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 16 May 2026.

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

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 624 601 819
Rank change year-on-year -23 +218 +3
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 91 53 74
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.100% 0.12% 0.077%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.14% 0.081%
Number of salaries quoted 64 41 69
10th Percentile - £32,500 £37,500
25th Percentile £47,500 £49,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,500 £60,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% +20.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £77,125 £67,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £95,000 £115,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +29.41% -14.90%

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 85,212 39,160 91,339
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.30% 89.49% 94.62%
Number of salaries quoted 56,182 22,791 67,021
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £41,250 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £57,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% -12.50%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,344 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.48% +4.69% -5.66%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -12 91 £55,500 -7.50% 4
London +25 57 £75,000 -16.67% 1
UK excluding London -48 34 £50,000 -9.09% 4
North West +28 26 £50,000 - 1
North of England -4 26 £50,000 - 1
Work from Home +22 20 £57,500 -11.54% 3
Midlands -30 4 £55,500 -14.62%
West Midlands -35 4 £55,500 -22.11%
South East -29 2 £71,250 +38.35% 1
South West -50 2 £47,500 -26.92%

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 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 91 (100.00%) Cisco
2 67 (73.63%) Firewall
3 53 (58.24%) WAN
4 51 (56.04%) LAN
5 46 (50.55%) Cisco Certification
6 40 (43.96%) Fortinet
7 37 (40.66%) Azure
7 37 (40.66%) CCNA
8 31 (34.07%) Wi-Fi
9 29 (31.87%) CCNP
10 28 (30.77%) Aruba
10 28 (30.77%) Juniper
11 26 (28.57%) Network Security
11 26 (28.57%) SD-WAN
12 24 (26.37%) Meraki
13 23 (25.27%) Presales
14 22 (24.18%) AWS
15 20 (21.98%) CheckPoint
15 20 (21.98%) Cisco ASA
15 20 (21.98%) Cisco Firepower
15 20 (21.98%) SolarWinds
15 20 (21.98%) VPN
16 19 (20.88%) Degree
17 18 (19.78%) Cisco ISE
17 18 (19.78%) Network Segmentation
18 17 (18.68%) BGP
18 17 (18.68%) FortiGate
18 17 (18.68%) JNCIA
19 14 (15.38%) OSPF
20 13 (14.29%) High Availability

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:

Cloud Services
1 37 (40.66%) Azure
2 22 (24.18%) AWS
3 9 (9.89%) AWS Direct Connect
3 9 (9.89%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (9.89%) Azure Monitor
3 9 (9.89%) SaaS
3 9 (9.89%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 1 (1.10%) Azure Sentinel
4 1 (1.10%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.10%) GCP
4 1 (1.10%) Mimecast
4 1 (1.10%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 67 (73.63%) Firewall
2 53 (58.24%) WAN
3 51 (56.04%) LAN
4 31 (34.07%) Wi-Fi
5 26 (28.57%) Network Security
5 26 (28.57%) SD-WAN
6 20 (21.98%) Cisco ASA
6 20 (21.98%) Cisco Firepower
6 20 (21.98%) VPN
7 18 (19.78%) Cisco ISE
8 17 (18.68%) BGP
9 14 (15.38%) OSPF
10 12 (13.19%) MPLS
11 10 (10.99%) IPsec
11 10 (10.99%) VXLAN
11 10 (10.99%) WLAN
12 9 (9.89%) NetScaler
12 9 (9.89%) NX-OS
13 8 (8.79%) Wireless
14 5 (5.49%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Git
General
1 26 (28.57%) Social Skills
2 23 (25.27%) Presentation Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Finance
4 7 (7.69%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.49%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.10%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) Jinja
1 3 (3.30%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.30%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 21 (23.08%) Data Centre
2 10 (10.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 10 (10.99%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.30%) Social Media
4 1 (1.10%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
4 1 (1.10%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.10%) Operational Technology
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (25.27%) Presales
2 18 (19.78%) Network Segmentation
3 13 (14.29%) High Availability
3 13 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (12.09%) Zero Trust
5 10 (10.99%) Computer Science
5 10 (10.99%) Incident Response
5 10 (10.99%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 10 (10.99%) Network Architecture
5 10 (10.99%) Network Monitoring
5 10 (10.99%) Process Improvement
5 10 (10.99%) Runbook
6 9 (9.89%) Cloud Security
6 9 (9.89%) Kalman Filter
6 9 (9.89%) Vulnerability Assessment
7 7 (7.69%) Network Design
8 4 (4.40%) Information Management
9 3 (3.30%) Agile
9 3 (3.30%) Security Operations
9 3 (3.30%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 46 (50.55%) Cisco Certification
2 37 (40.66%) CCNA
3 29 (31.87%) CCNP
4 19 (20.88%) Degree
5 17 (18.68%) JNCIA
6 11 (12.09%) CCIE
7 10 (10.99%) Azure Certification
7 10 (10.99%) CCSA
7 10 (10.99%) CCSE
7 10 (10.99%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (5.49%) Security Cleared
9 4 (4.40%) DBS Check
9 4 (4.40%) SC Cleared
10 1 (1.10%) CISSP
10 1 (1.10%) CREST Certified
10 1 (1.10%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.10%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (10.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (10.99%) NIST
2 9 (9.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.10%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.20%) VMware NSX
2 1 (1.10%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 17 (18.68%) FortiGate
2 9 (9.89%) Cisco Prime
3 1 (1.10%) Ansible
3 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (1.10%) Terraform
Vendors
1 91 (100.00%) Cisco
2 40 (43.96%) Fortinet
3 28 (30.77%) Aruba
3 28 (30.77%) Juniper
4 24 (26.37%) Meraki
5 20 (21.98%) CheckPoint
5 20 (21.98%) SolarWinds
6 10 (10.99%) Dynatrace
6 10 (10.99%) ServiceNow
7 9 (9.89%) Palo Alto
8 2 (2.20%) Microsoft
8 2 (2.20%) VMware
9 1 (1.10%) CrowdStrike
9 1 (1.10%) Ekahau
9 1 (1.10%) Zscaler