Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £50,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 811 862 1028
Rank change year-on-year +51 +166 -277
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 77 133 209
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.13% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.082% 0.14% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 72 113 162
10th Percentile £37,500 £33,200 £32,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £44,750 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £75,625 £70,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £115,000 £82,538 £74,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £49,944 £52,500
% change year-on-year -14.90% -4.87% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 93,864 92,882 151,282
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.64% 91.46% 96.10%
Number of salaries quoted 67,182 58,425 84,716
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,517
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £71,250 £81,250 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

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

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Cisco Engineer.

Salary trend for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Engineer over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Cisco Engineer in the UK

Cisco Engineer
Top 11 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 8 May 2024. 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 +35 72 £50,000 -6.98% 6
UK excluding London -20 45 £42,500 -14.90% 3
Work from Home +43 29 £55,000 -4.35% 3
London +89 27 £75,000 +7.14% 3
North of England +31 19 £40,000 -32.20% 1
West Midlands +29 19 £49,000 +19.44%
Midlands +17 19 £49,000 +15.84%
North West +12 14 £40,000 -32.20%
South East +8 6 £55,000 +22.22% 1
Yorkshire +66 5 £35,000 -49.09% 1
East of England +12 1 £50,000 -4.76%

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

For the 6 months to 8 May 2024, 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 77 (100.00%) Cisco
2 41 (53.25%) Firewall
2 41 (53.25%) WAN
3 36 (46.75%) Cisco Certification
4 32 (41.56%) LAN
5 30 (38.96%) TCP/IP
6 27 (35.06%) MPLS
7 26 (33.77%) CCNA
8 25 (32.47%) Juniper
9 23 (29.87%) BGP
10 22 (28.57%) Palo Alto
11 21 (27.27%) OSPF
12 20 (25.97%) Finance
13 19 (24.68%) Wireless
13 19 (24.68%) SD-WAN
14 18 (23.38%) Fortinet
15 17 (22.08%) AWS
15 17 (22.08%) VMware
15 17 (22.08%) DHCP
15 17 (22.08%) DevOps
16 16 (20.78%) Data Centre
16 16 (20.78%) Ethernet
17 15 (19.48%) CheckPoint
17 15 (19.48%) Wi-Fi
18 14 (18.18%) JNCIA
18 14 (18.18%) Internet
19 13 (16.88%) DSL
19 13 (16.88%) Disaster Recovery
19 13 (16.88%) Nokia
19 13 (16.88%) VPN

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 7 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (5.19%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (5.19%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 17 (22.08%) AWS
2 9 (11.69%) Azure
3 6 (7.79%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.30%) Azure ExpressRoute
4 1 (1.30%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.30%) GitHub
4 1 (1.30%) IaaS
4 1 (1.30%) PaaS
4 1 (1.30%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 41 (53.25%) Firewall
1 41 (53.25%) WAN
2 32 (41.56%) LAN
3 30 (38.96%) TCP/IP
4 27 (35.06%) MPLS
5 23 (29.87%) BGP
6 21 (27.27%) OSPF
7 19 (24.68%) SD-WAN
7 19 (24.68%) Wireless
8 17 (22.08%) DHCP
9 16 (20.78%) Ethernet
10 15 (19.48%) Wi-Fi
11 14 (18.18%) Internet
12 13 (16.88%) DSL
12 13 (16.88%) Network Security
12 13 (16.88%) VPN
13 12 (15.58%) Cisco Firepower
14 11 (14.29%) Cisco ISE
15 7 (9.09%) Cisco IOS
15 7 (9.09%) WLAN
Development Applications
1 2 (2.60%) JIRA
1 2 (2.60%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 20 (25.97%) Finance
2 10 (12.99%) Social Skills
3 4 (5.19%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (3.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (3.90%) Law
5 2 (2.60%) Banking
5 2 (2.60%) Front Office
5 2 (2.60%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (2.60%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.09%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (20.78%) Data Centre
2 10 (12.99%) Hedge funds
3 7 (9.09%) PKI
4 4 (5.19%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (2.60%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.60%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
5 2 (2.60%) FlexPod
5 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) Replication
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (16.88%) VyOS
2 8 (10.39%) Windows
2 8 (10.39%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.19%) Windows 10
3 4 (5.19%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (22.08%) DevOps
2 13 (16.88%) Customer Service
2 13 (16.88%) Disaster Recovery
3 12 (15.58%) Network Monitoring
4 10 (12.99%) Change Management
5 9 (11.69%) Migration
6 8 (10.39%) Change Control
6 8 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
7 6 (7.79%) Network Design
8 5 (6.49%) ITIL
8 5 (6.49%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (6.49%) Zero Trust
9 4 (5.19%) Business Continuity
9 4 (5.19%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (5.19%) Load Balancing
9 4 (5.19%) Process Improvement
9 4 (5.19%) Project Management
9 4 (5.19%) Software Deployment
9 4 (5.19%) Time Management
10 3 (3.90%) Low Latency
Programming Languages
1 13 (16.88%) PowerShell
2 7 (9.09%) C#
2 7 (9.09%) SQL
3 5 (6.49%) Bash
Qualifications
1 36 (46.75%) Cisco Certification
2 26 (33.77%) CCNA
3 14 (18.18%) JNCIA
4 6 (7.79%) CCIE
4 6 (7.79%) CCNP
5 3 (3.90%) SC Cleared
5 3 (3.90%) Security Cleared
6 1 (1.30%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.30%) JNCIP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.19%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.60%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.60%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.30%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (10.39%) Cisco CUCM
1 8 (10.39%) Terraform
2 7 (9.09%) Stealthwatch
3 2 (2.60%) Ansible
3 2 (2.60%) FortiGate
4 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.30%) ZABBIX
Vendors
1 77 (100.00%) Cisco
2 25 (32.47%) Juniper
3 22 (28.57%) Palo Alto
4 18 (23.38%) Fortinet
5 17 (22.08%) VMware
6 15 (19.48%) CheckPoint
7 13 (16.88%) Nokia
7 13 (16.88%) Ruckus Wireless
7 13 (16.88%) Vyatta
8 12 (15.58%) Microsoft
9 10 (12.99%) F5
10 9 (11.69%) SolarWinds
11 7 (9.09%) Splunk
12 4 (5.19%) Meraki
12 4 (5.19%) Remedy
12 4 (5.19%) Salesforce
13 3 (3.90%) NetApp
14 2 (2.60%) Zscaler
15 1 (1.30%) Citrix
15 1 (1.30%) Commvault