Cisco Engineer Job Trends

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £53,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 13 September 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 617 680 609
Rank change year-on-year +63 -71 +379
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 56 118 164
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.11% 0.15% 0.26%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.13% 0.16% 0.28%
Number of salaries quoted 31 105 152
10th Percentile £36,250 - £40,050
25th Percentile £46,500 £45,000 £46,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,500 £54,500 £58,500
Median % change year-on-year -1.83% -6.84% +11.43%
75th Percentile £61,000 £68,750 £82,548
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,400 £106,289
UK excluding London median annual salary £52,000 £49,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +6.12% -10.91% +4.76%

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 44,459 74,568 58,777
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.66% 95.26% 93.87%
Number of salaries quoted 26,159 45,575 45,404
10th Percentile £28,250 £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £73,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £92,500 £97,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% -

Cisco Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Cisco Engineer in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco Engineer 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 13 September 2025.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 9 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 13 September 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 +62 55 £53,500 +7.00% 17
London +46 33 £61,000 -12.23% 7
UK excluding London +64 22 £52,000 +6.12% 12
Work from Home +49 17 £65,000 - 6
South East +29 10 £37,500 -37.50% 5
Midlands +67 7 £55,250 +19.87% 6
West Midlands +41 7 £55,250 +19.87% 6
South West +67 4 £58,750 +30.56%
East of England -7 1 £55,000 +22.22% 1

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 September 2025, Cisco Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cisco Engineer in the job title.

1 56 (100.00%) Cisco
2 39 (69.64%) Firewall
3 33 (58.93%) WAN
4 30 (53.57%) LAN
5 22 (39.29%) VMware
6 21 (37.50%) Azure
6 21 (37.50%) DevOps
7 20 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
7 20 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
8 19 (33.93%) Meraki
8 19 (33.93%) Ansible
8 19 (33.93%) Terraform
9 18 (32.14%) Fortinet
10 17 (30.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 17 (30.36%) Git
10 17 (30.36%) GitHub
10 17 (30.36%) Commvault
10 17 (30.36%) Linux
10 17 (30.36%) NFS
10 17 (30.36%) VPN
10 17 (30.36%) BGP
10 17 (30.36%) Kubernetes
10 17 (30.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 17 (30.36%) Infrastructure as Code
11 16 (28.57%) OSPF
11 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
12 15 (26.79%) Management Information System
12 15 (26.79%) SD-WAN
12 15 (26.79%) Data Centre
13 13 (23.21%) Root Cause Analysis

Cisco Engineer Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (3.57%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 21 (37.50%) Azure
2 17 (30.36%) GitHub
3 11 (19.64%) AWS
4 9 (16.07%) AWS Direct Connect
5 4 (7.14%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.36%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (3.57%) IaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (69.64%) Firewall
2 33 (58.93%) WAN
3 30 (53.57%) LAN
4 17 (30.36%) BGP
4 17 (30.36%) VPN
5 16 (28.57%) OSPF
6 15 (26.79%) SD-WAN
7 13 (23.21%) MPLS
8 12 (21.43%) IPsec
9 10 (17.86%) Cisco ASA
9 10 (17.86%) Fibre Channel
9 10 (17.86%) Network Security
9 10 (17.86%) TCP/IP
10 9 (16.07%) Cisco Firepower
10 9 (16.07%) Cisco ISE
10 9 (16.07%) NX-OS
10 9 (16.07%) VXLAN
10 9 (16.07%) Wi-Fi
10 9 (16.07%) WLAN
11 5 (8.93%) NetScaler
Development Applications
1 17 (30.36%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (21.43%) Finance
2 7 (12.50%) Social Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
3 4 (7.14%) Public Sector
4 2 (3.57%) Advertising
4 2 (3.57%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.79%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 15 (26.79%) Data Centre
1 15 (26.79%) Management Information System
2 7 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (8.93%) Driving Licence
4 2 (3.57%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (3.57%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.36%) Linux
1 17 (30.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 13 (23.21%) Windows
3 9 (16.07%) Windows Server
4 7 (12.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (37.50%) DevOps
2 17 (30.36%) Infrastructure as Code
2 17 (30.36%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 13 (23.21%) Root Cause Analysis
4 11 (19.64%) Incident Response
4 11 (19.64%) Process Improvement
5 10 (17.86%) Containerisation
6 9 (16.07%) Change Management
6 9 (16.07%) ITIL
6 9 (16.07%) Network Segmentation
7 7 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (12.50%) Disaster Recovery
8 5 (8.93%) Cloud Security
8 5 (8.93%) Kalman Filter
8 5 (8.93%) Mentoring
8 5 (8.93%) Network Architecture
9 4 (7.14%) High Availability
9 4 (7.14%) Runbook
10 3 (5.36%) Data Protection
10 3 (5.36%) Presales
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 20 (35.71%) Cisco Certification
2 13 (23.21%) CCNA
2 13 (23.21%) CCNP
3 6 (10.71%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.14%) AWS Certification
4 4 (7.14%) Azure Certification
4 4 (7.14%) CCIE
4 4 (7.14%) CCSA
4 4 (7.14%) CCSE
4 4 (7.14%) Degree
4 4 (7.14%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (5.36%) DV Cleared
6 2 (3.57%) CCDA
6 2 (3.57%) CCDP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.57%) SLA
System Software
1 20 (35.71%) VMware Infrastructure
2 17 (30.36%) NFS
3 10 (17.86%) vSphere
4 7 (12.50%) Firmware
5 2 (3.57%) Hyper-V
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (33.93%) Ansible
1 19 (33.93%) Terraform
2 17 (30.36%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.36%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (3.57%) CASB
4 2 (3.57%) Dell DRAC
4 2 (3.57%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.57%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 56 (100.00%) Cisco
2 22 (39.29%) VMware
3 19 (33.93%) Meraki
4 18 (32.14%) Fortinet
5 17 (30.36%) Commvault
6 16 (28.57%) Microsoft
7 13 (23.21%) SolarWinds
8 10 (17.86%) Pure Storage
8 10 (17.86%) Red Hat
9 9 (16.07%) CheckPoint
9 9 (16.07%) Dynatrace
10 8 (14.29%) Juniper
11 6 (10.71%) Palo Alto
12 5 (8.93%) Draytek
12 5 (8.93%) Infoblox
12 5 (8.93%) Sophos
13 4 (7.14%) ServiceNow
14 3 (5.36%) Citrix
14 3 (5.36%) Forcepoint
15 2 (3.57%) Dell