Cisco Engineer Job Trends

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 4 January 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 568 610 588
Rank change year-on-year +42 -22 +295
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 77 103 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.14% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 48 87 119
10th Percentile £36,250 £49,050 £41,250
25th Percentile £47,500 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -10.34% +31.82%
75th Percentile £58,250 £76,000 £106,289
90th Percentile £75,300 £82,850 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%

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 53,448 50,590 50,228
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.53% 92.97% 95.23%
Number of salaries quoted 32,896 26,513 38,772
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,125 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,738 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +1.69% -1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,000 £77,500
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,261
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +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 4 January 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 4 January 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 +76 77 £50,000 -27.27% 15
UK excluding London +70 41 £50,000 -9.09% 15
London +35 36 £64,500 -12.84% 6
Work from Home +51 18 £72,500 - 8
North West +39 14 £50,000 - 2
North of England +31 14 £50,000 - 4
South East +25 14 £37,500 -37.50% 8
West Midlands +41 12 £55,500 +5.71% 2
Midlands +28 12 £55,500 -3.48% 2
South West - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 January 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 77 (100.00%) Cisco
2 66 (85.71%) Firewall
3 49 (63.64%) WAN
4 43 (55.84%) LAN
5 42 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (41.56%) Fortinet
7 28 (36.36%) CCNP
8 25 (32.47%) Azure
8 25 (32.47%) CCNA
9 20 (25.97%) Meraki
10 19 (24.68%) High Availability
10 19 (24.68%) SD-WAN
11 18 (23.38%) AWS
12 17 (22.08%) Juniper
12 17 (22.08%) Wi-Fi
13 16 (20.78%) FortiGate
14 15 (19.48%) Aruba
14 15 (19.48%) Cisco Firepower
14 15 (19.48%) Presales
15 14 (18.18%) BGP
15 14 (18.18%) CheckPoint
15 14 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
15 14 (18.18%) JNCIA
16 12 (15.58%) DevOps
16 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
16 12 (15.58%) OSPF
16 12 (15.58%) SolarWinds
16 12 (15.58%) Terraform
16 12 (15.58%) VMware
16 12 (15.58%) VMware Infrastructure

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 (1.30%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 25 (32.47%) Azure
2 18 (23.38%) AWS
3 9 (11.69%) GitHub
4 5 (6.49%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (5.19%) SaaS
5 4 (5.19%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 66 (85.71%) Firewall
2 49 (63.64%) WAN
3 43 (55.84%) LAN
4 19 (24.68%) SD-WAN
5 17 (22.08%) Wi-Fi
6 15 (19.48%) Cisco Firepower
7 14 (18.18%) BGP
7 14 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
8 12 (15.58%) OSPF
9 10 (12.99%) VPN
10 9 (11.69%) Cisco ISE
11 8 (10.39%) IPsec
11 8 (10.39%) VLAN
12 7 (9.09%) MPLS
12 7 (9.09%) Network Security
13 6 (7.79%) Fibre Channel
13 6 (7.79%) TCP/IP
13 6 (7.79%) Wireless
14 4 (5.19%) NetScaler
14 4 (5.19%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Git
General
1 26 (33.77%) Social Skills
2 16 (20.78%) Finance
3 14 (18.18%) Presentation Skills
4 8 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.19%) Retail
6 3 (3.90%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.30%) Law
7 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.30%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.30%) Jinja
1 1 (1.30%) NETCONF
1 1 (1.30%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 17 (22.08%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (12.99%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.90%) Cloud Native
3 3 (3.90%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.90%) Driving Licence
3 3 (3.90%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) e-Health
4 1 (1.30%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.30%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.69%) Linux
1 9 (11.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (5.19%) Windows
3 3 (3.90%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (24.68%) High Availability
2 15 (19.48%) Presales
3 12 (15.58%) DevOps
3 12 (15.58%) Infrastructure as Code
4 11 (14.29%) Computer Science
5 10 (12.99%) Process Improvement
6 9 (11.69%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (11.69%) Root Cause Analysis
7 6 (7.79%) Containerisation
7 6 (7.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 6 (7.79%) ITIL
8 5 (6.49%) Migration
8 5 (6.49%) Service Delivery
9 4 (5.19%) Cloud Security
9 4 (5.19%) Disaster Recovery
9 4 (5.19%) Kalman Filter
9 4 (5.19%) Mentoring
9 4 (5.19%) Network Segmentation
9 4 (5.19%) Runbook
9 4 (5.19%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 7 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 42 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (36.36%) CCNP
3 25 (32.47%) CCNA
4 14 (18.18%) JNCIA
5 11 (14.29%) CCIE
5 11 (14.29%) Degree
6 10 (12.99%) CCSA
6 10 (12.99%) CCSE
6 10 (12.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 9 (11.69%) SC Cleared
7 9 (11.69%) Security Cleared
8 4 (5.19%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.30%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (15.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (11.69%) NFS
3 6 (7.79%) vSphere
4 3 (3.90%) Firmware
5 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 16 (20.78%) FortiGate
2 12 (15.58%) Terraform
3 9 (11.69%) Ansible
3 9 (11.69%) Kubernetes
4 3 (3.90%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.30%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 77 (100.00%) Cisco
2 32 (41.56%) Fortinet
3 20 (25.97%) Meraki
4 17 (22.08%) Juniper
5 15 (19.48%) Aruba
6 14 (18.18%) CheckPoint
7 12 (15.58%) SolarWinds
7 12 (15.58%) VMware
8 9 (11.69%) Commvault
8 9 (11.69%) Draytek
8 9 (11.69%) Sophos
9 8 (10.39%) Palo Alto
10 6 (7.79%) Dynatrace
10 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
10 6 (7.79%) Pure Storage
10 6 (7.79%) Red Hat
10 6 (7.79%) ServiceNow
11 4 (5.19%) Zscaler
12 3 (3.90%) Dell
12 3 (3.90%) Forcepoint