Cisco Security Engineer Job Trends

Cisco Security Engineer
UK

The median Cisco Security Engineer salary in the UK is £77,000 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 27 April 2026.

The table below compares current salary benchmarking and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 711 - 870
Rank change year-on-year - - +82
Permanent jobs requiring a Cisco Security Engineer 1 0 8
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.001% - 0.008%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.001% - 0.009%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
10th Percentile - - £93,675
25th Percentile - - £105,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £77,000 - £110,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +57.14%
75th Percentile - - £115,000
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median annual salary - - -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
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 82,923 37,495 90,335
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 92.85% 89.00% 94.56%
Number of salaries quoted 53,189 23,459 66,610
10th Percentile £30,000 £30,625 £28,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £42,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +13.21% -11.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £95,000 £100,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%

Cisco Security Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Cisco Security Engineer' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Cisco Security Engineer job vacancy trend in the UK

Cisco Security Engineer
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for Cisco Security Engineer job vacancies in the UK.

Salary distribution trend for Cisco Security Engineer job vacancies in the UK

Cisco Security Engineer
Top 2 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Cisco Security Engineer within the UK over the 6 months to 27 April 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 - 1 £77,000 -
England - 1 £77,000 - 1

Cisco Security Engineer Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 27 April 2026, Cisco Security Engineer job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Cisco Security Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (100.00%) Tessian
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust

Cisco Security Engineer Skill Set
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 1 (100.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (100.00%) Mimecast
1 1 (100.00%) Tessian
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco ISE
1 1 (100.00%) Firewall
1 1 (100.00%) VPN
General
1 1 (100.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
1 1 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (100.00%) Data Loss Prevention
1 1 (100.00%) DDoS Mitigation
1 1 (100.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Runbook
1 1 (100.00%) Security Operations
1 1 (100.00%) SIEM
1 1 (100.00%) Threat Detection
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Remediation
1 1 (100.00%) Vulnerability Scanning
1 1 (100.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) CISSP
1 1 (100.00%) CREST Certified
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (100.00%) NIST
1 1 (100.00%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (100.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Cisco
1 1 (100.00%) CrowdStrike
1 1 (100.00%) Palo Alto