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 26 June 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 668 606 801
Rank change year-on-year -62 +195 -31
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 76 57 100
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.080% 0.13% 0.094%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.14% 0.099%
Number of salaries quoted 57 39 92
10th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £52,500 £51,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £61,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.64% +24.49% -6.67%
75th Percentile £85,000 £67,500 £58,125
90th Percentile - £79,000 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -4.35% +27.78% -11.74%

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 89,332 40,653 100,647
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.05% 89.51% 94.74%
Number of salaries quoted 61,290 23,209 72,638
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,750 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £38,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,250 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £97,622 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,042 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +0.08% - -6.54%

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 26 June 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 26 June 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 -36 76 £60,000 -1.64% 13
London -9 50 £75,000 +10.29% 3
UK excluding London -57 26 £55,000 -4.35% 14
Work from Home +7 18 £57,500 -9.80% 10
North of England -19 17 £55,000 - 4
North West - 17 £55,000 - 3
West Midlands -14 5 £55,500 -38.33% 3
Midlands -23 5 £55,500 -14.62% 3
South East -42 2 £80,000 +128.57% 3
South West -63 2 £47,500 -26.92% 1

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

For the 6 months to 26 June 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 76 (100.00%) Cisco
2 52 (68.42%) Firewall
3 37 (48.68%) WAN
4 36 (47.37%) LAN
5 32 (42.11%) Azure
6 31 (40.79%) Cisco Certification
7 28 (36.84%) Network Security
8 27 (35.53%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (31.58%) CCNP
10 23 (30.26%) Fortinet
11 22 (28.95%) CCNA
11 22 (28.95%) SD-WAN
12 20 (26.32%) Meraki
12 20 (26.32%) VPN
13 19 (25.00%) Aruba
13 19 (25.00%) Juniper
14 17 (22.37%) SolarWinds
15 15 (19.74%) AWS
15 15 (19.74%) Cisco ISE
15 15 (19.74%) Degree
15 15 (19.74%) Network Segmentation
16 14 (18.42%) BGP
17 13 (17.11%) CheckPoint
17 13 (17.11%) Cisco ASA
17 13 (17.11%) Cisco Firepower
17 13 (17.11%) Presales
18 12 (15.79%) FortiGate
18 12 (15.79%) OSPF
19 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
20 10 (13.16%) Azure Certification

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 (2.63%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.32%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 32 (42.11%) Azure
2 15 (19.74%) AWS
3 9 (11.84%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (11.84%) Azure Monitor
4 6 (7.89%) AWS Direct Connect
4 6 (7.89%) SaaS
4 6 (7.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.95%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.63%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.32%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.32%) GCP
7 1 (1.32%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.32%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 52 (68.42%) Firewall
2 37 (48.68%) WAN
3 36 (47.37%) LAN
4 28 (36.84%) Network Security
5 27 (35.53%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (28.95%) SD-WAN
7 20 (26.32%) VPN
8 15 (19.74%) Cisco ISE
9 14 (18.42%) BGP
10 13 (17.11%) Cisco ASA
10 13 (17.11%) Cisco Firepower
11 12 (15.79%) OSPF
12 10 (13.16%) Wireless
13 8 (10.53%) MPLS
14 7 (9.21%) IPsec
14 7 (9.21%) VXLAN
14 7 (9.21%) WLAN
15 6 (7.89%) NetScaler
15 6 (7.89%) NX-OS
16 5 (6.58%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 2 (2.63%) Git
General
1 15 (19.74%) Social Skills
2 13 (17.11%) Presentation Skills
3 10 (13.16%) Finance
4 7 (9.21%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.63%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.63%) Legal
7 1 (1.32%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.63%) Jinja
1 2 (2.63%) NETCONF
1 2 (2.63%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 14 (18.42%) Data Centre
2 7 (9.21%) Management Information System
3 6 (7.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.63%) Social Media
5 1 (1.32%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.32%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.32%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.32%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.32%) Windows
1 1 (1.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (19.74%) Network Segmentation
2 13 (17.11%) Presales
3 11 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (13.16%) Incident Response
4 10 (13.16%) Network Architecture
4 10 (13.16%) Network Monitoring
5 9 (11.84%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 8 (10.53%) High Availability
6 8 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 8 (10.53%) Zero Trust
7 7 (9.21%) Network Design
7 7 (9.21%) Runbook
8 6 (7.89%) Cloud Security
8 6 (7.89%) Computer Science
8 6 (7.89%) Kalman Filter
8 6 (7.89%) Process Improvement
9 4 (5.26%) Information Management
10 3 (3.95%) Cybersecurity
10 3 (3.95%) Security Operations
10 3 (3.95%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (40.79%) Cisco Certification
2 24 (31.58%) CCNP
3 22 (28.95%) CCNA
4 15 (19.74%) Degree
5 10 (13.16%) Azure Certification
6 7 (9.21%) CCIE
6 7 (9.21%) JNCIA
7 6 (7.89%) CCSA
7 6 (7.89%) CCSE
7 6 (7.89%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (6.58%) DBS Check
9 4 (5.26%) Security Cleared
10 3 (3.95%) SC Cleared
11 1 (1.32%) CISSP
11 1 (1.32%) CREST Certified
11 1 (1.32%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.32%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (13.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (13.16%) NIST
2 9 (11.84%) GDPR
3 1 (1.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.32%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.95%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.63%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (15.79%) FortiGate
2 9 (11.84%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (2.63%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.32%) Ansible
4 1 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.32%) Terraform
Vendors
1 76 (100.00%) Cisco
2 23 (30.26%) Fortinet
3 20 (26.32%) Meraki
4 19 (25.00%) Aruba
4 19 (25.00%) Juniper
5 17 (22.37%) SolarWinds
6 13 (17.11%) CheckPoint
7 10 (13.16%) Palo Alto
8 7 (9.21%) Dynatrace
8 7 (9.21%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.95%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.63%) VMware
11 1 (1.32%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.32%) Ekahau
11 1 (1.32%) SonicWALL
11 1 (1.32%) Zscaler