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 21 April 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 611 577 794
Rank change year-on-year -34 +217 +59
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 92 63 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.15% 0.087%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.17% 0.092%
Number of salaries quoted 64 53 77
10th Percentile - £47,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £50,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £51,300
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +21.83% -6.73%
75th Percentile £77,125 £76,250 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% -13.27%

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 81,353 37,364 89,331
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 89.32% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 51,978 23,468 66,062
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,500 £38,261
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -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 21 April 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 21 April 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 -31 92 £55,000 -15.38% 11
London +23 59 £75,000 +3.45% 3
UK excluding London -67 33 £50,000 -9.09% 8
North West -10 24 £50,000 - 5
North of England -41 24 £50,000 - 5
Work from Home -7 18 £57,500 -20.69% 3
West Midlands -24 4 £55,500 -22.11% 2
Midlands -39 4 £55,500 -14.62% 2
South East -50 4 £40,000 -22.33% 1
South West -57 1 £47,500 -26.92%

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

For the 6 months to 21 April 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 92 (100.00%) Cisco
2 74 (80.43%) Firewall
3 56 (60.87%) WAN
4 51 (55.43%) LAN
5 48 (52.17%) Cisco Certification
6 41 (44.57%) Fortinet
7 40 (43.48%) CCNA
8 38 (41.30%) Azure
9 32 (34.78%) Wi-Fi
10 29 (31.52%) CCNP
10 29 (31.52%) Meraki
11 27 (29.35%) Aruba
11 27 (29.35%) Juniper
12 26 (28.26%) SD-WAN
13 24 (26.09%) Presales
14 23 (25.00%) AWS
15 21 (22.83%) CheckPoint
15 21 (22.83%) Cisco ASA
15 21 (22.83%) Cisco Firepower
15 21 (22.83%) Network Security
15 21 (22.83%) SolarWinds
16 20 (21.74%) Degree
16 20 (21.74%) VPN
17 19 (20.65%) JNCIA
18 18 (19.57%) Cisco ISE
18 18 (19.57%) Network Segmentation
19 17 (18.48%) BGP
19 17 (18.48%) FortiGate
20 14 (15.22%) High Availability
20 14 (15.22%) OSPF

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 38 (41.30%) Azure
2 23 (25.00%) AWS
3 9 (9.78%) AWS Direct Connect
3 9 (9.78%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (9.78%) Azure Monitor
3 9 (9.78%) SaaS
3 9 (9.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.09%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.09%) Mimecast
4 1 (1.09%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 74 (80.43%) Firewall
2 56 (60.87%) WAN
3 51 (55.43%) LAN
4 32 (34.78%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (28.26%) SD-WAN
6 21 (22.83%) Cisco ASA
6 21 (22.83%) Cisco Firepower
6 21 (22.83%) Network Security
7 20 (21.74%) VPN
8 18 (19.57%) Cisco ISE
9 17 (18.48%) BGP
10 14 (15.22%) OSPF
11 12 (13.04%) MPLS
12 10 (10.87%) IPsec
12 10 (10.87%) WLAN
13 9 (9.78%) NetScaler
13 9 (9.78%) NX-OS
13 9 (9.78%) VXLAN
13 9 (9.78%) Wireless
14 5 (5.43%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Git
General
1 29 (31.52%) Social Skills
2 24 (26.09%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (13.04%) Finance
4 5 (5.43%) Public Sector
4 5 (5.43%) Telecoms
5 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (2.17%) Retail
7 1 (1.09%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.26%) Jinja
1 3 (3.26%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.26%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 20 (21.74%) Data Centre
2 11 (11.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (10.87%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.26%) Social Media
5 1 (1.09%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.09%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (26.09%) Presales
2 18 (19.57%) Network Segmentation
3 14 (15.22%) High Availability
4 13 (14.13%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (11.96%) Computer Science
5 11 (11.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 11 (11.96%) Process Improvement
6 10 (10.87%) Incident Response
6 10 (10.87%) Network Architecture
6 10 (10.87%) Network Monitoring
6 10 (10.87%) Runbook
6 10 (10.87%) Zero Trust
7 9 (9.78%) Cloud Security
7 9 (9.78%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (9.78%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 5 (5.43%) Network Design
9 4 (4.35%) Migration
10 3 (3.26%) Agile
10 3 (3.26%) Security Operations
10 3 (3.26%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 48 (52.17%) Cisco Certification
2 40 (43.48%) CCNA
3 29 (31.52%) CCNP
4 20 (21.74%) Degree
5 19 (20.65%) JNCIA
6 11 (11.96%) CCIE
6 11 (11.96%) CCSA
6 11 (11.96%) CCSE
6 11 (11.96%) Computer Science Degree
7 10 (10.87%) Azure Certification
8 4 (4.35%) Security Cleared
9 3 (3.26%) SC Cleared
10 2 (2.17%) DBS Check
11 1 (1.09%) CISSP
11 1 (1.09%) CREST Certified
11 1 (1.09%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (10.87%) NIST
2 9 (9.78%) GDPR
3 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.09%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.09%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 17 (18.48%) FortiGate
2 9 (9.78%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.09%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 92 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (44.57%) Fortinet
3 29 (31.52%) Meraki
4 27 (29.35%) Aruba
4 27 (29.35%) Juniper
5 21 (22.83%) CheckPoint
5 21 (22.83%) SolarWinds
6 11 (11.96%) Dynatrace
6 11 (11.96%) ServiceNow
7 9 (9.78%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.17%) Draytek
8 2 (2.17%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.17%) Sophos
9 1 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.09%) Ekahau
9 1 (1.09%) VMware
9 1 (1.09%) Zscaler