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 7 March 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 595 585 747
Rank change year-on-year -10 +162 +160
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 88 82 82
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.18% 0.10%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.19% 0.11%
Number of salaries quoted 55 71 76
10th Percentile £46,750 £49,250 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £56,250 £44,550
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +18.18% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £75,625
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -16.67% +33.33% -8.16%

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 66,296 42,207 76,699
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.62% 91.15% 94.65%
Number of salaries quoted 41,997 23,429 59,277
10th Percentile £29,750 £32,500 £28,500
25th Percentile £38,750 £45,000 £38,890
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 £72,500
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% -5.04%

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 7 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 7 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 +17 88 £50,000 -30.07% 12
London +40 51 £74,500 -0.67% 6
UK excluding London +1 37 £50,000 -16.67% 9
North West +12 20 £50,000 -
North of England -3 20 £50,000 -
Work from Home +20 19 £80,000 +9.97% 4
South East +8 9 £37,500 -29.58% 6
West Midlands +14 7 £55,500 -22.11% 1
Midlands -5 7 £55,500 -14.62% 1
South West -9 1 £47,500 -26.92% 1

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 88 (100.00%) Cisco
2 75 (85.23%) Firewall
3 59 (67.05%) WAN
4 51 (57.95%) Cisco Certification
5 50 (56.82%) LAN
6 46 (52.27%) Fortinet
7 38 (43.18%) Azure
7 38 (43.18%) CCNA
8 32 (36.36%) CCNP
8 32 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
9 28 (31.82%) AWS
9 28 (31.82%) Meraki
10 26 (29.55%) SD-WAN
11 24 (27.27%) CheckPoint
11 24 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
11 24 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
11 24 (27.27%) Juniper
12 22 (25.00%) Aruba
13 21 (23.86%) BGP
13 21 (23.86%) FortiGate
13 21 (23.86%) Presales
13 21 (23.86%) SolarWinds
14 20 (22.73%) High Availability
15 19 (21.59%) Degree
15 19 (21.59%) JNCIA
16 18 (20.45%) OSPF
17 17 (19.32%) Cisco ISE
17 17 (19.32%) VPN
18 15 (17.05%) CCIE
18 15 (17.05%) 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 38 (43.18%) Azure
2 28 (31.82%) AWS
3 10 (11.36%) AWS Direct Connect
4 9 (10.23%) SaaS
4 9 (10.23%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 5 (5.68%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 4 (4.55%) Azure Monitor
7 2 (2.27%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 75 (85.23%) Firewall
2 59 (67.05%) WAN
3 50 (56.82%) LAN
4 32 (36.36%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (29.55%) SD-WAN
6 24 (27.27%) Cisco ASA
6 24 (27.27%) Cisco Firepower
7 21 (23.86%) BGP
8 18 (20.45%) OSPF
9 17 (19.32%) Cisco ISE
9 17 (19.32%) VPN
10 13 (14.77%) MPLS
10 13 (14.77%) Network Security
11 12 (13.64%) IPsec
12 10 (11.36%) WLAN
13 9 (10.23%) NetScaler
13 9 (10.23%) NX-OS
13 9 (10.23%) VXLAN
14 8 (9.09%) Wireless
15 7 (7.95%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 3 (3.41%) Git
General
1 33 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 21 (23.86%) Presentation Skills
3 14 (15.91%) Finance
4 6 (6.82%) Public Sector
5 4 (4.55%) Retail
6 3 (3.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (3.41%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.27%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (1.14%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.41%) Jinja
1 3 (3.41%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.41%) YANG
2 1 (1.14%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 25 (28.41%) Data Centre
2 14 (15.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 9 (10.23%) Management Information System
4 3 (3.41%) Social Media
5 2 (2.27%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.27%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.14%) e-Health
6 1 (1.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.14%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (23.86%) Presales
2 20 (22.73%) High Availability
3 15 (17.05%) Computer Science
4 14 (15.91%) Process Improvement
5 13 (14.77%) Network Segmentation
5 13 (14.77%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (13.64%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 9 (10.23%) Cloud Security
7 9 (10.23%) Kalman Filter
7 9 (10.23%) Runbook
7 9 (10.23%) Zero Trust
8 6 (6.82%) Migration
9 5 (5.68%) Network Monitoring
10 4 (4.55%) Incident Response
10 4 (4.55%) Network Architecture
10 4 (4.55%) Network Design
10 4 (4.55%) Service Delivery
10 4 (4.55%) Vulnerability Assessment
11 3 (3.41%) Agile
11 3 (3.41%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 51 (57.95%) Cisco Certification
2 38 (43.18%) CCNA
3 32 (36.36%) CCNP
4 19 (21.59%) Degree
4 19 (21.59%) JNCIA
5 15 (17.05%) CCIE
6 14 (15.91%) CCSA
6 14 (15.91%) CCSE
6 14 (15.91%) Computer Science Degree
7 8 (9.09%) Azure Certification
8 7 (7.95%) SC Cleared
8 7 (7.95%) Security Cleared
9 1 (1.14%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (5.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 5 (5.68%) NIST
2 4 (4.55%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (2.27%) Firmware
1 2 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (23.86%) FortiGate
2 4 (4.55%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (2.27%) Dell DRAC
3 2 (2.27%) Terraform
4 1 (1.14%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 88 (100.00%) Cisco
2 46 (52.27%) Fortinet
3 28 (31.82%) Meraki
4 24 (27.27%) CheckPoint
4 24 (27.27%) Juniper
5 22 (25.00%) Aruba
6 21 (23.86%) SolarWinds
7 12 (13.64%) Dynatrace
7 12 (13.64%) ServiceNow
8 10 (11.36%) Palo Alto
9 4 (4.55%) Draytek
9 4 (4.55%) Microsoft
9 4 (4.55%) Sophos
10 3 (3.41%) Zscaler
11 2 (2.27%) Dell
11 2 (2.27%) F5
11 2 (2.27%) VMware
12 1 (1.14%) Ekahau