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 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 710 612 710
Rank change year-on-year -98 +98 -77
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 78 58 101
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.072% 0.12% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.077% 0.13% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 70 34 91
10th Percentile £51,250 £32,500 £41,250
25th Percentile £55,000 £38,125 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,250 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.60% +8.50% -13.04%
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £60,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £71,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £51,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +6.80% +5.10% -6.67%

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 101,140 44,848 79,070
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.97% 89.92% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 69,235 26,502 52,116
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £75,000 £75,000 £72,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £95,000 £91,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,712 £47,683 £50,000
% change year-on-year +12.64% -4.63% -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 21 August 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 21 August 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 -73 77 £60,000 +12.15% 7
London -40 50 £65,000 +6.56% 4
UK excluding London -106 28 £55,000 +6.80% 4
Work from Home -28 22 £60,000 -7.69% 1
North of England - 11 £57,500 - 1
North West - 11 £57,500 -
West Midlands -29 9 £55,000 -
Midlands -35 9 £55,000 -8.33% 1
South East -41 6 £60,000 +60.00% 1
South West -73 1 - -
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 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 78 (100.00%) Cisco
2 38 (48.72%) Firewall
3 31 (39.74%) Azure
4 29 (37.18%) Meraki
5 26 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
6 25 (32.05%) LAN
6 25 (32.05%) Network Security
7 23 (29.49%) WAN
8 22 (28.21%) CCNP
9 20 (25.64%) VPN
10 19 (24.36%) Wi-Fi
11 15 (19.23%) Zscaler
12 14 (17.95%) HP
13 13 (16.67%) BGP
13 13 (16.67%) OSPF
14 12 (15.38%) Aruba
14 12 (15.38%) CCNA
14 12 (15.38%) Degree
14 12 (15.38%) Incident Response
14 12 (15.38%) Juniper
14 12 (15.38%) Microsoft
14 12 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
14 12 (15.38%) SD-WAN
14 12 (15.38%) Wireless
15 11 (14.10%) Network Design
16 9 (11.54%) Network Architecture
17 8 (10.26%) Azure Certification
17 8 (10.26%) EIGRP
17 8 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
17 8 (10.26%) Network Monitoring

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 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 31 (39.74%) Azure
2 12 (15.38%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (8.97%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 7 (8.97%) Azure Monitor
3 7 (8.97%) Entra ID
4 3 (3.85%) AWS
5 2 (2.56%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.28%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.28%) GCP
6 1 (1.28%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.28%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 38 (48.72%) Firewall
2 25 (32.05%) LAN
2 25 (32.05%) Network Security
3 23 (29.49%) WAN
4 20 (25.64%) VPN
5 19 (24.36%) Wi-Fi
6 13 (16.67%) BGP
6 13 (16.67%) OSPF
7 12 (15.38%) SD-WAN
7 12 (15.38%) Wireless
8 8 (10.26%) EIGRP
9 7 (8.97%) Cisco Nexus
10 6 (7.69%) Unified Communications
11 4 (5.13%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (5.13%) VXLAN
12 3 (3.85%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (3.85%) MPLS
12 3 (3.85%) Multicast
12 3 (3.85%) NX-OS
13 2 (2.56%) Cisco ASA
Development Applications
1 2 (2.56%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.28%) Git
General
1 8 (10.26%) Social Skills
2 6 (7.69%) Telecoms
3 5 (6.41%) Finance
3 5 (6.41%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (5.13%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.56%) Legal
5 2 (2.56%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.28%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.28%) Jinja
1 1 (1.28%) REST
1 1 (1.28%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.82%) Data Centre
2 1 (1.28%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
2 1 (1.28%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.28%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (1.28%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.28%) Operational Technology
2 1 (1.28%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.41%) Linux
1 5 (6.41%) Windows
1 5 (6.41%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (15.38%) Incident Response
2 11 (14.10%) Network Design
3 9 (11.54%) Network Architecture
4 8 (10.26%) Network Monitoring
5 7 (8.97%) Cybersecurity
5 7 (8.97%) Network Segmentation
5 7 (8.97%) Problem-Solving
5 7 (8.97%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 5 (6.41%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (6.41%) Presales
6 5 (6.41%) Runbook
7 4 (5.13%) Asset Management
7 4 (5.13%) Identity Access Management
7 4 (5.13%) Information Management
7 4 (5.13%) IT Asset Management
7 4 (5.13%) Project Delivery
7 4 (5.13%) Statistics
7 4 (5.13%) Virtual Environments
8 3 (3.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (3.85%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.85%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (28.21%) CCNP
3 12 (15.38%) CCNA
3 12 (15.38%) Degree
4 8 (10.26%) Azure Certification
5 7 (8.97%) DBS Check
6 6 (7.69%) CCIE
7 4 (5.13%) Security Cleared
8 3 (3.85%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.56%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.28%) CCIE Service Provider
10 1 (1.28%) CCIP
10 1 (1.28%) CCSA
10 1 (1.28%) CCSE
10 1 (1.28%) CISSP
10 1 (1.28%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (1.28%) CREST Certified
10 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.28%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.28%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 8 (10.26%) NIST
2 7 (8.97%) GDPR
3 1 (1.28%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (8.97%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 7 (8.97%) Cisco Prime
2 6 (7.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (6.41%) FortiGate
4 4 (5.13%) Ansible
5 1 (1.28%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 78 (100.00%) Cisco
2 29 (37.18%) Meraki
3 15 (19.23%) Zscaler
4 14 (17.95%) HP
5 12 (15.38%) Aruba
5 12 (15.38%) Juniper
5 12 (15.38%) Microsoft
6 8 (10.26%) SolarWinds
7 6 (7.69%) VMware
8 5 (6.41%) Fortinet
8 5 (6.41%) Palo Alto
9 3 (3.85%) Arista
10 2 (2.56%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.28%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.28%) SonicWALL
11 1 (1.28%) Veeam