Cisco Prime Job Trends

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 24 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 686 645 825
Rank change year-on-year -41 +180 +159
Permanent jobs citing Cisco Prime 8 3 17
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.010% 0.007% 0.019%
As % of the Systems Management category 0.18% 0.064% 0.18%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 12
10th Percentile £78,250 £45,682 £46,175
25th Percentile - £45,750 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £47,989 £61,250
Median % change year-on-year +77.12% -21.65% +63.33%
75th Percentile - £73,808 £72,500
90th Percentile - £88,023 £79,250
UK excluding London median annual salary - £45,637 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -8.73% +33.33%

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 4,424 4,718 9,281
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 5.76% 11.40% 10.62%
Number of salaries quoted 3,041 3,403 7,213
10th Percentile £32,500 £38,750 £32,500
25th Percentile £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £70,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.71% +16.67% -11.11%
75th Percentile £82,500 £91,000 £82,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £115,000 £101,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £54,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +11.11% -6.09%

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
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Cisco Prime over the 6 months to 24 March 2026.

Salary histogram for Cisco Prime in the UK

Cisco Prime
Top 3 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 24 March 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
London +16 8 £85,000 +18.89% 3
England -46 8 £85,000 +18.89% 4
Work from Home - 1 £65,000 - 1

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 7 (87.50%) Azure
1 7 (87.50%) Azure ExpressRoute
1 7 (87.50%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 7 (87.50%) Firewall
1 7 (87.50%) Network Security
1 7 (87.50%) SD-WAN
1 7 (87.50%) VPN
1 7 (87.50%) WAN
1 7 (87.50%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (12.50%) Cisco ISE
2 1 (12.50%) LAN
2 1 (12.50%) VLAN
2 1 (12.50%) Wireless
2 1 (12.50%) WLAN
General
1 1 (12.50%) Pharmaceutical
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
1 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (100.00%) Network Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Cisco Network Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Lead
2 7 (87.50%) Lead Cisco Engineer
2 7 (87.50%) Lead Network Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Incident Response
1 7 (87.50%) Network Architecture
1 7 (87.50%) Network Monitoring
1 7 (87.50%) Network Segmentation
1 7 (87.50%) Vulnerability Assessment
2 1 (12.50%) Change Control
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) CCNA
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco Certification
2 7 (87.50%) Azure Certification
2 7 (87.50%) CCNP
2 7 (87.50%) Degree
3 1 (12.50%) CWNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (87.50%) GDPR
1 7 (87.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 7 (87.50%) NIST
Vendors
1 8 (100.00%) Cisco
1 8 (100.00%) Meraki
2 7 (87.50%) SolarWinds
3 1 (12.50%) Aruba