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 25 December 2025.

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

6 months to
25 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 581 608 580
Rank change year-on-year +27 -28 +315
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 66 106 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.11% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.12% 0.20% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 39 91 114
10th Percentile £36,250 £49,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £45,625 £52,500 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £65,000 £71,250
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -8.77% +32.56%
75th Percentile £58,125 £76,000 £106,289
90th Percentile £65,500 £77,250 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £54,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +0.92% +9.00%

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 53,955 52,420 47,748
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 93.44% 95.22%
Number of salaries quoted 33,322 27,935 36,851
10th Percentile £28,500 £33,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,250 £44,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% - -
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,125 £78,750
90th Percentile £93,750 £97,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £49,500 £52,500 £51,000
% change year-on-year -5.71% +2.94% -2.86%

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 25 December 2025.

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 25 December 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 +59 66 £50,000 -25.93% 58
UK excluding London +58 36 £50,000 -9.09% 56
London +31 30 £50,000 -31.51% 5
Work from Home +49 17 £72,500 - 51
South East +36 14 £37,500 -37.50% 11
North West +30 11 £50,000 - 8
North of England +29 11 £50,000 - 16
West Midlands +40 10 £55,500 +5.71% 6
Midlands +32 10 £55,500 +0.91% 13
South West - 1 £65,000 - 6

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

For the 6 months to 25 December 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 66 (100.00%) Cisco
2 57 (86.36%) Firewall
3 40 (60.61%) WAN
4 36 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
4 36 (54.55%) LAN
5 27 (40.91%) Fortinet
6 25 (37.88%) CCNP
7 23 (34.85%) Azure
8 21 (31.82%) CCNA
9 19 (28.79%) Meraki
10 16 (24.24%) AWS
10 16 (24.24%) High Availability
11 15 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
12 14 (21.21%) Juniper
12 14 (21.21%) SD-WAN
13 13 (19.70%) Cisco Firepower
13 13 (19.70%) FortiGate
14 12 (18.18%) Aruba
14 12 (18.18%) CheckPoint
14 12 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
14 12 (18.18%) DevOps
14 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
14 12 (18.18%) Presales
14 12 (18.18%) Terraform
14 12 (18.18%) VMware
14 12 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
15 11 (16.67%) BGP
15 11 (16.67%) JNCIA
15 11 (16.67%) SolarWinds
16 10 (15.15%) CCIE

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 (1.52%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 23 (34.85%) Azure
2 16 (24.24%) AWS
3 9 (13.64%) GitHub
4 4 (6.06%) AWS Direct Connect
5 3 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.55%) SaaS
5 3 (4.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 57 (86.36%) Firewall
2 40 (60.61%) WAN
3 36 (54.55%) LAN
4 15 (22.73%) Wi-Fi
5 14 (21.21%) SD-WAN
6 13 (19.70%) Cisco Firepower
7 12 (18.18%) Cisco ASA
8 11 (16.67%) BGP
9 9 (13.64%) OSPF
9 9 (13.64%) VPN
10 8 (12.12%) VLAN
11 7 (10.61%) IPsec
12 6 (9.09%) Fibre Channel
12 6 (9.09%) MPLS
12 6 (9.09%) TCP/IP
12 6 (9.09%) Wireless
13 5 (7.58%) Network Security
14 4 (6.06%) Cisco ISE
14 4 (6.06%) Cisco Wireless
15 3 (4.55%) VXLAN
Development Applications
1 10 (15.15%) Git
General
1 23 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 15 (22.73%) Finance
3 11 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 4 (6.06%) Retail
6 3 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.52%) Law
7 1 (1.52%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.52%) 802.1X
1 1 (1.52%) Jinja
1 1 (1.52%) NETCONF
1 1 (1.52%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 15 (22.73%) Data Centre
2 9 (13.64%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 9 (13.64%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.55%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (4.55%) Driving Licence
3 3 (4.55%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) e-Health
4 1 (1.52%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.52%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 9 (13.64%) Linux
1 9 (13.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 4 (6.06%) Windows
3 3 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 3 (4.55%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (24.24%) High Availability
2 12 (18.18%) DevOps
2 12 (18.18%) Infrastructure as Code
2 12 (18.18%) Presales
3 10 (15.15%) Computer Science
4 9 (13.64%) Process Improvement
4 9 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
5 8 (12.12%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (9.09%) Containerisation
6 6 (9.09%) ITIL
7 5 (7.58%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (7.58%) Migration
7 5 (7.58%) Service Delivery
8 4 (6.06%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (6.06%) Mentoring
9 3 (4.55%) Continuous Improvement
9 3 (4.55%) Data Protection
9 3 (4.55%) Network Segmentation
9 3 (4.55%) Runbook
9 3 (4.55%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.61%) Python
Qualifications
1 36 (54.55%) Cisco Certification
2 25 (37.88%) CCNP
3 21 (31.82%) CCNA
4 11 (16.67%) JNCIA
5 10 (15.15%) CCIE
5 10 (15.15%) Degree
6 9 (13.64%) CCSA
6 9 (13.64%) CCSE
6 9 (13.64%) Computer Science Degree
7 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
7 7 (10.61%) Security Cleared
8 4 (6.06%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.52%) NIST
System Software
1 12 (18.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (13.64%) NFS
3 6 (9.09%) vSphere
4 3 (4.55%) Firmware
5 1 (1.52%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (19.70%) FortiGate
2 12 (18.18%) Terraform
3 9 (13.64%) Ansible
3 9 (13.64%) Kubernetes
4 3 (4.55%) Dell DRAC
5 1 (1.52%) CA Spectrum
Vendors
1 66 (100.00%) Cisco
2 27 (40.91%) Fortinet
3 19 (28.79%) Meraki
4 14 (21.21%) Juniper
5 12 (18.18%) Aruba
5 12 (18.18%) CheckPoint
5 12 (18.18%) VMware
6 11 (16.67%) SolarWinds
7 9 (13.64%) Commvault
7 9 (13.64%) Draytek
7 9 (13.64%) Sophos
8 6 (9.09%) Microsoft
8 6 (9.09%) Pure Storage
8 6 (9.09%) Red Hat
9 5 (7.58%) Dynatrace
9 5 (7.58%) ServiceNow
10 4 (6.06%) Palo Alto
10 4 (6.06%) Zscaler
11 3 (4.55%) Dell
11 3 (4.55%) Forcepoint