Cisco Engineer Jobs

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £61,750 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

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

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 657 831 828
Rank change year-on-year +174 -3 +181
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 54 79 136
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.077% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.082% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 40 74 119
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £41,250 £41,825
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,750 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +23.50% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £79,250 £82,548
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £45,000 £49,972
% change year-on-year +27.78% -9.95% -4.82%

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 49,435 96,820 89,564
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.41% 94.78% 91.46%
Number of salaries quoted 25,727 69,155 56,824
10th Percentile £28,822 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,000 £38,500 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £73,750 £70,000 £80,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%

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 28 May 2025.

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 28 May 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 +137 52 £61,750 +23.50% 28
UK excluding London +168 25 £57,500 +27.78% 18
London +122 25 £75,000 - 9
Work from Home +108 18 £65,000 +18.18% 7
South East +93 11 £51,500 -6.36% 4
Midlands +53 10 £65,000 +32.65% 4
East Midlands - 9 £65,000 -
South West +117 3 £65,000 +44.44% 3
Yorkshire +58 1 - - 2
West Midlands +48 1 £90,000 +83.67% 4
North of England +21 1 - - 2

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 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 54 (100.00%) Cisco
2 39 (72.22%) Firewall
3 33 (61.11%) LAN
3 33 (61.11%) WAN
4 31 (57.41%) Cisco Certification
5 28 (51.85%) Fortinet
6 26 (48.15%) BGP
7 25 (46.30%) Azure
8 24 (44.44%) SD-WAN
9 23 (42.59%) OSPF
10 22 (40.74%) CCNP
10 22 (40.74%) Meraki
11 20 (37.04%) Palo Alto
12 18 (33.33%) Data Centre
13 17 (31.48%) Cisco Firepower
13 17 (31.48%) VPN
14 16 (29.63%) CCIE
14 16 (29.63%) Wi-Fi
15 14 (25.93%) CCNA
15 14 (25.93%) WLAN
15 14 (25.93%) Social Skills
16 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
16 13 (24.07%) Cisco ISE
17 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
17 12 (22.22%) Change Management
18 11 (20.37%) SolarWinds
18 11 (20.37%) MPLS
18 11 (20.37%) CheckPoint
18 11 (20.37%) Ansible
19 10 (18.52%) Terraform

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:

Applications
1 5 (9.26%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 25 (46.30%) Azure
2 10 (18.52%) AWS
3 8 (14.81%) AWS Direct Connect
4 5 (9.26%) GitHub
5 4 (7.41%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 1 (1.85%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.85%) IaaS
6 1 (1.85%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 39 (72.22%) Firewall
2 33 (61.11%) LAN
2 33 (61.11%) WAN
3 26 (48.15%) BGP
4 24 (44.44%) SD-WAN
5 23 (42.59%) OSPF
6 17 (31.48%) Cisco Firepower
6 17 (31.48%) VPN
7 16 (29.63%) Wi-Fi
8 14 (25.93%) WLAN
9 13 (24.07%) Cisco ISE
10 11 (20.37%) MPLS
11 10 (18.52%) Network Security
12 9 (16.67%) Cisco ASA
12 9 (16.67%) IPsec
13 8 (14.81%) NX-OS
13 8 (14.81%) VXLAN
14 7 (12.96%) Cisco Nexus
15 6 (11.11%) Cisco IOS
15 6 (11.11%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 6 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
2 5 (9.26%) Git
3 1 (1.85%) GitLab
3 1 (1.85%) Robot Framework
General
1 14 (25.93%) Social Skills
2 6 (11.11%) Finance
3 4 (7.41%) Advertising
3 4 (7.41%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Marketing
5 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (1.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (9.26%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.70%) YAML
3 1 (1.85%) Jinja
3 1 (1.85%) JSON
3 1 (1.85%) OpenConfig
Miscellaneous
1 18 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.81%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.70%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
4 1 (1.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (12.96%) Windows
2 5 (9.26%) Linux
2 5 (9.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 3 (5.56%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.70%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (1.85%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 12 (22.22%) Change Management
3 10 (18.52%) Presales
4 9 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 9 (16.67%) Zero Trust
5 8 (14.81%) Network Segmentation
6 6 (11.11%) DevOps
6 6 (11.11%) Network Architecture
7 5 (9.26%) Cloud Security
7 5 (9.26%) Incident Response
7 5 (9.26%) Kalman Filter
7 5 (9.26%) Task Automation
8 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
9 3 (5.56%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (5.56%) Containerisation
9 3 (5.56%) Network Design
9 3 (5.56%) Runbook
10 2 (3.70%) Disaster Recovery
10 2 (3.70%) High Availability
10 2 (3.70%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 5 (9.26%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (57.41%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (40.74%) CCNP
3 16 (29.63%) CCIE
4 14 (25.93%) CCNA
5 6 (11.11%) Security Cleared
6 5 (9.26%) DV Cleared
7 4 (7.41%) Degree
7 4 (7.41%) SC Cleared
8 3 (5.56%) AWS Certification
8 3 (5.56%) CCSA
8 3 (5.56%) CCSE
8 3 (5.56%) Network+ Certification
9 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.85%) CCDA
9 1 (1.85%) CCDP
9 1 (1.85%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.70%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (9.26%) Firmware
1 5 (9.26%) NFS
1 5 (9.26%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (5.56%) vSphere
3 2 (3.70%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 11 (20.37%) Ansible
2 10 (18.52%) Terraform
3 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.70%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (3.70%) FortiGate
5 1 (1.85%) CASB
5 1 (1.85%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 54 (100.00%) Cisco
2 28 (51.85%) Fortinet
3 22 (40.74%) Meraki
4 20 (37.04%) Palo Alto
5 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 11 (20.37%) CheckPoint
6 11 (20.37%) SolarWinds
7 10 (18.52%) HP
7 10 (18.52%) Juniper
8 9 (16.67%) Aruba
9 8 (14.81%) Dynatrace
10 7 (12.96%) VMware
11 5 (9.26%) Commvault
11 5 (9.26%) F5
11 5 (9.26%) Infoblox
12 4 (7.41%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (5.56%) Citrix
13 3 (5.56%) Pure Storage
13 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
13 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow