Cisco Engineer Jobs

Cisco Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Engineer salary in the UK is £60,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 30 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
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 655 831 828
Rank change year-on-year +176 -3 +183
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Engineer 54 81 134
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.097% 0.078% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% 0.083% 0.15%
Number of salaries quoted 40 76 117
10th Percentile £32,500 £37,500 £34,000
25th Percentile £50,938 £41,250 £41,150
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,500 £50,000 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.00% -3.85% -0.95%
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £95,000 £78,750 £82,548
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £46,090 £49,972
% change year-on-year +19.33% -7.77% -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 50,066 97,923 88,829
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.36% 94.81% 91.43%
Number of salaries quoted 26,124 69,761 56,179
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £40,750 £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 £95,000 £90,000 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,000 £50,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +2.00% -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 30 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 30 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 +134 52 £60,500 +21.00% 30
UK excluding London +167 26 £55,000 +19.33% 28
London +115 24 £75,000 - 5
Work from Home +104 18 £65,000 +18.18% 15
South East +89 11 £51,500 -6.36% 8
Midlands +79 10 £65,000 +32.65% 3
East Midlands - 9 £65,000 -
South West +105 4 £58,750 +30.56% 3
Yorkshire +56 1 - - 3
West Midlands +42 1 £90,000 +83.67% 3
North of England +32 1 - - 6

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 34 (62.96%) WAN
4 32 (59.26%) LAN
5 31 (57.41%) Cisco Certification
6 29 (53.70%) Fortinet
7 25 (46.30%) BGP
8 24 (44.44%) Azure
8 24 (44.44%) SD-WAN
9 23 (42.59%) Meraki
10 22 (40.74%) OSPF
10 22 (40.74%) CCNP
11 20 (37.04%) Palo Alto
12 18 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
12 18 (33.33%) VPN
13 17 (31.48%) Data Centre
14 16 (29.63%) CCIE
14 16 (29.63%) Wi-Fi
15 15 (27.78%) CCNA
16 14 (25.93%) Social Skills
17 13 (24.07%) Infrastructure Engineering
17 13 (24.07%) WLAN
18 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
18 12 (22.22%) Change Management
18 12 (22.22%) MPLS
18 12 (22.22%) Cisco ISE
19 11 (20.37%) Ansible
19 11 (20.37%) Presales
19 11 (20.37%) SolarWinds
19 11 (20.37%) CheckPoint

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 2 (3.70%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 24 (44.44%) 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 34 (62.96%) WAN
3 32 (59.26%) LAN
4 25 (46.30%) BGP
5 24 (44.44%) SD-WAN
6 22 (40.74%) OSPF
7 18 (33.33%) Cisco Firepower
7 18 (33.33%) VPN
8 16 (29.63%) Wi-Fi
9 13 (24.07%) WLAN
10 12 (22.22%) Cisco ISE
10 12 (22.22%) 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 5 (9.26%) Cisco IOS
15 5 (9.26%) 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
4 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (1.85%) Banking
5 1 (1.85%) Marketing
5 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) 802.1X
2 2 (3.70%) YAML
3 1 (1.85%) Jinja
3 1 (1.85%) JSON
3 1 (1.85%) OpenConfig
Miscellaneous
1 17 (31.48%) Data Centre
2 8 (14.81%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.70%) Driving Licence
3 2 (3.70%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (3.70%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.85%) NHS
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 11 (20.37%) 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
8 4 (7.41%) Infrastructure as Code
8 4 (7.41%) Network Design
8 4 (7.41%) Task Automation
9 3 (5.56%) Capacity Planning
9 3 (5.56%) Containerisation
9 3 (5.56%) Runbook
10 2 (3.70%) Continuous Improvement
10 2 (3.70%) Proactive Monitoring
10 2 (3.70%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 31 (57.41%) Cisco Certification
2 22 (40.74%) CCNP
3 16 (29.63%) CCIE
4 15 (27.78%) 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 2 (3.70%) CCDA
9 2 (3.70%) CCDP
10 1 (1.85%) Azure Certification
10 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 9 (16.67%) Terraform
3 5 (9.26%) Kubernetes
4 2 (3.70%) CASB
4 2 (3.70%) Cisco CUCM
4 2 (3.70%) FortiGate
4 2 (3.70%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 54 (100.00%) Cisco
2 29 (53.70%) Fortinet
3 23 (42.59%) Meraki
4 20 (37.04%) Palo Alto
5 12 (22.22%) Microsoft
6 11 (20.37%) CheckPoint
6 11 (20.37%) Juniper
6 11 (20.37%) SolarWinds
7 10 (18.52%) HP
8 9 (16.67%) Aruba
9 8 (14.81%) Dynatrace
10 7 (12.96%) VMware
11 5 (9.26%) Commvault
11 5 (9.26%) Infoblox
12 4 (7.41%) F5
13 3 (5.56%) Citrix
13 3 (5.56%) LogicMonitor
13 3 (5.56%) Pure Storage
13 3 (5.56%) Red Hat
13 3 (5.56%) ServiceNow