Cisco IOS
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Cisco IOS skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Cisco IOS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2023
Same period 2022 Same period 2021
Rank 514 813 860
Rank change year-on-year +299 +47 -228
Permanent jobs citing Cisco IOS 224 262 221
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.42% 0.21% 0.17%
As % of the Communications & Networking category 2.80% 1.72% 1.33%
Number of salaries quoted 110 153 181
10th Percentile £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
25th Percentile £45,000 £34,000 £31,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £61,700 £42,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +45.18% -15.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £79,250 £56,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £95,125 £79,750 £83,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £54,000 £40,000 £40,500
% change year-on-year +35.00% -1.23% -10.00%

All Communications and Computer Networking Skills
UK

Cisco IOS is in the Communications and Computer Networking category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for communications or computer networking skills 8,005 15,255 16,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 15.11% 12.42% 12.93%
Number of salaries quoted 6,279 10,353 11,511
10th Percentile £26,500 £28,750 £27,500
25th Percentile £34,000 £37,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £72,500 £69,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £88,750 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £45,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% -

Cisco IOS
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Cisco IOS as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Cisco IOS in the UK

Cisco IOS
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Cisco IOS in the UK

Cisco IOS
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco IOS over the 6 months to 7 December 2023.

Salary histogram for Cisco IOS in the UK

Cisco IOS
Top 15 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco IOS within the UK over the 6 months to 7 December 2023. 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 +314 221 £62,500 +47.06% 49
London +322 156 £65,000 +30.00% 17
UK excluding London +168 66 £54,000 +35.00% 33
Work from Home +190 56 £54,000 +27.06% 10
North of England +120 20 £47,500 +18.75% 5
South East +124 19 £72,500 +222.22% 14
Midlands +133 15 £55,000 +29.41% 5
West Midlands +136 14 £55,000 +15.79% 5
South West +68 14 £52,073 +48.78% 6
Yorkshire +109 11 £55,000 +11.11% 2
North West +88 8 £33,500 -16.25% 3
East of England +114 7 £40,000 -15.79% 2
Wales +15 2 £37,000 -
North East - 1 £47,500 -
Channel Islands - 1 £50,000 -

Cisco IOS
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
1 106 (47.32%) MS Exchange
2 2 (0.89%) nginx
2 2 (0.89%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) Apache
3 1 (0.45%) Gunicorn
3 1 (0.45%) uWSGI
Applications
1 17 (7.59%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (3.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.45%) Fidessa
1 1 (0.45%) Sage X3
Cloud Services
1 135 (60.27%) Microsoft 365
2 60 (26.79%) Azure
3 17 (7.59%) Entra ID
4 14 (6.25%) AWS
5 8 (3.57%) Azure ExpressRoute
6 7 (3.13%) GCP
7 4 (1.79%) Mimecast
8 3 (1.34%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.89%) Cloud Computing
9 2 (0.89%) IaaS
10 1 (0.45%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.45%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.45%) Rubrik
10 1 (0.45%) SaaS
10 1 (0.45%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 150 (66.96%) WAN
2 122 (54.46%) SD-WAN
2 122 (54.46%) Wireless
3 98 (43.75%) WebEx
4 79 (35.27%) Firewall
5 56 (25.00%) BGP
6 53 (23.66%) VPN
7 46 (20.54%) LAN
8 35 (15.63%) MPLS
9 33 (14.73%) OSPF
10 32 (14.29%) NX-OS
11 26 (11.61%) IPsec
12 24 (10.71%) Ethernet
13 23 (10.27%) Cisco Nexus
13 23 (10.27%) DHCP
13 23 (10.27%) Internet
14 22 (9.82%) Cisco ISE
15 21 (9.38%) NetScaler
16 20 (8.93%) DNS
16 20 (8.93%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.34%) Power BI
2 2 (0.89%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.45%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (2.23%) JIRA
2 1 (0.45%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 125 (55.80%) Social Skills
2 22 (9.82%) Finance
3 20 (8.93%) Telecoms
4 16 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (4.46%) Legal
6 7 (3.13%) Military
6 7 (3.13%) Police
7 6 (2.68%) Banking
8 3 (1.34%) Law
8 3 (1.34%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (0.89%) Back Office
9 2 (0.89%) Corporate Banking
9 2 (0.89%) Welsh Language
10 1 (0.45%) Advertising
10 1 (0.45%) Aviation
10 1 (0.45%) Financial Institution
10 1 (0.45%) Front Office
10 1 (0.45%) Investment Banking
10 1 (0.45%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 99 (44.20%) IT Support
2 97 (43.30%) Support Specialist
3 96 (42.86%) IT Support Specialist
4 54 (24.11%) Network Engineer
5 32 (14.29%) Senior
6 22 (9.82%) Senior Network Engineer
7 21 (9.38%) Architect
8 18 (8.04%) Network Architect
8 18 (8.04%) Support Engineer
9 14 (6.25%) IP Engineer
10 13 (5.80%) Desktop Support
11 12 (5.36%) Analyst
12 10 (4.46%) Desktop Engineer
13 9 (4.02%) Network Security Engineer
13 9 (4.02%) Security Engineer
13 9 (4.02%) Support Analyst
14 8 (3.57%) Desktop Support Engineer
15 7 (3.13%) Cisco Engineer
15 7 (3.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
15 7 (3.13%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (3.57%) JSON
2 6 (2.68%) 802.1X
2 6 (2.68%) HTML
3 4 (1.79%) LDAP
4 2 (0.89%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (0.89%) XMPP
5 1 (0.45%) EDI
5 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 96 (42.86%) Wiki
2 95 (42.41%) Video Conferencing
3 26 (11.61%) Data Centre
4 8 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 7 (3.13%) Hedge funds
5 7 (3.13%) PKI
5 7 (3.13%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 7 (3.13%) Virtual Team
6 6 (2.68%) Reinsurance
7 5 (2.23%) Onboarding
7 5 (2.23%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.34%) Driving Licence
8 3 (1.34%) Smartphone
9 2 (0.89%) CMDB
9 2 (0.89%) Private Cloud
9 2 (0.89%) PropTech
9 2 (0.89%) Security Posture
10 1 (0.45%) Hybrid Cloud
10 1 (0.45%) Renewable Energy
10 1 (0.45%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 144 (64.29%) Windows
2 120 (53.57%) Windows 10
3 107 (47.77%) Android
4 15 (6.70%) Windows Server
5 8 (3.57%) Linux
5 8 (3.57%) Windows Server 2019
6 7 (3.13%) Windows Server 2016
7 6 (2.68%) Windows Server 2012
8 4 (1.79%) Mac OS
8 4 (1.79%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.89%) Debian
9 2 (0.89%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 2 (0.89%) Ubuntu
9 2 (0.89%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.45%) Unix
10 1 (0.45%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (44.64%) Computer Science
2 97 (43.30%) Mobile Device Management
3 96 (42.86%) BCP
3 96 (42.86%) Business Continuity
3 96 (42.86%) Business Continuity Planning
3 96 (42.86%) Contract Negotiation
4 85 (37.95%) Application Virtualisation
5 21 (9.38%) ITIL
6 18 (8.04%) Problem-Solving
7 15 (6.70%) Network Architecture
8 14 (6.25%) Cybersecurity
9 13 (5.80%) Artificial Intelligence
9 13 (5.80%) Disaster Recovery
9 13 (5.80%) Network Design
10 11 (4.91%) Incident Management
10 11 (4.91%) Network Virtualisation
10 11 (4.91%) Project Delivery
11 10 (4.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 10 (4.46%) High Availability
11 10 (4.46%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 14 (6.25%) PowerShell
2 13 (5.80%) Python
3 12 (5.36%) SQL
4 6 (2.68%) C#
5 1 (0.45%) VB
Qualifications
1 116 (51.79%) Degree
2 100 (44.64%) Computer Science Degree
3 96 (42.86%) Master's Degree
4 38 (16.96%) Cisco Certification
5 25 (11.16%) Security Cleared
6 18 (8.04%) CCNA
6 18 (8.04%) CCNP
7 15 (6.70%) CCIE
7 15 (6.70%) SC Cleared
8 6 (2.68%) DV Cleared
9 4 (1.79%) JNCIS
10 3 (1.34%) JNCIE
10 3 (1.34%) Microsoft Certification
11 2 (0.89%) CCSE
11 2 (0.89%) JNCIA
11 2 (0.89%) MCSA
12 1 (0.45%) A+ Certification
12 1 (0.45%) ITIL Certification
12 1 (0.45%) MCSE
12 1 (0.45%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.57%) SLA
2 1 (0.45%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 138 (61.61%) Active Directory
2 100 (44.64%) Microsoft App-V
2 100 (44.64%) XenApp
2 100 (44.64%) XenDesktop
3 99 (44.20%) VMware ESXi
4 25 (11.16%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (5.80%) Hyper-V
6 8 (3.57%) VMware NSX
7 4 (1.79%) VMware Workstation
8 3 (1.34%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.45%) BitLocker
9 1 (0.45%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 105 (46.88%) SCCM
2 85 (37.95%) AirWatch
3 21 (9.38%) Microsoft Intune
4 13 (5.80%) Ansible
5 10 (4.46%) Cisco CUCM
6 8 (3.57%) FortiGate
7 7 (3.13%) Terraform
8 6 (2.68%) Stealthwatch
9 5 (2.23%) Jamf Pro
10 4 (1.79%) EdgeSight
11 3 (1.34%) Single Sign-On
12 2 (0.89%) Cisco Prime
12 2 (0.89%) Grafana
12 2 (0.89%) Puppet
13 1 (0.45%) Nagios
13 1 (0.45%) PaperCut
13 1 (0.45%) WSUS
Vendors
1 224 (100.00%) Cisco
2 147 (65.63%) Microsoft
3 113 (50.45%) Citrix
4 35 (15.63%) Juniper
5 33 (14.73%) Palo Alto
6 30 (13.39%) Fortinet
7 27 (12.05%) VMware
8 26 (11.61%) Apple
9 20 (8.93%) Meraki
10 18 (8.04%) Bloomberg
11 17 (7.59%) CheckPoint
12 16 (7.14%) Riverbed
13 15 (6.70%) Aruba
14 14 (6.25%) F5
15 12 (5.36%) SolarWinds
16 9 (4.02%) HP
17 7 (3.13%) Blue Coat
17 7 (3.13%) CA
17 7 (3.13%) Google
17 7 (3.13%) ServiceNow