Cisco Engineer Job Trends

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £57,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 26 September 2026.

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

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 742 606 661
Rank change year-on-year -136 +55 -78
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 74 58 124
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.063% 0.12% 0.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.068% 0.13% 0.17%
Number of salaries quoted 67 33 109
10th Percentile £46,000 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £51,875 £49,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £66,250 £62,500 £74,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £52,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +5.26% +4.50% -9.91%

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 109,213 44,406 72,800
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.99% 89.70% 95.27%
Number of salaries quoted 74,793 25,960 42,645
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £77,500 £73,775 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,950 £95,000 £93,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +15.79% -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 26 September 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 13 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 26 September 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 -111 73 £57,500 +4.55% 59
London -59 38 £65,000 -4.41% 15
UK excluding London -141 36 £55,000 +5.26% 42
Work from Home -42 22 £60,000 -7.69% 24
North of England - 15 £57,500 - 9
North West - 14 £57,500 - 2
West Midlands -39 8 £55,000 -0.90% 6
Midlands -50 8 £55,000 -0.90% 12
South East -39 6 £60,000 +60.00% 2
East of England -27 3 £77,500 +40.91% 12
South West -77 3 £50,000 -14.89% 8
Yorkshire - 1 - - 5
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -

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

For the 6 months to 26 September 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 74 (100.00%) Cisco
2 28 (37.84%) Firewall
3 27 (36.49%) LAN
3 27 (36.49%) Meraki
4 25 (33.78%) Cisco Certification
5 22 (29.73%) Network Security
6 21 (28.38%) CCNP
7 20 (27.03%) Azure
8 18 (24.32%) WAN
9 16 (21.62%) Microsoft
9 16 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
9 16 (21.62%) VPN
10 15 (20.27%) Wireless
11 14 (18.92%) Aruba
11 14 (18.92%) HP
11 14 (18.92%) Zscaler
12 13 (17.57%) Juniper
12 13 (17.57%) Network Design
13 12 (16.22%) BGP
13 12 (16.22%) OSPF
13 12 (16.22%) Wi-Fi
14 11 (14.86%) Active Directory
14 11 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (14.86%) Entra ID
14 11 (14.86%) Incident Response
14 11 (14.86%) VMware
15 10 (13.51%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (13.51%) Degree
15 10 (13.51%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving

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 2 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.70%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.35%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 20 (27.03%) Azure
2 16 (21.62%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (14.86%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.70%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 2 (2.70%) Azure Monitor
4 2 (2.70%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.35%) AWS
5 1 (1.35%) GCP
5 1 (1.35%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.35%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 28 (37.84%) Firewall
2 27 (36.49%) LAN
3 22 (29.73%) Network Security
4 18 (24.32%) WAN
5 16 (21.62%) VPN
6 15 (20.27%) Wireless
7 12 (16.22%) BGP
7 12 (16.22%) OSPF
7 12 (16.22%) Wi-Fi
8 10 (13.51%) Cisco Nexus
9 8 (10.81%) EIGRP
9 8 (10.81%) Unified Communications
10 5 (6.76%) SD-WAN
11 4 (5.41%) VXLAN
12 3 (4.05%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (4.05%) MPLS
12 3 (4.05%) Multicast
12 3 (4.05%) NX-OS
13 2 (2.70%) GPON
13 2 (2.70%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (2.70%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.35%) Git
General
1 10 (13.51%) Social Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (10.81%) Telecoms
3 4 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.05%) Finance
5 2 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (2.70%) Legal
6 1 (1.35%) Law
6 1 (1.35%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.35%) Jinja
1 1 (1.35%) REST
1 1 (1.35%) Terraform
1 1 (1.35%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 13 (17.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.70%) Driving Licence
2 2 (2.70%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.35%) Digital Signage
3 1 (1.35%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.35%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.35%) IoT
3 1 (1.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.35%) Tandem
3 1 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.16%) Linux
1 9 (12.16%) Windows
1 9 (12.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (17.57%) Network Design
2 11 (14.86%) Cybersecurity
2 11 (14.86%) Incident Response
3 10 (13.51%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (12.16%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (12.16%) Runbook
5 8 (10.81%) Asset Management
5 8 (10.81%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (10.81%) IT Asset Management
5 8 (10.81%) Statistics
5 8 (10.81%) Virtual Environments
6 6 (8.11%) Project Delivery
7 5 (6.76%) Network Architecture
7 5 (6.76%) Presales
8 4 (5.41%) Information Management
8 4 (5.41%) Root Cause Analysis
8 4 (5.41%) Technical Leadership
8 4 (5.41%) Validation
9 3 (4.05%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (4.05%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.05%) Python
Qualifications
1 25 (33.78%) Cisco Certification
2 21 (28.38%) CCNP
3 10 (13.51%) Degree
4 9 (12.16%) DBS Check
5 8 (10.81%) CCNA
6 5 (6.76%) CCIE
6 5 (6.76%) Security Cleared
7 4 (5.41%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.70%) Azure Certification
8 2 (2.70%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.35%) CCIE Service Provider
9 1 (1.35%) CCIP
9 1 (1.35%) CISSP
9 1 (1.35%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.35%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.35%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.35%) Server+ Certification
9 1 (1.35%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (4.05%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (4.05%) NIST
2 2 (2.70%) GDPR
3 1 (1.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (14.86%) Active Directory
2 10 (13.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.70%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (13.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.41%) Ansible
3 2 (2.70%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.35%) Cisco CUCM
4 1 (1.35%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 74 (100.00%) Cisco
2 27 (36.49%) Meraki
3 16 (21.62%) Microsoft
4 14 (18.92%) Aruba
4 14 (18.92%) HP
4 14 (18.92%) Zscaler
5 13 (17.57%) Juniper
6 11 (14.86%) VMware
7 4 (5.41%) Fortinet
8 3 (4.05%) Arista
9 2 (2.70%) Huawei
9 2 (2.70%) Palo Alto
9 2 (2.70%) Ruckus Wireless
9 2 (2.70%) SolarWinds
10 1 (1.35%) CheckPoint
10 1 (1.35%) CrowdStrike
10 1 (1.35%) Nokia
10 1 (1.35%) SonicWALL
10 1 (1.35%) Veeam