Cisco Engineer Job Trends

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £60,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 24 July 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 685 642 745
Rank change year-on-year -43 +103 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 67 53 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.067% 0.11% 0.11%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.071% 0.12% 0.12%
Number of salaries quoted 54 34 92
10th Percentile £52,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £49,750 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year - +20.00% -13.04%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,188 £64,063
90th Percentile - £77,500 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,250 £52,500 £45,545
% change year-on-year +5.24% +15.27% -17.19%

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 94,832 44,261 86,457
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.34% 90.17% 94.75%
Number of salaries quoted 64,920 26,252 60,421
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £54,389
Median % change year-on-year - +1.12% -9.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £71,219
90th Percentile £96,250 £96,250 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -5.21%

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 24 July 2026.

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 24 July 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 -67 66 £60,000 - 18
London -17 42 £73,500 +8.09% 6
UK excluding London -73 25 £55,250 +5.24% 12
Work from Home -16 19 £60,000 -7.69% 7
North of England - 10 £57,500 - 4
North West - 10 £57,500 - 2
West Midlands -25 9 £55,000 -38.89% 3
Midlands -30 9 £55,000 -15.38% 3
South East -23 4 £80,000 +128.57% 4
South West -64 1 - - 1
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 24 July 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 67 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (59.70%) Firewall
3 30 (44.78%) LAN
4 28 (41.79%) Azure
4 28 (41.79%) WAN
5 26 (38.81%) Network Security
6 25 (37.31%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (37.31%) Wi-Fi
7 23 (34.33%) CCNP
8 22 (32.84%) VPN
9 20 (29.85%) Meraki
10 17 (25.37%) SD-WAN
11 14 (20.90%) BGP
11 14 (20.90%) OSPF
12 13 (19.40%) CCNA
12 13 (19.40%) SolarWinds
13 12 (17.91%) Aruba
13 12 (17.91%) Juniper
13 12 (17.91%) Network Segmentation
14 11 (16.42%) Degree
15 10 (14.93%) Fortinet
15 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (14.93%) Wireless
16 9 (13.43%) AWS
16 9 (13.43%) Azure Certification
16 9 (13.43%) Incident Response
16 9 (13.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
16 9 (13.43%) Network Architecture
16 9 (13.43%) Network Monitoring
16 9 (13.43%) NIST

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 2 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 28 (41.79%) Azure
2 9 (13.43%) AWS
3 8 (11.94%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 8 (11.94%) Azure Monitor
4 4 (5.97%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (5.97%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (5.97%) SaaS
4 4 (5.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (4.48%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.99%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.49%) GCP
7 1 (1.49%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.49%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 40 (59.70%) Firewall
2 30 (44.78%) LAN
3 28 (41.79%) WAN
4 26 (38.81%) Network Security
5 25 (37.31%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (32.84%) VPN
7 17 (25.37%) SD-WAN
8 14 (20.90%) BGP
8 14 (20.90%) OSPF
9 10 (14.93%) Wireless
10 8 (11.94%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (10.45%) Cisco ASA
11 7 (10.45%) Cisco Firepower
11 7 (10.45%) EIGRP
11 7 (10.45%) VXLAN
12 6 (8.96%) NX-OS
13 5 (7.46%) MPLS
13 5 (7.46%) Unified Communications
13 5 (7.46%) WLAN
14 4 (5.97%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 1 (1.49%) Git
1 1 (1.49%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 8 (11.94%) Social Skills
2 7 (10.45%) Finance
3 6 (8.96%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (7.46%) Telecoms
5 2 (2.99%) Legal
5 2 (2.99%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.49%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.49%) Jinja
1 1 (1.49%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 11 (16.42%) Data Centre
2 5 (7.46%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.49%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.49%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.49%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.49%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.49%) Linux
1 1 (1.49%) Windows
1 1 (1.49%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (17.91%) Network Segmentation
2 10 (14.93%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (13.43%) Incident Response
3 9 (13.43%) Network Architecture
3 9 (13.43%) Network Monitoring
4 8 (11.94%) Vulnerability Assessment
5 7 (10.45%) Network Design
6 6 (8.96%) Presales
6 6 (8.96%) Zero Trust
7 5 (7.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (7.46%) Runbook
8 4 (5.97%) Cloud Security
8 4 (5.97%) High Availability
8 4 (5.97%) Information Management
8 4 (5.97%) Kalman Filter
9 3 (4.48%) Computer Science
9 3 (4.48%) Cybersecurity
9 3 (4.48%) Process Improvement
9 3 (4.48%) Security Operations
10 2 (2.99%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.99%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (37.31%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (34.33%) CCNP
3 13 (19.40%) CCNA
4 11 (16.42%) Degree
5 9 (13.43%) Azure Certification
6 6 (8.96%) CCIE
6 6 (8.96%) DBS Check
7 4 (5.97%) Security Cleared
8 3 (4.48%) CCSA
8 3 (4.48%) CCSE
8 3 (4.48%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.48%) SC Cleared
9 1 (1.49%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.49%) CISSP
9 1 (1.49%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.49%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (13.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 9 (13.43%) NIST
2 8 (11.94%) GDPR
3 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.49%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (4.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.99%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.49%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (11.94%) Cisco Prime
2 7 (10.45%) FortiGate
3 3 (4.48%) Ansible
4 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.49%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 67 (100.00%) Cisco
2 20 (29.85%) Meraki
3 13 (19.40%) SolarWinds
4 12 (17.91%) Aruba
4 12 (17.91%) Juniper
5 10 (14.93%) Fortinet
6 7 (10.45%) CheckPoint
7 5 (7.46%) Palo Alto
8 4 (5.97%) Dynatrace
8 4 (5.97%) Microsoft
8 4 (5.97%) ServiceNow
8 4 (5.97%) Zscaler
9 3 (4.48%) HP
10 2 (2.99%) Arista
10 2 (2.99%) VMware
11 1 (1.49%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.49%) SonicWALL