Cisco Engineer Job Trends

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £55,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 7 November 2025.

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

6 months to
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 602 609 599
Rank change year-on-year +7 -10 +341
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 64 133 138
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 37 117 126
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,250 £46,638
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -8.80% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £82,548
90th Percentile £78,500 £77,250 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%

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 45,700 64,689 50,755
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.10% 95.04% 95.50%
Number of salaries quoted 28,478 36,679 39,389
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,500
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,219 £42,631
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 7 November 2025.

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 7 November 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 64 £55,000 -8.33% 36
London +18 36 £60,500 -17.12% 16
UK excluding London +25 28 £52,500 -4.55% 28
Work from Home +21 15 £65,000 -3.70% 26
South East +22 13 £37,500 -37.50% 18
Midlands +59 10 £55,500 +0.91%
West Midlands - 10 £55,500 -
South West +32 3 £65,000 +44.44% 1
East of England +23 1 £55,000 +22.22%
North West +20 1 £50,000 - 9
North of England +13 1 £50,000 - 9

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

For the 6 months to 7 November 2025, 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 64 (100.00%) Cisco
2 50 (78.13%) Firewall
3 34 (53.13%) WAN
4 29 (45.31%) LAN
5 26 (40.63%) Azure
5 26 (40.63%) Cisco Certification
6 23 (35.94%) CCNP
7 22 (34.38%) DevOps
7 22 (34.38%) Meraki
8 21 (32.81%) VMware
8 21 (32.81%) VMware Infrastructure
9 20 (31.25%) Terraform
10 18 (28.13%) Ansible
10 18 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
11 17 (26.56%) Commvault
11 17 (26.56%) Git
11 17 (26.56%) GitHub
11 17 (26.56%) Kubernetes
11 17 (26.56%) Linux
11 17 (26.56%) NFS
11 17 (26.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 14 (21.88%) Fortinet
12 14 (21.88%) SD-WAN
12 14 (21.88%) Windows
13 13 (20.31%) AWS
13 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
13 13 (20.31%) Root Cause Analysis
14 12 (18.75%) High Availability
14 12 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
14 12 (18.75%) SolarWinds

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 1 (1.56%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (40.63%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) GitHub
3 13 (20.31%) AWS
4 4 (6.25%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.69%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.13%) IaaS
6 2 (3.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.56%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 50 (78.13%) Firewall
2 34 (53.13%) WAN
3 29 (45.31%) LAN
4 14 (21.88%) SD-WAN
5 12 (18.75%) VPN
6 10 (15.63%) Fibre Channel
6 10 (15.63%) TCP/IP
6 10 (15.63%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (14.06%) BGP
7 9 (14.06%) Cisco ASA
7 9 (14.06%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (12.50%) Network Security
8 8 (12.50%) OSPF
9 7 (10.94%) IPsec
9 7 (10.94%) MPLS
9 7 (10.94%) VLAN
10 6 (9.38%) Wireless
11 4 (6.25%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (6.25%) DHCP
11 4 (6.25%) DNS
Development Applications
1 17 (26.56%) Git
2 1 (1.56%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (23.44%) Finance
2 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
4 4 (6.25%) Retail
5 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Law
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.56%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.56%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) Data Centre
2 9 (14.06%) Management Information System
3 7 (10.94%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.69%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.69%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.56%) e-Health
6 1 (1.56%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.56%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.56%) Linux
1 17 (26.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 14 (21.88%) Windows
3 9 (14.06%) Windows Server
4 7 (10.94%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (34.38%) DevOps
2 18 (28.13%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (20.31%) Root Cause Analysis
4 12 (18.75%) High Availability
4 12 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (15.63%) Containerisation
5 10 (15.63%) ITIL
6 9 (14.06%) Incident Response
6 9 (14.06%) Process Improvement
7 8 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.38%) Computer Science
10 5 (7.81%) Change Management
10 5 (7.81%) Mentoring
10 5 (7.81%) Migration
10 5 (7.81%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (7.81%) Service Delivery
11 3 (4.69%) Collaborative Working
11 3 (4.69%) Network Segmentation
11 3 (4.69%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (40.63%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (35.94%) CCNP
3 11 (17.19%) CCNA
4 8 (12.50%) CCIE
4 8 (12.50%) Degree
4 8 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 8 (12.50%) Security Cleared
5 7 (10.94%) CCSA
5 7 (10.94%) CCSE
6 6 (9.38%) Azure Certification
7 5 (7.81%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
9 2 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.56%) CCDA
10 1 (1.56%) CCDP
10 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.56%) JNCIA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (32.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (26.56%) NFS
3 10 (15.63%) vSphere
4 4 (6.25%) Firmware
5 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (31.25%) Terraform
2 18 (28.13%) Ansible
3 17 (26.56%) Kubernetes
4 9 (14.06%) FortiGate
5 3 (4.69%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.56%) CA Spectrum
6 1 (1.56%) CASB
6 1 (1.56%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.56%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 64 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (34.38%) Meraki
3 21 (32.81%) VMware
4 17 (26.56%) Commvault
5 14 (21.88%) Fortinet
6 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
7 12 (18.75%) SolarWinds
8 10 (15.63%) Pure Storage
8 10 (15.63%) Red Hat
9 9 (14.06%) Draytek
9 9 (14.06%) Sophos
10 8 (12.50%) CheckPoint
11 5 (7.81%) Dynatrace
11 5 (7.81%) Juniper
11 5 (7.81%) Palo Alto
12 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow
12 4 (6.25%) Zscaler
13 3 (4.69%) Dell
13 3 (4.69%) Forcepoint
14 2 (3.13%) Aruba