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 10 October 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 734 610 627
Rank change year-on-year -124 +17 -37
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 71 57 125
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.060% 0.12% 0.17%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.065% 0.13% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 64 30 108
10th Percentile £46,000 £36,250 -
25th Percentile £51,250 £50,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +0.91% -8.33%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £74,813
90th Percentile £74,900 £77,750 £77,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £53,750 £52,500
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% -4.55%

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 109,405 44,412 69,302
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.66% 89.84% 95.38%
Number of salaries quoted 74,287 25,750 39,695
10th Percentile £30,000 £28,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £40,750 £35,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £58,396 £53,688 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +8.77% -2.39% -8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £73,750 £75,000
90th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +19.57% -8.00% -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 10 October 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 14 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 10 October 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 -112 69 £57,500 +3.60% 56
UK excluding London -114 38 £55,000 +2.33% 35
London -48 33 £60,000 -20.00% 19
Work from Home -48 22 £60,000 -7.69% 15
North of England - 14 £57,500 - 8
North West - 13 £57,500 - 3
Midlands -43 8 £55,000 -0.90% 5
West Midlands -48 8 £55,000 -0.90%
South East -58 6 £60,000 +60.00% 4
South West -73 5 £50,000 -14.89% 6
East of England -34 3 £77,500 +40.91% 10
Yorkshire - 1 - - 2
Northern Ireland - 1 £65,000 -
Wales - 1 £60,000 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 10 October 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 71 (100.00%) Cisco
2 27 (38.03%) LAN
3 26 (36.62%) Firewall
4 24 (33.80%) Meraki
5 23 (32.39%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (26.76%) CCNP
6 19 (26.76%) Network Security
7 18 (25.35%) Azure
8 17 (23.94%) WAN
9 16 (22.54%) Microsoft
9 16 (22.54%) Microsoft 365
10 15 (21.13%) Wireless
11 14 (19.72%) HP
11 14 (19.72%) VPN
11 14 (19.72%) Zscaler
12 13 (18.31%) Aruba
12 13 (18.31%) Network Design
13 12 (16.90%) BGP
13 12 (16.90%) Juniper
13 12 (16.90%) OSPF
14 11 (15.49%) Active Directory
14 11 (15.49%) Cybersecurity
14 11 (15.49%) Entra ID
14 11 (15.49%) VMware
14 11 (15.49%) Wi-Fi
15 10 (14.08%) Cisco Nexus
15 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Intune
15 10 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
15 10 (14.08%) VMware Infrastructure
16 9 (12.68%) DBS Check

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 (2.82%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (2.82%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.41%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 18 (25.35%) Azure
2 16 (22.54%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (15.49%) Entra ID
4 2 (2.82%) OneDrive
5 1 (1.41%) AWS
5 1 (1.41%) GCP
5 1 (1.41%) Mimecast
5 1 (1.41%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 27 (38.03%) LAN
2 26 (36.62%) Firewall
3 19 (26.76%) Network Security
4 17 (23.94%) WAN
5 15 (21.13%) Wireless
6 14 (19.72%) VPN
7 12 (16.90%) BGP
7 12 (16.90%) OSPF
8 11 (15.49%) Wi-Fi
9 10 (14.08%) Cisco Nexus
10 8 (11.27%) EIGRP
10 8 (11.27%) Unified Communications
11 4 (5.63%) VXLAN
12 3 (4.23%) Ethernet VPN
12 3 (4.23%) MPLS
12 3 (4.23%) Multicast
12 3 (4.23%) NX-OS
12 3 (4.23%) SD-WAN
13 2 (2.82%) GPON
13 2 (2.82%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (2.82%) Sonatype Nexus
2 1 (1.41%) Git
General
1 9 (12.68%) Social Skills
2 8 (11.27%) Analytical Skills
2 8 (11.27%) Telecoms
3 3 (4.23%) Finance
3 3 (4.23%) Presentation Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
4 2 (2.82%) Legal
5 1 (1.41%) Law
5 1 (1.41%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.41%) Jinja
1 1 (1.41%) REST
1 1 (1.41%) Terraform
1 1 (1.41%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.72%) Data Centre
2 2 (2.82%) Driving Licence
3 1 (1.41%) Digital Signage
3 1 (1.41%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
3 1 (1.41%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (1.41%) IoT
3 1 (1.41%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.41%) Operational Technology
3 1 (1.41%) Tandem
3 1 (1.41%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (12.68%) Linux
1 9 (12.68%) Windows
1 9 (12.68%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (18.31%) Network Design
2 11 (15.49%) Cybersecurity
3 10 (14.08%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (12.68%) Incident Response
4 9 (12.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 9 (12.68%) Runbook
5 8 (11.27%) Asset Management
5 8 (11.27%) Identity Access Management
5 8 (11.27%) IT Asset Management
5 8 (11.27%) Statistics
5 8 (11.27%) Virtual Environments
6 6 (8.45%) Project Delivery
7 4 (5.63%) Presales
7 4 (5.63%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (5.63%) Technical Leadership
7 4 (5.63%) Validation
8 3 (4.23%) Continuous Improvement
8 3 (4.23%) Information Management
8 3 (4.23%) Mentoring
8 3 (4.23%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.23%) Python
Qualifications
1 23 (32.39%) Cisco Certification
2 19 (26.76%) CCNP
3 9 (12.68%) DBS Check
4 8 (11.27%) Degree
5 6 (8.45%) CCNA
6 5 (7.04%) CCIE
6 5 (7.04%) Security Cleared
7 4 (5.63%) SC Cleared
8 2 (2.82%) CCIE Data Center
9 1 (1.41%) CCIE Service Provider
9 1 (1.41%) CCIP
9 1 (1.41%) CISSP
9 1 (1.41%) CREST Certified
9 1 (1.41%) DV Cleared
9 1 (1.41%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.41%) Server+ Certification
9 1 (1.41%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.41%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (1.41%) NIST
1 1 (1.41%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 11 (15.49%) Active Directory
2 10 (14.08%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (2.82%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 10 (14.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.63%) Ansible
3 1 (1.41%) Cisco CUCM
3 1 (1.41%) FortiGate
3 1 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 71 (100.00%) Cisco
2 24 (33.80%) Meraki
3 16 (22.54%) Microsoft
4 14 (19.72%) HP
4 14 (19.72%) Zscaler
5 13 (18.31%) Aruba
6 12 (16.90%) Juniper
7 11 (15.49%) VMware
8 4 (5.63%) Fortinet
9 3 (4.23%) Arista
10 2 (2.82%) Huawei
10 2 (2.82%) Palo Alto
10 2 (2.82%) Ruckus Wireless
11 1 (1.41%) CheckPoint
11 1 (1.41%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.41%) Nokia
11 1 (1.41%) SonicWALL
11 1 (1.41%) Veeam