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 12 June 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 653 602 810
Rank change year-on-year -51 +208 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 86 57 102
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.093% 0.13% 0.095%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.099% 0.14% 0.10%
Number of salaries quoted 62 42 94
10th Percentile £47,500 £34,175 £37,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £51,250 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £60,000 £49,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +22.45% -5.77%
75th Percentile £77,375 £67,500 £64,688
90th Percentile £85,000 £77,500 £77,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +22.22% -10.00%

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 87,018 39,622 101,237
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.99% 89.50% 94.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,614 22,403 73,185
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £39,750 £38,569
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 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £98,750 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year - - -6.54%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 -26 86 £57,500 -4.17% 5
London +5 55 £75,000 +10.29% 1
UK excluding London -57 31 £55,000 - 9
Work from Home 0 21 £57,500 -11.54% 3
North of England -12 21 £50,000 - 2
North West - 21 £50,000 - 1
West Midlands -19 6 £55,500 -38.33% 2
Midlands -25 6 £55,500 -14.62% 2
South East -35 2 £80,000 +55.34% 1
South West -65 2 £47,500 -26.92%

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

For the 6 months to 12 June 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 86 (100.00%) Cisco
2 61 (70.93%) Firewall
3 46 (53.49%) WAN
4 45 (52.33%) LAN
5 38 (44.19%) Cisco Certification
6 36 (41.86%) Azure
7 31 (36.05%) Fortinet
7 31 (36.05%) Wi-Fi
8 28 (32.56%) CCNA
8 28 (32.56%) Network Security
9 27 (31.40%) CCNP
10 25 (29.07%) SD-WAN
11 23 (26.74%) Aruba
11 23 (26.74%) Juniper
12 22 (25.58%) Meraki
12 22 (25.58%) VPN
13 19 (22.09%) AWS
13 19 (22.09%) SolarWinds
14 17 (19.77%) BGP
14 17 (19.77%) CheckPoint
14 17 (19.77%) Cisco ASA
14 17 (19.77%) Cisco Firepower
14 17 (19.77%) Cisco ISE
14 17 (19.77%) Degree
14 17 (19.77%) Network Segmentation
14 17 (19.77%) Presales
15 14 (16.28%) FortiGate
15 14 (16.28%) OSPF
16 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
17 11 (12.79%) 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:

Application Platforms
1 2 (2.33%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 36 (41.86%) Azure
2 19 (22.09%) AWS
3 9 (10.47%) Azure ExpressRoute
3 9 (10.47%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (9.30%) AWS Direct Connect
4 8 (9.30%) SaaS
4 8 (9.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 3 (3.49%) Entra ID
6 2 (2.33%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.33%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.16%) Azure Sentinel
7 1 (1.16%) GCP
7 1 (1.16%) Mimecast
7 1 (1.16%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 61 (70.93%) Firewall
2 46 (53.49%) WAN
3 45 (52.33%) LAN
4 31 (36.05%) Wi-Fi
5 28 (32.56%) Network Security
6 25 (29.07%) SD-WAN
7 22 (25.58%) VPN
8 17 (19.77%) BGP
8 17 (19.77%) Cisco ASA
8 17 (19.77%) Cisco Firepower
8 17 (19.77%) Cisco ISE
9 14 (16.28%) OSPF
10 11 (12.79%) MPLS
11 10 (11.63%) Wireless
12 9 (10.47%) IPsec
12 9 (10.47%) VXLAN
12 9 (10.47%) WLAN
13 8 (9.30%) NetScaler
13 8 (9.30%) NX-OS
14 5 (5.81%) Cisco Nexus
Development Applications
1 3 (3.49%) Git
General
1 20 (23.26%) Social Skills
2 17 (19.77%) Presentation Skills
3 12 (13.95%) Finance
4 8 (9.30%) Telecoms
5 5 (5.81%) Public Sector
6 3 (3.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.16%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.49%) Jinja
1 3 (3.49%) NETCONF
1 3 (3.49%) YANG
Miscellaneous
1 18 (20.93%) Data Centre
2 9 (10.47%) Management Information System
3 8 (9.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (3.49%) Social Media
5 1 (1.16%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 1 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.16%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.16%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Windows
1 1 (1.16%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (19.77%) Network Segmentation
1 17 (19.77%) Presales
2 13 (15.12%) Problem-Solving
3 11 (12.79%) High Availability
4 10 (11.63%) Incident Response
4 10 (11.63%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 10 (11.63%) Network Architecture
4 10 (11.63%) Network Monitoring
4 10 (11.63%) Zero Trust
5 9 (10.47%) Runbook
5 9 (10.47%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 8 (9.30%) Cloud Security
6 8 (9.30%) Computer Science
6 8 (9.30%) Kalman Filter
6 8 (9.30%) Network Design
6 8 (9.30%) Process Improvement
7 4 (4.65%) Information Management
8 3 (3.49%) Agile
8 3 (3.49%) Cybersecurity
8 3 (3.49%) Threat Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.49%) Python
Qualifications
1 38 (44.19%) Cisco Certification
2 28 (32.56%) CCNA
3 27 (31.40%) CCNP
4 17 (19.77%) Degree
5 11 (12.79%) JNCIA
6 10 (11.63%) Azure Certification
7 9 (10.47%) CCIE
8 8 (9.30%) CCSA
8 8 (9.30%) CCSE
8 8 (9.30%) Computer Science Degree
9 5 (5.81%) DBS Check
9 5 (5.81%) Security Cleared
10 4 (4.65%) SC Cleared
11 1 (1.16%) CISSP
11 1 (1.16%) CREST Certified
11 1 (1.16%) DV Cleared
11 1 (1.16%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 10 (11.63%) NIST
2 9 (10.47%) GDPR
3 1 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 3 (3.49%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.33%) VMware NSX
3 1 (1.16%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 14 (16.28%) FortiGate
2 9 (10.47%) Cisco Prime
3 2 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (1.16%) Ansible
4 1 (1.16%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 86 (100.00%) Cisco
2 31 (36.05%) Fortinet
3 23 (26.74%) Aruba
3 23 (26.74%) Juniper
4 22 (25.58%) Meraki
5 19 (22.09%) SolarWinds
6 17 (19.77%) CheckPoint
7 10 (11.63%) Palo Alto
8 9 (10.47%) Dynatrace
8 9 (10.47%) ServiceNow
9 3 (3.49%) Microsoft
10 2 (2.33%) VMware
11 1 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
11 1 (1.16%) Ekahau
11 1 (1.16%) SonicWALL
11 1 (1.16%) Zscaler