Cisco Prime (formerly Cisco Works)
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Cisco Prime skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 795 670 762
Rank change year-on-year -125 +92 -46
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Prime 3 2 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.003% 0.004% 0.011%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.056% 0.040% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £31,250
25th Percentile - - £34,175
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 - £75,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile - - £77,500
90th Percentile - - £81,500
UK excluding London median annual salary - - £41,067
% change year-on-year - - +3.61%

All Systems Management Skills
UK

Cisco Prime falls under the Systems Management category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring systems management skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for systems management skills 5,356 5,006 6,294
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 4.54% 10.12% 8.42%
Number of salaries quoted 3,683 2,856 3,735
10th Percentile £32,750 £31,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £43,623 £39,750 £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% -
75th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £86,000
90th Percentile £96,250 £101,250 £102,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,750 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +13.50% -9.09% -4.35%

Cisco Prime
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Cisco Prime relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Prime job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Prime
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Prime.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Cisco Prime

Cisco Prime
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Prime within the UK over the 6 months to 1 October 2026. 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
Scotland +15 2 - -
UK excluding London -128 2 - - 1
Work from Home -44 1 - - 3
London -59 1 £85,000 - 2
England -122 1 £85,000 - 3

Cisco Prime
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure ExpressRoute
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (100.00%) Firewall
1 3 (100.00%) VPN
1 3 (100.00%) WAN
2 2 (66.67%) BGP
2 2 (66.67%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (66.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (66.67%) LAN
2 2 (66.67%) MPLS
2 2 (66.67%) Network Security
2 2 (66.67%) OSPF
2 2 (66.67%) SD-WAN
2 2 (66.67%) Wireless
3 1 (33.33%) BIG-IP
3 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP GTM
3 1 (33.33%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (33.33%) Wi-Fi
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Cisco Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Network Monitoring
2 1 (33.33%) Cloud Security
2 1 (33.33%) High Availability
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL
2 1 (33.33%) Network Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Network Segmentation
2 1 (33.33%) Project Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Security Architecture
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (33.33%) WAN Optimisation
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) CCNP
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (33.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (33.33%) CCIE
2 1 (33.33%) CCNA
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) GDPR
1 1 (33.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (33.33%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (33.33%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (33.33%) VMware NSX
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Cisco
1 3 (100.00%) SolarWinds
2 2 (66.67%) Aruba
2 2 (66.67%) Fortinet
2 2 (66.67%) Palo Alto
3 1 (33.33%) F5
3 1 (33.33%) Meraki
3 1 (33.33%) VMware