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 3 March 2026.

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

6 months to
3 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 589 738
Rank change year-on-year +1 +149 +157
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 86 82 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.20% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 55 70 75
10th Percentile £46,750 £49,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £55,000 £45,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £71,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.07% +30.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £76,250
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +15.79% -5.00%

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 64,631 41,533 74,664
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.51% 91.12% 94.69%
Number of salaries quoted 40,860 22,616 57,810
10th Percentile £29,500 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £39,073
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 £73,250
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% -5.25%

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 3 March 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 3 March 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 +7 86 £50,000 -30.56% 13
London +24 48 £75,000 - 7
UK excluding London +8 38 £50,000 -9.09% 10
North West +23 20 £50,000 - 1
North of England -15 20 £50,000 - 1
Work from Home +5 17 £80,000 +9.59% 6
South East -12 9 £37,500 -29.58% 5
West Midlands +26 8 £55,500 +5.71% 1
Midlands -17 8 £55,500 -14.62% 1
South West - 1 £47,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 3 March 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 86 (100.00%) Cisco
2 74 (86.05%) Firewall
3 59 (68.60%) WAN
4 52 (60.47%) Cisco Certification
5 50 (58.14%) LAN
6 46 (53.49%) Fortinet
7 38 (44.19%) CCNA
8 37 (43.02%) Azure
9 33 (38.37%) CCNP
10 31 (36.05%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (32.56%) AWS
11 28 (32.56%) Meraki
12 26 (30.23%) SD-WAN
13 24 (27.91%) CheckPoint
13 24 (27.91%) Cisco ASA
13 24 (27.91%) Cisco Firepower
13 24 (27.91%) Juniper
14 22 (25.58%) Aruba
15 21 (24.42%) High Availability
15 21 (24.42%) Presales
15 21 (24.42%) SolarWinds
16 20 (23.26%) BGP
17 19 (22.09%) Degree
17 19 (22.09%) FortiGate
17 19 (22.09%) JNCIA
18 17 (19.77%) OSPF
18 17 (19.77%) VPN
19 15 (17.44%) CCIE
19 15 (17.44%) Cisco ISE
19 15 (17.44%) 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 37 (43.02%) Azure
2 28 (32.56%) AWS
3 10 (11.63%) AWS Direct Connect
4 9 (10.47%) SaaS
4 9 (10.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (5.81%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (4.65%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (86.05%) Firewall
2 59 (68.60%) WAN
3 50 (58.14%) LAN
4 31 (36.05%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (30.23%) SD-WAN
6 24 (27.91%) Cisco ASA
6 24 (27.91%) Cisco Firepower
7 20 (23.26%) BGP
8 17 (19.77%) OSPF
8 17 (19.77%) VPN
9 15 (17.44%) Cisco ISE
10 13 (15.12%) MPLS
11 12 (13.95%) IPsec
12 11 (12.79%) Network Security
13 9 (10.47%) NetScaler
13 9 (10.47%) NX-OS
13 9 (10.47%) VXLAN
13 9 (10.47%) WLAN
14 7 (8.14%) VLAN
15 6 (6.98%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Git
General
1 33 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.42%) Presentation Skills
3 14 (16.28%) Finance
4 7 (8.14%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.65%) Retail
6 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.49%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.33%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.49%) Jinja
1 3 (3.49%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.49%) YANG
2 1 (1.16%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 25 (29.07%) Data Centre
2 14 (16.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (10.47%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.49%) Social Media
5 2 (2.33%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.16%) e-Health
6 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (24.42%) High Availability
1 21 (24.42%) Presales
2 15 (17.44%) Computer Science
3 14 (16.28%) Process Improvement
4 13 (15.12%) Network Segmentation
4 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (10.47%) Cloud Security
6 9 (10.47%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (10.47%) Runbook
6 9 (10.47%) Zero Trust
7 6 (6.98%) Migration
8 5 (5.81%) Network Monitoring
9 4 (4.65%) Incident Response
9 4 (4.65%) Network Architecture
9 4 (4.65%) Network Design
9 4 (4.65%) Service Delivery
9 4 (4.65%) Vulnerability Assessment
10 3 (3.49%) Agile
10 3 (3.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.49%) Python
Qualifications
1 52 (60.47%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (44.19%) CCNA
3 33 (38.37%) CCNP
4 19 (22.09%) Degree
4 19 (22.09%) JNCIA
5 15 (17.44%) CCIE
6 14 (16.28%) CCSA
6 14 (16.28%) CCSE
6 14 (16.28%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (9.30%) SC Cleared
7 8 (9.30%) Security Cleared
8 7 (8.14%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (5.81%) NIST
2 4 (4.65%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Firmware
1 2 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 19 (22.09%) FortiGate
2 4 (4.65%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (2.33%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (2.33%) Terraform
4 1 (1.16%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 86 (100.00%) Cisco
2 46 (53.49%) Fortinet
3 28 (32.56%) Meraki
4 24 (27.91%) CheckPoint
4 24 (27.91%) Juniper
5 22 (25.58%) Aruba
6 21 (24.42%) SolarWinds
7 12 (13.95%) Dynatrace
7 12 (13.95%) ServiceNow
8 8 (9.30%) Palo Alto
9 4 (4.65%) Draytek
9 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
9 4 (4.65%) Sophos
10 3 (3.49%) Zscaler
11 2 (2.33%) Dell
11 2 (2.33%) F5
11 2 (2.33%) VMware
12 1 (1.16%) Ekahau