Cisco Engineer Job Trends

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £55,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 608 622 601
Rank change year-on-year +14 -21 +381
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 57 123 151
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.12% 0.17% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.18% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 30 107 138
10th Percentile £36,250 - £40,500
25th Percentile £50,500 £45,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £55,000 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% -10.20% +22.50%
75th Percentile £65,000 £74,875 £82,548
90th Percentile £77,750 £77,250 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £53,750 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +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 44,152 67,765 53,690
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.75% 95.36% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 25,761 38,706 41,503
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,250 £32,000
25th Percentile £35,250 £41,250 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.73% -8.33% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £75,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £95,000 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £46,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.00% -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 14 October 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 9 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 October 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 +55 57 £55,500 -7.50% 10
London +33 33 £75,000 +2.74% 2
UK excluding London +44 24 £53,750 -2.27% 9
Work from Home +24 16 £65,000 - 5
Midlands +61 10 £55,500 +0.91%
West Midlands - 10 £55,500 -
South East +13 9 £37,500 -37.50% 5
South West +44 4 £58,750 +30.56% 2
East of England -3 1 £55,000 +22.22% 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 October 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 57 (100.00%) Cisco
2 44 (77.19%) Firewall
3 36 (63.16%) WAN
4 30 (52.63%) LAN
5 25 (43.86%) Azure
6 22 (38.60%) Cisco Certification
6 22 (38.60%) DevOps
7 21 (36.84%) Meraki
7 21 (36.84%) VMware
7 21 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
8 20 (35.09%) CCNP
8 20 (35.09%) Terraform
9 19 (33.33%) Ansible
10 18 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
10 18 (31.58%) SD-WAN
11 17 (29.82%) Kubernetes
11 17 (29.82%) Commvault
11 17 (29.82%) Linux
11 17 (29.82%) NFS
11 17 (29.82%) VPN
11 17 (29.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 17 (29.82%) Git
11 17 (29.82%) GitHub
12 15 (26.32%) SolarWinds
12 15 (26.32%) Fortinet
12 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
13 14 (24.56%) Data Centre
13 14 (24.56%) AWS
13 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
13 14 (24.56%) Windows

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 (1.75%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (3.51%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 25 (43.86%) Azure
2 17 (29.82%) GitHub
3 14 (24.56%) AWS
4 8 (14.04%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (7.02%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.51%) IaaS
8 1 (1.75%) Azure ExpressRoute
Communications & Networking
1 44 (77.19%) Firewall
2 36 (63.16%) WAN
3 30 (52.63%) LAN
4 18 (31.58%) SD-WAN
5 17 (29.82%) VPN
6 13 (22.81%) BGP
7 12 (21.05%) MPLS
7 12 (21.05%) OSPF
8 11 (19.30%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (19.30%) IPsec
8 11 (19.30%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (17.54%) Cisco Firepower
9 10 (17.54%) Fibre Channel
9 10 (17.54%) Network Security
9 10 (17.54%) TCP/IP
10 8 (14.04%) Cisco ISE
11 7 (12.28%) NX-OS
11 7 (12.28%) VXLAN
11 7 (12.28%) WLAN
12 4 (7.02%) DHCP
Development Applications
1 17 (29.82%) Git
2 2 (3.51%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (22.81%) Finance
2 10 (17.54%) Social Skills
3 6 (10.53%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.51%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.75%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.75%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.56%) Data Centre
2 13 (22.81%) Management Information System
3 7 (12.28%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Cloud Native
4 3 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 3 (5.26%) Driving Licence
4 3 (5.26%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.51%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.75%) e-Health
6 1 (1.75%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (29.82%) Linux
1 17 (29.82%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 14 (24.56%) Windows
3 9 (15.79%) Windows Server
4 7 (12.28%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (38.60%) DevOps
2 18 (31.58%) Infrastructure as Code
3 15 (26.32%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 13 (22.81%) Root Cause Analysis
5 11 (19.30%) Incident Response
5 11 (19.30%) Process Improvement
6 10 (17.54%) Containerisation
6 10 (17.54%) High Availability
6 10 (17.54%) ITIL
7 9 (15.79%) Change Management
8 8 (14.04%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (12.28%) Network Segmentation
10 6 (10.53%) Mentoring
11 4 (7.02%) Computer Science
11 4 (7.02%) Runbook
12 3 (5.26%) Change Control
12 3 (5.26%) Data Protection
12 3 (5.26%) Network Architecture
12 3 (5.26%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.53%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (38.60%) Cisco Certification
2 20 (35.09%) CCNP
3 11 (19.30%) CCNA
4 8 (14.04%) CCIE
4 8 (14.04%) Degree
5 7 (12.28%) CCSA
5 7 (12.28%) CCSE
5 7 (12.28%) SC Cleared
5 7 (12.28%) Security Cleared
6 6 (10.53%) Azure Certification
7 5 (8.77%) AWS Certification
8 3 (5.26%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (3.51%) CCDA
9 2 (3.51%) CCDP
9 2 (3.51%) Network+ Certification
10 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.75%) NIST
System Software
1 21 (36.84%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (29.82%) NFS
3 10 (17.54%) vSphere
4 6 (10.53%) Firmware
5 1 (1.75%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 20 (35.09%) Terraform
2 19 (33.33%) Ansible
3 17 (29.82%) Kubernetes
4 6 (10.53%) FortiGate
5 3 (5.26%) Dell DRAC
6 2 (3.51%) CASB
6 2 (3.51%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 1 (1.75%) CA Spectrum
7 1 (1.75%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 57 (100.00%) Cisco
2 21 (36.84%) Meraki
2 21 (36.84%) VMware
3 17 (29.82%) Commvault
4 15 (26.32%) Fortinet
4 15 (26.32%) SolarWinds
5 14 (24.56%) Microsoft
6 10 (17.54%) CheckPoint
6 10 (17.54%) Pure Storage
6 10 (17.54%) Red Hat
7 8 (14.04%) Dynatrace
8 7 (12.28%) Draytek
8 7 (12.28%) Sophos
9 6 (10.53%) Palo Alto
10 5 (8.77%) ServiceNow
11 4 (7.02%) Juniper
11 4 (7.02%) Zscaler
12 3 (5.26%) Dell
12 3 (5.26%) Forcepoint
12 3 (5.26%) Infoblox