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 14 November 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 598 618 575
Rank change year-on-year +20 -43 +362
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 65 137 135
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.20% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 38 119 123
10th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £40,000
25th Percentile £47,500 £46,875 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% -8.80% +25.00%
75th Percentile £64,375 £75,000 £85,000
90th Percentile £78,250 £77,250 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,250 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +10.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
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 47,621 64,483 50,300
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.89% 94.87% 95.49%
Number of salaries quoted 29,449 36,300 38,919
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £35,000 £42,500 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £57,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,500 £50,055 £52,500
% change year-on-year -7.10% -4.66% -

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 14 November 2025.

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 14 November 2025. 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 +44 65 £55,000 -8.33% 10
London +28 36 £60,500 -16.55% 4
UK excluding London +55 29 £52,250 -5.00% 6
Work from Home +31 15 £65,000 -3.70% 7
South East +24 13 £37,500 -37.50% 1
Midlands +67 10 £55,500 +0.91%
West Midlands - 10 £55,500 -
South West +27 3 £65,000 +44.44% 1
North West +44 2 £50,000 - 4
North of England +34 2 £50,000 - 4
East of England +13 1 £55,000 +22.22%

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

For the 6 months to 14 November 2025, 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 65 (100.00%) Cisco
2 51 (78.46%) Firewall
3 35 (53.85%) WAN
4 30 (46.15%) LAN
5 27 (41.54%) Cisco Certification
6 26 (40.00%) Azure
7 23 (35.38%) CCNP
8 22 (33.85%) DevOps
8 22 (33.85%) Meraki
9 21 (32.31%) VMware
9 21 (32.31%) VMware Infrastructure
10 20 (30.77%) Terraform
11 18 (27.69%) Ansible
11 18 (27.69%) Infrastructure as Code
12 17 (26.15%) Commvault
12 17 (26.15%) Git
12 17 (26.15%) GitHub
12 17 (26.15%) Kubernetes
12 17 (26.15%) Linux
12 17 (26.15%) NFS
12 17 (26.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 15 (23.08%) Fortinet
14 14 (21.54%) SD-WAN
14 14 (21.54%) Windows
15 13 (20.00%) AWS
15 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
15 13 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
16 12 (18.46%) CCNA
16 12 (18.46%) High Availability
16 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineering

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 (1.54%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 26 (40.00%) Azure
2 17 (26.15%) GitHub
3 13 (20.00%) AWS
4 4 (6.15%) AWS Direct Connect
4 4 (6.15%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.08%) IaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.54%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 51 (78.46%) Firewall
2 35 (53.85%) WAN
3 30 (46.15%) LAN
4 14 (21.54%) SD-WAN
5 12 (18.46%) VPN
6 10 (15.38%) Fibre Channel
6 10 (15.38%) TCP/IP
6 10 (15.38%) Wi-Fi
7 9 (13.85%) BGP
7 9 (13.85%) Cisco ASA
7 9 (13.85%) Cisco Firepower
8 8 (12.31%) Network Security
8 8 (12.31%) OSPF
9 7 (10.77%) IPsec
9 7 (10.77%) MPLS
9 7 (10.77%) VLAN
10 6 (9.23%) Wireless
11 4 (6.15%) Cisco ISE
11 4 (6.15%) DHCP
11 4 (6.15%) DNS
Development Applications
1 17 (26.15%) Git
2 1 (1.54%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 15 (23.08%) Finance
1 15 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 6 (9.23%) Public Sector
3 4 (6.15%) Retail
4 3 (4.62%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.54%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.54%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.54%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.46%) Data Centre
2 9 (13.85%) Management Information System
3 7 (10.77%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (4.62%) Cloud Native
5 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.62%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.54%) e-Health
6 1 (1.54%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.54%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (26.15%) Linux
1 17 (26.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 14 (21.54%) Windows
3 9 (13.85%) Windows Server
4 7 (10.77%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.08%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (33.85%) DevOps
2 18 (27.69%) Infrastructure as Code
3 13 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 12 (18.46%) High Availability
4 12 (18.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (15.38%) Containerisation
5 10 (15.38%) ITIL
6 9 (13.85%) Incident Response
6 9 (13.85%) Process Improvement
7 8 (12.31%) Disaster Recovery
8 7 (10.77%) Continuous Improvement
9 6 (9.23%) Computer Science
10 5 (7.69%) Change Management
10 5 (7.69%) Mentoring
10 5 (7.69%) Migration
10 5 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
10 5 (7.69%) Service Delivery
11 4 (6.15%) Presales
12 3 (4.62%) Collaborative Working
12 3 (4.62%) Network Segmentation
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (41.54%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (35.38%) CCNP
3 12 (18.46%) CCNA
4 8 (12.31%) CCIE
4 8 (12.31%) Degree
4 8 (12.31%) SC Cleared
4 8 (12.31%) Security Cleared
5 7 (10.77%) CCSA
5 7 (10.77%) CCSE
6 6 (9.23%) Azure Certification
7 5 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (4.62%) AWS Certification
9 2 (3.08%) JNCIA
9 2 (3.08%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.54%) CCDA
10 1 (1.54%) CCDP
10 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.54%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (32.31%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (26.15%) NFS
3 10 (15.38%) vSphere
4 4 (6.15%) Firmware
5 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (30.77%) Terraform
2 18 (27.69%) Ansible
3 17 (26.15%) Kubernetes
4 9 (13.85%) FortiGate
5 3 (4.62%) Dell DRAC
6 1 (1.54%) CA Spectrum
6 1 (1.54%) CASB
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco CUCM
6 1 (1.54%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 65 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (33.85%) Meraki
3 21 (32.31%) VMware
4 17 (26.15%) Commvault
5 15 (23.08%) Fortinet
6 13 (20.00%) Microsoft
7 12 (18.46%) SolarWinds
8 10 (15.38%) Pure Storage
8 10 (15.38%) Red Hat
9 9 (13.85%) Draytek
9 9 (13.85%) Sophos
10 8 (12.31%) CheckPoint
11 6 (9.23%) Juniper
12 5 (7.69%) Dynatrace
12 5 (7.69%) Palo Alto
13 4 (6.15%) ServiceNow
13 4 (6.15%) Zscaler
14 3 (4.62%) Aruba
14 3 (4.62%) Dell
14 3 (4.62%) Forcepoint