Cisco Engineer Jobs

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 1 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 634 815 863
Rank change year-on-year +181 +48 +138
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 58 81 126
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.082% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.087% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 47 76 103
10th Percentile £41,500 £37,500 £33,000
25th Percentile £49,625 £41,250 £41,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £50,650 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +18.46% -7.91% +4.76%
75th Percentile £70,000 £75,625 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £115,000 £79,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £42,500 £49,000
% change year-on-year +29.41% -13.27% -6.67%

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 46,902 93,183 95,132
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.12% 94.62% 91.53%
Number of salaries quoted 27,275 66,883 59,840
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £42,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £52,777 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% -12.04% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £71,250 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% +5.00%

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cisco Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco Engineer.

Salary trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 12 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 1 May 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 +153 54 £60,000 +20.00% 13
UK excluding London +190 27 £55,000 +29.41% 9
Work from Home +188 23 £65,000 +18.18% 4
London +104 23 £72,500 -3.33% 4
South East +115 11 £51,500 -6.36% 3
Midlands +74 11 £65,000 +32.65% 2
East Midlands - 9 £65,000 -
North of England +68 3 £50,000 +25.00%
South West +108 2 £65,000 +20.37% 4
West Midlands +33 2 £71,250 +45.41% 2
North West +20 2 £50,000 +25.00%
Yorkshire +71 1 - -

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Cisco Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 58 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (70.69%) Firewall
3 33 (56.90%) Cisco Certification
3 33 (56.90%) LAN
4 30 (51.72%) WAN
5 27 (46.55%) BGP
5 27 (46.55%) Fortinet
6 26 (44.83%) Palo Alto
7 24 (41.38%) Azure
8 23 (39.66%) CCNP
8 23 (39.66%) SD-WAN
9 22 (37.93%) Data Centre
10 21 (36.21%) OSPF
11 17 (29.31%) Meraki
12 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
12 16 (27.59%) Wi-Fi
13 15 (25.86%) VPN
14 14 (24.14%) CCIE
14 14 (24.14%) Cisco Firepower
15 12 (20.69%) Change Management
15 12 (20.69%) CCNA
15 12 (20.69%) WLAN
16 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
16 11 (18.97%) Juniper
16 11 (18.97%) Aruba
16 11 (18.97%) Cisco ISE
16 11 (18.97%) Presales
17 10 (17.24%) Ansible
17 10 (17.24%) Terraform
17 10 (17.24%) HP

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Applications
1 5 (8.62%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 24 (41.38%) Azure
2 6 (10.34%) AWS
3 4 (6.90%) AWS Direct Connect
4 3 (5.17%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.45%) SaaS
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.72%) IaaS
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.72%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (70.69%) Firewall
2 33 (56.90%) LAN
3 30 (51.72%) WAN
4 27 (46.55%) BGP
5 23 (39.66%) SD-WAN
6 21 (36.21%) OSPF
7 16 (27.59%) Wi-Fi
8 15 (25.86%) VPN
9 14 (24.14%) Cisco Firepower
10 12 (20.69%) WLAN
11 11 (18.97%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (15.52%) Network Security
13 8 (13.79%) Cisco IOS
13 8 (13.79%) Cisco Nexus
13 8 (13.79%) Wireless
14 7 (12.07%) BIG-IP
14 7 (12.07%) TACACS
15 6 (10.34%) MPLS
15 6 (10.34%) VoIP
16 5 (8.62%) IPsec
Development Applications
1 7 (12.07%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.72%) GitLab
2 1 (1.72%) Robot Framework
General
1 16 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 7 (12.07%) Finance
3 4 (6.90%) Advertising
3 4 (6.90%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.17%) Telecoms
5 2 (3.45%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Banking
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.45%) YAML
3 1 (1.72%) Jinja
3 1 (1.72%) JSON
3 1 (1.72%) OpenConfig
Miscellaneous
1 22 (37.93%) Data Centre
2 4 (6.90%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.45%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.72%) NHS
4 1 (1.72%) Video Conferencing
4 1 (1.72%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (20.69%) Change Management
2 11 (18.97%) Presales
3 9 (15.52%) Zero Trust
4 7 (12.07%) Task Automation
5 6 (10.34%) Capacity Planning
5 6 (10.34%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 5 (8.62%) High Availability
6 5 (8.62%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (8.62%) Process Improvement
7 4 (6.90%) Network Architecture
7 4 (6.90%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (6.90%) Network Segmentation
8 3 (5.17%) Cloud Security
8 3 (5.17%) Containerisation
8 3 (5.17%) Kalman Filter
8 3 (5.17%) Network Design
9 2 (3.45%) Proactive Monitoring
9 2 (3.45%) Project Delivery
9 2 (3.45%) Root Cause Analysis
10 1 (1.72%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.07%) Python
2 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 33 (56.90%) Cisco Certification
2 23 (39.66%) CCNP
3 14 (24.14%) CCIE
4 12 (20.69%) CCNA
5 7 (12.07%) Security Cleared
6 5 (8.62%) DV Cleared
6 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
7 3 (5.17%) Degree
8 2 (3.45%) JNCIA
8 2 (3.45%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.72%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.72%) CCSA
9 1 (1.72%) CCSE
9 1 (1.72%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.45%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (8.62%) Firmware
2 4 (6.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (5.17%) vSphere
4 2 (3.45%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.72%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 10 (17.24%) Ansible
1 10 (17.24%) Terraform
2 4 (6.90%) FortiGate
3 3 (5.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco CUCM
Vendors
1 58 (100.00%) Cisco
2 27 (46.55%) Fortinet
3 26 (44.83%) Palo Alto
4 17 (29.31%) Meraki
5 11 (18.97%) Aruba
5 11 (18.97%) Juniper
5 11 (18.97%) Microsoft
6 10 (17.24%) CheckPoint
6 10 (17.24%) HP
7 8 (13.79%) SolarWinds
8 7 (12.07%) F5
9 6 (10.34%) LogicMonitor
9 6 (10.34%) VMware
10 4 (6.90%) Dynatrace
11 3 (5.17%) Citrix
11 3 (5.17%) Infoblox
11 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
12 1 (1.72%) Arista
12 1 (1.72%) ServiceNow