (23.46%) SD-WAN
12 19 (23.46%) Wireless
13 18 (22.22%) DHCP
14 17 (20.99%) VMware
14 17 (20.99%) Fortinet
14 17 (20.99%) AWS
14 17 (20.99%) DevOps
15 16 (19.75%) Ethernet
15 16 (19.75%) CheckPoint
16 15 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
16 15 (18.52%) JNCIA
16 15 (18.52%) Data Centre
17 14 (17.28%) Internet
17 14 (17.28%) Disaster Recovery
18 13 (16.05%) DSL
18 13 (16.05%) Nokia
18 13 (16.05%) VPN

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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (8.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (13.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.94%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.94%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (20.99%) AWS
2 9 (11.11%) Azure
3 6 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.23%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.23%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.23%) GitHub
4 1 (1.23%) IaaS
4 1 (1.23%) PaaS
4 1 (1.23%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 42 (51.85%) WAN
2 41 (50.62%) Firewall
3 33 (40.74%) LAN
4 31 (38.27%) TCP/IP
5 28 (34.57%) MPLS
6 24 (29.63%) BGP
7 21 (25.93%) OSPF
8 19 (23.46%) SD-WAN
8 19 (23.46%) Wireless
9 18 (22.22%) DHCP
10 16 (19.75%) Ethernet
11 15 (18.52%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (17.28%) Internet
13 13 (16.05%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (16.05%) DSL
13 13 (16.05%) Network Security
13 13 (16.05%) VPN
14 11 (13.58%) Cisco ISE
15 7 (8.64%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (8.64%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.47%) JIRA
1 2 (2.47%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 21 (25.93%) Finance
2 11 (13.58%) Social Skills
3 4 (4.94%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (4.94%) Law
4 3 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.47%) Banking
5 2 (2.47%) Front Office
5 2 (2.47%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.47%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.64%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 15 (18.52%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.35%) Hedge funds
3 7 (8.64%) PKI
4 4 (4.94%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.47%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.47%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.47%) FlexPod
5 2 (2.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.47%) Replication
6 1 (1.23%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.05%) VyOS
2 9 (11.11%) Windows
2 9 (11.11%) Windows Server
3 4 (4.94%) Windows 10
3 4 (4.94%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (20.99%) DevOps
2 14 (17.28%) Disaster Recovery
3 13 (16.05%) Customer Service
4 12 (14.81%) Network Monitoring
5 10 (12.35%) Change Management
6 9 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (11.11%) Migration
7 8 (9.88%) Change Control
8 6 (7.41%) Network Design
9 5 (6.17%) ITIL
9 5 (6.17%) Problem-Solving
9 5 (6.17%) Zero Trust
10 4 (4.94%) Business Continuity
10 4 (4.94%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (4.94%) Load Balancing
10 4 (4.94%) Process Improvement
10 4 (4.94%) Project Management
10 4 (4.94%) Roadmaps
10 4 (4.94%) Software Deployment
10 4 (4.94%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.05%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.64%) C#
2 7 (8.64%) SQL
3 5 (6.17%) Bash
Qualifications
1 39 (48.15%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (34.57%) CCNA
3 15 (18.52%) JNCIA
4 8 (9.88%) CCNP
5 7 (8.64%) CCIE
6 3 (3.70%) SC Cleared
6 3 (3.70%) Security Cleared
7 2 (2.47%) JNCIP
8 1 (1.23%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.23%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (8.64%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.94%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.47%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.47%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.23%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (11.11%) Terraform
2 8 (9.88%) Cisco CUCM
3 7 (8.64%) Stealthwatch
4 2 (2.47%) Ansible
4 2 (2.47%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.23%) Kubernetes
5 1 (1.23%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 81 (100.00%) Cisco
2 26 (32.10%) Juniper
3 22 (27.16%) Palo Alto
4 17 (20.99%) Fortinet
4 17 (20.99%) VMware
5 16 (19.75%) CheckPoint
6 13 (16.05%) Nokia
6 13 (16.05%) Ruckus Wireless
6 13 (16.05%) Vyatta
7 12 (14.81%) Microsoft
8 9 (11.11%) F5
8 9 (11.11%) SolarWinds
9 7 (8.64%) Splunk
10 4 (4.94%) Meraki
10 4 (4.94%) Remedy
10 4 (4.94%) Salesforce
11 3 (3.70%) NetApp
12 2 (2.47%) Zscaler
13 1 (1.23%) Citrix
13 1 (1.23%) Commvault