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 27 February 2026.

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

6 months to
27 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 584 596 715
Rank change year-on-year +12 +119 +179
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 86 88 83
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 54 75 76
10th Percentile £46,625 £50,000 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £45,650
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £71,500 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year -30.07% +16.73% +6.52%
75th Percentile £66,250 £76,250 £77,813
90th Percentile £80,000 £93,500 £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 63,755 43,253 71,453
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.42% 91.31% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 40,200 23,124 55,563
10th Percentile £29,250 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £37,674 £45,000 £39,302
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 27 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 27 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 86 £50,000 -31.03% 13
London +24 47 £74,000 - 7
UK excluding London +8 39 £50,000 -9.09% 8
North West +15 20 £50,000 -
North of England +3 20 £50,000 -
Work from Home +10 18 £80,000 +9.59% 7
West Midlands +22 9 £55,500 +5.71% 2
South East +1 9 £37,500 -31.82% 4
Midlands -3 9 £55,500 -14.62% 2
South West - 1 £47,500 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 27 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 86 (100.00%) Cisco
2 74 (86.05%) Firewall
3 59 (68.60%) WAN
4 52 (60.47%) LAN
5 51 (59.30%) Cisco Certification
6 46 (53.49%) Fortinet
7 37 (43.02%) CCNA
8 35 (40.70%) Azure
9 32 (37.21%) CCNP
10 30 (34.88%) Wi-Fi
11 28 (32.56%) AWS
12 26 (30.23%) Meraki
13 25 (29.07%) Juniper
13 25 (29.07%) SD-WAN
14 24 (27.91%) CheckPoint
14 24 (27.91%) Cisco ASA
14 24 (27.91%) Cisco Firepower
15 22 (25.58%) Aruba
16 21 (24.42%) BGP
16 21 (24.42%) High Availability
16 21 (24.42%) Presales
17 20 (23.26%) SolarWinds
18 19 (22.09%) FortiGate
18 19 (22.09%) JNCIA
19 18 (20.93%) Degree
20 17 (19.77%) OSPF
20 17 (19.77%) VPN
21 15 (17.44%) CCIE
21 15 (17.44%) Cisco ISE
21 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 35 (40.70%) 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 4 (4.65%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 3 (3.49%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.16%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 74 (86.05%) Firewall
2 59 (68.60%) WAN
3 52 (60.47%) LAN
4 30 (34.88%) Wi-Fi
5 25 (29.07%) SD-WAN
6 24 (27.91%) Cisco ASA
6 24 (27.91%) Cisco Firepower
7 21 (24.42%) BGP
8 17 (19.77%) OSPF
8 17 (19.77%) VPN
9 15 (17.44%) Cisco ISE
10 14 (16.28%) MPLS
11 13 (15.12%) IPsec
12 10 (11.63%) 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 4 (4.65%) Git
General
1 33 (38.37%) Social Skills
2 21 (24.42%) Presentation Skills
3 15 (17.44%) 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 10 (11.63%) 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%) Linux
1 1 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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%) Problem-Solving
5 12 (13.95%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 12 (13.95%) Network Segmentation
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 4 (4.65%) Agile
8 4 (4.65%) Network Design
8 4 (4.65%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (4.65%) Service Delivery
9 3 (3.49%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (3.49%) Data Science
9 3 (3.49%) DevOps
9 3 (3.49%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.65%) Python
Qualifications
1 51 (59.30%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (43.02%) CCNA
3 32 (37.21%) CCNP
4 19 (22.09%) JNCIA
5 18 (20.93%) Degree
6 15 (17.44%) CCIE
7 14 (16.28%) CCSA
7 14 (16.28%) CCSE
7 14 (16.28%) Computer Science Degree
8 9 (10.47%) SC Cleared
8 9 (10.47%) Security Cleared
9 6 (6.98%) Azure Certification
10 1 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (4.65%) NIST
2 3 (3.49%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (3.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (2.33%) Firmware
3 1 (1.16%) NFS
3 1 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 19 (22.09%) FortiGate
2 3 (3.49%) Cisco Prime
2 3 (3.49%) Terraform
3 2 (2.33%) Dell DRAC
4 1 (1.16%) Ansible
4 1 (1.16%) CA Spectrum
4 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 86 (100.00%) Cisco
2 46 (53.49%) Fortinet
3 26 (30.23%) Meraki
4 25 (29.07%) Juniper
5 24 (27.91%) CheckPoint
6 22 (25.58%) Aruba
7 20 (23.26%) SolarWinds
8 12 (13.95%) Dynatrace
8 12 (13.95%) ServiceNow
9 8 (9.30%) Palo Alto
10 4 (4.65%) Draytek
10 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
10 4 (4.65%) Sophos
11 3 (3.49%) VMware
11 3 (3.49%) Zscaler
12 2 (2.33%) Dell
12 2 (2.33%) F5
13 1 (1.16%) Commvault
13 1 (1.16%) Ekahau
13 1 (1.16%) Red Hat