Cisco Engineer Job Trends

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 5 June 2026.

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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 644 613 804
Rank change year-on-year -31 +191 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 87 56 93
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.094% 0.13% 0.090%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.10% 0.14% 0.095%
Number of salaries quoted 63 41 87
10th Percentile £47,500 £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £44,023
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +22.45% -5.77%
75th Percentile £77,250 £67,500 £72,125
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £78,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -10.00%

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 86,877 39,175 97,799
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.74% 89.43% 94.82%
Number of salaries quoted 58,375 22,028 71,043
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,250 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
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 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,890 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.75% +1.78% -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 5 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 5 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 -10 87 £57,500 -4.17% 12
London +10 54 £75,000 - 3
UK excluding London -55 33 £55,000 - 18
North of England -31 23 £50,000 - 4
North West - 23 £50,000 - 2
Work from Home +13 21 £57,500 -11.54% 7
West Midlands -30 6 £55,500 -38.33% 4
Midlands -37 6 £55,500 -14.62% 5
South East -45 2 £80,000 +55.34% 1
South West -52 2 £47,500 -19.15%

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

For the 6 months to 5 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 87 (100.00%) Cisco
2 62 (71.26%) Firewall
3 48 (55.17%) WAN
4 47 (54.02%) LAN
5 40 (45.98%) Cisco Certification
6 35 (40.23%) Azure
7 33 (37.93%) Fortinet
8 31 (35.63%) Wi-Fi
9 30 (34.48%) CCNA
10 28 (32.18%) Network Security
11 27 (31.03%) CCNP
12 25 (28.74%) Aruba
12 25 (28.74%) Juniper
12 25 (28.74%) SD-WAN
13 22 (25.29%) Meraki
14 21 (24.14%) VPN
15 19 (21.84%) AWS
15 19 (21.84%) Presales
15 19 (21.84%) SolarWinds
16 17 (19.54%) BGP
16 17 (19.54%) CheckPoint
16 17 (19.54%) Cisco ASA
16 17 (19.54%) Cisco Firepower
16 17 (19.54%) Cisco ISE
16 17 (19.54%) Degree
16 17 (19.54%) Network Segmentation
17 14 (16.09%) FortiGate
17 14 (16.09%) OSPF
18 13 (14.94%) JNCIA
18 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving

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 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 35 (40.23%) Azure
2 19 (21.84%) AWS
3 9 (10.34%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (10.34%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (9.20%) AWS Direct Connect
4 8 (9.20%) SaaS
4 8 (9.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (2.30%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.15%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.15%) GCP
6 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.15%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.15%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.15%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 62 (71.26%) Firewall
2 48 (55.17%) WAN
3 47 (54.02%) LAN
4 31 (35.63%) Wi-Fi
5 28 (32.18%) Network Security
6 25 (28.74%) SD-WAN
7 21 (24.14%) VPN
8 17 (19.54%) BGP
8 17 (19.54%) Cisco ASA
8 17 (19.54%) Cisco Firepower
8 17 (19.54%) Cisco ISE
9 14 (16.09%) OSPF
10 11 (12.64%) MPLS
11 9 (10.34%) IPsec
11 9 (10.34%) VXLAN
11 9 (10.34%) Wireless
11 9 (10.34%) WLAN
12 8 (9.20%) NetScaler
12 8 (9.20%) NX-OS
13 5 (5.75%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Git
General
1 22 (25.29%) Social Skills
2 19 (21.84%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (13.79%) Finance
4 8 (9.20%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.75%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.15%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.45%) Jinja
1 3 (3.45%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.45%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.69%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.34%) Management Information System
3 8 (9.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.45%) Social Media
5 1 (1.15%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.15%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.15%) Windows
1 1 (1.15%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (21.84%) Presales
2 17 (19.54%) Network Segmentation
3 13 (14.94%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (12.64%) High Availability
5 10 (11.49%) Incident Response
5 10 (11.49%) Network Architecture
5 10 (11.49%) Network Monitoring
5 10 (11.49%) Zero Trust
6 9 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 9 (10.34%) Runbook
6 9 (10.34%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 8 (9.20%) Cloud Security
7 8 (9.20%) Computer Science
7 8 (9.20%) Kalman Filter
7 8 (9.20%) Network Design
7 8 (9.20%) Process Improvement
8 4 (4.60%) Information Management
9 3 (3.45%) Agile
9 3 (3.45%) Data Science
9 3 (3.45%) Site Reliability Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.45%) Python
Qualifications
1 40 (45.98%) Cisco Certification
2 30 (34.48%) CCNA
3 27 (31.03%) CCNP
4 17 (19.54%) Degree
5 13 (14.94%) JNCIA
6 10 (11.49%) Azure Certification
7 9 (10.34%) CCIE
8 8 (9.20%) CCSA
8 8 (9.20%) CCSE
8 8 (9.20%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (5.75%) DBS Check
9 5 (5.75%) Security Cleared
10 4 (4.60%) SC Cleared
11 1 (1.15%) CISSP
11 1 (1.15%) CREST Certified
11 1 (1.15%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.15%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (11.49%) NIST
2 9 (10.34%) GDPR
3 1 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.15%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.30%) Active Directory
1 2 (2.30%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.15%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (16.09%) FortiGate
2 9 (10.34%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.15%) Ansible
3 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.15%) Terraform
Vendors
1 87 (100.00%) Cisco
2 33 (37.93%) Fortinet
3 25 (28.74%) Aruba
3 25 (28.74%) Juniper
4 22 (25.29%) Meraki
5 19 (21.84%) SolarWinds
6 17 (19.54%) CheckPoint
7 9 (10.34%) Dynatrace
7 9 (10.34%) Palo Alto
7 9 (10.34%) ServiceNow
8 2 (2.30%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.30%) VMware
9 1 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.15%) Ekahau
9 1 (1.15%) SonicWALL
9 1 (1.15%) Zscaler