Cisco Engineer Job Trends

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £58,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 18 September 2026.

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

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 732 617 672
Rank change year-on-year -115 +55 -54
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 72 58 119
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.062% 0.12% 0.15%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.067% 0.13% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 66 33 106
10th Percentile £46,125 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £52,500 £49,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,750 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - -7.56%
75th Percentile £66,875 £61,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,500 £77,375
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.77% +4.00% -9.09%

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 107,455 44,314 74,420
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.24% 89.66% 95.24%
Number of salaries quoted 73,770 26,055 44,614
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £40,250 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,589 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +6.53% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £73,750
90th Percentile £100,000 £95,000 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 18 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 13 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 18 September 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 -90 71 £57,500 +5.99% 47
London -54 38 £65,000 +7.44% 16
UK excluding London -120 34 £55,000 +5.77% 30
Work from Home -21 21 £60,000 -7.69% 22
North of England - 14 £57,500 - 6
North West - 13 £57,500 - 2
Midlands -43 9 £55,000 -0.90% 10
West Midlands -43 9 £55,000 -0.90% 5
South East -45 6 £60,000 +60.00% 1
East of England -28 2 £77,500 +40.91% 10
South West -88 2 £50,000 -14.89% 4
Yorkshire - 1 - - 4
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 18 September 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 72 (100.00%) Cisco
2 30 (41.67%) Firewall
3 27 (37.50%) Meraki
4 26 (36.11%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (34.72%) LAN
6 22 (30.56%) Azure
6 22 (30.56%) CCNP
7 21 (29.17%) Network Security
8 18 (25.00%) WAN
9 17 (23.61%) VPN
10 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
10 15 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (20.83%) Zscaler
11 14 (19.44%) HP
11 14 (19.44%) Wireless
12 13 (18.06%) Aruba
12 13 (18.06%) Wi-Fi
13 12 (16.67%) BGP
13 12 (16.67%) Juniper
13 12 (16.67%) Network Design
13 12 (16.67%) OSPF
14 11 (15.28%) Incident Response
15 10 (13.89%) Active Directory
15 10 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
15 10 (13.89%) Degree
15 10 (13.89%) Entra ID
16 9 (12.50%) CCNA
16 9 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
16 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
16 9 (12.50%) VMware

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 (2.78%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.78%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.56%) Azure
2 15 (20.83%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (13.89%) Entra ID
4 3 (4.17%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 3 (4.17%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.78%) AWS
5 2 (2.78%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Sentinel
6 1 (1.39%) GCP
6 1 (1.39%) Mimecast
6 1 (1.39%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 30 (41.67%) Firewall
2 25 (34.72%) LAN
3 21 (29.17%) Network Security
4 18 (25.00%) WAN
5 17 (23.61%) VPN
6 14 (19.44%) Wireless
7 13 (18.06%) Wi-Fi
8 12 (16.67%) BGP
8 12 (16.67%) OSPF
9 9 (12.50%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (11.11%) EIGRP
11 7 (9.72%) SD-WAN
11 7 (9.72%) Unified Communications
12 4 (5.56%) VXLAN
13 3 (4.17%) Ethernet VPN
13 3 (4.17%) MPLS
13 3 (4.17%) Multicast
13 3 (4.17%) NX-OS
13 3 (4.17%) VLAN
14 2 (2.78%) DNS
Development Applications
1 2 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.39%) Git
General
1 9 (12.50%) Social Skills
2 7 (9.72%) Analytical Skills
2 7 (9.72%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.17%) Finance
5 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.78%) Legal
5 2 (2.78%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.39%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.39%) Jinja
1 1 (1.39%) REST
1 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 12 (16.67%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.78%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.78%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.39%) Digital Signage
3 1 (1.39%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.39%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.39%) IoT
3 1 (1.39%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.39%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (11.11%) Linux
1 8 (11.11%) Windows
1 8 (11.11%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (16.67%) Network Design
2 11 (15.28%) Incident Response
3 10 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
4 8 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 8 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (11.11%) Runbook
5 7 (9.72%) Asset Management
5 7 (9.72%) Identity Access Management
5 7 (9.72%) IT Asset Management
5 7 (9.72%) Statistics
5 7 (9.72%) Virtual Environments
6 6 (8.33%) Network Architecture
6 6 (8.33%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.94%) Presales
8 4 (5.56%) Information Management
8 4 (5.56%) Network Monitoring
8 4 (5.56%) Network Segmentation
8 4 (5.56%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (5.56%) Validation
9 3 (4.17%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.17%) Python
Qualifications
1 26 (36.11%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (30.56%) CCNP
3 10 (13.89%) Degree
4 9 (12.50%) CCNA
5 8 (11.11%) DBS Check
6 5 (6.94%) CCIE
7 4 (5.56%) Security Cleared
8 3 (4.17%) Azure Certification
8 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
9 2 (2.78%) CCIE Data Center
10 1 (1.39%) CCIE Service Provider
10 1 (1.39%) CCIP
10 1 (1.39%) CISSP
10 1 (1.39%) CREST Certified
10 1 (1.39%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.39%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.39%) Server+ Certification
10 1 (1.39%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 4 (5.56%) NIST
2 3 (4.17%) GDPR
3 1 (1.39%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 10 (13.89%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.78%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 9 (12.50%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.56%) Ansible
3 3 (4.17%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.39%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 72 (100.00%) Cisco
2 27 (37.50%) Meraki
3 15 (20.83%) Microsoft
3 15 (20.83%) Zscaler
4 14 (19.44%) HP
5 13 (18.06%) Aruba
6 12 (16.67%) Juniper
7 9 (12.50%) VMware
8 4 (5.56%) Fortinet
8 4 (5.56%) SolarWinds
9 3 (4.17%) Arista
10 2 (2.78%) Huawei
10 2 (2.78%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.78%) Ruckus Wireless
11 1 (1.39%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.39%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.39%) Nokia
11 1 (1.39%) SonicWALL
11 1 (1.39%) Veeam