Cisco Engineer Job Trends

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 23 February 2026.

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

6 months to
23 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 584 719
Rank change year-on-year +6 +135 +161
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 83 90 85
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.19% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.20% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 51 77 77
10th Percentile £46,250 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £45,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £71,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.07% +19.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £61,750 £76,250 £77,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £92,750 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +22.22% -10.00%

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 62,963 43,992 71,553
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.36% 91.41% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 39,692 23,186 55,777
10th Percentile £29,000 £32,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £45,000 £39,268
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

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 23 February 2026.

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 23 February 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 +15 83 £50,000 -31.03% 18
London +18 44 £74,000 - 12
UK excluding London +22 39 £50,000 -9.09% 11
North West +25 20 £50,000 -
North of England -2 20 £50,000 -
Work from Home +20 18 £80,000 +9.59% 7
West Midlands +18 9 £55,500 +5.71% 1
South East +4 9 £37,500 -31.82% 6
Midlands -1 9 £55,500 -14.62% 1
South West - 1 £47,500 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 23 February 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 83 (100.00%) Cisco
2 72 (86.75%) Firewall
3 58 (69.88%) WAN
4 51 (61.45%) LAN
5 50 (60.24%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (55.42%) Fortinet
7 36 (43.37%) CCNA
8 33 (39.76%) Azure
9 31 (37.35%) CCNP
10 29 (34.94%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (33.73%) AWS
12 24 (28.92%) CheckPoint
12 24 (28.92%) Cisco ASA
12 24 (28.92%) Cisco Firepower
12 24 (28.92%) Juniper
12 24 (28.92%) Meraki
12 24 (28.92%) SD-WAN
13 21 (25.30%) Aruba
13 21 (25.30%) BGP
13 21 (25.30%) High Availability
14 20 (24.10%) Presales
15 19 (22.89%) FortiGate
15 19 (22.89%) JNCIA
15 19 (22.89%) SolarWinds
16 17 (20.48%) Degree
16 17 (20.48%) OSPF
17 16 (19.28%) VPN
18 15 (18.07%) CCIE
18 15 (18.07%) Cisco ISE
18 15 (18.07%) Computer Science

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:

Cloud Services
1 33 (39.76%) Azure
2 28 (33.73%) AWS
3 10 (12.05%) AWS Direct Connect
4 9 (10.84%) SaaS
4 9 (10.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.61%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 2 (2.41%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.20%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 72 (86.75%) Firewall
2 58 (69.88%) WAN
3 51 (61.45%) LAN
4 29 (34.94%) Wi-Fi
5 24 (28.92%) Cisco ASA
5 24 (28.92%) Cisco Firepower
5 24 (28.92%) SD-WAN
6 21 (25.30%) BGP
7 17 (20.48%) OSPF
8 16 (19.28%) VPN
9 15 (18.07%) Cisco ISE
10 14 (16.87%) MPLS
11 13 (15.66%) IPsec
12 9 (10.84%) NetScaler
12 9 (10.84%) NX-OS
12 9 (10.84%) VXLAN
12 9 (10.84%) WLAN
13 8 (9.64%) Network Security
14 7 (8.43%) VLAN
15 6 (7.23%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 4 (4.82%) Git
General
1 32 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 20 (24.10%) Presentation Skills
3 15 (18.07%) Finance
4 7 (8.43%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.82%) Retail
6 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.61%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.41%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.20%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) Jinja
1 3 (3.61%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.61%) YANG
2 1 (1.20%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 25 (30.12%) Data Centre
2 14 (16.87%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (12.05%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.61%) Social Media
5 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.20%) e-Health
6 1 (1.20%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.20%) Linux
1 1 (1.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (1.20%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (25.30%) High Availability
2 20 (24.10%) Presales
3 15 (18.07%) Computer Science
4 14 (16.87%) Process Improvement
5 13 (15.66%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (13.25%) Network Segmentation
8 9 (10.84%) Cloud Security
8 9 (10.84%) Kalman Filter
8 9 (10.84%) Runbook
8 9 (10.84%) Zero Trust
9 6 (7.23%) Migration
10 4 (4.82%) Agile
10 4 (4.82%) Network Design
10 4 (4.82%) Service Delivery
11 3 (3.61%) Collaborative Working
11 3 (3.61%) Data Science
11 3 (3.61%) Infrastructure as Code
11 3 (3.61%) Network Monitoring
11 3 (3.61%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 50 (60.24%) Cisco Certification
2 36 (43.37%) CCNA
3 31 (37.35%) CCNP
4 19 (22.89%) JNCIA
5 17 (20.48%) Degree
6 15 (18.07%) CCIE
7 14 (16.87%) CCSA
7 14 (16.87%) CCSE
7 14 (16.87%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (10.84%) SC Cleared
8 9 (10.84%) Security Cleared
9 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.20%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.20%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.61%) NIST
2 2 (2.41%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (3.61%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.41%) Firmware
3 1 (1.20%) NFS
3 1 (1.20%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (22.89%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.61%) Terraform
3 2 (2.41%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (2.41%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.20%) Ansible
4 1 (1.20%) CA Spectrum
4 1 (1.20%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 83 (100.00%) Cisco
2 46 (55.42%) Fortinet
3 24 (28.92%) CheckPoint
3 24 (28.92%) Juniper
3 24 (28.92%) Meraki
4 21 (25.30%) Aruba
5 19 (22.89%) SolarWinds
6 12 (14.46%) Dynatrace
6 12 (14.46%) ServiceNow
7 8 (9.64%) Palo Alto
8 4 (4.82%) Draytek
8 4 (4.82%) Microsoft
8 4 (4.82%) Sophos
9 3 (3.61%) VMware
9 3 (3.61%) Zscaler
10 2 (2.41%) Dell
10 2 (2.41%) F5
11 1 (1.20%) Commvault
11 1 (1.20%) Ekahau
11 1 (1.20%) Red Hat